Wouldn't it be great if we could all have Graham Chapman come in - deus ex machina - and wind up the scenes we couldn't get ourselves out of!

Lazzard: Ain't that the truth! One of the great concepts MPFC employed to allow them to segue from one sketch to the next.

Yeah, that was the breakthrough, really. Instead of working backwards from a punchline, as was the tradition, suddenley they could just 'see where things went' - confident in the fact that they could always 'parachute' an ending in. And it produced mould-breaking work.
A lesson in being flexible in your writing, maybe? Go with the flow some more?