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Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
 
Oy! Your french right?

Qui!

Then what are you goin in England?

Mind your own business!

..........................................

I stick up my nose at you! I pass gas in your genral direction! Now go away or I shall taunt you again!

..........................................

Whats your favorite color?

Blue, no yellow. *dies*

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Thou shall count to three, now more, no less, not four, not two, and most defenitley not five! If you reach seven thou hast gone too far.

One, two, five!

Three sah!

Ah yes, three.

.........................................

About this time the animator had a sudden heart attack.

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Give us your shrubbery madam!

No!

Please.

No!

Ni! Ni! Ni! *woman dies*

I am Peter seller of shrubbery.

.......................................

*Lancelot kills entire court*

You just killed my entire guest list!

Oh, sorry, sometimes I get a little carried away.

.......................................

Bring out ye dead, bring out ye dead.

Oy! I'm not dead yet! In fact I'm feeling quite chipper, I'd like some tea.

Sut up! *kills*

......................................

What are yours?

[ January 05, 2004, 03:46 PM: Message edited by: Rhaegar The Fool ]
 
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
 
Dona eis requiem... *THWACK!*

--

He's not the messiah! He's a very naughty boy!!

--

"You are all individuals!"

"We are all individuals..."

"You are all different!!!"

"We are all different..."
"I'm not!"

--

The whole coconut scene, I'm sure if I had a script, I could quote it much better... but it's definitely one of the best parts!

--

"Hey, old woman!"

"I'm not a woman, I'm a man!!"

"Oh, sorry... hey, old man!"

"I'm not old! I'm 37."

"Well, I can't just call you 'man!'"

"My name's Dennis!"

"Well, how was I supposed to know that?"

"Didn't bother to ask, did you?!"

--

"I'm Arthur, King of the Britons!"

"King of the who?"

--

"Burn the witch!!!! Burn the witch!!"

"How do you know she's a witch?"

"She turned me into a newt!!"

"A newt!?"

"Well, I got better..."
 
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
 
Shame Raia, posting here, but not stealing the last thread, and get online for once, you haven't been on since you got back, stay on, I wan't to say Hi, but no that I'v said that its kindof pointless isn'tit. Oh Bullocks!
 
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
 
Life's a piece of ****,
When you look at it.
Life's a laugh and death's a joke it's true.
You'll see it's all a show,
Keep 'em laughing as you go,
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

So always look on the bright side of life,
***whistle***
Always look on the right side of life
***whistle***
 
Posted by HenryW (Member # 6053) on :
 
The Argument clinic:

"This is not an argument"

"Is to"

"This not an argument, it is simple contradiction"

"Is not"

"Is to"
 
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
 
quote:
Shame Raia, posting here, but not stealing the last thread, and get online for once
I was online from the MINUTE I got home!!! YOU weren't!! And then you got on, and then you were off again!

--

"How many have passed through already?"

"Forty f-f-... Forty f-f... Forty six, sir."
 
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
 
I also love the haggling scene in Life of Brian, but I can't quote it exactly.
 
Posted by BelladonnaOrchid (Member # 188) on :
 
'Come see the violence inherent in the system! Come see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!'
 
Posted by Mad Ogre (Member # 6071) on :
 
"I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition."
 
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
 
No one ever expects the Spanish Inquisistion!! [Evil Laugh]
 
Posted by BYSOAL (Member # 3846) on :
 
Picking up in the middle of the Dead Parrot Sketch...

quote:
Mr. Praline: Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.

(pause)

Owner: Well, o'course it was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed that bird down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its beak, and VOOM! Feeweeweewee!

Mr. Praline: "VOOM"?!? Mate, this bird wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised!

Owner: No no! 'E's pining!

Mr. Praline: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!

I highly recommend the skit for HS talent contests, if you can do the accents...

B.Y.S.O.A.L.
 
Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
 
My favorite is in 'The Meaning of Life'. Just... the entire movie. But especially the whole sing-along scene about 'every sperm is sacred'. That just gets me [ROFL] EVERY time.
 
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
 
Confuse the... cat.
 
