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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2018 22:54:28 GMT -5
All of the Monty Python material from all the movies to all the episodes of Flying Circus to the live specials is coming to Netflix later this year. There are also rumors the surviving members of the troupe may get together and produce new content for Netflix. US release date has not been announced, but Netflix Canada will begin airing the material on April 15. I was a huge Monty Python fan when I was younger, and used to be able to recite dialogue for all of Holy Grail without effort (nowadays I am lucky to remember a choice line or three), but I haven't watched any of these in a looooong time. -M
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 24, 2018 1:16:25 GMT -5
This was my favorite bit, when I was in college, in NROTC...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2018 8:13:43 GMT -5
When I read this I celebrated by eating Spam. Then silly walked down the street.... while dressed as a lumberjack. Then I...
...was smashed by a giant cartoon foot.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2018 9:57:16 GMT -5
I watched a lot of Monty Python in my College Years and we had Monty Python Nights (every Friday) during the Fall Quarter and I've must have seen the Holy Grail at least a dozen times for a buck and that's includes Popcorn and a Can of Coke too. After awhile - I got a little tired of it and stopped for two years and when I've came back for my 3rd and final year of Community College - I watched Holy Grail a couple of times and enjoyed it then.
Later on, I watched ...
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) ... and religiously during syndication ...
Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974) ... on PBS on Saturday Nights with friends from School occasionally for kicks and reruns on Wednesdays.
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Post by Jesse on Mar 24, 2018 10:20:34 GMT -5
Cool I was thinking yesterday that we needed a Monty Python thread and low and behold it appeared! For people who don't have Netflix there is an official Monty Python youtube channel that has tons of skits and other material. |
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Post by The Captain on Mar 24, 2018 11:41:36 GMT -5
This is absolutely awesome news. Love the Pythons.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 24, 2018 21:00:07 GMT -5
That's fantastic! Can't wait!
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Post by Phil Maurice on Mar 24, 2018 23:04:37 GMT -5
Well now, here we have the sort of thing that I've never been too keen on, and it's the very thing we're seeing so much of, right here on the forum. Should this sort of thing catch on, there's no telling how far it might spread. "Nip it in right the bud," is what Claude Iverson of 62 St. Chad's Rd., Hinderwell said when I asked him his name. He went on to recommend we NOT promote Monty Python's degenerate brand of absurdist comedy on the forum, saying, "Silly, silly, silly! Get on with it. . .Get on with it! "  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2018 23:08:47 GMT -5
Well now, here we have the sort of thing that I've never been too keen on, and it's the very thing we're seeing so much of, right here on the forum. Should this sort of thing catch on, there's no telling how far it might spread. "Nip it in right the bud," is what Claude Iverson of 62 St. Chad's Rd., Hinderwell said when I asked him his name. He went on to recommend we NOT promote Monty Python's degenerate brand of absurdist comedy on the forum, saying, "Silly, silly, silly! Get on with it. . .Get on with it! " Geez, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition to come at me when I posted this... -M |
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Post by Confessor on Mar 25, 2018 7:47:12 GMT -5
 I too love the Pythons. When I first encountered the TV series, aged 11, via repeats in the 1980s, I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. It made me laugh so much that, at one point, I had real trouble trying to breathe. The first episode I saw was the Spanish Inquisition episode, which is an absolute tour de force and probably still my favourite single episode of the show. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 25, 2018 10:29:47 GMT -5
The Spanish Inquisition shows why seeing whole episodes is superior to just watching sketches and clips on Youtube. Many of the shows built the jokes across the entire program, especially that one. The colonel stopping sketches is another, as is the episode with various detectives turning up as "So-and-so, of the Yard,". The ultimate, though, is the long form material, like the Cycling Tour, which has a long narrative, with sketches built into the stages of the longer story. Plus, you get the Gilliam animation links, which are a huge treat.
I first saw Python at my grandmother's house, thanks to my cousin, who was a fan already. It was the Pantomime Horse episode, which was later in the series and it was a little harder to discern what was going on. However, ou local PBS station would soon add the series and I watched from the start, becoming a huge fan of it and Fawlty Towers, which followed its run, on that local station (they also used to show Doctor in the House, which featured writing from Chapman and Cleese).
The 4th Series is a bit of a hard one to get through. I tend to agree with Cleese that the Third Series wasn't as strong with ideas as the early ones (apart from things like Cycling Tour) and the 4th really suffers from his absence. There are still good sketches; but, the shows, as a whole, aren't as good.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 25, 2018 12:10:56 GMT -5
Stop that. It's silly.
I was introduced to Python by my Uncle, my Dad's younger brother. Watched with him on PBS...I want to say on late Saturday nights. I really didn't come across the movies until I was in college.
Happy to see they will be readily available.
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Post by badwolf on Mar 25, 2018 20:30:46 GMT -5
"Michael Ellis" was my favorite of the long-form episodes.
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Post by brutalis on Mar 26, 2018 7:59:40 GMT -5
ALBATROSS! GET YOUR ALBATROSS!
Such good laughs throughout the Python's lifetimes. From series to movies and on into each doing their own things the Python's are true geniuses, one and all. Now can i return this bloody dead parrot or not?!?
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Post by The Captain on Mar 26, 2018 9:36:38 GMT -5
ALBATROSS! GET YOUR ALBATROSS! Such good laughs throughout the Python's lifetimes. From series to movies and on into each doing their own things the Python's are true geniuses, one and all. Now can i return this bloody dead parrot or not?!? It's not dead. It's pining for the fjords. |
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