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This was already a dated thing when I was a youth but pretty much every school or group had at least one kid or group of kids who saw Monty Python and thought quoting it was the funniest poo poo ever. Like every high school had at least one kid who wore black jeans and a goku shirt who would corner you and say "We are the knights who say... NI!" in a crappy bri'ish accent in the hallway when you were just trying to go to lunch. Don't get me wrong I think Mr. Python made some brilliant comedy but this is easily one of the most embarrassing type of guys to be. Its right up there with guys who quoted space balls into the 2000s. Where are these guys now? How many post in these very forums?
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I have been talking about this recently because it has occurred to me that, unlike 20 years ago, you are no longer guaranteed to hear at least one call-and-response Monty Python movie/TV quote battle every day you spend at a tabletop gaming convention. And it is not like the people who were quoting it were so old they died; did they just finally realize it was maybe uncool, or perhaps more likely did they start quoting something else instead I am fortunate in that despite growing up watching Monty Python with my parents, basically none of my friends liked it at all because their first exposure to it was from Monty Python Guys, so I kept my adoration to myself. It helps that the lines people quote are also usually not even the funny ones
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Oct 8, 2025 05:14
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Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great, if a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
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Oct 8, 2025 05:15
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Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government
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Oct 8, 2025 05:19
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I fart in your general direction, you silly king!
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Oct 8, 2025 05:19
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Poohs Packin posted:Where are these guys now? How many post in these very forums? They didn't so much drop off the face of the planet as plummet.
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Oct 8, 2025 05:24
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The OP responsible for this thread has been sacked
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Oct 8, 2025 05:28
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There was a guy like this in my grade at my high school. He was like the platonic ideal of skinnyfat. He tried to dye his hair green but hosed it up so it ended up kind of lime colored. He had rivers cuomo glasses, braces, and moderate acne. He would go around saying poo poo to people "Your father smelt of elderberries!" and if someone asked him what he was talking about would smugly go "If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand" and poo poo like that. He was really really into The Matrix and he sat next to the soda machine in the hallway of the drama room during his off periods. Later I heard he got busted for some kind of sex crime with a minor when he was living in some kind of genderfluid poly house thing with like 9 other randoms after graduation. After that I think no one heard from him again.
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Oct 8, 2025 05:29
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I like Monty Python and all that it has brought, but if I'm being brutally honest I don't know if I've ever laughed all that hard at it. Could be I grew up when it was already old hat. I don't think quoting it when the timing is right is cringey, but making it your whole personality is.
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Oct 8, 2025 05:30
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I'm still a Monty Python fan and have been one for 40 years now. Still some of the best comedy ever made. But time marches on, most stuff falls to the wayside. The parents who got their kids into Python are now in their 70s. So like all things, Python is fading from the culture, like the Marx Bros, Abbott and Costello, The Frost Report, etc. have faded. In 30 years, Python will be like vaudeville or ragtime music to younger people, some historic footnote. Hell, how often do people reference 70s or 80s hit sitcoms these days? No one under the age of 30 gives a flying gently caress about anything old fucks like me like (except for nerds who like old cultural relics or appreciate comedy history). They're looking at poo poo from the 1990s as old school and have decades of subsequent comedy that's more relevant to their lives. And so, yeah, Python no longer has any cache. In short, you're probably not going to be hearing any Python quotes in a few years. Love Rat fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Oct 8, 2025 |
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Oct 8, 2025 05:55
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It was circa 2003 somethingawful forums that taught me quoting Monty Python is the funniest poo poo ever
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Oct 8, 2025 05:57
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Linux Pirate posted:I like Monty Python and all that it has brought, but if I'm being brutally honest I don't know if I've ever laughed all that hard at it. Could be I grew up when it was already old hat. I don't think quoting it when the timing is right is cringey, but making it your whole personality is. I really liked them when I was younger but recently I rewatched Monty Python and the Holy Grail for the first time in over a decade and it just didn't do much for me. The humour was a bit tedious after a while, tbh.
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Toxic Mental posted:There was a guy like this in my grade at my high school. He was like the platonic ideal of skinnyfat. He tried to dye his hair green but hosed it up so it ended up kind of lime colored. He had rivers cuomo glasses, braces, and moderate acne. He would go around saying poo poo to people "Your father smelt of elderberries!" and if someone asked him what he was talking about would smugly go "If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand" and poo poo like that. He was really really into The Matrix and he sat next to the soda machine in the hallway of the drama room during his off periods. Yeah this is spot on. The "elderberries" line is peak Monty Python guy.
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Octy posted:I really liked them when I was younger but recently I rewatched Monty Python and the Holy Grail for the first time in over a decade and it just didn't do much for me. The humour was a bit tedious after a while, tbh. tbh: the best poo poo they did was Flying Circus.
