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Weekend Discussion Thread: Your Favorite Monty Python ReferencesLast week’s episode guide entry for episode 316- GAMERA VS. ZIGRA mentioned that there were a lot of Monty Python references. But there seems to be one in almost every show.
So it seemed like a good time to dig out this suggestion from alert and loyal regular “Mr. B(ob)”:
My fave is Crow’s great impression of Sir Bedevere from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” from episode 204- CATALINA CAPER: “How do you know she is a witch?” What’s yours? 85 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Your Favorite Monty Python References”Commenting at Satellite News
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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!- Teenagers from Outer Space and many other episodes
Tough one. I’ll go for one that was fairly subtle. At the end of Part II of the Hired short, when Mr. Warren is going over the major points of salesman training, just before he gets to the third point, Tom says, “Fifth.”
Cave Dwellers.
“Message for you, sir!”
Aaarrgghhh! I can’t remember the episode but I’m pretty sure in either season 2 or early season 3 someone says “But you may call me…. Tim.” It flew by so fast that it actually took me a minute to get it at the time.
From Angels Revenge, when the teenage girl is on her bike, chasing the villain Jack Palance: “I’m on a cycling tour of North Cornwall!”
316- GAMERA VS. ZIGRA Its………………………….
D’oh! I forgot one of my favorites, from Gamera vs Guiron: when the kids see something and realize it’s just a rabbit: “That’s no ordinary rabbit!” “Look at the bones!”
I think of “Mitchell, will you stand up please?” Interesting story about MST3K, Python, and I. I got into MST before I got into Python. So I sorta had this double whammy of humor hit me as I began to watch “Flying Circus” and suddenly recalled bits from being referred to on MST!
In Warrior of the Lost World after the Paper Chase guy wipes out on his motorcycle, “It’s Bicycle Repair Man!”
And who could forget the classic scene in Mitchell where Mitchell’s having Linda Evans arrested for weed? “Nobody asked for a prostitute! Take her right away!”
Sort of but not really a Python reference: “No! I won’t have it! There’s a place in Eastborn…”
Melissa “Two-Sheds” Strickland from The Touch of Satan. She of course became Melissa “No-Sheds” Strickland later in the film.
A lot of the good ones have been mentioned, though I also liked Crow just saying “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” to the marching band music in “Fugitive Alien.”
My fave is whenever there’s a closeup of a bearded old guy or someone walking out of the ocean (Day The Earth Froze) and someone riffs “It’s…” Seriously only one word and you’d have to know exactly what they mean, but that’s what makes MST3K so cool!
“Nobody expects the Spanish inquasition!”
-607 – Bloodlust
Don’t forget the Manos Women’s Guild thrilling reenactment
of the Battle of Pearl Harbor.
They certainly outacted Ben Affleck and Alec Baldwin.
Jack Frost: “It’s!… a troup of Michael Palin impersonators!”
In Teenage Caveman episode, Crow makes mention of the Machine That Goes “Ping!”
The elegantly simple “It’s” from Zigra. In the style of GizmonicTemp (#15), only different!
I cannot remember the episode, unfortunately…I’m trying hard but I can’t remember it. But suddenly Crow says some approximation of, “Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer!”
“Jack Frost” was full of ’em. From “Mrs. Creosote!” to “It’s a convention of Michael Palin impersonators!” but I think my favorite was “Hello, Mrs. Nongorilla!”
But I have this creeping feeling that somewhere they mentioned the penguin on the TV set sketch in some way. It wasn’t from “Jack Frost”. I can’t find it now.
In a less related note, does anybody remember the background music from the stump-watering scene of “Jack Frost”. Nobody in my family agrees with me when I say that sounds like a melancholy (or even more melancholy) version of “Suicide Is Painless”, the them of “M*A*S*H”. What do you think? You’d probably need to see (or hear) it again.
I don’t have a favorite MST Python reference, but funny coincidence; I got to a movie at the local art house theater every year for my birthday, and last night’s was Monty Python and The Holy Grail.
“Sampo”. . .Sampo”. . . . . “S a m p o. . .”
Crow: “Do you get wafers with it?”
Servo: “‘Course you don’t get bleedin’ wafers with it.”
From FUGITIVE ALIEN” :
Ken uses one of his nucular lapel buttons to burn open the other prisoner’s cell.
CROW: “What man are you who can summon fire without flint or tinder?”
One last mention: In GAMERA vs BARAGON, Servo observes the Baragon looks like “Spiny Norman”
I can’t remember the episode, but whenever they mentioned Spiny Norman, from the Piranha Brothers sketch.
