1 {scene: inside the Classical Museum in Tripoli}
1 Monty: According to this Ancient Greek inscription, the Gorgons' lair is this way.
2 Prof. Jones: Wow, look at all of these incredibly lifelike statues.
2 Prof. Jones: Oh! You know, these could be people who came to look for the Gorgons and...
4 Monty: Succeeded... {looking at statues of Colonel Haken, Erwin, and Ginny}

It's really tedious making the figures grey like that. Not difficult, just tedious, because I need to trace over the figures carefully in Photoshop, so the strip ends up taking about 5 times as long to make as normal.

EDIT: Thanks to the many people who suggested it would be easier to get this effect by shooting two shots, one with only the figures to be turned grey, and one with all the rest of the scenery, and then doing green-screen magic in Photoshop. In fact, that would be considerably more work than the way I've done it. Trust me.

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2025-04-08 Rerun commentary: Nowadays this sort of image processing is much easier, thanks to more sophisticated new tools added to Photoshop. In particular the Quick Selection tool, which allows you to "paint" over an object very roughly and it will magically^[1] select similar coloured regions and stop at the boundaries, which is good enough for selecting many objects. And even when it's not quite right, it's a lot quicker to do it roughly with this tool and then fix the minor details, than to try and select the whole thing manually.

[1] Not actual magic, but technological wizardry.^[2]

[2] Not actual wizardry, but metaphorical wizardry.