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I think Life of Brian is great but I've never been able to sit through Holy Grail in its entirety. It's just too fuckin British
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The Meaning of Life is their Magnum Opus. It manages to be profound in a lot of ways, which is something that Holy Grail and Life of Brian don't really achieve. It has some really tedious part. The entire intro with the old accountants on a building turned pirate ship is skippable commentary on corporate mergers and acquisitions. Mr Creosote and the "Rubbing linseed oil into the school cormorant" speech are timeless though. We had a waiter at a high end restaurant I worked at that would often quote lines from the Creosote scene and it usually got a chuckle out of me at least. It worked in the context of a nice restaurant and wasn't some kid with a wolf t-shirt screaming out of context Holy Grail lines.
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Oct 8, 2025 06:12
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Poohs Packin posted:The Meaning of Life is their Magnum Opus. It manages to be profound in a lot of ways, which is something that Holy Grail and Life of Brian don't really achieve. It has some really tedious part. The entire intro with the old accountants on a building turned pirate ship is skippable commentary on corporate mergers and acquisitions. I agree, it's easily the best thing they ever did. The Crimson Permanent Assurance alone is insanely good tho that's crazy
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Oct 8, 2025 06:15
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There was a spate of guys who only quoted Anchorman a while back, and before that, the Austin Powers films. Could these have been the same guys?
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GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:There was a spate of guys who only quoted Anchorman a while back, and before that, the Austin Powers films. Could these have been the same guys? no the monty python quoters didn't have any overlap with that stuff i remember liking flying circus when i was in my early teens and i remember some scenes from it fondly but even at that age it was undeniable that lots of it was also crap. i never really understood why that elderberries line took off the way it did
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GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:There was a spate of guys who only quoted Anchorman a while back, and before that, the Austin Powers films. Could these have been the same guys? Community theater people will quote Holy Grail and Princess Bride ad nauseam nauseam nauseam nauseam nauseam nauseam nauseam nauseam I love theater and I love community theater people but my god watch another movie
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Oct 8, 2025 06:32
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monty was short for montinaise
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GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:There was a spate of guys who only quoted Anchorman a while back, and before that, the Austin Powers films. Could these have been the same guys? Monty Python and the Holy Grail came out in 1975. There were theatre dorks quoting it in the early 2000s in my high school when it was a 30 year old film. I think the last "Do I make you horny baby"'s probably were shouted in 2007 when Austin Powers was only 10 years old. Unless you live in my house where I walk around talking to my wife and cat like Dr. Evil pretty much all day long.
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GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:There was a spate of guys who only quoted Anchorman a while back, and before that, the Austin Powers films. Could these have been the same guys? yeah baby
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I think Live at the Hollywood Bowl might be my personal favorite Python. In any case: 
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Oct 8, 2025 06:47
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GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:There was a spate of guys who only quoted Anchorman a while back, and before that, the Austin Powers films. Could these have been the same guys? my waife
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When I first started teaching, I sent out several hundred letters to various celebrities, asking them to write letters or send photos with positive messages for my students that I could post in my classroom for the kids to read. I sent letters to each of the Pythons. I got replies from Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, and Michael Palin. Quite a few kids knew them, particularly Gilliam, when I pointed out the films he directed. I've always been a huge Python fan. I've seen all the movies in the theater, and watched all the episodes. I really enjoy their brand of humor, and yes, I can quote them when appropriate. Luckily, the people I hang out with generally get it, so all is well. CaptainSarcastic posted:I think Live at the Hollywood Bowl might be my personal favorite Python. I was there. It was a great show.
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Oct 8, 2025 07:08
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I was a Monty python guy
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Genesplicer posted:I was there. It was a great show. patient zero monty python guy
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IrishWolfMan posted:I fart in your general direction, you silly king! oh man I read the OP and was thinking about how annoying Monty Python guys were when I was in my early 20s, but then I said this to my daughter just yesterday so who am I to judge
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Oct 8, 2025 08:08
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We had moved on in the late 90s to exclusively quoting The Young Ones. Make space for the face that forced the abortion issue.
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Ni! Ni! lmao
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People who endlessly quote monty python in RPG spaces have been displaced by a new and invasive species: people who endlessly quote that Mitchell and Webb "are we the baddies" sketch
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Oct 8, 2025 09:54
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I wonder what these types of guys will be saying in the future?  Oh wait no I don't. We're already doing it with I think you should leave.
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Oct 8, 2025 10:00
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great, if a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate. Not a great movie to watch with your family when you're a teenager
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Oct 8, 2025 10:02
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They're alll quoting Letterkenny now
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i glued my balls t posted:I was a Monty python guy What was your go-to?
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Oct 8, 2025 10:48
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I spent a month in my early 20s watching Holy Grail over and over
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Poohs Packin posted:Its right up there with guys who quoted space balls into the 2000s. Even in the future nothing works!
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I think they became Rick & Morty guys OP
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Who's On First is an evergreen bit.
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