Ever wondered if your sense of humor could be a deal-breaker in relationships? Join us—Jesse and Jason—as we unravel the comedic tapestry of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," and how it could serve as a 'sexual repellent.' Get ready to chuckle with nostalgia as we share tales of introducing our little ones to the Python universe and the quest to find that special someone who shares an appreciation for such quirky humor. We'll also reveal some surprising rock legends who financially backed this cinema masterpiece, proving that sometimes it takes a village, or in this case, a rock band, to create a legend.
Prepare to hop on a historical roller coaster with a twist of Monty Python flavor. We take you through a hilarious re-enactment of the coconut-clapping escapades of King Arthur and his ever-faithful Patsy, and the iconic 'bring out your dead' scene that's sure to invoke a morbid giggle or two. Our journey doesn't stop there; we analyze the sheer absurdity of medieval times, from witch trials to relentless Black Knights, all the while peeling back the layers of truth that inspired the Python's satirical genius. It's a fusion of fact, fiction, and laughter that offers more than just entertainment—it's a history lesson you didn't know you needed.
As we conclude our rollicking adventure, we dissect the famously anticlimactic ending that left its mark as an audacious punchline in film history. We also tackle 'the good, the bad, the ugly, and the fine' of the Python's storytelling, leaving no stone unturned in our quest for comedy. Whether it's the irreverent British humor we praise or the elements that have aged like a fine, albeit peculiar, wine, we leave no jest un-jested. So, if your funny bone is in need of a good tickling, this is one episode of the We Recommend podcast you won't want to miss.
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Ever wondered if your sense of humor could be a deal-breaker in relationships? Join us—Jesse and Jason—as we unravel the comedic tapestry of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," and how it could serve as a 'sexual repellent.' Get ready to chuckle with nostalgia as we share tales of introducing our little ones to the Python universe and the quest to find that special someone who shares an appreciation for such quirky humor. We'll also reveal some surprising rock legends who financially backed this cinema masterpiece, proving that sometimes it takes a village, or in this case, a rock band, to create a legend.
Prepare to hop on a historical roller coaster with a twist of Monty Python flavor. We take you through a hilarious re-enactment of the coconut-clapping escapades of King Arthur and his ever-faithful Patsy, and the iconic 'bring out your dead' scene that's sure to invoke a morbid giggle or two. Our journey doesn't stop there; we analyze the sheer absurdity of medieval times, from witch trials to relentless Black Knights, all the while peeling back the layers of truth that inspired the Python's satirical genius. It's a fusion of fact, fiction, and laughter that offers more than just entertainment—it's a history lesson you didn't know you needed.
As we conclude our rollicking adventure, we dissect the famously anticlimactic ending that left its mark as an audacious punchline in film history. We also tackle 'the good, the bad, the ugly, and the fine' of the Python's storytelling, leaving no stone unturned in our quest for comedy. Whether it's the irreverent British humor we praise or the elements that have aged like a fine, albeit peculiar, wine, we leave no jest un-jested. So, if your funny bone is in need of a good tickling, this is one episode of the We Recommend podcast you won't want to miss.
We would love to hear from you! Send us an email and maybe it will be read on the podcast! werecommendmailbag@gmail.com
To quickly follow us on social's or listen on another platform follow the link!
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Music produced by Joey Prosser. X @mrjoeyprosser
Hello and welcome to the we Recommend podcast, a movie podcast, where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse and I'm Jason.
Jason:And one day, lad, this will all be yours. What the curtains? No, not the curtains.
Jesse:This week we recommend Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I love whenever because there's the one guy that's always like he just like starts talking, like that. It's so funny. So this is the first time I watched this in a while and boy, oh boy, is this just hilarious, right yeah.
Jason:I fucking love this movie. I watched it with my kids. As an adult it wasn't as funny. Maybe it was because the kids were there. I don't know.
Jesse:Yeah, did they enjoy it? Oh yeah, they loved it.
Jason:I gonna say this is right up a kid's alley what I'm kind of afraid, because there's nothing more potent of like a sexual repellent than this movie. And I'm afraid for my children, because my parents never were. I feel like they sat there watching me enjoy this movie and they're like, hey, he'll, he'll, he'll grow out of it he'll grow out of what.
Jesse:He'll grow out of what Just being weird.
Jason:He'll grow out of this movie Because they never told me to do that and I didn't.
Jesse:Never told you to do what.
Jason:What are you talking about? I'm just saying liking this movie repels.
Jesse:It's like a chastity belt, yeah, it repels your partners. Find you a girl that likes Monty Python, okay. I would say that it limits your G-Pool selection for sure I could see it as showing just like a random person hey, you want to watch this hilarious movie? I have it's like and maybe we'll have sex after. Then you show them this and be like uh no.
Jason:They're like me, me.
Jesse:And you're like I queef in your general direction, but it's, I mean, I just felt like watching it. This time I was like, oh so this inspired everything that came after it. That's amazing. I mean just thinking from the Simpsons to scary movies, some Rogan thing, I was like, oh wow, they're just. I mean it has like slapstick. It's got like the turns of phrase and puns sexual innuendos breaking the fourth wall. I mean it has like slapstick, it's got like the turns of phrase and pun sexual innuendos breaking the fourth wall. I mean dang Deadpool. And what is it? Oh crap, I shouldn't have said Deadpool first, because I completely forgot about Ferris Bueller's day off. Absurdity, political humor, religious blasphemy and just. It kind of hates the audience with its ending.
Jesse:And then also you just got some animal abuse with the just catapulting animals and this was the one lady in the background of like three scenes just beating a cat against the wall to get dust off of it. I was just like I saw it at the beginning. I was like what is she hitting against the wall? It's like whenever they're going they bring out your dead thing, you can see her in the background hitting something. I was like, yeah, but I wasn't putting it together. And then they show her later and I'm like she's hitting the cat against the wall. What I mean?
Jason:you gotta clean them somehow right, oh man, this is also my introduction to British humor. I think yeah, because after I saw this and then I started getting into Rowan Atkinson and a lot of other British films.
Jesse:Yeah, it's definitely. I think it probably is what introduced it to me. I mean, I may have seen something before, I'm sure, Like I didn't have cable for the longest time, and so I feel like they had a lot of British stuff on PBS. I mean they had Monty Python.
Jason:Yeah, I feel like they had a lot of British stuff on PBS. I mean, they had Monty Python in the flying circus on PBS. It was playing like some Saturday mornings on Comedy Central. Yeah.
Jesse:And did you? Do you see some of the South Park influence on it, especially with God, oh yeah.
Jason:Because his chin went by his mouth.
Jesse:I was like oh, I didn't know God was Canadian.
Jason:I didn't think about that.
Jesse:I wonder if that's where they got it from. They're just like. That's so funny. Let's make Canadians like that.
Jason:I bet it is part of it, god damn.
Jesse:So did you know? Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull and George Harrison All helped with the film.
Jason:The.
Jesse:Holy Grail. Yeah, it was crazy. So, even though the show was like a hit on TV, like they still didn't have a big enough budget to actually make the movie.
Jesse:It was a budget of like 229 euros, which I don't know that's not a lot, I'd assume, which is crazy because I mean they were like a well-known group of people, but in an interview with Rolling Stone, with additional details later added on twitter, eric idol explained bands like led zeppelin, pink floyd and jethro toll um all helped put in a chunk of the money that apparently they put like 25 of them budget up. That's cool. Led zeppelin contributed 31 000, uh, and pink floyd gave 21 000 and ian anderson gave 6 000.
Jesse:I'm sure when he gave 6 000 you're like that's not, that's it, I mean pink floyd gave 21, I mean come on yeah I don't know that, uh, whenever, george harrison, he did it for life of brian, apparently he he gave money for that one. Oh okay yeah, okay.
Jason:Well then that man that's such a good fucking movie too.
Jesse:I haven't actually seen that one, I've only seen in the Monty Python movies. I've only seen this one.
Jason:I've seen, you know, like their best skits yeah they've got like a lot of hours of bad stuff, of like really weird stuff Not bad per se.
Jesse:Watching their show. It was like, wow, I mean, it's not, it's sketch comedy. So like, wow, it's, I mean it's not, it's sketch comedy. So sketch comedy is always either you'll have one to two good bits and then it's like snl. Really, it could be just how about we put 20 minutes of your best stuff on the show, dude, like a 10 minute monologue, one performance and 20 minutes of your best stuff and a weekend update.
