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Yamainu 🏳️‍🌈20h ago

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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

flere-imsaho 🇺🇦1d ago

@blogdiva “heidegger heidegger was a boozy beggar” is what almost did me in. and the “decomposing composers” song.

James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺1d ago

@mawhrin @blogdiva Haven't heard that one in a long time! Actually had the tape. My party trick is knowing all the words of The Penis Song.

🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼23h ago

Decomposing Composers!
Would be a great Barnes & Barnes song, too! 😂

Auge @Exilsarahl

@leyrer Understood

Futuristic Robert [KJ5ELX]

@blogdiva A life without Monty Python is a silly thing.

@blogdiva Ha ha! Good point! I remember so clearly all that long time ago there existed briefly a competition between fans of Firesign Theater and Monty Python. Look which comedy troupe won out. I doubt many know any Firesign Theater any more.
“Don’t Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers!”

Jim Spath 1d ago

@cobalt123 @blogdiva "He's no fun, he fell right over."

Jim Spath 1d ago

@cobalt123 Ralph Spoilsport tags...

@jspath55 I’m heading into the Blinding Light!
😆😂🤣🤪

@cobalt123 @jspath55 fan of both. Shoes for Industry, Shoes for the Dead

Bear Whiz Beer- It’s in the water… That’s why it’s yellow

Sally Strange 1d ago

@blogdiva "...And Marx is arguing that it was offsides"

Pinchy63 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ELBOWS UP & GLOVES OFF!1d ago

@blogdiva
My parents used to let us watch Monty Python when we were young. I remember thinking I dreamt the whole “knight getting his limbs cut off” because none of my friends knew what I was talking about.

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦1d ago

@Pinchy63 same! was the only weirdo that watched them in my school, LOL

David Griffith 22h ago

@blogdiva @Pinchy63 I was that weirdo, watching my dad's VHS recordings off the telly. We lived not far from Doune Castle (where the French Knights / Wooden Rabbit were filmed) and it was a regular pilgrimage to re-enact that scene.

General Strike 1d ago

@Pinchy63 @blogdiva For decades, I thought I had dreamt the bit in Return of the Jedi, where just after Luke kills the rancor, a guy (I'm guessing the rancor-wrangler?) runs in and starts sobbing.

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦1d ago

@GeneralStrike @Pinchy63 that did happen. they took that out in the new edit? Lucas became Jabba for what he’ done with re-edits and selling out to Disney.

General Strike 23h ago

@blogdiva @Pinchy63 I know, I saw it as a kid but for some reason thought I dreamt it. Then when I was showing my kids the original trilogy I was like "Oh, I dreamt that a guy starts crying right about now" and immediately a guy wanders into shot crying, and my kids now think I'm the world's most unoriginal dreamer.

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦23h ago

@GeneralStrike @Pinchy63 LOL

General Strike 23h ago

@blogdiva @Pinchy63 And yeah, Lucas' inability to leave the original films alone is not to his credit. Like there was a spark to the original trilogy that's entirely lacking from the prequels and Lucas should realise that he was on to a good thing with the first three and leave it alone.

Strypey 14h ago

@GeneralStrike
> Lucas' inability to leave the original films alone is not to his credit

100%. Back in the wild west days of the net there was a project to reassemble something resembling the theatrical cuts. I got hold of them and they were a joy to watch.

I know the prequels have their fans, and I'm not yucking their yum. But I also got hold of a 4 hour fan-edit of them, which I much prefer to watching them in their entirety.

@blogdiva @Pinchy63

Angus Mackenzie 19h ago

@Pinchy63 @blogdiva The script for that scene was published in the New Musical Express or possibly Melody Maker before the film was released. I remember a group of us sitting by the heating pipes in our classroom reading it and being utterly helpless with laughter. I think it was even funnier on the page than the filmed version.

C. R. Collins 1d ago

Whenever my kids & I get together we wind up quoting Monty Python to each other at some point 😆

Tim Mason 1d ago

The seeds were here ; https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b0072vdz

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David/Dragon 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️20h ago

@TimMason @blogdiva I grew up with my Dad playing the Goon Show!

Dee Lux Fiat 1d ago

@blogdiva Love this

Moka Blissful [he/fae]1d ago

@blogdiva "You can't expect to wield supreme executive authority because some watery tart threw a sword at you" feels relevant now, but I will never forget "I FART IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION!"

Sean Kleefeld 1d ago

@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.

Jason Stiff 1d ago

@blogdiva I had never heard of Monty Python until I was a teenager and MTV aired old episodes of it (and The Young Ones). That was back in the 80s, and I've been a Monty Python fan ever since. Ni!

Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦1d ago

When I was a kid, my grandma and I would watch Monty Python’s Flying Circus on PBS.

My appreciation for the arcane and absurd can be traced to that irreverent Irishwoman.

@mckra1g @blogdiva My brother and I discovered Monty Python on PBS as kids. We were captivated by the lunacy, and our brains have never been the same since.

