What is your favorite Monty Python sketch?

[QueenOfCalifornia]

Mine is "The Cheese Shop" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDat9zdw7Gs





(edit due to leaving the e off of the end of cheese)

[skygazer]

1. It's impossible for me to choose just one

I love the Dead Bishop on the landing sketch. I adore the Travel Agent sketch. I crack up over the Exploding Penguin on the Telly sketch. The Spanish Inquisition is a classic. The cannabalism in the British Navy is a riot. The Hungarian Phrasebook, the Tudor Porn merchants, the aliens turning people into Scotsmen....

Funniest show ever... :rofl:

[NewJeffCT]

26. I agree so many good ones

Pet Shop
Argument Clinic
Ministry of Silly Walks
Candy Shop
The Hungarian Phrasebook
And, of course, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

[QueenOfCalifornia]

58. and now for something completely different,

Man:
Is this the right room for an argument?

Other Man: (John Cleese)
I've told you once.

Man:
No you haven't!

Other Man:
Yes I have.

Man:
When?

Other Man:
Just now.

Man:
No you didn't!

Other Man: Yes I did!

Man:
You didn't!

Other Man:
I did!

Man:
You didn't!

Other Man:
I'm telling you, I did!

Man:
You did not!

Other Man:
Oh I'm sorry, is this a five minute argument, or the full half hour?

[Zavulon]

2. Either the Hungarian Phrasebook or the one with the "ex-parrot." (NT)

[Richard Steele]

3. Pirhana brothers. (AKA "Ethel the Frog")

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZkWL-XvO0U

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-FDW1shmqA&mode=related&search=

Dinsdale.........

[Critters2]

7. Dinsdale!!

I'd forgotten about the Pirhana Brothers. That could be mine.

But I also like the gangs of grannies.

[KamaAina]

4. Toupee Department

from a third-generation rug spotter.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

5. What about the

Mountaineer?

Where they all just jump around the guys office dressed in mountaineering garb and then it shows them "climbing" up the street????

[QueenOfCalifornia]

6. self remove

How did I get the same post in twice??? Yikes

[Critters2]

8. Hell's Grannies

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ygy7UDADXDg

[Orsino]

32. For the punchline.

It's an amusing sketch, but in the last seconds, as one li'l gran pulls away, revealing her colors...brilliant!

[Pendrench]

9. The "Black Knight" scene from the Holy Grail.

"What are you going to do....bleed on me?"

[CGowen]

10. I've only seen 2 "dead parrot" and "spam", maybe the parrot thing was funny n/t

[Whisp]

11. there's a few I especially like:

Dennis Moore Dennis Moore and the lupins
of course, the dead parrot
lumberjack and he's okay
every sperm is sacred
and my fave The Argument.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

12. I am NOT Arguing!

Cleese: Ah, no you didn't. You came here for an argument.

Palin: An argument isn't just contradiction.

Cleese: Well! it can be!

Palin: No, it can't! An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.

Cleese: No, it isn't!

Palin: Yes, it is! 'tisn't just contradiction.

Cleese: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position!

Palin: Yes but it isn't just saying "No, it isn't."

Cleese: Yes, it is!

Palin: No, it isn't!

Cleese: Yes, it is!

Palin: No, it isn't!

Cleese: Yes, it is!

Palin: No, it isn't! Argument is an intellectual process. Contra- diction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.

Cleese: It is not!

Palin: It is!

Cleese: Not at all!

[Whisp]

18. which DU thread did you copy that from? ;)

can't forget the philosphers playing soccer.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

23. As I posted it

I thought the same thing...

"Looks to me like a typical DU thread..."

[bikebloke]

13. Funeral Sketch

People are standing around a grave site, when this bloke runs up coughing. He lifts the lid on the coffin and climbs in. One biddy says, "I always said he'd be late for his own funeral."

I saw that once during its first broadcast here and never saw it again.

[AngryAmish]

14. The Poet MacTeagel

yeah, I know it is based upon an offensive ethnic stereotype...

[AllegroRondo]

60. "Can you lend me fifty pounds to mend the shed?"

[ChickMagic]

15. I've got 2 to add to the others mentioned

Fish slapping dance and Funniest Joke in the World.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

16. I forgot

about the fish slapping dance!

[ChickMagic]

19. I giggle like a little girl when I see it

It's a good one!

[bluedigger]

39. Nothing

makes me lose it faster than the fish dance!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9SSOWORzw4

[ChickMagic]

61. Me too!

So short, so simple, so writhing on the floor funny!