Jason:I remember, but if you, if you, I rented the Monty Python. God, I can't remember what it's called, but it's like two hours long of stuff that I've never seen before and it was interesting. There's one where, like all these office buildings were like pirate ships and they're all like have you seen that?
Jesse:I haven't seen that one.
Jason:All the people in the office buildings are like. They're like typing away and then they get rammed from the side from another building and so they're like shit it's like having a naval battle, but in office buildings.
Jesse:It's just weird man, what are some of your? What's some of your favorite Monty Python skits?
Jason:oh, the Spanish Inquisition.
Jesse:I haven't seen that one maybe I have. There's obviously the Spamalot, there's the dead parrot, that's obviously the classic oh yeah, yeah, the dead parrot.
Jason:Another part of that in that pet store I guess it is there's a guy that has an Eric menagerie. He has all these pets and they're all named Eric. I don't know, it hasn't really spoke to me.
Jesse:I think they're. For me it's obviously the dead parrot in the ministry of silly walks yeah, the ministry of silly walks those two, I mean those. I think they're just kind of everybody's two favorites but those are definitely mine. I loved it, especially me and richard. Growing up we we always did. We just thought the silly walks was so funny. I remember after seeing it for the first time, the next time we went to church we were just like doing it around.
Jesse:Just like oh, do y'all think this is funny? Everybody's like I don't get what you're doing. This just seems like YouTube just being YouTube. We're just smarter than them. Yeah, that's all it is. So apparently, the camera broke on the very first shot of the movie.
Jason:Oh, wow.
Jesse:Yeah, it's wild.
Jason:This was the first movie that they did, because previously they only did the TV show. Oh yeah, I guess that's where all the skits came from, like Spamalot and the Dead Parrot.
Jesse:Yeah, so things didn't get off to a very good start and on a documentary produced by BBC, terry Gillum, one of the directors, he also did like 12 Monkeys, brazil Fisher King. In an interview he said the first couple of days we just sort of leaped into it Immediately. We first of all had chosen an impossible location about half a mile up Glencoe, so everything had to be hunked by Sherpas up the mountain. We got up there, the very first shot of the film, the big moment the camera turns and it jams. So we didn't have a sound camera and all of our great laid plans were suddenly up in the air. We panicked and we just had to try to get a film made suddenly on the spot because we had this incredible location, no camera and and no experience. That's the worst thing. Yeah, it's like that sucks. And the coconuts replacing the horses all came because of the budget constraints. Fuck yeah, and it was Michael Palin's idea. Love it man. And it's just this movie. Oh my God, it kills.
Jason:It slays.
Jesse:All the castle. All the castles were the same castle, yeah, like the interior. The production team had identified multiple castles that they wanted to use for different locations during pre-production, only to have the Department of the Environment for Scotland change their mind at the last minute and deny them from using most of the sites because the film was not consistent with the dignity of the fabric of the building. Oh wait, all right, at the castle that they used all that was left for the film to shoot at. So they used our Daun Castle was all that was left for the film to shoot at. Okay, so instead of the Black Knight, they almost had it as the Pink Knight instead.
Jason:Oh, that would have been cute. I like the Black Knight better. Yeah, I think. Weren't some of these? These guys like professors, like history professors?
Jesse:And, like you know, honestly I don't really know a lot about the Monty Python guys. I don't really have time to look up.
Jason:I want to say that some of them, that some of the guys that wrote the scripts and stuff, they were like very Smart people, like very smart people.
Jesse:I just feel like well, I just feel like when you're in, I just they just they probably have.
Jason:I mean, they just have a.
Jesse:I just feel like the British have a better school system, so they're probably all. They're all just way smarter and they probably actually learn the truth about their history yeah, you'd hope so. And more than just their own history they learned about other people's histories.
Jason:Yeah, I think in places like Germany they have classes or they have subjects that are just based on American politics, and how terrible they are.
Jesse:Oh really.
Jason:Like pretty much everything about America that's bad. They're like this is why America sucks, and that's true. Like everything they talk about is totally true.
Jesse:We just deal with it.
Jason:We're number one in my blood bleeds red, white and blue. I should see a doctor about that.
Jesse:So the budget constraints prevented the film from having a big battle at the ending. So that's why they had to change it, that's why they all got arrested and, according to Palin's notes, the original version of the climatic battle would have seen Arthur and the Knights of Camelot battle it out with the French, and would even include a return visit from the killer rabbit. Oh, that would have been intense. Yeah, I would love to see it.
Jason:Just chucking cows at each other.
Jesse:And I love this next little fact here. So British censors wanted to take out one of the most quoted jokes. So in a note that producer Mark Forstarter posted to the internet a few years ago, it is shown that, in addition to the removal of as many shits in Jesus Christ as they could, the censors wanted them to remove the French taunt I fart in your general direction. Why? For the film to get an A rating which would have allowed kids between the ages of 5 to 14. Forrest Arter agreed that they would take out some of the requests by the censors, but he fought to keep I fart in your general direction and ultimately, won.
Jason:the film earned an A rating Hell yeah, you got to fight where you believe in. It's like Fight for where you believe in, could you be?
Jesse:Well, I think it's. I'm not going to do a British accent.
Jason:We need fart jokes.
Jesse:It's like you know what? This is a great film and I think kids could watch it, but really, can we take out the farts please? No kids talk about you.
Jason:Take out the line fart in your general direction, please.
Jesse:It's like what in the world? That's ridiculous. And the animal cruelty?
Jason:Yeah, they're fine with that one.
Jesse:All right. So this film is directed by Terry Gillum and Terry Jones. It stars Graham Chapman. He does King Arthur. You got John Cleese Well they all play a billion characters, so I'm not going to say their characters. You got Eric Idle, terry Gilliam, terry Jones, michael Palin and just like thousands of other British actors that I don't know a lot about.
Jason:Well, I mean a lot of them. This was kind of their first thing. I feel like, yeah, maybe I don't know a lot about. Well, I mean a lot of them.
Jesse:This was kind of their first thing. I feel like, yeah, maybe I don't know.
Jason:Not people like John Cleese.
Jesse:I was going to say because a lot of them were in the. Well, I guess this is probably like some of their, maybe I don't know. I don't know I don't know a lot about British cinema. I need to really get into it.
Jason:It's probably not very interesting.
Jesse:I have like a list of 50 movies of just British films that over the course of, like Martin Scorsese's, recommend Edgar Wright. Just because I listen to podcasts and they're like whoa, british films.
Jason:Oh, you mean like James Bond?
Jesse:Well, no, they're like not the well-known British films, you know. All right, bro, you ready to hop into the film? Sure, let's go. So when I did go into watching this, I forgot so much about this movie, including the credits at the very beginning, oh God.
Jason:With like the very ominous music.
Jesse:You have all the false stars and you have all the subtitles.
Jason:It's like come to Switzerland.
Jesse:It's very nice we have lakes, and then they get the people who did the subtitles get sacked. And then they just eat and even like over the sack part, there's more subtitles popping up at the end and it's still kind of the same.
Jesse:Switzerland thing, and there's like, oh, we sack these people too. And then you just go on a moose heavy subtitle card and then in the credits there's all these like moose trainer, moose nose wiper, third moose in this scene, blah, blah, blah, blah. Uh, so great. And then it becomes like this festive latin music all of a sudden. And then this like and then all of a sudden it's all about llamas, all of a sudden, it's like directed by five different llamas and terry gilliam and terry jones.
Jesse:It's great. Also, I wonder how many people had a seizure watching this. Yeah, it's pretty good because, like now, my wife is like I can't look at this right now whenever it started flashing a lot. It's scary when it happens, I was like what the heck?
Jason:the heck? Definitely not expecting it.
Jesse:Yeah, I love because it cuts the black right after that goes off and I was like I can still see the words.
Jason:My entire vision is completely destroyed. Now it's foaming out of your mouth a little bit, just like Natalie starts having seizures.
Jesse:Like babe, I gotta take notes. Can you, For once here, bite down on this so you can hardly see anything. We hear in this clip-clopping where there's fog over the grassland and all we hear is some horses galloping. And you know we're just expecting, like just a majestic king Were there any actual horses?
Jason:I don't think so.
Jesse:There is some. Maybe one got thrown by a catapult, I don't know, and it sounds like they're walking on cobbles. But then the fog emerges Two pedestrians, king Arthur as Graham Chapman, or King Arthur played by Graham Chapman, dressed in chain mail, a tunic and a crown. And then you have Patsy, played by Terry Gillum, the director, who is using two half-coconuts to make the sound of noises he's banging them together.
Jesse:They approach a castle and Patsy perfectly mimics the sound of a galloping horse coming to a stop. Two guards become barely visible atop the castle wall. Arthur announces that he's looking for knights to join him at Camelot and wishes to recruit the master of the castle. Unfortunately, the two guards are immediately distracted by the half-coconut.
Jason:Oh God, it's so good this climate's temperate. Yeah, how did you get coconuts?
Jesse:It's like do birds not migrate from other areas? And we see those birds, don't we it's? Are you saying coconuts?
Jason:migrate.
Jesse:It's like no, a bird could have brought it over here. You're saying a swallow, oh it's so good, and they just cannot get over the fact that he said that, and King Arthur just keeps trying to get back into the conversation and they just keep going. Well, what about two swallows flying together? It's like how would they hold it? It's like a string.
Jason:What? Carry it on sort of a line.
Jesse:Yeah, it's like, well, what about the African swallow? Oh yeah, oh yeah, what about the African swallow?
Jason:Oh yeah.
Jesse:But they don't migrate. That's true, oh man. So I mean just and when?
Jason:you're a king, you gotta know this stuff.
Jesse:It is a perfect opening to the film because it just shows you hey, buckle up, get ready, there's a lot of this.
Jesse:This is silly, it's great. I love it, though. I love that this is perfect. I mean, you can see this in all the Adam McKay movies and just in Anchorman, when they're just having regular conversations. But they just cannot get off like one subject they just keep bringing up and up while someone's just trying to have a serious conversation. It's such a I don't know it's. It's in all our comedies. So after this, the Kings is frustrated. He says I'm out of here, screw this. So the scene changes to a plague village and we see a car is being drawn through the streets and is attended by a disheveled man played by Eric Idle, who strikes a triangle and calls for the residents to bring out your dad, bring out your dad, and then the lady brings up the guy.
Jason:I guess it's like her father-in-law or something.
Jesse:Yeah, and this is where we see the woman dusting her cap. Yeah, meow, oh, we have a peasant comes up, played by John Cleese. He tries to lay a decrepit man on the cart without calling attention to the fact that he's still alive. Oh, yeah, I could go for a walk. The attendant refuses to accept it, citing regulations. Yeah, he's just like I'm not dead, I'm getting better. And he's like we can't take it until he's dead. Can you wait? It won't take long. I feel like going for a walk he pays with the money.
Jason:He just clubs him over the head alright, see you next week.
Jesse:He just looks around to make sure no one's walking and knocks him. It's so good. The cart and the peasant continue on their ways. Arthur and Patsy emulate a ride through the village and the attendant correctly infers that Arthur is a king from the fact that he's not covered in shit Covered in shit. Yes, it's like how do you know he's a king? Well, he's not covered in shit, is he? I don't?
Jason:know, I got shit all over me yeah.
Jesse:Truth. So on a hillside near a castle, Arthur approaches a peasant. Played by Michael Bay.
Jason:These political guys. Yeah, holy shit.
Jesse:From behind. He calls out old woman the peasant's like. I'm a man. It's so funny. Rather than killing the vulgar subject on the spot for such gross insubordination, arthur tries to apologize for his mistake. Unimpressed, Dennis then launches into a rant, making it clear that he has harbored a great deal of bitterness over the class system, which he has experienced from the bottom all his life of 37 years. He's like old man.
Jason:I'm 37. 37's not old. What should I call you then? You could say Dennis.
Jesse:Arthur's challenge to justify his kingship and to accommodate a heavenly poison tells the tale of a lady of the lake presenting Arthur with a scallop. Dennis, he was like what we just gonna? What? Just any old lady could come out of a lake. Give you a sword. Now you're king. If I went around telling everyone that I'm king because some wet tart lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away, and he asserts that drive for my mandate from the masses is how we get all leaders.
Jason:Yeah, this part definitely improved as I got older.
Jesse:Yeah, because once I understood it, it's so funny.
Jason:Yeah, and it got a lot funnier. Just him explaining their fucking stupid political system.
Jesse:It's like we vote around here. Arthur can only respond by barking orders at the peasant to be silent, unaffected. Dennis continues his berate on him, talking about democratic dogma, at which point Arthur manhandles him. This only encourages Dennis, though he becomes a raving. He becomes like super enraged and tries to call out as much attention as possible to Arthur's assault. The king accepts that he cannot adequately assert this authority in the situation where he relinquishes Dennis with bloody peasant. I love it. He loves that he did that, because the whole crowd comes up. He's like you see you see, you see him.
Jason:What did he say? Anyway, I love that, dennis, and these people it's like their job title is filth gatherer, because that one lady.
Jesse:They're just like gathering mud or whatever that one lady goes. They're patting it down.
Jason:She's like Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here.
Jesse:Let's get it.
Jason:That was last night when I watched it, I was just like what are they doing with all this mound of mud?
Jesse:They're just patting it a lot. It's so good, god. British humor man, I love it. So while traveling through a forest Arthur and Patsy encounter an epic battle between two armored faceless men. One has like a sword, the knight has a sword.
Jesse:I love the as they're walking up towards you. You hear, oh, and I love, because you have King Arthur and Patsy. There's click, cluck, cluck, cluck. It's like through the forest and it's got this epic great music I love the music in this movie, by the way and then it cuts to the two like fighting. And then it cuts back to the sim is like looking so stupid galloping through the forest oh it's so good, and patsy looks so fucking weird.
Jesse:It's just hilarious yeah which patsy terry already said that yeah, so uh, the black knight's played by john cleese. So when?
Jason:so when the black knight runs. Yeah, so when the Black Knight runs his opponent through the face, such a brutal death I was like Jesus Christ it's like a cat in tomato soup and the British are like yes, four year olds can see this. Arthur approaches him and praises him for his performance.
Jesse:That's true this is very historically accurate. Apparently. I did read I was reading an article today that was saying that people that study medieval um stories and stuff like that said this is one of the more accurate versions of medieval times like a guy guarding a creek well, I guess it's just like the depictions of the scenes, even though they're funny, is like very accurate to the time.
Jesse:I guess obviously the silly and goofiness of it isn't accurate of medieval times but I guess, in terms of bringing out the dead and the whole battles and some of that, that was all I guess pretty historically accurate.
Jason:And the guys hitting themselves in the face while they're chanting.
Jesse:I don't know how that's real. Is that real? People used to do that shit.
Jason:They like flagellate themselves and hit themselves to keep from getting the plague.
Jesse:The part about that that I didn't like was that it wasn't five minutes longer than them doing it. It was only 10 minutes of them doing it and I wanted 15. Didn't get enough? So we see the knight. The knight neither speaks a word, nor even turns his gaze towards the king. Despite this insolence, arthur again does not respond with homicide, but invites the knight to enter his court. When no response is given, arthur announces that he will continue on to his quest.
Jason:You make me sad.
Jesse:Yeah. The knight then speaks with a deep voice and says none shall pass forbidding Arthur to cross the bridge before he which he is standing. Arthur and the knight draw their swords in much less epic battle suits. I love it's like kind of like ramped up a little bit to where he moves a little faster. You just have Arthur just moving to the side before he even swings the sword and then the knight swings it.
Jesse:When Arthur severs one of the knight's arms, he is unwilling to accept defeat but to flesh wound I've had worse than this?
Jason:Liar he also? Or is it after he cuts off his second arm? When King Arthur gets down and he starts praying like he won and he gets kicked?
Jesse:in the face, Dude. That is so funny. It's so funny when he does that Because he's sitting there and it's just like a freaking big boot to the side of his head. He's like ah.
Jason:He's like you've got no arms left. He's like yes.
Jesse:I have, yes, I have. He's like no, you don't, they're there and there, oh dude, when he kicks him in the side of the head, oh, it's so fucking funny. I don't know why that's so funny. I guess it just has no arms. So that's hilarious. I don't know, it's so funny though.
Jason:He's dying on this hill.
Jesse:Like literally. I put in big, bold words the knight kicks him in the head with 500 LOLs. It's just a flesh wound.
Jason:Don't worry about it.
Jesse:The now completely unarmed knight drops his ominous mistake. And then all of a sudden starts acting very childishly like come on, come on, come on, let's go, I can get you.
Jason:And so King.
Jesse:Arthur's like stop. And he's like it's just a flesh wound, come on. And then, and so King Arthur's like stop. And he's like it's just a flesh wound, come on. And then he's just like alright, I'll just take out the rest of his limbs alright, I'll have you for that.
Jason:What are you?
Jesse:gonna do bleed on me, come back here, I'll bite your ankles. So, arthur and Patsy, they just ride off, say fuck it whatever and the bridge is so small. Yeah, it's like it's like 10 feet. Dude, you could just walk around him Anywhere else you could have just went around this guy. Hold on a second Jesus.
Jason:Christ.
Jesse:I'm lightheaded, okay. So a group of monks chanting, like we said earlier, in latin, while hitting the cells with the wooden boards yeah, um, and they used to get.
Jason:They used to travel to different towns whenever the plague was real bad oh yeah, because they would just like beat them, beat the shit out of themselves and like people loved it. It was like the only entertainment they had.
Jesse:Everything's life was hard so yeah, these lat these monks. They, in the plague village, a frenzied mob drags a lady accused of being a witch to Bedivere A witch.
Jason:Did you see, like whenever? What's his name? Bedivere, bedivere, bedivere, as the people, or the mob, is coming to see him. He's got the coconuts.
Jesse:He's got like a bird and a coconut. The mob is coming to see him. He's got the coconuts. He's got like a bird and a coconut Because, like throughout the land, people are slowly whispering about the coconut. The theory has changed the world. It's so funny. That was another part where I got a ha Just loudly in my living room.
Jason:So they present their case to Bedivere on based on the, based on the way she was dressed.
Jesse:She has a funnel on her head and a parsnip tied over her nose. He's like I didn't dress like this.
Jason:They dressed me like this, not my nose, it's a false. Takes it over, it takes it takes the parsnip off.
Jesse:And then, uh, john cleese, cleese, he plays one of the. He's like the guy in the front, yeah, and he's like what other? What other evidence do you have? She turned me into a newt, everybody's like. And then he's looking at him, benavir's looking at him. He's like I got better.
Jason:I love how they they Benavir, walks him through the scientific.
Jesse:He's like what burns Wood? All right, what does wood do? It floats. Wood also floats. Everybody's like ah.
Jason:Very small rocks.
Jesse:Very small rocks, great gravy, yeah, like no, a duck A duck.
Jason:The voice of reason in the crowd. No-transcript.
Jesse:The voice of reason in the crowd, they're all like ah, so if she wears the same as a duck, then she's a witch and she floats, and therefore a witch.
Jason:Who are you? Who's so wise? In the ways of science.
Jesse:But the crowd becomes very quiet and still, probably because Bedivere is overtaxing them and their intelligence, it is eventually reason that the weight of the accused compared to that of the duck determines whether she's a witch, and she weighs the same as a duck, yeah, so they go and weigh her and she does it. Essentially, they balance out and they're like witch burn her and I love she turns. This is a fair court, yeah, so funny.
Jason:I never understood what she said there. It is a fair crop.
Jesse:It's a fair court.
Jason:Courts oh court that makes more sense, but it's so funny to think that this is.
Jesse:this may have been how they actually thought thought of throwing women in the water to see if they were witches. We read well, we listened to the last podcast and their salem witch trials oh yeah, it's just like.
Jason:It's like what it's like.
Jesse:We don't know why what makes you think people just like to make stuff up? People were just you know we think we're smart now.
Jason:People back in the day were so smart I feel like if they would have had like a cell phone, that'd be a lot. Yeah, looked, looked up.
Jesse:What is a witch? They would have some more entertainment. So when Arthur identifies himself to Bedivere, Bedivere bows to the king.
Jason:I love how he's always got to lift up his thing until he can see.
Jesse:Yeah, oh yeah and it constantly falls down. But he essentially asks Bedivere. It's like, hey, do you want to come to Camelot with me and be the knights of the round table? And he's like, yeah, sure, so he knights them, and then we have now our first knight in Camelot. So next is the. We are hurried through the recruitment of the remaining knights by the book of the film.
Jason:So the book of the film is sold in an auction, did it? It's like six pages long.
Jesse:Yeah, this is what they show you, right, but I would love to have this book and have it signed by people. We see that they, uh, the knights are sir lancelot the brave he's played by junk leads. Sir galahad the pure, michael palin, also called the chase. Uh, sir robin the not the, not quite so brave as sir lancelot played by eric idol.
Jesse:I, oh, I can't wait to get some of the Sir Robert stuff Aptly named Sir Not Appearing in this film. It's apparently a baby of William Palin, suited up in chain mail. That's fucking hilarious. So the party emulates riding to Camelot, and then they see it from a distance, they stop to appreciate its majesty. We are treated to a song and dance routine performed by the knights, presumably within the castle wall. I so we say that some things don't work right. So, for whatever reason, the song and dance like. When I watch it I'm like, uh, I get it, it's funny, we got clapping, but the chains then funny the guy clapping, but In the chains.
Jesse:Then it cuts the guy clapping in the chains and then I just start laughing hysterically. I do like this, because that's so funny.
Jason:It's fucking great, but the lyrics to the song are pretty fucking great yeah, they're great yeah. We like to. We eat ham and jam and spam a lot. Yeah, God.
Jesse:Comedy gold. But man, that guy, as soon as they clicked, it's just how happy the guy looks. He's just hanging and he's like just the way he's hitting his hand. And then it's just like, oh wait, no, this scene's hilarious, that's right.
Jason:I love when they're dancing on the table. They're just kicking shit around, yeah, kicking all the people.
Jesse:And then Arthur. He kind of snaps out of like a vision, almost he had like the same perception we just had and he senses like you know what, actually, let's not go in there, it's a silly place, oh man. So as Arthur and company ride to some unknown destination, we get a low budget animationget, animation of the almighty.
Jesse:Fucking love these animations he appears in the sky and it's essentially God, and he says he's not willing to suffer fools gladly. And when done chastising Arthur? For he chastises Arthur, he charges Arthur with seeking the Holy Grail. Thus the quest for the Holy Grail begins, as manifested by another animation sequence with images reminiscent of medieval art. I just want to stop. Did everybody in medieval times just do mushrooms? Because their art is so much like it, and then I feel like they also did mushrooms and made the art even crazier.
Jesse:I love when the little people with the trumpets put in their butt.
Jason:It's so funny and I love the god Canadian god, he's just the fucking best. They're averting their eyes. He's like what are you doing? Stop that. He's like I'm averting my eyes. Oh lord, I hate when people do that. Of course. Of course it's a good idea, yeah uh, so good but yeah, the the one, the one that follows um man, it's all like all those, all the the art from like old books that were the scribes were drawing. Yeah, it's so fucking great, yeah, it's so awesome.
Jesse:And they do a great job of making it hilarious. So then, these are some of the scenes that I forgot, and I can't believe I forgot some of these. So our heroes encounter a castle with a French taunter played by John Cleese. He taunts them with random names, like Daffy English Knights.
Jason:Silly English Kniggets yeah.
Jesse:Because he's unaware that Knights has silent letters in only one end and he makes up flowery insults such as I fart in your general direction and your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries. Whether the man's actually French, I don't know, since he only sometimes speaks French, and then when he talks to his. French colleagues. He completely talks in English and they all understand. And then his accent slips when shouting. I'm French.
Jason:How do you think I got this outrageous accent? Why do you think I have this silly accent?
Jesse:Was that good? I tried to work on it. I used to be able to do French.
Jason:What are you doing?
Jesse:in England. Mind your own business, bro, but like this is some of the funniest stuff.
Jason:It's some of the funniest stuff.
Jesse:I'm already like laughed out now. I've been laughing. I've been laughing all morning watching it. Now I can't do this. So Arthur, arthur, arthur gives the same terms to the people in the castle as he did with the first one he approached, including, of course, the part involving the grill.
Jason:The Frenchman claims we already have a grill but then indicates he's already got one that he's like.
Jesse:And then he turns to his people and is like I told them we have a grill. Arthur, stunned, asked to see it. The guard rejects the request with his typical inane insults. Arthur then takes a more aggressive posture and in mid-threat the French launch a cow from what sounds like a catapult at Arthur's party, landing on one of them.
Jason:He's like let's raid the castle with his swords. They just start hitting the wall with the sword.
Jesse:Oh my God, oh. So while hitting the castle with their swords, arthur's party is treated to a barrage of livestock and pumpkins. Arthur orders a retreat, but since he does not know the meaning of the word, he uses a different expression Run away, the taunter hears. So they run away to this little ditch and Bedivere's like I got an idea. And then we just see the Frenchman just like making silly faces, hearing construction noises in the forest. It's like huh, just John Cleese just crushing with facial expressions and so noises in the forest.
Jesse:It's like huh John Cleese is crushing with facial expressions. We just see that a giant hair like a rabbit is pushed out. It's a Trojan rabbit.
Jason:It's like a shack with a rabbit head on it.
Jesse:The French understand that it's intended as a present for them and then cautiously bring it into the castle, but when they're coming out, it's like oui, oui, here we go. It's like what? Let's go.
Jason:And then he's like okay, so.
Jesse:Yeah, then you have so Benavir. He's explaining the plan. Yeah, All right.
Jason:It's like all right, when night falls, we're going to jump out and take my surprise.
Jesse:It's like wait a second, we're supposed to be in there.
Jason:They just catapult. Okay, so we build a giant wooden badger. Yeah, and the next thing, you know the giant wooden hair is catapulted out of the castle and it lands on one of them, lands on one of their squires.
Jesse:Yeah, oh Jesus. Then we cut to the B plot, which we think is just a silly, like one-off joke. But then it turns out it's like oh, maybe this is a bigger joke. They keep coming back to it. We see a clapperboard is snapped in front of a famous historian wearing a modern suit and tie. He's narrating some unseen details of King Arthur's experience with the French and then informs us that the king decided that he and his knights should search for the grail individually. Anything else he was going to tell us cut short. When he unidentified knight on horseback slashes his neck, the historian's wife, or whoever she's supposed to be, shows up like help.
Jesse:It's like what God. I would have loved to have seen this in theaters Opening weekend. Everybody would be like what is this? So, after they split up, sir Robin travels through the forest with his favorite minstrels. I love these guys. Bravely, brave, sir Robin. They're so funny. The vocal wood sings of Robin's bravery and describes in graphic detail the various ordeals that Robin is prepared to face. Just as the minstrel is about to sing of the gory treatment Robin's penis could withstand, robin gracefully orders the stimp silent. Oh man, these guys at first is like ha, that's funny, cause he's constantly like he will take an axe to the fate or whatever.
Jason:I'm not doing that.
Jesse:I'm not doing that, I can't sing, I can't do this so they immediately encounter a three-headed giant played by Terry Jones, graham Chapman and Michael Palin. The giant interrogates Robin, who wishes to discreetly downplay his significance by his mental sting of Robin's identity and credentials. It's like he's looking for a fight. He's like shut up.
Jesse:The guy looks so sad after he says that. That's great. One of the heads wishes to cut Robin's head off, but the heads immediately descend into bickering about each other's lifestyles and various things completely unrelated to Robin. Like one's like oh, at least you don't have to, because the one on the right is like he's talking and the one in the middle is kind of making fun of him. And the one on the left is like, oh, talks bad about the one on the right. Oh, my God, why am I describing it like this? One of the middle is like oh well, at least you don't have to sit next to him. And the other one's like what? It's like you snore. It's like, well, you have bad breath. It's like well, because you don't brush my teeth. It's so funny, but I just described it.
Jason:Then they just kind of snuck gone, they buggered off, did whatever. They go on, sir.
Jesse:Robbins continued on his quest and his minstrel said he ran away.
Jason:He ran away.
Jesse:It's so funny. But like this wasn't the big laugh from the minstrels yet it's later. Oh man, it cracked me up. So then we meet with Galahad. But like this wasn't the big laugh from the minstrels yet it's later. Oh man, it cracked me up. So then we meet with Galahad. We see him. He's like wet and weary and like he looks like he's in a horror movie for a second. He's just like crawling through branches and stuff. It's great, it looks great.
Jason:So he goes to, he follows a grail-shaped light to Castle Anthrax, bacon. Yeah, Castle Anthrax. Oh crap, what's that lady's name? I can't remember, I don't know, is it?
Jesse:Zook, zook, something like that. She's like this is Castle Anthrax. He's like what it's like. Oh no, it's okay, though there he finds a colony of robe-clad teens who will not hear of any talk about a girl, but insist on tending to what they perceive to be Galahad's immediate needs. They decide that they are medical Just a bunch of horny women essentially in a castle.
Jason:And then the oral sex.
Jesse:Yeah, ooh, the oral sex they're talking about, like, oh yes, we just kind of walk around in our robes. We're all between the ages of 16 and like 20. And it's like all we do all day is just make underwear. It's like what. So Galahad, who is shy and finds the strength to resist temptation and again demands to see the girl. At this point, a girl named Dingo realizes that one of their rules has been broken, for which Galahad must administer the punishment.
Jason:The spankings.
Jesse:Dingo describes the punishment which spans include more and more inhabitants of the castle and becomes increasingly sexual. He's like oh, you must spank her, and then her, and then her, and then her, and they're all like yes, you must give us all a good spanking.
Jason:Galahad, who now is like let's go baby Time to spank. I can stay for a little while. He's willing to accept their hospitality, but then his friends storm the castle and rescue him and he is being rescued.
Jesse:He insists on remaining to fight the perils alone.
Jason:I could use a little peril.
Jesse:It's too perilous.
Jason:You can't handle it.
Jesse:Oh no, it's too perilous. God, I love it. So then we get the infamous scene 24. Because throughout the rest of this movie they bring up. Oh that we saw on scene 24. Throughout the dialogue. Arthur and Sir Bedivere are in a hut trying to extract information about the growl from a frighteningly withered old man, played by Terry Gilliam, who can only cackle insanely to Arthur's questions. A fire burns in the middle of the room. Eventually the old man speaks, but does not answer Arthur's questions directly. He does speak of an enchanter and the bridge of death. The old man disappears and as does the hut, along with any indication of civilization, except for the fire Just kind of ran apart.
Jason:Guy's hilarious.
Jesse:He looks gross. Arthur's party progresses through a foggy forest to the accompaniment of stressful music, while Arthur makes anxious glances to the left and right. The stress is brought to its natural end when they find themselves before a knight played by Michael Palin, who is approximately twice the height of the Arthur. I love that when the music stops he does turn left and right like why'd the music stop? It's great. He is surrounded by several others armored men who lumber about like animals. They are the knights who say NEE. They do indeed say say me a lot.
Jason:And like they have little ones that like hop up and go um.
Jesse:They use it as a form of intimidation and coercion and they use it a lot on King Arthur, at the slightest like um I don't know if it's any sort of like pushback by King Arthur. It's like King Arthur and everybody's like I don't know just any sort of like pushback. King Arthur is like meh. King Arthur and everybody's like oh God, he recoils in pain. Please stop say we can't handle it.
Jason:Do that, or like yeah, he's like do it. Or we will say meh at you again.
Jesse:Yeah, and he's like what do you ask of us? We demand shrubbery, shrubbery, arthur, in bed of yours, like not shrubbery. And then, meanwhile, we see the meanwhile, a group of modern day police officers conduct an investigation of the murder of the famous historian and interview a woman who was close to him. So then we cut to probably my favorite part of the entire movie the King of Swamp Castle played by Michael Palin.
Jesse:He brags and he's got a Yorkshire accent about how he managed to build a castle on the worst possible terrain he could find it fell down.
Jason:So that's second to the swamp, yeah, and then he's like then I built it again and it fell into the swamp again. He then explains to his son the third time it stayed up.
Jesse:He explains to his son the third time it stayed up.
Jesse:He explains to his son, prince Herbert, played by Terry Jones, that the acquisition of more land is essential to their kingdom, which is why he must marry a princess who is connected to a great deal of it. Herbert has a horribly pale complexion and is so exasperated I guess kind of feminine almost that his own father mistakes him for someone called Alice. He's like Alice, he's like Herbert, herbert, herbert. This is where we get the opening line, because you have the king of the swamp castle. One day, lad, all this will be yours. What? The curtains? No, no, not the curtains, lad. All that you can see stretched out over the valleys and the hills, that'll be your kingdom. Lad, all that you can see is stretched out over the valleys and the hills, that'll be your kingdom. Lad, I don't want that. What do you want? I want to sing.
Jason:He's like no, no.
Jesse:Herbert, reluctant to participate in this land grab, wishes to express himself in song, but the king shouts down to the erupting music and forbids Herbert to sing. The king impatiently closes this discussion and storms off. As he prepares to leave the room, he orders two dumb guards to watch Herbert. Unfortunately, the guard that has actually speaking parts has a very hard time processing the phrase he heard stay here and make sure he doesn't leave. When the king finally leaves, he's like no, you stay here. It's like right, so he doesn't leave. And when you come back, we don't let you in constantly. Such a good bit though. It's very like who's on first type of comedy and stuff like that. I love it. Um, and then melancholy music starts to play after the king leaves and the king comes back and he's like we're not doing this, herbert, it's so great. Herbert then tries to inconspicuously write a note, tie it to an arrow and shoot it through a window to the outside. I love just Herbert's little, his just little reactions and like the way he's doing it.
Jesse:And he's just like trying to be sneaky While the two guards are just smiling at him like yeah, great job, good job. And then so he shoots the arrow out, and Sir Lancelot discovers the note when the arrow hits his oh, like squire or servant or whatever.
Jesse:I love that. Once it hits him and he falls down, sir Lancelot's like what he's like message for you, sir, so good. So the message is from someone pleading to be rescued from a forced marriage. Lancelot enthusiastically assumes that this is part of his quest for the grail and resolves to rescue what he thinks is a maiden. We see Lancelot running to the castle.
Jason:He's also like he does the thing where he's like I'll avenge you to the squire and the squire's like actually, you know, I'm really not that hurt I can go with you and he's like, no, you stay here, it's not that bad. I'll go avenge you. I'm getting better.
Jesse:But I love this next part because we see Lancelot running to the castle. We see two guards eating disgustingly eating something, and then Lancelot's running and it's got intense music cuts back to the guy eating just constantly stuff flying out of his mouth.
Jason:They see him in the distance, but they're really like.
Jesse:He just keeps running, and every time it cuts back to him running.
Jason:He's in the exact same place because they keep using the same little snippet of footage.
Jesse:It's so funny. And then next thing you know it cuts back to them and he's like he immediately kills them, and then the other guard is like hey, hey weren't you way over there.
Jason:So he charges into the castle and attacks several members of the wedding, everybody women, children, servants, flowers on the walls.
Jesse:He's just like hitting people gently hitting them in the throat, including he attacks everybody, including the father of the bride, and then, even whenever it takes too many seconds between killing, another person.
Jason:He turns to the wall and just chops a flower.
Jesse:Oh man, it's so good.
Jason:Better keep the combo going.
Jesse:He bursts into Herbert's room and then kills the guards, while one of them tries to recall instructions to get the key. Lancelot immediately feels bad because he thought he was rescuing a lady. He's like, wait what he's like you came to rescue me.
Jason:Yeah, he's already like got a rope tied together with sheets ready to go out the window. Lancelot's like yeah, I'm here to wait a second. What? Then the dad shows up. They become great pals.
Jesse:Yeah, the king appears and expresses his displeasure at the disruption that Lancelot has caused. However, when he learns that Lancelot is from Camelot, he appears to believe that Lancelot can provide some unspecified gain in lieu of Herbert. I love it because the king comes in you only killed and he's like oh, I didn't mean to do all that. I'm sorry, if I knew I wouldn't have done it.
Jason:I just thought.
Jesse:I was saving a woman and it's like the king of the swamps you only killed the bride's father. You know, Sir Lancelot, well, I didn't mean to king of the swamp castle, Didn't mean to you put your sword right through his head, Sir Lancelot. All right, uh, after um severing the linens that herbert is because we see herbert. He's climbing out of the window with a blanket after serving the linens that herbert is currently using to make his escape down the castle walls he's like all right, let's go.
Jesse:The king escorts land a lot outside of the room while making friendly conversation, the king tries to introduce Lanzalot to the crowd, but their predictable hostility excites Lanzalot into combat once again. I love it. He's like ah, just immediately switches and he kills a few more people before the king can calm down. I love it. He's like you see, it keeps happening. It's just like a snap into it. I don't know why.
Jason:Bloodthirsty mania.
Jesse:So the king explains the new arrangement involving the princess and her holdings, which somehow depend on the death of her father. When her father appears to be recovering from Lancelot's attacks, he motions to one of his guards who approaches the father of the bride. The king delivers a narrative of the prince's father succumbing to his wounds. And surely enough he does. And then they stab him and he's like due to the father dying, he's not dead. Well, he's greatly. He's greatly injured.
Jason:He's getting better he motions for the guard to take him out and then, guys, he's dead.
Jesse:and then he's's, he's dead. And then he's like all right, what's her name? The princess now has become my daughter. And then Herbert then appears in the castle, apparently in good health, which super pisses off his father, and his irritation escalates when Herbert begins to explain his ordeal in song.
Jason:Everybody's like god, dang it.
Jesse:He's going to tell, he's going to tell, he's going to tell, but Concord appears and suggests that Lancelot return to the quest. Lancelot insists on a melodramatic exit and then swings across a room from a rope. Somehow his stunt fails and he's left dangling. Could somebody help me? I just, I love that entire section. I know it's so good John.
Jason:Cleese is a fucking man. What the kittens, I don't know, it's just, he's so funny, I don't know. Yeah, herbert.
Jesse:So while riding into, I don't want to. So while riding into, I don't want to. So while riding into yet another poor village, arthur meets the old crone. She's the one like dusting a cat on the side of the wall. She is asked about shrubbery but appears terrified by the inquiry and refuses to cooperate. Arthur and Bedervere coerce her with the word.
Jason:She's like falling down, like no, no, arthur, and Bedervere.
Jesse:coerce her with the word.
Jason:She's like falling down Like no, no, stop it, stop it, but luckily Saved by Roger the Shrubber Roger the Shrubber it comes in, it's like how could this be?
Jesse:Just these days, people, ruffians, coming into towns, yelling me at people at old croons, um, and they're like, oh, you have shrubberies. And then it cuts to author and bed of your return, to the dreaded knights who say but find that their name has been changed to to icky icky. It's something Icky, icky, spang zhoo-wong, obviously something too complex to understand and definitely probably Adler.
Jason:I know I love the part where he's like we are now no longer the knights who say knee and he's still got a couple little guys that are like knee knee and they're like shh, shh, shh.
Jesse:And I love it. But even later on in the scene, later on in the scene, he starts saying Nick, I said it again and Arthur can't say it. So he says the knights who were recently called Nick. So they charge Arthur with another useless errand and an impossible task cut down a tree with a herring too cut down a tree with a herring.
Jason:He's like oh, that's impossible. He's like can you please try?
Jesse:I also love when we cut to this scene and we see that the shrubbery is on the ground and has little picket fence around it what I love is that they're all like. All the other knights are looking down like shaking their heads, talking about how much they like the shrubbery.
Jason:It's so funny it's gonna be the next one they want.
Jesse:It's like it's gonna be a little bit two level effects, with a little path right down the middle. Yeah, the eccentric knights are defeated by Arthur's accidental discovery of a secret word which is their weakness, which apparently is the word it. Yeah, and I love, because when they're arguing he's like what is it that I'm saying? Is it is? They're like well, you wouldn't be able to get very far in life if you can't say the word is. It's like you can't get very far in life if you can't say the word is so funny, and this is where I got the biggest laugh.
Jesse:So Robin and his musical minstrel then appear on the scene and they're still singing about how he ran away, and it's so funny. And Robin looks so upset and he's just like god, dang it, stop singing about how I felt. And it's so funny to me. Oh man, like it was the biggest laugh this time when I watched it. So funny, I think it's cause the song's so catchy. So, and then in the modern world, the police. I laughed this time when I watched it. So funny, I think it's because the song's so catchy. So, and then in the modern world, the police continue their investigation of the historian's murder. But back in medieval world, the adventures each over, the adventures each overcame.
Jason:Adventurers.
Jesse:Back in medieval world, the adventures each overcame their perils and reunite to face a bleak and terrible winter which they survived by eating Sir Robin's minstrels. All this is done in like a painting, animation and stuff.
Jason:Yeah, he just kind of grabs them with the hook and pulls them down to the bushes. They're like yay, Yay.
Jesse:So the reunited party ventures further to find the enchanter named Tim Tim Tim. I love it because when they see him they just see a bunch of fire and hearing explosions.
Jason:Yeah, he's just pointing and making explosions.
Jesse:And then whenever they do meet him, it's like enchanter, it's like what do we call you, tim, some call?
Jason:me.
Jesse:Tim. Tim the Enchanter appears as a Scots-talking middle-aged man but commands great powers of pyrokinesis, has a very long gray street beard and on his head either wears ram's horns or grows them, I do not know. He is also able to withstand long awkward silences, doing nothing to break them. I love it, and I love that sometimes he'll just talk and then turn around and point and shoot, fire it's like.
Jason:why are you?
Jesse:doing this, and then they kind of bring up why they're there and it's like yes, we're here to find the Holy Grail, yes, we're searching for the Holy Grail. Could you help us Find the Holy Grail? Because?
Jason:that is what we're here to do. Seek the Holy Grail.
Jesse:Tim's just staring at him. So Arthur and his party are in awe of Tim and his spectacular displays of pyrotechnics and find themselves flustered when asked him for help as per the instructions of the old man from scene 24. Tim promises to help with their next phase of intelligence gathering and beckons the party to follow him. After one step he abruptly turns around and speaks of a terrible monster. The longer he spends on the warning, the more foolish he appears. Arthur's fearful respect for the enchanter is diminishing. It's just a Bonnie. The company approaches a rock's encircled clearing, beyond which is mouth of a cave that breathes smoke. Skeletons litter the scene.
Jason:I love it.
Jesse:The tension jumps when Tim sights the monster. When the knights realize that the monster is an average looking rabbit, the tension immediately turns to annoyance and scorn. Sir Bors, played by Terry Gillum, ordered to dispatch. The creature sets forth to perform the task casually, but then the rabbit leaps about six feet to bite off Sir Boars' head before the knight even raises his sword, tim, who feels vindicated, expresses it was he's laughing at him.
Jesse:But Tim feels vindicated and expresses it as would an 11-year-old See. Arthur, believing a full-scale attack is sufficient to accomplish the task orders one Sure. When several knights die in an attempt, he orders a retreat.
Jason:He just tears them for himself. Yeah.
Jesse:And the knight who? The king who never retreats that rabbit's dynamite Just immediately says run away. When someone recalls the holy hand grenade Of Antioch, arthur calls to brother Maynard, who is seen with his entourage of a stone's throw away, but off camera until the scene. I guess these guys have just been following him the whole entire movie. They keep the grenade man Jesus Christ, I'm about to do this whole speech. They consult with his owners.
Jesse:Exhaustive cannon on use of the weapon. The book of armaments, right Armaments Armaments, Verses 9 through 21 describing how to use the grenade armaments, Verses 9-21 describing how to use the grenade. And Saint Atelier raised the hand grenade up on high, saying O Lord, bless thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits in mercy. And the Lord did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carps and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and, large cleric, it's told to skip forward by Brother Maynard and the Lord spake saying First shalt thou take out the holy pen, then thou shalt count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count and the number of the counting shall be three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count and the number of the counting shall be three.
Jesse:Four shalt thou not count. Neither count thou two, except accepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out, with the number three being the third number be reached, in luck being the third number be reached and lock thou thou thy holy hand grenade of Antioch towards thy foe who being naughty in my sight shall snuff it, snuff it oh, jesus Christ, that's so good.
Jason:I love the bomb the grenade. It's so it's just like a coconut with a crucifix. We should get one and put it in our room.
Jesse:Our podcast room and immediately King Arthur miscounts, he goes one, two, five three, pretty sure.
Jason:Yeah, he's got to be corrected. Yeah, pretty sure.
Jesse:The grenade is thrown at the rabbit and a thundering explosion alerts the police. We see who are already looking for a murderer. Oh God, I need some water after that.
Jason:Oh, who are already looking for a murderer. Oh God, I need some water after that. Oh, it's so fucking great. All the thou's, thy's shouts.
Jesse:Yes, oh. And then in the cave beyond the rabbit we see some Aramaic writing is found, which Brother Maynard translate Wasn't it the guy who wrote it.
Jason:It's a brother, something from Arimathea. Yeah, something like that, yeah God.
Jesse:Yeah, something like that, yeah, God. Finally, they receive concrete instructions on where to find the Grail, the castle of Arrgh. Why are they trying to deduce the meaning?
Jason:of the text the knights are. They're like maybe he died, he wouldn't take the time to carve out argh.
Jesse:Such a good joke. The knights are ambushed by the legendary animated black beast of Arrgh With a thousand eyes, yeah. I think it was cool the human party also animated are chased about the cave and are only saved when the animator, terry Gillum, suffers a fatal heart attack. And we see in the modern world. The police discover the gruesome scene of the cave entrance. They assume it's a homicide and not an animal attack though, and then Arthur's party approaches the bridge of death that is guarded by the old man from scene 24.
Jason:The hermit guy.
Jesse:Arthur orders Sir Robin to face the deadly quiz that the old man will give him, but Robin deflects the orders. You must answer me these the deadly quiz that the old man will give him, but Robin deflects the orders. You must answer me these questions three. Lancelot makes the first attempt and when the party sees the challenge isn't as difficult as answering a few superficial personal questions, robin finds his bravery renewed and volunteers to be the next participant.
Jason:because it's like what, that's easy, because it's like what is your name, what is your quest, what is your favorite color? All right, go on then.
Jesse:And then Robin comes up and he does the whole spiel again. What is your name? And he's like, yeah, all right. All right, let's go.
Jason:What is the average speed and velocity of an unladen swallow? Yeah, it's like huh, I don't know that. I think it's tossed into the ravine.
Jesse:Yeah, it's like huh, I don't know that. I think it's tossed into the ravine. Yeah, it's so good. Then Galahad flubs his answer, because Galahad comes up next. He got the color question wrong. What is your task? What is your favorite color? Blue, no, green. When Arthur is asked the question about this is whenever the airspeed velocity I forgot the other one was like what's the capital of something? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. When Arthur is asked a question about the aerodynamics involving the redundant airspeed velocity, he solves the problem by answering it with a specific question which the bridge keeper cannot answer.
Jesse:And then the old man is cast into the pit and the way is clear. Yeah, so this is whenever. This is when.
Jason:You gotta know these things when you're a king. Yeah, because this is whenever he's like the airspeed velocity of a swallow.
Jesse:And he's like which type of swallow? A regular swallow or an African swallow? And he's like what I don't know that how do you know so much about swallows? A king must know these things. That, how do you know so much about swallows? A king must know these things. That's such a great comeback for that joke. They did it. It's three times Rule of threes. And then we get an intermission. I was like wait, we have like ten minutes. It's so great. It's like a five second intermission. So I could just imagine people in theaters going oh, an intermission, getting up, starting to walk out.
Jason:No, we've got to go back.
Jesse:How long is this movie? So Arthur and Bedivere search for Lancelot, but he is not to be found. In fact, he has his hands pressed against the police car and is being searched. The king and his remaining knights are called by an ethereal song. They are drawn over misty mountains to a lake. A boat with the head of a monster transports our heroes across the water to the island of the castle. Arr Arr. The men disembark and kneel. Arthur offers the lord a solemn prayer. The prayer is interrupted by the sound of a catapult being discharged. Arthur's speech switches from prayer to blasphemy, as the sheep lands on them.
Jesse:It's like Jesus Christ.
Jason:I love the sound of the catapult. It's like boom.
Jesse:It's like something off a cartoon. And then wee-wee, the taunting Frenchman appears Atop the castle wall and offers his usual insolence. Arthur launches into orders, threats and expressions of indignation, invoking God's name. The French respond with human waste. There's dumping crap all over them. Humiliated in soil, arthur and Bedivere walk back through the water to the mainland as the French taunt at will.
