French Taunting

The recording we hold is a clip of this scene from the 1975 film, not a music recording. All six Pythons are credited with the film's script, and we found no source attributing the scene to one writer. John Cleese is credited as the French Taunter. In it Arthur and the knights reach a castle held by French soldiers who claim to have the Grail and taunt the Britons; they are driven back by barnyard animals, and Bedevere proposes a Trojan Rabbit but forgets to tell anyone to hide inside it, so it is flung back and the knights flee. The World quoted the line about the mother being a hamster and the father smelling of elderberries.

Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones directed, the film's original budget was 175,350 pounds from eight investors including Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Ian Anderson per Eric Idle, and it was shot mostly in Scotland, with Doune Castle in central Scotland serving for nearly all the castle scenes; the audio guide there is narrated by Terry Jones and coconut halves are sold at the ticket counter. It premiered in London on April 3, 1975 and in New York on April 28. In Spamalot, the French castle scene is in Act I, with Hank Azaria as the French Taunter on Broadway, and Cleese reprised the role to promote a GB News program. We found no filming date for the scene, and could not tell the uploader or duration of our clip.