Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Series)

The Golden Age of Ballooning (1974)

Eric Idle: Jacques Montgolfier, Lord Interest, George III's Reader, Norwegian, Mr. Hollweg, Various

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• Jacques Montgolfier : This is a great moment for us, Joseph.

  Joseph Montgolfier : It is a great moment for France.

  Jacques Montgolfier : Ah, oui!

  Joseph Montgolfier : The first ascent in a hot-air balloon, by the Montgolfier brothers, 1783. I can see us now, just after Montesquieu and just before Mozart.

  Jacques Montgolfier : I think I'll go and wash.

  Joseph Montgolfier : Good luck.

  Jacques Montgolfier : Oh, it's quite easy, really. I just slap a little water on my face, then...

  Joseph Montgolfier : No, no, no. Good luck for tomorrow.

  Jacques Montgolfier : Oh, I see, yes. You too. Yours has been the work.

  Joseph Montgolfier : Let us hope for a safe ascent... and, uh, don't use my flannel.

  Jacques Montgolfier : You know, when you showed me the plans in Paris, I could not believe that we should be the first men who would fly.

  Joseph Montgolfier : Yes, it's wonderful.

  Jacques Montgolfier : I'm so excited I could hardly wash!

• Jacques Montgolfier : I'm so excited I can hardly wash.

  Joseph Montgolfier : Yes, I too have had some difficulty washing these past few days...

  Jacques Montgolfier : Still, what is washing when we are on the verge of a great scientific breakthrough.

  Joseph Montgolfier : Jacques.

  Jacques Montgolfier : Yes Joseph?

  Joseph Montgolfier : I... 've not been washing very thoroughly for many years now.

• Jacques Montgolfier : Let me put my tongue in your mouth.

  Antoinette : What do you mean?

  Jacques Montgolfier : We're supposed to be French, aren't we?