Monty Python and The Holy Grail - YouTube Version

i went to the movie theaters last year to watch this when they rereleased it, it is a pretty weird movie even for a comedy, but still pretty entertaining. I dont think ive seen you laugh during a reaction for any other film so hard, i enjoyed that, i know my comment is pretty late but school has been busy, but your videos make my day so thank you.

It should be noted Python member Terry Jones was a historian on Medieval History, and he would be one of the first to tell you that all of the stereotypes the movie poked fun at (the dirty peasants farming mud, the generally filthy design of the villages, the state of Medieval science, etc.) were all rubbish. But they do make for good jokes.

DE Wyatt

There's lots of jokes in this movie that woudn't be obvious to someone unfamiliar with medieval English history, with certain academic subjects, or with the Monty Python TV show: - Peasants stacking mud or hitting a river with a stick is a joke about the academic blindness of historians. What did a peasant really do all day long? This movie jokes about how clueless we are about ancient life, portraying them as filling their day with meaningless activities. - 'Bring out your dead' refers to the Black Death that swept Europe and killed 30% of the whole continent, and up to 90% of some communities. - Priests chanting in Latin and hitting themselves refers to 'flagellents', who injured themselves as a religious practice. - 'Weighing the witch' is a joke about pre-Enlightenment (and some post-Englightenment ideas, to be honest) 'science', where idiot inbred 'nobles' and royalty came up with the stupidest ideas, which everyone had to agree with because a) nobody knew anything and b) they were in charge and would have you killed if you disagreed. For example, look into the history of the still-popular 'homeopathy' scam for similarly demented logic. - 'Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries' is a joke about translation. As you know, Dasha, sometimes phrases don't mean the same thing when translated from one language to another. 'hamster', a small rodent, is a rapid breeder, so the implication is that Arthur's mother has a lot of sex. 'elderberries' can be made into wine, implying his father is a drunkard. - 'Castle Anthrax' girls talking about how they were 'worried their scene would be cut' and they liked the scene they were performing in was an in-joke about the 'Monty Python' team; in their TV show, the guys of Monty Python had a hard time writing comedy for their actresses, so people noticed the girls rarely had funny lines to say. The men of 'Monty Python' performed female characters more than the one woman in their group did. You want some more of this madness? Watch the Monty Python TV series, at least the first three seasons.

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