Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), written by Graham Chapman & John Cleese & Eric Idle & Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones & Michael Palin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVWH01E2weA King of Swamp Castle: Guards, make sure the prince doesn't leave this room until I come and get him. Guard #1: Not to leave the room... even if you come and get him. Guard #2: [hiccups] King of Swamp Castle: No, no. *Until* I come and get him. Guard #1: Until you come and get him, we're not to enter the room. King of Swamp Castle: No, no, no. You *stay* in the room, and make sure *he* doesn't leave. Guard #1: And you'll come and get him. Guard #2: [hiccups] King of Swamp Castle: Right. Guard #1: We don't need to do anything, apart from just stop him entering the room. King of Swamp Castle: No, no. *Leaving* the room. Guard #1: Leaving the room, yes. King of Swamp Castle: All right? Guard #2: [hiccups] Guard #1: Right. Oh, if, if, if, uh, if, if, uh, if, if, if, we... oh, if... oh... King of Swamp Castle: Look, it's quite simple. You just stay here, and make sure he doesn't leave the room. All right? Guard #2: [hiccups] Guard #1: Oh, I remember, uh, can he leave the room with us? King of Swamp Castle: No, no, no, no, you just keep him in here, and make sure... Guard #1: Oh yeah, we'll keep him in here, obviously, but if he had to leave, and we were with him... King of Swamp Castle: No, just keep him in here... Guard #1: Until you, or anyone else... King of Swamp Castle: No, not anyone else. Just me. Guard #1: Just you. Guard #2: [hiccups] King of Swamp Castle: Get back. Guard #1: Get back. King of Swamp Castle: All right? Guard #1: Right, we'll stay here until you get back. King of Swamp Castle: And make sure he doesn't leave. Guard #1: What? King of Swamp Castle: Make sure he doesn't leave. Guard #1: The prince? King of Swamp Castle: Yes, make sure he doesn't leave. Guard #1: Oh, yes, of course. [Points at Guard #2] Guard #1: I thought you meant him. You know, it seemed a bit daft me I were to guard him when he's a guard. King of Swamp Castle: Is that clear? Guard #2: [hiccups] Guard #1: Oh, quite clear. No problems. King of Swamp Castle: Right. [King of Swamp Castle turns to leave the room, both guards follow him] King of Swamp Castle: Where are you going? Guard #1: We're coming with you. King of Swamp Castle: No, no, no. I want you to stay here and make sure *he* doesn't leave. Guard #1: Oh, I see. Right.

Awesome, Daniel! Any excuse to feature MPHG!

So 'tis the season...ho ho ho...the best part of this scene I think is when Scott says "What if I don't buy into this Santa Claus thing?". Dead silence. From The Santa Claus by Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick https://youtu.be/3F5l7kLDAoI Scott Hey, Barabbas. Bernard Bernard! Scott Bernard. Can we take a direct flight back to reality, or do we have to change planes in Denver? Bernard Uh, Larry, take Charlie here and get him some chow. Scott No, Larry, don't do that. Charlie! Bernard He'll be okay. Follow me. You'll want to get out of those clothes. Scott I-- Uh-- No, look, Barnaby, I just wanna go home. Look, I am not Santa Claus! Ahh! Bernard Did you or did you not read the card? Scott Yeah, I read the card. Bernard Then you're the new Santa. In putting on the hat and jacket you accepted the contract. Scott What contract? Bernard The card in the Santa suit. You said you read it, right? So when you put on the suit, you fell subject to the Santa Clause. Here. - The Santa Claus? Scott Oh, you mean the guy that fell off my roof? Bernard No, no, no, not Santa Claus, the person. Santa Clause, the clause. Scott What? Bernard Look, you're-- you're a businessman, right? Scott Yeah. Bernard Okay. A clause, as in the last line of a contract. You got the card? Scott Oh! Bernard Okay, look. The Santa Clause: "ln putting on this suit and entering the sleigh the wearer waives any and all rights to any previous identity, real or implied,and fully accepts the duties and responsibilities of Santa Claus in perpetuity until such time that wearer becomes unable to do so by either accident or design." Scott What does that mean? Bernard It means you put on the suit, you're the big guy. Scott That's ridiculous. I didn't put on the suit just to— Bernard - Try to understand this! Scott Oo-oo-ooh! Bernard Let me explain something to you, okay? Toys have to be delivered. I'm not gonna do it. It's not my job. I'm just an elf. It's Santa's job, but Santa fell off a roof, your roof. You read the card, you put on the suit. That clearly falls under the Santa Clause.- So now you're Santa, okay? Scott - A question. Bernard What? Scott When can I get outta here? Charlie Dad, you gotta see this place. Bernard You leave tomorrow morning. You have 11 months to get your affairs in order, and you're due back here Thanksgiving. Scott I'm not comin' back here on Thanksgiving. Bernard I'll ship the list to your house. Scott What list? Bernard Come on, now. The list. He's makin' a list Charlie Checkin' it twice Elves Gonna find out who's naughty or nice Bernard Look, you put a "P" next to the kids who are nice and a "C" next to the naughty ones. Scott "P" and "C"? Bernard Yeah. Charlie "P" for present, "C" for coal, right, Bernard? Bernard Right. Scott Wait a minute. How do I know who's good and bad? Bernard You'll know. Scott What if I don't want to do this? Bernard Don't even kid about a thing like that. Scott Why not? What if I don't buy into this Santa Clause thing? What if I choose not to believe it? Bernard Then there would be millions of disappointed children around the world. You see, children hold the spirit of Christmas within their hearts. You wouldn't want to be responsible for killing the spirit of Christmas, now, would you, Santa? Judy will take you to your room. Get out of the suit. It needs to be cleaned. Scott And taken in. Bernard Then get some sleep.

