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=== Gilliam ===
[[File:Angelo Bronzino - Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time - National Gallery, London.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1|The famous Python Foot can here be seen in its original context in the bottom-left corner of ''[[Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time]]'' by [[Bronzino|Agnolo Bronzino]], in the [[National Gallery, London]].]]
[[File:Foot detail from Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time by Agnolo Bronzino.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1|Close-up of the foot]]
Many Python sketches were linked together by the [[Cutout animation|cut-out animations]] of [[Terry Gilliam]], including the opening titles featuring the iconic giant foot that became a symbol of all that was 'Pythonesque'.<ref>{{cite book |title= The Designer's Dictionary of Color |author= Sean Adams |publisher= Abrams |year= 2017 |isbn= 9781683350026 |page= 104}}</ref> Gilliam's unique visual style was characterised by sudden, dramatic movements and deliberate mismatches of scale, set in [[surrealism|surrealist]] landscapes populated by [[engraving]]s of large buildings with elaborate architecture, grotesque [[Victorian era#Technology and engineering|Victorian]] gadgets, machinery, and people cut from old [[Sears Roebuck]] catalogues. Gilliam added [[airbrush]] illustrations and many familiar pieces of art. All of these elements were combined in incongruous ways to obtain new and humorous meanings.
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===Idle===
[[Eric Idle]] is known for his roles as a cheeky, suggestive playboy ("[[Nudge Nudge]]"), a variety of pretentious television presenters (such as his over-the-top portrayal of [[Philip Jenkinson]] in the segments connecting the "[[Cheese Shop sketch|Cheese Shop]]" and "[[Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days"|Salad Days]]" sketches), a crafty, slick salesman ("Door-to-Door Joke Salesman", "Encyclopedia Salesman") and the merchant who loves to haggle in ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]''. He is acknowledged as 'the master of the one-liner' by the other Pythons, along with his ability to deliver extensive, sometimes maniacal monologues with barely a breath, such as in "The Money Programme".<ref>Chapman, et. al., p. 14</ref> He is also considered the best singer/songwriter in the group; for example, he played guitar in several sketches and wrote and performed "[[Always Look on the Bright Side of Life]]" from ''The Life of Brian''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Palin |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Palin |date=2006 |title=Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years|publisher=[[Weidenfeld & Nicolson]] |___location=London, England|page=473 }}</ref> Unlike Jones, he often played female characters in a more straightforward way, only altering his voice slightly, as opposed to the falsetto shrieking used by the others. Several times, Idle appeared as upper-class, [[middle-aged]] women, such as Rita Fairbanks ("Reenactment of the Battle of Pearl Harbor") and the sexually
Because he was not from an already-established writing partnership prior to Python, Idle wrote his sketches alone.<ref>{{cite book |title= Dictionary of Atheism, Skepticism, and Humanism |first= Bill|last=Cooke |publisher=[[Prometheus Books]]|___location=Amherst, New York|year= 2006 |isbn= 9781615923656 |page= 349}}</ref>
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A Region 2 DVD release of Series 1–4 was released by [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment]] in 2007. This included certain things which had been cut from the US A&E releases, including the "masturbation" line, but failed to reinstate most of the long-lost sketches and edits. A Blu-ray release of the series featuring every episode restored to its original uncut broadcast length was released by Network for the show's 50th anniversary in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://montypython.networkonair.com/flyingcircushd | title=Monty Python's Flying Circus | access-date=23 July 2019 | archive-date=23 July 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723131156/https://montypython.networkonair.com/flyingcircushd | url-status=live }}</ref>
Rediscovered sketch Ursula Hitler, once deemed impossible to find, was re-released with the 50th anniversary sets in 2019. Also some of the extra American broadcast {{nowrap|material{{tsp}}{{mdash}}{{tsp}}}}for instance, the original parody of "Tonight" from ''West Side Story'' in the bus conductor sketch from season{{nbs}}3, {{nowrap|episode 4{{tsp}}{{mdash}}{{tsp}}}}were included as deleted scenes.
=== American television ===
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