The " Dead Parrot Sketch ", alternatively and originally known as the " Pet Shop Sketch " or " Parrot Sketch ", is a popular sketch or one act from Monty Python's Flying Circus, and one of the most famous in the history of British television comedy.

The " Dead Parrot " sketch was inspired by a " Car Salesman " sketch that Palin and Chapman had done in How to Irritate People.

Over the years, Cleese and Palin have done many versions of the " Dead Parrot " sketch for various television shows, record albums, and live performances.

On the Rhino Records ' compilation Dead Parrot Society, a live performance has Palin cracking up while Cleese declares " Pining for the fjords?

In his published Diary, Michael Palin recalls that during the filming of Monty Python's Life of Brian in Tunisia, Spike Milligan ( who happened to be there on holiday ) regaled the Pythons with his own version of the Dead Parrot sketch, but changed " Norwegian Blue " to " Arctic Grey ".

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Palin appeared in some of the most famous Python sketches, including " Argument Clinic ," " Dead Parrot ," " The Lumberjack Song ," " The Spanish Inquisition ," and " The Fish-Slapping Dance.

In Monty Python, Palin played various roles, which ranged from manic enthusiasm ( such as the lumberjack of the Lumberjack Song, or Herbert Anchovy, host of the game show " Blackmail ") to unflappable calmness ( such as the Dead Parrot vendor, Cheese Shop proprietor, or Postal Clerk ).

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As a tribute to the Dead Parrot sketch, a short that features Cartman attempting to return a dead Kenny to a shop run by Kyle aired during a 1999 BBC television special commemorating the 30th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

In the version from the film And Now For Something Completely Different, it follows on from the " Dead Parrot " sketch with Palin's character leaving the pet shop as Eric Praline asks " I'm sorry, this is irrelevant, isn't it?

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As a tribute to the Dead Parrot sketch, a short that features Kyle as the owner of a shop to where Cartman attempts to return a dead Kenny aired during a 1999 BBC television special commemorating the 30th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

– a reference to Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch

* CD Booklet notes: Dead Parrot Society – CD release Springtime !/ Rhino 1993

* The Marriage Emporium-pays homage to Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch and Dead Parrot sketch.

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Some famous sketches included are: the " Dead Parrot " sketch, " The Lumberjack Song ", " Upperclass Twits ", " Hell's Grannies ", and the " Nudge Nudge " sketch.

# Dead Parrot: Perhaps Monty Python's most famous sketch, Mr. Praline ( Cleese ) attempts to get a refund for his deceased parrot, but the shopkeeper ( Palin ) refuses to acknowledge the parrot's passing on.

* An easter egg exists in Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire where the hero dances in the Dead Parrot Inn, imitating the exact moves of the Dancing Baby.

* Dead Parrot Society ( compilation album, 1993 )

( Those associated with it fondly referred to the company as " Dead Parrot Records.

The New York Times reviewed the play saying it is " scarcely more than an extended comedy sketch, lacking the portent and linguistic complexity of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

In 1993 Coogan starred alongside Caroline Aherne and John Thomson in a one-off Granada TV sketch show The Dead Good Show.

In one sketch, the Dead Ringers Perkins telephoned the real Perkins, the impersonator accusing the real Perkins of not being " hard " enough.

Acting work includes Dogman, The Dead Set, and sketch shows touring the world from Mexico to the Palestinian Territories.

In the first series of the televised Dead Ringers, in a sketch with Jon Culshaw visiting The London Eye ( calling it an Interstitial Time Delay Helix ) in the persona of the Fourth Doctor, he humorously accused two tourists: " You are Autons from the planet Tosos!

The album includes several standout tracks including " Fim de Semana no Parque " (" Weekend in the Park "), a lyrical sketch of lowlifes in São Paulo ; " Mano na Porta do Bar " (" Man at the Bar Door "), a skillful remix of Curtis Mayfield's " Freddie's Dead "; and the unexpected harmonica and piano jam " Fio da Navalha " (" Razor Edge ").

One of the Dead Sea Scrolls ( 4Q535, Manuscript B ) is written from Amram's point of view, and hence has been dubbed the Testament of Amram.

