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- TriviaWhen the "Rowan Atkinson walks into a tree" sketch was first written, John Lloyd, whom read the sketch did not find it funny, did not get the joke and found it hopeless and when the sketch was filmed. Atkinson, as he walked down the street, looked at the camera, waved and mouths "Hello!" before actually walking into a tree and John Lloyd thought it was brilliant.
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Buyer: [looking at scaled down model of bathroom set with toilet and shower on the scene] A shower isn't as much use as a toilet is it? Well let's stick another toilet in there then!
Salesperson: But you've already got one sir!
[pause]
Salesperson: How about this heating rack? It can go just here...
Buyer: For drying towels and things?
Salesperson: That's right, yes.
Buyer: A heating rack isn't as much use as a toilet is it, really?
Salesperson: [laughing] Well, I suppose not, no...
Buyer: [takes out rack] , well let's put a toilet there then!
[puts toilet in in its place]
Salesperson: [confused] Um, three toilets...
Buyer: Ah yes - in case of blockage.
Buyer: [slightly later in scene] The bath's taking up a lot of room isn't it?
Salesperson: Well it is a bathroom sir!
Buyer: No, I prefer a shower.
[removes the bath and puts a shower in]
Buyer: Put it here and we'll have a couple of toilets in there as well
[insert two more toilets]
Salesperson: [bemused] That's now six toilets...
Buyer: I'll stick a toilet in the shower as well, kill two birds with one stone as it were.
Salesperson: That's now seven toilets...
Buyer: Do you have anything else?
Salesperson: No, I'm afraid you've used up our entire stock!
- ConnectionsReferences The Dirty Dozen (1967)
- SoundtracksI Believe
Performed by Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones and Pamela Stephenson
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- Runtime25 minutes