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At Home with the Ant and Other Pets is a sketch that appears in "Michael Ellis," the forty-first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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Chris Quinn (Eric Idle) returns home from the department store to his mother (Terry Jones), who is utterly unhappy that he had bought an ant, believing he'll lose interest in it, like he did with the tiger and the sperm whale, the latter of which had its body turned into a garage for Chris' father. While Chris' mother goes to give the tiger drugs, Chris takes the ant to go watch television before being informed by his mother that Michael Ellis has came around multiple times, but she hasn't seen at all since the agouti answered the door for her.

Chris goes into the television room with his ant, where tons of TVs are stacked up on shelves. He chooses a TV to turn on and starts to watch a documentary.

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