Question for Monty Python Experts:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

What episode featured a knight, tromping around randomly through various skits, never speaking, but hitting people with a rubber chicken?

Also, wasn't there an episode where a 16 ton weight kept falling on people? Or am I remembering that from a different show? :shrug:

Help!

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. OEDI!!!!!!!

Ahem. Where are you?

[billyskank]

3. Indeed only one man can save us now.

:D

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. ROFL!

I love you guys. :rofl:

[RevolutionaryActs]

6. I sing now of his greatness...

Bravely bold Sir Oedi rode forth from Camelot. He was not afraid to die, oh brave Sir Odei. He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways, brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Odei. He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp, or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken. To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away, and his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Odei. His head smashed in and heart cut out, and his liver removed, and his bowels unplugged, and his nostrils ripped and his bottom burned off and his penis...



:rofl:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. Okay, just for that, you get this one:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mgsG_nbU8j0

[RevolutionaryActs]

9. I love that movie.

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Uh... that's enough singing, Rev

There's dirty work afoot.

:rofl: :hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Both bits are seen throughout the series

Particularly the 16-tonne weight.

Edit: If you want specifics, I can look 'em up.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. Nah, it's okay. I was just wondering if anyone remembered the specific

shows where these things happened.

Here's a little taste, for everyone who just happened to show up in this thread:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=x3-n1vWwY14

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. That's from Episode 13

Last show of the first series.

In it, a 16-tonne weight was dropped on Graham Chapman as Marcel Marceau.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

10. Okay, I just found a partial answer to my own question:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Nqtt-b0cmBI&mode=related&search=

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. My research tells me

that was the first time they did the 16-tonne weight bit.

In the previous episode (three), we first saw the knight with the rubber chicken; he struck John Cleese during the "Courtroom (Witness in Coffin/Cardinal Richelieu)" sketch after Cleese sang this song:

If I were not before the bar
Something else I'd like to be
If I were not a barrister...
An engine driver, me
With a chuff-chuff-chuff and a chuff-chuff-chuff...

[deucemagnet]

13. Alright, alright, alright!

This thread has gotten too silly!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

14. All right, for you then:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CjbYNgIi5ss

[deucemagnet]

19. Oops! I replied to the wrong message.

Thanks! :thumbsup:

[deucemagnet]

18. Thanks!

:thumbsup:

[sakabatou]

15. What's the one where two mailboxes go out and "herd" people?

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. Mailboxes...?

The only bit where mailboxes played a prominent role was in "Mr. Neutron" (Episode 44), which opens with dedication ceremonies for a new mailbox — in English, French and German. :D

I'm guessing you mean the vicious gangs of "keep left" signs that attacked a vicar as part of the "Hell's Grannies" sketch (Episode 8), which was stopped by the Colonel: "Right, right, stop it. This film's got silly. Started off with a nice little idea about grannies attacking young men, but now it's got silly. This man's hair is too long for a vicar, too. These signs are pretty badly made. Right, now for a complete change of mood."



(This photo is from that sketch as performed in the film "And Now For Something Completely Different." The site I normally use for Python photos has few from the first season and none at all from Episode 8.)

[sakabatou]

17. That's it!

[TheBaldyMan]

20. IIRC the knight appeared on more than one MPFC show

but I am recalling from the '70s when I first watched those series.