Isn't it sad...

... when someone starts talking about Monty Python and the Holy Grail and you try to bring up something like the Flying Sheep sketch or the Spam sketch and all you get is blank stares? It keeps happened to me at school so I believe we need to start a movement to educate people about what true Python comedy is.
It's not just running around clapping coconuts. It's using the Dirty Hungarian Phrase book and talking in a high squeaky voice when imitating old women.
Are you with me?

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Permalink Reply by Rena on January 17, 2010 at 3:26pm

I've spent the past week showing my friend (who had only seen Holy Grail previously) Flying Circus. Yesterday she interjected into a random conversation, "My hovercraft is full of eels!"

I nearly cried with joy.

Permalink Reply by Mark Todd on January 26, 2010 at 2:12pm

Give her the Life of Brian as well.

"Always look on the bright side of life"

Permalink Reply by Rena on June 5, 2010 at 5:30pm

I have. She's a devout Christian though, so that went over a bit flat. (... It. Is. A Parody. *headdesks though I guess there's a *few* legitimate jabs.) *sigh* I told her to shut up and wait for the dick puns. :)

Permalink Reply by Keira H. on January 26, 2010 at 3:29pm

I hate it that no one I know outside my family gets that bananas are weapons, or my fav "NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!"

Permalink Reply by Rachel Kadushin on January 23, 2011 at 6:15pm

... no one expects the fannish repetition...

Permalink Reply by Terry on June 4, 2010 at 6:57pm

Yeah, I hate when someone quotes Monty Python with something like "We are the nights who say NI! Now fetch us a shrubbery...." Then I say something about the Spanish Inquisition or something and people just stare blankly. Or when I use a Monty Python quote and people just think I'm making stupid jokes.
Oh, and I just recently found a Monty Python youtube channel that has pretty much all of the sketches.

Permalink Reply by Abreo on September 24, 2010 at 4:43pm

I was going to say yeah but after reading the comments I clearly haven't seen enough episodes yet.
I'm sorry, I have failed you all.

Permalink Reply by Kathryn on October 13, 2010 at 2:21am

is this the right room for an argument?

Permalink Reply by Sarah Weiler on November 4, 2010 at 1:41pm

100% with you. The flying sheep sketch is my favorite and I always feel discouraged when people don't know about it or any other sketches. (PS. When John goes "Maaa, maaa" and does the leg thing, I laugh so hard every time. And I must have seen it a million times.) :)

Permalink Reply by RiskingAbsurdity on November 25, 2010 at 12:16pm

Ha, I'd be happy if my friends even knew Holy Grail...

Permalink Reply by Pamela Bedford on January 3, 2011 at 10:48pm

my boyfriend did a verison of the lumberjack song dressed up as his college mascot at a prep rally. 'I never wanted to be a mascot..!'

He also often says he's going to take my cats and put them in boxes and hammer them to play the Bells of St. mary's.

Ohhhh and my favorite is the wizo butter 'I'll slit your face!' LOL I'm violent.