Your Top 5 Monty Python Sketches (including The Films)

Thanks for the clip on Sam Pekinpah. I never realised that was the name of a truly memorable skit for me. It brought me back to the first time I laughed so hard at something I could barely breathe. The CBC in Canada would play Monty Python on Friday Nights at 11:00 or 11:30. Pretty late but I was 10 or 11 and I could stay up and watch it. I remember laughing so hard at the absurdity and violence in this skit. I got a lot of the Monty Python stuff but obviously the Sam Pekinpah reference was beyond me. Still it is one of those experiences that shaped my sense of humour. For my birthday, I remember dragging my family to see "And now for something completely different". They were not happy before during or after. I had a blast.

 

Coming up with 5 is too much work, but my number one is definitely "Crunchy Frog".

(Or whatever the official name is.)

 

Cheese Shoppe

..and it went....wherever i....did go

 

They're all dead butch !

 

The Bicycle Repair Man
The Hide-and-Seek Olympic Final
The Ministry of Silly Walks
Undertakers
The Spanish Inquisition

 

Oh christ ! there's a wasp in here !

 

Hard to limit to 5, but amongst my favorite are:
The Holy Hand Grenade- Holy Grail
Burn the Witch- Holy Grail
The Spanish Inquisition
The Penguin on top of the Telly

 

The one where Mike's had his wallet stolen
and John's the cop

 

Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson
Argument Clinic
How Not to Be Seen
Self-defense Against Fresh Fruit
Dirty Hungarian Phrase Book ("My hovercraft is full of eels")

Bonus: Bournemouth Gynecologists vs. Watford Long John Silver Impersonators

 

French Taunter (first one, from Holy Grail)
Summarized Proust Competition
Cheese Shop
Cat License/Eric the Half a Bee
Happy Valley (as per the Monty Python's Previous Record LP)

Honorable Mentions:

The Piranha Brothers
Spanish Inquisition
Mr Hilter/North Minehead By-Election
The 1972 Eclipse of The Sun

 

I will go with the following as my picks --
(not in order )

Architect Sketch
Bruces
Election Night Special
Blackmail
Constitutional Peasant (from Holy Grail)

jw

 

1 - Scottish bomber ('I won't ruin your sketch for a pound.')
2 - Mafia visiting the army ('You got a nice army here, colonel. You wouldn't want anything to happen to it.)
3 - Bishop
4 - The Money Programme.
5 - The Cycling Tour ('Would you like me to show you the door?!' 'That's awfully kind but I saw it on the way in!')

 

They say nothing is impossible. They're wrong.

Make it Top 105 and we'll talk.

 

Only five?

The Bishop
Cheese Shop
Book Shop
Ministry Of Silly Walks
Mr Creosote

Honourable Mention:
Monty Python And The Holy Grail

 

Yea, only 5?

They change daily.

I'd say today they are

Pantomine Horse
The Fish Slapping Dance
The Larch..............The Larch...............The Horse Chestnut
Spam
The Dead Parrot

 

Here are my Top 5 Python sketches:

1. The Parrot Sketch
2. The Argument Clinic
3. Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink
4. The Lumberjack Song
5. Bicycle Repair Man

And among other favorites:

Spanish Inquisition
Spam
Musical Mice
The Pope and Michaelangelo
Cheese Shop
Dirty Fork
The Bishop
Silly Walks
Mr. Neutron
Oscar Wilde ("where's the old wit, then?")
Penguin on Top of the TV Set
From 'Holy Grail': Airspeed velocity of the African or Europeon Swallow

 

'You could have called me "Dennis".'

 

It's tough to choose just 5!

Confuse a Cat
The Argument Clinic
Mr. Hilter
The Inquisition
The Cycling Tour

This one is a favorite as well! :

 

I confess I don't remember this sketch, but I burst out laughing when I put the quote together with the title. I can picture Palin or Chapman saying this to a rather horrified Cleese. The power of Python persists.

 

5. Bicycle Repairman/ John Cleese Communist Rant
4. Nudge Nudge
3. Happy Valley/ Princess Mitzi/ Ya Di Buckety/ Chickens! (short film at the end of the second German TV special)
2. Proust Summarizing Competition
1. Argument Clinic

Honorable mentions:

The Background to History Part 4 (from Matching Tie and Handkerchief)
Constitutional Peasant (from The Holy Grail)
Castle Anthrax (from The Holy Grail)
The Euro Police Song Competition
Radio Shop (from the unreleased comp The Hastily Cobbled Together for a Fast Buck album.)

Favorite Gilliam Animation:
The Killer Cars (And Now For Something Completely Different film version.)

Favorite Python Movie:
The Meaning of Life

 

"If you feel guilty about it afterwards, we'll dig her a grave and you can throw up in it!"

 

Fish Slapping Dance
A Witch
Bruce Sketch
Philosophers Match
The Arcitecht Sketch

 

Dirty Vicar Sketch

 

God, I don't know. I do remember one thing. When I was about 12 or 13, I laughed so hard at the Upper Class Twit of the Year sketch I nearly choked to death.