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post #1 of 21
10/20/09 at 2:43pm
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Has anyone else been watching this? It's a 6 part documentary that started on Sunday night, and it's been pretty great so far. Sunday's episode, where they went into all of the pre-Python material, was fantastic. The new interviews with the 5 remaining pythons are pretty great (Eric Idle, in particular, looks like he's having a blast).

Good stuff.
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post #2 of 21
10/20/09 at 3:45pm
I'm loving it so far. Lots of footage I've never seen before, plus Pegg, Izzard, Coogan, etc.
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post #3 of 21
10/20/09 at 3:58pm
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From what I understand, they're going to devote a full 1 hour episode each to 'Holy Grail', 'Life of Brian', and 'Meaning of Life'. I can't wait to hear all about Gilliam's Crimson Permanent Assurance battle.
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post #4 of 21
10/20/09 at 4:02pm
I wonder if this is part of what they've been playing on Sirius. There was an on-stage get together about a week ago, which included a cardboard standee of Graham Chapman. At one point, I believe Eric Idle was reading questions from the audience, and someone asked, "Graham, as the dead one, how much creative influence did you have?"
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post #5 of 21
10/20/09 at 4:11pm
From what I saw last night, there was way too much input from a distractingly fucked up Russell Brand (the guy looked like he was going to eat his own teeth). And why did they have to shoot the Nick Mason interview to look like we were spying on him? The camera was like behind a houseplant or a painting with the eyes cut out.
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post #6 of 21
10/20/09 at 4:15pm
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Yeah, Russell Brand's contribution could have been trimmed a bit (or edited out) of last night's episode, but it was a minor nitpick for me. Most of the people being interviewed provided some interesting commentary. The Indian comic talking about the impact of the Fish Slapping Dance on his mother was pretty hysterical.
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post #7 of 21
10/20/09 at 6:35pm
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Most of the people being interviewed provided some interesting commentary. The Indian comic talking about the impact of the Fish Slapping Dance on his mother was pretty hysterical.
Yeah, it's interesting trying to find each individual's "gateway drug" into Python. When I first discovered MP at around age 8, I was taken by the Pantomime Horse/Bond parody which wouldn't even make my top 50 Python moments now.
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post #8 of 21
10/20/09 at 7:20pm
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(Eric Idle, in particular, looks like he's having a blast).
"Nobody's ever fucking read Proust!... but it sounds smart."

This has been amazing so far.
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post #9 of 21
10/21/09 at 9:44am
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Yeah, it's interesting trying to find each individual's "gateway drug" into Python. When I first discovered MP at around age 8, I was taken by the Pantomime Horse/Bond parody which wouldn't even make my top 50 Python moments now.
I found them on PBS when I was a kid (where I also used to catch Benny Hill, The Paul Hogan Show, and Dave Allen At Large). I think the first thing that I remember seeing was either the Parrot Sketch or Upper Class Twit of the Year.
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post #10 of 21
10/21/09 at 9:53am
When i was in my teens they started playing the repeats a lot on BBC2. The first sketch I remember seeing is "How to recognise different types of trees from quite a long way away." , which still makes me laugh today.

Edited to add; having looked up that eppisdoe it has a few of my favorate sketches in. Dim of the Yard, Bycycle Repair Man, Dissaperaing Milkmen and Say no more.

No wonder I got hooked.
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post #11 of 21
10/21/09 at 9:59am
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When i was in my teens they started playing the repeats a lot on BBC2. The first sketch I remember seeing is "How to recognise different types of trees from quite a long way away." , which still makes me laugh today.

Edited to add; having looked up that eppisdoe it has a few of my favorate sketches in. Dim of the Yard, Bycycle Repair Man, Dissaperaing Milkmen and Say no more.

No wonder I got hooked.
1. The Larch... ...The Larch
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post #12 of 21
10/21/09 at 11:18am
The trees bit also reminds me of "How not to be seen".
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post #13 of 21
10/21/09 at 11:34am
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The Indian comic talking about the impact of the Fish Slapping Dance on his mother was pretty hysterical.
I liked his point about Python creating its own ethnicity. There's definitely a language and culture that sprouted up around that show.
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post #14 of 21
10/21/09 at 11:36am
Also, Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days" blew my mind back in middle school. And I had no idea who Peckinpah was.
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post #15 of 21
10/21/09 at 11:46am
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Also, Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days" blew my mind back in middle school. And I had no idea who Peckinpah was.
That's STILL one of the absolute best things that the Pythons ever did.
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post #16 of 21
10/21/09 at 1:50pm
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That's STILL one of the absolute best things that the Pythons ever did.
The kicker is when they cut back to Film Critic Eric Idle in the studio who is then riddled with bullets in slow motion as the credits roll. So great.
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post #17 of 21
10/21/09 at 4:48pm
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There was an on-stage get together about a week ago, which included a cardboard standee of Graham Chapman. At one point, I believe Eric Idle was reading questions from the audience, and someone asked, "Graham, as the dead one, how much creative influence did you have?"
That's absolutely brilliant. I remember not too long after GC died, Eric Idle was on the Tonight Show or something similar. He said after it became known that Graham Chapman was gay, they got the usual crop of ignorant letters from people - one of which apparently said, "Are you awere that one of your troupe members is a homosexual?" Eric Idle wrote back to the person and said, "Thank you very much for alerting us that there was a homosexual in our midst. We've found out which one it was, and immediately had him killed."

My favorite skit that almost gets no love - "Hell's Grannies". My best friend and I went as Hell's Grannies for Halloween when we were in high school.
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post #18 of 21
10/21/09 at 4:50pm
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My favorite skit that almost gets no love - "Hell's Grannies". My best friend and I went as Hell's Grannies for Halloween when we were in high school.
What I love about "Hell's Grannies" is that it eventually devolves into a skit about roving gangs of Keep Left signs.
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post #19 of 21
10/21/09 at 4:53pm
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They showed a few clips from the Hell's Grannies sketch on Monday's episode, Lisa. That was a favorite for alot of people, apparently.

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What I love about "Hell's Grannies" is that it eventually devolves into a skit about roving gangs of Keep Left signs.
STOP THAT, IT'S SILLY!
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post #20 of 21
10/21/09 at 4:58pm
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They showed a few clips from the Hell's Grannies sketch on Monday's episode, Lisa. That was a favorite for alot of people, apparently.
Ahh, shit, I missed it. Oh, well - thank god for YouTube.
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post #21 of 21
10/22/09 at 7:59am
Yeah! Another Hell's Grannie's clip last night!
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