What is the best Monty Python sketch? (call for nominations)

[upsidedownwalrus]

you mean the part where eric idle is dressed as a woman and all covered in shit and says he's being repressed?

Yeah

"Supreme power should be derived from the will of the people, not some farcical aquatic ceremony"

 

[Detroit City]

isnt' there a bit about some "tart with a sword"?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

isnt' there a bit about some "tart with a sword"?

yeah.

 

[Voley]

if we're allowed bits from the films, then for me, the bit where king arthur is going across the field and gets harangued by the lefty peasant.

A strong candidate, I agree.

 

[Detroit City]

A strong candidate, I agree.

yea sorry it was Palin not Idle

 

[Voley]

It's a great sketch, that one. Reminds me of pretty much every student union meeting I ever went to.

 

[the button]

I'm in two minds whether or not to include scenes from the films in the final poll. First, the pedant in me wants to maintain that the unit out of which the TV shows are comprised is the sketch, whereas the films are comprised of scenes. However, that certainly wouldn't be true of The Meaning of Life. Hmmm.

Also, one of my intentions in starting the thread was to jog my (and other posters') memory. For instance. I was all for Four Yorkshiremen when I started the thread, but now someone's reminded me of the soldiers swanning about sketch ("Don't look now girls, but look who's just walked in... two...three...four.... Ooooh! Scratch your eyes out!"). I think there's some forgotten gems in the TV series, whereas the films have been done to death.

 

[Detroit City]

I think there's some forgotten gems in the TV series, whereas the films have been done to death.

indeed

 

[Meltingpot]

Fave Monty Python sketch

Ken Rosewall as an Australian zoologist trying to prove that a penguin is more intelligent than a human.

No one else remembers it.

 

[Meltingpot]

Yeah

"Supreme power should be derived from the will of the people, not some farcical aquatic ceremony"

Yeah I like that one too, also the French taunter; "I fart in your general direction!"

 

[stavros]

The Upperclass Twit Of The Year gets my vote;

Bit surprised no one's mentioned the Piranha Brothers though.

 

[weltweit]

Cant recall the name of the sketch but features Cleese sitting in an office giving service as an argument for a fixed period.

I came in here for an argument
no you didnt
yes I did
no you didnt
Yes, I came in here for an argument and you are just contradicting me
no I am not
Yes you are, there you did it again just contradiction
no I didn't
Yes you did
times up
no it isn't
yes it is .........

 

[weltweit]

The Organ Donar sketch ...

 

[BlueSquareThing]

Cant recall the name of the sketch but features Cleese sitting in an office giving service as an argument for a fixed period.

I came in here for an argument
no you didnt
yes I did
no you didnt
Yes, I came in here for an argument and you are just contradicting me
no I am not
Yes you are, there you did it again just contradiction
no I didn't
Yes you did
times up
no it isn't
yes it is .........

That'll be The Argument Sketch then ;-)

 

[danny la rouge]

Bicycle Repair Man.



Argument Room

 

[danny la rouge]

Italian Classes.

 

[killer b]

 

[ska invita]

SPAM

My personal favourite, probably the self defence sketch.

For me its Spam first, but Self Defence Against Fruit a close second. A mate of mine had an ex-army wheelchair-bound PE teacher who embodied the spirit of John Cleese in that sketch to the last.

Is there another version of that Spam sketch? Maybe there was another bit earlier on in that episode? I seem to remember a bit where hundreds of people are queing up to get in the caff to get their spam.

>Watching the SPAM sketch with Portugese subs adds a certain something!:

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Bicycle Repair Man.

Probably my favourite sketch from the programmes...

 

[gnoriac]

The travel agent one where Mr Smoketoomuch gives an incredible monologue to Bounder of Adventure - "mindless oafs from Kettering and Boventry drinking Watneys Red Barrel and complaining about the food", etc, etc.

 

[cesare]

Cant recall the name of the sketch but features Cleese sitting in an office giving service as an argument for a fixed period.

I came in here for an argument
no you didnt
yes I did
no you didnt
Yes, I came in here for an argument and you are just contradicting me
no I am not
Yes you are, there you did it again just contradiction
no I didn't
Yes you did
times up
no it isn't
yes it is .........

That's urbanz innit

 

[Meltingpot]

Other good ones I remember from the TV series;

Blackmail

That one in the last series about the RAF bloke whom no one could understand; "dicky blighter, feathered back on his sammy, did a waspie.."

The Piranhas was great I agree, "Doug used sarcasm. He knew all the tricks..."

The marriage guidance counselor who got off with the bloke's wife right in front of the husband

The merchant banker sketch which ends with the pantomime horses fighting each other to the death

The Ministry of Silly Walks (my dad thought Cleese had to be double-jointed to do that)

I expect I'll think of others.

 

[weltweit]

Scenes at the end of life of Brian:

Always look on the bright side of life ..
de dum de dum de dum de dum ..
Life's a piece of shit when you look at it ..
etc ..

Pardon for Brian, whose Brian? I am, no I am, no my wife and I, were Brian

 

[Detroit City]

The Ministry of Silly Walks (my dad thought Cleese had to be double-jointed to do that)

well i'm sure cleese being tall and skinny didn't hurt....wouldn't have been teh same had he been short and fat

 

[stavros]

well i'm sure cleese being tall and skinny didn't hurt....wouldn't have been teh same had he been short and fat

I'm not sure if him and Chapman wrote that, but really it had to be Cleese who did that. I think either Jones or Palin have since said that Cleese is just funny to look at because he's so tall.

 

[jimadore]

The dead parrot, pure magic

 

[D'wards]

Perfect sketch in 30 seconds...

Man: Inspector, inspector.

Inspector: Uh huh.

Man: I'm terribly sorry but I was sitting on a park bench over there, took my coat off for a minute and then I found my wallet had been stolen and £15 taken from it.

Inspector: Well did you er, did you see anyone take it, anyone hanging around or...

Man: No no, there was no one there at all. That's the trouble.

Inspector: Well there's not very much we can do about that, sir.

Man: Do you want to come back to my place?

Inspector: ... Yeah all right.

 

[seeformiles]

For me it's a toss up between Northern Coal Mining:



or "The Bishop" !

 

[Citizen66]

The Arguement sketch is a cracker.

That one if we're just on about flying circus.

 

[Citizen66]

For me it's a toss up between Northern Coal Mining:

And that as well.