POLL: Monty Python OR Black Adder?

[frenzl]

monte python and the famous: "it's only a flesh wound" line - i love it

[star00girl]

Monty Python of course!

"...the castle of ARGGGHHHHHH"

"ARGGGHHHH?"

"Yes well that's what it says"

"he was dying when he wrote this!"

"Oh shut up! If he was dying he wouldn't write 'arggghhh' he'd just say it!"

"maybe he was alliterating"

"oh shut up!"

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"Come back here! I'll bite your legs off!"

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"Yes, and in the painting there's only supposed to be one christ"

"Only ONE?!?!"

[Musketeer]

"When danger reared its ugly head
Sir Robin turned his tail and fled."


"What is your favorite color?"
"Blue. No, green. AHHHHHHHH!"

[telkanuru]

"Well, what do you see?"
"Some people sitting on the grass in leather skirts, sir."
"Ah, excelent, the '60s! Free love and beautiful women... [exits] You idiot! Those are the Romans! [enter roman leigonaires]"

BA, of course. Who else could invent a device that simultaniously cut off both your hands, your ears, nose, tongue, broke your legs, and went after your famliy jewls with a corkscrew? Who, I ask? McGyver (sp?) gone insane, perhaps.

[Almightynoitall]

"Sit on my faaaaaaaaace, and tell me that you love me!
I'll sit on your face and tell you I love you too..." (I'll just stop now, my vote is obvious enough)

[deadly lefty]

Originally posted by MyraTrue
"You must find the tallest tree in the forest and cut it down with... a HERRING!"

"'Tis but a fleche wound!"

ahh the real fencer...spelling flesh like the fencing move fleche
oh yeah erm Monty Python all the way
" ive got a lovely bunch of coconuts"

[blue_falcon]

I agree with the majority. Monty Python is better. There's a lot more variety in terms of the types of humor presented -- everything from a witty repartee (see argument sketch), to physical humor (Ministry of Silly Walks), to withering sarcasm (parrot sketch), to stuff that's TOTALLY bizarre and off the wall (Spanish Inquisition!).

Black Adder's good too but most of its humor is really quite, well, black and primarily sarcastic. There is the occasional physical humor (e.g. the visiting religious fanatic uncle and the mistaken executions during the Elizabethan series), some toilet humor (WWI trench cuisine episode), and of course, the inimitable abuse of Baldrick (for this I still say the Regency period series is the best).

Oh, and Monty Python can be SO unpredictable (that is, if you've never seen it). After all, who else but Monty Python could come up with the song "Every Sperm is Sacred" from The Meaning of Life?! However, that being said, it is hard to beat the wit and biting if not downright cruel sarcasm of Black Adder.

[blue_falcon]

Oh, yes ........ quotes.

For fairness' sake, here are some choice quotes from Black Adder :


[calmly] "Why have you got a piece of cheese tied to the end of your nose?"
"To catch mice, My Lord. I lie on the floor with my mouth open and hope they scurry in."
"...and do they?"
"Not yet, My Lord."
"Well, I'm not surprised -- your breath comes straight from Satan's bottom, Baldrick. The only sort of mouse you're going to catch is one without a nose."
-Edmund and Baldrick

(Edmund looks at Baldrick carrying a door, is not surprised, speaks calmly) "Baldrick, I would advise you to make the explanation you are about to give phenomenally good."
"You said, 'Get the door.'"
"Not good enough. You're fired."
"But, My Lord, I've been in your family since 1532!"
"So has syphilis. Now get out."
-Edmund and Baldrick

I have a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel.
-Edmund, Blackadder III

Baldrick, you wouldn't recognize a cunning plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing 'Cunning plans are here again'.
-Ebenezer Blackadder when Baldrick has 'a cunning plan' in 'Blackadder's Christmas Carol'

I fear the words 'I have a cunning plan' are rapidly marching towards this conversation with ill-deserved confidence.

-Blackadder to Baldrick, about to say..., in 'Blackadder's Christmas Carol'

I, on the other hand, am a fully-rounded human being, with a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the **** Kicked Out of Me.
-Captain Edmund Blackadder commenting on University education in 'Blackadder goes Forth'

We are as genitals unto the gods. They play with us for their pleasure.
-Lord Melchutt, Blackadder II

A war hasn't been fought this badly since Olaf the Hairy, chief of all the Vikings, accidentally ordered eighty thousand battle helmets with the horns on the inside.
-Captain Edmund Blackadder commenting on the British war effort in WW I, in 'Blackadder goes Forth'

Baldrick: Lord Melchett is very ill. Apparently he's at death's door.
Edmund Blackadder: Ahh, well, then, my faithful reinstated family retainer, let's go open it for him, shall we?
"Quick! Melchett's dying! We must do something!"
"Of course...Some sort of celebration..."
- Queenie and Edmund : Beer

I was then taken and hung by the larger of my two testicles from the Wall of the Bastille. It was at this stage I decided I'd had enough.
-Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder III

