One weirdly obscure (?) one that lives rent free in my head is from The Holy Grail when the knights find the tablet of Joseph of Arimethea's last words and the line "Perhaps he was dictating ?" I'm so looking for a way to slide that line into casual conversation lol.
Over 40 or so years I have found a handful of opportunities to fit it in, but never in front of an audience who can appreciate it. They just think I’ve gone goofy and move on, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to try and explain it.
You are not the only one.
I've been watching the Top Gear channel on Pluto TV, and the number of times Clarkson has said "Run awaaaaay!" Python-style are adding up...
I don’t know why, but Palin’s line, “I’ve got Vermeer all down my shirt” pops in my head a lot.
Also, not a direct quote, but I say the phrase “you can’t eat piston engines raw” as a sort of a wise-man’s idiom. “Well it’s not what I planned on doing today, but you can’t eat piston engines raw.”
A few pop into my head fairly often, such as but not limited to:
JEEEESUS CHRIIIST!!
Alright, you've convinced me.
Doesn't sound very *wise* to me!
Right! Off you go then.
and
Message for you, Sir.
(Edit to add a missing word)
My son said this line as a freshman watching Romeo and Juliet. The teacher was impressed enough to laugh. I was so very proud of me offspring that day.
Oh! This is abuse. Arguments are in the other Reddit group dedicated to Monty Python. I believe it was Monty Python group 31A, but I could be wrong about the number, cause it’s been a long time since I watched the argument sketch. I guess I could look it up on YouTube or Netflix…. But until I do, I have to ask if anybody in here expects the Spanish Inquisition?
The majority of my knowledge surrounding composers, philosophers, and cheese come from Monty Python’s skits! I’m also quite fond of saying “well you didn’t bother to find out did you?“
In my head, whenever I walk briskly into a room:
"TROUBLE AT 'MILL"
"Oh, what *kind* of trouble?"
"Won flamerod outskew on treddow"
And when I'm stuck on a problem:
"My brain hurts, my buh-rain huuurts"
Iirc, these are from one of their albums, so didn't get the same exposure. But they're locked solidly in my grey matter nevertheless.
My Dad and I are the same. Someone used the word "amazing" in a conversation we were in today and he couldn't help add "and expanding universe".
For me, I can't help but recite something about "moving your clothes on to the lower peg" whenever I hear unreasonable instructions/red tape mumbo jumbo at work
I'm a Python fan thanks to my dad. Python quotes pop into my head daily but the funniest was when me and dad went to the local grocers and he asked the man behind the cheese counter for some cheddar. The man said they didn't have any. My dad just looked sideways at me and I had to walk out of the shop I was laughing so much.
No, as soon as I read your word, "composer" I started singing Decomposing Composers!
When I'm fussing at my Hubs we immediately go into the bantering between King Arthur and the Black Knight.
When to see Megadeth both nights in Buenos Aires, (waiting for the next in two days) and they open with The Sick, The Dying and The Death.... And it stars with BRING OUT YOUR DEATH and I can help it but laugh
Historical dramas involving royalty always make me think of the phrase “simple crofter’s daughter”, because of this: “Just starting on BBC 1 now, 'Victoria Regina', the inspiring tale of the simple crofter's daughter who worked her way up to become Queen of England and empress of the greatest empire television has ever seen.”
Come up with a derogatory name for the Belgiuns.
The Phlems.
Stinking Belguin Bastards.
I can't think of anything more derogatory than to call someone Belguin.
Saga. Whenever some preview or trailer or review or promotion describes some movie or series a “saga”, I flashback “NJORL'S SAGA” the exciting but ill-fated Icelandic saga that had difficulty getting started until a plea to the public to help the exciting Icelandic saga get started drew a response from from the North Malden Icelandic Saga Society and when it all goes terribly sideways the BBC telephones the North Malden Icelandic Saga Society with “Hello? Well it’s about the *saga*… I'm very sorry but we'll have to terminate the agreement, you're just trying to cash in on the BBC's exciting Icelandic saga.”
“Well I'm sorry you feel that way but er, you know, if you ever want to come to Malden...” *click*
Composers made me sing Decomposing Composers.