I view that as a net gain. :-)

Extinction Studies 23h ago

@EdCates @mckra1g @blogdiva

Python and Dr Who were on PBS late night where I lived in the early 80s. Maybe before. Python, SNL and SCTV are today the holy Trinity of comedy, at least in the 70s. Almost everything good flowed through those shows, if not from them.

The 53 Vocho 💖🐛15h ago

@aka_quant_noir @EdCates @mckra1g @blogdiva That was a typical Sunday night on WTTW in Chicago. 9 PM was Masterpiece Theatre, 10 PM was Monty Python*, 10:30ish PM was Dave Allen At Large (from 1973-76), then 11 PM was Doctor Who in omnibus form, followed by The Two Ronnies at 12:15 or 12:35 AM. I was usually close to passing out by the time DW ended, so I never stayed up for The Two Ronnies.

Cairo Braga [gts]23h ago

@blogdiva I guess I know what I'm watching tonight! I also hope that THE MEANING OF LIFE gets as much love when it turns 50. I understand that THE HOLY GRAIL is immensely more popular, but TMoF is so groundbreaking not only in terms of comedy and satire but also in terms of cinema itself. LONG LIVE MONTY PYTHON!

@blogdiva My first experience with MPFC was the movie Now For Something Completely Different. I was 16-17. Had just smoked up at a friends place and had some time to killer. Saw the title on the Marque and went in. Think there were about 10 people in the theatre.

I started to laugh and did not stop. My sides hurt after. My cheeks were tear stained.
I was hooked.

@blogdiva I've been watching them since I was a kid because my dad loved watching them.

Estarriol, lucozade dragon 22h ago

Offside, claimed Marx!

Maurice Lanselle 22h ago

@blogdiva I'm late to this Monty Python multi-thread so responding here just because. Did you listen to the Monty Python albums (on vinyl)? One, "matching tie and handkerchief," is "the most frequently cited example of a multi-groove record."

Guill.Jones, Honorary Canadian 22h ago

@blogdiva
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 50?
Now I really feel old.
My favorite Monty Python bit is the island inhabited by television interviewers with only other television interviewers to interview.

Ms. Que Banh 22h ago

@blogdiva I'm now as old as Monty Python & the Holy Grail.

Jeffy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 ❤️🇱🇺17h ago

@PhotographyElf @blogdiva weren’t you always? Or am I missing something? 😀

Ms. Que Banh 14h ago

@godofbiscuits @blogdiva You caught it 😅

Jeffy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 ❤️🇱🇺13h ago

@PhotographyElf @blogdiva it was my favorite thing I saw today.

Ms. Que Banh 22h ago

@blogdiva Now, I also want to rewatch, The Life of Brian.

Paul Cantrell 21h ago

@blogdiva
Oh, that sketch is just…perfection.

Given that you loved that one, I’d be neglecting my duties if I didn’t make sure you’ve seen this:
https://dresdencodak.com/2006/12/03/dungeons-and-discourse/

And the follow-up:
https://dresdencodak.com/2009/01/27/advanced-dungeons-and-discourse/

Dungeons And Discourse - Dresden Codak

This is an actual game idea that I’ve tossed around before. I have never actually played a tabletop RPG, though, so I’m probably grasping in the dark.

Dresden Codak

@inthehands @blogdiva Two of the best comics of the older non-serialised Dresden Codak.

Paul Cantrell 20h ago

@Illuminatus @blogdiva
Dark Science and Hob before it have been a wonderful ride, but I do also miss the bizarre and nonsequitous original form of the comic. I know of nothing quite like it now! “A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible,” also long gone, had some of the same quality.

@inthehands @blogdiva Oh, yes. ALILBTDII was another really good one. I just count my blessings that Subnormality is still around. I wish I had enough insight to know how much of the walled gardens that enshittified the internet irreversibly since the late 2000's had to do with the disappearance of some of the best webcomics, but if I had to judge by comments by the Oatmeal and Boullet, a lot, probably.

Paul Cantrell 17h ago

@Illuminatus @blogdiva
Thanks for the reminder about Subnormality! I haven’t checked it in a long while.

In hindsight, there really was a golden age of webcomics about 20 years ago, wasn’t there? Grateful for the ones from that era that still live on: xkcd, Questionable Content, Perry Bible Fellowship, Gunnergrigg Court (now working toward its conclusion)…!

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦20h ago

@inthehands that was amazing! instafan!

Paul Cantrell 17h ago

@blogdiva
Dresden Codak is more zany beauty than humanity has earned, but somehow we get it anyway

Catharina Bethlehem ☑️ Cath 20h ago

@blogdiva Still on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfduUFF_i1A

#MontyPython #Soccer

Monty Python Philosophy Football

YouTube

Charlie the Anti-Fascist Dog 16h ago

@blogdiva I had the misfortune of living nearly 3 years without Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I did get to see it when I needed to though, at an early age.

Strypey 14h ago

@blogdiva
> i wouldn't be who i am today without Monty Python

Same! I was introduced to them in my teens, and the surrealism, 4th-wall breaking, and proto-punk boundary pushing all appealed to me.