Monty Python's Personal Best

[gristy]

Tonight's episode on KQED at 10:30 PT is "Graham Chapman's Personal Best: Favorite sketches with Graham Chapman include Spam, wrestling, a documentary on mollusks and the wit of Oscar Wilde."

It has been very hard to find Monty Python anywhere on cable over the years. Tonight, finally, I will see some.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

1. BBC America runs Monty Python pretty frequently

You might see if it's available.

Our PBS isn't running the Personal Best until tomorrow, but I'm looking forward to it. I don't have cable so it's an extra treat that it's on PBS.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. A Documentary on Mollusks is my favourite Python sketch...

"There's a man at the door with a moustache."
"Tell him I've already got one."

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. 'Oh, *mollusks.' I thought you said 'bacon.'

*wap wap wap wap*

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Hahaha, that is possibly the greatest line in Python history.

At least in my opinion.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. My vote goes to

"They're very good scissors."

Edit: Tied with "Pang! Right in ze toast!"

[x-g.o.p.er]

11. "There's a Dead Bishop on the Landing"

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. 'Where's it from?'

[AllegroRondo]

18. check the tag on his lapel

[AllegroRondo]

19. "Call the church police!"

the church police!

the church police!

[elshiva]

15. "Bing tittle title Bum! Tittle Bum."

"Who has got a boil on the semprini."

[meegbear]

22. Mine's from The Bicycle Tour ...

"Would you like me to show you the door?"
"Ah, no thank you, I saw it on the way in."

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. 'We're taking you to a clam bake'

"Oh, a clam bake; I've never been to one of them."

"Right, let's go."

"Who's giving the orders around here?"

"I am. I'm senior to you."

"No, you're not. You're a greengrocer; I'm an insurance salesman."

"Greengrocers are senior to insurance salesman."

"No they're not!

"Cool it! I'm an ice cream salesman and I am senior to both of you!"

"You're an ice cream salesman? I thought you were a veterinarian!"

"I got promoted. Let's go."

[meegbear]

21. The whelk is nothing more than a HO-MO-SEXUAL of the worst kind

This gay boy of the gastropods, this queer crustacean, this mincing mollusc, this screaming, prancing, limp-wristed queen of the deep makes me sick.

:rofl:

[Archae]

3. Albatross!

:D

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. All the 'Best Of' are available at Netflix

I've got most or all of them in my queue. :bounce:

[Benfea]

8. The Rich Twit Olympics is amazingly relevant today...

…considering who's in the White House.

[pokerfan]

10. Upper Class Twit of the Year is one of my favorites

Watching the Olympics but working from memory:

Trying to shoot rabbits staked out spread-eagled on the ground.
Trying to remove a bra from a mannequin.




Also quite fond of the Bruces:

Fourth Bruce: Before we start, though, I'd like to ask the padre for a prayer.

First Bruce: Oh Lord, we beseech Thee, Amen!!

Everybruce: Amen!

Fourth Bruce: Crack tubes! (Sound of cans opening)

[RevCheesehead]

9. ....

http://www.intriguing.com/mp/_video/fish.avi

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Let's rock this thread, Rev

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable
Heideggar, Heideggar was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel*
And Whittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raisin' of the wrist
Socrates himself was permanently pissed
John Stewart Mill, of his own free will, after half a pint of shanty 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
And 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



*From the album "Matching Tie and Handkerchief." In other versions, this line is "...could out-consume Schopenauer and Hegel."

[RevCheesehead]

16. That song got me through Philosophy class!

Best damned line:
"and Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: 'I drink, therefore I am.'"

:rofl:

My turn:

I've got two legs from my hips to the ground,
and when I move 'em, they walk around,
and when I lift 'em, they climb the stairs,
and when I shave 'em, they ain't got hairs.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. I always wondered why

TJ allowed himself to be hung up like that, and then get his pants shot out from under him. :scared:

[Canuckistanian]

14. "Your Majesty is like a stream of bat's piss..."

"It shines out, like a shaft of gold, when all around is dark."

"Witty, witty, bravo!"

[CBHagman]

20. They ran the Eric Idle segment on MPT last night.

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more, say no more.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

23. Python album news for anybody who missed my previous post

All of the Python albums (including an official release for "Hastily Cobbled Together For A Fast Buck"*) are getting the re-mastering treatment and are being re-released this year. Per somebody who knows Andre Jacquemin "they will all contain extra never seen before material."

*which you can download here:
http://orangecow.org/pythonet/audio/audio.html

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. Strewth!

I thought I knew All Things Python, but this is a new one on me.

Splunge! :applause: :yourock:

[Semi_subversive]

26. The School of Silly Walks still cracks me up

[kwassa]

27. I'm a lumberjack and I'm o.k.

They closed the show on PBS last night with that one.

[Twillig]

28. The summarize Proust competition

I've always loved the line I have highlighted. (And I'm not being indecisive!)




Mee: And Harry, what are your hobbies outside summarizing?

Harry: Well, strangling animals, golf and masturbating.

Mee: Well, thank you Harry Bagot.

Harry: walks off-stage. Music and applause.

Voice Over: Well there he goes. Harry Bagot. He must have let himself down a bit on the hobbies, golf's not very popular around here, but never mind, a good try.