BRING OUT YER DEAD!
I’m not dead yet!
I can’t take him… …e said e’s not dead!
He’ll be dead soon enough, lookatim!
“Tis’ but a flesh wound”
Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition
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
I’m torn between “every sperm is sacred” and the biggus dickus scene. Both make me laugh uncontrollably every time.
The Biggus Dickus sketch is brilliant.
He has a wife, you know…
“You know what she’s called? Incontinentia… Incontinentia Buttocks WILL YOU STOP LAUGHING!?”
That scene is always able to make me laugh.
They told the actors playing the guards it was very important that they keep a straight face throughout, and then planned on cracking them up. Or so I’ve been told
I believe it is true. The extras were told they wouldn’t get paid if they laughed. I love when he swings his toga around and gets in that guards face - “how 'bout you centurion? Do you find it risible to laugh when I say the naaaame…”
I’d like to think it was less a threat and more an appeal to professionalism.
“We’ve got to get this scene, and time is running out. You guys have to treat this like you’re doing Shakespeare live. Whatever you do, don’t fuck this up.”
I think most of the scene was scripted apart from the part about his wife which was improvised, that’s why you can hear the crew behind the camera laughing as well.
Here’s the video I got that from: https://youtu.be/RmCWDZulUuQ
The anarchist peasant from Holy Grail was a political awakening for me.
I believe he was supposed to be a digger actually. But anarchist peasant is pretty close
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)
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.
Argument clinic is what I was going to choose haha
This isn’t argument! This is abuse!
You’re just contradicting me
No I’m not
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
Pining for the fjords.
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!”
Crunchy frogs?
Raised Catholic so “Every Sperm is Sacred” has a special meaning to me.
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.
Say no more!
Oh oh oh, we want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we.
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.
