Your Top 5 Monty Python Sketches (including The Films)

Calling all Monty Python Fans

What is your personal top 5 favourite Monty Python Sketches (including the films)?

Mine Are:

Ministry Of Silly Walks
The Piranha Brothers
Cheese Shop
Stoning (Life Of Brian)
North Minehead By-Election (Mr Himler)

 

Scott of the Sahara!

 

Romanes Eunt Domus
Cheese Shop
Stoning
Fish Slapping Dance
Parrot

 

Theory of Brontosauruses, by Anne Elk (Miss)
The First Man to Jump the Channel
Exploding Penguin
Argument Clinic
Is She A Witch? (from Holy Grail)

 

The entire Full Frontal Nudity episode.

 

So hard.

Silly walks
Graffitti in Latin (LoB)
Dead parrot
Argument clinic
Spanish inquisition

No surprises, right?

 

The Spanish Inquisition
The Bishop
Confuse-a-Cat
Job Interview
The Funniest Joke in the World

 

The sandal skit (Life of Brian)
Spam restaurant
The parrot sketch
the animal defence of the castle (holy Grail)
Worldwide hide and seek

So many more...

 

1. Dead Parrot
2. Argument Clinic
3. The Cheese Shoppe
4. Still No Sign of Land
5. Fish License / Eric the Half-a-Bee

 

i saw them live in ny in the mid 70's it was such a treat to see that stuff done live in front of you. i recall they closed the show with the lumberjack song with the dead parrot as an encore. what a blast!

 

I was Grade 11 or 12 at the time of those appearances. I almost left for NYC to see them.

 

The first ones that come to mind (acknowledging that in a few minutes this could change):

The Parrot Sketch
The Mattress Sketch
Silly Walks
Interesting People
The Black Knight (Holy Grail)

 

when holy grail opened in ny we went. a free coconut was promised to the first 1,000 people who showed up. of course no one had seen the film yet so we didn't know why they were doing it. we got there in time for the first showing at 11 am and there were already 1,000 there. they ended up getting a 2nd copy of the print and canceled what was in the sister theater next door in favor of accommodating everyone. at the end of each showing the entire python troupe were there handing out coconuts. i got mine from cleese. i wonder what i ever did with it.

 

"Is this the right thread for an argument?"
"No. This is the abuse thread. The argument thread is on the next page."

 

Tough to choose. I'd probably pick:

Architect Skit
Argument clinic
Self defence against fresh fruit
Spam restaurant

 

Ooh, I forgot one that I found absolutely hillarious:

The most awful family in Britain.

 

Cheese Shop ("I'm afraid I'm going to have to shoot you now.")
Argument Clinic ("Stupid git.")
A Witch? ("A duck!")
Bruces/Philosopher's Song (I really have to say why?)
Nudge Nudge ("Well I wasn't going to.")

 

Can't think of 5 offhand, but definitely #1: The Bishop!

 

Twit of the Year Contest
Argument Clinic
Spanish Inquisition
Ministry of Silly Walks
Dinsdale Brothers

Evan

 

Cheese Shop
Flying Lessons (I'm off to play the graaand piano)
Spanish Inquisition
Architect Sketch
Dennis Moore
Confuse-A-Cat
Piranha Brothers
Scott of the Sahara
Psychiatrist Milkman
Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson
Storage Jars
Lemming of the BDA
Argument Clinic
Lumberjack Song
Silly Walks
Fish Slapping Dance

Yes, I got a bit silly with the list, but there are just too many good sketches.

DINSDALE!

 

I believe a crusader is guarding a bridge and in the end he was left with only a body and head. one of the funnest scenes ever.

 

1) Homicidal Barber- Crossdressing Lumberjack

2) Dead Parrot

3) The Colonel's Silliness Reprimand (right after "Mattress Shopping")

4) Fish-Slapping Dance

5) Every Sperm Is Sacred

first five that came to mind. My list of faves from TV and Screen can't possibly be limited to five.


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And now for something completely different: will the Rutles be remastered?

See, every thread at SH's can be turned into a Rutles thread.

 

Now, I've noticed a tendency for this thread to get rather silly. Now I do my best to keep things moving along, but I'm not having things getting silly. Those two last threads I did got very silly indeed, and that last one about this thread was even sillier. Now, nobody likes a good laugh more than I do...except perhaps my wife and some of her friends...oh yes and Captain Johnston. Come to think of it most people like a good laugh more than I do. But that's beside the point! Now, let's have a good clean healthy outdoor thread. Get some air into your lungs. Ten, nine, eight and all that.



(Full Frontal Disclosure:

I stole this idea from someone on another forum. Mea culpa.)

 

Sam *Sniff* Peckinpah's "Salad Days"
Travel Agent
Mr and Mrs Brian Norris' Ford Popular
Silly Job Interview (Good NIIIIGHT a ding ding ding ding)
Constitutional Peasant