The Meaning of Life
Six fish in a posh restaurant's tank swim together casually and say good morning to each other, then see their friend Howard being eaten outside. This leads them to question the meaning of life. The question is explored in the first sketch, "The Miracle of Birth", which features a woman in labour being ignored by the doctors in favour of impressing the hospital's medically-clueless administrator. In Yorkshire, a Roman Catholic man loses his job and informs his numerous children that he must sell them off for scientific experiments due to the Catholic church's opposition to contraception ("Every Sperm Is Sacred"). A Protestant man looks on disapprovingly, and proudly remarks that Protestants can use contraception and have sex for pleasure (though his wife points out that they never do).
