# Best version of the Parrot Sketch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 30, 2009, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-the-parrot-sketch/501429 "2009-06-30T02:02:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-the-parrot-sketch/501429/1 "2009-06-30T02:02:27Z")
[Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTV3lQc4AmQ&feature=PlayList&p=CFB77C2513910A2A&index=6). ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-the-parrot-sketch/501429/2 "2009-06-30T02:47:11Z")
My personal favorite is [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IQqd17p9_0). ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-the-parrot-sketch/501429/3 "2009-06-30T15:41:23Z")
Yeah, the one in the OP is the one I had in mind. But my personal favorite is the version a friend and I performed at our high school talent show in 1982. Got huge laughs even though I had to improvise a bird cage and parrot with a paint can lid, wire hanger and a blue glove. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-the-parrot-sketch/501429/4 "2009-06-30T17:31:13Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > [Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTV3lQc4AmQ&feature=PlayList&p=CFB77C2513910A2A&index=6). Dear God, that was brilliant. It really hammered home the point made in the second panel of [this xkcd](http://xkcd.com/16/). ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-the-parrot-sketch/501429/5 "2009-06-30T19:00:46Z")
After watching the original (which I might have seen, long ago), I have to ask, did the phrase “pining for the fjords” come from this sketch? ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-the-parrot-sketch/501429/6 "2009-06-30T19:15:53Z")
I’m pretty sure. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-the-parrot-sketch/501429/7 "2009-06-30T23:57:11Z")
I like the one on their _[Final Ripoff](http://www.amazon.com/Final-Rip-Off-Monty-Python/dp/B000000WG8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1246406143&sr=1-2)_ CD. For the most part, it’s the same, but the ending is different… and I like it! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-the-parrot-sketch/501429/8 "2009-07-01T03:28:03Z")
> [@Serenata67](#): > > I like the one on their _[Final Ripoff](http://www.amazon.com/Final-Rip-Off-Monty-Python/dp/B000000WG8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1246406143&sr=1-2)_ CD. For the most part, it’s the same, but the ending is different… and I like it! What’s the ending on that one? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-the-parrot-sketch/501429/9 "2009-07-01T19:14:52Z")
Cleese told a story once about doing the sketch in some public forum, and Palin throwing him a curveball. As we know, the story ends like this: “I’ve had a look, and we’re right out of parrots.” “I see, I see, I get the picture.” “I’ve got a slug.” “…does it talk?” “Not really, no.” “Well, it’s scarcely a replacement, then, is it?” But on this occasion, Palin threw in a new line: “I’ve got a slug.” “…does it talk?” “Well, it mutters a bit.” And Cleese apparently started laughing so hard they couldn’t concluded the sketch as normal. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-version-of-the-parrot-sketch/501429/10 "2009-07-01T20:23:29Z")
I had the same surprised reaction… totally didn’t expect it. I was driving when I heard it and if I hadn’t been stopped at a light when I heard it, I would have had to pull over because I was laughing so hard.