I challenge skygazer

[Oeditpus Rex]

to a Monty Python riff-off. :woohoo:

Here are the proposed rules:

• The competition shall consist of each contestant quoting a Monty Python line, which may be accepted as correct or challenged by the opponent. If challenged, the challenger must cite the correct version of the quote from an official source, i.e. "Monty Python and the Holy Grail (BOOK)" or "The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus — All The Words" vols. 1 or 2.

• NO PEEKING! Quotes must be entirely from memory.

• Quotes are limited to the following sources: "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," "Monty Python's Life of Brian" and "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life." (I propose this rule because if the competition includes the teevee series, skygazer will stand no chance whatsoever. BWAHAHAHAHA!)

• NO POOFTAHS!



Game on? :evilgrin:

[KitchenWitch]

1. Can I watch?

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Spectators are welcome, yes

If anybody's enough of a geek to wanna watch. :silly:



But please — no wagering.

[Call Me Wesley]

3. Wow!

I want to watch too!

[skygazer]

4. My dear Oeditpus Rex

You are a lovely fellow and I'm sure you're very tasty (but I'd rather eat Johnson), however I'm not really the competitive type and if you've seen this thread -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4381563&mesg_id=4381563

you know that I'm half in the bag (too much sheep dip).

Besides, what does the winner get? Half a dinari for my bleeding life's story?

To top it all off, I have neither of the official sources listed so I'm afraid I must bow out and leave you the victor on the field (similar to winning the Upper Class Twit of the Year).

However, it's always delightful to meet another Python afficianado and I've always meant to tell you how much I admire your avatar. :hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Johnson's not kosher

And, no, I hadn't seen that thread. Pity. Have you also been maltreating the abos?

I hadn't given much thought to a prize, but lobster thermidor aux crevettes in a mornay sauce garnished in truffle paté with a fried egg on top and Spam might be suitable.

Perhaps one day when you're not, like Wittgenstein, just as schloshed as Schlegel?

:hi:

[skygazer]

6. But I don't like Spam!

I'd prefer something like Captain B.J. Smethwick in a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms and garlic.

I've got to pop off now and prepare Klaus' jugged fish. Ta ta!! :hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Whoa, neighbor!

You're good!

:patriot:

Now, stand aside, worthy adversary!

[skygazer]

8. Before I go make that jugged fish

(with the Strawberry Tart for afters - with a bit of rat. Three. Rather a lot), I must ask -

do you have a favorite sketch?

For me, it's hard to pick just one favorite - there are so many that are so good. The Spanish Inquisition is such a classic but I'm also very fond of The Travel Agent sketch which I think is just brilliant (I love the way they'd start with one thing - the whole "do you want to go upstairs", move to another - Mr. Smoketoomuch and how he couldn't say the letter "b" - "you mean C?" and then move into the meat of the thing, the whole monologue about package tours) as well as Erisabeth L and The Dead Bishop, Ethel the Frog featuring the Piranha Brothers... the list goes on. Oh and Cannabalism in the Royal Navy - hell, the more I think of my favorites, the more I name!

Anyway, do you have a favorite or favorites?

Oh, god and the songs! The Money Programme (loved the faux television shows they'd do and the way they'd have the BBC logo and a voiceover saying "we interrupt this program just to annoy you" or something silly like that) - oh, bugger, and Graham Chapman as an Army dude saying, "Stop that! It's silly!" And Nudge Nudge.....

I guess this kind of negates the whole question. :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. This question has come up a hundred times

on Python boards and whatnot, and there's just no way I can pick a single sketch, or even a top five or something. I can tell you this, though: The ones I love most are what I call "brain humor," like this absolutely wonderful bit from "International Philosophy" following Socrates' winning goal:

The Germans are disputing it! Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside.

How did they think of this stuff?? It's like George Carlin said about Woody Allen: "He makes my brain laugh its ass off." (Same goes for me for Stephen Wright.)

Also, I simply adore nonsense — the kind that makes you go, "This shouldn't fit... but it does, somehow." And the Pythons were, of course, gods of that.

Now, if you'd asked my favorite lines... that's easy: "Pang! Right in ze toast!" and "They're very good scissors."

:rofl:

On edit: I think the most inventive concept sketch they ever did was in the first episode: The Funniest Joke in the World. It just amazes me that they took the concept of "I laughed myself to death" and turned it into a WWII documentary.

[skygazer]

10. Yes, I enjoy the obvious intelligence in their work

People have commented to me that they must have been stoned all the time or something. I don't think so. Their humor is razor sharp and it takes several watchings to glean all the brilliant bits out of it. I'm still taken by surprise now and again by something I've missed in my previous 192 viewings of a particular episode.

In the words of the immortal T.F. Gumby, "MY BRAIN HURTS!"

ciao

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Yup. That's why I watch them over and over

There's always some nuance that I didn't pick up before. Plus, for reasons that only another Python geek could understand, I want to have it memorized spot-on. :7

The only one stoned, of course, was Graham. God, I miss him. :cry:

Do you have the MPFC DVD set?



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