Cosmetic Surgery is a sketch that appears in "How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body," the twenty-second episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Synopsis[]
The voiceover (John Cleese) says "number 19, the nose" and a profile of Raymond Luxury-Yacht (Graham Chapman) with his large fake nose appears on screen.
Majestic music plays and the camera follows a nameplate that winds around a consulting room of a cosmetic specialist (Cleese), which has Professor Sir Sir Adrian Furrows F.R.S. F.R.C.S.F.R.C.P. M.D.M.S. (Oxon), Mall Ph.D., M. Se. (Cantab), Ph.D. (Syd), ER.G.S., F.R.C.O.G., F. FM.R.C.S., M.S. (Birm), M.S. (Liv), M.S. (Guadalahara), M.S. (Karach), M.S. (Edin), B.A. (Chic), B. Litt. (Phil), D. Litt (Phil), D. Litt (Arthur and Lucy), D. Litt (Ottawa), D. Litt (All other places in Canada, except Medicine Hat), B. Sc. 9 Brussels, Liege, Antwerp, Asse, (and Cromer) written on it.
Luxury-Yacht walks into his office and sits down at the specialist's desk. He invites him in and Luxury-Yacht tells him his name is pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove.
The specialist asks him what the trouble is and Luxury-Yacht requests plastic surgery. The specialist asks which part of the body he'd like it to be performed on and as Luxury-Yacht starts to explain a long story, the specialist interrupts and says "to be absolutely blunt, you're worried about your enormous hooter." Luxury-Yacht disagrees in embarrassment but agrees in the end.
The specialist gets up to examine his nose and with a simple pull, the nose comes off. He tells Luxury-Yacht the nose is false, as it's made out of polystyrene and he won't be needing surgery after all. Luxury-Yacht says he'd still like to be operated on and the specialist replies "well you've had the operation, you strange person." Luxury-Yacht insists. The specialist says yes but only if he'll go on a camping holiday with him. Luxury-Yacht cries to the camera "he asked me! He asked me!"
It cuts to a lyrical film of the two skipping through a forest together hand in hand, accompanied by light instrumental music.