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
Rhaegar, I'm pretty sure it's some sort of Hatrack crime to start a "favorite quotes" thread and then get every single one of them wrong.
 
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
 
Mayday: [ROFL] Yeah!

"Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is good
Every sperm is needed in your neighborhood.

Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great
If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate!"
 
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
 
Of course they brought forth Juniper berries, they're Juniper bushes!
 
Posted by ae (Member # 3291) on :
 
'This calls for immediate. . . discussion!'
 
Posted by amira tharani (Member # 182) on :
 
Can I post a Fawlty Towers quotation? It's not Monty Python, but it IS John Cleese.

"Will you please stop mentioning the war?"

"You started it!"

"No we didn't!"

"Yes you did, you invaded Poland!"
 
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
 
We have your shrubbery oh Knights Who Say Ni.

We are no longer the Knights Who Say Ni, we are he Knights Who Say Poooooowaaaaadooooping.

Oh, Knights Who Until Very Recently Said Ni, we have your shrubbery, do you like it?

Yes, yes, I like the foliage.

......................................

So your saying the the sparrows actually carry the coconuts from Africa?

.......................................

Hey, I came here for an argument!

Oh, terribly sorry, this is abuse, arguents two doors down.

Oh, thanks.

Not at all, now get out scumbag!

.......................................
 
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
 
[Laugh] Frisco--at first I was thinking something similar, but his quotes were so consistently just a bit off that I think he must have been joking with us.

Here's one of my favorite sketches:
**************************************************
(Scene: a wartime RAF station)

Jones: Morning, Squadron Leader.
Idle: What-ho, Squiffy.
Jones: How was it?
Idle: Top-hole. Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father;
hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy,
flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie.
Jones: Er, I'm afraid I don't quite follow you, Squadron Leader.
Idle: It's perfectly ordinary banter, Squiffy. Bally Jerry, pranged his kite
right in the how's-your-father; hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered
back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers and
caught his can in the Bertie.
Jones: No, I'm just not understanding banter at all well today. Give us it
slower.
Idle: Banter's not the same if you say it slower, Squiffy.
Jones: Hold on then -- Wingco! -- just bend an ear to the Squadron Leader's
banter for a sec, would you?
Chapman: Can do.
Jones: Jolly good. Fire away.
Idle: Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father;
hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy,
flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie.

Chapman: No, I don't understand that banter at all.
Idle: Something up with my banter, chaps?

AIR RAID SIRENS
(Enter Palin, out of breath)

Palin: Bunch of monkeys on the ceiling, sir! Grab your egg-and-fours and
let's get the bacon delivered!
Chapman (to Idle): Do *you* understand that?
Idle: No -- I didn't get a word of it.
Chapman: Sorry, old man, we don't understand your banter.
Palin: You know -- bally tenpenny ones dropping in the custard!
(no reaction)
Palin: Um -- Charlie choppers chucking a handful!
Chapman: No no -- sorry.
Jones: Say it slower, old chap.
Palin: Slower *banter*, sir?
Chapman: Ra-ther.
Palin: Um -- sausage squad up the blue end?
Idle: No, still don't get it.
Palin: Um -- cabbage crates coming over the briny?
The others: No, no.

(Film of air-raid)

Idle (voice-over): But by then it was too late. The first cabbage crates hit
London on July the 7th. That was just the beginning.

(Chapman seen sitting at desk, on telephone)

Chapman: Five shillings a dozen? That's ordinary cabbages, is it? And what
about the bombs?... Good Lord, they _are_ expensive.

**************************************************

As for single line exchanges, I've always been fond of this one:

Undertaker: Look, we'll eat your mum. Then, if you feel a bit guilty about it
afterwards, we can dig a grave and you can throw up into it.
Man: All right.

[ January 06, 2004, 01:36 PM: Message edited by: Noemon ]
 
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
 
I never wanted to do this in the first place. I wanted to be...

A Lumberjack!
 