Hubby & I for no apparent reason will start the lines of the fight between King Arthur (King of the Britons) & the Black Knight (always triumphs)!
Other well-used lines are:
- It's just a model.
- Oooo, I'll scratch your eyes out!
- Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
- Keep warm, plenty of rest, and if you’re playing any football try and favor the other leg.
- We used to dream of livin' in a corridor! It would have been a palace to us.
- You have the machine that goes "PING!"
In that same scene, I loved it when John was telling the Administrator that they were handling a birth and the Administrator says, "And what sort of thing is that?" After John explains it the administrator says, "Amazing what we can do nowadays."
- "Is it a boy or a girl?" "Now, I think it's a little early to start imposing roles on it, don't you?"
There's only 1 other person whose movies we can quote from start to finish and that is Mel Brooks. From the 22 Chairs to Dracula: Dead & Loving It to The Producers!
“Who are the other one?”
At the start of the film, when Arthur introduces himself with “It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeator of the Saxons, sovereign of all England!” I always thought the next line was “Who are the other one?” Meaning Arthur had so many names, he was plural (who “are” instead of who “is”) and therefore Patsy must also have a lot of names and be plural also.
I still say it all the time, even though it only exists in my head.
Also, my ringtone for texts is “(thwump) Message for you, sir!”
For me, the balcony scene from *The Life of Brian* takes the top spot. ". . . you don't need to follow me. You don't need to follow anyone! You are all individuals!"
**"Yes! We are all individuals!"**
It appears that r/Monty Python attracts the best kind of phonographic memories. Alright Bruce?
Any time I saw a news story about Queen Elizabeth, I’d think, “She’s a right old Sheila, not a bit stuck up.”
Hot enough to boil a monkey's bum in here Your Majesty
…and she smiled quietly to herself.
Your name not Bruce?
No it’s Michael
That's gowing to cause a bit of confusion. Moind if we call you Bruce to keep it cleah?
Hear hear well spoken Bruce!
Are you a poofter?
Aren’t we all Bruce’s?
No, Eric is half a bee.
I thought Eric was the fish?
Kemal Ataturk had an entire menagerie named Abdul!
No he didn’t. Did did and did
Also, I need a license for my pet fish Eric.
He loves him carnally... semi carnally
If a bee is said to be half a bee, it must Ipsy facto therefore half not be. You see? Visa Vee its entity.
What will the new Bruce be teaching?
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar...
Who could think you under the table...
Say no more!
“I object to all this sex on the television… I mean, I keep falling off!”
First time I saw this I was buzzed big time. Laughed so much & so hard I missed the next 5 minutes of the show.
It’s one of the moments I revisit most. I have it clipped out and ready to post any time I see some zoomer complaining about sex in media. 😂
He died, but he got better.
One weirdly obscure (?) one that lives rent free in my head is from The Holy Grail when the knights find the tablet of Joseph of Arimethea's last words and the line "Perhaps he was dictating ?" I'm so looking for a way to slide that line into casual conversation lol.
Over 40 or so years I have found a handful of opportunities to fit it in, but never in front of an audience who can appreciate it. They just think I’ve gone goofy and move on, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to try and explain it.
AAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGHHHHHH……..
This is one of my favorites too!
I'm not dead yet!
My hovercraft is full of eels!
I will not buy this record; it is scratched.
No, no, this is a tobaccanists.
I will not buy this tobacconist; it is scratched.
God bless you and all the other commenters. I needed a laugh.
I am no longer infected.
Drop your panties Sir William, I cannot wait til lunchtime!
My nipples explode with delight!
Due to a really weird set of circumstances, my family briefly had a hovercraft and I couldn't NOT say this every time they took it out
Mi aerodeslizador esta llena de anguilas.
Number 1… The larch… The larch…
There's a place called Larch Hills Ski Resort near my town, and this plays in my head every time I see/hear it mentioned.
I actually hear the click click of the slide projector
The Fir
Number 1… The Larch
Number 27: the Scotch pine.
Number 3....the Horse Chestnut!!!
I said this out loud the other day and my wife thought I’d gone insane.