[flvegan]

17. Upperclass Twit of the Year Competition

That's the one that got me hooked.

[Burma Jones]

20. I don't have a favorite, but here are some lesser known gems I love

Llamas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzEMTm4-xzw

bad temper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujLD7Jcqegc

swanning about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_iH1GhM2j8

Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI_whOzMu1c


Although I do have a favorite line from all the Python Oeuvre and it is: "It's people like you what cause unrest."

[Mad_Dem_X]

21. "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

and...

"I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay!"

[QueenOfCalifornia]

29. "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

is a pure walk through goofville! I love it....

[Felix Mala]

62. "Pardon me, I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition..."

I agree -- best sketch ever. Those comfy chairs always make 'em talk...

[QueenOfCalifornia]

63. This sounds just like FReeper speak to me:

(The door flies open and Cardinal Ximinez of Spain (Palin) enters, flanked by two junior cardinals. Cardinal Biggles (Jones) has goggles pushed over his forehead. Cardinal Fang (Gilliam) is just Cardinal Fang)

Ximinez:
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise....
Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency....
Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...
and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope....
Our four... no...
Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry...
are such elements as fear, surprise...
I'll come in again.

(Exit and exeunt)

Chapman:
I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.

[SacredCow]

22. this one never fails to make me laugh....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDgajSoI3s


The Text (since it's pretty short):

Storytime presenter: hello children, hello. Here is this morning's story. Are you ready? Then we'll being.

Storytime presenter: One day, Ricky the Magic Pixie went to visit Daisy Bumble in her tumbled down cottage. He foud her in the bedroom. Roughly he grabbed her heavy shoulders pulling her down onto the bed and ripping off her...

Storytime presenter: Old Nick, the sea captain, was a rough, tough, jolly sort of fellow. He loved the life of the sea, and he loved to hang out down by the pier where the men dressed as ladies...

Storytime presenter: OH! Uh... Rumpletweezer ran the Dinky Tinky Shop in the foot of the magic oak tree by the wobbly dum-dum bush in the shade of the magic glade down in Dingly Dell. There he sold contraceptives... contraceptives?

Storytime presenter: Discipline?

Storytime presenter: Naked... with a melon?

[FloridaJudy]

24. Crunchy Frog!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6uLfermPU

And now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and commit suicide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOM4pHwiwQw

Rhythm Method!

[Ekirh]

25. OKAY DEVIOUS DON'T MOVE!

THE BISHOP!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDGoBitd1vY

I just love the "opening titles" :)

[NewJeffCT]

27. I'll always remember that one

I was walking in downtown Hartford with a friend of mine and we were both reciting lines from various Python skits. As we walked around the corner, I loudly said, "OK Devious, don't move."

And, coming right around the corner was a young woman...I scared the living crap out of her by saying that in that tone of voice.

[Fire Walk With Me]

28. I love the "More salad and breadsticks" Olive Garden sketch.

[GCP]

30. The Oscar Wilde sketch

"Your highness is like a stream of bat-piss"

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

[Javaman]

31. The Bishop! nt

[fudge stripe cookays]

49. 'Ello mum, 'ello dad.

There's a dead bishop on the landing dad!

[QueenOfCalifornia]

33. The Ministry of Silly Walks

is one of the funniest things I've ever seen and I almost forgot about it.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

53. I had to add this

MUST SEE TV!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jDCxtC-yPw

[stuntcat]

34. sketch I'm not sure but they sing one of my favorite of all songs

The Universe Song-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVshkVF0SY

[skygazer]

37. That's from the movie The Meaning of Life

Great song.

[WinkyDink]

35. Yes! The Cheese Shop! "Fresh out."

[QueenOfCalifornia]

36. just a little taste of cheese

Customer:
Well, I was, uh, sitting in the public library on Thurmon Street just now, skimming through Rogue Herrys by Hugh Walpole, and I suddenly came over all peckish.

Owner:
Peckish, sir?

Customer:
Esuriant.

Owner:
Eh?

Customer:
'Ee, ah wor 'ungry-loike!

Owner:
Ah, hungry!

Customer:
In a nutshell. And I thought to myself, "a little fermented curd will do the trick," so, I curtailed my Walpoling activites, sallied forth, and infiltrated your place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesy comestibles!

