Classic Python two-person scenes, but...

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I was just going over a lot of my Monty Python DVDs and I found myself amazed at the number of John Cleese-Michael Palin scenes that have become the cream of the Python crop: Dead Parrot, Argument Clinic, Cheese Shop, Ministry of Silly Walks, and the Fish-Slapping Dance.

So I tried to think of other combinations of Pythons in classic two-person scenes.

Now I want to hear from the Dopers: name one absolutely essential two-person Python sketch for each combination of Pythons except the ubiquitous Cleese-Palin combo. In other words:

Chapman-Cleese
Chapman-Idle
Chapman-Jones
Chapman-Palin
Cleese-Idle
Cleese-Jones
Idle-Jones
Idle-Palin
Jones-Palin

Bonus points if you can think of ways to cram Terry G or Carol C into two-person scenes. Some scenes are a bit dodgy to judge, because someone else is present on screen but doesn’t say anything – or someone isn’t on screen but narrates. I’m flexible. Everything counts, by the way: records, the original series, the movies, and so on.

My selections in my next post.

FISH

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[list]
[li]Penguin on Top of the Television Set - Chapman and Cleese.[/li][li]Rat Cuisine - Idle and Jones.[/li][li]Flying Lessons - Chapman and Cleese.[/li][li]Cannibal Undertakers - Chapman and Cleese (Oh look, a pattern.)[/li]Watney’s Red Barrel (Tourist who won’t shut up) - Idle and Palin

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Chapman/Palin - “Help, help! I’m being repressed” - the ‘bloody peasant’ scene from The Holy Grail
Cleese/Chapman - “Romanes Eunt Domus” - from The Life Of Brian

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the Squire sketch - “your wife, is she a goer?”
that was Idle and Chapman, wasn’t it?

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Idle and Jones

“a nod’s as good as a wink to a blind bat”

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The first thing that came to mind for Chapman/Jones was “Spam”, but I may just be hungry (now that I think about it, that was a three-man sketch, with Palin? My brain hurts!)

For Chapman/Cleese, how about the Arthur/French Castle Guard scenes from Holy Grail?

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Cleese/Jones - the Mr Creosote sketch
Cleese/Palin - the rescue at Castle Anthrax

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Crunchy Frog was Jones/Chapman, IIRC. Gilliam was there, but didn’t say anything. *From the Monty Python Live! DVD *

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Michael Ellis: Flying Lessons was Chapman and Jones, not Chapman and Cleese.

Little Nemo: Hey, no Cleese-Palin (per my OP). There are so many!

Naz: Crunchy Frog was also Cleese-Jones on the original TV performance, with Chapman as the sidekick. You could get away with both.

Okay, the hamsters last night ate my picks, so here they are again:

Chapman-Cleese:
“I’m invincible!”
“You’re a loony.”
“The Black Knight always triumphs! Have at you!”

Chapman-Idle:
“I love animals. That’s why I like to kill 'em.”

Chapman-Jones:
“No, I want to learn to fly an aeroplane.”
“Oh! An aeroplane.”

Chapman-Palin:
“Nail 'em up, I say!”
“Guards!”
“Nail some sense into 'em! Best thing the Romans ever did for us. If we didn’t have crucifixion, this country’d be in a right bloody mess.”

Cleese-Idle:
“They were going to build a bridge between the two peaks. My idea, I’m afraid.”

Cleese-Jones:
“And 'ow are we doing today, monsieur?”
“Better.”
“Better?”
“Better get a bucket. I’m gonna frow up.”

Idle-Jones:
“Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more.”

Idle-Palin:
“Not to enter the room, even if you come and get him.”
“No no–until I come and get him, make sure he doesn’t leave.”
“We don’t need to do anything apart from just stop him from entering the room.”
“No no–leaving the room.”
“Leaving the room. Right.”

Jones-Palin:
“But I don’t like her!”
“Don’t like her? What’s wrong with her? She’s beautiful, she’s rich, she’s got huuuuuuuge… tracts of land!”

FISH