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It is indeed hard to believe, but it\u2019s been 50 years since \u2018And Now for Something Completely Different\u2019 came out with John Cleese, Eric Idle and the Python gang. I first saw this hilarious movie my freshman year at Carolina in the Student Union as one of their free flicks for freshmen. I could hardly stop laughing. Here below is the dead parrot sketch, which riffs off of the denial of death theme floating around in the culture then\u2014 (see the Moody Blues song \u2018Timothy Leery\u2019s dead. No, no, no, no, he\u2019s outside\u2014 looking in\u2019). This seems a perfect sketch for Halloween\u2026. enjoy
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