p.s. I also find it odd that in your critique of the Cheese Sketch you argue that it has little intrinsic humour but don't mention what (to me) is the funniest part, Cleese's attempts at communicating with polysyllabic rarefied vocabulary and the need to clarify in monosyllabic words uttered in a condescending…

Okay, so I re-watched the Biggles sketch, and it became clear that we just weren't sharp enough at first viewing, and the Pythons' genius is untarnished. It was not a mistake, though the comedy doesn't work if the viewer is not paying close attention — the secretary is depicted as so brainless that she gets it…

You say that you repeatedly checked the script to verify the Biggles
antlers mixup was intentional, but are you sure you weren't checking the
*transcript* instead of the original script? Are the original scripts
even available?