- The prophets: The three bickering prophets - Blood and Thunder Prophet, False Prophet and Boring Prophet - perform an excellent parody of conflicting religious dogmas. Michael Palin, quoting from the book of Cyril, decrees: "At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock."