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February 22, 2006
Programming Note: Tonight PBS Earns My Tax Dollars
I could kiss them. Six glorious, magical hours sprinkled over three Wednesday evenings...
"I don't know - Mr Wentworth just told me to come in here and say that there was trouble at the mill, that's all - I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition."
(JARRING CHORD)
(The door flies open and Cardinal Ximinez of Spain (Palin) enters, flanked by two junior cardinals. Cardinal Biggles (Jones) has goggles pushed over his forehead. Cardinal Fang (Gilliam) is just Cardinal Fang)
NOBODY expects
the Spanish Inquisition!
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise....
Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency....
Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...
and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope....
Our four... no...
Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry...
are such elements as fear, surprise...
I'll come in again.(Exit and exeunt)
OY! I'm giddy with excitement! (Say no more, say no more, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.)
Posted by tree hugging sister at February 22, 2006 10:58 AM
Comments
HAH! Good stuff! I picked up the DVD collection years ago.....I need to review them for, ah, academic purposes, y'know?
Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at February 22, 2006 11:27 AM
I just recently found out that the Four Yorkshiremen was never used on the program, only in their live shows. Tres disappointing.
BTW, Daughter Number Two was president of her high school Monty Python Club.
Posted by: Ken Summers at February 22, 2006 11:35 AM
What a wonderful school that must have been, to have so fine a club!
Posted by: tree hugging sister at February 22, 2006 01:14 PM
Yes. Not like in my day. There were 150 of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road...
Posted by: Ken Summers at February 22, 2006 02:33 PM
And did you have only milk and cheese to eat, all from a single goat, Ken?
Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at February 22, 2006 03:09 PM
They had no cheese, not even cheddar. Ken was forced to shoot a guy in the head.
Posted by: Nightfly at February 22, 2006 03:39 PM
And not even for cheddar. Had to shoot the guy for velveeta.
Posted by: Ken Summers at February 22, 2006 03:52 PM
If you have children small enough to watch Veggie Tales, you'll see that the VT creators are YOOGE Monty Python fans. MP permeates pretty much every VT video I've seen.
They even have French peas.
Posted by: Lisa at February 23, 2006 12:34 PM
Oh, how cool is THAT. The best I could do when Ebola was small was the Smurfs (who use Mussorgsky for their background music instead of some trite BS) and Eureaka's Castle. I was thrilled when the Animaniacs came along ~ THAT was cleverer than dog schnoodles. And naughty sometimes.
Posted by: tree hugging sister at February 23, 2006 01:36 PM