Crunchy frogs?
I’m torn between “every sperm is sacred” and the biggus dickus scene. Both make me laugh uncontrollably every time.
The Biggus Dickus sketch is brilliant.
He has a wife, you know…
“You know what she’s called? Incontinentia… Incontinentia Buttocks WILL YOU STOP LAUGHING!?”
That scene is always able to make me laugh.
They told the actors playing the guards it was very important that they keep a straight face throughout, and then planned on cracking them up. Or so I’ve been told
I believe it is true. The extras were told they wouldn’t get paid if they laughed. I love when he swings his toga around and gets in that guards face - “how 'bout you centurion? Do you find it risible to laugh when I say the naaaame…”
I think most of the scene was scripted apart from the part about his wife which was improvised, that’s why you can hear the crew behind the camera laughing as well.
Here’s the video I got that from: https://youtu.be/RmCWDZulUuQ
I’d like to think it was less a threat and more an appeal to professionalism.
“We’ve got to get this scene, and time is running out. You guys have to treat this like you’re doing Shakespeare live. Whatever you do, don’t fuck this up.”
Oof, too many to choose from. The first that came to my mind were the argument clinic and the cheese shop sketch.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
Argument clinic is what I was going to choose haha
This isn’t argument! This is abuse!
You’re just contradicting me
No I’m not
If one studies any foreign language, one of the first things one should learn is how to say “My Hovercraft is full of eels”. And in fact I have done this. Why? Because when someone is studying an unusual choice of language (in my case it’s Modern Greek) one is inevitably asked to “Say something in (Greek in my case)”. So the sentence, which is objectively absurd, actually becomes useful. I’m considering Irish as my next language. Why Irish? Maybe speaking some Irish would help me get an Irish passport so I can escape from Fascist America.
Argument clinic is what I was going to choose haha
my go-to phrase for this is always “lots of snow but no flashlight” due to a scene in an old Swedish movie
Raised Catholic so “Every Sperm is Sacred” has a special meaning to me.
The anarchist peasant from Holy Grail was a political awakening for me.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate of the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony!
If I went around calling myself emperor because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me they’d put me away!
(It’s amazing how much of this aligns with Graeber’s work)
I believe he was supposed to be a digger actually. But anarchist peasant is pretty close
Pining for the fjords.
Probably The Crimson Assurance or The Art of Not Being Seen
Oh, or Tim.
“Mr. Bradshaw, will you stand up please?”
Television Announcer: And now, the penguin on top of your television set will explode. {BOOOM!} Watcher: How’d he know that? Television Announcer: It was an inspired guess.
The multiple layers of cognitive dissonance are wonderful.
The burn the witch sketch. I still show it to students to show how bad science and good science differ
Quizmaster: Jolly good! Well now Madam your first question for the blow on the head this evening is: Which great opponent of Cartesian dualism resists the reduction of psychological phenomena to a physical state and insists there is no point of contact between the extended and the unextended?
Ratbag: I don’t know that.
Quizmaster: Well – have a guess!
Ratbag: Oh… Henri Bergson?
Quizmaster: …is the correct answer! (Piano chords)
Ratbag: Ooh, that was lucky. I never even heard of him.
I can’t narrow it down to one gag, but Holy Grail as a whole.
The castle of aaaaaargh.
Perhaps he was dictating it.
It’s only a model
Shh!
The ministry of silly walks
I’ve told you once.
No you didn’t!
I most certainly did.
I adore the bit where they’re talking about woody and tinny words. I still describe words as such, it’s perfect.
kiki / bouba effect
it’s a deep pull, but it has to go to Eric the Half a Bee. it’s just permanently lodged in my mind.
