Monty Python The French Taunt

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  • Monty Python The French Taunt from The Holy Grail.
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  • @leonthompson3433
    @leonthompson3433 Před 11 měsíci +1306

    Love how they researched this film, its spot on. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries was a medieval taunt, mother breeding like a hamster, father couldn't afford wine and had to make it out of elderberries. That's Monty Python for ya, highly intelligent and ludicrously funny:-)

    • @DSAK55
      @DSAK55 Před 11 měsíci +88

      I think most of them were graduates of Cambridge University

    • @stephansteohanlarsen7457
      @stephansteohanlarsen7457 Před 10 měsíci +49

      The constitutional peasant 🍄🦡🍄🐄🍄🇬🇧🍄

    • @rad4924
      @rad4924 Před 9 měsíci +104

      Also, the French often did fart in the general direction of England.

    • @priscillaroberts7945
      @priscillaroberts7945 Před 8 měsíci +35

      Hamsters aren't native to England and were not known here till sometime later, elderberry wine is really good, the romans made grape wine here but the vinyards mostly fell into disuse after the empire fell. But aside from that it is by far the funniest historical documentary ever.

    • @elless4817
      @elless4817 Před 8 měsíci +5

      @@rad4924 😆

  • @kevindunlap5525
    @kevindunlap5525 Před 9 měsíci +976

    "I shall taunt you a second time" is one of the most memorable lines in cinematic history for me. The guys were geniuses.

    • @truantray
      @truantray Před 8 měsíci +17

      Fetchez la vache does it for me.

    • @cecileroy557
      @cecileroy557 Před 6 měsíci +3

      @@truantray YES!!!!! 😂

    • @jonsmith1462
      @jonsmith1462 Před 6 měsíci +8

      You and all your silly English Kinnnnnigetts

  • @Itsjust_jennifer_
    @Itsjust_jennifer_ Před 5 lety +1763

    “I fart in your general direction” is one of my all time favorite quotes 😂

    • @Sherwoody
      @Sherwoody Před rokem

      Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

    • @Auntypatti
      @Auntypatti Před rokem +8

      Not quote but curse

    • @colettewaddell8362
      @colettewaddell8362 Před rokem +8

      My favorite as well😝

    • @douglasharp2278
      @douglasharp2278 Před rokem +5

      Just fractures me after hearing it again after all these years!!

    • @maryclaremayo6157
      @maryclaremayo6157 Před rokem +6

      @@Auntypatti To some of us, that's a declaration of love.

  • @cunard61
    @cunard61 Před rokem +423

    I always loved the fact that they never used the word "retreat", they always yelled "Run Away".

    • @DmitriasBehindTheWheel
      @DmitriasBehindTheWheel Před 8 měsíci +25

      They aren't just running away. They're *tactically* running away ;)

    • @infidelheretic923
      @infidelheretic923 Před 8 měsíci +15

      “Retreat” sounds strategic.
      “Run away!” Sounds cowardly and spur of the moment.

    • @cecileroy557
      @cecileroy557 Před 6 měsíci +1

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @mikeshepherd2109
      @mikeshepherd2109 Před 6 měsíci +4

      I don't remember any of the Knights by looks, but one of them stays back and hits the castle once during their "run away" 😂

    • @sophiescholl6835
      @sophiescholl6835 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Retreat sounds like a term an adult would use "run away " a child would use

  • @ryanzimmerman1594
    @ryanzimmerman1594 Před 5 lety +903

    "I am french, why do you think I have this outrageous accent you silly king!?!"
    "What are you doing in England?"
    "MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!!!"
    🤣🤣🤣

    • @mas5867
      @mas5867 Před rokem +49

      My girlfriend did not tell me about the rabbit scene. I had just taken a big swig of coke and that didn't go down as planned.

    • @christoffellner84
      @christoffellner84 Před rokem

      in german this sounds even better: "So, what are you looking for in England then? - We drill for inseed oil you sucker of Tea" czcams.com/video/02-Y4oXlwr8/video.html

    • @fab_62
      @fab_62 Před rokem +14

      J'adore !

    • @ErikfromNorway
      @ErikfromNorway Před rokem +1

      Relax ryan zimerman its just a movie 😂 and its from the aeventies !😊 😁😆

    • @mas5867
      @mas5867 Před rokem

      ​ @Erik Ulnes Hey stupi.d He's quoting.

  • @85turtle
    @85turtle Před 11 lety +484

    Go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
    LOL

    • @pinkiefrancisco
      @pinkiefrancisco Před 6 lety +5

      Daniel Hawthorne I've said that many times to ppl.

    • @southcoastpauly
      @southcoastpauly Před rokem +3

      He’s already got one .
      Brilliant!

    • @aindatenhoconta
      @aindatenhoconta Před rokem +3

      And yet I keep coming back to be taunted

    • @cocksure8430
      @cocksure8430 Před rokem +2

      You taunt, youtube bans your account.
      How life has changed!!🤣😂🤣

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 Před rokem +2

      Good thing the French didn't try that tactic in WW2. 😆

  • @Nihaowilson
    @Nihaowilson Před rokem +409

    "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!" I've always wondered if Cleese's lines were ad-lib or written in the sketch... Classic, no matter.

    • @sheilamartin1577
      @sheilamartin1577 Před 9 měsíci +17

      Elderberry is Sambuca. The plant has a very pungent odour.

    • @ciderfan823
      @ciderfan823 Před 9 měsíci +21

      I've heard that the modern equivalent is similar to, "Your mom was a lur and your dad was a drunkard."

    • @mrfatuchi
      @mrfatuchi Před 8 měsíci +18

      From what I heard it was all written and rehearsed. The Pythons didnt like going off script and never did.

    • @srccde
      @srccde Před 8 měsíci +15

      It meant that your mother bred like a hamster and your father couldn't afford to buy wine so he had to make it himself.