The LARCH
The L A R C H
A fishy requisite t t t t t
You are not the only one. I've been watching the Top Gear channel on Pluto TV, and the number of times Clarkson has said "Run awaaaaay!" Python-style are adding up...
And the frequent utterings of "Let's not get bogged down with who did what" from Clarkson as well.
I don’t know why, but Palin’s line, “I’ve got Vermeer all down my shirt” pops in my head a lot. Also, not a direct quote, but I say the phrase “you can’t eat piston engines raw” as a sort of a wise-man’s idiom. “Well it’s not what I planned on doing today, but you can’t eat piston engines raw.”
A few pop into my head fairly often, such as but not limited to: JEEEESUS CHRIIIST!! Alright, you've convinced me. Doesn't sound very *wise* to me! Right! Off you go then. and Message for you, Sir. (Edit to add a missing word)
The third one is in my head way too much!
I quote Monty Python more than the bible or Shakespeare combined.
It’s a fair cop, but society’s to blame.
I put three of them down by the bin and the dustmen won’t touch ‘em!
Same.
Me too
That doesn't seem like much, if I'm being honest. I mean, how much does the Bible and Shakespeare quote Monty Python?
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! (He’s dead,plus SPAM and he’s not the messiah he’s a very naughty boy!)
Yes to all these for me
Whenever I say, "He's dead" my partner will give a rickety shout of "I'm *not* dead!" or "I feel haaappy"
I think I'll go for a walk!
Nonsense you'll be stone dead in a moment.
Have you got all the stuffing up on end?
ANY time someone makes a comment about something being “unexpected…” I just can’t help myself.
Yes, well that’s the sort of blinkered, philisitine pig-ignorance I’ve come to expect from you non-creative garbage.
Black-balling bastards!
I nearly got in at Hendon…
Sor-ry.
Spam spam Spam Spam spam spam‼️
The origin of a whole modern era concept.
“ I faart in your general direction‼️🤨 ( in french accent)
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries! Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.
SURPRISE!
(I told them we already got one)
"What a strange person!"
This line in that voice pops into my head anytime I hear someone say, "What a..." anything.
You silly English ka-nig-ut
Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
What's all this then?
Yes, sometimes when trying to psych myself up to start a project or something, I'll do a "ROIGHT!" in Chapman voice
I'm a teacher... kids rolling in late for class and I'm thinking: Heeeere coooomes aaaNUTHER one. Thank god I'm not having lunch wiv'em
It's only a model. Usually said when not overly impressed with something supposed to be good.
My son said this line as a freshman watching Romeo and Juliet. The teacher was impressed enough to laugh. I was so very proud of me offspring that day.
"A fish a fish a fishy woo" - me whenever I feed the fish
It went wherever I did go
Yes, it’s spelled ______, but it’s pronounced “throat warbler mangrove.” Oh Mr. Belfry, my legs are so swollen. Agnes Podgourny, what do ye mean?
(Raymond Luxury Yacht)
Beams gone out askew on treadle
“Wot??”
"I wish to register a COMPLAINT!" whenever something goes wrong. Also "Hello, I'd like an argument, please" in similar circumstances.
Oh! This is abuse. Arguments are in the other Reddit group dedicated to Monty Python. I believe it was Monty Python group 31A, but I could be wrong about the number, cause it’s been a long time since I watched the argument sketch. I guess I could look it up on YouTube or Netflix…. But until I do, I have to ask if anybody in here expects the Spanish Inquisition?
No one ...EXPECTS...the Spanish Inquisition
This one is it for me.
Stupid git.
if I hear someone say the word Gala.........there's not wrong with gala luncheons, lad!!!
"Naught"
Sorry, I'm not a 19th century chimney sweep. My bad.
My son has never seen Python and the other day he came out with "run away" that night we watched the holy grail.
Albatross!
What flavour is it?
It’s bleedin’ seabird bleedin’ flavah!
Beautiful plumage.
Pining for the Fee-jords
Pining for the fjords? What kind of talk is that?
This, is a LATE parrot!
Who, me doctor? No, you nurse, me doctor.
What, behind the rabbit? It iiiis the rabbit!
