*Ridiculously Hilarious!* FIRST TIME WATCHING Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) REACTION! 

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The historian's murderer could NOT have been one of Arthur's knights because, if you noticed, he was riding an actual horse.

"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!" Fun Fact: The famous depiction of galloping horses by using coconut shells (a traditional radio-show sound effect) came about from the purely practical reason that the production simply could not afford real horses. Metal Funding Fact: Funds earned by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) went towards funding this movie. The band were such fans of the show, they would halt recording sessions just to watch Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969). Led Zeppelin and Genesis contributed to this movie's budget as well. Swallow This Fact: The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is roughly eleven meters per second, or twenty-four miles per hour, beating its wings seven to nine times per second rather than forty-three. It's true: a five-ounce bird cannot carry a one pound coconut, but furthermore, no swallow weighs five ounces. The English barn swallow weighs only twenty grams (two-thirds of an ounce). Historical Fact: The French tactic of pelting Arthur and his knights with livestock echoes the relatively modern legend of a medieval siege of the fortified southern French town of Carcassonne. Said to have been near starvation, the townspeople used the last of their food to pelt the besieging army to convince them, suffering likewise, that the town was well stocked with food and that the siege was hopeless. The tactic was successful, and the siege was lifted.

Terry Gilliam, the only American in the Python troupe, is the codirector of this and their animator. He went on to direct an amazing run of films in the 80s and 90s. He's a visual genius, on the level of Kubrick. "Time Bandits", "Brazil", "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and "12 Monkeys" are must watch films... and all have some degree of Python humor (and sometimes cast).

Terry Jones, the director, was actually an expert on medieval history, so a lot of the jokes actually work at different levels

That scene with the King giving the guards instructions flashes through my mind every night when I find myself once again explaining the concept of bedtime to my children.

Yep. It's a Trojan Rabbit. I think you missed the actual punchline here that Bedivere, Galahad and Lancelot were supposed to be in the rabbit and weren't. That's why Bedivere kind of desperately suggests they now build a large wooden badger, not that the rabbit is actually a badger.

"Tis but a scratch!" "A scratch!? Your arms off!" "No it isn't." "Well what's that?" "I've had worse." "You liar!" "Come on, you pansy!"

The picture of God was a turn of the century cricketer named W.G. Grace. Jack Black was 5 when this movie was made. The French taunter is Monty Python member John Cleese, who is also Lancelot and Tim the Enchanter.

When this film was reliesed, everybody loved it, but the next film, that they made, "Life of Brian", turned out to be a true master piece in cinematic history. It was so controversial, that it got censored in many places of the world, and there were demonstrations etc. It really hit the nerve, was a succesful and ultimately funny. film The producer who had promised to give my to it, got scared about its content and drew the money away just days before the filming was supposed to start in Africa, but the menber of the band Beatles, George Harrison, gave them the money to do the film, "because he wanted to see the film". It is truly quite a great film, and in fact quite deep and even spiritual film in an autenhthic way.

Most underrated line in the film: "Perhaps he was dictating." 😆

The ending was a joke in itself. It was a Cop Out.. 🤣🤣🤣

Now with the ending you can say that you've been trolled by a movie before the internet even existed. Welcome to the club! BTW the LARP aspect is as good of an explanation as it gets. Most of the reaction folk get stuck on the WTF reaction and never get to develop the theory that the story was a LARP session, so you did well :D I think you lost the bet, it was not Doc Brown :D

The big twist, the woman was actually a witch. At least that’s what’s inferred by her statement after the weighing.

13:11 Guys like this were real. They were called flagellants, and they thought pain purified them of sin. Naturally, being religious zealots, they tended to become a problem when they decided to purify other people for their own good...

"They hired the sound team..." Close! Patsy (and the old man from scene 24 and the animator) is played by co-director Terry Gilliam.

The reason they sound like college graduates is because they are. Three of the 6 Pythons (the main cast) went to Cambridge, and two went to Oxford.

932 AD is the year of the movie.

I loved this film. Absurdistic humor has always been my favorite after reading books like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and seeing Python sketches on TV. Here in The Netherlands they were a common sight on TV growing up.

I love how the french are roasting them even accross the water

Jack Black was 6 years old when this film was made 🤣🤣🤣

I used to live in England for years and i really love their sense of humor and the team of Monty Python nailed it. (Life of Brian is my favorite) They says that movie was ahead of its time and very brave... Well, humor exists because the world can be terrible, humor is the antithesis of sadness and we laugh to feel better. Likewise, the "problems/issues" that the film addresses were also relevant back then, just not as "loud" as they are nowadays. And it is so funny to see other people get offended by this kind of humor because they can't take a joke or irony.

