Monty Python
 

Hey everyone,
I am not sure if there is a thread devoted to Monty Python before, but I want to start one any. So here it goes!

What is your favorite MP moment. It could be a movie or a sketch from the Flying Circus show.

Here's mine:

The Meaning of Life

The Holy Grail

Life of Brian

The Dead Parrot Sketch

Tennis Playing Blancmange Sketch

The Royal Hospital of Overacting sketch

Terry Gilliam's cartoons are wacky!

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Holy Grail

SPAM!!!!!!!!

Dead Parrot

Meaning of Life

Life of Brian

The guy who hits his head with the bricks.

Mine are

Meaning of Life

Holy Grail

And Now For Something Completely Different

Life of Brian

SPAM!!!

Lets not forget

The Lumberjack Song

Waffer Thin Mint

"I'd Like to purchase a hearing aid"

or The Cheese Shop

I'm a big fan - got the DVD Box set of Flying Circus for my birthday. :)

Lumberjack Song

Military Drill

The Meaning of Life: One of the greatest movies of all time.

Sheesh, I forgot SPAM!
 

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!!

Minister of Silly Walks
Blackmail!
Argument Clinic
Lumberjack Song (heck, that entire ep is brilliant!)
Nudge Nudge
Dead Parrot
Upperclass Twit
Camelot Song (the lego.com website has a great parody of this)
All of the movies, especially Holy Grail and Hollywood Bowl

If you read the 'FoxTrot' cartoon, last Sunday's strip was Pythonized!

There are also plenty of Python influences in the "Veggie Tales" series, including a couple of priceless ones in the Jonah movie. The guy who started "Veggie Tales" is a big Python fan.

AOIIalum, I agree with all of you choices.

I vaguely remember one:

"Dead vicar (or was it bishop) on the landing!"

"RC or C of E?"

Anyone else remember that?

I just watched my first ever Monty Python movie last Friday (Life of Brian)....it was so freaking funny! I'm going to have to rent the Holy Grail now and watch it...I couldn't understand why all the guys that were in England with my watched it almost every week! :)

"Your mother was a hampster...and your father smelled of ELDERBERRIES!"

YEAH Grail!

<---also a huge fan of "Nudge, Nudge" and the tupperware skit (I forget the name...)

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My favorite! I've used this a few times in my public speaking lectures when we turn to the serious topic of persuasion.

"Argument is the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says"

"Yes it is!"

"No it isn't"

That, and "Oh! I'm sorry, this isn't argument, this is abuse! Try Mr. Barnard, Room 12."

I remember nearly falling on the floor when I heard the sperm song. :p

-- "We've found a witch! May we burn her?!"

-- "Look. Strange women lying about in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. . . . Help! Help! I'm being repressed! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!"

-- "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time."

-- "Couldn't I face just a little of the peril?" "No, it would be too perilous."

-- "But father. I just want to sing!"

-- Traffic Lights

-- The Spam Song

-- Mary, Queen of Scots

-- How to Defend Yourself Againt Someone Weilding a Banana"

-- The Book Shop ("Ah, Dickens!")

-- "This is an ex-parrot!"

-- The Lumberjack Song

I could go on and on and on....

OOOHH!! OOOHH!! I forgot one:

The penguin on the telly

I can't even list them all because there are waaaaaaaay too many that I love!

btw, I find it kind of funny that this thread started today. Back in high school, my friends and I dubbed today National Monty Python Observance Day because the date is 6/9. We thought we were cool.

Anyway.

Happy National Monty Python Observance Day!

Roger the Shrubber

LOL

Tis but a scratch.

Those Catholics, everytime they sex they have a kid. It's the same thing with us. We have two children and we've sex exactly twice.

Did any of you MP fans ever see John Cleese's Fawlty Towers? That is some funny, funny stuff.

Yes! They run it on BBC America (watching Graham Norton now, I love him too.)

I have digital cable to get my BBC America fix!

Okay here are more of my favorites:

The Spanish Inquisition Episode

The Gumbys (not the clay guy), especially when one hosted a flower arranging segment

Spot the Loony

The Fatal Joke

When John Cleese said "And Now For Something Completely Different", then Michael Palin says "It's" before the opening music

Mary Queen of Scots followed by the exploding Penguin on the telly

Ladies Guild Historical Reenactments in mud

The Spam Restaurant

When Art went on strike

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Update
 

I am not sure if anyone has seen this at all or not. On VH1, they are showing the series "I Love the 70s". In the 1975 episode, they talk about Monty Python: The Flying Circus show and The Holy Grail Movie. If you haven't seen this episode, don't miss it in the future.

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Dead Parrot & the Cheese Shop.

Oh, and the one about self defense against fresh fruit. Hee!

OMG! YES! One of the funniest shows EVER. Favorite episodes: Basil the Rat and The Germans.

Roger the Shrubber: Are you saying Ni to that old woman?

King Arthur: Um, yes.

Roger the Shrubber: Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history.

King Arthur: Did you say shrubberies?

Roger the Shrubber: Yes, shrubberies are my trade. I am a shrubber. My name is
Roger the Shrubber. I arrange, design, and sell shrubberies.

I have too many faves to list, but you just made me laugh out loud w/that quote.... (in whiny nasal voice)