Have you looked to the Pythons' record albums as variants on the sketches? I'm pretty sure that The Argument Clinic and The Cheese Shop both had variant endings, and there were others that I don't remember. My roommates and I spent a lot of time listening to the albums, in the pre-VCR days when that was the only way to enjoy bits of the show on-demand.
A sketch that you didn't list, that was a particular favorite of ours, was set in a travel agency. "Would you like to come upstairs ... or have you come to arrange a holiday?" "I'm Smoke-too-much. Well, you'd better cut down a little then. Oh.. Smoke-too-much so I'd better cut down a little then. I expect you get jokes about your name all the time. No, I've never noticed it before." "I can't say the letter B because I was bitten by a bat. A cat you mean? No, a bat. ... Well can you say the letter K? ... What a silly bunt!" "Torres Molinos, Torres Molinos" "If you don't shut up, I will have to shoot you."
One of the albums was three-sided. That is, there was one disc, and one side was normal, but the flip side had two sets of parallel (that's not quite the right word) grooves that each went from the outside completely to the inside. You couldn't see that there were two. Depending on where the record was in its rotation when the needle set down, you'd either hear one set of sketches or a different sketch, at random, and it took us some time to figure out why we only heard some of the sketches some of the times we played it.
Things I disliked: Gumbies, Twits, and any time one of the characters spent a very long time leading another character through various odd routes to the final destination.
Other things I liked that you didn't mention include the job aptitude interview with the chartered accountant who wanted to tame lions (which he thought were very small) and Mrs Premise & Mrs Conclusion with the penguin on top of the television exploding somehow leading to a discussion of burying a live cat and flushing budgies and then to a trip to chat with Mrs Proust (perhaps I have compressed more than one sketch into a single memory.)
(I found my way here via a link from Andrew Ducker.)
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A sketch that you didn't list, that was a particular favorite of ours, was set in a travel agency. "Would you like to come upstairs ... or have you come to arrange a holiday?" "I'm Smoke-too-much. Well, you'd better cut down a little then. Oh.. Smoke-too-much so I'd better cut down a little then. I expect you get jokes about your name all the time. No, I've never noticed it before." "I can't say the letter B because I was bitten by a bat. A cat you mean? No, a bat. ... Well can you say the letter K? ... What a silly bunt!" "Torres Molinos, Torres Molinos" "If you don't shut up, I will have to shoot you."
One of the albums was three-sided. That is, there was one disc, and one side was normal, but the flip side had two sets of parallel (that's not quite the right word) grooves that each went from the outside completely to the inside. You couldn't see that there were two. Depending on where the record was in its rotation when the needle set down, you'd either hear one set of sketches or a different sketch, at random, and it took us some time to figure out why we only heard some of the sketches some of the times we played it.
Things I disliked: Gumbies, Twits, and any time one of the characters spent a very long time leading another character through various odd routes to the final destination.
Other things I liked that you didn't mention include the job aptitude interview with the chartered accountant who wanted to tame lions (which he thought were very small) and Mrs Premise & Mrs Conclusion with the penguin on top of the television exploding somehow leading to a discussion of burying a live cat and flushing budgies and then to a trip to chat with Mrs Proust (perhaps I have compressed more than one sketch into a single memory.)
(I found my way here via a link from Andrew Ducker.)