I excitedly wait for your reaction to 'Monty Python's Life of Brian', genius satire!

I love the monks' chant. They are saying, "God is dead, now let him rest." Whack!

The best line from the Camelot song: We sing from the di-a-phram-a-lot.

Entertaining video, as usual! - my favorite comedy is a 3-way tie: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Airplane! (1980) and Team America: World Police (2004). - Nope, it wasn’t Doc Brown/Christopher Lloyd playing the french taunter. It was John Cleese. There are only six members of the Monty Python ‘gang.’ Everyone had to play multiple roles (in this and other films). I’ve included a list of who played who, below. - I highly recommend Rob Ager’s video analysis on this film: Monty Python and the Holy Grail - The anti-movie movie. Here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kTDALu3f4-g.html - The famous historian wasn’t killed by anyone associated with King Arthur. We know that, because the historian was killed by a man on horseback (the only 2 seconds where we see a horse in the entire film). No one else had a horse. So the dead historian’s wife mistakenly ID’d the wrong people. - The film doesn’t care what the reality of the situation is, and never explains it. We don’t know if Arthur and gang are loony cosplayers in 1970s England, or if it's actually Medieval times and some 1970s cops and civilians were somehow sent back in time, or if it’s a strange ‘pocket universe’ that a bunch of people from different earth eras were dumped into. (How did Arthur’s men use power tools, which we hear being used, to construct the Trojan Rabbit, if it’s 1,000 years before power tools were invented, for example?) Part of the film’s charm is the craziness, the contradictory aspects. Here’s who played who: Graham Chapman King Arthur Middle Head, of the 3-headed monster Hiccuping Guard God (voice) John Cleese Lancelot Black Knight Tim the Enchanter Taunting Frenchman Eric Idle Sir Robin Roger the Shrubber non-hiccuping guard bring-out-your-dead collector Concorde (Lancelot’s squire) Brother Maynard Terry Gilliam Green Knight (who is killed by the Black Knight, before Arthur’s combat) Patsy Bridgekeeper The Animator (himself) Bors (who attacks the rabbit first) Terry Jones Sir Bedivere Prince Herbert Left head (?) Michael Palin Sir Galahad King of Swamp Castle Leader: Knights who say Ni! Dennis First Swallow-savy guard Right Head The film’s narrator

18:55 Haha, no, it's John Cleese. One of the Monty Python crew, and, like others, he plays multiple roles in the film, including Lancelot and Tim the Enchanter.

'Well, a new level has been unlocked in the video game.' thus explaining the preceding sound effect.

19:13 "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." 😆 No one delivers an insult like the _French._

The reoccuring African Swallow gag is just hilarious.

A couple of fun movies you may enjoy: “Repo Man,” and “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension.”

This movie was made in 1975, MONTY PYTHON is a comedy group, they use to do do tours, it's just the 5 of them

NOBODY expects the flying cow!

As much as I love the absurdism of Holy Grail, their movie The Life of Brian has a valuable message for humankind. Brian is my favorite Python movie by a mile. My favorite comedies of all time: After Hours (1985, Dir: Martin Scorsese) The Commitments (1991, Dir: Alan Parker) A Hard Day's Night (1964, Dir Richard Lester)

You are a proud American. No silly monarchy for you!

The coconuts have major significance. They didnt have the budget for actual horses. It was a constant running gag

44:55 That wasn't a rabbit, it was a 'chicken'. 😂

By the time they get to the "Trojan Rabbit" scene and they all forget to get in, that's when you say I'm turning off my brain and just going to laugh.

If you liked this one, then you have to watch their next film, Monty Python’s Life of Brian. I’d also recommend you check out their British tv show from the 70s, Monty Python’s Flying Circus. For a slightly more recent (80s) American silly comedy, you should see Airplane!

The ending was, quite literally, a cop out. The irony is that they were innocent. The killer rode a horse, and none of characters had horses. They used coconuts because they couldnm't afford horses.

6:40 - A cart with dead bodies is being hauled through a cesspool of plague sufferers. A man hits a bell, shouting "Bring out your dead !!" Shree's reaction: "This makes me so thankful for good roads in my city." - Hahahaha.

ALL members of Monty Python's Flying Circus were British, none were American. the French knight speaking was John Cleese, one of the members of Monty Python, who also played Sir Lancelot and Tim the Enchanter. (and the year mentioned isn't 93 squared, its just 932 A.D.)

Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe and Merry Christmas 🎄

Also, back in the 60's & 70's if a movie was over 3 hours long they had intermissions in movie theaters so people could either have bathroom breaks, stretch your legs or buy more snacks. Examples of movies having intermissions are Apocalypse Now! & It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

I never knew women could use their boobs as collateral for a bet....

Monty Python was an English comedy troupe in the 1970s. The logical next movie would be "The Life of Brian." I'm not sure I can state my favorite comedy film of all time, but here are a couple of candidates: 1. The "Pink Panther" series, starting with "The Pink Panther." They're American movies about an incompetent French police detective. 2. "Some Like it Hot" It's about two poor musicians in the 1920s who accidentally witness a mob execution and have to hide out.

The 'Bring out your dead" was factual. When the Black Plague was rampant in the UK carts used to go around and collect the bodies.

1. What about the moose? 2. The worst "cock block" EVER😭 3. The first time I saw this was in the back of a pickup with my siblings and a couple of friends. (It's still here btw)😎 4. Perfect Monty Python where you can just get sucked into something where you don't have to think about anything and just let yourself go. 5. "What ya gonna do? Bleed on me." 🤣 "Alright, we'll call it a draw" 🤣 6. Quick bit: "Blow it out your ass"! 7. The budget didn't allow real horses. 8. The only horse in the film is ridden by the guy that killed the historian. 9. The ending is a "Cop out". They ran out of 💲💲💲

A few notes/observations: -the subtitles gag works even better today than it would have in 1975... -the "bring out your dead" scene plays very differently post-COVID... -the basis for God was cricketer W. G. Grace -you lose your left boob; the French taunter was John Cleese, not Christopher Lloyd -flinging a cow is one of the more accurate parts of the film (although in siege warfare, diseased and dead cows and other animals were usually flung *into* castles to make the inhabitants sick)

Monty Python always was and always will be, the Kings of the Theatre of the Absurd. Absurdity to the nth degree.

Favorite comedy of all time: A Fish Called Wanda (1988), starring John Cleese and Michael Palin (both from Monty Python), along with Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline (who won an Oscar for the role). Raising Arizona (1987) would be a close second. My favorite Python movie aside from this one would be Life of Brian (1979). Eric Idle, another former member of Monty Python, adapted "Holy Grail" into a Tony Award-winning stage musical called "Spamalot" in the early 2000s, taking its name from an infamous sketch from the original Monty Python television series. It remains the only Broadway show I've ever been to.

The "French Guy" is John Clese. He is one of the Members of Monty Python.

it's funny how the same castle from different angles is made to represent several different locations.

Fun fact John cleese The guy playing Sir Lancelot is the guy who voiced King Harold on Shrek 2

I love British comedy, Monty python's life of Brian is my favorite comedy, holy grail is very close.

There is at least one medieval book that has cat footprints in ink on a page.

The movie's era, 932 AD, is long before Christopher Columbus and the discovery by Europeans of the Western hemisphere, including tropical islands where coconuts grow. (At the time, Europeans had never encountered many fruits we take for granted today, like potatoes, tomatoes, pineapples, bananas, or corn.)

A movie about larping before larping was even a thing!

Loved watching you react to this. I first saw it when I was 7 and it flipped my brain.

"Tim" _is_ a very good name for an enchanter, but I imagine he would probably _not_ seek employment at the EPA.

Until you said "93 squared" I never noticed the 2 in 932 AD was a smaller font... but no it's not the future. The taunting French knight is John Cleese, and he was the second knight in the fist scene who suggested "it could be carried by an African swallow". The main one there was Michael Palin. John Cleese is also Sir Launcelot, the guy pleading with Eric Idle to take away the not-dead guy, Tim the Enchanter and the Black Knight, and Michael Palin is Galahad, the narrator, the father in the castle, the Knight of Ni, the anarchosyndicalist peasant, the monk reading the instructions for the Holy Hand Grenade, and the triple knight head on the right. Both of them are in the witch crowd. John Cleese is the one who "got better". It's the same castle every time shot from different angles. Zoot and her twin Dingo are played by Carol Cleveland, who worked with them throughout their TV series. Fun fact: Carol Cleveland just turned 81. Best MPFC movie? "Life of Brian".

I can't remember the document, but there actually is a page, written in a monastery in the dark ages, with cat prints were a cat got ink on it's paws and walked across calligraphy.