GRISELDA: Listen. I have put a pellet of poison in one of the vessels. HAWKINS: Which one? GRISELDA: The one with the figure of a pestle. HAWKINS: The vessel with the pestle? GRISELDA: Yes. But you don't want the vessel with the pestle, you want the chalice from the palace! HAWKINS: I-I don't want the vessel with the pestle, I want the chalice from the what? JEAN: The chalice from the palace! HAWKINS: Hm? GRISELDA: It's a little crystal chalice with a figure of a palace. HAWKINS: Th-the chalice from the palace have the pellet with the poison? GRISELDA: No, the pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. HAWKINS: Oh, oh, the pestle with the vessel. JEAN: The vessel with the pestle. HAWKINS: What about the palace from the chalice? GRISELDA: Not the palace from the chalice! The chalice from the palace! HAWKINS: Where's the pellet with the poison? GRISELDA: In the vessel with the pestle! JEAN: Don't you see? The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. GRISELDA: The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! JEAN: It's so easy, I can say it! HAWKINS: Well then you fight him! GRISELDA: Listen carefully. The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true. HAWKINS: Where the pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true. JEAN: Good man! GRISELDA: Just remember that. — The Court Chester (1955), written by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS75NtlH3gI http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/470559/Court-Jester-The-Movie-Clip-Pellet-With-The-Poison.html (shorter clip) Trivia: The "flagon with a dragon" routine had an antecedent in the Bob Hope Paramount comedy “Never Say Die“ (1939): "There's a cross on the muzzle of the pistol with the bullet and a nick on the handle of the pistol with the blank." The credits do not list any writers in common on the two films. Dialogue On Dialogue: Lots of room for misunderstanding, even funnier, that the two women don‘t understand that. And the poor guy has to remember more silly rhymes because they broke the chalice from the palace. I love the sequence since early childhood, and have to think about it often, when the word “vessel“ is used.

