History Recap / MontyPythonsFlyingCircusS1E4

* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: "It's a dog's life...''man's'' life in the Modern Army!"

* ConstantlyCurious: Arthur Lemming in the dentist sketch is a man who gets caught in the middle of an unraveling conspiracy of evil dentists, and he occasionally asks one of the evil dentists what is going on. The end of the sketch reveals that Lemming is a dentist from the British Dental Association who was spying on them.

* WordSaladTitle: "Owl-Stretching Time" was one of the proposed title for the show that was rejected by the [=BBC=], so it was reused as an episode title. It's entirely meaningless.

* MistakenForBadass: In the "Dentist Sketch", an evil dentist pulls a gun on a man, claiming he's a agent of the BDA, while the man protests he's just an innocent tobacconist. Subverted at the end when said tobacconist reveals himself as Arthur Lemming, Special Investigator from the British Dental Association.

* TheEnd: The Colonel (played by Graham Chapman) had appeared on screen every time the episode made fun of the British Army slogan "It's a man's life." At the end after they do it one more time, the Colonel comes on and says "Right! No, I warned you, no, I warned you about the slogan, right. That's the end. Stop the programme! Stop it." And the credits roll.

* DrillSergeantNasty Sgt. Major from the "Self-Defense against Fresh Fruit" sketch.

* MistakenForBadass: In the "Dentist Sketch", an evil dentist mistakes a tobacconist for an agent of the BDA, and pulls a gun on him; it's subverted at the end when said tobacconist reveals himself as Arthur Lemming, Special Investigator from the British Dental Association.

* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: The misadventures of the man frantically trying to find a place to change into a swimsuit at the beach finally end when he finds himself on a stage, and starts to take his pants off again, only for the curtain to rise and give him an audience. He turns it into a striptease.

Guest starring: Carol Cleveland, Katja Wyeth, Dick Vosburg

--> '''Fake Bookseller''': I hear the gooseberries are doing well this year...''and so are the mangoes'''.

* WordSaladTitle: "Owl-Stretching Time" was one of the proposed title for the show that was rejected by the [=BBC=], so it was reused as an episode title. It's entirely meaningless.

* OurProductSucks: Used in the "Dentist Sketch"; an evil dentist was using a bookstore as a front and is waiting for an associate, so when a customer shows up, the dentist tries to convince him to go to another bookstore across the street.

* ImprobablyWeaponUser: A hypothetical attacker wielding fresh fruit.

It's: Two moms slapping their disruptive kids at an art gallery, people eating and commenting on paintings, a man trying to change into his bathing suit in private, a self-defense against fresh fruit class, a man stumbling into a spy story, and a Colonel repeatedly complaining about the use of the British Army's slogan "It's a Man's Life in the Modern Army" for comedy.

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Original Airdate - 26/10/1969