Monty Python demonstrates how not to be seen by announcing one, single reunion show

But, seeing as a Monty Python audience “knows the script better than we do,” John Cleese says, familiar sketches like “Dead Parrot” and “Crunchy Frog” won’t be done in “a predictable way,” but rather be given a “modern, topical, Pythonesque twist” (in the words of a subsequent press release). Maybe a man complains about being sold a dead iPhone. Maybe an inspector vomits into his hat as a confectioner describes his signature chocolate-coated frog, lovingly frosted with Toronto mayor Rob Ford. Eric Idle really did make a joke about twerking, so there’s that.

Anyway, however these old bits are updated and whatever new material they appear alongside, your chance to see them is so far limited to just this one show, with tickets ranging from $44 (£27.50) to $153 (£95) and likely going very, very fast. There were some vague promises that more shows could be scheduled later, maybe even outside of London, and some tentative plans to film the performance for release later, possibly through the BBC—though the group shot down plans for any more TV or films. So basically, this is it—just one big, solitary albatross for sale. No, you don’t get any wafers with it.