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Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign is a sketch that appears in "The War Against Pornography," the thirty-second episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Synopsis

A wartime-style voiceover (Eric Idle) describes the gallant efforts of modern Britain's housewives (played by the Pythons) in spurring on the workers, making sure they work to their full potential (which includes chasing them back into the workplace, watching over them as they work and batting strikers with their handbags). Their endeavours aren't limited to the factory workers, as they burn dirty foreign literature and protesting against the filthiness on TV screen at the BBC TV centre. They do not accept Hegelianism, they prefer Leibnitz to Wittgenstein and they stand on young people almost anywhere. The voiceover explains they fight the constant war of pornography.

It cuts to the Pepperpots manning machine guns and throwing grenade handbags and it pans to the Nude Organist sitting in the midst of it, and the opening titles play.

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