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- And now, one of the more popular sketches, and hardest to write out...
- [Note: The names of the cheeses should be attributed to Steve Wechsler]
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- The "Cheese Shoppe" sketch
- -- starring John Cleese and Michael Palin
- Transcribed by Steve Wechsler (Zaphod), and Derek D. Lichter (MacLover)
- ----------++++++----------
-
- (A customer walks in the door.)
-
- Customer: Good Morning.
-
- Owner: Good morning, Sir. Welcome to the National Cheese Emporium!
-
- Customer: Ah, thank you, my good man.
-
- Owner: What can I do for you, Sir?
-
- Customer: Well, I was sitting in the public library on Thurmon Street
- just now, skimming through "Rogue Herrys" by Hugh Walpole, and
- I suddenly came over all peckish.
-
- Owner: Peckish, sir?
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- Customer: Esuriant.
-
- Owner: Eh?
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- Customer: 'Ee, Ah wor 'ungry-loike!
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- Owner: Ah, hungry!
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- Customer: In a nutshell. And I thought to myself, "A little fermented
- curd will do the trick," so, I curtailed my Walpoling activites,
- sallied forth, an infiltrated your place of purveyance to
- negotiate the vending of some cheesy comestibles!
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- Owner: Come again?
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- Customer: I want to buy some cheese.
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- Owner: Oh, I thought you were complaining about the bazouki player!
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- Customer: Oh, heaven forbid! I am one who delights in all manifestations
- of the Terpsichorean muse!
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- Owner: Sorry?
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- Customer: 'Ooo, Ah lahk a nice tuune, 'yer forced too!
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- Owner: So he can go on playing, can he?
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- Customer: Most certainly! Now then, some cheese please, my good man.
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- Owner: <lustily> Certainly, sir. What would you like?
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- Customer: Well, eh, how about a little red Leicester?
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- Owner: I'm... afraid we're fresh out of red Leicester, sir.
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- Customer: Oh, never mind. How are you on Tilsit?
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- Owner: I'm afraid we never have that at the end of the week, sir,
- we get it fresh on Monday.
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- Customer: Tish tish. No matter. Well, stout yeoman, four ounces of
- Caerphilly, if you please.
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- Owner: Ah! It's been on order, sir, for two weeks. Was expecting it
- this morning.
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- Customer: 'T's not my lucky day, is it? Ah... Bel Paese?
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- Owner: Sorry, sir.
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- Customer: Red Windsor?
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- Owner: Normally, sir, yes. Today the van broke down.
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- Customer: Ah. Stilton?
-
- Owner: Sorry.
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- Customer: Ementhal? Gruyere?
-
- Owner: No.
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- Customer: Any Norweigan Jarlsburg, per chance.
-
- Owner: No.
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- Customer: Lipta?
-
- Owner: No.
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- Customer: Lancashire?
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- Owner: No.
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- Customer: White Stilton?
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- Owner: No.
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- Customer: Danish Brew?
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- Owner: No.
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- Customer: Double Goucester?
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- Owner: [pause] No.
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- Customer: Cheshire?
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- Owner: No.
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- Customer: Dorset Bluveny?
-
- Owner: No.
-
- Customer: Brie, Roquefort, Pol le Veq, Port Salut, Savoy Aire, Saint
- Paulin, Carrier de lest, Bres Bleu, Bruson?
-
- Owner: No.
-
- Customer: Camenbert, perhaps?
-
- Owner: Ah! We have Camenbert, yessir.
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- Customer: <surprised> You do! Excellent!
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- Owner: Yessir. It's... ah... it's a bit runny...
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- Customer: -- Oh, I like it runny.
-
- Owner: Well,.. It's very runny, actually, sir.
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- Customer: No matter! Fetch hither le fromage de la Belle France! Mmmwah!
-
- Owner: I -- think it's a bit runnier than you'll like--
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- Customer: --I don't care how fucking runny it is. Hand it over with
- all speed.