Jesse:I wave my private parts at your aunties. Reaching the other side of the lake, arthur shouts to an unseen party to stand ready To the sound of a military drum emerging on a nearby ridge. Soldiers numbering maybe hundreds thousands form a line of battle nearly as many feet in width. They are well-equipped. Arthur shouts a deadly oath across the lake to the French who persist in their taunts. Without hesitation, arthur orders a charge and the company surges forward. I'm like were they all going to swim over there?
Jason:But we'll never know because as the soldiers approach the shore on the mainland, they are caught off by just two modern-day police cars.
Jesse:The line of battle has shrunk to less than 100 feet and Arthur and. Bedivere are arrested, At least three of the officers start pushing back the crowd and confiscate an offensive weapon. The film breaks and the projector runs out of the gate, putting an abrupt end to the movie. For the duration of the film, there are several minutes of organ music, but no end credits, Bro. What an anticlimactic ending it's so funny.
Jesse:It's so funny after, like after you just kind of sit there and just sit in, it's like wow, really. And then like, the longer you think about it, it's like that's so funny, dude that's so funny. It's just like fuck it, we ain't got money, let's go. It's might be the bravest ending to a movie I've ever seen in my life.
Jason:Just a big fuck you everybody.
Jesse:I could imagine, just cause it immediately goes to like black screen. So that means in theaters, usually as soon as the credits hit, the lights come up and I'm just like, could you just imagine seeing this for the first time in theater, just being like what? Like I would have to sit and wait until it just like quick, to be like it's gonna come back right, you don't know wild one of the funniest movies ever made, I'd say yeah, inspired everything I feel like just from I have actually no, I'm just assuming, just based off the things that I've seen.
Jesse:I'm like, wow, this seems like it came from a bunch of kids watching this and became writers and directors and were like god. We should do some mining python stuff. That's so funny. So we're gonna move to our category the good, the bad, the ugly and the fine. This is where we talk about something we liked about the movie the good. We talked about something we didn't like about the movie the bad. We talked about something that didn't age well the ugly. And we talked about something that did age well the fine. What do you?
Jason:got mate For the good. I feel like these comedians and these writers and everybody involved. They're just so ready to shit all over their own history and I love it so much, it's so great.
Jesse:They're just so, I mean, and they just like I just put down british comedy, yeah, um, just because it's so, it's so much different than ours and it's so funny, um, but just like the fact that they don't care what they make fun of, right, like they're just everything's up for grabs no matter what, whether it's religion, politics, anything it's just all very smart.
Jason:Anything, it's all there, it's very smart Even animal cruelty. They're like ha ha hilarious. Well, if you just make it silly enough, yeah.
Jesse:I mean, it's going to work If you make something dumb enough. It becomes funny If you make it dumb and smart at the same time.
Jason:Make it real and dumb and real dumb.
Jesse:So what do you got for the bad? Oh man, it's hard.
Jason:It's just an old movie. I put the pacing.
Jesse:But the pacing is what also makes it funny. I guess so, because you'll just have long drawn-out galloping and it's like what are we doing? This is hilarious. I really didn't have a bad, so I just put the pacing, even though I also think it helps make it funny. I don't know why I'm moving my arm like this.
Jason:There were some times, yeah, when it was like too slow.
Jesse:I guess I can see, just for younger kids now could just be like what. This is boring.
Jason:I'm surprised my kids sat and watched it.
Jesse:It's just so silly though I guess the bad could be. It's like too silly if you're not into that sense of humor, Right.
Jason:It's something like you've never seen this type of thing before. Yeah, it's so brand new. It's so new to everyone who sees it, because there's nothing really like it.
Jesse:Yeah, and it's because I mean like the closest thing I can think of that's like it for like American audiences, would be Scary Movie.
Jason:Yeah, I guess so.
Jesse:I mean, it's as ridiculous as that, and it's kind of making fun of the history of films, though, but it's like low budget too. Yeah, it's wild. What do you got for something that didn't age? Well, I put the offering of the underage women in the film. Yeah. I mean that's always going to be bad Sure. It's just all played so silly that it's like, ha ha ha ha, they're making fun of an older time, so cheeky yeah, but really that's it.
Jesse:I mean, um and for the fine I just put monty python and the boys, all of them.
Jason:They're so funny yeah, man, I love their shit, like, and if you see, them in anything else.
Jesse:They're also funny in those too yeah, you gotta watch the life of brian. Yeah, it's pretty good. I mean, like john cleese is in any movie is hilarious. I will say, out of all of them, john cle Cleese is the one I recognize the most. I think it's the one with the last name Idol.
Jason:Eric Idol.
Jesse:Eric Idol. I remember him in a lot of things. Yeah, I've seen him in several things, the others like I recognize them, but I just can't pinpoint anything.
Jason:Right, but you know that they were in this movie, yeah.
Jesse:And that's what matters must be incredible. Yeah, exactly, all right. John cleese yeah, he stole the fucking show yeah, I mean he steals a show like everything he's in. He's just the best.
Jason:He's so funny. Uh, I remember watching this. Um, I was watching it in my aunt's house and she saw it. She's like is that john cleese? And like before then, no, no adult had ever shown interest in this movie, because I watched it a lot, but oh yeah, he's. I didn't know who john cleese really was. He's in the harry potter movies rat race.
Jesse:Oh yeah, rat race is fucking awesome. We have to do rat race.
Jason:We're doing rat race this year.
Jesse:I would say we're doing an x, but we're gonna switch up the comedy a little bit. All right, we're gonna move to our next category double feature.
Jason:It's where we pick a movie that we recommend to watch alongside this movie I would say one that I thought of was, um, a different director, kind of the same, but what's his fucking name? Now I lost it, but the the movie is like history of the world with oh uh, mel brooks, mel brooks, yeah god, I love those fucking movies yeah, we actually watched the history of the world. I actually is that the one where it's a, it's in like Greece, right? Yeah, yeah.
Jesse:That one actually cause I do like a lot of Mel Brooks movies that I watched that one last year for the first time because they had history of the world. Part two come out Maybe that's the one I was thinking of. And that's where it's like you got Nick he worked with yeah. So like it's like a sequel, but like way later.
Jason:You know, um, it was pretty funny. I didn't finish it, though. Yeah, mel brooks, I don't think he's that he's necessarily as funny as the as like monty python oh, I don't know, young frankenstein, yeah that stuff so hit or miss, but like some of the stuff is like real kind of crazy.
Jesse:I actually just the history of the world didn't land as much for me. No, it's not nearly as good to me. But I mean Young Frankenstein Blazing Saddles, robin Hood Men in Tights God, that'd be a great double feature for this. We're also doing Robin Hood Men in Tights as a double feature. Yeah, we're actually going to have like five movies recommended for it. All right, so mine was for a recent one. I put Dungeons and Dragons, honor Among Thieves. Yeah, man, that was good.
Jesse:The writers actually did say that they were inspired by Monty Python when writing that. And I also am recommending a movie called Flesh and Blood, written by Paul Verhoeven, and it's like in medieval Europe. A young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors. It's a weird movie. It's weird, it's gross and I don't know. It's Paul Verhoeven's first American film. I believe it has Ruger Hauer in it, jennifer Jason Leigh. It can be kind of a gruesome movie it's very violent. But be kind of a gruesome movie, it's very violent. Um, but I think if you just kind of want like something like the opposite, like you want oh, I just watched silly comedy. Now I kind of want to watch something more serious and a little more, little more gruesome, and that would be a good double feature.
Jesse:I feel like join us next time yes, join us next time I am prepared to cover the film the warriors, the film the Warriors, the Warriors. Come out and play.
Jason:Love this movie, loved it as a kid, the dudes who walked a few blocks.
Jesse:Yeah, this movie is so iconic, though I can't wait to discuss. The Warriors have you seen it?
Jason:I think it's sort of a true story. No, I played the video game though.
Jesse:Oh, you haven't actually seen it. No, I should probably make sure it's actually on something.
Jason:The video game was pretty close. I think I actually really wanted to play that.
Jesse:I was thinking maybe I'll play it before. I have no chance. I think it was like PS2. Cool, so make sure you join us next week for the Warriors. It's a great film. Can't wait to talk about it. And if you would like to send us an email or ask any questions or want to say something about the movie, we just covered anything we got wrong, anything we got right. Did you like our commentary? Did you not? Whatever? Just email us. Um, also, share this podcast with your friends. Tell them like hey, these guys are silly and they're probably handsome. They just sound probably yeah, definitely are.
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