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Earlier this morning, while reading the final Discworld novel, I came across this reference Terry Pratchett made to Monty Python. It’s not my favorite thing to come out of Monty Python, but it made me smile.
He’s a lumberjack & he’s OK
Probably The Crimson Permanent Assurance or The Art of Not Being Seen
A couple of lines from the The Man Who Says Words in the Wrong Order sketch.
“Sometimes at the end of a sentence I’ll come out with the wrong fusebox. And the thing about saying the wrong word is a] I don’t notice it, and b] sometimes orange water given bucket of plaster.”
TheWrongFusebox was my reddit account for… well over a decade.
BRING OUT YER DEAD!
I’m not dead yet!
I can’t take him… …e said e’s not dead!
In a happier timeline, there’s a Judge Dredd movie with John Cleese as Dredd. Directed by Terry Gilliam.
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, song from Life of Brian
The Universe Song from Meaning of Life is also great
I forgot about this one! Brilliant
Television Announcer: And now, the penguin on top of your television set will explode. {BOOOM!} Watcher: How’d he know that? Television Announcer: It was an inspired guess.
The multiple layers of cognitive dissonance are wonderful.
The burn the witch sketch. I still show it to students to show how bad science and good science differ
In my first year of high school I had Latin, which I hated with a passion. Before, I thought that it would boil down to learning some common words and sayings and proverbs, but no. It was learning latin as a foreign language. I don’t think I was taught anything remotely as useless as that. And I really don’t like the teacher and she didn’t like me and it was truly awful and I hated every second of it. It was so awful that I had nightmares about it, even years after high school.
A couple (two I think) of years after that latin studies I saw the Life of Brian for the first time. I didn’t know what I was going to see, so when the “romanus eunt domus” scene came. It wasn’t just hilariously funny it was also cathartic.
So I’d say that. I remember that sketch almost by heart since the first time I saw it.
The fish dance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8XeDvKqI4E
I like the defective Hungarian/English phrase book sketch a lot.
“My nipples explode with orgasmic delight”.
“A balm? What are you giving him a balm for? It might bite him.”
The programming language is pretty good
The fact that their sketch use of “spam” made it into general usage.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned my favorite running Python gag:
That’s because nobody expects them
