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Top 10 Monty Python’s Flying Circus Moments


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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
Monty Python TV moments
for this list we’re only including the
best sketches from Monty Python’s TV
career
so grab your dead parrot bust out the
spam and let’s get the funny walk
started I think that’s in very bad taste
number 10 upper class twit of the year
well it certainly looks as though we’re
in for a splendid afternoon sport in
this the one hundred and twenty seventh
of a class twit of the year show this
sketch is centered around an obstacle
course designed for the upper crust of
British society
oh no they didn’t realize him as a
person start got a model son saw that
and the judge is explaining it to them
now I think not a joke enjoy about the
idea also together because the
contenders are for the most part
completely witless the race involves
such classic Olympic events as kicking
the beggar walking a straight line and
reversing into the old lady
wake up the course concludes with a
tricky obstacle during which the
upper-class twits must shoot themselves
in the head
nigel is third English and most exciting
of the gospel here I’ve ever seen
Nigel’s Club himself in a boldface
number 9 cheese shop ah hungry in a
nutshell so I thought myself a little
fermented curl the trick so I curtailed
my wall polling activities salad force
and infiltrated your place of events to
negotiate vending of some cheesy
comestibles own device and cheese it’s
the eternal debate cheddar or Swiss brie
or Edom Wilson Westerner held a sham
pine come on that off we do have some
coming back you do excellent
well struggle no further because this
shop offers none of them Oh what the cat
seated cleverly disguised as a purveyor
of cheese
Michael Palin’s character comes up with
increasingly convoluted reasons for his
stores
obvious lack of stock Oh
as john cleese runs through a frankly
impressive list of cheeses slipped our
lecture white Stilton the situation
grows grim when it becomes obvious he
won’t be getting what he came for
tell me something do you have any cheese
at all yes sir now I’m gonna ask you
that question once more and if you say
no I’m gonna shoot you through the head
now do you have any cheese at all no the
senseless waste of human life Hey yes
number 8 argument clinic I’d like to
have an argument please have you been
here before
no this is my first time seemingly an
exercise in futility Michael Palin walks
into a clinic whose sole purpose is to
provide unpleasant social experiences is
this the icon for an argument I’ve told
you once hey hon isn’t home well just
now no you didn’t yes I did didn’t you I
you did not I’m sorry is this a 5-minute
argument of the full hatha the character
pays good money to engage in a squabble
but the situation doesn’t go his way
oh this is an argument yes it is no it
isn’t it’s just contradiction no it
isn’t yes it is it is not do obviously
they didn’t have a youtube comment
section in those days if you’re arguing
honest tooth pain not necessarily
it could be ugly in my spare time how
about enough of this there you have oh
shut up right carry on sergeant major ah
number 7 self defense against fresh
fruit flu IRA eating too much fresh
fruit what’s more terrifying than an
armed mugger when you all walk in
overnight some other Seidel maniac comes
after you well up country lone embrace
don’t come
in this sketch john cleese shows us how
to successfully throw off a possible
fruit attack armed with nothing but our
wits some ingenuity and a secret
technique come on come on come on
sadly lunatics armed with fresh fruit
might be ready for that old trick so
it’s important to improvise with what
you got when you’re being stalked by a
team or with raspberries he’s to release
the Gaia number six candid photography
also known as nudge nudge if your wife
are a gawah
hi no no mate mad at me that’s nice
that’s nuts not I mean sign of autonomy
Terry Jones is just trying to enjoy his
drink in a bar when another patron
accosts him and Eric Idle only has one
thing on his mind
your wife interested in photographs hey
Ella me photographs he asked him
knowingly a brief line of questioning
ensues where it becomes obvious what
idle wants to talk about are you
insinuating something oh ha ha ha ha oh
oh yes this classic sketch brings us a
line we still know and use today and
also spoofs the prudish mindset of the
time oh we look you know you you slept
