 The song ends with Cleese saying he loves his pet half-a-bee "semi-carnally", which Palin mishears as Cyril Connolly, a British writer and literary critic.It is one of Cleese's personal favourite sketches.On more than one occasion, Cleese has expressed his regret in not having the song follow "Fish Licence" in the sketch's airing on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (Episode 23, "Scott of the Antarctic" 1970) as he describes himself as "most unmusical."