22:40 It wasn't a cannon, it was a catapult or trebuchet. It was fairly standard military practice in middle ages Europe.

The guys hitting themselves in the head was a reference to the cult of self-flagelists that spread through Europe during the middle ages. That short sequence actually had a historical basis.

30:33 You’re the first reactor I’ve seen to laugh at the “bloody weather” punchline. 👏

LARPing wasn’t really a thing back in the 70’s, so you can also see it as a series of nested films: first, as a film about Arthur and his knights. Then zoom out, and you see it’s actually an educational film about King Arthur and his knights. Then zoom out again, and you see it’s a guerilla documentary about the making of the educational film, and how the filmmaking process goes awry when the narrator of the educational film gets murdered and they have to chase down the cast and cinematographer to find out if they were involved. (Hint-they weren’t. The murderer rode an actual horse. They were dressed as a cast member to throw the suspicion on someone in the production-but if they had been watching the dailies, they would know that none of the other knights were riding an actual horse, so it couldn’t be anyone connected with the educational film. The pool of suspects narrowed quickly after that.)

“Chickens are a**h***s . That’s what I eat them.” LOL

Just to clarify what I said in chat, Merlin (1998) shares the name of a series from 2008. Haven't seen the later one, but the one from the '98s stars Sam Neil, Isabella Rossellini, Miranda Richardson, and Martin Short among many other big names. If you can deal with some dated effects (it was made for television) it's a great watch and an interesting take on Arthurian lore. (Edit) Just found out the whole thing is on a few RU-vid channels. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o1arzN4Dkx8.html Also, The Meaning of Life is probably my favorite Monty Python movie. It's basically a bunch of sketches about life and death strung together thematically. Has even less of a plot than this one does, but I love the humor.

"chickens are a-holes" such a great comment, love... thanks for the great reaction.. yeah, i think this movie hit the right spots for you.. thx

This is obviously a documentary. That's clearly Arthur Pendragon, son of Uther, sovereign of all England. Cops are just so dogged they'd even travel back in time to arrest an innocent man. He was totally framed! The funniest throwback that I actually overlooked completely until I saw a RU-vid comment is there are no end credits because the people responsible for the credits were sacked at the start of the film, and the animator died of a heart attack so there's no graphics.

46:16 Tim the Sorcerer just laughing at them is hilarious Btw, limited theater screening next month in December! 🎥

That is 932 AD

45:09 I can tell you, as someone who has _owned_ rabbits, they're not to be underestimated. They can be _fierce._

The historian also played Mathias from Life of Brian, the character who was being stoned for saying Jehovah.

Now that you've watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail, you're going to be getting a lot of people suggesting you watch Blazing Saddles. Back in the 70s and 80s, they were often shown as a double featue.

The pedantic instructions for the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch were meant to be plodding, as it was spoofing the flowery language often found in Old and Middle English texts from the Dark Ages, Middle Ages, and Renaissance, including biblical passages and literary works (likely because monks and other scribes from these centuries had a lot of spare time to write elaborately, as they weren’t distracted by the web, streaming series, TV, and other diversions like we have today).

Probably my favourite comedy movie is the follow up to this one: "Monty Python's Life of Brian" :)

Graham Chapman - King Arthur, Middle Head of Three-Headed Knight, Hiccuping guard, God John Cleese - Sir Launcelot, French Taunter, Black Knight, Tim the Enchanter, 2nd Coconut guard Eric Idle - Sir Robin, Dead Collector, Roger the Shrubber, Concord, Dumb guard, Brother Maynard Terry Jones - Sir Bedivere, Prince Herbert, Left Head of Three-Headed Knight, Dennis' mother Michael Palin - Sir Galahad, Swamp King, Leader of the Knights who Say Ni, Right Head of Three-Headed Knight, Dennis, 1st coconut guard, narrator Terry Gillam - Patsy, Bridgekeeper, Green Knight, Bors, weak-hearted animator Connie Booth (John Cleese's wife at the time) - "witch" Carol Cleveland - Zoot, Dingo Neil Innes - Sir Robin's minstrel, Lead monk John Young - Historian, "not dead" old man

Great reaction, Shree!!! My favorite funny full movie is What's Up, Doc? (1972). The film that makes me laugh so hard that my side hurts every time I watch it is Chickens Come Home (1931), which is a Laurel and Hardy pre-code short film.

One of the jokes that people miss is that the police arrested the wrong people. The historians murderer had a horse while King Arthur and his fellow LARPer's did not.

