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Happy 40th Anniversary, Monty Python!
BBC News ^ | 10/05/09 | BBC News

Posted on 10/05/2009 11:26:59 AM PDT by Reaganesque

I came across this in my surfings this morning. Here is the blurb that accompanies a video of celeb favorite Python moments:

Monty Python was first aired on British television screens on October 5 1969. Famous for the ministry of silly walks and the dead parrot sketch, the legacy of the series lives on.

The BBC spoke to Ricky Gervais, Justin Lee Collins, Jeremy Clarkson and Stephen Merchant to find out their favourite Monty Python moments.

Click here to watch the video.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: anniversary; bbc; comedy; monty; montypython; python
So, for all of the dead parrots, silly walks, dirty vicars and so on, thanks for all the laughs over the years! Happy 40th Anniversary to the funniest show ever produced on either side of the pond! Feel free to share your favorite Python moments! And finally, in honor of the occasion, I would like to conclude by stickin' a finger up my nose!
1 posted on 10/05/2009 11:26:59 AM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque

Love these guys, always will. Life of Bryan is their best work in my opinion. I’m sure their harsh treatment of religion will bring out the Freeper thumpers for sure though.


2 posted on 10/05/2009 11:29:05 AM PDT by strider44
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To: Reaganesque

But if we took out the bones, it wouldn’t be “crunchy” then, would it?”
- Crunchy Frog (and other confectionaries)


3 posted on 10/05/2009 11:29:05 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: Reaganesque

The Spanish Inquisition and Argument.


4 posted on 10/05/2009 11:31:26 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Is it too soon for real conservatives to launch a "We Tried to Warn You Tour"?)
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To: Reaganesque


Our brains hurts our brains.

5 posted on 10/05/2009 11:31:44 AM PDT by egannacht (Vote YES for statism: Why burden yourself with civic duty when Idol and Oprah are on?)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

“All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?”

- Reg of the “PFJ”


6 posted on 10/05/2009 11:31:57 AM PDT by strider44
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach ya’
‘Bout the raising of the wrist.
SOCRATES, HIMSELF, WAS PERMANENTLY PISSED...

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away;
Half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: “I drink, therefore I am”
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he’s pissed!


7 posted on 10/05/2009 11:32:14 AM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: Reaganesque
Here is one of my favorite moments of silliness. It's all of sixteen seconds long:

The Fish Slapping Dance

8 posted on 10/05/2009 11:32:51 AM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque

And there is the Gameshow shetch where the entire program is taken up by explaining the rules...


9 posted on 10/05/2009 11:32:55 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Is it too soon for real conservatives to launch a "We Tried to Warn You Tour"?)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Summarize Proust!!


10 posted on 10/05/2009 11:34:37 AM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque
We've already started the fun over here.
11 posted on 10/05/2009 11:36:10 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: strider44

“Life of Bryan is their best work in my opinion.”

Blasphemous, but funny. Blessed are the cheesemakers.


12 posted on 10/05/2009 11:37:18 AM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: strider44

I can’t pick between Life of Brian or The Grail as their best work. I love them both.


13 posted on 10/05/2009 11:37:49 AM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: Reaganesque

There is another thread of this just down a bit but who cares: The fish Slapping Dance was one of the best sketches ever.

The warped, comedic minds who thought these things up were absolutely great!


14 posted on 10/05/2009 11:37:49 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: dfwgator

Oops! Well, I was at the BBC, you were at AFP. Oh well. I did a search under Monty Python and didn’t see anything. Bugger all, as they say.


15 posted on 10/05/2009 11:37:56 AM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: Hacklehead

Jailer: Crucifixion?
Prisoner 2: Er, no, freedom actually.
Jailer: What?
Prisoner 2: Yeah, they said I hadn’t done anything and I could go and live on an island somewhere.
Jailer: Oh I say, that’s very nice. Well, off you go then.
Prisoner 2: No, I’m just pulling your leg, it’s crucifixion really.
Jailer: [laughing] Oh yes, very good. Well...
Prisoner 2: Yes I know, out of the door, one cross each, line on the left.


16 posted on 10/05/2009 11:38:53 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Reaganesque

“Wenn ist das Nunstuck git und Slotermayer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!


17 posted on 10/05/2009 11:39:52 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: strider44

THERE’S NO MESSIAH HERE! He’s not the Messiah; he’s a very naughty boy.


18 posted on 10/05/2009 11:40:27 AM PDT by egannacht (Vote YES for statism: Why burden yourself with civic duty when Idol and Oprah are on?)
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To: Hacklehead
“Life of Bryan is their best work in my opinion.”

When the movie first came out I nearly got kicked out of the theater for laughing to loudly when Brian jumped out of the window and landed in the space ship.

19 posted on 10/05/2009 11:40:51 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: massgopguy

Der ver zwei peanuts valking along der strasse und von vas assaulted....peanut. Ho ho ho ho.


20 posted on 10/05/2009 11:41:58 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: strider44

Holy Hand Grenade!!!


21 posted on 10/05/2009 11:42:41 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: Reaganesque

A moose once bit my sister!


22 posted on 10/05/2009 11:43:15 AM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.)
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To: Hacklehead

“What’s so special about the cheese makers?”

I have both the DVD and the original screenplay.
Great for picking apart the best piece of satire of the 1970s.


23 posted on 10/05/2009 11:44:26 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: Reaganesque

THE CHEESE SHOP!!!!!!!!
Customer(after naming every type of cheese possible, only to find the cheese shop has none): “It’s not much of a cheese shop, is it?” Vendor: “Finest in the district, sir!” Customer: “Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please.” Vendor: “Well, it’s so clean, sir.”
Customer: “It’s certainly uncontaminated by cheese!”


