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Is SPAM Made Out of Python Meat?
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Spam (Monty Python) >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Terry Jones, Eric Idle, and Graham Chapman in the Monty Python skit "Spam".Spam is a popular Monty Python sketch, first broadcast in 1970. In the sketch, two customers are trying to order a breakfast from a menu that includes the processed meat product in almost every item. The term spam (in electronic communication) is derived from this sketch [1]. It features Terry Jones as The Waitress, Eric Idle as Mr. Bun and Graham Chapman as Mrs. Bun. The televised skit also featured John Cleese as The Hungarian, but this part was left out of audio recordings of the sketch. Only three and a half minutes long, it builds up into a semi-argument between the waitress who has a menu limited to having SPAM in just about everything ("SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, sausage, eggs and SPAM"), and Mrs. Bun, who is the only one in the room who does not want it (despite there being some items mentioned that do not actually include SPAM, she nevertheless asks for an item with SPAM in it). At several points, a group of Vikings in the restaurant (referred to as the Green Midget Café) interupt conversation by loudly singing "SPAM, lovely SPAM, wonderful SPAM." They are interrupted by the waitress several times, but they resume singing more and more loudly until at last the song reaches an operatic climax. In the end credits, every member of the crew has either SPAM or some other food item from the menu added to their names. This was the final sketch of the 25th show of Monty Python's Flying Circus, and was first aired December 15, 1970. Despite its shortness, the sketch became immensely popular. The word "SPAM" is uttered at least 132 times. The Menu Egg and bacon Egg, sausage and bacon Egg and spam Egg, bacon and spam Egg, bacon, sausage and spam Spam, bacon, sausage and spam Spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam Spam, sausage, spam, spam, spam, bacon, spam, tomato and spam (this is only in the radio version's menu, but the TV version features the Hungarian trying to order it) Spam, spam, spam, egg, and spam Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam Lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce served in the Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle paté, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam |
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