03-07-2003, 12:47 AM
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| My high school band tried to play the Liberty Bell March one year (the march used for the Flying Circus theme song)...we never DID get past the part where the foot comes down!
I mean, the entire band..."Badum badum badum dum dum dum PBBTT!!!!" | 
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03-07-2003, 12:50 AM
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#22 | | Senior Member
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| I like the entire scene at the bridge in Holy Grail. what is your name, what is the speed velosity of a swallow etc. Bring out your dead is good, and the black knight along with the newt. I love the entire show, but if I had to choose just one line . . .hmm yeah I don't think I could do it.
BRIDGEKEEPER:
Hee hee heh. Stop! What... is your name?
ARTHUR:
It is 'Arthur', King of the Britons.
BRIDGEKEEPER:
What... is your quest?
ARTHUR:
To seek the Holy Grail.
BRIDGEKEEPER:
What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
ARTHUR:
What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
BRIDGEKEEPER:
Huh? I-- I don't know that. Auuuuuuuugh!
BEDEVERE:
How do know so much about swallows?
ARTHUR:
Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
[suspenseful music]
[music suddenly stops]
[intermission]
[suspenseful music resumes]
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03-07-2003, 02:06 AM
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| Bwahahaha! That is too funny, Sam!
I can just picture it!  | |
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03-07-2003, 12:11 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by Inquartata
Bwahahaha! That is too funny, Sam!
I can just picture it! |
Heh...and the best part? The band director had NO idea why he suddenly got a mass raspberry! | |
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03-07-2003, 02:14 PM
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| Or from "Life of Brian":
1st Listener at the Sermon on the Mount: "Blessed are the CHEESEMAKERS?"
2nd Listener: "Well, I'm sure it applies to all manufacturers of dairy products."
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03-07-2003, 02:51 PM
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| "Always look on the bright side of life"
"See? It's the end of the film...incidentally, this record is available in the foyer." | |
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03-07-2003, 05:07 PM
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"Always look on the bright side of life"
| Ack! Now you've got me whistling! 
How about (once more from The Life of Brian), the whole suicide rescue squad comes to the recue.... and promptly kills themselves.
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03-07-2003, 05:24 PM
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| YES!!!! I'd forgotton about that!!!
How about the scene where Brian (?) is writing (poorly) "Romans go home" on the walls, then John Cleese -- as a Roaman officer -- comes up and starts corecting his grammar (didn't he have Brian diagram the sentence? YEESH!)? Funny stuff! | |
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03-07-2003, 05:58 PM
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| I have to say, aside from all the great quotes form Holy Grail, I really enjoyed the Upper Class Twit of the Year Contest sketch.
I love the part in Grail, around the time that they're going to burn the witch and the "scientific" knight (totally forgotten his name, not sir robin or bedevere, um, anyways), a little to the side sends off a dove with a coconut tied to it's leg, hehe.
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03-07-2003, 08:49 PM
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| all of it was good, just reading these posts, made me laugh again. then, does anyone remember gene wilder and blazing saddles, with bernadette peters dancing on the bar like marlene dietrich "let's face it boys, i'm pooped!", or "Young Frankenstein" - oh sweet mystery of life at last I found you! with cloris leechman as the castle hag? | |
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03-07-2003, 10:02 PM
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#31 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| You're thinking of Madeleine Kahn, not Bernadette Peters. 
Yes, "Grail" was filled with splendid bits. Let us not forget the taunting Frenchmen in the castle, or the Trojan Rabbit, or the Knights Who Say Ni!, or the minstrel's song about Sir Robin running away... | |
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03-07-2003, 10:44 PM
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| "....the were forced to eat Robin's minstrels....and there was much rejoicing. yaaaaayyy...." | |
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03-08-2003, 03:01 PM
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| rofl! "More Schnitzengroben??" (Or however you spell it!) "No thank you baby! 8 Schnitzengroben is my limit. Auf Weidersehen baby."
Or then there is Robin Hood Men in Tights.
Villagers:"A Black Sheriff?!"
Blinken: "He's Black?!"
Sheriff: "Eh why not?? It worked in Blazzin' Saddles"
Villagers: "oh yea yea"
Villager: "He's right."
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03-08-2003, 05:45 PM
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| "Follow the gourd!" heehee - I quoted that one in RS, which pleased my teacher
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03-09-2003, 12:05 AM
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| Let's see we've already mentioned, the Spanish Inquisition, the Holy Grail bridge scene, the lumberjack song, besides those there's the one where the monks are marching along chanting in Latin and periodically hitting themselves in the forehead with boards, "I'm not dead yet!, OH, be quiet, you will be." thing, the vicious bunny by the cave (whot's 'e gonna do, bite me bum?), also Steve (or whatever his name was) the sorcerer from Holy Grail. He's got this cheesy costume, with fake horns on his head, and he's just randomly blasting stuff.
One more note on the (in)famous Lumberjack Song. I was at a camp out sponsored by my church when I was about 17 and we were dividing up into groups to do skits to entertain ourselves. My group was trying to decide what to do when one of the leader--who was relatively young and cool, but neverthe less one of "them"-- started singing the Lumberjack song. He didn't sing the whole thing, but it was obvious from the reactions of some of the other kids and the nearby leaders that there was something a bit "risque" about doing so. It was great
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03-09-2003, 12:40 AM
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| Yes Inq I do believe that "He aint go ****e all over him" is the best one liner. ANd I already mentioned this, the Holy Hand Grenade. i just think the whole scence is funny in general, not just a one-liner.
The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch:
Monk: "And Saint Atila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'Oh, Lord, bless this thy hand grenade that with it thou mayest blow thy enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin, and people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large--"
Brother Maynard: "Skip a bit, Brother."
Monk: "And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thou foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.'"
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03-09-2003, 02:38 AM
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| whenever they did medieval stuff; life of brian, monks, chanting gregorian chant things; torture racks; they outdid themselves, there was no one else like them, gene wilder and zero mostel came pretty close to absurd when then did the producers, the worst movie in the world, but it had moments; all absurd stuff. I forgot about the flying sheep. In the next 10 years we'll remember Faulty Towers {any fans?} and "Neighbors", that isn't bad, but Faulty Towers has moments, british humor is very funny and very silly; what about the other show, the one about the shop, all the retailers are insane. they all talk english though. | |
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03-09-2003, 11:37 AM
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In the next 10 years we'll remember Faulty Towers
| Heehee- I have all 13 episodes of Faulty Towers on video
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03-09-2003, 12:05 PM
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| Help, Help, I'm being repressed!
Or one of the other hundreds of great lines. Depnds on what point I'm trying to make. | |
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03-09-2003, 01:39 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by Catlady
also Steve (or whatever his name was) the sorcerer from Holy Grail. He's got this cheesy costume, with fake horns on his head, and he's just randomly blasting stuff. | "Some call me..........'Tim' "
In that scene, I thought it was a shame that they blew most of the pyrotechnics budget on Tim's remote, random explosions. The blast of the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch ("3, sir!") pulverizing the killer bunny, was disapointingly weak.
I don't know if many remember, (or were around back then) but in the late 70's, then-president Jimmy Carter received some flak from the national media after being photographed using a paddle to repel a swimming bunny rabbit that was trying to climb into Carter's canoe.
CBS Evening News made light of the "bunny attack" and played a clip of virtually the entire "killer rabbit" sequence from the Holy Grail movie...with a tongue-in-cheek reference to the only other known instance of a deadly bunny.
It was very gratifying to see Monty Python in the national spotlight back then.
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