    • @thomasfrancis5747
      @thomasfrancis5747 Před 3 měsíci

      They released a book of the Holy Grail script complete with handwritten amendments. The original version was much different to the film - basically a bunch of old sketches cobbled together.

  • @MasterAnakinSkyWalker
    @MasterAnakinSkyWalker Před 6 lety +317

    "He's already got one!"
    ....
    "I told them we've already got one."

  • @Calmoose415
    @Calmoose415 Před 4 lety +736

    Basically the entire history of the British and French's rivalry in a nutshell.

    • @goognamgoognw6637
      @goognamgoognw6637 Před rokem +38

      As french i expected it to be harder in tone but it is 'bon enfant' - rivalry in good spirits. Compared to the world we live in today the French -English rivalry is much insignificant. Like invasion from non European cultures.

    • @michaeld5888
      @michaeld5888 Před rokem +35

      @@goognamgoognw6637 Actually it was all really French vs French. The English were just the sword fodder for the French rulers of England. The Angevin rulers were very French when they succeeded the Normans who actually were French speaking Vikings. An Angevin ancestor is documented as turning in to the devil and flying out of a church window so a scary family indeed. It was not until the Welsh Tudors took over that the French were pushed out. Then a Scottish hierarchy took over, interrupted by a short interregnum with a rather miserable killjoy Englishman, followed by the Dutch and then finally and to this day the Germans. English history ended in 1066 but the poor English just get all the blame for everything. I preferred the stage presentation to the film as the mock horse scenes just seemed better on the stage.

    • @goognamgoognw6637
      @goognamgoognw6637 Před rokem +11

      @@michaeld5888 I enjoyed your concise and clear summary of English history and saved it. It is impossible to find that from any documentary as it always turns into a nationalistic marathon of unilateral minute details leaving out major lines from the other side.
      One question, the French themselves are a mixture of Francs a Germanic tribe from the Bavaria region, and Romans and Celts. Weren't the English population before the Normand conquest also Germanic tribes : the Saxons and the Angls and before that a more ancient Celtic population first indigenous inhabitants ?
      Around the bronze age the Europeans became violent changed from grain farming , from pastoral herders, from hunter and gatherer to raiding and violent conquest based on race according to a recent neolithic genetic study. This is how the stock of European genes was built and recognizable today and dominated by Nordic tribes where land resources were limited. Only the oldest son inherited the local land all the other sons had to prepare for conquest, were trained for raiding and combat from a young age and then had to leave and find new land to raid. Based on historical genetic studies and graves they would raid other races only and systematically kill all the males and children and keep the women to reproduce and as labor.
      Today Europe is disappearing because the exact opposite is being done, a replacement of all the stock gene by africans being invited by a non-european pseudo elite minority.

    • @michaeld5888
      @michaeld5888 Před rokem +4

      @@goognamgoognw6637 Thanks it was a bit tongue in cheek but hopefully the summary of kingship is accurate. France itself was a small political region but grew in to one nation from what I remember especially when the faction based in England became isolated so my saying French kings is a bit of a generalisation. The Anglo Saxons were Germanic but seemed very Norske in their habits especially as regards the sea. I recall reading a quote somewhere from a Roman saying the Saxons were not human, a compliment indeed from a Roman, saying they feared neither sea nor shipwreck which they considered as more an exercise than a disaster or words to that effect. I read a lot of history but forget a lot so do not take my word for it too much.

    • @goognamgoognw6637
      @goognamgoognw6637 Před rokem +4

      @@michaeld5888 I vaguely remember a documentary that the Saxons were a different Germanic tribe than the Angles and all these groups might have common ancestors with vikings. We talk in term of countries today but there were no countries in England or France even when imperial rome imposed roman laws among the many groups, even after the fall of Rome, it took many centuries for the so called barbarians to replace the Roman head of states by feudal conquest between themselves.
      Before Romans came, each barbarians had a precise define race and raided and killed any other groups. They did not attempts to conquer to impose a law to another group probably because their way of life was just tied to mysticism without written laws . The Romans taught them administration, the imposition of taxes by the state for a common good (a great innovation but always diminished by corruption) and only then they chose to rule instead of destroying competition. France is a good example, composed of groups living alongside without being a country. Until one chieftain wants to become the highest of all and like a Cesar. The notion of country is tied to a King. Even then vassal states were not ruled directly but paid tribute. So it was for England first a French vassal state until these vassals separated to make an independent country.

  • @lydrv
    @lydrv Před 11 lety +207

    "I fart in your general direction!"

    • @ryanzimmerman1594
      @ryanzimmerman1594 Před 5 lety +8

      Lydia Volpe "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!!!"

    • @megscolfer5281
      @megscolfer5281 Před 5 lety +7

      “Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.”

    • @dvoidd
      @dvoidd Před 4 lety +3

      That was one of the “Taunts” that just kills me

    • @dvoidd
      @dvoidd Před 4 lety +1

      Insults in broken English are the best! Thanks terry Gilliam, you made me shit myself so many times I have no need to use any laxative’s anymore.

    • @joeterp5615
      @joeterp5615 Před rokem +1

      A classic line!!

  • @kennymartin6667
    @kennymartin6667 Před 6 lety +173

    0:12 The random guy in the background beating the stream with a stick

    • @ahbrando
      @ahbrando Před 6 lety +9

      Likely how fishing was done during those times

    • @niewidzialnytemplariusz1445
      @niewidzialnytemplariusz1445 Před 5 lety +11

      I think this random guy with stick could have another task - make sounds of "horses" acrossing the stream.

    • @mphibianluigi5396
      @mphibianluigi5396 Před 3 lety +1

      I think he's doing something called irrigation

    • @_Stormfather
      @_Stormfather Před 23 dny

      ​@@ahbrando I can't tell if this is supposed to be a joke. _Please_ tell me it's a joke.

