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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:58 am

Monty python has been ever present in my house since I was an egg, so it's no suprise that my daughter can join in any quoting session.
But...
Today is her birthday party and I could hear a load of laughing from the lounge, so I poked my nose in and 12 kids are sitting around the telly, laughing there socks off to the Holy grail, stopping the dvd and repeating quotes to each other.

If I do nothing else in life, I feel I have passed on the batton with pride

419Eater is my life Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 365

Better yet, try to get her hooked on "The Young Ones" or my favorite "Fawlty Towers".....you'll thank me for it!

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:08 am

Tsk, python. Those old hasbeens make me sick.....

....oh no wait! I was thinking of the spice girls.

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:56 am

The thing that always surprised me about Python was how popular they were in the USA, given that the humour was typical British public school.

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:42 pm

My 14 year old daughter knows the scene with the black knight better than I do. Unfortunately, she's now old enough to understand why I don't let her quote the part where Sister Zoot says "You must spank us! And then, oral sex!"

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:37 pm

I love the python! I am in the US and think that Python is crazy funny. Some Brittish humor I just don't get, but Python rocks. My wife does not find them so funny though Sad

. Might be time for a Python marathon soon again though....

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:42 pm

I had no idea who/what they were until about '75.....when they had a late night showing of 'grail' at a theater, sponsored by a radio station.
You got in free if you brought a coconut.

Strangely here they usually only show up on PBS, which is almost wholly responsible for our dismal view of British TV humour......
(Mr. Bean, Pythons, and ok...Benny Hill excepted. But Benny hill was on normal commercial TV here...)

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:49 pm

I was raised on Python, Are You Being Served, Black Adder, Benny Hill, and a host of other British Comedies.. It's good for the brain. Very Happy

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:59 pm

Holy Grail was my gateway drug to British humor when I was the same age, 12. I think the "British" humor bits actually drew me to it more. There was something nice about being able to always laugh at it on a surface level for being silly in any language/culture, yet still have some things I had to go "research" in order to get the joke. It made Python more "challenging".

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:30 pm

A few years back a new winery opened up in my area and they employed me as crush pad manager. The one partner was a Python freak and it wasn't long before we were communicating using Python one liners and such. It took about two days before the crew started asking "WTF are you guys talking about?"

I took my Dad to see 'And Now For Something Completely Different' in the theatre back in the '70s. Dad had been in the British Army and when the precision drill squad scene came on I was slightly embarrassed as Dad was the loudest laugher in the place tears rolling down his face and all, he couldn't stop laughing even after the skit was long finished.

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:43 pm

My favourite film ever, I'm in stitches before the credits end, with all the Swedish subtitles...

Quote:

We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.

Quote:

Holy Grail was filmed on a budget of nearly �150,000; this money was raised in part with investments from rock groups such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. (Wikipedia)

'One day, lad, all this will be yours....'

'What, the curtains?

EDIT: If you ever get the chance, listen to 'The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' It is done as a broadcast from the Premiere, at the Odeon, Silbury Hill, and has a celebrity car crash, a piece by Eddie Waring from the lavatories and the car park, and much more. And it is the executive version of the LP (CD).
LINK

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:48 pm

I forgot to mention I saw them live when they came to a location 'behind the fridge'. We were about three rows back centre stage.. Seeing John Cleese that close doing the minister of silly walks bit was a real highlight for me..I chuckle when i think of it.. Laughing

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

M kids LOVE Pyth

The way they go on you'd think they invented it!

One asked for the dvd collection for xmas

Now they gave us something we like.
what could it be
lumberjacks.....?
or could it be.....

[Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings wearing horned helmets. Whenever the word "spam" is repeated, they begin singing and/or chanting. A man and his wife enter. The man is played by Eric Idle, the wife is played by Graham Chapman (in drag), and the waitress is played by Terry Jones, also in drag.

Man: You sit here, dear.

Wife: All right.
Man: Morning!

Waitress: Morning!

