what i like about this sketch is the suggestion that Mr. Cresote is a regular customer and that he explodes every time. i wonder how they still have other customers.
I don’t think it was suggested he explodes every time. More that he’s a regular and is consistently rude and disgusting towards staff and customers, so the waiter takes the opportunity to talk him into eating that one extra wafer he knows will make him explode lol
I wish I could recapture the feeling I experienced when I first saw this in a cinema in '83. It's still funny, but I'm used to it now. The 1st time I saw it with friends, we laughed so hard we were sliding out of our chairs. Each blast of vomit provoked another convulsion of laughter.
Interesting fact: Most of the extras had no idea this was going to happen. So when they're suddenly coated in vomit- that's an actual look of disgust on their face.
Fun fact: At 4:00 that pineapple was originally the tail end of a fish. They had to change it because John Cleese couldn't keep from laughing every time they tried to do the scene.
When I was in college, a young lady was once sick at the table in the Dining Facility. She started a chain reaction, which I got caught up in, which left the room in about the same shape as this fictional scene. I am not exaggerating.
Vomiting can trigger a sympathetic response in nearby people, especially in poorly ventilated areas. Smelling vomit leads your body to believe that the food you ate is contaminated and will try to purge the contaminated food.
That makes no sense unless you were all poisoned to some extent. People don’t literally throw up just because they watched someone else do it. That would be a very rare event so an entire room doing it is just unbelievable unless there was some other factor, such as poisoning
@@criert135 You vomit because something provokes great disgust in you, a smell, a sight, a feeling If girl A vomits and girl B finds it nasty she might vomit, the horrid smell of puke in a poorly ventilated area along the sight of half digested food makes boy A vomit, along his two buddies girl C and boy B, a chain reaction starts to occur, imagine vomit, now imagine a room full of it, the mix of both vomit and food mixing, their scent intertwining, the sight of multiple people vomiting, some on the floor, some on top of food, some on top of you. You puke too. Hell begins and without moments notice you are in a Monty Pytho sketch.
It was so funny seeing this in the cinema when it had just come out. The audience was alternating between growns and convulsant laughter. I was doubled over I was laughing so hard.
With at least 1 of the extras, it was apparently real - so I hear, the fake stuff got rather ripe after a day under the lights, and when he felt himself "going", he turned towards the camera so as not to waste the opportunity.
The first time I saw this I nearly pissed myself with laughter, just couldn't stop laughing-especially when he vomits of the cleaner lady. The Pythons are awesome, full stop.
i read somewhere that the extra at 5:16 to the left of the screen behind Creosote is actually vomiting. Apparently whatever they used for the vomit smelled awful and he just let go.
I member watching this on pay TV after it was released in the early 80s, along with films like The Thing, Poltergeist, and numerous other horror films, this scene did what it was supposed to do to 11 yr old kids staying home from school. It messed us up. Bless the Goon squad.
The first time I saw this I almost laughed myself to death. I was crying, and could not breath for laughing so hard. I've seen it a million times and it still makes me laugh outloud.
Never have I been both so nauseated and, at the same time,so pummeled with hilarity, as I have by the first two thirds of this. (It's a testament to the comedic gifts of Terry Jones that he so credibly plays Mr. Creosote in the first part, and the charwoman in the second.)
As great as it is to watch this by yourself on a computer commenting to other individual viewers, it was something else entirely to see this in the theatre when it was just out. The big screen just intensifies it. People were choking with laughter while at the same time groaning with disgust. My friends and I back in '83 were laughing so hard we were falling out of our seats. I always wondered, though, why they chose to set this scene in the 1930s.
@singinglawnchair there are a few don'ts when having a big meal with second helpings. 1) you can't be huge and obese like him. 2) you can't be sick to your stomach (whether your stuffed or a stomach bug) prone to vomiting intermittently. 3) you're clothes and mouth aren't encrusted with vomit (speaking of which, you taste your vomit rather than the food, and vomit parts of the food out).
The way the waiter immediately runs and takes cover after feeding Mr Creosote the mint, like he knew what was going to happen before he did. This was an assassination attempt.
I saw this as a kid and my mom made me change the channel. I immediately went to my room and found the channel playing it and watched it. Laughed the entire time. I think I need help ....
when you can walk into a restaurant and literally vomit all over the place including the people and the head waiter still treats you like royalty, ignoring it all and treating it like its just another day, a trivial thing..... You know you got money... the kind of money that makes things right, no matter how wrong.
I used to watch Monty Python all the time. THEY are soo funny always! I love British humor all from the BBC television is one of my favorite channels I watch almost everyday now. I love it.,
To those who think this is one of Monty Python's greatest sketches/sceens, I agree with you 100 percent!! The more outrages, ridiculous, insane, jaw dropping the better!! And they were the masters of this type of Comedy.
Saw this is a kid and it traumatized me. One of numerous things. Needless to say I never really ate until I felt overly full, and was underweight all the way into college But I later learned this isn't the only representation of gluttony.
I saw The Meaning of Life at the theater, (Matinee) when it was released in 1983. I'd say one quarter of the Audience left after the Catholic/ Protestant "Debate". "Every Sperm is Sacred". And another quarter after Mr. Creosote ,vomited, and vomited somemore, and ultimately exploded. I personally thought Python's Meaning of life was second only to In Search of the Holy Grail. And, Cleese, Palin, Chapman, Jones, Idle ,and Gilliam were all accused of Blasphemy for the third time.
I'll have the lot ! Shaddup! The contrast tween his vomiting excess and all the beauty of the place plus his usage of French...kicker was Cleveland going on about her heavy cycle😂 they were masters making their last film😂
this is one of the most nasty, but funny gross scenes ever made. I'm guessing he gave him the mint to make him explode.....put him out of everyones misery lolol
"its just a tiny mint..." one of my favorite monty python scenes and actually the one following this one, where the other waitor Eric Idle makes the camera follow him for a long time for nothing!
This is one of the funniest moments from the Monty Python troupe in anything they have done! John Cleese is perfect as the unflappable maitre d' who keeps a straight face throughout! And Terry Jones (who directed the whole film) delivers a tour-de-force as Mr. Creosote and Maria! Did you know that Quentin Tarantino gets nauseated by this scene? Waffeur-thin mint FTW!
