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Fridge Brilliance

• I always disliked the ending of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Even though it was a comedy, I always hoped they would resolve the story, but instead the film ends with the entire cast being arrested. But I realized: This ending is, quite literally, a "cop out" ending. It is genius!
  • This troper saw it also clever for a different reason. It's a creative license interpretation to how the Legend of King Arthur ended; he goes to a climatic final battle, and ultimately killed in it. Here, he and every knight on the field were all arrested, ending the 'modern' parody of the legend.
• "I'M - IN - VINCABLE!" Well, seeing as how he's still alive after all that, yes, yes he is.
• It took me a good long time to make the connection between the three minutes of blackness that ends the movie and the sacking of the credits staff at the beginning of the film.
• The Coconut Scene. The Python's accurately predicted the basic premise of every single Internet Fight over plot holes in media. You have Guard #1 who argues one side of the argument which makes the issue seem bigger than it really is. Guard #2 who argues the other side using one or two plausible in-verse explanations for the plot hole. And Arthur, who doesn't give a darn either way and wants to discuss something else with more significance.