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I can’t believe no one has mentioned my favorite running Python gag:
That’s because nobody expects them
The anarchist peasant from Holy Grail was a political awakening for me.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate of the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony!
If I went around calling myself emperor because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me they’d put me away!
(It’s amazing how much of this aligns with Graeber’s work)
I believe he was supposed to be a digger actually. But anarchist peasant is pretty close
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.
The aqueduct?
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.”
My top favourite is already the top most voted so I’ll just mention a few that I think are classics that I didn’t see on the list:
Sir robin bravely ran away
Holy hand grenade
The animator having a heart attack
A newt???
Argument Clinic
No it isn’t
Biggus Dickus, I remember my dad cracking up over it the first time I saw Holy Grail (not his first time, obviously). And now, more than 15 years later we’re still in tears when just mentioning the name or watching the scene for the x’th time
Biggus dickus sketch is from the life of Brian though.
He’s a phony! A big, fat phony!
You know, he has a beautiful wife…
Oof, too many to choose from. The first that came to my mind were the argument clinic and the cheese shop sketch.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
If one studies any foreign language, one of the first things one should learn is how to say “My Hovercraft is full of eels”. And in fact I have done this. Why? Because when someone is studying an unusual choice of language (in my case it’s Modern Greek) one is inevitably asked to “Say something in (Greek in my case)”. So the sentence, which is objectively absurd, actually becomes useful. I’m considering Irish as my next language. Why Irish? Maybe speaking some Irish would help me get an Irish passport so I can escape from Fascist America.
Argument clinic is what I was going to choose haha
my go-to phrase for this is always “lots of snow but no flashlight” due to a scene in an old Swedish movie
The programming language is pretty good
The fact that their sketch use of “spam” made it into general usage.
And their name inspired the name of the third most used programming language
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
Erik the Viking
The witch trial which explains duck typing perfectly.
The meaning of life
Try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.
