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Any Monty Python fans?

143 replies

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 26/03/2024 21:30

What's your favourite sketch?

OP posts:
Pascha · 26/03/2024 22:33

The Penultimate Supper

My 80yr old dad is prone to quoting it down the phone to me. Even DH (who is decidedly not a fan) knows that the fat one balances out the two skinny ones.

Theitsman · 26/03/2024 22:34

"Tiger brand coffee is a real treat,
Even tigers prefer it to real meat".

Snippit · 26/03/2024 22:37

HungryForUdon · 26/03/2024 22:30

The fish dance
Mr Creosote
The comfy chair

Mr Creosote, absolute classic 🤗
just been watching the meaning of life.

elQuintoConyo · 26/03/2024 22:40

Love at the Hollywood Bowl - Mr Smokestoomuch: are you here to book a holiday or would you like a blowjob?

Every Sperm is Sacred from Meaning of Life - and Mr Death from the village "it was the salmon mousse!" And "I've come for your liver".

Makeupbagz · 26/03/2024 22:45

PuppyMonkey · 26/03/2024 21:42

Philosopher’s song. G’day Bruce.Grin

Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
I drink therefore I am.

There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach ya ‘bout the raising of the wrist
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he’s pissed. 😆

JaneJeffer · 26/03/2024 22:50

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition Grin
Bicycle repair man

Tessisme · 26/03/2024 22:52

The fish licence.

Eric the Half A Bee - a song rather than a sketch, but excellent!

Life of Brian - I want to be a woman: 'From now on I want you all to call me Loretta'🤣

Raspberrymoon49 · 26/03/2024 22:53

All of them, happy memories

Wincarnis · 26/03/2024 23:05

Nudge Nudge
Buying a Bed (don’t say the M word)
Argument Clinic
Upper Class Twits
Ministry of Silly Walks
The Larch

Needapadlockonmyfridge · 26/03/2024 23:06

Four Yorkshiremen

TBH any/all of them. Hard to beat.

BreakfastAtMilliways · 26/03/2024 23:08

So many Life of Brian ones.

As one who endured the A-level English-into-Latin paper, the Latin grammar lesson.

Biggus Dickus and Incontinentia Buttocks (childish I know).

’What did the Romans ever do for us?’

Judean People’s Front versus the People’s Front of Judea, etc.

Moving on to the Meaning of Life, Every Sperm is Sacred.

You can tell the traces of a Catholic upbringing. 😂

DeltaAlphaDelta79 · 26/03/2024 23:10

PuttingDownRoots · 26/03/2024 21:35

Marching up and down the square

My friend was a squaddie and was an extra in that sketch. He loved the experience but they all got punished for laughing 🤣

GoodbyeErinsborough · 26/03/2024 23:11

elQuintoConyo · 26/03/2024 22:40

Love at the Hollywood Bowl - Mr Smokestoomuch: are you here to book a holiday or would you like a blowjob?

Every Sperm is Sacred from Meaning of Life - and Mr Death from the village "it was the salmon mousse!" And "I've come for your liver".

I often end up singing Every Sperm is Sacred without even realising it!

Agree with most of the comments but never find anyone in real life who actually likes them.

titchy · 26/03/2024 23:11

'You are all individuals'

'I'm not'

DangerPigeon · 26/03/2024 23:12

"What star sign are you?"
"Basil"

ooherrmissus14 · 26/03/2024 23:12

Does anyone remember a sketch about giant blamonges coming down from space and taking over the planet? There was a bit where they were playing tennis at Wimbledon! No one else seems to remember it but I can definitely picture it in my head!!

Buggerthislove · 26/03/2024 23:16

The Larch

JaneJeffer · 26/03/2024 23:19

ooherrmissus14 · 26/03/2024 23:12

Does anyone remember a sketch about giant blamonges coming down from space and taking over the planet? There was a bit where they were playing tennis at Wimbledon! No one else seems to remember it but I can definitely picture it in my head!!

I wonder if Andy Murray has seen it?
Time40 · 26/03/2024 23:49

Does anyone remember a sketch about giant blamonges coming down from space and taking over the planet? There was a bit where they were playing tennis at Wimbledon! No one else seems to remember it but I can definitely picture it in my head!!

Of course - and I see someone has found it.

My favourites ... so hard to choose. Air Force banter (the one where the banter is so obscure they can't understand each other). Most Awful Family in Britain. The one about the young man buying strange pets, and his mum is particularly cross about the whale, which dies, and his father has to use as a garage ... which makes the Hillman smell all fishy. I think they're all from the final series, after John Cleese left - I love that final series; Python really took off, and became very weird indeed.

It was so heartbreaking when Python ended, but then we had the joy of Ripping Yarns. Tomkinson's Schooldays ... pure genius. Building the "full scale model" of an icebreaker in woodwork class; the cross-country hopping; the punishment of beating the headmaster - honestly, if you haven't seen Tompkinson's Schooldays, you haven't lived. Trust me.

And then there was Rutland Weekend Television, which was glorious.

MyMotherMyDogAndClowns · 26/03/2024 23:58

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, riding through the wood…

I’d like an argument

Can I have fifty pounds to mend the shed (poem)

Doug and Dinsdale Pirahna terrorising the East End with dramatic irony, metaphors, bathos, puns and litotes

The gas cooker sketch

Four Yorkshiremen

Tree recognition: number four - the Larch. the Larch.

And of course, all the classics which even non-fans know and love

So so many.

efeslight · 27/03/2024 00:04

Many already mentioned, but my favourite has to be the Spanish inquisition

Time40 · 27/03/2024 00:04

Oh god - Doug and Dinsdale! One of whom was convinced he was being followed by a giant hedgehog called Spiny Norman ... who could, on bad days, be up to fifty feet long. I love Doug and Dinsdale ... and one of them was a total gentleman, and knew how to treat a female impersonator.

Hélène79 · 27/03/2024 00:20

The Bishop

The French Taunter

FictionalCharacter · 27/03/2024 00:36

The fish slapping dance!

Onacuctustree · 27/03/2024 01:17

Whizzo butter..
If you can't tell the difference I'll slit your face!!