(yes: it was really called that)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is showing on IFC. I was screaming with laughter during the credits. (“Miss Taylor’s Mooses by…”) We used to recite whole blocks of dialogue when I was an undergrad. My favorite (and it’s a tough, tough call): the dismantling of the Legend of the Lady of the Lake:
Strange women, lyin’ in ponds, distributin’ swords, is no basis for a system of government!
Hard to dispute. Add your own fond memories here! And remember: That rabbit’s dynamite.
“Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?”
“Sons of a silly person!”
“Is there someone else up there we can talk to?”
“Brave Sir Robin ran away;
Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared its ugly head
He bravely turned his tail and fled…”
“Dropped his sword and used his feet/He beat a very brave retreat…”
“Bring out yer dead!”
King Arthur walks/rides by the two peasants.
“Who is that?”
“He’s not a king, that’s for sure”
“How can you tell?”
“Cause he hasn’t got $**t all over him.”
“I’m not quite dead!”
“Go away you silly sons of an English person. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!”
Minstrel: [singing] Bravely bold Sir Robin rode forth from Camelot. He was not afraid to die, oh brave Sir Robin. He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways, brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin. 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 Robin. His head smashed in and heart cut out, and his liver removed, and his bowels unplugged, and his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off and his penis…
Sir Robin: That’s, uh, that’s enough music for now, lads… looks like there’s dirty work afoot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs
Heck, you could just plop down the whole script for quotable lines!
Dingo: And after the spanking, the oral sex!
Sir Galahad arrives at Heaven (a.k.a. The Castle Anthrax)
Dingo(or Zoot): Who are you sir good knight?
Sir Galahad: I am Sir Galahad, the chaste.
Ridden on a horse? You’ve got coconuts and yer bangin’ ‘em together.
Guard: “Are you suggesting cocunuts migrate?”
King Arthur: “Not at all, they could’ve been carried.”
Guard: “By a swallow?”
King ARthur: “It could grip it by the husk.”
Guard: “It’s not a question of where ‘e grips it, it’s a simple question of weight ratio! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound cocunt!”
“Pies su domine” Bangs head!
Ah, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a wonderful film with some great lines that are always quotable, good writing, good directing, and excellent acting by the 6 principle actors who do quite a good job and-
“GET ON WITH IT!!!”
Oh, sorry.
“We are the knights who say NI!”
“One day, lad, all this will be yours.”
“What, the curtains?”
Good one.
So good it makes me want to sing . . .
She turned me into a newt!
Well, I got better.
“Then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe; who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.”
“If I went around sayin’ I was Emperor just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!”
“Now we see the violence inherent in the system…help! help! I’m bein’ repressed!”
“I fart in your general direction!”
“Who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?” I also love moistened bints lobbing scimitars in a farcical aquatic ceremony.
Love this album! First comedy album I ever bought, and still one of my few favorites. My favorite non-movie bit on the album is the professor of logic, who’s attempting to explain sylogistic logic, but keeps getting distracted by his sad homelife: “Sir Bedevere falls prey to the kind of logical falacy so often made by my wife. If, for instance, I tell her that all fish live in water, and that herring are fish, she will conclude not that herring live in water, but rather that kippers live in trees, or perhaps even that I do not love her anymore. She calls this ‘using her intuition,’ but I call it crap because it is not logical.”
Love that!
This is one of those rare movies that I enjoy a little more with each additional viewing. There are so many little nuggets of humor that are done so subtly they’re easy to overlook.
BTW, what IS the capitol of Assyria?
A favorite around here. Thank God for youtube, we can show the boys the bits that aren’t naughty with little trouble.
One of most quoted is “one two five” “three sir”, but maybe that comes with teaching too many people to count.
We also enjoy the guard scene and how confusing it gets with the instructions. Again, we live that scene almost daily around here.
I assume the Castle Anthrax scene is banned in your house, Tracy.
“And after the spanking, the oral sex.”
Yeah, I don’t really want to explain that.
We did watch the fish dance via Rich’s post earlier.
I’m the one who posted the fish slapping dance. When we launch capsules into space containing information about the human race that will explain who we are to aliens those capsules need to include a DVD of the fish slapping dance.
Oh, sorry, there were so many environmental posts yesterday, I guess I lost track of who was posting what. Was that an effort to get rid of the “lack of depth” or to enhance the “perfect amount of shallow”?
Maybe I’m confused. Many months ago Rich did a post asking for favorite Python episodes and that’s when I posted the fish slapping dance. Has it been posted again?
It was here http://www.threedonia.com/archives/14488
and it was on Joe Biden not environment.
Oh yeah? Well back here, http://www.threedonia.com/archives/7062 on May 8th I declared it was the #1 Monty Python sketch of all time.
Game, set, match, Rufus!
When my sons were pre-teens they really wanted to see “Holy Grail” because their friends were talking about it at school. Heck, Mrs. Firefly and I quote the film often! So, Mrs. Firefly bought the DVD for them. I told her I didn’t think it was appropriate and she questioned my judgement. So, I asked her to meet me in an adjacent room, out of earshot, and I quoted some of the Castle Anthrax dialogue. “Oh, yeah. I forgot about that.” But the DVD was in the house and she had already told the boys they could see it. We reached a compromise and I skipped over that scene.
So witches float…because they’re made of wood?
“I’ll bite your legs off!”
“It’s just a flesh wound!”
We, the members of Threedonia should commit hari kari to preserve our honor for we have gone THAT long without mentioning the line: “It’s just a flesh wound!”
MAybe even Wanks.
So many, many fantastic lines but I think my favorite is still, “What, the curtains?”
When I was 13 I could recite the entire script from memory and, over 30 years later, two of my friends still can!
Oh wait… I forgot! My second favorite exchange (just behind “what the curtains” is:
“Who are you who may summon fire with neither flint nor tinder?”
“Some know me as… Tim?”
The way John Cleese says, “Tim?” slays me every time! It’s not a very mysterious, scary name, and he says it slightly mincing. Hilarious!
You don’t know the Tims I know.
But I did laugh out loud at that line when I watched it just the other night.
It’s just such an anachronistic line. The question is so medieval sounding and direct, yet the response sounds so modern and unsure.
I didn’t know we had a King, I thought we were an autonomous collective.
“I agree with you. It’s interesting, you see, the Brits like Life Of Brian much the best, and the Americans prefer Holy Grail. I’ve never quite understood it. What I would say is that the first 45 minutes of Holy Grail are really, really good. I think it’s a lot less good after that—well, not a lot, but it’s not as good after that.”
—John Cleese
http://www.avclub.com/articles/john-cleese,34436/
Thanks for the link, Republibot 3.0. I really enjoyed that interview. I saw Cleese in an interview many years ago and he mentioned Harpo Marx as one of his chief inspirations.
Interestingly, Philip K. Dick once did that, too.