24 posted on 10/05/2009 11:45:14 AM PDT by RenegadeNC
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To: RenegadeNC

Cleese was/is my favorite Python!


25 posted on 10/05/2009 11:47:54 AM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque; uglybiker

Mr. Wiggin: ...I see. Well, of course, this is just the sort of blinkered philistine pig ignorance I’ve come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker’s cuss for the struggling artist. You excrement, you whining hypocritical toadies with your colour TV sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding masonic secret handshakes. You wouldn’t let me join, would you, you BLACK BALLING BASTARDS!!!. Well I wouldn’t become a Freemason if you went down on your stinking knees and begged me.
Client 2: We’re sorry you feel that way but we did want a block of flats, nice though the abattoir is.
Mr. Wiggin: Oh sod the abattoir, that’s not important. (He dashes forward and kneels in front of them.) But if any of you could put in a word for me I’d love to be a mason. Masonry opens doors. I’d be very quiet, I was a bit on edge just now but if I were a mason I’d sit at the back and not get in anyone’s way.
Client 1: (politely) Thank you.
Mr. Wiggin: ...I’ve got a second-hand apron.
Client 2: Thank you.
(Mr. Wiggin hurries to the door but stops...)
Mr. Wiggin: I nearly got in at Hendon.
Client 1: Thank you.


26 posted on 10/05/2009 11:47:56 AM PDT by egannacht (Vote YES for statism: Why burden yourself with civic duty when Idol and Oprah are on?)
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To: Reaganesque
Now for something completely different - The Lumberjack Song.
27 posted on 10/05/2009 11:48:31 AM PDT by jellybean (Bookmark http://altfreerepublic.freeforums.org/index.php for when FR is down)
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To: RenegadeNC

“I want to buy some CHEEESE!”


28 posted on 10/05/2009 11:49:44 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lazamataz
Is your name not BRUCE?
29 posted on 10/05/2009 11:52:51 AM PDT by egannacht (Vote YES for statism: Why burden yourself with civic duty when Idol and Oprah are on?)
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To: dfwgator
Der ver zwei peanuts valking along der strasse und von vas assaulted....peanut. Ho ho ho ho.

Although the German V-Joke was feared by the Britons, it never really had the combat effectiveness of the original.

30 posted on 10/05/2009 11:52:51 AM PDT by Charles Martel (NRA Lifetime Member since 1984; TSRA rookie)
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To: Reaganesque

Funny stuff. The Cheese Shop sketch is one of my all-time favorites. The typical day in the boring life of a big city stock broker was also pretty funny.

Some of my other favorites included:
The Spanish Inquisition;
Dead Parrot;
World’s Funniest Joke and Joke Warfare;
The space creatures that turned everybody into Scottsmen in order to win Wimbledon;
The Lumberjack Song


31 posted on 10/05/2009 11:55:21 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Reaganesque
Here's another short favorite...

Military Fairy

32 posted on 10/05/2009 11:57:26 AM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque

“I wanted to beeeee.. a LUMBERJACK!”


33 posted on 10/05/2009 12:01:31 PM PDT by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: Reaganesque

Nigerian email scammers tricked into performing Monty Pythons “Dead Parrot”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IQqd17p9_0


34 posted on 10/05/2009 12:11:06 PM PDT by Karma Police (Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!!!)
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To: Reaganesque

My hovercraft is full of eels.


35 posted on 10/05/2009 12:41:26 PM PDT by real saxophonist (The fact that you play tuba doesn't make you any less lethal. -USMC bandsman in Iraq)
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To: Reaganesque

I accidentally stumbled on this - Star Trek Monty Python:

http://www.ffwd.com/videos/476650


36 posted on 10/05/2009 12:48:57 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Reaganesque

...And now for something completely different...


37 posted on 10/05/2009 1:39:18 PM PDT by greatplains
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To: Reaganesque; June K.
Ahhhh ... so many to choose from, not enough time ....

"The Bishop"

"Spanish Inquisition"

"Upper Class Twit Of The Year"

"Argument Clinic"

"Funniest Joke In The World (the Killer Joke)"

.... just to rattle some off the top of me 'ead

38 posted on 10/05/2009 3:25:53 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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To: VRWCmember

39 posted on 10/05/2009 3:28:09 PM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs)
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To: Reaganesque
My all time favorites are the pilot banter sketch and the philosopher’s football game.

Let me tell you, if you’re trying to get a bunch of youngsters moving and say: “Grab your egg n’ fours and let’s get the bacon delivered...” You’ll get some mighty strange looks.

Darn kids nowdays....

40 posted on 10/05/2009 6:01:36 PM PDT by El Sordo
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To: Reaganesque

One of my all-time favorites, too.


41 posted on 10/05/2009 6:03:52 PM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Mr_Moonlight

"It's all in day's work for Bicycle Repair Man."

Yes! whenever bicycles are broken, or menaced by international communism, Bicycle Repair Man is ready!

Ready to smash the communists, wipe them up, and shove them off the face of the earth… Mash that dirty red scum, kick ‘em in the teeth where it hurts. Kill! Kill! Kill! The filthy bastard commies, I hate ‘em! I hate ’em! Aaargh! Aaargh!

42 posted on 10/05/2009 6:07:55 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
"It's all in day's work for Bicycle Repair Man."

Hahahahaahaa, never saw that one before :) Can ya provide a link?

Otherwise, your post of it is amusing --- looks like a classic Cleese ranting thing going on :)

43 posted on 10/05/2009 6:21:53 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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To: Mr_Moonlight

Ask and ye shall receive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lwjv_VRM7A


44 posted on 10/05/2009 6:40:06 PM PDT by dfwgator
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