your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦3d ago

i wouldn't be who i am today without Monty Python.

the first show i ever watched was the philosophers’ soccer match and it was life altering.

wasn’t even a pre-teen, but i was always an avid reader and i’d go thru my dad’s bookcase and read some of the philosophy and sociology books he’d kept from college and graduate school. we also had a full encyclopedia & atlas that i’d read like comics books.

so that night, i understood most of the jokes; and a blerd was born:

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-turns-50/

Monty Python and the Holy Grail turns 50

Ars staffers reflect upon the things they love most about this masterpiece of absurdist comedy.

Ars Technica
Show threadSean Kleefeld
@blogdiva Holy Grail was my first exposure to Python. We were visiting some relatives and I think that was the only thing they had on VHS that might entertain my brother and I. This probably would've been ~1980. I think Flying Circus didn't pop up for me until several years later; I don't recall if that was through PBS or when we finally got cable when I was in high school. Python definitely had a lasting impact on me; how to reframe ideas and think sideways.
Apr 29 at 4:09pmWeb