Monty Python is timeless.

They want to practice jumping the English Channel.

Always a great discovery. Have they watched Rocky and Bullwinkle? They are the right age to get the sarcasm.

But their ready to practice channel jumping at gym or they may start training for hide and seek Olympics. I told them both fellas just do channel jump because hide and seek olympics will interfere with college.

I can't believe the Monty Python guys were ever that young!

So long ago, brings back great memories.

We watch it every thanksgiving day while slaving in the kitchen. The first time I had it on, my boys, 13 at the time, walked in during the final battle scene and when the cops show up as everyone is getting arrested, the boys were like "wait a minute, this doesn't make sense," and they were hooked. They are partial to "The Meaning of Life" but Holy Grail is what got me into Python.

It took me a long time to figure out that kenniggut, was the phonetic pronunciation of knight. Decades, actually, my husband still laughs about that.

At times he is afraid of his own shadow

it has a lot of the same atmospherics.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076221/

.. is to see if we can find any traces at all
of last year's expedition.

BRIAN: What?! Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am the Messiah!

FOLLOWERS: He is! He is the Messiah!

BRIAN: Now, fuck off!

...

ARTHUR: How shall we fuck off, O Lord?

I know three young men who memorized all the parts, and any two of them could act out the sketch on demand!!

They were probably 13 or so when they started performing it at church youth parties.

They are now all 35, and one of them has two children. I am certain they will carry on the Python tradition when they reach their teens.

My daughter, who is two years younger, is also a fan. She asked for Holy Grail for her birthday when she was 14. Gotta love it.

my friend and I did the Undertaker sketch. We didn't win because the teachers running the show thought it was tasteless but the students loved it.

"Not raw, not raw! She'll be delicious with a few french fries...a bit of broccoli..."

Coincidentally, it was at a church-run private school in Texas... I'm surprised we got to perform it at all..lol.


Some years back, my daughter tearily announced the death of her Quaker Parrot with "He's joined the choir invisible..." MP honestly helped her through that difficult time.

(What if you don't like Spam?)

Looks like a penguin