A lot of Monty Python is absolute garbage.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 14:35, 16 replies)

I'm watching it through with the missus at the moment
Being a foreigner, she's never seen it before. She's very unimpressed so far. I might just skip to series four, which I don't believe I've ever seen either.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 14:40, closed)

What you want to do, right, of get hold of the scripts, and then act them out for yourselves.
Guaranteed hilarious.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 15:02, closed)

Guaranteed knicker-dropper, too.
Nothing screams "AMAZING SEXUAL PROWESS" like quoting Monty Python.

Do the voices as well, and you'll be in a threesome with the woman of your choice and her beautiful sister within minutes.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 15:25, closed)

Terry Jones in drag, more like.
In school, we would act out the scripts for our own amusement, and so volunteered to do the same in assembly. In retrospect, it was no wonder I got bullied.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 15:38, closed)

^ this rings a lot of bells for me

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 20:59, closed)

^this
When I was in college I purchased the red/yellow scripts book and spent a whole year in "media studies" acting out the scripts with my lecturer... And he passed me and I'd done bugger all work since buying the scripts!
He classed my buying the book in my report as "independent media education".
( tim1701 I have no board signature!!!!!, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 22:09, closed)

Thai bride, or Russian?
Which are cheaper/more inclined to live in a grotty bedsit these days?
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 19:54, closed)

Or is she a foreigner in the "Made in Taiwan" sense?

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 19:54, closed)

Whatever it makes you happy to imagine she is.
Some sort of sex robot imported from the far east? Sure, why not?
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 21:17, closed)

This was you, wasn't it?
www.b3ta.com/questions/goneoff/post2051736
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 21:19, closed)

Nah, that was Wet-chinned bag shanker
If you look, it's got his name at the bottom and everything
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 22:01, closed)

Isn't that deliberate though?

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 19:53, closed)

No. Some of it's just experimental arse.
Hence the BBC trying to bury it in the "late" schedules when it first aired.

Flashes of genius, but an awful lot of arse.

Three of the films are good - the features. Well - Meaning Of Life's not all that, but it's interestingly surreal and dark.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 21:11, closed)

MOST
but we re-enacted it at school, cos there was no VHS or youtube, one chance shot to remember the good bits, possibly one or two each episode
(lordy lordy, Tue 3 Sep 2013, 21:27, closed)

In my teens Python was all the go. You could buy records of the sketches and learn them to recite with your friends.
One of the records had two grooves instead of one so that you couldn't tell which of two opening sequences you'd hear. That drove us mad for a while!

To this day I know most of The Holy Grail, having learned it from endlessly repeating the soundtrack record.
If I hear the word 'blessing' I have to say 'A blessing! A blessing from the Lord! God be praised!'
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 10:16, closed)

a lot of it was absolute genius though
the pepper-pots sketches particularly still crack me up(even though I almost know them verbatim)

But granted occasionally it would wander off into unfunny shite but I'd say the % of funny stuff is higher than the % of unfunny stuff
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Wed 4 Sep 2013, 14:52, closed)