Monty Python/Memes



And now for something completely different.

It's...

A set of memes from any given Monty Python production.

Monty Python's Flying Circus:

 * And now for something completely different.
 * He's not pining, he's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! This is a late parrot! He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!
 * The most prominent meme to emerge from the Parrot Sketch seems to be "pining for the fjords" which sets up the above Hurricane of Euphemisms.
 * NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!
 * Due to the fact that all Tabletop RPG sessions must, by law, contain a Python reference, whenever there's something called an Inquisition (or even similar to the Inquisition), nobody expects them.
 * Fetch... the comfy chair!
 * NO, NOT THE COMFY CHAIR!
 * "I got him to say 'comfy chair!'"
 * My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels.
 * Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.
 * Yes, but that's not just saying 'no, it isn't'!
 * Yes, it is!
 * No, it isn't!
 * No poin-ted stick?
 * SHUT UP.
 * "Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, LOVELY SPAM!! WONDERFUL SPAM!! LOVELY SPAM!! WONDERFUL SPAM!!" Yes, Monty Python unwittingly inspired the current usage of the word spam (As in spam e-mail: something irrelevant, repeated ad nauseum, not the meat product whose name they used)
 * Marching up and down the square... alone.
 * It's not particularly silly, is it? I mean, the right leg isn't silly at all and the left leg merely does a forward aerial half turn every alternate step.
 * Kick the beggar and insult the waiter.
 * "Dinsdale?"
 * The Colonel would appear in the middle of a sketch, declare it to be silly, and tell everyone to leave.
 * Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! ... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
 * So it was all a dream.
 * No, this is the dream, you are back in the cell.
 * Our two weapons are fear and surprise and a ruthless efficiency...
 * *nudge nudge* *wink wink*, say no more, say no more.
 * You lost me.
 * Oh, intercourse the penguin!
 * I want to apologize, humbly, deeply, and sincerely about the fork.
 * Oh please, it's only a tiny bit... I couldn't see it.
 * Ah, you're good kind fine people, for saying that, but I can see it...to me it's like a mountain, a vast bowl of pus!
 * The War Wound!
 * REVENGE!
 * Never kill a customer!
 * And now, the punchline:
 * Rule six: There is no rule six.
 * He's a lumberjack and he's OK.
 * But there is one meme that is never included with the greats. Why is it the world never remembered the name of Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern -schplenden -schlitter -crasscrenbon -fried -digger -dangle -dungle -burstein -von -knacker -thrasher -apple -banger -horowitz -ticolensic -grander -knotty -spelltinkle -grandlich -grumblemeyer -spelterwasser -kürstlich -himbleeisen -bahnwagen -gutenabend -bitte -eine -nürnburger -bratwustle -gerspurten -mit -zweimache -luber -hundsfut -gumberaber -shönendanker -kalbsfleisch -mittler -raucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?
 * Flying Fox of the Yard?!
 * I think that's in very bad taste. (pouty lips)
 * The Bishop!
 * Any references to Fish-slapping, especially the IRC command.
 * I am reliably informed that the word 'requisite' was quite a commonly used word until it became 'requisitttttttttte' to most student-types in the 1970s. And "Actually I'm a gynaecolologist but this is my lunch hour" was popular with doctors.
 * "I'm orf to play the grarnd piarno" seems to be popular with Mark Kermode on his and Simon Mayo's film show when referring to anything posh.
 * MY BRAIN HURTS!
 * But it's my only line!
 * Lemon curry?
 * I object to all this sex on the telly! I mean, I keep falling off!
 * With a melon?
 * Semprini?
 * Out!
 * Llamas are larger than frogs.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
"Mønti Pythøn ik den Hølie Gräilen"
 * Look, you stupid bastard. You've got no arms left.
 * Yes I have.
 * *Look*!
 * 'Tis just a flesh wound.
 * None shall pass!
 * Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
 * And There Was Much Rejoicing. (Yaaaaay...)
 * RUN AWAY!
 * Brave Sir Robin ran away...(No!)bravely ran away away...(I didn't!)When danger reared its ugly head/he bravely turned his tail and fled(I never did!)Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about/ and valiantly, he chickened out(Oh, you liars!)Bravely taking to his feet/he beat a very brave retreat/A brave retreat by brave Sir Robin.
 * One day, [unknown troper], all this will be yours.
 * What, the curtains?
 * Huge... tracts of land.
 * One, two, five!
 * Three sir!
 * THREE!
 * She turned me into a newt!
 * A newt?
 * I got better...
 * We are the Knights who say... *Ni!* And we want...a shrubbery!
 * Ni!
 * Shh!
 * NEEEEEE-WOOM!
 * We are now no longer the Knights who say *Ni!* We are now the Knights who say... Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG. Zoom-Boing. Z'nourrwringmm.
 * Ni!
 * You must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest... WITH... A HERRING!
 * Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem...*bonk!*
 * I *warned* you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you *knew*, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little *bunny*, isn't it?
 * "LOOK AT THE BONES!!!!"
 * That rabbit's dynamite!
 * Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Aramathia. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the holy grail in the Castle of Aaauuuggghhh...
 * Perhaps he was dictating.
 * The now-iconic opening credits. (Especially confusing for this finnish troper, when offered subs are in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish. He thought he had picked wrong subtitles or they were faulty.)

