Marriage Guidance Counsellor
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- This page refers to a satire. For marriage guidance see relationship counseling and counselling
The "Marriage Guidance Counsellor" sketch is from the second Monty Python's Flying Circus episode, "Sex and Violence". It was also featured in the 1971 spinoff film And Now For Something Completely Different. It is notable as being one of Carol Cleveland's first appearances on Monty Python's Flying Circus.
It features Michael Palin and Carol Cleveland as a couple (Arthur and Deirdre Pewtey) and Eric Idle as their marriage counsellor. The basic plot of the skit is that the marriage guidance counsellor flirts with Mrs. Pewtey rather than giving the couple advice whereas Mr. Pewtey fails miserably to react to this behaviour and stand up for himself. In the television version, a random person (played by John Cleese) is the one that convinces him while in the movie version, a voiceover of God convinces him. The television version of the sketch ends with Mr. Pewty getting hit in the head with a chicken by a man in a suit of armour. In And Now For Something Competely Different it ends with Arthur Pewtey getting a 16 ton weight dropped on his head.