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
 
Good evening. Tonight on World Forum we are deeply privileged to have with us Karl Marx, the founder of modern socialism and author of the Communist Manifesto, Vladimir Ilitj Ulyanov, better known to the world as Lenin, leader of the Russian Revolution, writer, statesman, and father of modern socialism, Che Guevara, the Bolivian guerilla leader, and Mao Tse-tung, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party since 1949.

And the first question is for you, Karl Marx. "The Hammers." "The Hammers" is the nickname of what English football team?
 
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
 
I never saw the uundertaker one, thats pretty good. Does anyone else remember the ordinary man with a tape recorder up his nose, who was later joined by his brother?

I think the opening went something like this.

And now, something totaly different, and ordinary man with a tape recorder up his nose.
 
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
 
Psst, Raegar, that's "And now for something completely different. A man with a tape recorder up his nose".

That's followed by "And now for something even more completely different, a man with a tape recorder up his brother's nose"

That, in turn, is followed by "and now, in stereo"
 
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
 
It has to be a joke.

Rhaegar even misspelled "totally".
[Wink]
 
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
 
I've always like the Piranha Brothers sketch. One of my favorite bits from it is "Doug was keen on boxing, but when he learned to walk he took up putting the boot in the groin. He was very interested in that.

His mother had a terrible job getting him to come in for tea. Putting his little boot in he'd be, bless him. All the kids were like that then, they didn't have their heads stuffed with all this Cartesian dualism."

[ January 06, 2004, 04:22 PM: Message edited by: Noemon ]
 
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
 
quote:
Dimsdale?

 
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
 
You know, I used to have pretty much the entire run of Flying Circus memorized. Looking back, that seems pretty amazing to me. I mean, I knew the banter from the banter sketch, I knew the complete "composer with the ridiculously long name sketch", I knew Mr. Smoketoomuch's full diatribe; imagine what I could have learned if I'd applied myself to academics with the same gusto as I did Monty Python.
 
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
 
ha! found a script for the sheep that think they're birds sketch:

Tourist: Only, what are they doing up in the
trees?

Shephrd: A fair question and one that in recent weeks 'as been much on
my mind. It's my considered opinion that they're nestin'.

Tourist: Nesting?

Shephrd: Aye.

Tourist: Like birds?

Shephrd: Exactly. It's my belief that these sheep are laborin' under
the misapprehension that they're birds. Observe their be'avior.
Take for a start the sheeps' tendency to 'op about the field
on their 'ind legs. Now witness their attmpts to fly from
tree to tree. Notice that they do not so much fly as...plummet.

<Baaa baaa... flap flap flap ... whoosh ... thud.>

Tourist: Yes, but why do they think they're birds?

Shephrd: Another fair question. One thing is for sure, the sheep is not
a creature of the air. They have enormous difficulty in the
comparatively simple act of perchin'.
<Baaa baaa... flap flap flap ... whoosh ... thud.>
Trouble is, sheep are very dim. Once they get an idea in their
'eads, there's no shiftin' it.

Tourist: But where did they get the idea?

Shephrd: From Harold. He's that most dangerous of creatures, a clever
sheep. 'e's realized that a sheep's life consists of standin'
around for a few months and then bein' eaten. And that's a
depressing prospect for an ambitious sheep.

Tourist: Well why don't just remove Harold?

Shephrd: Because of the enormous commercial possibilities if 'e succeeds.

Ni!

[ January 06, 2004, 04:57 PM: Message edited by: kwsni ]
 
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
 
Ahhhh English Comedy at its finest.

There are so many good Monty Python lines...

but I can't think of a one right now.

Would a line from Benny Hill do?

well, with Benny Hill its more of a curve than a line.

And its usually a set of curves.

never mind.
 
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
 
quote:
Can I post a Fawlty Towers quotation? It's not Monty Python, but it IS John Cleese.

"Will you please stop mentioning the war?"

"You started it!"

"No we didn't!"

"Yes you did, you invaded Poland!"

[ROFL] I LOVE Fawlty Towers!!!

How about this one:

"And another thing! I asked for a room with a view!"

"(to Manuel) Deaf, mad and blind... (to Mrs. Richards) This is the view as far as I can remember madam! Yes, this is it!"

"Well, it's not good enough."

