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The movie opens with the unrelated [[Terry Gilliam]]-directed short film "The Crimson Permanent Assurance", the tale of accountant pirates who take on Wall Street. From there, we move on to the film proper, a series of sketches purporting to examine the Meaning of Life, arranged from "The Miracle of Birth" to "Death". But even this structure allows for stops examining "The Third World" and "Live Organ Transplants".
This is notable as ''by far'' the grossest of the Python films, via such highlights as the aforementioned "Live Organ Transplants" sketch and the restaurant scene featuring Mr. Creosote. That didn't stop it from receiving the Grand Prize of the Jury award at the 1983 [[Cannes Film Festival]], however.
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* [[Animated Credits Opening]]
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* [[Bad Liar]] / [[Blatant Lies]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|Oddly enough]], the two men dressed as a tiger have difficulty convincing anyone of their various stories about a) why they're dressed as a tiger and b) why they definitely ''didn't'' steal an officer's leg and run away with it.
{{quote|'''Major:''' Right. Search the thickets.
'''Man Dressed as the Front of a Tiger''': Oh, come on! I mean, do we look like [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|the sort of chaps who'd creep into a camp at night, steal into someone's tent, anaesthetise them, tissue-type them, amputate a leg and run away with it]]?
'''Major:''' ... '''''Search the thickets'''''. }}
* [[Bolt of Divine Retribution]]:
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{{quote|'''Grim Reaper:''' [I have come to] take you away. That is my purpose. I am Death.
'''Host:''' Well, that's cast rather a gloom over the whole evening, hasn't it?
'''[[Terry Gilliam|Howard]]:''' I don't see it that way, Geoff. Let me tell you what I think we're dealing with here: a potentially positive learning experience to get an--
'''Grim Reaper:''' Shut up! Shut up, you American. [[Lampshade Hanging|You always talk, you Americans.]] You talk and you talk and say "let me tell you something" and "I just wanna say this". Well, you're dead now, so shut up! }}
** French: The comically-accented maître d' and waiter in the "Mr. Creosote" sketch and its aftermath.
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** The Noel Cowardesque "Penis Song".
** And last but certainly not least, Mr. Creosote. "Better get the bucket..."
* [[Rugby Is Slaughter]]: A boarding school holds a rugby match pitting little boys against grown men. [[It Got Worse|As if that weren't brutal enough]], when a boy finally gets to make a try, a teacher trips him from the sidelines. To further underline the point, the scene segues directly into a [[World War
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: An Englishman's attempt to upbraid the Grim Reaper for his poor manners is met with this response:
{{quote|'''Grim Reaper:''' ''(poking him in the eye)'' Quiet! Englishmen, you're all so fucking [[British Stuffiness|pompous]]. None of you have got any balls.}}
* [[Smite Me,
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The "Galaxy Song", a cheery, happy-go-lucky tune, with vaguely upbeat lyrics about the wondrous vastness of the universe, that ends on a big downer about the [[Humans Are Morons|lack of intelligent life]] on Earth. It's sung right after a scene wherein a man has his liver harvested while he's still alive. Immediately after the song finishes, his wife agrees to undergo the process herself.
* [[Stupid Boss]]: The hospital administrator in "The Miracle of Birth".
{{quote|'''Administrator:''' And what are you doing this morning?
'''Obstetrician:''' It's a birth.
'''Administrator:''' Ah. And [[You Fail Biology Forever|what sort of thing is that]]?
'''Doctor Spenser:''' Well, that's when we take a new baby out of a lady's tummy.
'''Administrator:''' Wonderful what we can do nowadays! }}
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: The man in the front end of the tiger costume:
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