-
- Owner: OOOooooooohhh!!........
- [pause]
-
- Customer: What now?
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- Owner: The cat's eaten it.
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- Customer: [pause] Has he.
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- Owner: She, sir.
-
- [pause]
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- Customer: Gouda?
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- Owner: No.
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- Customer: Edam?
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- Owner: No.
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- Customer: Case Ness?
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- Owner: No.
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- Customer: Smoked Austrian?
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- Owner: No.
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- Customer: Japanese Sage Darby?
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- Owner: No, sir.
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- Customer: You DO *have* some cheese, don't you?
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- Owner: <brightly> Of course, sir. It's a cheese shop, sir!
- We've got--
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- Customer: --No, no... don't tell me. I'm keen to guess.
-
- Owner: Fair enough.
-
- Customer: Uuuuuh... Wensleydale?
-
- Owner: Yes?
-
- Customer: Ah, well, I'll have some of that!
-
- Owner: Oh! I thought you were talking to me, sir. Mister
- Wensleydale, that's my name.
-
- [pause]
-
- Customer: Greek Feta?
-
- Owner: Uh, not as such.
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- Customer: Uuh, Gorgonzola?
-
- Owner: No
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- Customer: Parmesan,
-
- Owner: No
-
- Customer: Mozzarella,
-
- Owner: No
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- Customer: Paper Cramer,
-
- Owner: No
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- Customer: Danish Bimbo,
-
- Owner: No
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- Customer: Czech sheep's milk,
-
- Owner: No
-
- Customer: Venezuelan Beaver Cheese???
-
- Owner: Not *today*, sir, no.
-
- [pause]
-
- Customer: Aah! -- how about Cheddar?
-
- Owner: Well, we don't get much call for it around here, sir.
-
- Customer: Not much ca-- It's the single most popular cheese in the world!
-
- Owner: Not 'round here, sir.
-
- Customer: [slight pause] And what *IS* the most popular cheese
- "'round hyah"?
-
- Owner: 'Illchester, sir!
-
- Customer: Is it?!?
-
- Owner: Oh, yes, it's staggeringly popular in this manusquire.
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- Customer: Is it?!?
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- Owner: It's our number one best seller, sir!
-
- Customer: I see. Uuh...'Illchester, eh?
-
- Owner: Right, sir.
-
- Customer: All right. Okay.
- "'Have you got any?' he asked, expecting the answer 'no'."
-
- Owner: I'll have a look, sir...
-
- ......... nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnno.
-
- Customer: It's not much of a cheese shop, is it?
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- Owner: Finest in the district!
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- Customer: <annoyed> Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please.
-
- Owner: Well, it's so clean, sir!
-
- Customer: It's certainly uncontaminated by cheese....
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- Owner: <brightly> You haven't asked me about Limburger, sir.
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- Customer: Is it be worth it?
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- Owner: Could be....
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- Customer: Have you -- SHUT THAT BLOODY BAZOUKI OFF!!!
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- Owner: Told you sir...
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- Customer: <slowly> Have you got any Limburger?
-
- Owner: No.
-
- Customer: Figures.
- Predictable, really I suppose. It was an act of purest
- optimism to have posed the question in the first place.
- Tell me--
-
- Owner: Yessir?
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- Customer: <deliberately> Have you, in fact, got any cheese here at all.
-
- Owner: Yes,sir.
-
- Customer: Really?
-
- [pause]
-
- Owner: No. Not really, sir.
-
- Customer: You haven't.
-
- Owner: No sir. Not a scrap. I was deliberately wasting your time, sir.
-
- Customer: Well I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to shoot you.
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- Owner: Right-O, sir.
-
- The customer takes out a gun and shoots the owner.
-
- **BANG!**
-
- <THUD>
-
- Customer: What a *senseless* waste of human life.
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- *** EOF
-