  • @aidkik580
    @aidkik580 Před rokem +685

    It's sad, I'm 34 so this technically was "before my time" but thanks to my awesome uncle I grew up with it, the sad part is that what Monty python did and indeed Blackadder and all the rest was in my opinion much higher quality and better written than anything we see today, what they did was entertainment at its finest and I appreciate all the effort they put into making such memorable theater

    • @llamasugar5478
      @llamasugar5478 Před rokem +21

      Black Adder should be much better known than it is!

    • @toforgetisagem8797
      @toforgetisagem8797 Před 10 měsíci +21

      It's in your time the moment you discover a masterpiece.

    • @sandmaenchen
      @sandmaenchen Před 10 měsíci +14

      I was born in early 1990s and first found this film and Blackadder in early 2000s on VHS tapes my elder brother had recorded. Along with other Monty Python works, these masterpieces inspired me to hone my English as a non-native speaker to a level where, years later, the opponent of my PhD defence, a native English speaker, actually praised the quality of my writing and speech in his written statement.

    • @henryj1595
      @henryj1595 Před 10 měsíci

      2 sides every story

    • @atb1783
      @atb1783 Před 10 měsíci

      No one cares about your shitty little anecdote you son of a silly person

  • @THEJR-of5tf
    @THEJR-of5tf Před rokem +1171

    I am 74 years old I have been a fan of the Pythons for ever. My favourite sketch they did for TV was the Spanish Inquisition. It still cracks me up after all these years.

    • @cliftonjarvis8010
      @cliftonjarvis8010 Před rokem +31

      I like the funniest joke ever written

    • @maryclaremayo6157
      @maryclaremayo6157 Před rokem +60

      Nobody expects it.

    • @danielcalvert2700
      @danielcalvert2700 Před rokem +34

      I mean, who would have expected the Spanish Inquisition?

    • @maryclaremayo6157
      @maryclaremayo6157 Před rokem +14

      @@danielcalvert2700 I sure didn't.

    • @mc76
      @mc76 Před rokem +61

      During the height of the pandemic, someone on Twitter compared vaccine mandates to the Spanish Inquisition. I replied, "Nobody expected that," to which the original tweeter responded with a two-paragraph diatribe about China, the CDC, Fauci, the Deep State, et al.--all the usual suspects. He had no idea what I meant.😁

  • @patrickknight2860
    @patrickknight2860 Před 7 lety +180

    I have this outrageeeeeoooooouuuus accent!

  • @yeeticus_maximus9616
    @yeeticus_maximus9616 Před 9 měsíci +22

    The Frenchman telling Arthur they’ve already got one is the most French thing you could do in that situation

  • @tabularasa7350
    @tabularasa7350 Před rokem +80

    This scene summaries the entirety of the French-English relationship through the ages.

    • @alexandrebouvier7731
      @alexandrebouvier7731 Před rokem +3

      Quebec-Ontario relationship too. It's important to preserve the tradition.

    • @laurentjbrunner9569
      @laurentjbrunner9569 Před rokem +1

      Kaamelott🔞© Alexandre Astier a apporté depuis beaucoup de précisions . Je crois qu'il n'existe pas encore de version traduite, mais c'est historiquement bien attesté.

    • @gw7624
      @gw7624 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Nice rehash of the same comment that appears on all these videos.

    • @tabularasa7350
      @tabularasa7350 Před 2 měsíci

      @@gw7624 nah I invented this comment after watching various versions of Agincourt

    • @gw7624
      @gw7624 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@tabularasa7350 Of course you did sweetheart.

  • @randomgrinn
    @randomgrinn Před rokem +210

    Every sentence in this movie is my favorite quote of all time.

    • @bbadstdad4423
      @bbadstdad4423 Před rokem +1

      ...clo-pa-da clo-pa-da clo-pa-da 🥥🥥

    • @leonaldobrum
      @leonaldobrum Před rokem +1

      I FART IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION! 🤣🤣🤣

    • @lightningpastry2153
      @lightningpastry2153 Před 9 měsíci +1

      I only have one favorite quote from this movie, but that quote is 1 hour and 29 minutes long

  • @SteadyEddie1983
    @SteadyEddie1983 Před 5 lety +49

    "What are you doing in England?"
    "MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!"

  • @personanon-grata5083
    @personanon-grata5083 Před 3 měsíci +5

    They didn't have the money for actual horses, I heard, so they pretended. I love that.

  • @meilmontigny9201
    @meilmontigny9201 Před rokem +480

    48 years later it still gets me in stitches.

    • @FirehorseG
      @FirehorseG Před rokem +10

      Me too. Good, humour never gets old.

    • @daderowley4514
      @daderowley4514 Před rokem +12

      I'm 21 and I just watched this movie for the 1st time. OH MY GOSH, this movie is comedy GOLD! It's way funnier and sillier than comedy nowadays.

    • @meilmontigny9201
      @meilmontigny9201 Před rokem +5

      @@daderowley4514 Welcome to the club.

    • @fleatactical7390
      @fleatactical7390 Před rokem +1

      Fetcher la vache
      Quoi?
      Fetcher la vache!

    • @EvilNecroid
      @EvilNecroid Před rokem +1

      @@daderowley4514 comedy nowadays is a thing?

  • @flyingscot47
    @flyingscot47 Před 11 měsíci +149

    Even after all these years I am laughing --the true mark of comedic genius. The Pythons stand alone.

  • @jamesbobreski9353
    @jamesbobreski9353 Před 10 měsíci +218

    This was almost 50 years ago and still a classic among 14 years as it was for me at 20. This will live inmortal. It is even popular in Russia and very popular in Ukraine. I still laugh every time I even think of this show and the numerous excerpts. Long live Monty Python!

    • @ninak.8966
      @ninak.8966 Před 9 měsíci +11

      True, Russian here, this movie and Life of Brian were my favourite in teenage years :) and there was computer game too!

  • @airsoftoperations7986
    @airsoftoperations7986 Před 6 lety +64

    No animals where harmed in the making of this video.

    • @quinnfletcher3906
      @quinnfletcher3906 Před 6 lety +11

      But two retainers were!