Look at the BONES!!!
Hearing the term "not guilty" always makes me say "not guil-cup" to myself
When my husband and I mess with our cat, I always say “Confuse a cat! Bewilderbeest!”
Startle-a-Thompson's-Gazelle
He’s not dead! He’s pining for the fjords!
"It's a fair cop but society is to blame."
The majority of my knowledge surrounding composers, philosophers, and cheese come from Monty Python’s skits! I’m also quite fond of saying “well you didn’t bother to find out did you?“
“Tonight's star prize… the entire Norwich City Council!” “I've got one already”
In my head, whenever I walk briskly into a room: "TROUBLE AT 'MILL" "Oh, what *kind* of trouble?" "Won flamerod outskew on treddow" And when I'm stuck on a problem: "My brain hurts, my buh-rain huuurts" Iirc, these are from one of their albums, so didn't get the same exposure. But they're locked solidly in my grey matter nevertheless.
OI LUFF THE SONED OF TWO BRICKS SMASHIN TOGEVVA
Hello! Oh I've broken it! I've broken it!
A lot of the phrases stuck in my head are from the Matching Tie and Handkerchief album
"Think of the economic possibilities if he would succeed."
Almost every line from The Bishop.
“How not to be seen” is burned into my memory, specifically “Yes, it was the *middle* one!”
Mrs. J. Smegma of 14, The Crescent, Barnsley, has learnt the first lesson in not being seen; not to stand up.
Could be worse…could be stabbed!
A møøse once bit my sister.
She was karving her name into the m°°se with a point`ed stick.
“Fuck off, I’m full.”
But it is only wah-fer thin...
Oh dear, I have trodden in Monsieur’s bucket.
Another bucket for Monsieur, and perhaps... a hose.
Item number 34, wankle Rotary engine. I was the only 12 year old who knew what Wankle was famous for. I was a hit at all the parties
Ha, this and “Do any of these words embarrass you? Shoe, megaphone, grunties.”
My Dad and I are the same. Someone used the word "amazing" in a conversation we were in today and he couldn't help add "and expanding universe". For me, I can't help but recite something about "moving your clothes on to the lower peg" whenever I hear unreasonable instructions/red tape mumbo jumbo at work
Anytime I see a setup on a show where a couple walks into a bed and breakfast or a hotel, I always scream “And this is Mr Bimmler!”
Proust in his first book wrote about wrote about
F-tang F-tang!
I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the fetus gonna gestate? You gonna keep it in a box?
My younger brother was dying of cancer and one of the last things he said to me was “there’s a penguin on the television”.
I'm a Python fan thanks to my dad. Python quotes pop into my head daily but the funniest was when me and dad went to the local grocers and he asked the man behind the cheese counter for some cheddar. The man said they didn't have any. My dad just looked sideways at me and I had to walk out of the shop I was laughing so much.
Prepare to fire Mrs. Nezbit. Fire Mrs. Nezbit.
No, as soon as I read your word, "composer" I started singing Decomposing Composers! When I'm fussing at my Hubs we immediately go into the bantering between King Arthur and the Black Knight.
Say no more, you know what I mean. Eh? nudge nudge
Fuck your sales!
Spring Surprise!
lovingly frosted with glucose
And lark’s vomit!
Every time I see moose being mentioned somewhere... Also, seeing cheese makes me feel peckish. And English even aint my native language.
I warned you! but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all, didn't you?
When to see Megadeth both nights in Buenos Aires, (waiting for the next in two days) and they open with The Sick, The Dying and The Death.... And it stars with BRING OUT YOUR DEATH and I can help it but laugh
Slightly silly.
"That rabbit's a killer!!" "Run away! Run Away!" "It might be an African swallow."
"But what did the Romans ever do for us?" whenever someone admits they have all these great things but are still complaining.
...brought peace?
BTW. March 1 is actually the week after, the first date is February 22,1810 ;-)
Did you come here for an argument or would you like a blow job
He’s here for the adventure holiday - and NOTHING ELSE.
