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Dressed in a ridiculous trench coat, he sets off under the cover of night and abducts a succulent pig (Betty) from a local farm. The porker, however, harbors two secrets. First, it is an unlicensed pig, covertly purchased by Swaby and his two friends, the accountant Allardyee (Richard Griffiths) and...
To make matters worse, Swaby and company have also discovered Gilbert's ruse and are threatening to prosecute him. This leads to a conformation over Betty's late in which Joyce and Swaby team up against Gilbert and Allardyee, the latter of whom looks so much lick the aforementioned swine...
Palin's Gilbert is the perfect dramatic foil for her. In contrast with her vivacious cunning, he can merely smile sadly and wrinkle the crow's feet around his eyes as the world shits on him. His affection for Betty even suggests that he likes playing the schlomozzle.
Sauk Centre has 3,709 people, a number that has not changed much in 100 years. Says Betty Schmitz of the Chamber of Commerce: "We want growth to keep our children in town." But two of her five have already left, following a pattern set by the young over the...
Gilbert Chilvers (Michael Palin), a Yorkshire foot doctor, is a man of modest means and ambitions. Not so his wife Joyce (Maggie Smith), who rankles at the snootiness of the town's upper class, especially since she is not part of it. Here it is 1947, and what with food...