    • @Vaitamanu
      @Vaitamanu Před rokem +1

      I'm not sure, some fowls were real, and as fowls perhaps don't fly very well...
      And the cow, that we saw alive, was in very poor condition once on the ground.

    • @Jozii89
      @Jozii89 Před rokem +1

      I laughed at this because they had no horses (I thought that was the joke), until I saw the rest of the video 😅

    • @YTkplr
      @YTkplr Před rokem

      History of mankind teaches us the animals are still being trampled upon... Is that anything to laugh about...?!

  • @tesssear5627
    @tesssear5627 Před 6 lety +59

    "Ello? Who ees it?"
    The accent alone just cracks me up😂😂

  • @TigerBaron
    @TigerBaron Před 7 lety +218

    I just realized this, the French threw their food stock at the English lol.

    • @awaytosleep5762
      @awaytosleep5762 Před 5 lety +7

      A. Soldier Runaway!

    • @CLASSICALFAN100
      @CLASSICALFAN100 Před 3 lety +20

      Nope, it was normal to throw "offal" (garbage) at attacking troops, as well as the boiling oil...

    • @Thomas-yo2zu
      @Thomas-yo2zu Před rokem +24

      I don't remember the exact battle but there once was a siege in Portugal going on for too long, the defenders were at risk of starvation. They decided to actually throw part of the little food supply they still had over the wall. The besieging Spanish army growing tired and frustrated took it as "we have enough food to hold out forever" and the siege was abandoned (probably because the attacking army wrongly figured other castles would be easier to starve into submission.

    • @TigerBaron
      @TigerBaron Před rokem +3

      @@Thomas-yo2zu Yeah I kinda remember hearing something like that recently as well.

    • @prisonertrustfund2368
      @prisonertrustfund2368 Před rokem +5

      I was just realized the same thing,then i just saw your keen awareness like me thinking it outloud the algorithm hit out a response to it.if was them i woild heave gotten them to throw all of their food out then have a barbeque just out of catapault range and fan the party backnin their direction,screaming how terrible it was.

  • @elless4817
    @elless4817 Před 11 měsíci +71

    You know you’ve found the right partner when you both speak fluent Monty Python. Going on thirty years and it still makes me laugh when he calls me wicked, naughty Zute 😂 or asks me if there is anyone else he can talk to.

    • @stephansteohanlarsen7457
      @stephansteohanlarsen7457 Před 10 měsíci +8

      Tiz but a flesh wound 🍄🦡🍄🐄🍄🇬🇧🍄

    • @a.katherinesuetterlin3028
      @a.katherinesuetterlin3028 Před 10 měsíci +4

      Same with finding a platonic BFF. My friend Heidi's favorite bit from this movie was "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt like elderberries." She also happens to be a massive Mel Brooks fan. Gotta love her! 😁

    • @stephansteohanlarsen7457
      @stephansteohanlarsen7457 Před 10 měsíci +4

      @@a.katherinesuetterlin3028 blazing saddles is not for the timid

    • @elless4817
      @elless4817 Před 10 měsíci +2

      @@stephansteohanlarsen7457 “Someone’s gotta go back and get a shit-load of dimes!” or some version of that is what we say when we see something expensive. 😂

    • @stephansteohanlarsen7457
      @stephansteohanlarsen7457 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@elless4817 you are very clever with a sense of humor. Thank you for the reply. Black white, who cares One people One planet One love One destiny 😱🔥🍄🦁🍄⚡🍄🌹🍄🌍🍄

  • @tonybeards9153
    @tonybeards9153 Před rokem +162

    I watched this when I was 18 and quite drunk. I really couldn't stop laughing and nearly passed out🤣.Still funny all these years later

  • @MasterAnakinSkyWalker
    @MasterAnakinSkyWalker Před 6 lety +33

    I fart in the general direction of 25 people. Their mothers were hamsters, and their fathers smelled of elderberries

  • @R2Parmly
    @R2Parmly Před 5 lety +63

    "C'est un lapin!"
    "Hmm?"
    "It's a rabbit!"
    "Oui oui, un lapin!"
    "Allons y!"
    "Hmm?"
    "Let's go!"
    "Oui oui, allons y!"

    • @andresf1984
      @andresf1984 Před rokem +2

      « C’est un cadeau ! »
      “What?”
      “A present!”
      « Oui oui, un cadeau ! »

    • @paulsmith5752
      @paulsmith5752 Před 11 měsíci

      @@andresf1984 MoooooOOOOOOOOOooooo *splat*

  • @MoosefromCanada
    @MoosefromCanada Před rokem +137

    We had this on VHS in 1989 on an Army exercise that was 3 months long…..wanna hazard a guess how many times it played over and over again? english and French canadiens killing ourselves laughing! Never gets old 🤣👍🇨🇦

    • @pmacc3557
      @pmacc3557 Před rokem +1

      Are you still in British army?

    • @eligebrown8998
      @eligebrown8998 Před rokem +2

      VHS makes it even better

    • @MoosefromCanada
      @MoosefromCanada Před rokem +2

      @@pmacc3557 No I’m retired Cdn Army. I did serv with Britfor @ Camp Souter in Kabul

    • @pmacc3557
      @pmacc3557 Před rokem +1

      @@MoosefromCanada ok great you made it out in one piece 👍 how come soldiers were so silent the past couple of years?

    • @SgtMjr
      @SgtMjr Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@MoosefromCanada My buddy did a posting on Cyprus. One night he relieved a detail on a tower position and they re-enacted this scene line for line.

  • @stravinsky1300
    @stravinsky1300 Před 11 lety +452

    The very first time I saw this movie, the hardest I laughed was when the french launched the cow on the knights. I was literally on the floor with tears in my eyes. Love this scene :)

    • @fab_62
      @fab_62 Před rokem

      Moi aussi ! J'adore cette scène ! Pauvre vache !

    • @philip5940
      @philip5940 Před rokem +1

      Ten years ago I see . The Cow launch is when I stop the video and give a down vote .

