I must have fruit! Um, why? [Time Bandits joke]

Cafe Society
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So I was watching Time Bandits the other day, and it got to the scene in Sherwood forest. Pansy (Shelly Duval) and Vincent (Michael Palin), are travelling in a carriage:

Later, they are robbed and tied to a tree:

So um, what’s his problem? What problem requires wearing a special… thing? And also requires fruit? This has always bugged me. I feel like I’m missing a joke here.

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I am sure this will be moved to Cafe Society soon, but the correct answer, (AFAIK) is that it is an indeterminate problem involving his genitals. Because anything we can imagine is more personally amusing than anything they could have written.

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Oh. I honestly thought there was a real answer. Oh well.

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Since it’s about a specific joke in a specific movie, this is probably better for CS.

I have also edited the title.

Colibri
General Questions Moderator

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What you’ve got there is some Noodle Implements.

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Awesome site!

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Exactly. Some things are much funnier if they’re not spelled out.