Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Series)
Whicker's World (1972)
Michael Palin: Icelandic Gent, 'It's' Man, Foreman, Viking, Police Constable Pan-Am, Betty-Muriel Sartre, Alan Whicker #3, Various
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[Erik Njorl, son of Frothgar, has just been sworn in]
Superintendent : You are hereby charged: one, that you did, on or about 1126, conspire to publicise a London Borough in the course of a BBC saga; two, that you were wilfully and persistently a foreigner; three, that you conspired to do things not normally considered illegal; four, that you were caught in possession of an offensive weapon, viz., the big brown table down at the police station...
Judge : The big brown table down at the police station?
Superintendent : The big brown table down at the police station?
All : Assaulting a police officer!
Prosecuting Counsel : Call Police Constable Pan-Am.
[Pan-Am enters, randomly beating people with his truncheon]
Prosecuting Counsel : Into the witness box, Constable, there'll be plenty of time for that later on. Now, you are Police Constable Pan-Am?
Police Constable Pan-Am : No! I shall deny that to the last breath in my body!
[superintendent gestures to him]
Police Constable Pan-Am : Oh, sorry! Yes.
Prosecuting Counsel : Police Constable, do you recognize the defendant?
Police Constable Pan-Am : No. Never seen him before in my life.
[superintendent gestures again]
Police Constable Pan-Am : Oh, yes, yes, he's the one. He done it. I'd recognize him anywhere! Sorry, super.
Prosecuting Counsel : Constable, will you please tell the court in your own words what happened.
Police Constable Pan-Am : Oh yes!
[refers to a notebook]
Police Constable Pan-Am : I was proceeding in a northerly direction up Alitalia Street when I saw the deceased
[indicates Erik]
Police Constable Pan-Am : standing at an upstairs window, baring her bosom at the general public. She then took off her - wait a tick. Wrong story.
Police Constable Pan-Am : [leafs through notebook] Oh yes. There were three nuns in a railway station and the ticket inspector says to one of them...
[superintendent gestures]
Police Constable Pan-Am : No... anyway, I clearly saw the deceased...
Clerk : Defendant.
Police Constable Pan-Am : Defendant! Sorry. Sorry, super. I clearly saw the defendant... doing whatever he's accused of. Red handed! When kicked - cautioned, he said,
[as if reading line by line]
Police Constable Pan-Am : "It's a fair. Cop I done it all. Right no doubt about that." Then, bound as he was to the chair, he assaulted myself and three other officers while bouncing around the cell. The end.
[applause and cheering]