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*" Part VII: Death " opens with a funeral setup.

After this, we see Arthur Charles Herbert Runcie MacAdam Jarrett ( Chapman ), a criminal convicted of making gratuitous sexist jokes in a film, killed in a manner of his choosing: He is chased off a cliff by topless American women in brightly-coloured G-strings and crash helmets.

A brief animation of suicidal leaves falling off a tree leads into " Social Death ", in which a group of people at an isolated country house are visited by the Grim Reaper ( Cleese ), who knocks on the door.

Not knowing who he is, the dinner guests spend a lot of time arguing with him before finally being persuaded to shuffle off their mortal coils.

Heaven turns out to be the resort from Part IV.

When they enter, many of the characters from the film ( the Roman Catholic children, the topless women, the liver-less Brown couple, Mr. Creosote, etc.

) are already seated, and all are then serenaded by a Tony Bennett-like lounge singer ( Chapman ) with the monumentally cheesy song " Christmas In Heaven ", a parody of Las Vegas-style shows, complete with women wearing plastic breasts in Santa Claus outfits ( one of which was the actress Jane Leeves in one of her first roles ).

The gleaming-toothed lounge singer tells all those present that in Heaven, it's Christmas every day, forever.

( According to the DVD commentary, the women were supposed to be topless, but costume designer James Acheson stated that fake, uniformly-sized breasts would be funnier than the disparately-sized natural breasts of the dancers, and the women would be more at ease wearing the topless costumes.