#the Monty Python’s Life of Brian reference?

[thelegendofsqam]

#the chances of the bugs being in your broccoli are small#but never zero#could be worse though; could be stabbed#or lose a finger or a toe and not be able to find it#nothing is scarier than losing a body part and hoping the dog didn’t bring it outside to play with#potentially alerting your friends and neighbors or police#it gets really awkward when they think you’ve killed someone only to find out that no you didn’t#you’ve just succeeded at growing extra body parts in your lab at home in case you ever need a replacement#though you can’t get the reattaching them down yet so is there really a point to it all?

Sir???

Anon???

[sodomite-caligula]

J.C. & John T.B. — old college pals!

[tgfangirl4eva]

This is so funny omg...

The thing about Luigi Mangione is that so many of his supporters think he did it, if they find him innocent then the rest of his life is just gonna be a re-enactment of Monty Python's The Life Of Brian.

"I'm not the Messiah!"

"Only the Messiah would deny his true divinity!"

"Okay, I am the Messiah! Now fuck off!

"How should we fuck off, Oh Lord?"

[arthur-two-sheds-jackson]

It's... Monty Python's Media Masterpost!

Here, my fellows, as I promised, are the links for nearly every Python content released and available on the internet (missing only the Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) complete oratorio and PDF versions of the books - including Michael Palin's diaries), for the Python-obsessed, brain-fried completist like me. If you ever need to have easy access to something, just click on the links! And if you or someone you know wants to get into the Python fandom, just refer to this post!

Enjoy!!!

[Audios are in blue, TV shows, docs and specials are in green, films are in orange, games are in red and other kinds of content are in pink. (I chose the videos based on whether they were in good quality; most of them are in HQ or close to that when possible.)]

Monty Python's Flying Circus (Internet Archive version - Google Drive version)

Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus

Another Record

Previous Record

And Now For Something Completely Different

1971 Montreux Special

Labour Party Instructional Film

Birds Eye Peas Industrial Film

Close-Up Industrial Film

Matching Tie and Handkerchief

1973 sketch for Dutch TV

1973 French TV appearance

Is This a Record? Guinness Film

Live at Drury Lane

The Holy Grail

Live at the City Center (side 1 - side 2)

Life of Brian (Internet Archive version - YouTube version - The Pythons' 1979 a.D. BBC documentary - 1979 debate on Saturday Night, Sunday Morning)

Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Internet Archive version - YouTube version)

The Meaning of Life (complete with The Crimson Permanent Assurance!)

Parrot Sketch Not Included (Life of Python)

1990 Omnibus documentary

Monty Python Sings (Again)

Python Night (Paramount Comedy Network mockumentary)

Live at Aspen

Spamalot (concert film featuring the original Broadway cast - playlist of original Broadway cast recording)

Channel 4's 2006 documentary

Almost the Truth: Lawyer's Cut (with Russian subtitles... don't worry, I have BRICS immunity, I'll cover you) (part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6)

Holy Flying Circus (by @anythingcanhappeninmay and complete with bonus thingies!)

A Liar's Autobiography (the movie - audiobook narrated by Graham Chapman)

Live (Mostly) (And Now For Something Rather Similar)

Monty Python at 50 radio broadcasts (by @gordonsgano)

Michael Palin: A Life on Screen

Graham Chapman's Pre-Python Home Movies

Terry Jones' Home Movies

Michael Palin's 1978 Home Movies

The Holy Grail flash game

The Holy Grail PC videogame (at the Collection Chamber blog)

The Meaning of Life PC videogame (also at the Collection Chamber blog)

Complete Waste of Time PC videogame (also also at the Collection Chamber blog)

[circusofcontrition]

I think a really underrated joke in bbc Ghosts is that, in Free Pass, the name of the movie they're filming is 'Life of Byron' (in reference, presumably, to Monty Python's 'Life of Brian'). They really do lean in to the fact they are so often compared to Monty Python

[noneorother]

Share your GOS2 bibliography with me

How crazy is it that season 2 has basically forced me to go back to university. I’ve done more reading and critical analysis and historical research than I have in years. I bite my thumb at you, Neil (affectionate).

And as I’m sure I’m not alone in this, I’d love to see your bibliography of all of the references or reading/watch lists. I’m sure to pick up a few good ones! I’ll go first.

