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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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Here’s one I thought was good:
I can’t remember which episode it is, but when Joel & the ‘bots are reading viewer letters, there’s one from a fan who was then living in the UK. The writer said that British viewers didn’t seem to get the show and wrote, “But, then, what do you expect from a country that gave us Benny Hill.”
At this, Joel said, “Hey, they also gave us Monty Python!” The ‘bots agreed, until Crow said, “But, there’s still that whole Benny Hill thing, just sort of sitting there…”
Another favorite, though only sort-of Python-connected, is when a movie character is going through a trying time, Crow starts grumbling (a la Basil Fawlty), “Oh, thank you, God. Thank you so bloody much.”
I’ve got some lupins.
I can’t remember which episode, but in one scene where a bunch of women are together, Joel loosely quotes the Castle Anthrax scene in Monty Python And The Holy Grail.
“And then the spankings!”
The Sea Creature – “oui, I did that thing”, ala Michael Palin
oops, sorry, SHE Creature
A John Cleese/Fawlty Towers related bit from ‘The Unearthly’, where we hear Crow say “Just checking the joists dear!” as the protagonist sneaks through the house.
Someone help me remember which eipsode it was, but I seem to remember someone (crow?) mention Arthur Two-Sheds Jackson.
One of my favorites from “Warrior of the Lost World,” after the two obvious dummies fall from the comically large smokestack-thingy:
“Here are *two* unsuccessful encyclopedia salesmen.”
@11 – Uh, aren’t “Nobody asked for a (…), you take that right away” refs from Margaret Dumont in the Marx Bros movies?
@48 – Evidently taking his cue from Joel ordering a pizza with extra breakfast cereal and fruitbats over the Cellulite Phone, in the invention exchange for “Time of the Apes”.
@56 – There had to have been as many Fawlty references as Python–
The most memorable being the end of Manos:
“Oh, thank you very much…SHOT in the face.”
(And while not being a Manos fan, I recall the quiet, peaceful woods from “Monster-a-Go-Go” also getting a “How Not To Be Seen” riff…)
“I thought there was a reference to the Bishop somewhere, but I’m too dull to remember which episode it was used in properly. ”
Someone mentioned Mighty Jack, there’s also one in an Undersea Kingdom short.
My favorite Python reference I mentioned on the “Catalina Caper” review. During the “teens nighttime dancing around the bombfires” at the start of the movie…Joel, Crow and Servo begin to chant “Burn the witch, burn the witch, we will cleanse the earth with fire!” And at the end, Crow gives a quick and low…”how do you know she’s a witch?” from Holy Grail. I especially love it because I feel it’s a little improv dropped in by Trace!
Night of the Blood Beast: “They mean to win Wimbledon.” This one gets by a lot of people — it took me forever to place it, as I hadn’t seen the blancmange sketch since I was little. I recently thought about this, which gave me cause to watch the blancmange sketch again. Pure, uncut surreal comedy, that’s what.
“It’s only a model.”
Fugitive alien
My favourites have already been mentioned.
The “It’s…” from Gamera vs. Zigra.
The “Splunge for me, sir!” from The Castle of Fu Manchu. (I think, I’m not sure on that one.)
The “It’s a miniature machine that goes ping.” from Operation Double 007.
The “Mitchell, will you stand up please!” from Mitchell.
The “What is this, Confuse-a-Cat?” from The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies.
Old Man Crenshaw from Boggy Creek II: “Is this the one they call….Tim?”
Am I getting the riff correctly? I think it’s right…I always thought it was a loose interpretation of the whole Tim the Enchanter bit.
My favorite Python reference that hasn’t been mentioned yet is from The Brain That Wouldn’t Die. When our hero the mad scientist is out body shopping and the 1958 Floozy scoots in next to him, Crow says, “So, you a Go’er? Ay? Go’er? Nudge nudge, know’at I mean?”. I’m pretty sure it’s from MP, anyway.
@24 – “Sampo”. . .Sampo”. . . . . “S a m p o. . .”
Crow: “Do you get wafers with it?”
Servo: “‘Course you don’t get bleedin’ wafers with it.”
And the Fawlty Towers ref immediately before it:
“Sorry….Sampo’s off.”
Fawlty Towers reference in Gamera Vs. Guiron, “My God, you’re ugly.”, said with the same inflection as Basil Fawlty when he says it to the nurse in the episode, “The Germans”.
My two favorites are ‘Michael Palin Imitators!’ from Jack Frost(and the ‘It’s….oh, never mind’ later in the movie) and ‘I’ve got some lupins!’ in the painting bidding scene in Secret Agent Super Dragon. Also, cambottalks, you’re right, they are humming the MASH theme in Jack Frost.
I can’t remember which episode but Crow says “It’s the Judian people’s front or the People’s front of Judea” and when someone in the movie says himself they say “or herself”
“It Conquered the World” – Peter Graves rides up to his house and parks his bicycle next to the picket fence. Crow:”I’ve just finished a cycling tour of North Cornwall.” Then the best part, Servo starts to sing the traveling music from the “Mr. Pither” Python episode. caught me off guard.
Also, in Viking Women, the June Kenney asks her big sister ‘what’s it like to love a man’ and crow says “Wink, wink, nudge nudge” LOL!
#70
Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell:
http://youtu.be/L0Op1UkJobQ
For me, I’ll have to go with the “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition” riff from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and the Life of Brian reference during the “Poopie” clip of the Invention Exchange from Hercules.
Duck’s off, sorry.” was in a few episodes I believe. Fawlty Towers reference but it is appropriate.
In MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE, the bots are whistling the theme from the Python episode “The Cycling tour”.
“cocoanuts?” – Cave Dwellers. That reference to “Message for you sir!” was in The Amazing Colossal Man as well.
“It’s Bicycle Repair Man!” or “It’s the Bishop!” Short, sweet and brought back memories of two of my favorite skits!
one that got away:
from 701 Night of the Blood (sausage) Beast:
“they mean to win wimbledon!” reference to the science fiction sketch
Just watched Operation Double 007 yesterday. Loved the “splung” reference. there’s another in that episode that I forget now…
I ALWAYS know I’m watching the right TV show when there are Python references. Probably the only comedy show I’d put ahead of MST3K.
I also vote for The Day Earth Froze… when bringing in the dead duck, “Duck’s off, sorry…”
Deathstalker –
“It’s the Judean Peoples Front! No, it the People’s Front of Judea!” – crow
Remembered the other one from Operation Double 007: “It tis deef-ee-cult…”, Manuel from Fawlty Towers. :D
Also from “Double 007″…
“It’s a man’s life in the new modern army!”
@#82 – They also use Manuel’s Eet’s deefecult line in I Accuse My Parents when Kitty is singing to the waiter “Are you married to your tray?”
(I’m sure some one has referenced this already, but I DON’T CARE) The convention of Michael Palins in Jack Frost all going “IT’S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” had me laughing in tears because it was actually accurate and not forced, but also funny because it fit, not because someone in the movie said some word that referenced a Monty Python bit. I love the “Two-Sheds” sketch, but it gets tiresome. Almost as much as “Would you like to go faster………..?”