Crunchy frogs?

The anarchist peasant from Holy Grail was a political awakening for me.

The fact that their sketch use of “spam” made it into general usage.

Judean People Front vs People Front of Judea. So many issues of today can be boiled down to that discussion.

Also, I kind of agree that everyone has the pholosophical right to be pregnant, even if it’s not a possibility.

I can’t believe no one has mentioned my favorite running Python gag:

The entirety of Holy Grail, for starters. My high school history teacher said that it was one of the most realistic depictions of life in the Middle Ages ever put on film.

After that…

“What have the Romans ever done for us?”

“The roads!”

“Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don’t they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads–”

…and…

“Oh, we used to dream of livin’ in a corridor! Would ha’ been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.”

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, song from Life of Brian

I can’t narrow it down to one gag, but Holy Grail as a whole.

Four Yorkshiremen is an all-time classic sketch. Idk if it’s my favorite but it’s up there and nobody else mentioned it so 🤷‍♂️

“We would’ve DREAMED to have a hole in the ground!”

Television Announcer: And now, the penguin on top of your television set will explode. {BOOOM!} Watcher: How’d he know that? Television Announcer: It was an inspired guess.

The multiple layers of cognitive dissonance are wonderful.

nugde nudge wink wink knowaddamean knowaddamean

And weirdly the Ministry of Silly Walks actually could actually be important in real life with the advent of automated Gait Analysis used to identify people.

In my first year of high school I had Latin, which I hated with a passion. Before, I thought that it would boil down to learning some common words and sayings and proverbs, but no. It was learning latin as a foreign language. I don’t think I was taught anything remotely as useless as that. And I really don’t like the teacher and she didn’t like me and it was truly awful and I hated every second of it. It was so awful that I had nightmares about it, even years after high school.

A couple (two I think) of years after that latin studies I saw the Life of Brian for the first time. I didn’t know what I was going to see, so when the “romanus eunt domus” scene came. It wasn’t just hilariously funny it was also cathartic.

So I’d say that. I remember that sketch almost by heart since the first time I saw it.

Quizmaster: Jolly good! Well now Madam your first question for the blow on the head this evening is: Which great opponent of Cartesian dualism resists the reduction of psychological phenomena to a physical state and insists there is no point of contact between the extended and the unextended?

Ratbag: I don’t know that.

Quizmaster: Well – have a guess!

Ratbag: Oh… Henri Bergson?

Quizmaster: …is the correct answer! (Piano chords)

Ratbag: Ooh, that was lucky. I never even heard of him.

BRING OUT YER DEAD!

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar Who could think you under the table

David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel

There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach ya 'bout the raising of the wrist Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill

Plato, they say, could stick it away Half a crate of whiskey every day

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle Hobbes was fond of his dram

And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart “I drink, therefore I am.”

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he’s pissed