"What are you wearing around your neck?"
"Ah. It's my new ruff."
"You look like a bird who's swallowed a plate."
"It's the latest fashion, actually, and as a matter of fact it makes me look rather sexy..."
"To another plate-swallowing bird, perhaps...if it was blind and hadn't had it in months..."
- Edmund and Percy : Head

Your breath comes straight from Satan's bottom, Baldrick.
- Edmund : Beer

Take a telegram. To: Mr C.Chaplin, Senate Studios, Hollywood, California. Message reads: Congrats stop Have found only person in world less funny than you stop. Name Baldrick stop.
- Edmund : Major Star

I've no desire to hang out with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing around in Paris, drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly experienced French peasant girls galloping up and down my.....hang on.....!
- Edmund : Private Plane

We've been sitting here since Christmas 1914, since when we've advanced no further than an asthmatic ant with some heavy shopping.
- Edmund : Goodbyeee...

If you want something done properly, kill Baldrick before you start.
- Edmund : Dish and Dishonesty

"Baldrick, where's the manuscript?"
"You mean the big papery thing tied up with string?"
"Yes, Baldrick, the manuscript...belonging to Dr Johnson."
"You mean the big baity fellow in a black cape who just left?"
"Yes, Baldrick, Doctor Johnson."
"So...you're asking where the big papery thing tied up with string belonging to the big baity fellow in a black cape who just left is?"
"Yes, Baldrick, I am. And if you don't answer, then the booted bony thing with five toes at the end of my leg will soon connect sharply with the soft dangly collection of objects in your trousers. For the last time, Baldrick, where is Doctor Johnson's manuscript?"
"On the fire."
"On the WHAT?!!"
"...The hot orangy thing below the stony mantlepiece."
- Edmund and Baldrick : Ink and Incapability

I'm afraid there's been a change of plan. I'm off to the kitchen to hack my head off with a big knife.
- Edmund to George : Ink and Incapability

"The prince wants your daughter for his wife."
"Well, tell him his wife can't have her."
-Blackadder III

"Well, it is said, Percy, that civilised man seeks out good and intelligent company, so that, through learned discourse, he may rise above the savage and closer to God."
"Yes, I've heard that."
"Personally, however, I like to start the day with a total dickhead to remind me I'm best."
-Edmund and Percy

As the good Lord said: "Love thy neighbour as thyself, unless he's Turkish, in which case, kill the bastard!"
-King

[K Degnon]

Blackadder. If for nothing else Blackadder's Christmas Carol.

"Merry Kweeznuz"

[Talysen]

Monty Python all the way!

Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say 'ni' at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.


How you English say, 'I one more time, mac, unclog my nose in your direction', sons of a window-dresser! So, you think you could out-clever us French folk with your silly knees-bent running about advancing behavior?! I wave my private parts at your aunties, you cheesy lot of second hand electric donkey-bottom biters.


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[FlamingDeth]

Monty Python, no question.

"There's nothing an agnostic can't do if he's not sure whether or not he believes in anything!"

[Louweasel]

Ow, ow, my brain hurts, I can't do it! They are both so fab!!!

"Thentuwion! Thtwike him!"

"yes, Baldrick, for you the Renaissance was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it"

[HilandDoug]

Like Philistine said, apples to oranges. Sketch comedy vs. situation comedy. BlackAdder has some great episodes, though, too. My first trip to England in '90 was my first exposure. Then in '94 when I went with a fencing buddy, we were sitting in a pub and talking about TV, and my friend mentioned he'd never seen a BlackAdder episode. The entire pub was aghast, so the barkeep, who was also the owner, put a tape in the VCR with his favorite episodes, and we watched a half dozen episodes and drank a few dozen pints. The U.S. is fortunate to have BBCTV on cable now, so we get the reruns!

[laughingduelist]

Black Adder: "We're about as likely to move as a Frenchman living next to a brothel."

[sabreklutz]

Originally posted by Musketeer
"What is your favorite color?"
"Blue. No, green. AHHHHHHHH!" [/B]

I believe it's "Blue. No, yellow. AHHHHHHHHH!"
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Oh, that's hard, hmmmm, guess it does have to be MP though.
"Always look on the bright side of death, and just before you draw your terminal breath....

[Joan of Ark]

Originally posted by Iwant2bafencer
Well I'd have to say Monty because . . . *looks around all nervous like* I've never seen Black Adder.


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Carpe Diem
Ad Astra

Good! I'm not alone!!

[Peach]

I've seen bits of Black Adder, which I promptly turned off because I can't stand Rowan Atkinson. On the other hand, I've seen Monty Python episodes and movies over and over and over and over again.

(singing: Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
. . . .
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

[Soldier]

I've been told I look like Rowan Atkinson, to the point that by the end of freshman year track, nobody knew my real name - they all called me "Mr. Bean".

Disclaimer: There was only one guy who actually thought that; the rest just liked the nickname. The comparison with Mr. Burns from The Simpsons has been much more widely agreed upon.

[Inquartata]

"Smithers...release the hounds."

[Joan of Ark]

Originally posted by Peach
I've seen bits of Black Adder, which I promptly turned off because I can't stand Rowan Atkinson.

You can't?!? Hes one of my favorites!