check this out. last night there was a thunderstorm and i was up. there was lightning and everything and i was inside toasty and warm. so as i was watching t.v. what happens to be on ? Monty Python's Flying Circus. i watched about 2 hours of it.


THAT SHOW IS IN A CLASS ALL BY ITSELF!

to me, it was the perfect late friday night/early saturday morning.

I LOVE this show. Glad to see it is back on t.v. It's a Classic and very Funny.....People who haven't seen it should give it a watch. Silly Walk and the Bird in the store is a Classic sketch and Terry Gillians Wild ART is Legendary.

You cannot beat Python for impromptu absurdity! Quality.

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[Edited 4/24/06 4:31am]

it's the best by far take anything away from my video & DVD collection, even Star Trek and Prince if you want... but leave my Python stuff alone!!

and now let me quickly nail your head to the floor

Python ROCKS!!!!!

I cant say it much more eloquently than that! The best tv show ever. Much better than the films...except when they ride fake horses in The Holy Grail




This is an ex-parrot!"

WOODY AND TINNY WORDS

The sketch:

Exterior, a large, tasteful, Georgian rich person's house with extensive gardens beautifully tended, croquet hoops on the lawn -- all in superb taste, nothing vulgar. The sun shines tastefully. The atmosphere is calm. Birds sing. Sound of lawnmowers and cricket in the distance. Laughter from the tennis court. Sound of gardener sharpening spades in the potting shed. Out of vision, a Red Indian struggles to free himself from the rope bonds that bind him. We hear `Where does a dream begin' being played on a cracked record.

CAPTION:

1942
Egypt crossed out
Ecuador crossed out
Ethiopia crossed out
England

The caption fades and we cut to an upper-class drawing room. Father, mother and daughter having tea. Four motionless servants stand behind them.

Father (Graham)
I say ...
Daughter (Carol)
Yes, daddy?
Father
Croquet hoops look damn pretty this afternoon.
Daughter
Frightfully damn pretty.
Mother (Eric)
They're coming along awfully well this year.
Father
Yes, better than your Aunt Lavinia's croquet hoops.
Daughter
Ugh! -- dreadful tin things.
Mother
I did tell her to stick to wood.
Father
Yes, you can't beat wood ... Gorn!
Mother
What's gorn dear?
Father
Nothing, nothing, I just like the word. It gives me confidence. Gorn ... gorn. It's got a sort of woody quality about it. Gorn. Gorn. Much better than `newspaper' or `litterbin'.
Daughter
Frightful words.
Mother
Perfectly dreadful.
Father
Ugh! Newspaper! ... litterbin ... dreadful tinny sort of words. Tin, tin, tin.
The daughter bursts into tears.

Mother
Oh, dear, don't say `tin' to Rebecca, you know how it upsets her.
Father
(to the daughter) Sorry old horse.
Mother
Sausage!
Father
Sausage ... there's a good woody sort of word, `sausage' ... gorn.
Daughter
Antelope.
Father
Where? On the lawn? (he picks up a rifle)
Daughter
No, no, daddy ... just the word.
Father
Don't want an antelope nibbling the hoops.
Daughter
No, antelope ... sort of nice and woody type of thing.
Mother
Don't think so, Becky old chap.
Father
No, no, `antelope', `antelope' -- tinny sort of word (the daughter bursts into tears) Oh! Sorry old man ...
Mother
Really, Mansfield.
Father
Well, she's got to come to terms with these things ... seemly ... prodding ... vacuum ... leap ...
Daughter
(miserably) Hate leap.
Mother
Perfectly dreadful.
Daughter
Sort of PVC-y sort of word, don't you know.
Mother
Lower-middle.
Father
Bound!
Mother
Now you're talking.
Father
Bound ... Vole ... Recidivist.
Mother
Bit tinny. (the daughter howls) Oh! Sorry, Becky old beast. (the daughter runs out crying)
Father
Oh dear, suppose she'll be gorn for a few days now.
Mother
Caribou!
Father
Splendid word.
Mother
No dear ... nibbling the hoops.
Father
(he fires a shot) Caribou gorn.
Mother
(laughs politely)
Father
Intercourse.
Mother
Later, dear.
Father
No, no, the word, `intercourse' -- good and woody ... inter ... course ... pert ... pert thighs ... botty, botty, botty ... (the mother leaves the room) ... erogenous ... zone ... concubine ... erogenous zone! Loose woman ... erogenous zone ... (the mother returns and throws a bucket of water over him) Oh thank you, dear ... you know, it's a funny thing, dear ... all the naughty words sound woody.
Mother
Really, dear? ... How about tit?
Father
Oh dear, I hadn't thought about that. Tit. Tit. Oh, that's very tinny isn't it? (the daughter returns) Ugh! Tinny, tinny ... (the daughter runs out crying) Oh dear ... ocelot ... wasp ... yowling ... Oh dear, I'm bored ... I'd better go and have a bath, I suppose.
Mother
Oh really, must you dear? You've had nine today.
Father
All right, I'll sack one of the servants ... Simkins! ... nasty tinny sort of name. Simkins! (he exits)
A pilot from the RAF banter scene enters.

