OK, it's been a long time since I've seen Monty Python skits but they never get old...
Watching Dead Parrot and Lumberjack song as we speak... 😃

Anyone have a fave MP skit/movie/line?

-Elizabeth

    Yes! I love the part in "The holy grail" with "Tim" the wizzard. Or the whole "shrubbies" thing with the Knights that go "Nee, Nee!"
    Funny Stuff!!!!!
    ~VH~

      The first ones I thought of when I read the question: "Flopsy is dead now, and he never called me Mummy."

      "Your cat is suffering from what we vets haven't found a word for."

      (You've got to admit, Chapman was the best actor of all of them. I still remember his mandarin (from the cycling tour) - dunno why exactly, but I found myself just watching his performance in silly amazement.)

      And yes, I've been known to make a complaint about the Norwegian Blue... but don't get me started or I'll be here all night!

        Originally posted by JakL
        Yes! I love the part in "The holy grail" with "Tim" the wizzard. Or the whole "shrubbies" thing with the Knights that go "Nee, Nee!"
        Funny Stuff!!!!!
        ~VH~

        Ah the Holy Grail.. has provided many hours of entertainment and many good lines for use in everyday life! 🙂

        And Weedpacket- I love the "Confuse A Cat, Ltd." - funny stuff!

        But I might have to challenge you- I am thinking I liked Eric Idle the best... That "Nudge Nudge" scene was hilarious... and he certainly played the best women 😃

        -Elizabeth

          Eric Idle and John Clease are comical genius. I must look up the "Confuse A Cat, Ltd.", I am not familiar with that one. Ya know, John in "A Fish Called Wanda" was great, but the combination of the group was perfect! In the "Holy Grail" o-how I love the killer rabbit, it makes me pee it's so funny! "Oh!!! Just looook at those TEEEETH"!!!!!!

            Originally posted by Elizabeth
            But I might have to challenge you- I am thinking I liked Eric Idle the best... That "Nudge Nudge" scene was hilarious... and he certainly played the best women 😃

            Well, I don't want to start a crusade about which Python was the best, of course - Monty Python was all six of them, which makes for 64 different sets of talents to combine. Take one away or have one dominate and you only have 32!

            OOooh, no, you shouldn't do that, no! That's dangerous! Yes, they breed in the sewers! Yes, and eventually you get evil-smelling flocks of huge soiled budgies, flying out of people's lavatories, infringing their personal freedom!

            I'd agree with you on Idle's women - you can almost write a biography they're so well-characterised. She'd be the sort who had a pony when she was a young gel, and became quite respectable in later life (hosting parties, and giving advice on how to host parties - including how to deal with left-wing uprisings), but with just a shade of disreputability about her. Nothing you could ever put your finger on, but there was a twinkle in her eye and a wryness to her smile, and she seemed to know an awful lot about certain subjects that she couldn't possibly know that much about - could she?

            Rumple Tweezer ran the Dinky Tinky shop, in the foot of the magic oak tree, by the Wobbly Dum-Dum bush, in the shadow of the magic glade, down in Dingly Dell. Here he sold contraceptives—

            Personally, I think Idle's genius - in its purest form - is in his songwriting. (Having said that, though, I haven't read "The Road to Mars" yet, so maybe he's just as good an author. I think I'll put in a request for it at the library now.) After sufficient alcohol I'm all too happy to grant requests for a rendition of the Bruces' Philosopher's Song (it was the anthem of a club I used to be a member of; we'd hold our meetings in a pub, and wrap up the official proceedings with it).

            Dinsdale was a loony; but, he was a happy loony.

            I just tend to reckon that Chapman showed the broadest range - I find it all too easy to forget that King Arthur and Brian were both played by the same person; though he did usually play professionals and authority figures: vets, generals, movie moguls, police sergeants and detectives (with Cleese on his offside as a slightly menacing constable), and of course King Arthur and the Messiah.

            He is not the Messiah! He's a very naughty boy!

              Wow, Weed I can tell you've thought a lot about this... especially Eric Idle's more feminine side... do we need to get you out more? 😉 (just kidding o'course)

              But seriously, you're right- it's futile to attempt to rank the MP boys from best to worst... their genius was true synergy in action. Like pieces of a hilariously warped and at times disgusting puzzle, they complemented each other perfectly.

              Originally posted by Weedpacket
              ...(it was the anthem of a club I used to be a member of; we'd hold our meetings in a pub, and wrap up the official proceedings with it).