The many references to “Sandwiches? Whatever did I give the wife?”
A little off base, but some of my favorite MST moments are when Trace does his “Basil Fawlty” impersonation. It never fails to crack me up.
“I’m doing it dear. I can’t do it with you yelling at me dear…..”
Mitchell, will you stand up please? I love that one.
I thought there was a reference to the Bishop somewhere, but I’m too dull to remember which episode it was used in properly.
@13 NoTrafficAccidents – I remember the first time I watched Touch of Satan episode with a few friends. And I was the only one who laughed at the “Two-Sheds”/”No-Sheds” reference… :-( So uncultured…
@29 Max Keller – Manuel is also quoted in a few episodes as well. “Hokay, Misser Fawlty!” Another Trace Beaulieu impression I believe. :-D Wasn’t the “Don’t mention the war!” quote referenced in an episode as well?
In a flashback scene from “The Amazing Colossal Man” there’s a “Message for you sir!” riff. I think they also had a “Dennis Moore” riff in an episode but I don’t recall which one.
“The Bishop” references in Gamera VS Guiron…”But we was too late…the kids had nicked the donuts/crushed the crullers”.
#21: That was in Mighty Jack. I love that one.
I have to go with “Mitchell will you please stand up”
I am a big MP fan, and have been since I was 12. I only discovered MST3K after I had found MP. To see all of these references in so many episodes, was a delight. This is one of the many, many reasons why I love this show. To nail it down to one favorite comment, that’s hard to say. So many come to mind.
I’m fairly new to the MP game. Sad that I’m 34 and just saw my first movie three years ago. But I’ve caught up quickly, I have all movies and some of the show on DVD.
Fave is probably from the parrot skit (my all time fave!), but can’t remember which episode they just say it’s resting.
That and I’m not dead, I’m getting better!
I got another one:
ASSIGNMENT VENEZUELA – When the guy is using a translation book Crow references The Tobaccoist Sketch
“Please fondle my buttocks”
actually it was “Fondle my but.”
“Ah yes. The machine that goes PING!”
I always liked Tom’s “Spam spam spam spam” chant during the Gamera theme song even though I never watched Monty Python as a kid and didn’t realize it was a reference until many years later. I finally watched the Spam sketch about a year ago and nearly died laughing. It’s interesting to note that it was the origin for the term “spam email.”
In one of the eps someone is reading aloud through something or other (my description is very helpful, I know), and Crow says, “Skip a bit, brother.”
The reenactment of Pearl Harbor from Manos the hands of fate.
Accompanying the occasional shots of an empty field, held way too long… “How not to be seen.”
Didn’t we just have “build a bridge out of her” in one of the last few episodes ? maybe even this last Gamera…. I need to check
from Gamera vs Zigra “Build a bridge outa her” When they were discussing how to defeat Zigra. Very subtle reference thats easy to miss are often the best ones.
There are several variations of this, but in Horror at Party Beach (and I know I am butchering the exact quote):
During the slumber party pillow fight – “The Ipswich Women’s Club presents Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery”
I think a lot of my favorites are mentioned already but if I think of any more I’ll let you know. But they’ve covered so many I’m sure I’m forgetting some.
Meanwhile this could have been expanded to have the favorite SCTV reference as well, since they are the next closest thing in my book on the goofy meter.
Did anyone mention ‘Splunge’? that’s one of my favorite sketches (’20th century Vole’). I know they referenced that once but can’t remember which episode.
Another one that they kind of referenced indirectly was the native guide in the jungle that didn’t know what page in the script they were on, in ‘Jungle Goddess’.
“What page please? In the script!
Come on you dogs we have far to go, we must lose no time. Come on you dogs, we have far to go we must lose no time…
Come on you dogs! We have time to lose! This has gone too far!”
I know they have referenced the ‘how to defend against fresh fruit’ sketch too. Don’t know the episode but I know they say something along the lines of “How about a pointed stick?”.
Also Arthur ‘Dinsdale’!
Maybe someone knows the episodes these were referenced in?
Sort of on topic: in the Rifftrax for “What It Means To Be An American Part 2”, Mike (as the ranting narrator) starts going on and on about what constitutes America, eventually ending with “fruit bats and breakfast cereals”.
@ #13
The “two-sheds” reference was also made during the “Catching Trouble” short, when Ross Allen finds a snake skin:
Ross: “There’s his shed over here”
Crow: “Two sheds?”
“Is this Confuse-a-Cat?”
From the bizarre African dance sequence in The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed Up Zombies.