MAN: Good evening. Not what I expected. A little taller...a little more polished than the others. THORNHILL: I'm so glad you're pleased, Mr. Townsend. MAN: But, I'm afraid, just as obvious. THORNHILL: What the devil is all this about? Why was I brought here? MAN: Games? Must we? THORNHILL: Not that I mind a slight case of abduction, but I have tickets for the theatre tonight. To a show I was looking forward to. I get unreasonable about things like that. MAN: With such expert play-acting, you make this very room a theatre. Leonard, have you met our distinguished guest? LEONARD: He's a well-tailored one, isn't he? MAN: My secretary is a great admirer of your methods, Mr. Kaplan. Elusiveness, however misguided... THORNHILL: Wait a minute. Did you call me "Kaplan"? MAN: I know you're a man of many names, but I'll accept your current choice. THORNHILL: Current choice? My name is Roger Thornhill. It's never been anything else. MAN: Of course. THORNHILL: Your friends picked up the wrong package when they bundled me in the car. MAN: Sit down, Mr. Kaplan. THORNHILL: I told you, I'm not Kaplan, whoever he is. WOMAN: Excuse me. MAN: Yes? WOMAN: The guests are here, dear. MAN: Look after them. I'll be with you in a few minutes. Now, shall we get down to business? THORNHILL: I'm all for that. MAN: I'd like you to tell me|how much you know of our arrangements... and how you've come by this information. I don't expect to get this for nothing. THORNHILL: Of course not. MAN: Don't misunderstand. I don't expect you to fall in with the suggestion... but the least I can do is afford you the opportunity of surviving the evening. THORNHILL: What is that supposed to mean? MAN: Why don't you surprise me, Mr. Kaplan, and say yes? THORNHILL: I've told you... LEONHARD: We know where you're headed for. THORNHILL: I know where I'm headed. The Winter Garden Theatre in New York. And I think I'd better get going. THORNHILL: Townsend, you're making a serious mistake. MAN: This is not going to lead to a very happy conclusion, Mr. Kaplan. THORNHILL: I'm not Kaplan! — North by Northwest (1959), written by Ernest Lehman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek7T9Gyl_J4 (Trailer) unfortunally I couldn‘t find the scene online, I took the dialogue from the transcript on http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=north-by-northwest I hope, it‘s correct, as I don‘t have a version of the movie at home Trivia: Roger O. Thornhill claims that the "O" stands for "nothing". This is a reference to David O. Selznick, whose "O" also signified nothing. Dialogue On Dialogue: Without this misunderstanding there wouldn‘t be a story. The Shooting scripts (found here https://www.daveyp.com/hitchcock/scripts/North%20by%20Northwest.pdf) starts with a narrator: “Would it not be strange, in a city of seven millionn people, if one man were never mistaken for anoter... if, with seven millionen pair of feet wandering through the canyons and corridors of the city, one pair of feet never by chance strayed into the wrong footsteps? Strange, indeed.“

Movie – This is Spinal Tap (1984) Written by Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Rob Reiner Youtube - https://youtu.be/STHKFlO-zBw David St. Hubbins: Oh, let’s hear your suggestion. Nigel Tufnel: Stonehenge…Stonehenge. Best production value we’ve ever had on stage. David St. Hubbins: But we haven’t got the equipment. We haven’t got Stonehenge. Nigel Tufnel: Not yet we don’t. let’s start…Please, please just allow me. (starts drawing on a napkin) It’s quite simple..this is it. Look. Ian Faith: Consider it done. [Ian and Polly are looking at the Stonehenge model] Ian Faith: It’s actually perfect. I mean it’s the right proportions. It will be this color right? Polly Deutsch: Yeah. Ian Faith: Yeah, that’s just terrific. Almost looks like the real thing. Polly Deutsch: You got it. Ian Faith: Yeah, when we get the actual set , when we get the piece, it will follow exactly these specifications, I mean even these contours and everything? Polly Deutsch: Um, I don’t understand. What? The actual piece? Ian Faith: Well, when you build the actual piece. Polly Deutsch: But this is what you asked for… Ian Faith: What? Polly Deutsch: This is the piece. Ian Faith: This is the piece? Polly Deutsch: Yes. Ian Faith: Are you telling me that this is it? This is scenery? Have you ever been to Stonehenge? The triliths are 20 feet high, you can stand four men up them. Polly Deutsch: Ian, I was asked to build… Ian Faith: This is insane, this isn’t a piece of scenery. Polly Deutsch: Look, look this is what I was asked to build. (unfolds the napkin) Eighteen inches, right here it specifies eighteen inches. I was given this napkin.. Ian Faith: Forget this… [Spinal Tap is performing Stonehenge on stage] David St. Hubbins: (singing) Stonehenge, where the demons dwell, where the banshees live and they do it well. Stonehenge, where a man’s a man and the children dance to the pipes of Pan. Nigel Tufnel: (singing) And you my love, won’t you take my hand. We’ll go back in time to that mystic land. Where the dewdrops cry and the cats meow, I will take you there, I will show you how. (now talking) And oh how they danced, the little children of Stonehenge. (Stonehenge model is lowered) Beneath the haunted Rune for fear that daybreak might come too soon. [back in the hotel room] David St. Hubbins: I for one do not think the problem was that the band was down. I think the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object. Ian Faith: I really think you are making much too big a thing out of this. Derek Smalls: Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea. Comment: One of the funniest examples of misunderstanding and a fantastic sight gag. Great scene.