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Hell's Grannies is a sketch that appears in "Full Frontal Nudity," the eighth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. It also appears in And Now for Something Completely Different.

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The announcer (Eric Idle) while eating yoghurt is jabbed by the Colonel, apologises again as he thought the film was longer, and begins narrating a film about gangs of old ladies (Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Idle, Graham Chapman) attacking young men, tripping walkers, tipping phone kiosks (called telephone boxes in ANfSCD), and vandalising.

A gang of baby snatchers - that is, kidnapper men dressed as babies – (John Cleese, Idle, Chapman, Jones, Palin) is shown stealing a woman's husband (age 47 in Flying Circus, age 48 in ANfSCD). 'KEEP LEFT' signs then attack a vicar (Idle) and the Colonel ends the sketch for being silly, the vicar's long hair and the signs being badly made.

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