Trivia
As an apparent homage to famous comedy roles he'd performed, in his duel with Dick,
John Cleese cleverly reprises his role as The Black Knight from
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) and the waiter's "Bon appetit" remark to Mr. Creosote in
Monty Python's Meaning Of Life (1983) when he repeats the phrase and timing after catching a buzzing fly and then dropping it onto Dick's restaurant meal.
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Goofs
When Harry brings in Arthur, they get all excited and start playing the movie, but if you look closely the VCR is not hooked up to the TV by any wires.
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Quotes
Dr. Dick Solomon:
I will now dispatch my foe with an elegant haiku.
[
Dick is shown surreptitiously, quickly counting with his fingers]
Dr. Liam Neesam:
[
interrupting Dick's count]
Five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables.
Dr. Dick Solomon:
I know that!
Dr. Dick Solomon:
[
disgusted, yet in haiku format]
I'm so sick of you. You think you know everything. Will you stop it? Please
Dr. Liam Neesam:
Well, yes. That is *technically* a haiku, but it's a rather pedestrian one. Isn't it?
Dr. Dick Solomon:
No. No - That was an accidental haiku!
Dr. Liam Neesam:
What?
Dr. Dick Solomon:
I-I-I want another turn!
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