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The anarchist peasant from Holy Grail was a political awakening for me.

The fact that their sketch use of "spam" made it into general usage.

I can't believe no one has mentioned my favorite running Python gag:

Judean People Front vs People Front of Judea. So many issues of today can be boiled down to that discussion.

Also, I kind of agree that everyone has the pholosophical right to be pregnant, even if it's not a possibility.

I'm torn between "every sperm is sacred" and the biggus dickus scene. Both make me laugh uncontrollably every time.

Crunchy frogs?

The entirety of Holy Grail, for starters. My high school history teacher said that it was one of the most realistic depictions of life in the Middle Ages ever put on film.

After that...

"What have the Romans ever done for us?"

"The roads!"

"Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads--"

...and...

"Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh."

Oof, too many to choose from. The first that came to my mind were the argument clinic and the cheese shop sketch.

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Biggus Dickus, I remember my dad cracking up over it the first time I saw Life of Brian (not his first time, obviously). And now, more than 15 years later we're still in tears when just mentioning the name or watching the scene for the x'th time

edit: Life of Brian, not Holy Grail... sleep induced brain didn't work that well anymore

The burn the witch sketch. I still show it to students to show how bad science and good science differ

A newt???

Earlier this morning, while reading the final Discworld novel, I came across this reference Terry Pratchett made to Monty Python. It’s not my favorite thing to come out of Monty Python, but it made me smile.

I can't narrow it down to one gag, but Holy Grail as a whole.

My top favourite is already the top most voted so I’ll just mention a few that I think are classics that I didn’t see on the list:

Sir robin bravely ran away

Holy hand grenade

The animator having a heart attack

Argument Clinic

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, song from Life of Brian

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar Who could think you under the table

David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raising of the wrist Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill

Plato, they say, could stick it away Half a crate of whiskey every day

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle Hobbes was fond of his dram

And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart "I drink, therefore I am."

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed

And now for something completely different...

No, no. None of that. It's silly now.

Television Announcer: And now, the penguin on top of your television set will explode. {BOOOM!} Watcher: How'd he know that? Television Announcer: It was an inspired guess.

The multiple layers of cognitive dissonance are wonderful.

Jokes, mostly.

Jokes and skits.

The programming language is pretty good

Four Yorkshiremen is an all-time classic sketch. Idk if it's my favorite but it's up there and nobody else mentioned it so 🤷‍♂️

"We would've DREAMED to have a hole in the ground!"

In my first year of high school I had Latin, which I hated with a passion. Before, I thought that it would boil down to learning some common words and sayings and proverbs, but no. It was learning latin as a foreign language. I don't think I was taught anything remotely as useless as that. And I really don't like the teacher and she didn't like me and it was truly awful and I hated every second of it. It was so awful that I had nightmares about it, even years after high school.

A couple (two I think) of years after that latin studies I saw the Life of Brian for the first time. I didn't know what I was going to see, so when the "romanus eunt domus" scene came. It wasn't just hilariously funny it was also cathartic.

So I'd say that. I remember that sketch almost by heart since the first time I saw it.

Mint?

Are you sure...? It's whaf-fah thin...

Sprints away

nugde nudge wink wink knowaddamean knowaddamean

And weirdly the Ministry of Silly Walks actually could actually be important in real life with the advent of automated Gait Analysis used to identify people.

BRING OUT YER DEAD!

The witch trial which explains duck typing perfectly.

A couple of lines from the The Man Who Says Words in the Wrong Order sketch.

"Sometimes at the end of a sentence I'll come out with the wrong fusebox. And the thing about saying the wrong word is a] I don't notice it, and b] sometimes orange water given bucket of plaster."

TheWrongFusebox was my reddit account for... well over a decade.

The meaning of life
Try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.

Pining for the fjords.

Quizmaster: Jolly good! Well now Madam your first question for the blow on the head this evening is: Which great opponent of Cartesian dualism resists the reduction of psychological phenomena to a physical state and insists there is no point of contact between the extended and the unextended?

Ratbag: I don’t know that.

Quizmaster: Well – have a guess!

Ratbag: Oh… Henri Bergson?

Quizmaster: …is the correct answer! (Piano chords)

Ratbag: Ooh, that was lucky. I never even heard of him.

1. the holly grail
2. python the programming language

Python, the programming language. At least the name

Raised Catholic so “Every Sperm is Sacred” has a special meaning to me.