    • @booze_talkin
      @booze_talkin Před rokem +15

      Dude. It wasn't a real cow.

    • @Acadian.FrenchFry
      @Acadian.FrenchFry Před rokem +18

      @@philip5940 You serious? You can't see it's a fake cow? 🤭

    • @philip5940
      @philip5940 Před rokem +2

      @@Acadian.FrenchFry well that's just great isn't it . AUKUS launched an eight years crusade in Iraq for freedom fries and we still have you die hards tagging yourself as French Fries .

  • @JGalt-em4xu
    @JGalt-em4xu Před rokem +9

    I love how King arthur's glorious knights spend most of their time running away

  • @Elizabeth-rq1vi
    @Elizabeth-rq1vi Před rokem +64

    Unfortunately as a teen I didn’t understand Monty Python & the flying circus humour until I met my future husband who (along with his roommate) were huge fans of MP. I had failed to suspend my reality belief mindset & once I did I love them. The parrot on the perch is my all time favourite. “If he wasn’t nailed to the bloody perch he’d be pushing up daisies”. Still cracks me up & I use it randomly in life.

  • @dianalee3059
    @dianalee3059 Před rokem +70

    The world is a better place for Monty Python players. Thank each and every one of you!

  • @thejollyg4mer
    @thejollyg4mer Před 5 lety +296

    This scene will go down as the greatest moment in cinematic history

    • @tdelphia1
      @tdelphia1 Před rokem +9

      Mmmmmm…I think it’s the sword fight with The Black Knight for me (‘tis but a scratch!) 😊

    • @juleswombat5309
      @juleswombat5309 Před rokem +5

      Yes it even makes Ben Hur look like an epic.

    • @randomgrinn
      @randomgrinn Před rokem +4

      Second after the being chased to death by topless women in Meaning of Life. Now that nudity is mysteriously scary, it will never be replicated.

    • @eastbaykidd8574
      @eastbaykidd8574 Před rokem +3

      "Is there someone else up there we can talk to?" 😆😆😆😆😆

    • @GregZO6
      @GregZO6 Před rokem +1

      No..."You have to answer for Santino, Carlo" is the pinnacle.
      That being said, there's room at the top!

  • @georgegarcia1445
    @georgegarcia1445 Před rokem +26

    "I fart in your general direction", always cracked me up.

  • @alphonsepetitboudu6552
    @alphonsepetitboudu6552 Před rokem +36

    En tant que Français j'apprécie beaucoup cet humour anglais. 😀

  • @gaufrid1956
    @gaufrid1956 Před 11 měsíci +92

    I don't know how many times I've watched this, but I still laugh out loud! "Pitchez la vache!" and "Run away! Run away!" get me every time.

    • @stephansteohanlarsen7457
      @stephansteohanlarsen7457 Před 10 měsíci +5

      Believe it's fechez la vache, get the 🐄 🍄🇬🇧🍄🦡🍄

    • @albertdewulf7688
      @albertdewulf7688 Před 10 měsíci +5

      "Cherchez" la vache you silly English poofs!

    • @stephansteohanlarsen7457
      @stephansteohanlarsen7457 Před 10 měsíci +3

      @@albertdewulf7688 it's not cherchez la vache. It's Fechez, la Vache. Fechez, get the cows. Cherchez, look for, search for the cows 🍄🌍🍄

    • @Lou1ouze
      @Lou1ouze Před 9 měsíci +8

      @@stephansteohanlarsen7457 I'm french and fechez doesn't mean anything, i think they did a mix between fetch and chercher ? Or that's you mean't already ?

    • @stephansteohanlarsen7457
      @stephansteohanlarsen7457 Před 9 měsíci

      @@Lou1ouze thanks, didn't know, took French for seven years and been to Paris three times and Normandie, mont Saint Michel, and Madagascar. It does sound like fechez to me..I love France 🍄

  • @drapermeaux9581
    @drapermeaux9581 Před 11 lety +29

    "what a strange person" lol

  • @MrDlt123
    @MrDlt123 Před rokem +27

    "I fart in your general direction!" - Always been my favorite line. 😆

  • @superhamzah85
    @superhamzah85 Před 11 lety +75

    "Your father smells of elderberries."
    shit just got real

    • @shawnv123
      @shawnv123 Před rokem

      you’re mother was a hamster

    • @edp3202
      @edp3202 Před rokem

      Elderberries stink?

    • @katem.2899
      @katem.2899 Před rokem

      @@edp3202 Elderberries apparently were used in alcohol, so basically the French guy is saying that his dad's a drunk. And the hamster was saying his mom's a whore. Some real shit lmao!

    • @edp3202
      @edp3202 Před rokem

      @@katem.2899 😣😨 😂

    • @sarpkaplan4449
      @sarpkaplan4449 Před rokem

      @@edp3202 i heard it refers to alcohol made by poor ppl, he basically said your mom is nypmho and your father is a poor drunkard

  • @kaklikful
    @kaklikful Před 8 lety +483

    i wish that movies like that were still made nowadays...
    edit: thanks for all the likes :D

    • @CLASSICALFAN100
      @CLASSICALFAN100 Před 5 lety +28

      The decline of the movie industry is DELIBERATE, the result of long-range planning by the Suits of Hollywood. The lower classes in America have greatly increased since 2007, and the Suits know that this "new audience" wants the Tried & True, not creativity! That's why we're getting comic book movies & cartoon (animated) movies instead of Monty Python, or The Usual Suspects,or Minority Report...RIP

    • @eyebeadswhat8440
      @eyebeadswhat8440 Před 4 lety

      You should say that in 2019

    • @ildart8738
      @ildart8738 Před 2 lety +6

      This the effect of "Balkanization of society"

    • @co94
      @co94 Před rokem +5

      Gobbledygook tinfoil response. A major reason why there arent many movies like this anymore is that movies have become so expensive to make. Studios cant afford to pour a ton of money into a film and it bombs at box office anymore. They used to be able to tolerate that. Studios now prefer franchises or similar because there is a reliable fan base which guarantees viewers. It gets boring though.
      Audiences also want perfection in movies now so that means off the rails expenses with things like CGI etc. Cant make a silly movie like this without 10,000 people trying to criticize it either. “Theres no way the Black Knight could charge a second time having lost that much blood…”

    • @kaklikful
      @kaklikful Před rokem +8

      @@co94 but it was just a flesh wound!

