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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
caper_plip Started conversation Feb 19, 2002
What about the Spanish Inquisition sketches?
'Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our main weapon is surprise, surprise and fear.
'Our TWO main weapons are fear and surprise and ruthless efficiency.
'Our THREE main weapons are fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and a FANATICAL devotion to the Pope.
'Our four... I'll come in again.'
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Danny B Posted Feb 19, 2002
Give the rack... oh dear... give the rack... a turn! 
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Andy Adorno, scourge of... well, everything, really Posted Feb 22, 2002
I love the look on Terry Gilliams' face when he says, "The... comfy chair?!"
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Arthbard Posted Feb 22, 2002
Oh yes! Thanks for reminding me about that. Now, I'll be seeing it in my sleep.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Andy Adorno, scourge of... well, everything, really Posted Feb 22, 2002
I'm so sorry...
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
And Introducing... A Leg Posted Jun 19, 2002
No-one expects the Spa-
Oh B*****
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Special Agent Poops Posted Jan 30, 2004
I love the episode where they've done the Spanish Inquisition joke a few times, so everyone knows the joke. The sketch is a courtroom setting, and eventually the man being questioned goes, "Well I didnt expect this sort of Spanish Inquisition..." and everyone in the court quickly looks towards the door, waiting for them to burst in! Then it cuts to the Spanish Inquisition guys running for a bus to get to the court! heeheehee
Its like they're "on call" for whenever anyone anywhere says their introduction
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
David Brider Posted Feb 2, 2004
For me, the best bit is the pre-amble. Chapman and (I think) Carol Cleveland:
Chapman (Yorkshire miner): Trouble at t'mill.
Cleveland (refined, gentile): What sort of trouble?
Chapman: One o't'crossbeams gone out askew on t'treadle.
Cleveland: I beg your pardon?
Chapman: One o't'crossbeams gone out askew on t'treadle.
Cleveland: I'm sorry, I still don't understand.
Chapman (breaking out of Yorkshire miner voice - slow, patient, and condescending): One of the crossbeams has gone out askew on the treddle.
Cleveland: But what does that mean?
Chapman: I don't know. I was just told to come in and say there was trouble at the mill. I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition...
(Dramatic chord, and enter Palin, Gilliam and Jones all dressed in red...)
Sorry if I got any of that wrong, but I am reproducing it from memory...
David.
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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
- 1: caper_plip (Feb 19, 2002)
- 2: Danny B (Feb 19, 2002)
- 3: Arthbard (Feb 19, 2002)
- 4: Andy Adorno, scourge of... well, everything, really (Feb 22, 2002)
- 5: Arthbard (Feb 22, 2002)
- 6: Andy Adorno, scourge of... well, everything, really (Feb 22, 2002)
- 7: And Introducing... A Leg (Jun 19, 2002)
- 8: Danny B (Jun 19, 2002)
- 9: Special Agent Poops (Jan 30, 2004)
- 10: David Brider (Feb 2, 2004)
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