Movies + TV Arrival - Denis Villeneuve Clue - Jonathan Lynn I Know Where I'm Going - Powell & Pressburger The Ball - Magnus Dennison and Katja Roberts Every Day - Michael Sucsy About Time - Richard Curtis The Red Shoes - Powell & Pressburger The Small Back Room - Powell & Pressburger The Tales of Hoffmann - Powell & Pressburger Stairway to Heaven - Powell & Pressburger Ill Met By Moonlight - Powell & Pressburger The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse - Steve Bendelack Monty Python's Life of Brian - Terry Jones Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones The Twilight zone (The Arrival) Boris Sagal The Twilight zone (The Hitch-Hiker) - Alvin Ganzer Staged (Seasons 1 and 2) - Simon Evans & Phin Glynn Books The Crow Road - Iain Banks The Bridge - Iain Banks The Scholars of Night - John M. Ford Symbols of Sacred Science - René Guénon Catch-22 - Joseph Heller A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett Night Watch (Discworld) - Terry Pratchett Parlement of Foules - Geoffrey Chaucer The language of the birds - Farid ud-Din Attar Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen Midnight Days - Neil Gaiman Negative Burn #11 - Neil Gaiman Chivalry - Neil Gaiman Other Les contes d'Hoffamann - opera, Jacques Offenbach Don Giovanni - opera, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Line, the Cross and the Curve - musical, Kate Bush The book of Enoch - Ethiopian Apocryphal trs. Rev. George Schodde, PhD

I'm sure there will be more... sigh. Spoiler alert: there are more! Donnie Darko - 2001, Richard Kelly Nothing Lasts Forever - 1984, Tom Schiller The Ghosts of Berkley Square - 1947, Vernon Sewell Brazil! - 1985, Terry Gilliam No Bed for Bacon - 1941, Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon Don't, Mr Disraeli! - 1949, Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon Murder Mysteries - Neil Gaiman The Man Who Was Thursday - 1908, GK Chesterton Small Gods - 1992, Terry Pratchett Ipomadon - Medieval - Trs. Richard Scott-Robinson

[see-arcane]

Whups, sorry my b. The harkerist thing was a reference to that one ask about book Jonathan accidentally starting a schism in the Vatican in the Hellsing universe.

ohhh

In that case, yeah, the Vatican still would not be chill about it. At all. Doubly not chill among the Iscariots

Alucard, meanwhile, would laugh his dead lungs out

Jonathan is hiding under a blanket somewhere, trying very hard not to live out that One Scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian

[brookreader]

Is Drumbot Brian called that as a reference to Monty Python’s 1979 movie Life of Brian which is about a guy who kind of gets mistaken for Jesus. Is that the reason.

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Last movie; Monty Python's Life of Brian! I'm catching up on monty python projects since I've only ever seen the holy grail.

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Current obsession; so there's this boy band from the 60s ... no. It's too obscure I don't think you guys would know them...

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[letusridetocamelot]

Thoughts on the BBC 4 Monty Python tv biopic “Holy Flying Circus” (2011) ? (+ fave characters/quotes/moments/scenes from it and why?)

I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!! BEST PYTHON BIOPIC!!!!! I love the fact there’s loads of referances like basil fawlty thrashing the car but also a few slightly more subtle referances like “you’re not the nicest man in the world you’re a naughty boy!” and “runaway from the fight you chicken!!!”

I literally love all of the pythons! The actors all look so so similar especially terrys, for a minute i actually thought it was the real Terry😭 Their voices too! Johns was extremely accurate, it began to freak me out just how good the voice was….

I like how it focused on the whole life of brian controversy, i find the whole situation so interesting!

But yeah, 10/10 movie I LOVED IT!

[sexiest-trans-person-tourney]

Loretta from Life of Brian by Monty Python!!!

She's a feminist ("why do you always go on about women['s rights]")

She's canonically trans ("I want to be a woman, and I want you all to call me Loretta")

She has dysphoria ("Well I want to have babies!" and then gets upset because she has no womb)

For the rest of the movie people refer to her as she/her

added!

[pissvortex88]

in monty pythons 'life of brian', loretta, a member of the peoples front of judea, comes out as trans, and is referred to as a woman the rest of the film. her groupmates, except for the first confusion, almost always call her loretta, and try to correct themselves most of the time when they get it wrong. life of brian is a comedy movie which came out in 1979 and takes place when jesus was alive, yet it has better representation and acceptance than most media nowadays

[raxacoricofallapatorius42]

I wonder how Monty Python would be received in the world of Yonderland (in universe I mean)?

Like MP is just as silly and absurd as the world of Yonderland, so what would happen if, one fine day, Debbie decides to show Elf, Nick the Stick and the Elders (plus maybe Negatus) some MP sketches/some clips of the MP films for fun and what would their reactions be?

I’m thinking they’d be like “…….is this supposed to be funny? It seems more like, what you call in the real world, a “doku-men-chairy”!”