* The MTV Thanksgiving Special " Beavis and Butt-Head Do Thanksgiving " aired on November 27, 1997, the day before the series finale Beavis and Butt-Head Are Dead written by Andy Rheingold and Scott Sonneborn.

With the discovery of the Dead Sea scroll, 4QDan < sup > c </ sup > at Qumran, dating 125 BCE, it does not reassure critics that Daniel was written in the 2nd century BCE.

According to John J. Collins in his 1993 commentary, Daniel, Hermeneia Commentary, the Aramaic in Daniel is of a later form than that used in the Samaria correspondence, but slightly earlier than the form used in the Dead Sea Scrolls, meaning that the Aramaic chapters 2-6 may have been written earlier in the Hellenistic period than the rest of the book, with the vision in chapter 7 being the only Aramaic portion dating to the time of Antiochus.

The jury and judges also noted, in their words, that Biafra “ lacked credibility ” on the songwriting issue and found from evidence presented by both sides that the songwriting credits were due to the entire band, using a clause in the band's written partnership giving a small share of every Dead Kennedys song royalty directly to the band partnership.

The Evil Dead ( sometimes shortened to just Evil Dead, and originally titled Book of the Dead ) is a 1981 American horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi, starring Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, and Betsy Baker.

In January 2008, Dark Horse Comics began releasing a four-part monthly comic book mini-series based on Evil Dead, written by Mark Verheiden, with art by John Bolton, who provided art for the Dark Horse Army of Darkness comic.

On July 13, 2011 it was announced that The Evil Dead was being remade and it would be written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker, Fede Alvarez.

Its rapid production schedule was inspired by UK series Drop The Dead Donkey, where each episode was written and taped in a single week and scripts were closely based on the real news stories of the preceding seven days.

In addition to 2004's remake of Dawn of the Dead, as well as 2003's remake of both Herschell Gordon Lewis ' cult classic 2001 Maniacs and the remake of Tobe Hooper's classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, there was also the 2007 Rob Zombie written and directed remake of John Carpenter's Halloween.

The oldest written manuscripts have been preserved by the perfect dryness of their Middle Eastern resting places, whether placed within sarcophagi in Egyptian tombs, or reused as mummy-wrappings, discarded in the middens of Oxyrhynchus or secreted for safe-keeping in jars and buried ( Nag Hammadi library ) or stored in dry caves ( Dead Sea scrolls ).

A section of the Egyptian Book of the Dead written on papyrus

# " Dead Flowers " – written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards ; performed by Townes van Zandt

Discussing the creation of Night of the Living Dead, Romero remarked, " I had written a short story, which I basically had ripped off from a Richard Matheson novel called I Am Legend.

However, if the ka was not properly prepared, this journey could be fraught with dangerous pitfalls and strange demons ; hence some of the earliest religious texts discovered, such as the Papyrus of Ani ( commonly known as The Book of the Dead ) and the Pyramid Texts were actually written as guides to help the deceased successfully navigate the duat.

Discussing the creation of Night of the Living Dead, Romero remarked, " I had written a short story, which I basically had ripped off from a Richard Matheson novel called I Am Legend.

The same elements from the myth that appear in the Pyramid Texts recur in funerary texts written in later times, such as the Coffin Texts from the Middle Kingdom ( c. 2055 – 1650 BC ) and the Book of the Dead from the New Kingdom ( c. 1550 – 1070 BC ).

Fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls, written from 150 BCE to 70 CE state that it was Nabonidus ( N-b-n-y ) who was smitten by God with a fever for seven years of his reign while his son Belshazzar was regent.

In a commentary track for the 20th Anniversary audiobook edition of the novel, as well as in the 1991 Author's Definitive Edition, Card stated that Ender's Game was written specifically to establish the character of Ender for his role of the Speaker in Speaker for the Dead, the outline for which he had written before novelizing Ender's Game.

Day of the Dead is a 1985 American horror film written and directed by George A. Romero and the third film in Romero's Dead Series, being preceded by Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ) and Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ).