Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Difference between revisions

'''Galahad:''' ...Bet you're gay.<br />

'''Launcelot:''' Am not! }}

* [[Chekhov's Gag]]

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:

** Also, apparently the punishment for lighting the "Grail-shaped" beacon at the Castle Anthrax is for the offender to be tied to the bed and spanked. And after the spanking, the oral sex!

* [[Credits Gag]]

** The latter most of which {{spoiler|carries on into the end credits. (Or lack thereof.)}}

* [[Cryptic Conversation]]: Scene 24.

* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: The ending where Arthur's army {{spoiler|is arrested by modern-day police}}.

* [[Didn't Think This Through]]

* [[Dispense With the Pleasantries]]: God to King Arthur.

{{quote| '''God:''' Arthur! Arthur, King of the Britons! Oh, don't grovel! If there's one thing I can't stand, it's people groveling.<br />

'''Bedevere:''' Uh, Launcelot, Galahad, and I, uh, leap out of the rabbit, uh, and, uh.... ''(looks around at who are very obviously still standing next to him, and besides which are now openly [[Face Palm|facepalming]])'' l-look, if we built this large wooden badger... }}

* [[Face Palm]]: Upon recognizing a glaring flaw in the Trojan Rabbit plan.

* [[Fantasy-Forbidding Father]]

* [[Fear Is the Appropriate Response]]: Arthur and his remaining knights run away when the evil bunny kills some of them off.

* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: The Swamp Castle guards.

* [[Hand Signals]]: Several examples

* [[Having a Blast]]: Tim the Enchanter.

* [[Hiccup Hijinks]]: A guard in the first "Prince Herbert" scene.

* [[Hidden in Plain Sight]]: On his first encounter with the French Knights, there is an exchange where Arthur offers to let their leader accompany him on the quest for the holy grail. The Frenchman replies "Well I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen. He's already got one you see!" Arthur tries to break in, but is chased away and forgets about the exchange. At the end of the film, It turns out Castle Aarghhh [[Brick Joke|is the same Castle the French were in]], though Arthur approaches from the other side, across a lake this time, so he didn't recognize it at first.

** King Arthur's duel with the Black Knight.

** And in the scene with the Rabbit.

* [[Intermission]]

* [[Invisible Backup Band]]: Pops up whenever Herbert mentions wanting to sing.

* [[Just a Stupid Accent]]: John Cleese's taunting Frenchman [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade]]. Further played with when one of the French knights actually does speak French (or uses commonly known French words), and the other Frenchmen don't understand a word.

{{quote| '''Frenchman #1:''' C'est un cadeau!<br />

* [[A Light in The Distance]]: Castle Anthrax's Grail-shaped beacon.

* [[Literal Minded]]: Prince Herbert's guards are so literal in their interpretation of their orders that they allow Herbert to engineer his rescue because in the process he never does anything they were told to keep him from doing.

* [[Loud of War]]: "Ni! Ni!"

* [[Lovable Coward]]: Sir Robin

** Turned around on the knights, later. {{spoiler|They are drained of their will by the word "it".}}

*** Oddly enough, the knight says it at the top of the scene with no harm done, but then hits himself with it for damage during the fadeout.

* [[White Bunny]]: The Rabbit of Caerbannog.

* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]: The killer bunny of Caerbannog is defeated with a hand grenade once it is established that it can [[Curb Stomp Battle|kill the knights]] [[No Sell|easily]] in close-quarters combat.

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