Looks like we found someone who likes a good joke even less than than the Colonel...
Posted on 04/09/2025 5:40:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
I love that FR seems to be a fever-swamp of Monty Python fans!
It's also comic gold. "What have the Romans ever done for us?" Well, um... the roads?
I doubt a day goes by when I don't some kind of reference to a Monty Python film or show. Another highly quotable, funny movie is 'Little Big Man'. My #1 quote comes from that movie" :
"Well, sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't."
They dressed me like this.
- No, we didn’t.
And this isn’t my nose. It’s a false one.
- Well?
- We did do the nose.
- The nose? - And the hat. But she is a witch!
Young men if you find a girl who actually believes Monty Python is funny, she is likely an amazing candidate for marriage.
And especially if she likes The Three Stooges, as well.
When it hit television for the first time, it was pre-VCR, so my friend and I recorded the audio with my cheap little cassette recorded, as it was script gold. So, of course, we played it a thousand times over those child/teen years and, to this day, have it memorized. It’s odd, because I’ve only “seen” the film a few times.
He has a wife you know.
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
This is the one I referenced yesterday.
Marching Up And Down The Square
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLJ8ILIE780
I spent many a night watching Python, Benny Hill and Dave Allen At Large.
The funniest thing about Smoky and the Bandit to me is when it is on regular television and the dub over almost all of Gleason’s lines, with the silliest substitutes for the foul language.
“You can think about it.....but don’t do it!”
Isn’t that funny? There are so many things in that one movie that have become part of the day-to-day lexicon in our culture!
I wonder if Germans, Swedes, or Russians recite those l lines in the same way? Or is it only British and Americans who do so?
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Help Help! I’m being repressed!
Come see the violence inherent in the system!
Help! Help! I’m being repressed!
Before finals in college every semester the university gave us a day off called ‘Dead Day”.
A bunch of us got a cart and dressed up like movie characters going from dorm to dorm yelling, “Bring out your dead”.
My oldest daughter is a King Arthur expert. She wrote her thesis on the legend. During her thesis presentation she credited me with sparking her interest by lending her my VHS copy of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I agree with you, honestly — Holy Grail is a more coherent film — but LoB has some moments that just send me into the stratosphere laughing.
And I love the Shirly Bassey theme song.
Looks like we found someone who likes a good joke even less than than the Colonel...
“Well, I got a bad liver and a broken heart.”
When I first heard that it didnt really make sense to me because we regularly smelt of elderberries on Saturday mornings in particular.
They were far too valuable in the form of syrup to be wasted in wine.
I wasnt sure what his fathers pancake habits had to do with anything but everyone else sure seemed to think it was funny.
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