"Røtern nik Akten Di"

"Wik"

"Alsø wik"

"Alsø alsø wik"

"Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?"

"See the løveli lakes"

"The wøndërful telephøne system"

"And mäni interesting furry animals"

"The Characters and incidents portrayed and the names used are fictitious and any similarity to the names, characters, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional."

- Signed RICHARD M. NIXON

"Including the majestik møøse"

"A Møøse once bit my sister..."

"No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"..."

"Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti..."
 * We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.

"Møøse trained by YUTTE HERMSGERVØRDENBRØTBØRDA Special Møøse Effects OLAF PROT Møøse Costumes SIGGI CHURCHILL Møøse Choreographed by HORST PROT III Miss Taylor's Møøses by HENGST DOUGLAS-HOME Møøse trained to mix concrete and sign complicated insurance forms by JURGEN WIGG Møøses' noses wiped by BJØRN IRKESTØM-SLATER WALKER Large møøse on the left hand side of the screen in the third scene from the end, given a thorough grounding in Latin, French and "O" Level Geography by BO BENN Suggestive poses for the Møøse suggested by VIC ROTTER Antler-care by LIV THATCHER"
 * 'We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.

"Executive Producer JOHN GOLDSTONE & "RALPH" The Wonder Llama Producer MARK FORSTATER Assisted By EARL J. LLAMA MIKE Q. LLAMA III SY LLAMA MERLE Z. LLAMA IX Directed By 40 SPECIALLY TRAINED ECUADORIAN MOUNTAIN LLAMAS 6 VENEZUELAN RED LLAMAS 142 MEXICAN WHOOPING LLAMAS 14 NORTH CHILEAN GUANACOS (CLOSELY RELATED TO THE LLAMA) REG LLAMA OF BRIXTON 76000 BATTERY LLAMAS FROM "LLAMA-FRESH" FARMS LTD. NEAR PARAGUAY and TERRY GILLIAM & TERRY JONES"
 * The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked. The credits have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.


 * O Lord, bless this thy Holy Hand Grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy...
 * Who hath been deemed naughty in thine eyes, shall snuff it.
 * Now go away or this page shall taunt you a second time-a.
 * I'm not dead yet!
 * I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
 * ...Do you think this meme should have been cut? We were so worried when the boys were writing it. But now, we're glad! It's better than some of the previous memes, I think!
 * GET ON WITH IT!
 * Burn the witch!
 * It's only a model.
 * On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It's a very silly place.
 * I am your king. Well I didn't vote for you.
 * You don't vote for kings
 * Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
 * You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery bint threw a scimitar at you.
 * "Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"
 * "What, is your favorite color?" "Blue. no. wait, yelllooooooooooowwwwwwwwwww!"
 * "What, ridden on a horse?" "Yes." "You're using coconuts."
 * "Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?" "Not at all. They could be carried." "What, a swallow carrying a coconut?"
 * "It could be carried by an African swallow."

Life of Brian:

 * Always look on the bright side of life!
 * whistle~
 * He's not The Messiah. He's a very naughty boy!
 * All right! I'm the Messiah! Now, fuck off!
 * How shall we fuck off, O Lord?
 * You're all different! You're all individuals!
 * Yes, we are all different!
 * I'm not!
 * Shhhh!
 * Blessed Are the Cheesemakers.
 * "Domus"? Nominative?
 * I have a vewy gweat fwiend in Wome called "Biggus Dickus".
 * He wanks as high as any in Wome!
 * "Shall I throw him to the floor, sir?"
 * He has a wife, you know...
 * Alms for a leper!
 * Alms for an ex-leper!
 * What did Rome ever do for us?
 * The aqueduct?
 * I'm Brian, and so's my wife!

The Meaning of Life

 * "Eeeeeevery sperm is saaaaacred ~ !"
 * "I'm stuffed. I couldna eat anudduh bite."
 * It's only wafer thin...
 * But I didn't even have the Salmon Mousse!

I've noticed a tendency for this page of memes to get rather silly. Ni!