  • @Murph_.
    @Murph_. Před rokem +97

    Monty Python. How brilliant were they? This was so many years ago, and people still laugh at it, talk about it... they are still relevant today. Now that's comedy at its very best.

    • @mandoz5441
      @mandoz5441 Před 9 měsíci +1

      Monty Python was funded by Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin

  • @babygiraffe123
    @babygiraffe123 Před 3 lety +23

    "I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries!" 😂😂😂😂

  • @ArchieFatcackie
    @ArchieFatcackie Před rokem +18

    “I fart in your general direction” creases me up.

  • @MiamiSpartan1
    @MiamiSpartan1 Před rokem +54

    60 years old and I can still remember all the lines. 😂😂

    • @diederikklumper1180
      @diederikklumper1180 Před 11 měsíci +5

      67, me... Same deal. Quite possibly the most quotable texts in the English language.

  • @Peter_1986
    @Peter_1986 Před 6 lety +88

    I love how casual Arthur looks at 6:28 right after screaming "Run away!" - he is like "okay, I have spoken my line, now let's go and have lunch". xD

  • @ac8907
    @ac8907 Před rokem +27

    I am french and I always loved their sens of humour…... 🤣

  • @VinnyDaQ
    @VinnyDaQ Před 11 lety +39

    Of course...the old Trojan Rabbit trick!

  • @steeldriver1776
    @steeldriver1776 Před rokem +34

    This clip was the only knowledge of French people I had when I arrived in Paris. It wasn't wrong.

  • @slicksnewonenow
    @slicksnewonenow Před rokem +28

    Knowing now how much history has been embellished, I'd bet a nickel that THIS is just about how most things really went back then.

    • @jeffphakenewz8556
      @jeffphakenewz8556 Před rokem

      I believe the scene of building the rabbit was actual footage from hundreds of years ago.

    • @slicksnewonenow
      @slicksnewonenow Před rokem +2

      @@jeffphakenewz8556 yep... Probably authentic.🤣

  • @thomasoaxaca3379
    @thomasoaxaca3379 Před rokem +11

    They showed this on movie night at college. My roommate and I went around speaking like them for weeks.

  • @christhompson9819
    @christhompson9819 Před rokem +183

    Holy Grail and Life of Brian were simply the funniest things I've ever seen. The TV shows were funny but a lot of rubbish to get to the one or two brilliant sketches in each half hour whereas those two films never let up from start to finish.

    • @jackgrant9301
      @jackgrant9301 Před rokem +7

      The meaning of life is my favourite. I love the catholics vs the protestants and the fish are freaky! And death, who hates English and Americans 🤣

    • @mikehedrick7223
      @mikehedrick7223 Před rokem +10

      In the ''Life of Brian" they explained how you could be a woman even if you are a man. 🤣

    • @rabbitrabbit1243
      @rabbitrabbit1243 Před rokem +6

      They never get old
      I laugh everytime
      It's funny cause we all know the lines but we still laugh now that's true comedy
      it's timeless.

    • @cocksure8430
      @cocksure8430 Před rokem +4

      The Jabberwoky!!

    • @elless4817
      @elless4817 Před 10 měsíci

      Blessed are the cheese makers! What’s so special about the cheese makers? Well, it’s not suppose to be taken literally 🙄 it’s all manufactures of dairy products, of course.

  • @sandee3073
    @sandee3073 Před rokem +20

    That cow flying through the air bellowing will always be my favorite part!

    • @catherinehubbard1167
      @catherinehubbard1167 Před 8 měsíci +1

      It’s how the French make authentic whipped cream. Would have been a great educational segment on one of the Julia Child cooking shows.

  • @robertjanko6709
    @robertjanko6709 Před rokem +31

    30 years ago me and a friend visited a castle near Carcassone. We were standing on top of the castle wall, when he sarted shouting at invisible dumb englishmen with a french accent. I almost fell off the wall laughing.

    • @Trucmuch
      @Trucmuch Před 11 měsíci +2

      Did you do it in Carcassonne because there is this myth about them throwing a pig at the enemy during a siege?

  • @Jdwify
    @Jdwify Před rokem +95

    There are so many great scenes in this movie that I can't possibly count them. I always liked the scene where the 2 peasants are talking as King Arthur rides by and one peasant says, "He must be a king or something". The second peasant says, "How can you tell?" causing the first peasant to reply, "He hasn't got sh*t all over him." Then there's the stuff about the Knights who say Knee, or the knight with his arms and legs cut off. I must have seen this movie like 100 times as a teenager when cable was in its infancy and the movie could be run uncut and unedited. Damn, Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail was funny as hell.

    • @dianadurr-ramsey567
      @dianadurr-ramsey567 Před rokem +4

      I always liked the killer rabbit skit, having to answer the questions 3 and the other side you'll see. What is your favorite color; " red I mean blue and the knight flys into the air

    • @df5295
      @df5295 Před rokem +7

      Bring out your dead!
      But I'm not dead yet! 🤣

    • @mooncat.787
      @mooncat.787 Před rokem

      Which part of the clip is funny ?

    • @splaticusmax4576
      @splaticusmax4576 Před rokem +3

      My fave line was. He must be a king...Why? He ain't got shit all over im.🤣💩💩🤣

    • @bobbiebeck5361
      @bobbiebeck5361 Před 11 měsíci +2

      The Knights who say Ni are utterly absurd and I love it! Fetchez la vache!

  • @SantiagoAgnes
    @SantiagoAgnes Před 11 lety +21

    When in doubt throw random shit at your enemies.

