I've never seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail and it's on Netflix, so here I go.

ok why is it starting out with credits and weird subtitles that aren't really subtitles

So they want us to believe it's... swedish? On the subtitles. ok; this is a joke, got it

So this is a way to fill two minutes with a

goddamnit more subtitles

get to the movie please

no one cares about the moose jokes

this is amusing but can we get to the

MARACHI MUSIC

movie

FINALLY

England 932AD

See the book ready player one got me ready for the fact that they're clapping coconuts and that's funny

He's sovereign of all england and there are only two of them

"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate"

Can we have a whole movie just of the guy on the wall asking questions that are anachronistic?

Is this where the whole fascination with european unladen swallows and african swallows came from in popular culture?

Also it's 2020 and I've never actually looked up to see if an unladen swallow exists and whether the european swallow or african swallows have larger wingspans

"He says he's not dead"
...
"I can't take him like that, it's against regulations".

"I'm not 37 I'm not old".

I feel this in my bones, especially as my kids call me old

Holy cow have all the memes I've missed been about Monty Python?

"A self perpetuating autocracy..."

I would have thought they'd given up on the horse clop clop gag but now but they have not

Oh, is this the part where the black knight and the other guy have the flesh wound thingy

guess not, just dead

You can't have grown up in the 80s or 90s without hearing the flesh wound line; and now when it finally happens I'll no longer be a pretender for quoting that line without having seen the movie

Wait is Arthur gonna be the fleshwound guy

There goes an arm

And there goes the other arm

HE'S KICKING ARTHUR WITH NO ARMS

It's "Just a flesh wound". And there it is.

"Alright, we'll call it a draw."

Monks hitting themselves in the head with boards does capture the catholic church at times.

"We did do the nose and the hat but she *is* a witch"

Oh no are they going to drown her

They're on a burning kick

Why do witches burn?

(curiously I also have this question)

THEY *are* going to drown her

Wait are they parodying the actual reasons why people threw 'witches' in water

Oh thank heavens they aren't going to drown her, they're just going to weigh her. She'll be safe right?

"It's a fair cop".

Welp. I was wrong.

"Personally wet himself at the battle of Badon hill"

I wonder how old the baby in the "Sir not appearin in this film" picture is now

Is the baby on twitter? (Well now they'd be in their 40s).

This movie must have been a riot to make

now everyone is doing the horse clop bit

Ok. Having a Lord God who is pissed off because people say 'sorry', and 'averting their eyes' is funny.

Which is the right interpretation of what the grail looks like:

The horse clop guy is phoning in the clops during the music travel montage and they're just hoping we don't notice

Oh good another wall guy scene

I hope this one is as funny as the last

It's John Cleese

SO THAT'S WHERE THE Kin-nigg-ets pronounciation of Knight came from

Fetchez la vache

They're throwing livestock; it was funny before the livestock but why the livestock

can we talk about what John Cleese's helmet resembles or is this still PG twitter

Is this a trojan bunny? Cadeau?

Also does this share the same etymology of cadberry? I have no idea but one is a chocolate egg (from bunnies?) and one is a trojan bunny?

I was not expecting frank to die so quickly

It's the anarcho syndicate peasant again

And brave sir robin bravely ran away

Now I know where that's from

Do the recurring monks flagellating themselves have a point besides making fun of the catholic church?

I'm cool with it for the record; just didn't know if it had a larger purpose narratively

so I looked it up and cadeau is french for gift?

"This is castle anthrax."

"Midget, Crapper"

and

"Zoot".

Haha. It's a bad naming joke. If it weren't from 1975 I'd assume they were making fun of programmers naming things

Did all the directors in the 70s tell women not to wear bras? We know Lucas did it; and now it appears these 'doctors' aren't wearing them either.

https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/film-and-tv-george-lucas-made-carrie-fisher-act-in-no-underwear-in-star-wars-20161021

Love the fourth wall breaking. This is a weird scene but I'm here for it.

So I know this is humor but can we talk about the spanking / oral sex scene?