              ... sounds like my kind of club! 😃

              Oh, and JakL - love the X-K-Red-27 from "Fish" - and our college broomball team was "K-k-kKens P-p-p-pets" Completely politically incorrect and I'm sure offensive to any and all stutterers (especially those who hadn't seen the movie). 🙂

              -Elizabeth

                King Arthur: "Look you stupid bastard, you got no arms left!"

                Black Knight: "Yes I have!"

                King Arthur: "Look!"

                Black Knight: "It's just a flesh wound."

                --
                so many... I need to watch it again!

                     My goodness, on the "Holy Grail"...the score!!! The music makes me....feel like........

                  Stop it!! Stop it!! Turn it off!!!

                  I dunno, as a musician something about the score for that flick just does something to me....I'm not sure I can describe what, or that I would want to (or that anyone would want to listen).....but it seems unusual at best that I could just listen to the tape and be so amused.....

                  Sings: "I have to push the pram-a-lot!!!"

                  Arthur: On second thought, let's not go to Camelot, 'tis a silly place...

                  Is there hardly a scene from that flick that American college students can't massacre in virtual entirety????

                  What a subject, Elizabeth.... 🙂

                    "... Your favorite color?"
                    "blue, no Yellllooooooooooow...."

                    😃

                      at least one advantage of the python programming language over php is that the coding examples in the manual are full of monty python quotes. here's a few examples from python tutorial pages:

                      Files - Input and Output
                      Let's see that in practice. We will assume that a file exists called menu.txt and that it holds a list of meals:

                      spam & eggs
                      spam & chips
                      spam & spam

                      import meat
                      mySpam = meat.Spam() # create an instance, use module name
                      mySpam.slice() # use a Spam operation
                      print mySpam.ingredients # access Spam data
                      {Pork:40%, Ham:45%, Fat:15%}

                      class Spam:
                      """A meat for combining with other foods

                      It can be used with other foods to make interesting meals.
It comes with lots of nutrients and can be cooked using many
different techniques"""

def __init__(self):
    ...

                      print Spam.doc

                      x='killer rabbit'
                      if x=='bunny':
                      ... print 'hello little bunny'
                      ... else:
                      ... print 'run away! run away!...'
                      ...
                      run away! run away!...

                      LOL

                        LOL you guys- who would have thought the MP men would have infiltrated our lives in such a subversive manner! Great Q, Bunkermaster!

                        As an aside- I saw Eric Idle commenting on how funny Lisa Kudrow was doing her "smelly cat" song- can you imagine Eric Idle calling you "funny?" No higher honor! 😃

                        -Elizabeth

                          The embedded sound clip shocked me, Bunkermaster---very funny. However, (and I realize I'm a stick in the mud), but 'unladen' has only one D...OTOH, your spelling of the Knights exclamation is cool --- short, sweet, to the point....does anyone know how they spelled it in the script?

                          What Script? I assume they had one...don't snicker, please, if I'm wrong...

                            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I realize that this may seem strange, but about 10 minutes ago a guy in a white 'tank top' and 'shorts' (umm, knickers<?> to y'all across the pond<?>) ran through the pasture behind the trailer and hid behind a corner of one of my outbuildings.....he stood there a while, looking around the corner, and then this other guy topped the ridge a quarter mile away and off he went....

                            Anyone know what's up??? 🙂

                              Originally posted by dalecosp
                              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I realize that this may seem strange, but about 10 minutes ago a guy in a white 'tank top' and 'shorts' (umm, knickers<?> to y'all across the pond<?>) ran through the pasture behind the trailer and hid behind a corner of one of my outbuildings.....he stood there a while, looking around the corner, and then this other guy topped the ridge a quarter mile away and off he went....

                              Anyone know what's up??? 🙂

                              Maybe gentleman #2 had some fresh fruit 😃

                              -Elizabeth

                                nuclear alert drill, no worry

                                or maybe superman without his cap, did the dude have stockings on or pantyhose?if pantyhose, bellow or on top of the shorts?

                                strange world

                                /me walks off wearing his jafa armor and dodgers cheerleader socks

                                  Well, apparently this one was pretty forgettable, eh?

                                  Good try, Elizabeth. I'll post again once I've got a photo...

                                    Yeah my favorite is the holy grail. The whole movie's funny so I don't have a favorite part.

                                      all Monty Python's work did make it's way to my remote non english mother tongue location. Thus I never saw the flying circus (🙁 ) and probably never will... No wait, i can buy dem DVDs 😃 no wait I'm broke...