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So, now you have watched Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, you think you know how the Trojan Horse was used to defeat the ancient city? Pah! Nolan knows nothing! Despite his movie being an extended homage to Old Hollywood in so many ways, what we really needed was a touch of The Python. And not one to disappoint, Ben Naumann’s new comedy short is something I could easily imagine young Cleese, Palin, Chapman, Gilliam, Jones and Idle doing. Wait, I almost forgot; they did the Trojan Rabbit scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). Arthur and his knights build a huge wooden rabbit to sneak into the French castle. The plan goes wrong when they forget to hide inside it before the French take it into the castle! In this sketch, the Greeks have not forgotten to climb inside – but they are faced with some unexpected issues… Will it go right for them, despite one of them suffering from the intense agony of a repressed fart. It’s about as historically inaccurate as it should be – I…

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