"What, the curtains?"
I am a shrubber. I design, build and sell shrubberies!
I weigh the same as a duck! I MUST BE A WITCH!!
HEE HEE HEE HEE (infinite cackling)
Ya have to wonder what kind of crack the people who made this movie were smoking.
TUE
The Sir Lancelot Quest is one of my all-time favorite Python bits.
"I'm sorry, I thought your son was a girl."
"I can understand that!"
Just a question of historical perspective,but
did the movie come out BEFORE or AFTER former
President Jimmy Carter reported his encounter
with the Killer Bunny?
The Killer Rabbit scene is one of the most
famous in the movies and they did a parody
of it in an episode of Xena where Gabrielle
has to wrestle with a Killer Rabbit!!!!
This movie was filmed in 1974 and released in the summer of 1975, while Gerald Ford was still President (a year and a half before Carter was inaugurated.)
Classic Line: "It's just a flesh wound."
Ni!
Why does Michael Palin put on a silly voice similar to that of the Very Tall Knight for Sir Galahad at the bridge scene at the end? He doesn't for the rest of the film. Neither does he wear a chainmail hood, for that matter.
If the rest of your life depended on how you answered a question, you'd probobly sound a bit like that too.
I loved the instructions for the "Holy Hand Grenade"
"Five is right out!"
Thou shalt not count four, nor two, excepting that thou then proceedest onto three.
So, where did Galahad go after being "rescued" by Lancelot? The only person with Lancelot during his tale is Concord, but when Arthur and co. catch up with him, he's got Galahad with him again. Was Galahad making such a fush about being "rescued' that Lancelot stuffed him in Concord's backpack?
Yeah, I often wondered that. Maybe the two scenes were at one point meant to be in opposite order, but the Pythons decided that getting the pacing right was more important than consistency?
That's what I figured too; if they did, then it was certainly the right move. Launcelot's tale really needs to be after everyone else's
The bridge-keeper's question to Arthur ("What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?") doesn't make any sense. "Air-speed" and "velocity" mean the same thing in this context. It's like asking "What is the height tallness of Shaquille O'Neal?"
actually, it doesn't make sense for a different reason.
Speed is a scalar quantity. Velocity is a vector quantity. Speed is the magnitude of the velocity. Air-speed is the scalar value of the velocity vector relative to the motion of the air.
Air speed vs. velocity has almost nothing to do with it.
the more important question has to do with the swallow itself.
African or European
Here's an absurdly pointless bit of nitpicking for you: The famed "Scene 24" (which is a smashing scene with some lovely acting, in which Arthur discovers a vital clue) is not actually the twenty fourth scene at all. It's actually the 12th scene in the film (not counting narrative interludes). The real scene 24 doesn't roll around until Aurthur and Bedevere find the castle "Aaaargh" at very end of the film. (see? I told you it was pointless)
I wonder why they called in Scene 24. Maybe they just thought it was a good sounding number?
*imagines the Pythons in a dimly lit meeting room, all huddled around a chalk board with various numbers written on it*
"Okay, so we've narowed the possabilites down to 13, 62, 24, 5, and 3 1/2. Which of these do we want to go with?"
"I'm telling you, 62 has the best ring to it."
"No, that's got to manny "Ts" close together. I say we go with 24."
"I still like 3 1/2."
"But that's daft! How is it supposed to be 'half' of a scene?"
"That's the point! Are you going to complain that shrubberiesdoesn't make sence?"
"Why don't we just use letters instead of numbers?"
I actually enjoyed the "Intermission", even though it was right in the middle of a tense scene. It came back at the end, too. I wonder who was playing the organ for that movie-ending song.
Why didn't Tim the Enchanter destroy the Killer Rabbit with his fire blasts? I think it was so they could use the Holy Hand Grenade!
You just have to see the SE DVD version which has the missing scene, "30 seconds of unused footage". It was hilarious the first time I saw it!
Also, this movie has to have the absolute funniest opening credit sequence of any movie I've ever seen! They just don't make 'em like that anymore!
I loved the great Scottish scenery where they filmed the various castles, that was really cool. Tim the Enchanter should have felt right at home, he was a Scotsman!
We were able to finally see what Terry Gilliam really looked like, albiet briefly, when he "died" and the Black Beast of Aauugghhhh was "discontinued". His animation made this and the other Python films even better!
I used to amuse my classmates back in high school with my recollection of the "Knights Who Say NI!" segments of this film. I did the voices and everything, I think they thought I was funny!
"You must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest...WITH.....A HERRING!!!!!"
Hee hee ha ha ho ho!
The long-awaited answer to the question, "What is the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow?"
NI!
I received the double DVD of this for Christmas, and then a few days later, Michael Palin is made a Knight of the Realm! YCMIU!