OT - Monty Python?

[Roto]

I flipped by PBS once and caught Clint Black singing The Galaxy Song on Austin City Limits. I wonder how many people in the audience knew where that song came from. I only knew because I had it on CD. Funny choice for a cover tune. I wonder if he had a teleprompter. I remember I was in an astronomy class at the time I first heard that song and all the numbers were correct!

 

(spoken)

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,

And things seem hard or tough,

And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,

(sung)

And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough,

 

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving

And revolving at 900 miles an hour.

It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,

The sun that is the source of all our power.

Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,

Are moving at a million miles a day,

In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,

Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.

 

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;

It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;

It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,

But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.

We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,

We go 'round every two hundred million years;

And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions

In this amazing and expanding universe.

 

(waltz)

 

Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,

In all of the directions it can whiz;

As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,

Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.

So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,

How amazingly unlikely is your birth;

And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,

'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!

[Jeff Klopmeyer]

Grail!

 

And, like someone mentioned, Fawlty Towers, the most brilliant series ever to hit the small screen. Not really Python, but the Cleese connection is there.

 

"Would you like some...ratatouie?"

 

- Jeff

[Anthony Savona]

The Larch.....

 

the larch....

[Dan South]

The Holy Grail is my favorite movie of all time. When you sift through the goofy gags, you realize that it's a brilliant parody of all things that Western civilization holds dear -

 

- political authority/class distinction ("Old Man")

- philosophy and logic ("Witch")

- religion ("God's Idea", "Holy Hand Grenade")

- science ("Coconut Migration")

- bravado ("Black Night")

- heroism ("Wedding Rescue")

- marriage ("Forced Marriage")

- chastity ("Castle Anthrax")

- destructive power ("Tim the Sorcerer")

- negotiation ("Appeal to join the quest")

- military strategy ("Trojan Rabbit")

- legend ("King Arthur")

- history ("A Famous Historian")

- bravery and cleverness ("Bridge Of Death")

- superiority complex ("Killer Rabbit")

- law and order ("Final Bust")

- the ancient/classical world ("Joseph of Aramathea")

- european history (repeated petty squabbles between the English and the French)

 

As far as TV skits go, my faves include -

 

- Bicycle Repairman

- How Not To Be Seen

- Special Olympics

- It's a Dogs Life In HM's Royal Army

- Self-Defense Training

- World's Funniest Joke

[meccajay]

**From Monty Python's Meaning Of Life**

 

 

Fattest man in the world walks into a restaurant...

 

Waiter-- "Good afternoon sir, how are you today??"

 

Fattest Man-- "Better!"

 

Waiter-- "Better Sir??"

 

FM-- "BETTER get me a bucket, Ive got to THROW UP!!"

 

...FM proceed's to spew gallons of shooting vomit across the restaurant!!!!!

[meccajay]

"...Im a LUMBERJACK and Im okay, I sleep all night...and work all day...."

[Jeff Klopmeyer]

Originally posted by Dan South:

- science ("Coconut Migration")

 

Dude...my best friend and I, for the past twenty years or so, constantly quote the entire Coconut bit to each other. I keep thinking I'm going to grow tired of it, and I never, ever do.

 

- Jeff

[Synthmatic]

The Invasion From the Planet Skyron

 

The Argument Clinic

 

Confuse a Cat

 

Pither

[Bob Keelan]

Originally posted by Anthony Savona:

The Larch.....

 

the larch....

 

#2 the larch

[SFOracle]

"And finally Monsieur, a wafer-thin mint?"

[Superbobus]

"Sit on my face and tell me that you love me!" Gee, what an idea for a song!

Also: a European or an African swallow? Ehhh, I don't knooooooooowwwww!

And the part in Life of Bryan where it goes completely in space... TERRY GILLIAM RULEZ. Just saw this "fear and loathing in Las Vegas"... WEIRD!

[Peake]

"Ooh, Mrs. Knickerbater's exploded!" "Oh don't get so sentimental mother, people explode every day."

 

How not to be seen.

 

"The Church Police!"

[Dave Bryce]

I have a rare Japanese copy of the Grail on LaserDisc (remember them?). At the very end, there is a copy of the castle scene with the French Knights. You can toggle between English and Japanese audio, but the subtitles are in English, and reflect the direct Japanese translation. It's friggin' hysterical..

 

ENG. AUDIO: I told them we already got one

SUBTITLE: I lied

 

ENG. AUDIO: Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries

SUBTITLE: I question your parental lineage.

 

There's a bunch more...I played it for a Japanese friend of mine - he told me that the subtitles accurately reflect what the Japanese audio is saying. Guess there's no way to directly translate it.

 

Anyone else seen this?

 

dB

[Steve LeBlanc]

I haven't read this whole thread...I will.