Pilot (Michael)
I say, mater, cabbage crates coming over the briny.
Mother
(frowns and shakes her head) Sorry dear, don't understand.
Pilot
Er ... cowcatchers creeping up on the conning towers ...
Mother
No ... sorry ... old sport.
Pilot
Caribou nibbling at the croquet hoops.
Mother
Yes, Mansfield shot one in the antlers.
Pilot
Oh, jolly good show. Is 'Becca about?
Mother
No, she's gorn off.
Pilot
What a super woody sort of phrase. `Gorn orff'.
Mother
Yes, she's gorn orff because Mansfield said `tin' to her.
Pilot
Oh, what rotten luck ... oh well ... whole afternoon to kill ... better have a bath I suppose.
Mother
Oh, Gervaise do sing me a song ...
Pilot
Oh, OK.
Mother
Something woody.
The pilot launches into a quite enormously loud rendering of `She's going to marry Yum Yum'. The impact of this on the mother causes her to have a heart attack. She dies and the song ends.

Pilot
For ... she's going to marry Yum Yum ... oh crikey. The old song finished her orff.
Father
(entering) What's urp?
Pilot
I'm afraid Mrs Vermin Jones appears to have passed orn.
Father
Dead, is she?
Pilot
'Fraid so.
Father
What a blow for her.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.....
[Edited 4/24/06 6:34am]

PurpleRein said:

Classic!

it has joined the quiet invisible
this parrot has ceased to exist
this is an ex parrot.

I would like to buy some cheese...


I would like an argument..

PurpleRein said:

this perfectly captures every day routine in the Politics & Religion forum

Dancelot said:

So true!!!

I miss Python...

Hello, and welcome to 'The Middle of the Thread', the moment where we take a break to invite you to join us in 'Find the Fish'. We're going to show you a scene from another thread and ask you to guess where the fish is, but, if you think you know, don't keep it to yourselves! Yell out so that all the office can hear you. So, here we are with... 'Find the Fish'

Monty Python rules

The existence of Monty Python is on my list of greatest reasons to be alive!


STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on I want you all to call me Loretta.
REG: What!?
STAN: It's my right as a man.
JUDITH: Why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
STAN: I want to have babies.
REG: You want to have babies?!?!?!
STAN: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But you can't have babies.
STAN: Don't you oppress me!
REG: I'm not oppressing you, Stan -- you haven't got a womb. Where's the fetus going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box?

I'll probably be kicked off this site now but I just don't get Python.

Maybe I haven't seen enough of them or maybe it's just too surreal but it doesn't click with me for some reason. But I know plenty of people who absolutely worship it.

Maybe I'm a freak.

onenitealone said:

lol you're perfectly entitled to your opinion hon










freak





you know I'm joking and I love ya

Natisse said:

Why, you lil'...





See? Even when I'm chair'ing you, I still have to give you a hug.





I haven't even seen The Life Of Brian or The Holy Grail.

onenitealone said:

we'll soon fix that about the Life of Brian and The Holy Grail

Natisse said:

Please sort him out Tisse!!!! Its for the good of mankind!

susannah said:

susannah said:

I was too ashamed to admit it to you.

Train me up!

onenitealone said:

Oh dont be daft, youre still cool in my book!!

You just need more exposure!

IMO though, start with the flying circus, not the films though

susannah said:

Cool is you.



(Me sounding Yoda-ish all of a sudden ).

onenitealone said:

Lets be cool together baby

Tisse you can come too