"My only line" is a running joke originating in the fourth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Owl-Stretching Time."
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It is said by a female character breaking down in tears and crying, "But it's my only line!" after another actor scolds her for either making a terrible joke, or, in the Buying a Bed sketch, referencing the word 'mattress.'
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It is first said in the Art Critic sketch of the episode "Owl-Stretching Time," said by Katya Wyeth. Later in the episode, it is said by a Viking played by Terry Gilliam.
It is later said in the episode "Full Frontal Nudity" by Wyeth in the sketch Art Critic - The Place of the Nude and by Carol Cleveland as the bride in the Buying a Bed sketch.