And Debbie’s at first flabbergasted at their reaction and is about to defend MP with her SOUL when she JUST realises that “OOOOooohhhh! Right, nevermind!” in that silliness and absurdity is just considered normal in Yonderland lol 😂

Also idk why but I think Elf would be kinda disappointed in that none of the Human Python members are, in fact, actual Python snakes 🐍 (or, at least, Python Snake Puppets) and none of them are in fact called “Monty” lol 😂 😔

Idk, what’d ya think @raxacoricofallapatorius42 ?

Apart from MP context (this being our universe I guess ? With cars, telephone and modern technology) I think they wouldn't find it really funny.

I think they would see the Palin/Jones sketches as rather casual interactions between people (I mean a psychatrist who also sells milk and cheese ? A very dangerous barber ? Nothing but very common everyday-life things in Yonderland )

Perhaps they would be more surprised with the Cleese/Chapman sketches but only the "classical" ones that just involve people being horrible to each other in a normal context (the job interview for instance).

I can already see the elders enjoying the songs because they are PURE BANGERS AND THE ELDERS HAVE TASTE (I have to find a MP song for each elder)

I think they would enjoy the animations because I can imagine it as a rather popular Yonderland cartoon.

But they obviously wouldn't get any cultural or historical references ( they didn't understood Christmas after all, watching Life of Brian is definitely not going to help). So that would maybe confuse them.

I can easily imagine Ho-Tan or Choop feeling betrayed by the fact that the pythons aren't actual snakes. "THIS IS NOT WHAT WAS WRITTEN".

Elf would also find the lack of puppet representation in MP a bit racist.

[butteredsconesfortea]

Here's my Top 10 Reasons as to why you should watch the Monty Python biopic "Holy Flying Circus" (2011) :

10) Charles Edwards as Michael Palin

9) All the actors who portrayed the Fake Pythons are actually pretty well casted as, well, the Pythons, particularly Darren Boyd as John Cleese and Charles Edwards as Michael Palin, but I would like to say that that Tom Fisher as Graham Chapman, Rufus Jones as Terry Jones, Steve Punt as Eric Idle and Phil Nichol as Terry Gilliam are also pretty great too!! Each Fake Python each portrayed their respective Pythons' mannerisms perfectly TO A TEE.

8) Charles Edwards as Michael Palin

7) The music in the film is really great and memorable, especially the opening song which is pretty much a modern, electric guitar 🎸 rendition of the "Liberty Bell" song/intro song of MPFC, which is pretty epic ngl!

6) Charles Edwards as Michael Palin

5) This film actually has not only got alot to say about religious institutions and the people who represent said religious institutions, but this film also makes the important point about the difference between FREE speech and HATE speech, which is pretty cool imo

4) Charles Edwards as Michael Palin

3) Rufus Jones as Terry Jones as Mrs Palin/Jones the Wife/Michael's Wife and Charles Edwards as Michael's Mum is pretty much INSPIRED, also...they just look so pretty in drag frfr

2) This film pretty ships John x Michael REAL hard, like, REALLY really hard FRfrfr, so much so that it genuinely makes you think that film is actually Monty Pythonesque fanfiction cuz there's no way that any other film or TV show would ship their characters AS hard and as obvious as HFC. Like FR, this film pretty much made John x Michael canon frfr (I mean it's already canon igl, but i meant as in the film really obviously and blatantly confirmed it IN A VISUAL FORM)

Honourable Mentions before we reach 1):

-the Fake Pythons also play multiple other other characters in this film, which is a pretty cool reference to MPFC and the MO films fr!

-Tom Fisher as Graham Chapman being the MVP of this film fr

-the Terry Gilliam-esque paper cut animation sequences are pretty awesome in this film frfr

-Michael's Diaries make an appearance in this film, which is pretty cool fr!!

-the ways that the film recreated the Life of Brian "Friday Night, Saturday Morning" debate was both really accurate and also pretty epic to see!

-this film is, like Holy Grail and Life of Brian, is very quotable indeed 😎👌

and FINALLY.....

1) Charles Edwards as Michael Palin.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk, and thank you for listening to this list!

Omg I loved reading this, thank you so much for this informative and very entertaining Ted Talk! I promise HFC is top of my to-watch list, I'll try and watch it this week if I can!! Your propaganda is working 🤣

Thanks for the reminder @yonderghostshistories ! <333

[captain-rickbond]

Could you draw Ben Willbond as King Arthur from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975) or Ben Willbond as Brian Cohen from "Monty Python's Life of Brian" (1979) please? That would be awesome to see ngl!!

Btw here's some reference photos if you need them incase!

This is King Arthur from MP&tHG* (1975) :

(*Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) )

And this is Brian Cohen from MP'sLoB* (1979) :

(*Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) )

Uhh thank you !!

I did a thing… and it’s silly👀

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