"Not more than a swallow's flight away".

Yes, this is where the fascination with swallows came from

So maybe clop guy wasn't phoning it in and he was just doing it softly because they were in a music montage

ok the "Ni" thing isn't very funny but the shrubbery thing is

Also I can see why Ready Player One couldn't just do this movie for the first key; but one day when we have a holodeck maybe someone can write a true to book adaptation of RP1 where it does do what the book does

The Guard bit is pretty funny although it seems to go on a little too long.

Oh no lancelot is killing everyone

this is positively british

this is of course an imperialism joke

"Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who"

This... isn't a commentary on the current state of America? Replace the Knight with a cop and yea, it is.

Oooh, another "I feel much better" almost dead guy

Is flogging a cat a euphemism for something

Why is "Ni" funny

What cultural zeitgeist did the 70s hold that made this funny

"I am a Shrubber"

"My name is Robin the Shrubber"

More shrubbery

"Not more shrubbery"

I said "it" again, IT's THREE ITS

"Winter gave spring and summer a miss and went straight into autumn" holy cow they're talking about northern virginia weather

Tim the Enchanter, oh tim

Can someone do a tiktok in the form of "I'm an accountant" with this scene "we're looking for the holy grail"

This must be the serious act in the movie; with the spitting horn guy

"What an eccentric performance"

and... we're back

They dismounted the fake horses

I admire their adherence to the bit

Awww. it's a cute bunny

Bunnies make several appearances in this movie and apparently this one is a killer

"One rabbit stew coming right up"

Arthur is about to die

Wait it kills everyone but the known knights

They have the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch (before now I only knew about this from Worms (the video game)).

Wait are those monks?

"How does it work?"

Armnaments Chapter 2 Vs 9-21.

"Armanants" does sound like a book in the bible.

And now we're making fun of the way prose is written in the bible and I'm crying

err, verse, not prose

Was the two police and an investigator cut a mistake? Sometimes I don't understand british(?) humor.

It's the legendary black beast of...

"The animator suffered a fatal heart attack". hehe.

The funny part about the "Scene 24" bit is none of us know what Scene 24 was but here I am explaining a joke everyone else got decades ago because I'm the last remaining person to have not watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail (although I think my wife hasn't seen it either).

What is your favorite color? "Blue".

Right, off you go.

"What is the capital of assyria?"

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"What is the air-spead of an unladen swallow?"

WAIT THAT'S WHERE IT COMES FROM?

"You have to know these things when you're a king you know."

Growing up I wondered why there was such a fascination with unladen swallows and to be a cool kid (I wasn't), I memorized the answer "African or European" although I had no idea of its genesis

there are the cops and the investigator in a hat again

I guess fake it till you make it does work because here we are over 30 years later and I know the answer and today just figured out the question

It's the same wall castle guy from wall castle two (John Cleese) and he threw livestock

There are lots of good taunts from John Cleese here. We peaked with insults in this movie apparently

Are these matte paintings of the castle surrounded by water or is this a real place?

The guy running with the camera is no joke; those cameras were heavy back then

The investigators and cops are here arresting the king; finally their appearances are making sense

wait does he not get the grail

he gets arrested and that's the end of the movie?

HE GOT ARRESTED BY COPS AND THAT'S THE END OF THE MOVIE

WHY WERE THE COPS FOLLOWING ARTHUR?

WHAT DID I MISS

You mean after all that it just *ends*?

I fucking quit

YOU HEARD ME. YOU CAN'T END THE MOVIE,

I QUIT WATCHING IT

I shouldn't be this angry but I Am

Is this where the inspiration for LOST's last season came from?

Is this where filmmakers got the idea that getting the audience to invest their time and love into the characters and just go "Yea, it's over" was a good idea?

Can we trace travesties such as the endings of Lost, Game of Thrones, Seinfeld, and How I Met Your Mother to this film?

WHO TELLS THESE PEOPLE THIS IS OK

just so I won't leave this like they left me, I'll properly end this thread with:

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