Monty Python's Flying Circus--The Prophecy

I finally up and bought the DVD set--days before a thin-case set with extra material was announced for release, dammit--and not only am I relishing the nostalgia and the wiggy humour (uh oh, now I'm spelling words with extra "u"s!), but it's kind of scary.

I mean, I just watched Episode 12 right now. Michael Palin in a bowtie discussing politics--babbling away in an eerie foreshadowing of Tucker C--cuts away to Graham Chapman as a "conservative." I know that means something different in the UK from our own neo-cons, but not at this moment:

Chapman: "Well, speaking as a Conservative candidate, I just drone on and on and on, never letting anyone else get a word in edgeways, until I start foaming at the mouth and fall over backwards."

Palin: "Foam at the mouth and fall over backwards. Is he foaming at the mouth to fall over backwards, or falling over backwards to foam at the mouth? Tonight we examine the whole question of frothing and falling, coughing and calling, screaming and bawling, walling and stalling, galling and mauling, palling and hauling, trawling and squalling and zalling. Zalling? Is there a word zalling? If there is what does it mean? If there isn't what does it mean? Perhaps both. Maybe neither. What do I mean by the word mean? What do I mean by the word word? What do I mean by what do I mean? What do I mean by do, and what do I do by mean? What do I do by do by do and what do I do by wasting your time like this? Goodnight."

And that's not the only moment like that which jumps out at me today...

Thirty-five years later, parody has become reality.
Hold me.
I'm afraid.

I've had the original 14-disc set for like 5 years, is the new extra stuff available separately?

September 27.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009XRZ92/qid=1122606572/sr=1-10/ref=sr_1_10/104-6149539-5919938?v=glance&s=dvd

Looks like it'll include the 2-disc Monty Python Live and one of the German episodes that has material seen in the MP books but not the standard series (such as "Once Upon A Time").

If this material won't be made available separately, I'll be bloomin' mad.

(Original message corrected.)

Between the Python Live set (which is down to like $14 at Best Buy, BTW - I paid $35 when it first came out :grr:) and the Life of Python set, that material's all out there. I wonder if those sets will be discontinued.

"Once Upon a Time" is pretty goddamn hilarious.

"I don't like the sound of these 'ere boncentration bamps."

"I gave him my baby to kiss, and he bit it! On the head!"

"Well I think he'd do a lot of good for the Stock Exchange."

I think that's in the same episode, actually!

The Holy Presidency

Bush: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!

Democrats: Order, eh? Who does he think he is?

Bush: I am your president!

Democrats: Well, I didn't vote for you.

Bush: You don't vote for presidents.

Democrats: Well, how did you become president, then?

Bush: The blacked robed supreme justices appoint you. That is why I am your president!

Democrats: Listen. Strange unelected individuals living in ivory towers distributing power to one egotistical maniac is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical judicial appointment by people who run around in black robes who are themselves appointed by people in power.