  • @eriksatieofficiel
    @eriksatieofficiel Před rokem +12

    "What a strange person"
    Gets me every time.

    • @kdrapertrucker
      @kdrapertrucker Před 10 měsíci +1

      Typical reaction when one meets a Frenchman for the first time.

    • @eriksatieofficiel
      @eriksatieofficiel Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@kdrapertrucker me when I see myself in the mirror every morning

  • @gsmookler
    @gsmookler Před rokem +8

    I love how one of the Frenchman who goes out to get the rabbit doesn't understand French.

  • @thesavagewombat6867
    @thesavagewombat6867 Před rokem +8

    This is the greatest taunting scene of all time.

    • @jeffphakenewz8556
      @jeffphakenewz8556 Před rokem

      If memory serves, the Geneva Convention now prohibits farting in one's general direction.

  • @efnissien
    @efnissien Před rokem +24

    I love the way Sir Galahad uses the tried and tested question when dealing with someone who may be a little 'Special' - "Is there someone else up there we can talk to?" There are just so many great gags & it's endlessly quotable.

    • @NickHarman
      @NickHarman Před rokem +2

      And an excellent pause before he says it.

    • @efnissien
      @efnissien Před rokem +3

      @@NickHarman Superlative writing & delivery.
      It also helps that it's delivered by the well meaning Galahad (Michael Palin).

    • @aldobonaso3481
      @aldobonaso3481 Před 9 měsíci +2

      "No! Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!"

    • @efnissien
      @efnissien Před 9 měsíci

      @@Jason-rp3jg You're mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

  • @kellyyork3898
    @kellyyork3898 Před rokem +11

    “Run away! Run away!” Gets me every time.

  • @deloreshilton3349
    @deloreshilton3349 Před 9 měsíci +6

    I’m 83 and The Search for the Holy Grail has always be something I always have enjoyed. I never did find out what a elderberry smelled like tho!! Nothing today can beat this for great humor.

    • @priscillaroberts7945
      @priscillaroberts7945 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Interesting-ish fact about Elderberries. Blackbirds love eating them following which their shit is purple.

  • @paulhermes9817
    @paulhermes9817 Před rokem +5

    I made sure all my sons saw this movie before they went off to college, this was in the 2010-2016 time frame, still current sophomoric humor all these generations later.

  • @DH-oq9sz
    @DH-oq9sz Před 7 lety +56

    What are these French guards doing in Winterfell?

  • @dr.killmoretreeratologist8848
    @dr.killmoretreeratologist8848 Před 10 měsíci +3

    The fact that instead of yelling, "RETREAT! RETREAT!", he yelled, "RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!!" 😆🤣😂

  • @bryanwfields2191
    @bryanwfields2191 Před rokem +8

    The first time I saw the cow fly over the wall 40 years ago I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe.

  • @dianadurr-ramsey567
    @dianadurr-ramsey567 Před rokem +5

    I love the "horses", I read they couldn't afford horses so they used coconuts, this added to the humor.

  • @TisEyerish1
    @TisEyerish1 Před 11 měsíci +16

    They're still funny after all these years!

    • @mandoz5441
      @mandoz5441 Před 9 měsíci +1

      Monty Python was funded by Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin

    • @TisEyerish1
      @TisEyerish1 Před 9 měsíci

      @@mandoz5441 If this is true, that's very impressive! Nice to know they did something so great with their money!

    • @mandoz5441
      @mandoz5441 Před 9 měsíci

      @TisEyerish1 i believe Genesis also helped with financing the movies....low budget....they didn't use real horses cause they couldn't afford them...they also used local college students as actors

  • @jimcy1319
    @jimcy1319 Před rokem +23

    That's still more accurate than the way they teach history in school today.

  • @Don-xc7mq
    @Don-xc7mq Před rokem +28

    Gold !! Never ceases to bring massive laughter. The whole film is a gem!!

  • @Rod_I._Rigo
    @Rod_I._Rigo Před rokem +7

    What cracks me up is when they're being doused with livestock, Sir Lancelot runs back one more time to take a swipe at the castle.
    Now That's bravery

  • @EmilyEvans
    @EmilyEvans Před 11 lety +18

    "Un cadeau..."
    "What?"
    "A present"
    "Oh, un cadeau, oui, oui"
    "Allons-y"
    "What?"
    "Let's go"
    "Oh"
    I adore this conversation :D

  • @seank2894
    @seank2894 Před rokem +8

    One of the finest films ever produced.

  • @whaddoiknow6519
    @whaddoiknow6519 Před rokem +20

    Must have seen this a hundred times. Never gets old.

    • @mobilegameplaywalkthroughs990
      @mobilegameplaywalkthroughs990 Před rokem

      It already felt old the first time I saw it about 30 years ago. But none-the-less memorable and immensely quotable. This scene was always my favourite part. "I told him we already got one!" Nice to see it again.

  • @hige5678
    @hige5678 Před 12 lety +24

    You know when the French are serious.They start throwing live stock.

  • @ytugtbk
    @ytugtbk Před 10 měsíci +19

    One of the best moments in all of their movies. The writing was genius.

  • @kevindelaney1952
    @kevindelaney1952 Před rokem +12

    One of the funniest moves ever. Feeling down? Watch this & laugh.

  • @Larsgman
    @Larsgman Před 4 měsíci +2

    The “i fart in your general direction “ absolutely split my sides first time i heard that line

  • @princessthyemis
    @princessthyemis Před 11 lety +24

    "I shall taunt you a second time!!!"
    love it! XD

  • @lonestar6709
    @lonestar6709 Před 5 lety +26

    _"If you do not agree to my commands, then I shall....JESUS CHRIST!"_

    • @jeffphakenewz8556
      @jeffphakenewz8556 Před rokem

      Just one of many great lines... on a quest for "God"... and several times throughout the movie, the King exclaims "JESUS CHRIST!!!"

  • @tomboyangel78
    @tomboyangel78 Před 13 lety +15

    "What are you doing in England?"
    "MIND YOUR OWN BEEZNESS!"

