Monty Python...

[Lace Neil Singer]

ALL KNIGHTS:
We're knights of the round table
We dance when e're we're able
We do routines and chorus scenes
With footwork impecc-able
We dine well here in Camelot
We eat ham and jam and spam alot

We're knights of the round talbe
Our shows are for-mid-able
But many times, we're given rythmes
That are quite unsing-able
We're opera mad in Camelot
We sing from the diaphragm a lot

(dance sequence)

PRINCIPAL KNIGHTS:
We're knights of the table
Although we live a fable
We're not just bums
With royal mums
We've brains that are quite a-ble
We've a busy life in Camelot.

SOLO MAN:
I have to push the pram a lot.

On second thoughts, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.

[Eireann]

I've read about the filming of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Graham Chapman had decided to quit drinking, so he was suffering from the DT's during shooting. The scene where they're about to cross the Bridge of Death was so hard on him, he had to go off into the bushes and shake between takes. He couldn't even cross the bridge, he was so shaky - and he was a qualified mountaineer!

Amazing to watch the show and that film, and to know that he was in such bad shape when he did it. He's my favorite Python.

[iradney]

i've actually got the biography book of all the Pythons...it's a bloody big book! you could kill someone with it!

[AFpheonix]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k4wkBKpWZo


my favorite recut of the Knights of the Round Table, followed closely by the LEGO version

[Lace Neil Singer]

I like this one, personally.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The French Taunter

[DesignFox]

It's only a model...

Shh...!

[skeptic53]

Being in the medical field, I love "the machine that goes 'ping!'", the following scene with the baby born to the mum doing the washing-up ("Awww, get that, would ya luv?") followed by the song "Every Sperm is Sacred". Like all the other comments in previous posts, it had me laughing til tears.

Related topic: My wife and I have practically memorized "Fawlty Towers". The DVD has some very interesting commentary, particularly the fact that Basil Fawlty was based on a real person.

[Caveat Emptor]

One of my favourites was one where one of the actors went into a buisness office and paid to have a five minute argument. ("That was never five minutes just now!" "Yes it was." "No it wasn't!") then when he steps into the wrong room he accidentally interrups a being-hit-over-the-head lesson. ("Better, better but 'waaa!'")

I like the first room he goes into:

Angry man: WHADDAYOU WANT?
Man: Well, Well, I was told outside that...
Angry man: DON'T GIVE ME THAT, YOU SNOTTY-FACED HEAP OF PARROT DROPPINGS!
Man: What?
A: SHUT YOUR FESTERING GOB, YOU TIT! YOUR TYPE REALLY MAKES ME PUKE! YOU VACUOUS STUFFY-NOSED MALODOROUS PERVERT!!!
M: Yes, but I came here for an argument!!
A: OH! Oh! I'm sorry! This is abuse!
M: Oh! Oh I see!
A: Aha! No, you want room 12A, next door.
M: Oh...Sorry...
A: Not at all!
A: (under his breath) stupid git.

[stormtreader]

He is packing it in and packing it up
And sneaking away and buggering up
And chickening out and pissing off home,
Yes, bravely he is throwing in the sponge...

Isnt that buggering off?

PS "Hes got teeth like.....He can leap about.....Look at the bones!"

[Tria]

Oh please!

Can't I have a little bit of peril?

No, no it's too perilous!

[Lace Neil Singer]

Isnt that buggering off?

PS "Hes got teeth like.....He can leap about.....Look at the bones!"

Darn typos... yeah, it is mr picky. XD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbHF3XwSJJk

[ArenaBoy]

Argument clinic anyone? I myself like the complaints part of the sketch.

"I want to complain."
"You want to complain! Look at these shoes. I've only had them three weeks and the heels are worn right through."
"No, I want to complain about..."
"If you complain nothing happens, you might as well not bother."
"Oh!"
"Oh my back hurts, it's not a very fine day and I'm sick and tired of this office."

[Fera Festiva]

My high school social studies teacher showed us the discussion between Dennis (I didn't know you were called 'Dennis!') and King Arthur (I really forget why, something to do with the caste system) and because we pestered enough, he let us watch the Black Knight, too.

We got to watch the "What have the Romans done for us?" scene from Life of Brian in history class.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Life of Brian yet - it's my favourite Python film by a long way. My favourite scene is where Brian is being chased by the people who think he's the Messiah, and he's trying to hide in a pit. Some guy steps forward, crying out, "It's a miracle! He's cured me! I was blind, now I can see - AAARGH!" as he falls into the hole.

[stormtreader]

Darn typos... yeah, it is mr picky. XD

Thats MISS picky to you

Has anyone mentioned Upper Class Twit Of The Year yet? Or the Salmon Mousse? Absolute genius

[Barefootgirl]

The Latin lesson from Life of Brian is one of my all-time favourite film scenes. Its up there with the Marseillaise scene from Casablanca and Russell Crowe trashing the Christmas lights in LA Confidential.

"People called Romanes, they go the house?"
"It says Romans Go Home !"
"No it doesn't..."