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'''Bernard Marx''' is one of the main characters in the novel ''[[Brave New World]]'' by [[Aldous Huxley]]. Bernard is viewed as an outsider by his peers, and it is rumoured that the worker who was in charge of his bottle put some alcohol in it by mistake, owing to Bernard's abnormally short height and 'ugly' features.
[[Image:Somethingdifferent.jpg|250px|right|[[DVD]] cover of this [[comedy film]] depicting many of the film's main characters]]
'''''And Now For Something Completely Different''''' is a [[film]] [[spinoff]] from the [[television]] [[comedy]] series ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' featuring favourite [[sketch comedy|sketch]]es from the first two seasons. The title originated as a [[catchphrase]] in the TV show. Many Python fans feel that it excellently describes the [[nonsense|nonsensical]], [[Non sequitur (absurdism)|non sequitur]] feel of the program.
Members of the higher castes are conditioned to dislike the shorter lower castes and this places Bernard in a grey area — he is an [[Alpha-Plus]], but is not quite part of the Alpha-Plus set. This has probably led to some of his other peculiarities. He does not enjoy the drug [[Soma (Brave New World)|soma]] or the "feelies", chooses to spend time alone, and is not promiscuous. In addition, Bernard harbours a kind of dissatisfaction with some aspects of the society and tends to be unsociable and aloof towards his more hedonistic peers. Despite his somewhat negative qualities, Bernard is profoundly intelligent and a bit philosophical.
==Catchphrase==
It has been suggested that his name is a crude amalgamation of [[George Bernard Shaw]] and [[Karl Marx]]. To some extent he acts as the novel's [[false protagonist]], being the major 'outcast' in the novel until this role is replaced largely by [[John the Savage]]. After John appears, Bernard becomes accepted as a hero, and he attempts to become promiscuous and take soma, thus becoming more fully integrated into his society.
Many of the early [[episodes]] of the show feature a sensible-looking announcer (played by [[John Cleese]]) dressed in a sensible black suit and sitting behind a sensible wooden desk, which in turn is in some ridiculous ___location such as behind the bars of a [[zoo]] cage or in mid-air being held aloft by small attached [[propeller]]s. The announcer would turn to the audience and announce "and now for something completely different", launching the show's opening [[credits]] starting with second series of the show. It derived from the kind of phrase used to link items in a TV "magazine show" such as the [[BBC]]'s ''Tonight'', which alternated [[current affairs]] and interviews with lighter [[human interest]] material.
Also, Bernards's isolation is amplified early in the book when he attends a meeting for people to "become one." At this meeting 12 people take soma and become one with Ford (the man who started this idea of conformity, the book is set in A.F. 642, A.F. meaning after Ford). However, Bernard feels no effect from the soma and can only focus on one woman's unibrow.
The phrase was also used as a [[transition]] within the show. Often it would be added to in order to better explain the [[transition]], for instance, "And now for something completely different: a man with a tape recorder up his nose." In later [[episodes]] the credits-launching was reduced to a split-second stock [[footage]] of the announcer saying "And now..." in a similar fashion as was done with its [[predecessor]] (the [["It's" man]]). It was replaced by a [[nude]] [[organist]].
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==Film==
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The film, released in [[1971]], consists of 90 minutes of the best [[sketches]] seen in the first two series of the TV show. The [[sketches]] were remade on film without an [[audience]], and was intended for an [[United States|American]] audience which had not yet seen the series. The announcer uses the phrase "and now for something completely different" several times during the film, in situations such as being roasted on a spit and lying on top of the desk in a small, pink [[bikini]].
This movie is somewhat similar to the 1974 film ''"[[The Best of Benny Hill]]"'' which was a film spinoff from the television comedy series ''"[[The Benny Hill Show]]"'' featuring favourite sketches from the first two seasons. The difference in both films are that the Pythons recreated all the sketches while Benny used clips from the Thames years and edited them together to make the film.
The film did not offer anything extra for British fans, except the opportunity to see the sketches in colour at a time when many viewers still had black and white sets, and indeed many were disappointed that the film seemed to belie its title. It was funded by [[Victor Lowndes]] of ''[[Playboy]]'' [[magazine]].
== Film rating ==
The film is rated PG in the [[UK]] and the [[US]].
==DVD Releases==
The film originally was on DVD in Region 1 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. In 2005, it's repacked in a new collector's pack called ''And Now For Something Completely Hilarious!'' which features the films ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' and ''[[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen]]'' in Region 1 format from [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment]].
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