Silly Voices at the Police Station is a sketch that appears in "The Naked Ant," the twelfth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Synopsis[]
A man (Terry Jones) is at the police station, and wishes to report a burglary. The Sergeant (John Cleese) says he can't hear him, and the man starts to yell his request at him. The Sergeant tells him to speak in a 'higher register', and when the man does, he can hear perfectly, so he continues to take the man's enquiry, making him yell in a shrill voice what happened. Another sergeant, Sergeant Foster, (Graham Chapman) enters and greets the first sergeant in a squeaky voice, to which he responds in a low voice.
The man begins to explain his story when the sergeant goes off duty, passing the enquiry to Sergeant Foster. The sergeant can't understand him and tells him to speak in a 'lower register'. He calls in the Detective Inspector (Eric Idle) as the £5,000 theft seems to be serious. The Detective Inspector enters, greeting Sergeant Foster in a low voice, and he replies speaking rapidly. When the man tells him his address, Sergeant Foster has to repeat it to the Inspector very quickly so he can understand.
The first sergeant enters and the three converse to each other in the varying voices that they can hear. Then, the Detective Inspector speaks to his wife through the telephone in sing-song voice, the first sergeant is speaking through another telephone making revving engine noises and Foster singing down the radio-controlled microphone in an operatic tone.
It cuts to a girl (Maureen Flanagan) who mimes a deep voice saying 'I think that's in very bad taste', a pig meowing, a giraffe barking, Richard Nixon bleating, and a man (Cleese) speaking poshly 'Some people do talk in the most extraordinary way'.