Middle-classic TV: "'Ampstead wasn't good enough for you was it? You had to go poncin' off to Barnsley!"

One of the less-celebrated, but nonetheless classic, sketches from Monty Python today. For those too young to remember coal mines, this is a skit on a kind of scene that had become a cliche by the 1970s - the working class grammar school boy returning to the family home to be confronted by the resentful father. One of my favourite examples is the breakfast scene in Billy Liar, where Billy's father berates him for his "suede shoes and fountain pens" (a line which Graham Chapman might have had in mind here, when he speaks scornfully of "tungsten carbide drills."