 

My favorite Python movie is "Life of Brian" just because it was the first I saw.

 

I love all the movies and have several of the TV shows on tape.

[steadyb]

If any of you have a copy of the "Deja Vu" episode of Flying Circus, or if you ever hear of it coming on TV and tape it I would gladly send a blank tape to you to get a copy of that episode.

I only saw it once (ironically) and it ran about 10-15 minutes then looped back to a previous part of the show. The loops kept getting shorter and shorter within the skits until it finally looped the last few moments into itself. It was really brilliantly done. So if anyone has it, or knows where to get it, I'd love to find out.

 

Thanks,

steadyb

[Byrdman]

I've always been keen on the instructional films:

 

"On not being seen" (Don't stand up)

 

and No 7: The Larch

 

Jabberwocky is very funny too ( a spin-off), Holy Grail and Life of Brian, of course, are givens (unless you happen to be a trot!)

[Dan South]

Originally posted by Dave Bryce:

I have a rare Japanese copy of the Grail on LaserDisc (remember them?). At the very end, there is a copy of the castle scene with the French Knights. You can toggle between English and Japanese audio, but the subtitles are in English, and reflect the direct Japanese translation. It's friggin' hysterical..

 

ENG. AUDIO: I told them we already got one

SUBTITLE: I lied

 

ENG. AUDIO: Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries

SUBTITLE: I question your parental lineage.

 

There's a bunch more...I played it for a Japanese friend of mine - he told me that the subtitles accurately reflect what the Japanese audio is saying. Guess there's no way to directly translate it.

 

That reminds me of another Python sketch, the one where they publish phrase books for foreign tourists with slightly inaccurate translations. "Are there any good restaurants in the area?" is translated to "I want to fondle your bum."

[CuzCutz]

Sing along,

 

Bravely bold Sir Robin rode forth from camalot.

He was not afraid to die O brave Sir Robin.

He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways

Brave,brave,brave,brave Sir Robin.

 

He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into

a pulp

Or to have his eyes gouged out,and his elbows broken

To have his kneecaps split and his body burned away

And his limbs all hacked and mangled Brave Sir Robin

 

His head smashed in, and his heart cut out,

and his liver removed and his bowels unplugged

and his nostrils raped, and his bottom burnt off

and his penis--- THAT's uh that's enough music for

lads!

[joegerardi]

A day in the life of a banker, especially with the shot of Carol Cleveland's ta-tas.

 

The episode where the queen was supposedly going to appear, especially the funeral home skit at the end:

"Well, we can burn her, bury her, or eat her."

"Eat her?"

"Not raw, we'll cook her..."

 

"What a silly bunt!"

 

and so many others...

 

Grail is my all time favorite Python movie.

[HoyHoy]

"I fart in your general direction" HG

 

Glad someone finally mentioned SPAM - I used to have that soundbite come on everytime I got Email but it drove me nuts.

 

Movie: Brazil, one of my all time favorites, although not technically a MP project. Gilliam is a genius, but even he couldn't salvage the film version of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.

[Odyssian]

and let's not forget....

 

"The Comfy Chair!"

[guestuserguestuser.com]

Originally posted by meccajay:

"...Im a LUMBERJACK and Im okay, I sleep all night...and work all day...."

Every time I pack a lunch to work, I can't help singing "I chop down trees, I eat my lunch, I go to the lavatory..." Cracks the wife up every time. Then again, she's an easy laugh.

[coyote]

My Hovercraft is full of eels.

[henryrobinett]

French knight insulting King Arthur, "Your mother is a hamster and your father smells of elderberries!"

 

Or the King trying to get his guards to not let his son, the prince, out of his room.

 

I absolutely love Holy Grail.

[Rader Ranch]

personal faves, though certainly hard to choose...

 

tv-upper class twit of the year

 

movie-Meaning of Life

[Roto]

This thread wont die!

Come back here! I'll bite your ankles!

[Tedster]

My favorite Python bit was the Tobacconist Shop sketch, the one with the Czech/English phrase book that someone had changed for a brothel...

 

I also liked the football game against the "Long John Silver Imitators"...oh, and the usual greatest hits...Argument Clinic, Cheese Shoppe, Dead Parrot, etc...

[meccajay]

Dinsdale...

[Dan South]

Has anyone seen "12 Monkeys"? Another brilliant film by Terry Gilliam. Not a comedy, though. It's rather dark.

[marino]

My absolute favorite Monty Python moment is at the beginning of Life of Brian, when he's falling from the tower and is rescued by an alien spaceship - they take him for a round trip of the whole galaxy in about 30 seconds, then back on Earth... exactly in the same place. I laughed so hard at that one, I had to leave the room...

And Terry Gilliam is the best!!