Kilimanjaro Expedition
Kilimanjaro Expedition is a sketch from the episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus "The Ant, an Introduction", also appearing in the Monty Python film And Now For Something Completely Different. It has been compared to a comic episode in Franz Kafka's The Castle in which the protagonist, K., is confused by twins assigned to assist him.[1]
Overview
Arthur Wilson (Eric Idle), a young mountaineer, visits the office of Sir George Head, OBE (John Cleese), who is leading an expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro. Head suffers severely from diplopia, and repeatedly believes there are two of everything, including Wilson, throughout the sketch. A guide, Jimmy Blankinsop (Graham Chapman) enters partway through and acts out the expedition route very physically, knocking over furniture in the process. Wilson leaves, feeling he has "absolutely no confidence in anyone involved in it", but the "other" Wilson (now visible) says "I'm game".[2]
References
- ^ Bartram, Graham (2004). The Cambridge companion to the modern German novel. Cambridge University Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-521-48392-6.
- ^ Alan Parker, Mick O'Shea (2006). And Now for Something Completely Digital. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-932857-31-3.