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In the sketch, the extremely stupid Ron Obvious, encouraged by his unscrupulous manager Luigi Vercotti ([[Michael Palin]]), undertakes several impossible tasks for publicity:<ref>{{citation|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=indZAAAAMAAJ|page=134|title=Monty Python encyclopedia|author=Robert Ross|isbn=9781575000367|year=1999}}</ref>

'''Jumping the [[English Channel]]'''.<ref name="books.google.com">Gary L. Hardcastle and George A. Reisch, ''Monty Python and philosophy: nudge nudge, think think!'' (Open Court Publishing, 2006), [http://books.google.com/books?id=wPQelKFNA5MC&pg=RA1-PA144&dq=%22Ron+Obvious%22+%22Monty+Python%22&ei=Q9_HSZ-_KorClQSl2e2pAw 144].</ref><ref>Graham Chapman, ''The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words'' (Pantheon Books, 1989), [http://books.google.com/books?id=wJtkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Ron+Obvious%22+%22Monty+Python%22&dq=%22Ron+Obvious%22+%22Monty+Python%22&ei=Q9_HSZ-_KorClQSl2e2pAw&pgis=1 127].</ref> In the opening scene, Ron Obvious from Neaps End[[Neepsend]] is shown running along the seashore in a track and field uniform. The announcer ([[John Cleese]]) says that Obvious hopes to become the first man to jump the Channel. A group of Frenchmen are shown standing under a sign that reads "Fin de Cross Channel Jump" as traditional accordion music plays in the background. When asked how he plans to jump 26 miles (Obvious said that his longest jump so far is "almost 12 feet, unofficially"), he says "You see if you're five miles out over the English Channel, with nothing but sea underneath you, there is a very great impetus to stay in the air." Obvious has his [[passport]] checked, and carrying a 50&nbsp;lb. bag full of [[brick]]s (provided by the [[Chippenham]] Brick Company, who are sponsoring the event), he sprints toward the sea and jumps, splashing into the water only a few feet from shore.

'''Eating [[Chichester Cathedral]]'''.<ref>Graham Chapman, ''The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words'' (Pantheon Books, 1989), [http://books.google.com/books?id=wJtkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Ron+Obvious%22+%22Monty+Python%22&dq=%22Ron+Obvious%22+%22Monty+Python%22&ei=Q9_HSZ-_KorClQSl2e2pAw&pgis=1 128].</ref> Obvious is shown brushing his teeth, putting on a bib and flexing his jaws before biting into the corner of an old stone building and screaming loudly.