Monty Python

[b5blue]

OK who else loves Monty Python, and what is your favorite? (mine is "I told him we already GOT ONE!!)

[FlatbackFanatic]

Me and my daughter both love them. Ministry of silly walks,arguement clinic, it goes on and on. The parrot sketch. Can't forget the Spam sketch.

[Magnumcharger]

I can't stand them....they're stupid!!!


No, really I love 'em!!
A sampling:

King Arthur: Old woman.
Dennis: Man.
King Arthur: Man, sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?
Dennis: I'm 37.
King Arthur: What?
Dennis: I'm 37. I'm not old.
King Arthur: Well I can't just call you "man".
Dennis: Well you could say "Dennis".
King Arthur: I didn't know you were called Dennis.
Dennis: Well you didn't bother to find out did you?
King Arthur: I did say sorry about the "old woman", but from behind you looked...
Dennis: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior.
King Arthur: Well I am king.
Dennis: Oh, king eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.

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King Arthur: I am your king.
Woman: Well I didn't vote for you.
King Arthur: You don't vote for kings.
Woman: Well how'd you become king then?
[Angelic music plays... ]
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.
Dennis: [interrupting] Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

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Dennis: Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.

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Dennis: Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.

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Dennis: Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
King Arthur: Bloody peasant!
Dennis: Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about! Did you see him repressing me? You saw him, Didn't you?

[Foreman72]

"our three main elements, three of our greatest...our chief weapons are.."

there is this awesome one that takes place on an island full of reporters reporting on reporting 

"two people...three people just flew by that window!..."

"ALBATROS"

also anything john cleese says is hilarious...

[moparnole]

The flying circus was probably the coolest show of its day, I love the skit about the funniest joke in the world(killer joke), and as far as movies go, "life of brian" is my favorite, followed by the holy grail.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkCZRnB3VFg&feature=channel_page

[moparstuart]

 i'm a lumber jack and i'm OK




and i want to visit the castle anthrax      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtcSYPjJbgg

[bakerhillpins]

Personally, I am trying to find the Castle Anthrax! 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtcSYPjJbgg

[Old Moparz]

I've been a Python fan since the 70's, & that was before Saturday Night Live was ever on the air. I had read comments about how SNL was going to be the American version of Monty Python, so I looked forward to seeing it, but in my opinion, SNL sucked. Watching 90 minutes of SNL to see maybe 10 minutes of what was "somewhat funny" was a waste of time.

The Holy Grail is my all time favorite, & my 10 year old daughter loves it too. If anyone is a serious Monty Python fan, you have to get the double DVD, anniversary edition of The Holy Grail. The 2nd disc has some behind the scenes footage & other extras. It's also fun to see Terry Jones & Michael Palin go back to the original locations where they shot the movie.   

I found my copy at Target for $14.99 & also found these cool boxers. 

[b5blue]

When ever life gets you down Mrs. Brown.....

[moparstuart]

  the salmon mousse

[Brock Samson]

I'm particularly fond of the movie Brazil,.. the dark Machiavellian humor about the future of London seemed to me to be rather well thought out... and realized and it was all pre CGI too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teufz17PqoY

and anyone who's ever serviced a motor home after a Vacation will appreciate this little clip...
Note Robt. DeNiro in the role of spoiler...  

[b5blue]

Remember Baron Von Munchhausen? Another one from that crazy crew! 

[Manfred318]

Love 'em Ive got Life of Brian and The Holy Grail on Laserdisc. I try n watch them on a regular basis.

lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk

[c00nhunterjoe]

count to three, no more no less, three shall be the number thal shalt count, not 2, 4 though shalt not count to......unless after 3.

[Big Sugar]

Remember the Gay Prince in The Holy Grail. 
"Listen Lad we're living in a Bloody swamp "!!
"Your marrying Princess Lucky ....So you'd better get used to the idea !


Good Times


Ron

[73-charger-383]

the best is when lancelot destroys the wedding party in the holy grail.......

[nh_mopar_fan]

Cleese is in some of the Bond flicks.

In "Die Another Day", I burst out laughing when Brosnan told Cleese, "It's only a flesh wound"

[FlatbackFanatic]

The Holy Grail is probably one of the best movies ever..... I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a Hamster and your father smelt of Elderberries!!!

[Mike DC]

King of Swamp Castle:

"When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp.

So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.

But the fourth one stayed up! And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England."

[b5blue]

With my best buddy by my side...and "smoked up" we walked into this movie not catching Monty Python's connection, to be blind sided, in our "hampered" condition, was the perfect storm. We laughed so hard, so long, it hurt! I still remember the WTF moment seeing Concord banging the coconuts together....as the king skips along ahead of him. Just the credits alone with the Moose costumes and "sacking" still kill me. 

[Old Moparz]

With my best buddy by my side...and "smoked up" we walked into this movie not catching Monty Python's connection, to be blind sided, in our "hampered" condition, was the perfect storm. We laughed so hard, so long, it hurt! I still remember the WTF moment seeing Concord banging the coconuts together....as the king skips along ahead of him. Just the credits alone with the Moose costumes and "sacking" still kill me. 

That's pretty much what happened when I went to see "The Life of Brian" with a friend, the scene where the space ship with the aliens picked up Brian. We both looked at each other with the same WTF expression & laughed like hell. 

[b5blue]

 

[KS71owner]

One of my all time favorite sketches was "How not to be seen" at the beginning of "...and now for something completely different."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0WOIwlXE9g

[RusTy/SE]

If you have the opportunity to see 'Spamalot', the musical version of 'Monty Python and The Holy Grail', you will not be disappointed 

Me goofing around outside the Shubert Theatre, NYC 2 July 2007

[TheGhost]

I loved the killer bunny of death scene.