*** The witch scene from "Monty Python and the holy grail" ***
*** Transcribed from the movie by Dr.Doom / Amega Industries***
A crowd of peoples are screaming and shouting that they have found
a witch. They take her to Bedevere ...
Erik Idle: (Stabs his staff three times) We have found a witch.
Might we burn her?
Crowd: BURN HER! BURN HER! BURN HER! BURN HER!
Bedevere: How do you know she is a witch?
Man: She looks like one!
Crowd: Yeah, she looks like one!
B: Bring her forward.
Girl: I'm not a witch, I'm not a witch!
B: But, you are dressed as one.
G: They dressed me up like this.
C: Noooo, we didn't.
G: And this isn't my nose, It's a false one!
B: (Checks the false nose) Well?
E: Well, we did do the nose...
B: The nose?
E: And the hat, but she's a witch!
C: BURN HER! BURN HER!
B: Did you dress her up like this?
E: NO!
C: NO! NO! NO! NO!
E: Yes.
C: Yes, yes, yes.
E: Yeah, a bit.
C: A bit, a bit.
E: But she has got a wart.
B: What makes you think she is a witch?
John Cleese: Well, she turned me into a nute* (Norwegian: Vann0gle)
B: A nute?
J: (looks around) I got better!
Man*: BURN HER ANYWAY! (*Does somebody know his name?)
C: BURN HER, BURN HER UP
B: Quiet, quiet, quiet, QUIET!
There are ways of telling wether she is a witch.
E: Are there? (Crowd mumbles) What are they?
B: Tell me: What do you do with witches?
C: (Screaming) BURN THEM, BURN THEM, BURN THEM UP!
B: And what do you burn apart from witches?
E: MORE WITCHES! (John Cleese pushes him in the back)
J: Shh.
Man: Wood!
B: So. Why do witches burn?
J: Cos theire made... of wood?
B: Gooood!
C: Ohhh yeah!
B: So. How do we tell wether she is made of wood?
E: Build a bridge out of her!
B: Ahh! But can you not also make bridges out of stone?
E: Oh yeah.
C: Oh yeah, of course, oh.
B: Does wood sink in water?
Another Man: No, No!
Man: No, It floats! It Floats!
E: We throw her into the pool!
C: (Screeming and shouting) We throw her into the pool!
B: What also floats in water?
E: Bread!
Man: Apples!
J: Ah, Very small rocks!
A.M: Cider.
Man: A great gravy!
Man: Cherrys!
A.M: Mud!
J: Churches, Churches!
A.M: Lead, lead.
King Arthur: A duck!
(The crowd turn their heads against king Arthur)
C: Ooooh
B: Exactly! So... logically.
E: If... She... weight the same as a duck... She's made of wood.
B: And therefore?
Man: A witch!
E: A WITCH!
C: A WITCH! A WITCH!
(A man runs over with a duck) 'Ere's a duck!
B: We shall use my largest scales.
(Crowd is screaming burn her)
(The girl is taken to a large scale and is placed on one of the scale pans.
The duck is placed on the other)
B: Right! Rrrrremove the supports!
C: A WITCH! A WITCH
G: It's a fair cop.
C: BURN HER! BURN HER! BURN HER! BURN HER! osv.
B: Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
A: I'm Arthur, king of the Britains.
B: My liege!
A: Good sir knight, will you come with me to Camelot, and join us at
the round table.
B: My liege! I would be honored.
A: What is your name?
B: Bedevere, my liege.
A: Then I dub you Sir Bedevere, Knight of the round table.