1. Birth
2. Growth and Learning
3. Fighting Each Other
4. Middle Age
5. Live Organ Transplants
6. The Autumn Years
7. Death.

Although this is a sketch film, the stories are held together by six fish who lead the viewer on a journey through the life cycle of man. Also making the film cohesive is Monty Python's stated theme of offending "absolutely everyone."

1. "It's a Mr. Death, dear. He's here about the reaping."
2. "Don't stand there gawping! Like you've never seen the hand o' God before!"
3. "Arthur Charles Herbert Runcie MacAdam Jarrett, you have been convicted by twelve good persons and true… of the crime of first-degree making of gratuitous, sexist jokes in a moving picture."
4. "Hello, and welcome to 'The Middle of the Film', the moment where we take a break to invite you, the audience, to join us, the film-makers, in 'Find the Fish'. We're going to show you a scene from another film and ask you to guess where the fish is, but, if you think you know, don't keep it to yourselves. Yell out so that all the cinema can hear you."
5. Grim Reaper: "I am Death!" Guest #4: "Well, that's cast a gloom over the evening..."