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Edited on Thu Jul-28-05 10:15 PM by Bark Bark Bark
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.
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