Python's Cockroach cluster

[Heather Maffioli]

No: HPFGUIDX 126528


  mhbobbin:
  > I've always been troubled by the many references to cockroaches in 
  > inappropriate places--such as candy, and as Lupin's solution to 
  > making the Boggart go look ridiculous.  What is funny about a 
  > cockroach???
  > 
  > ...edited...
  >
  > Maybe in her mind, a  cockroach is associated with humor.

  bboyminn:
  > So, again, it's not cockroachs themselves that are funny but the
  > context and contrast in which they are applied in the story.

  Now Me:
  Cockroach cluster is a Monty Python reference.  JK has mentioned this in at least one interview.  It is from a sketch called Wizzo and is about a bizarre chocolate company.

   http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Scripts/HollywoodBowl/hollywood.html#whizzo
  Constable:

  Well, why don't you move into more conventional areas of confectionery, like praline or lime cream, a very popular flavor I'm met to understand, or Strawberry Delight? I mean, what's this one? "Cockroach Cluster?" And this, "Anthrax Ripple?" 


  ~Heather