Are You Embarrassed Easily? - Monty Python, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin

Announcer: Are you embarrassed easily?

I am.

But it’s

Nothing to worry about.

It’s all part of growing up and

Being British.

This course is designed to eliminate

Embarrassment, to enable you to talk freely about rude

Objects, to look at akward and embarrassing things, and

To point at people’s privates.

The course has been

Designed by Dr. Karl Gruber of the Institute of Going A

Bit Red in Helsinki.

Here, he himself introduces the

Course

Dr. Karl Gruber: Hello, my name is Karl Gruber.

Thank

You for inviting me into your home.

My method is the

Result of six years work here at the institute, in

Which subjects were exposed to simulated embarrassment

Predicaments, over a prolonged fart — period!

time!

(fart) …Sorry.

Lesson 1: Words.

Do any of these words

Embarass you?

Voice over: Shoe.

Megaphone.

Grunties

Dr. Karl Gruber: Now let’s go on to something ruder:

Voice over: Wankel rotary engine

Dr. Karl Gruber: Now lesson 2: Noises.

Noises are a

Major embarrassment source.

Even words like «tits»

«winkle» and «vibraphone» can not rival the

Embarrassment potential of sound.

Listen to this, if

You can:

(embarrassing sound)

How do you rate your embarrassment response?

A) High

B) Hello!

C) Good evening!

If C, you are loosening up, and will soon be ready for

This:

(more embarrassing sounds)

Well!

How did you rate?

A) Embarrassed

B) Hello!

C) Good evening!

Now lesson 3, in which these rude and dirty sounds are

Combined with smutty visual suggestions into a

Embarrassment simulation situation.

You are the waiter

At this table:

Lady: Charles, I’ve got something to show you…

(zipper, thud, thud)

Dr. Karl Gruber: Score 5 for no embarrassment, score 3

For slight embarrassment, and 1 for…