  • @timothytufts3093
    @timothytufts3093 Před rokem +17

    This scene and the coconut carrying swallows are the funniest things ever filmed. I laughed so hard the first time I saw it that I couldn't explain it to my wife (who hadn't seen it yet) later that night.

  • @handledeeznutz109
    @handledeeznutz109 Před rokem +45

    I remember my sophomore history teacher played this movie for us towards the end of the year and I was the literal only person laughing the whole way through, I was also stoned but I doubt those two things corollate.

    • @tommyhaynes9157
      @tommyhaynes9157 Před rokem +1

      No, no way

    • @jeffphakenewz8556
      @jeffphakenewz8556 Před rokem

      Purely coincidental.

    • @Nancy-tr5fi
      @Nancy-tr5fi Před 11 měsíci +1

      Of course your senses were fortunately altered to allow the intelligence and un paralleled humorists ever, to penetrate your mind. Lucky for you. To this day they reign as Best!

    • @adrianpeters2413
      @adrianpeters2413 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Allways watched python on acid , perfect sence , allways , the programs after did not , and never have since ..... thank you .....

  • @ArchieFatcackie
    @ArchieFatcackie Před rokem +4

    “Is there anybody else up there we can talk to”😂

  • @pjdiver3
    @pjdiver3 Před rokem +24

    I love that their plan was to smash the brick wall with their swords until it collapsed

    • @Vaitamanu
      @Vaitamanu Před rokem +2

      You cracked me up as well as the Monty Python. I mean, attacking the (rock solid) wall with swords is symbolic (in the movie); but on second though it is completly stupid.
      The wood rabbit could have worked...

  • @lawrencefoster5855
    @lawrencefoster5855 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Whenever I discuss a new possession I'm happy with I always try to say "Oh, yes, its very nice" at some point😄. Nearly died laughing at this scene the first time I saw this movie.

  • @user-yj6nn4ut3o
    @user-yj6nn4ut3o Před 3 měsíci +4

    Arthur: "If you do not agree to my commands, then I shall-"
    *French launches a cow at them*
    Arthur: "JEEEEESUS CHRRRRIST!!!"
    I don't know how you can watch that and not laugh your ass off.

  • @davidburcar7620
    @davidburcar7620 Před rokem +12

    One of my favorite Monty Python movie scenes.

  • @soundsof...
    @soundsof... Před 8 měsíci +2

    they way they attack the castle, hitting the wall... just perfect ! 😂😂😂

  • @TifleTifle-xd2pf
    @TifleTifle-xd2pf Před rokem +5

    “Run away, run away.” I still say it to this day.

  • @sneakycheetah94
    @sneakycheetah94 Před 11 lety +16

    You gotta love John Cleese

  • @Rachel-ul8et
    @Rachel-ul8et Před rokem +4

    My neighbors built a full sized giant replica of that rabbit. It is hilarious

  • @shazshanaa6425
    @shazshanaa6425 Před 8 měsíci +4

    One of my all time favorite Monty Python scenes. Still makes me laugh all these years later.

  • @davidsigalow7349
    @davidsigalow7349 Před rokem +3

    "The ferocity of the French taunting caught King Arthur completely by surprise." - The Historian from "Spamalot".

  • @grumpynold
    @grumpynold Před rokem +128

    grew up with this. we (my family) know many of these and still do the lines.
    even at the hospital when my dad was dying.

    • @hisbigal
      @hisbigal Před rokem +5

      Was he also singing Look on the Bright Side of Life? I’m not trying to make light of your father’s passing, but it was just a thought.

    • @veganath
      @veganath Před rokem +16

      @@hisbigal lol... My Mum passed away last year, & if we children didn't joke about it we would have been in breach of our dear Mum's wishes, i.e. not to cry. So we all confirmed with each other that she was resting(NOT), deceased, passed on, ceased to be, no more, shes expired & has gone to see her maker. Then we bloody broke into a chorus of *_"Always look on the Bright Side of Life". _* My nephew who is in the Navy consoled us all, saying that the worst things happen at sea.....lol. God I hope Mum wasn't disappointed with her send off.... RIP Mum.... but never forget to laugh

    • @sharondunn7531
      @sharondunn7531 Před rokem +9

      When I was talking to the priest about my Mom's eulogy, I told him how much she loved Python and he mentioned it during the service. I would have loved to have "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life" played at the end, but Catholics don't have a sense of humour about funerals.

    • @catholicdad
      @catholicdad Před rokem +2

      That's the kind of Happy Death I pray to St Joseph for.
      Your father was blessed and you were part of that blessing. What a comfort that was for him

    • @catholicdad
      @catholicdad Před rokem +1

      @@sharondunn7531 Sure we do, just not within the context of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass--Jesus taking Center stage & all.

  • @bhmch39
    @bhmch39 Před rokem +17

    According to my dad, this is historically accurate.

    • @jonelfilipek7848
      @jonelfilipek7848 Před rokem +2

      The research is sound.

    • @MD-zq9oh
      @MD-zq9oh Před rokem

      Your dad must be very old

    • @JLee-rt6ve
      @JLee-rt6ve Před 11 měsíci +1

      Did he smell of elderberries at the time?

    • @bhmch39
      @bhmch39 Před 11 měsíci

      @@JLee-rt6ve I asked my mother that question several times, but I never understood her reply.
      She would just twitch the end of her nose at me - wiggle her whiskers, and then run on that damn wheel consistently.

  • @louise4217
    @louise4217 Před 9 měsíci +3

    Ah, Monty Python...much missed, forever hilarious 😂 🥰😝

  • @charlie6629
    @charlie6629 Před 9 měsíci +7

    This is timelessly funny. No matter how many times I've seen it I still laugh

  • @JamesBrewster-ct8gw
    @JamesBrewster-ct8gw Před rokem +11

    the first time i saw this movie i was i grade school and its still funny 45 years later i've seen it more than 100 times