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The sketch is a fairly typical of this sketch is when John Cleese, who at the beginning said he wasn't annoyed by the music, suddenly loudly interrupts the musicians and tells them to stop. Cleese becomes increasingly infuriated and asks the shop keeper if he has any cheese at all. He replies that he does. Cleese says that he's going to ask him that question again, and if he says no he's going to shoot him through the head. The main punch line, of course, is that there is no cheese in the shop; when Palin admits this fact, Cleese shoots him in the head, then says sadly to himself, "What a senseless waste of human life!" In the television programme, the sketch is revealed to be a teaser for Sam Peckinpah 's ''Rogue Cheddar''; this provides a link to further discussions of Peckinpah films, see Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days" . The commentator then discusses that "Rogue Cheddar" is one example from a genre of films known as "Cheese Westerns" — a name that deliberately confuses the film genre Spaghetti Western with the Cheese Western Omelette . OTHER VERSIONS The sketch was reworked for '' The Brand New Monty Python Bok '', becoming a two-player word game in which one player ("the Customer") must keep naming different cheeses, and the other player ("the '''Shopkeeper'''") must keep coming up with different excuses (otherwise "the Customer wins and may punch the '''Shopkeeper''' in the teeth"). The sketch was parodied in an episode of '' The Young Ones ''. Alexei Sayle rushes into a shop (also seeming to do a silly walk, paying homage to " The Ministry Of Silly Walks " sketch) and asks if it is a cheese shop. Rik Mayall , the Palinesque proprietor, replies "No, sir." Alexei says, "Well, that's that sketch knackered then, innit?" David Welbourn wrote an Interactive Fiction-version of the sketch, a small text adventure game called "Cheeseshop," in which the player can attempt to buy cheese at the shop. The game is available on the internet, at the Interactive Fiction Archive. The "Asian Bride Shop" sketch in an episode of '' Goodness Gracious Me '' also pays homage to the Cheese Shop sketch in which the characters are Asian versions of Cleese and Palin and substitute the names of cheese types with descriptions of types of brides. At the end of the sketch another customer enters, complaining that his bride is dead, a reference to the Dead Parrot Sketch . Another as to the evidence he will be presenting for his suit, only to discover after a monotonous line of questioning similar to the original sketch that SCO has no evidence at all. The script was a sharp parody of the quality of the SCO lawsuit, implying that it was exceedingly frivolous. Still another variation on the sketch appeared in an installment of The Order Of The Stick (appropriately titled "It's Not A Gaming Session Until Someone Quotes Monty Python"), a Webcomic satirizing Dungeons & Dragons . In this one, the cheese shop is replaced by a Polearm shop, with the warrior Roy Greenhilt trying to get a replacement for his broken sword, and naming every polearm listed in the game. He expresses frustration that he is unable to purchase a weapon, admitting that if he could, he would use it to stab the shopkeeper. In the comic, the shop owner's cat deposits a dead parrot and a python next to the counter. The characters also briefly parody the Spam (Monty Python) sketch, with the Roy repeatedly including the Glaive in the names of polearms until the shop owner stops him saying, "I think you're drifting into another sketch, sir." {Link without Title} The skit was also referenced in the "Weird Al" Yankovic song " Albuquerque ". In this version, the main character attempts to buy donuts at a donut shop, with similar results. The scene ends when the shopkeeper reveals that all he has is a "box of one dozen starving, crazed weasels" which the main character purchases, opens, and is attacked by. {Link without Title} The cartoon '' Histeria! '' uses a variation of the sketch to depict the Boston Tea Party , where an American sets up a fake tea stand in order to distract a British guard. Rather than simply being out, each time the guard asks for a type of tea, there is a splash heard off screen, and the American says they're out, implying that each particular tea had just been thrown into the harbour. CHEESES Forty-three cheeses are mentioned in the skit - Red Leicester , Tilsit , Caerphilly , Bel Paese , Red Windsor , Stilton , Emmental , Gruyère , Norwegian Jarlsberg , Liptauer , Lancashire , White Stilton , Danish Blue , Double Gloucester , Cheshire , Dorset Blue Vinney , Brie , Roquefort , Pont L'Evêque , Port Salut , Savoyard , Saint-Paulin , Carré De L'Est , Bresse-Bleu , Boursin , Camembert , Gouda , Edam , Caithness , Smoked Austrian , Japanese Sage Derby , Wensleydale , Greek Feta , Gorgonzola , Parmesan , Mozzarella , Pipo Crème , Danish Fynbo (mispronounced 'fimboe'), Czech Sheep's Milk , Venezuelan Beaver Cheese , Cheddar , Ilchester , and Limburger . Sketch variations The above list is from a later recording of the sketch. The original Flying Circus sketch also mentions Perle De Champagne (amongst the list of French cheeses) and does not mention Greek Feta. Also Japanese Sage Derby is simply called (accurately) Sage Derby. Venezuelan Beaver Cheese This type of cheese is, like its supposed progenitor, non-existent. Although this delicacy appears to be entirely fictional ( Venezuela has no native Beaver s). Despite this, various recipes for Venezuelan Beaver cheese have since been published. Venezuelan Beaver Cheese also makes appearances in Monty Python's '', and in the webcomic '' Triangle And Robert ''. TRIVIA
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