with a lady yes what’s it like time
please my number 5 the Ministry of Silly
Walks money I’m sorry to have kept you
waiting but I’m my wolf has become
rather sitio recently and so it takes
there are no words to define this
classic sketch but here are some anyway
the Python troops end up their very own
British government in usual fashion when
Michael Palin attempts to subsidize a
new silly walk he’s perfecting crazy man
I see will city wall yes suddenly yes
unfortunately it’s just not silly enough
it’s not particularly sit is it as
proven by John Cleese’s own impressively
flexible stride mr. beauty the very real
ministry
to see those defense social security
health housing education city walls
they’re all last year
the government spent less on the
Ministry of National Defense the sketch
pokes fun at the seemingly impractical
nature of the government at the time
you wandered off you a research
fellowship on the end of French city
walk lamashtu teal hey number four the
funniest joke in the world in a few
moments he will have written the
funniest joke in the world and as a
consequence he will die laughing very
much a product of post-world War two
British society the Pythons go back to
their roots in this vignette about a
joke so funny it literally kills it was
obvious that this joke was lethal no one
could read it and live there are
precautions to be followed when going
near this joke I shall enter the house
and attempt to remove the joke in fact
it’s so deadly it was soon translated to
German and used on the Battlefront a
stock gate unser Meyer
fortunately the Germans weren’t able to
synthesize their own deadly gang nine
slick the heaven is Alvin baaga meets
vitamin we let you know
Oh Lorna bunnies are Bali honey I’ll be
with you in a minute
oh hi sign number three homicidal barber
the lumberjack song
this is Audrey short bangs ides it’s not
own a razor cut reason reason reason
reason comes out to inverter enter a man
who never wanted to be a barber anyway
we dreamed of nothing but experiencing
the great outdoors leaping from tree to
tree as they float down the mighty
rivers of British Columbia all he wanted
was to sing and frolic in the forests
and name all the trees he could mighty
Scots pine the small of freshman Michael
Palin is a man’s man a virile lumberjack
who wait a second I put on women’s
clothing and hang around in bars
unfortunately Palin’s dream isn’t shared
by the rest of the cast fuck adultery is
aware ill suspenders and a broad happy
Nagar leave
just like number two
spam doesn’t this happen to everyone a
cross-dressing Graham Chapman sits down
in a restaurant and orders breakfast
only to discover there’s just one thing
on the menu bacon spam and sausage
without the spam it’s a post-war Lampoon
of the country’s overstock of spam and
also a delightful sing along with some
memorable lyrics spam spam spam spam
spam spam spam spam sparrows don’t say
it too often though or else
Vikings
before we name our pick for the upper
class twit of the year here are a few
honorable mentions gotta go
polka with the soft
fear of a new kind of violence which is
terrorizing the city yes
gangs of old ladies young men
bingo
hey dirty 50 so many you’re smelly and
obscene and disgusting no I hate it I
need it I hate it
ooh nasty grubby dirty mangy beautiful
what number one dead parrot sketch it’s
Morris it’s pointed it’s not pain and
it’s passed on this patter is no more
how many different ways can you say dead
it’s inspired and gone to meet its
makeup this is a late pennant this
sketch is an exercise in synonyms as
John Cleese attempts to return a
slightly defective parrot oh yes the
Norwegian blue what’s wrong with it I’ll
tell you what’s wrong with you it’s did
ever the appeasing shop owner Michael
Palin tries to assuage his customers
assertion that the bird is well dead if
it’s fist you know wake it up hello
Polly
my god nice come fish for you when you
wake up buddy better hey move hey maybe
one of their most popular sketches of
all time
dead parrot is a timeless struggle
between customer and seller about faulty
merchandise well I’ll bet replace it
then if you want to get anything done in
this country you got the contingent or
blue in the mouth sorry guv all right
out a parrot
do you agree with our list this is
getting too silly what every part of a
silly silly silly right get on with it
get on with it what’s your favorite
Monty Python sketch my hovercraft is
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