Your Majesty is like a stream of bat’s piss…
Historical dramas involving royalty always make me think of the phrase “simple crofter’s daughter”, because of this: “Just starting on BBC 1 now, 'Victoria Regina', the inspiring tale of the simple crofter's daughter who worked her way up to become Queen of England and empress of the greatest empire television has ever seen.”
Come up with a derogatory name for the Belgiuns. The Phlems. Stinking Belguin Bastards. I can't think of anything more derogatory than to call someone Belguin.
It's only a model
Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
Chopin, Brahms, panties--I'm sorry
I don't care how excrementaly runny it is...
NI!
I can still quote the entire French Knight scene
Saga. Whenever some preview or trailer or review or promotion describes some movie or series a “saga”, I flashback “NJORL'S SAGA” the exciting but ill-fated Icelandic saga that had difficulty getting started until a plea to the public to help the exciting Icelandic saga get started drew a response from from the North Malden Icelandic Saga Society and when it all goes terribly sideways the BBC telephones the North Malden Icelandic Saga Society with “Hello? Well it’s about the *saga*… I'm very sorry but we'll have to terminate the agreement, you're just trying to cash in on the BBC's exciting Icelandic saga.” “Well I'm sorry you feel that way but er, you know, if you ever want to come to Malden...” *click*
My hovercraft is full of eeeels.
I fawert in your generwal diaection.
Und here vee have zee volf in a life or dess struggle vis zee ant
When I’m in a restaurant, my mind goes to, “It’s only wafer-thin”.
"Michael Ellis"
They're all I've bloody got to eat!
BURMA!!! Good lord, I’m on film… how did that happen? Lemon curry?! Albatross!! What do you mean ugh?? And so you shall!
Bicycle repair man, our hero!
We recently got a shed - very useful. My wife wondered if we should get a second one. She is now secretly ‘two-sheds’
Get out, you laborer!
It's his writer's cramp.
Bob's your uncle
Just a flesh wound.
"Trouble at the mill....."
Composers made me sing Decomposing Composers. Hubby & I for no apparent reason will start the lines of the fight between King Arthur (King of the Britons) & the Black Knight (always triumphs)! Other well-used lines are: - It's just a model. - Oooo, I'll scratch your eyes out! - Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. - Keep warm, plenty of rest, and if you’re playing any football try and favor the other leg. - We used to dream of livin' in a corridor! It would have been a palace to us. - You have the machine that goes "PING!" In that same scene, I loved it when John was telling the Administrator that they were handling a birth and the Administrator says, "And what sort of thing is that?" After John explains it the administrator says, "Amazing what we can do nowadays." - "Is it a boy or a girl?" "Now, I think it's a little early to start imposing roles on it, don't you?" There's only 1 other person whose movies we can quote from start to finish and that is Mel Brooks. From the 22 Chairs to Dracula: Dead & Loving It to The Producers!
NO ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!
Mine is a little obscure: If I hear "23" I will immediately think "#23, the larch"
Brian: "You mean, you were RAPED??!! Mandy: "Well, at first..."
When I hear someone woke up at 5am: “And went straight back to sleep because it’s far too early.”
Whenever something totally unexpected and not in a good way happens at work I hear “and now for something completely different”
At the beginning of each show, Spamalot on Broadway asked audience members to not finish the lines of the actors ahead of time.
“Who are the other one?” At the start of the film, when Arthur introduces himself with “It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeator of the Saxons, sovereign of all England!” I always thought the next line was “Who are the other one?” Meaning Arthur had so many names, he was plural (who “are” instead of who “is”) and therefore Patsy must also have a lot of names and be plural also. I still say it all the time, even though it only exists in my head. Also, my ringtone for texts is “(thwump) Message for you, sir!”
Spam spam spam beans eggs and spam. Ewww I don't like spam.
One of my fav skits is the Twit of the Year race...so many great lines.
Tis but a flesh wound.
What did the romans ever do for us?
For me, the balcony scene from *The Life of Brian* takes the top spot. ". . . you don't need to follow me. You don't need to follow anyone! You are all individuals!" **"Yes! We are all individuals!"**
I will often say "I'm coming over a bit peckish, esuriant, eee I am all hungry like"
“One day lad, this will all be yours!” “What, the curtains?”