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[agentpleakley]

Favorite -- just one -- no --

anything from "Holy Grail"

and

"Better Better get a bucket" MOL



I agree that you get it or you don't. I am so pleased that DH gets it.

 

[KTSMOM]

How about, "She turned me into a mute".. they all stare at him.."I got better"

or "it's mearly a flesh wound" after his limb was cut off.

What a hoot! We used to watch the Holy Grail all the time when I was in high school...ahh the good old days!

And who could forget the wonderful Spam song!

 

[legalsea]

From the original Python television show was a skit about a 30+ year man (Cleese) who walks into an apartment occupied by two older women (one his mother) I do not recall the actual words, but this is pretty close:

First Old Woman: "Oh, he's walking is he!"
Elderly Mother: "Who'l like his rattle? Look how he looks at his rattle!"
Cleese: "Ah, yes. The rattle. Very nice."
First OW: "Oh, he's talking, is he?"
Cleese: "Of course I talk. I am the Minister of Finance".
(first old woman moves off-screen, then explosion)

Elderly Mother: "Oh! She's blown up!"
Cleese: "Good riddence".
Elderly Mother: "She was my best friend"
Cleese: "Oh, Mother, quit being so dramatic. People blow up everyday".

That line, "she was my best friend", in the tone used by the Python, is a frequent line in our house.

 

[WildernessBride]

 

[Beth76]

"One day, lad, this will all be yours."
"What, the curtians?"
(slaps head) "No not the curtains."


"But father, I don't like her."
"What's not to like? She has huge........tracts of land."

 

[Beth76]

"Old woman!"
"I'm 37, I'm not old"
"Well I can't just say 'woman'"

 

[JMD]

I love the lumberjack song! I have that as one of my ringtones!!!

The lumberjack song is great. I also love the "I like Chinese" song.

 

[JMD]

All right then, how about some "Constitutional Peasant" from Holy Grail.

Dennis: We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as sort-of-executive officer for the week...
Arthur: Yes.
Dennis: ... But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting...
Arthur: Yes, I see.
Dennis:... by a simple majority, in the case of purely internal affairs...
Arthur: [getting bored] Be quiet.
Dennis:... but by a two thirds majority, in the case of more major —
Arthur: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
Dennis' Mother: Order, eh? Who does he think he is?
Arthur: I am your king!
Dennis' Mother: Well I didn't vote for you.
Arthur: You don't vote for kings!
Dennis' Mother: How'd you become king, then?
Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king!
Dennis: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis: You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Arthur: Shut up!
Dennis: I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Arthur: Shut up! Will you shut up?! [Grabs Dennis and shakes him]
Dennis: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!
Arthur: Shut up!
Dennis: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! HELP, HELP, I'M BEING REPRESSED!

This is my favorite part of the Holy Grail. I love Michael Palin.

 

[JMD]

Has anyone seen Spamalot?

I saw it twice on Broadway, and it is absolutely hilarious. I find it much funnier than the movie.

 

[mirthmaiden]

"Old woman!"
"I'm 37, I'm not old"
"Well I can't just say 'woman'"

Well you could just call me Dennis.

 

[WildernessBride]

This is my favorite part of the Holy Grail. I love Michael Palin.

I love Michael Palin....have you seen bicycle repairman...but of course my all time favorite Palin sketch has to be Spanish Inquisition......Buggles, fetch the comfy chair!!!!!

 

[mom2rb]

The Lumberjack song is my favorite. My second has to be " Sit on my face and tell me that you love me ". It's just so wrong.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

They never gave up on a joke. With the swallow and the witch durring one scene someone it tying cocnuts to a bird.

I love the Joke that kills people as well

Anyone rember how the other sides joke started??

 

[jjpenguin]

"What, the curtians?"

huge........tracts of land."

These two get used a lot in our house...

We saw Spamalot last year, I have never seen DH laugh so much... it was brilliant.

There are so many "great moments with monty python"

I love the milkman sketch, with all the skeletons of milkmen.
Also the soldiers "camping it up" from one of the first shows.
I loved the pre-film about the insurance company that sailed away... (maybe that's where they got the idea for pirates)
The pepperpots enacting the battle of pearl harbour.....

and on and on it goes...

 

[NMAmy]

I loved the pre-film about the insurance company that sailed away... (maybe that's where they got the idea for pirates)

That's another of my favorite songs:

It's fun to charter an accountant
And sail the wide accountancy
To find, explore the funds off shore
and skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
It can be manly in insurance
We'll up your premiums semi-annually.
It's all tax deductible
We're fairly incorruptible
We're sailing on the side accountancy.

DD was always fond of Eric, the Half a Bee when she was a little girl.

Here's a funny one--when she and I would listen to that cd in the car, I'd choose which songs she could listen to and skip the naughty ones. One day, my ex was taking her to pre-school and she asked him if she could take that cd to school with her and he LET her. I believe they played part of the first song and yanked it out of the player.

Yes, I am the worst mom ever. Luckily, they'd known me for years so they accepted my explanation and laughed about it. My ex never let her take anything to school again without asking me first.

 

[Disneynutbsv]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ByZqx30OvVs

 

[Disneynutbsv]

The Lumberjack song is my favorite. My second has to be " Sit on my face and tell me that you love me ". It's just so wrong.

I love the lumberjack song

 

[WildernessBride]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ByZqx30OvVs

I love the Self Defense class skit.....passion fruit can be deadly!!!

 

[legalsea]

I forgot about the Self-Defense Class led by Graham Chapman. One of the best endings ever:

(Chapman, as Mad Drill Instructor, telling trainee): "Now, come at me with that banana".

(reluctant trainee begins screaming and running at Chapman with banana held aloof in attack position. Chapman pulls out gun, shoots and kills man, then stoops and picked up banana).

Chapman: "Now I shall proceed to eat the banana, hence dis-arming the attacker".

 

[Fitswimmer]

The Upper Class Twit of the Year contest...I LOVE that one.