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The Fish-Slapping Dance
The Fish-Slapping Dance is a comedy sketch written and performed by the ''Monty Python'' team. The sketch was originally recorded in 1971 for a pan-European May Day special titled ''Euroshow 71''. In 1972 it was broadcast as part of episode two of series three of ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'', which was titled "Mr & Mrs Brian Norris' Ford Popular". Overview The sketch stars John Cleese and Michael Palin in safari outfits and pith helmets at the side of a Lock (water transport), lock (Teddington Lock in west London). Both are facing each other and light orchestral music plays while Palin dances towards Cleese, lightly slapping him in the face with two small Sardine, pilchards, and returning to his starting spot. After Palin does this four times, he returns to his starting spot and stands still. In traditional British folk dancing, of which this is reminiscent, one would now expect the other dancer to repeat these steps. Instead, the music stops, Cleese reveals his fish – a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fish Slapping Dance
A fish (: fish or fishes) is an aquatic animal, aquatic, Anamniotes, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fish fin, fins and craniate, a hard skull, but lacking limb (anatomy), limbs with digit (anatomy), digits. Fish can be grouped into the more basal (phylogenetics), basal jawless fish and the more common jawed fish, the latter including all extant taxon, living cartilaginous fish, cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as the extinct placoderms and acanthodians. In a break to the long tradition of grouping all fish into a single Class (biology), class (Pisces), modern phylogenetics views fish as a paraphyletic group. Most fish are ectotherm, cold-blooded, their body temperature varying with the surrounding water, though some large nekton, active swimmers like white shark and tuna can hold a higher core temperature. Many fish can communication in aquatic animals#Acoustic, communicate acoustically with each other, such as during courtship displays. The stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
