My wife Ninja and I are about to see the Monty Python musical Spamalot.
No longer will I be jealous and envious of The Molk, who’s seen it and bought his family flying cow merchandise.
For those of you who haven’t or won’t be seeing it, here’s a Python sketch to cheer you up…
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michmolk // Jan 9, 2008 at 10:41 am
Enjoy! The flying cows are a big hit with the kids….
Pete // Jan 9, 2008 at 4:44 pm
…and I’m looking forward to flight competitions between Flying Cow and Slingshot Monkey. (My money’s on the Monkey)
michmolk // Jan 9, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Make sure you have the video at the ready! I wanna see the fur fly!
themolk // Jan 9, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Oh, I REALLY want to know what you and the Ninja think of the musical… worth a post in itself.
Mad Cow // Jan 10, 2008 at 8:21 am
I love that skit!!!
We’re off to Spamalot,too, sometime this month (I hope!!!) Can’t wait - and gotta get me one o’ them Cows!!!
michmolk // Jan 10, 2008 at 9:53 am
Mad Cow - Godzilla and Monkey Boy will LOVE them!
Pete // Jan 12, 2008 at 8:02 am
Now I’ve seen it, I can say with authenticity that Spamalot officially ROCKS!!!
michmolk // Jan 12, 2008 at 8:07 am
And were above-mentioned flying cows purchased????
Pete // Jan 12, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Actually for the first time ever we didn’t even buy a program! Truth be told we suddenly realised we’re a bit tight [basically, the Ninja left one job last week, starts a new one next week, and - takes a breath - a company I ran a course for are now 5 weeks overdue in paying me for it - which means it’s been nearly 9 weeks since I actually completed it - so that’s $3500 I thought I’d have by now. But I’m not bitter. Not at all.)
So to keep some readies so we can take kids to minigolf and movies next week, it’s a matter of (sob) sacrificing the flying cows.
(I bet I can buy one on Ebay in a month or two).
michmolk // Jan 12, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Awww - you’ll have to come visit and play with ours!
Pete // Jan 12, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Well, at least I have the slingshot monkey.
Roland // Jan 13, 2008 at 7:45 am
“Shut your festering gob you tit!” - LOL, Nobody writes like that anymore.
Think my all-time favorites Monty Python skits would be:
The Cheese Shop - “Not much of a cheese shop is it?
Finest in the district cause it’s so clean.
Well it certainly isn’t contaminated by cheese!”
Dead Parrot - “It’s stone dead. An ex-parrot. It’s no more!”
Lumberjack Song - “I’m a lumber jack and I’m okay…”
themolk // Jan 13, 2008 at 9:42 am
Ahh Python… eases the pain…
Pete - some fav’s for me:
- solo by the female lead in the second act (where’s my role?)
- audience participation at the end
- Billie Brown’s King Arthur
- the fish-slapping start
… and that’s just for a start…
Pete // Jan 13, 2008 at 11:53 am
For me -
- the elaborate raspberry-blowing by the French taunter
- the way the giant God’s feet leave the stage
- “Kneel!” “No, it’s Dennis!”
Pete // Jan 13, 2008 at 12:21 pm
@ Roland: those are the lines of my adolescence; my band of nerdy friends and I would constantly recite them to each other and now I often come out with one reactively in conversation only to get strange looks from people. That’s probably also due to the fact that I usually deliver the line in the authentic Python actor’s voice.
Sad but true. The one I’d add to your list of classics is the 4 Yorkshire Men sketch. I’m constantly saying “Luxury!” to people in a Northern English accent.
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo (”We used to have to drink out of a rolled-up newspaper!”)
Roland // Jan 13, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Wow, I’m amazed by “4 Yorkshire Men.” I don’t believe I’ve ever seen that. It’s like those “When I was your age I walked twenty miles to school in our slippers carrying a basket of Baguettes.”
I offer a few favorite Holy Grail scenes…
Love the French taunter on the castle wall: “I fart in your general direction!”
“Lobeth thy Holy Hand Grenade at thoust enemy…”
“King of the who? King of the Brittans!”
Black knight: “It’s merely a flesh wound!”
Life of Brian…
Stoning scene: “Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah!”
Roland // Jan 13, 2008 at 3:11 pm
My friends from the high school/college age would also be great fans of Monty Python. Alas, our girlfriends could never get into it. Ended up a male-bonding thing for us guys.
Mad Cow // Jan 13, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Pete - I do the same with the “Luxury”.
Like this, “Muuum, I cut my leg, its bleeding!”
“Luxury”
My kids have no sense of humour.
They also get the “flesh wound” thing
I also found myself telling my 4yo to “stop bouncing around like a leper” then having to explain it to someone … Life of Brian, Michael Palin bouncing around saying “alms for an ex-leper” and complaining about Jesus curing him and depriving him of his living - hahahahahahahaha
Ooh, and one one of my faves … “He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!!”
I could go on … still haven’t found out when we’re supposed to be seeing Spamalot - grrrr
Pete // Jan 14, 2008 at 7:49 am
I’d forgotten “alms for an ex-leper”! Hilarious! How about when Brian inadvertantly ruins the guy’s vow of silence by landing on his foot?
My favourite scene in Brian is where he’s trying to tell the crowd to think for themselves and he tells them “You’re all individuals”
CROWD: Yes, we are all individuals.
MAN AT THE BACK: I’m not.
CROWD: Shh.
Mad Cow // Jan 14, 2008 at 8:07 am
Ah, YES!
Yet another brilliant scene
themolk // Jan 14, 2008 at 9:24 am
…I wish to be called ‘Loretta’…
…Stupid Judean People’s Front - SPLITTERS!…
Don’t start me - I had a geeky upbringing too…
Pete // Jan 14, 2008 at 11:30 am
“Are you the Judean People’s Front?”
“Judean People’s Front! [spits] We’re the People’s Front of Judea!”
michmolk // Jan 14, 2008 at 11:36 am
*sigh* Have you lot finished now???
Mad Cow // Jan 14, 2008 at 7:06 pm
YAY I have confirmation of us going to Spamalot!
YAY!
themolk // Jan 15, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Never finished when it comes to Monty Python…
“I don’t like spam very much - what can I have?”
“Well there’s always the spam, eggs, baked beans, spam and spam… that doesn’t have very much spam in it…”
Pete // Jan 16, 2008 at 8:53 am
“Spam spam spam spam
Spam Spam Spam Spam”
(sing it with me)
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