British Bon-Bons

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

Paul Di Filippo notes:
"Perhaps the second most famous noisome sweets after those in
GR must be the ones from the hilarious Monty Python skit:
Crunchy Frog, the bonbon loaded with flesh-piercing springs,
etc.  Now:  in which direction, chronologically, does the
influence run?
TRP to MP, or vice versa?"


Actually, TRP is of an age to be influenced by Python's predecessor in the WackyBrits category: the Beyond the Fringe group, which included Dudley Moore (who
actually was funny once), Peter Cook, Alan Bennett (last seen directing THE
MADNESS OF KING GEORGE), and Renaissance Man Dr. Jonathan Miller (who's directed
a couple of fine British/PBS series on the human body and on madness).
Cook and Moore in particular had a sketch about a bad and pretentious restaurant
called THE FROG AND PEACH  whose specialities were "Frog a la Peche" and
"Peche a la Frog."

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)