- As with The Spanish Inquisition sketch, this scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail is an excellent primer for deduction and induction. The ways these patterns can go awry are probed in hilarious fashion.
- I like to use this scene when discussing heroic punishment and humor theory–both of which are more bizarre even than this scene!
- What is contingent and what is necessary? This binary can be discussed in light of the ways the woman is proved to be a witch.
- “Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?” With the current attacks on science, the tie-ins you’d make here are obvious.
- –And we have not even gotten to the weighing and measuring problems in the scene!
- “It’s a fair cop” again. . . cop being “complaint.”