Aircraft Salesman (A Door In The Foot) - Robert Calvert

Salesman: Hi there.

We understand you want to buy some airplanes

Strauss: That is correct

Salesman: Well we make ariplanes.

Good ones.

Fast and reliable.

Let me just

show you this.

Look at this picture.

This is the F104.

Or the Starfighter as we

like to call her.

Isn’t she beautiful.

Yep.

She sure is beautiful.

Designed by the same man who designed the famous U2

Strauss: (dreamingly) The U2…

Salesman.

Yes.

It’s the finest fairweather fighter on the market.

You won’t find a better one at the price.

Or any price for that matter

Strauss: Yes, it’s very nice.

But we need a plane for bombing, straffing,

assault and battery, interception, ground support and reconnaissance.

Not just a fairweather fighter!

Salesman: Well, that’s ok.

We can make some modifications.

It’ll cost a little

extra, but it’s worth it.

Just look at the shape of this beauty.

Look, I tell you what we’ll do.

We’l redesign the plane, right?

And instead of just calling it the F104, we’ll call it the F104G

Strauss: G?

Salesman: Yeah, eh, Herr Minister — G. G for Germany

Strauss: G. for Germany, eh…

Salesman: Yeah, ehm, G for Germany, Herr Minister, you know, it’ll go well on

the plane, we could do a logo around it and it would look very taste up in the

clouds.

We could illuminate it a bit — so, that on dark days you would see it

twinkling like a star

Strauss: G for Germany.

Also G for Gott strafe England… (God punish

England) — - this I am enjoying.

(laughter) G for Germany!