Man: Well, what've you got?

Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;

Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...

Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...

Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!

Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.

Wife: Have you got anything without spam?

Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY spam!

Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!

Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?

Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... (Crescendo through next few lines...)

Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?

Waitress: Urgghh!

Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam!

Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!

Waitress: Shut up!

Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!

Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam.

Wife: I don't like spam!

Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam!

Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.

Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?

Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)

Vikings: (Singing elaborately...) Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam![/quote]

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:46 pm

Love Monty Python, but sadly my DVD collection never gets returned. Finally got my son to bring it back from long term borrow and now my daughter has taken it.
I won't let them see I've started collecting Blackadder now.

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:11 pm

I have the box set of the TV series, plus most of the films and a lot of the Terry Gilliam ones too. Brazil is one of my favourite films. The kids can take it or leave it, but my youngest loves Mr. Bean.

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:44 am

I also live in the US and I love Monty Python, Bennie Hill, Mr Bean and The Black Addler, and Faulty Towers. My favorite on Monty was the Milk Man scene where a milk man comes to the door and a lush blonde wearing a nighty opens the door, crooks her finger at the milkman and proceeds to move up the stairs, turning around and crooking her finger at him to come with her. He follows and she takes him upstairs, smiling and beckoning him and gets to a door, opens it and he walks in, she shuts the door and locks it and he turns around and there are tons of milkmen in the room in various stages of decompostion and stuff. It was funny. British humor is a little different, but they probably think the same of our humor. My family came from Wales...so maybe thats why I like it.

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:38 am

The Holy Grail is great. I am here in the US and for one whole summer watched it like every night when I was 12. Now I have the extended DVD with 39 extra seconds!

I think my favorite MP skit is the one with the english-hungarian phrasebook when the man goes to the tobacconist. "Please f...fundle my buttocks." Classic stuff. The first time I saw that I lauged so hard I almost puked!

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:50 am

One of my favorite comedies: Monty Python and the meaning of life. Got to love the part with Mr. Creosote (sp?)... "I'll take the lot... in bucket... and break and egg over it!" Also dig the part about the guy being run off the cliff by topless women... funny stuff for us yanks.

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:12 am

My fav part of the Young Ones:

Rick: Gotcha, Vyvyan! Using my ketchup on your corn flakes!
Vyvyan: Well I couldn't get any milk out of the fridge!
Rick: Why, what are you, a spazzy?
Vyvyan: No, there just happens to be an atom bomb in front of the door!

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:05 am

Huge Monty Python fan,

They cross borders

They cross generations

They are timeless

What more can I say. The best improv group that ever existed.

Always,
B. A. Ware

P.S. Raymond Luxury Yacht, what do you think? Laughing

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:13 am

It was monty python that drew me here. I saw shiv's "parrot sketch" vid and took the url from there.

Best line from Holy Grail:
"Are you trying to tell me coconuts migrate?"
or
"Run away!"

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:17 am

"Whats on the tube?"
"There's a penguin on the tube."

"Sexual intercourse the penguin! Whats on the telly?"

Very Happy

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:52 am

I'll also own up to being a MP fanatic.

I have all the DVDs of their shows and films, CD of their music and many books of scripts and biographies.

My 2 grown up sons are true Pythonists, praying to their leader JC (was that from Not the Nine O'clock News?)

Even "she that must not be argued with" sometimes manages a smile.

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:38 am

16 y.o daughter got into it when she saw 'The Meaning of Life' on telly. I don't think she'd ever seen anything quite like Mr Creosote. I bought the box set of TV show DVD's - she devoured them. She bought me the movie box set for Xmas. She's almost fluent in Parrot Sketch & Lumberjack song Very Happy

As a slight digression, has the US been subjected to Royston Vasey yet?

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:48 am

In all honesty, My hubby and I, if we ever get pissed at each other, one of us will say "Is this the right room for an argument?" Then the other will say "I've told you once". Argument diffused.
Monty Python, the marriage guidance counsellor Laughing