Editing Bruces sketch (section)

==Description==
[[File:Monty_Python_Live_02-07-14_11_29_34_(14415367089).jpg|thumb|[[Eric Idle]] at ''Monty Python Live (Mostly)'', 2014.]]
The sketch involves four [[stereotype|stereotypical]] "[[ocker]]" [[Australians]] of the period, who are all wearing [[khaki]]s and [[cork hat]]s. All are named Bruce, hence being known as ''the Bruces''.

The skit begins with a shot of a man’s kneecap, labelled (as part of the episode’s theme, "How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body"). The camera zooms out to reveal it as belonging to an Australian man named Bruce ([[Eric Idle]]), who is seated with two other men, also named Bruce ([[Graham Chapman]] and [[Michael Palin]]). Their boss, a fourth Bruce ([[John Cleese]]) arrives with a new staff member, a "[[pommie]]" (Englishman) named Michael Baldwin ([[Terry Jones]]). The setting turns out to be a meeting of the Philosophy Department of the University of Woolamaloo. Because Baldwin's first name is different from everyone else's, he is asked if he minds being called "Bruce" to avoid confusion.

The department appears to be situated in nothing more than a simple wooden building somewhere near [[Uluru|Uluru/Ayers Rock]] (which is visible in the distance behind them) in Australia's [[Northern Territory]].<ref>{{cite book|publisher=Mandarin |location=London |title=Monty Python's Flying Circus – Just The Words |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-7493-0226-9 |last1=Chapman |first1=Graham |last2=Cleese |first2=John |last3=Gilliam |first3=Terry |last4=Idle |first4=Eric |last5=Jones |first5=Terry |last6=Palin |first6=Michael |volume=1 |page=295 |author1-link=Graham Chapman |author2-link=John Cleese |author3-link=Terry Gilliam |author4-link=Eric Idle |author5-link=Terry Jones |author6-link=Michael Palin |ref=JustTheWords |url=https://archive.org/details/montypythonsflyi0000unse/page/295 }}</ref>

The Bruces share a fondness for [[Lager|lager beer]] and a dislike of "[[wikt:Appendix:Australian English terms for people|poofters]]" (a derogatory Australian and English slang word for a [[homosexual]]). Cleese's character (who in a later sketch is called Bruce Beer) recites the seven faculty rules of the University of Woolamaloo:<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kbbZBAAAQBAJ&q=faculty+rules |title=Monty Python, Shakespeare, and English Renaissance drama |first=Darl |last=Larsen |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland |year=2003 |page=199 |isbn=9780786481095 }}</ref>

# No poofters.
# No member of the faculty is to maltreat the "[[Indigenous Australians|Abos]]" in any way whatsoever—if there's anyone watching.
# No poofters.
# I don't want to catch anyone not drinking in their room after lights out.
# No poofters.
# There is no rule six.
# No poofters.

The meeting contains various prayers recited by the Bruces, including: "Oh Lord, we beseech thee. Amen.", "Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you. Amen.", and "This here's the [[Acacia pycnantha|wattle]], the emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle or you can hold it in your hand. Amen."

After an Aboriginal servant hands over some steaks, the first Bruce notices something, exclaims, "[[Sidney Nolan]]! What’s that?!", and points at Baldwin’s ear, which is identified as the next part of the body.