"May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel window? Sydney opera house, perhaps... the hanging gardens of babylon... herds of wildebeeste sweeping majestically..."

"Don't be silly. I expect to be able to see the sea."

"You CAN see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky!"

"I need a telescope to see that!"

"Well, might I suggest you move to a hotel closer to the sea! (quietly) Or preferably in it!"

"I'm not satisfied, but I have decided to stay here. However! I shall expect a reduction!"

"Why, because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?!"

"Because the room is too cold, the bath is too small, the view is invisible, and the radio doesn't work."

"No, the radio works, you don't."

"What?"

"I think I can fix it, (quietly-ish) you scabby old bat!"

[ROFL]

That's one of my favorite exchanges. But there are MANY more.
 
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
 
"Bring in the Comfy-Chair"

"Nooo!!, Not the Comfy Chair"
 
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
 
"How can you tell he's a king?"
"'Cause he ain't got sh-- all over 'im!"

and

"I'm not quite dead yet!"
 
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
 
More osbcurely:

"Wait a minute... this is MY blood!"
 
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
 
I've been thinking about that sketch since yesterday, thanks to the blood donation thread! I've been resisting the urge to post there asking if I can donate urine.

By the way Raia, the Fawlty Towers episode you're quoting is my single favorite of the show's entire run. Great stuff!

Lemon Curry?
 
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
 
"Your majesty is like a stream of Bat's piss."

Edited to add quotes

[ January 07, 2004, 11:10 PM: Message edited by: Glenn Arnold ]
 
Posted by Valkyrie (Member # 5980) on :
 
To many to name just one. [Monkeys]
 
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
 
quote:
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?


 
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
 
Oh god, I had totaly forgotten that line, hehehe.

A nods as good as a wink to a blind bat.

*chortle*
 
Posted by Argèn†~ (Member # 4528) on :
 
"Very small rocks."
 
Posted by jehovoid (Member # 2014) on :
 
"We were lucky if we could afford a cup of tea!"

"Without lemon."

"Or milk."

"Or tea!"
 
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
 
"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."
 
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
 
"But I don't want spam!"

"Well, weve got eggs, cheese, eggs, spam and spam."

"Spam, spam, eggs, and spam."

"Spam, spam, spam, spam, eggs, spam, and spam."

"But I don't want spam!"

"What do you mean you dont want spam?"

[ January 08, 2004, 03:22 PM: Message edited by: Rhaegar The Fool ]
 
Posted by Roland (Member # 5370) on :
 
Do you want to come around to my place?
 
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
 
If, that was a quote, put "s on it.
 
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
 
quote:
"Right! I had to get up in the morning, at ten o'clock at night, 'alf an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill and pay mill-owner for permission to come to work, and when we got 'ome, our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves, singing Hallelujah!"

"Oh, ay. And you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you!"



[ January 08, 2004, 03:44 PM: Message edited by: saxon75 ]
 
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
 
"We interrupt show jumping to bring you a news flash. The Second World War has now entered a sentimental stage. The morning on the Ardennes Front, the Germans started spooning at dawn, but the British Fifth Army responded by gazing deep in their eyes, and the Germans are reported to have gone 'all coy'."
 
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
 
"This worked out largely to my predictions, except that the Silly Party won. This is mostly due to the number of votes cast."

Palin: Good evening. Tonight we are speaking to one of the the nation's leading skin care specialists, Raymond Luxury Yacht.
Chapman (with an enormous polystyreme nose): That's not my name!
Palin: (pause) I'm sorry, Raymond Luxury YaCHt.
Chapman: No, no, it's spelled Raymond Luxury Yacht but it's pronounced "Thoatwobbler Mangrove."
Palin: You're a very silly man and I'm not going to interview you.
Chapan: Aha! Anti-Semitism!
Palin: Not at all! That's not even a proper nose, it's made of polystyrene. (pulls of nose)
Chapman: Give me back my nose!
Palin: No.
Chapman: I want to be on the television!
Palin: Well you can't.
 
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
 
"Trotsky! My lack of God, it's Trotsky!"
 


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