40 years of "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
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That's the one.^ Ah, that would be Reginald Bo-san-quay, whose name would be next to Norway in a rhyming dictionary....if it included proper names...and if he pronounced his name like that...
'It's spelled Raymond Luxury-Yacht, but pronounced Throat Wobbler Mangrove."
You're very silly and I'm not going to interview you. That's not even a proper nose! It's polystyrene!
Actually there's a penguin on the television.
If it lays an egg, it'll fall down the back of the television set.
Live at the Hollywood Bowl is an excellent live performance of the troupe. The Life of Brian is my favorite movie of theirs, and I think my favorite "sketch" is the one where everyone is being transformed into Scotsmen so that Scotland has a chance to win at Wimbledon.
Let's not forget, "How *not* to be seen".
Let's not forget, "How *not* to be seen".
If only Andy Murray had such luck this year...
And of course, they taught me everything I needed to know about LLAMAS!
And brain surgery.
Ah, yes, Blacmanges from the Planet Skyron in the Galaxy of Andromeda! One of my favorite sketches too.
And correction, Englishmen were being transformed into Scotsman because the BLACMANGES wanted to win Wimbledon, as their opponents would only be Scots, who are awful at Tennis.
By the way, isn't it just called, "Sci-Fi Sketch"?
No kidding? Gah! I recently re-watched the entire series, but it tickles me so much to see people being turned into Scots that I don't really pay heed to the "logic" of the sketch.
Unsure. I'd have to pull the DVD. BTW -- "Do you feel like....a wash?"
DINSDALE?
When I was a baby, my parents received a squeaky, toy hedgehog sort of thing for me. My dad proceeded to name it Dinsdale.
The Larch!
I think it should've stopped at three series. Cleese had lost interest by the end of the second and apparently he only wrote two sketches for series three. I can't recall a single sketch (for me) that stood out in series four.
I've got the 45-episode box set, plus holy grail (IMO the only decent of the films) and what survives of the 1948 show (although I hear there is more footage that didn't make it onto the DVDs).
I think it should've stopped at three series. Cleese had lost interest by the end of the second and apparently he only wrote two sketches for series three. I can't recall a single sketch (for me) that stood out in series four.
I've got the 45-episode box set, plus holy grail (IMO the only decent of the films) and what survives of the 1948 show (although I hear there is more footage that didn't make it onto the DVDs).
Dear Sir, I am glad to hear that your studio audience disapproves of the last skit as strongly as I. As a naval officer I abhor the implication that the Royal Navy is a haven for cannibalism. It is well known that we now have the problem relatively under control, and that it is the RAF who now suffer the largest casualties in this area. And what do you think the Argylls ate in Aden. Arabs? Yours etc. Captain B.J. Smethwick in a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms and garlic.
Storytime presenter: hello children, hello. Here is this morning's story. Are you ready? Then we'll being.
[opens book]
Storytime presenter: One day, Ricky the Magic Pixie went to visit Daisy Bumble in her tumbled down cottage. He found her in the bedroom. Roughly he grabbed her heavy shoulders pulling her down onto the bed and ripping off her...
[shocked, skips ahead a few pages]
Storytime presenter: Old Nick, the sea captain, was a rough, tough, jolly sort of fellow. He loved the life of the sea, and he loved to hang out down by the pier where the men dressed as ladies...
[reads silently to himself until he's poked by the stick]
Storytime presenter: OH! Uh... Rumpletweezer ran the Dinky Tinky Shop in the foot of the magic oak tree by the wobbly dum-dum bush in the shade of the magic glade down in Dingly Dell. There he sold contraceptives... contraceptives?
[skips ahead]
Storytime presenter: Discipline?
[and again]
Storytime presenter: Naked... with a melon?
[opens book]
Storytime presenter: One day, Ricky the Magic Pixie went to visit Daisy Bumble in her tumbled down cottage. He found her in the bedroom. Roughly he grabbed her heavy shoulders pulling her down onto the bed and ripping off her...
[shocked, skips ahead a few pages]
Storytime presenter: Old Nick, the sea captain, was a rough, tough, jolly sort of fellow. He loved the life of the sea, and he loved to hang out down by the pier where the men dressed as ladies...
[reads silently to himself until he's poked by the stick]
Storytime presenter: OH! Uh... Rumpletweezer ran the Dinky Tinky Shop in the foot of the magic oak tree by the wobbly dum-dum bush in the shade of the magic glade down in Dingly Dell. There he sold contraceptives... contraceptives?
[skips ahead]
Storytime presenter: Discipline?
[and again]
Storytime presenter: Naked... with a melon?
Dead Parrot.
THE LARCH. Every time I go on a long drive with my dad, we'll both point at any tree and say "the larch!"
Cheese Shop
THE LARCH. Every time I go on a long drive with my dad, we'll both point at any tree and say "the larch!"
Cheese Shop
Palin as a toothpick chewing mafia-type thug to Army base Commander: "Nice army base you got here--be a shame if something were to....happen to it...."
I've always loved the sheer silliness of a stupid, greasy gangster-type threatening a miltary base into paying protection money--idiotic genius.
I've always loved the sheer silliness of a stupid, greasy gangster-type threatening a miltary base into paying protection money--idiotic genius.
Voice Over Number five. The naughty bits.
Voice Over Number seven. Two inches to the right of a very naughty bit indeed.
Voice Over Number fifteen. The naughty bits of Reginald Maudling.
Voice Over Number seven. Two inches to the right of a very naughty bit indeed.
Voice Over Number fifteen. The naughty bits of Reginald Maudling.