[pokerfan]

38. Bruces

http://www.youtube.com/v/eqgnExSiS0s

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/bruces.htm

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

40. Angus Podgorny and the blancmange from outer space at Wimbledon.

[Spirochete]

41. The one about the deadly joke, whatever that was called

and the Upper Class Twit of the Year.

[mac56]

43. Venn ist das nurnstuck git und slotermeyer?

Ja! Beigerhund das oder die flipperwaldt gersput!

[baldguy]

42. The one where Carol Cleveland was naked.

:D

[Mad_Dem_X]

45. LOL! I remember one sketch they did

that was a behind-the-scenes look at a movie. Carol played an actress named Vanilla Whore. :rofl:

[Richardo]

44. Fish Slapping Dance!!

:bounce:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMKCLyhBBwI

[martymar64]

46. FIVE FOUR THREE TWO ONE!!!!

Gooood Night dingdingdingdingding . . . .

[fudge stripe cookays]

47. The Bookshop

"I'd like The Adventures of Captain Gladys Stoutpamphlet and Her Intrepid Spaniel Stig Among the Giant Pygmies of Bechols....Volume 8....."

[Maestro]

48. Too many choices

Great, intelligent comedians; all of them. I just can't choose. :shrug:

[martymar64]

50. Also, Bishop on the Landing

Rat pie, Rat Cake, Rat sorbet and strawberry tart.

Strawberry tart?

Well, it does have some rat in it.

How much?

Three.

[elshiva]

51. "That map was made by Cole Porter..."

The sketch with the military court and the map made by Cole Porter.

It ends with the judge saying:
"I AM STILL IN CHARGE OF THIS COURT!

Stand up. Sit down. Say Moo. Put on your pixie hats. Send in the skating vicar. Everyone sing Everything goes."

[Silver Swan]

52. Definitely "confuse-a-cat"

Can't believe nobody mentioned it.

[Kutjara]

54. The scene in "Holy Grail"...

...where they read the warning on the cave wall that ends with "arrrrrrgh."

-Why does it say "arrrrrgggh"?
-Maybe he was attacked while writing the message.
-But wouldn't he have said "arrrrrgh" instead of writing it?
-Perhaps he was dictating.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

55. That IS too funny

Thanks for the memory!

[nickgutierrez]

56. Hitler in London

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CGRpPGRZ1pE

[QueenOfCalifornia]

57. I love

those drag queens--- That is sooooo funny

Interviewer (voice over) What do you think of Mr Hilter's politics.
Yokel I don't like the sound of these 'ere boncentration bamps.
Pepperpot Well, I gave him my baby to kiss and he bit it on the head.
Stockbroker Well, I think he'd do a lot of good to the Stock Exchange.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

59. "Oh, it's his writer's cramp!"

Mum (to Ken) He's had a hard day dear... his new play opens at the National Theatre tomorrow.

Ken Oh that's good.

Dad Good! good? What do you know about it? What do you know about getting up at five o'clock in t'morning to fly to Paris... back at the Old Vic for drinks at twelve, sweating the day through press interviews, television interviews and getting back here at ten to wrestle with the problem of a homosexual nymphomaniac drug-addict involved in the ritual murder of a well known Scottish footballer. That's a full working day, lad, and don't you forget it!

Mum Oh, don't shout at the boy, father.

Dad Aye, 'ampstead wasn't good enough for you, was it?... you had to go poncing off to Barnsley, you and yer coal-mining friends. (spits)

Ken Coal-mining is a wonderful thing father, but it's something you'll never understand. Just look at you!

Mum Oh Ken! Be careful! You know what he's like after a few novels.

Dad Oh come on lad! Come on, out wi' it! What's wrong wi' me?... yer tit!

Ken I'll tell you what's wrong with you. Your head's addled with novels and poems, you come home every evening reeking of Château La Tour...

Mum Oh don't, don't.

Ken And look what you've done to mother! She's worn out with meeting film stars, attending premières and giving gala luncheons...

Dad There's nowt wrong wi' gala luncheons, lad! I've had more gala luncheons than you've had hot dinners!

Mum Oh please!

Dad Aaaaaaagh! (clutches hands and sinks to knees)

Mum Oh, it's his writer's cramp!

Ken You never told me about this...

Mum No, we didn't like to, Kenny.

Dad I'm all right! I'm all right, woman. Just get him out of here.

Mum Oh Ken! You'd better go...

Ken All right. I'm going.

Dad After all we've done for him...

Ken (at the door) One day you'll realize there's more to life than culture... There's dirt, and smoke, and good honest sweat!