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Brontosauruses</b>" is a <a href="/wiki/Sketch_comedy" title="Sketch comedy">sketch</a> from Episode 31 of <i><a href="/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus" title="Monty Python's Flying Circus">Monty Python's Flying Circus</a></i>, "<a href="/wiki/List_of_Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus_episodes#5._The_All-England_Summarize_Proust_Competition" title="List of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes">The All-England Summarize Proust Competition</a>" (1972). </p><p>The sketch features a television presenter (<a href="/wiki/Graham_Chapman" title="Graham Chapman">Graham Chapman</a>) interviewing <a href="/wiki/Paleontologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Paleontologist">paleontologist</a> Anne Elk (<a href="/wiki/John_Cleese" title="John Cleese">John Cleese</a> in <a href="/wiki/Drag_(clothing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Drag (clothing)">drag</a>). The plot of the sketch is that Miss Elk (who is very concerned about being properly credited: "A. Elk, <a href="/wiki/Brackets#Parentheses" class="mw-redirect" title="Brackets">brackets</a>, Miss, brackets") has severe difficulty presenting her new theory about <a href="/wiki/Brontosaurus" title="Brontosaurus">brontosauruses</a> due to her bizarre mannerisms, which include <a href="/wiki/Circumlocution" title="Circumlocution">circumlocution</a>, repetition, and obnoxious, noisy <a href="/wiki/Throat-clear" class="mw-redirect" title="Throat-clear">throat-clearing</a>. When she is finally able to state her theory, it turns out to be a very trite observation that "All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much, much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end." In the original broadcast version, the sketch is taken over by other jokes from within the same episode, and spills over into the set of a previous sketch where Miss Elk concludes the episode with a second theory about <a href="/wiki/Marcel_Proust" title="Marcel Proust">Marcel Proust</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AllTheWords-p118_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AllTheWords-p118-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This sketch was also performed on the album <i><a href="/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Previous_Record" title="Monty Python's Previous Record">Monty Python's Previous Record</a></i>, under the title 'Miss Anne Elk'. In this version, before she begins her second theory, the interviewer shoots her. </p><p>At Cleese's request, the sketch was performed as part of the team's 2014 live reunion show, <i><a href="/wiki/Monty_Python_Live_(Mostly)" title="Monty Python Live (Mostly)">Monty Python Live (Mostly)</a></i>, with <a href="/wiki/Eric_Idle" title="Eric Idle">Eric Idle</a> playing the interviewer. This version concluded with an extended coughing fit, before linking to the "Dancing Teeth" animation. </p><p>The sketch inspired the concept of "Elk theories" to describe scientific observations that are not theories but merely minimal accounts.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The character A. 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