Name: MPFC S02E04 The Buzz Aldrin Show (The Architect Sketch, Monty Python Freemasons Episode)
Uploaded: 2023-10-21T21:11:05+00:00
Duration: 27 min 16 s
Description: First to arrive is Mr. Wiggin (John Cleese), who describes his architectural design and modern construction, and then explains his killing technique starting with a conveyor belt and "rotating knives"

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First to arrive is Mr. Wiggin (John Cleese), who describes his architectural design and modern construction, and then explains his killing technique starting with a conveyor belt and "rotating knives". It turns out that Mr. Wiggin mainly designs slaughterhouses and has misunderstood the owners' attitude to their tenants. When Mr. Wiggin fails to persuade them to accept his "real beaut" of a design, he launches into an impassioned tirade against "you non-creative garbage" and blackballing Freemasons. When they still reject his design, however, he begs the increasingly uncomfortable City gents to accept him into the Freemasons.

Once Wiggin has been persuaded to leave, the second architect, Mr. Leavey (Eric Idle), arrives. As Mr. Leavey describes the strong construction and safety features of his design, a tall tower block, his model collapses and catches fire in the manner of the then recent Ronan Point disaster,accompanied by a large on-screen caption reading "SATIRE". The City gents assure Mr. Leavey that provided the tenants are "of light build and relatively sedentary" there should be no need to make expensive changes to the design. After his design is accepted, the model explodes. The City gents exchange bizarre Masonic handshakes with Leavey. Wiggin reappears at the doorway, breaking the fourth wall to tell the audience, "It opens doors, I'm telling you."

This leads into a filmed section about "How to Recognise a Mason", in which Masons are shown engaging in such bizarre behaviour as hopping down Threadneedle Street with their trousers around their ankles. Finally, there follows an animation in which an announcer attempts to "cure" a Mason (an animated cutout of Chapman) through behavioural therapy with a picture of a nude woman; when the subject says, "No", the enraged announcer crushes him with a giant hammer.

References
Chapman, Graham; Cleese, John; Gilliam, Terry; Idle, Eric; Jones, Terry; Palin, Michael (1989). Wilmut, Roger (ed.). The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words, Volume One. New York, New York: Pantheon Books. p. 320 (Appendix). ISBN 0-679-72647-0.
All the Words, Volume One, pp. 220–222.
Wakeman, Rosemary, ed. (2003). Themes in Modern European History since 1945. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-21987-7.