No.... Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown) was not in any Monty Python movie. All the major roles are played by the members of Monty Python. They all played more than one role by the way. The French taunter was John Cleese.

The movie is so out there I didn’t know what to think…. And then I laugh

35:26 "That's a good man. He gives his, uh, employees the day off if they're sick or injured or have an _arrow_ sticking through their chest." Tunic. They had just made clear, actually, Concorde's _chest_ was _fine._ The arrow had only pierced his _tunic._ So, yes, Lancelot is a _very_ good man.

Shree, in the Ancient Aliens and the Holy Grail episode, they show what happened to it, but in the movie the Davinci Code, they say it went somewhere in France

The french shoot the cow and the rabbit with a trebuchet. A trebuchet can launch a 90kg projectile over 300m. ;)

They used to use catapults back then. It's like a slingshot but much much bigger. The French must have used a very big one.

56:20 At the time the movie came out I was 14 yrs old. and the year before this release, Dungeons and Dragons, The dice game was released. It took a few years But the seeds for LARP were planted.

13:10 Ah, you've never heard of the flagellants have you? They were a movement during the black death that thought the plague was a punishment from God, and that they could end it by punishing themselves in ways reminiscent of the tortures Jesus underwent while en route to his crucifixion. It should be noted that the clergy very much disapproved of the movement, but weren't really in a position to stop it.

My favorite credit: 142 Mexican whooping llamas.

Like Weird Al I know every line of this movie. Never intended that, but that is how my life developed.

The year 932 A.D. is during the Middle Ages in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. A.D. means Anno Domini after the birth and death of Jesus Christ. B.C. means Before Christ. The Death of Christ was between 30 and 36 A.D. according to scholars. Monty Python was a British Comedy Troupe (with one American with the Troupe, Terry Gilliam who played many characters and did the animation) on British TV and it was called "Monty Python's Flying Circus which they did comedy skits from 1969 to 1974 or 1975. I use to watch "Monty Python's Flying Circus on PBS (Public Broadcasting System) on TV back around 1973 to about 1975/1976 when I was in my late teens and when I turned 20. The so called Swedish subtitles under the credits are sarcastic humor and some of the other credits as well. I caught that humor right away when I first saw this film in 1975 at the theater and the entire film. As an American, I always understood their humor from the get go from the first time I watched their TV comedy show.

The ending is *literally* a "cop-out..." At some point, you should watch the "Monty Python's Flying Circus" series (from 1969-72) which is where they started as a group.

30:08 Also there are absolutely ancient manuscripts with inky cat pawprints on them. They really exist, it's good to know cats have been little bastards for centuries.

No, the supposed date of the movie is 932 AD. The funky font has the "2" too small. The background of the story is that of King Arthur (who never existed, as far as anyone knows). He became king by pulling a magical sword out of the stone, which no one else, even the strongest in the land could do. (Merlin, the magician, had placed it there for a test for whom should become king.) Also there is something about the Lady of the Lake who extends her hand up from the lake with this sword, Excalibur, but I forget how that fits into the picture. Arthur gathers up a bunch of warriors whom he beknights. They sit around a round table, to indicate everyone is equal. At some point, he seeks the "holy grail" which was supposed to be the actual chalice (or cup) for the wine at the Last Supper. One of the knights is Sir Lancelot who cheats on Arthur with Arthur's wife. There is not an official "cannon" of the legends, which vary all over the place and aren't consistent. But the legend of King Arthur was used for all sorts of romantic tales of knights in shining armor who slay a dragon to rescue a fair maiden. Many, many stories, the list is endless. What Monty Python is trying to get across (behind the comedy) is a different and more realistic view of the era of brutality and ignorance. Various plagues swept Europe during this era, and the death rate at times became so high, they did collect dead bodies like the weekly trash pickup, to dump into open pit graves. It appears that it was the domestication of the cat back thousands of years earlier which allowed the rise of agriculture, because without cats, rodents eat (or spoil) all the stored grain. However, doing the Middle Ages, cats were considered to be agents of demons (after all, their eyes glow at night), and so people keeping them were accused to trafficking with the devil. Hence, diseases like the Black Death swept across Europe, carried by the fleas on rats. Some towns had more than 1/3 of their population wiped out. They also persecuted anyone not confirming to the religious norms, including woman, labelling them witches with all sorts of illogical reasoning (including harboring black cats).

The plot is sort of correct....uh...based on parts of the original Le Morte D'Arthur (Sir Thomas Mallory, 1470 AD). Some liberties were taken during production based on the tiny budget. It only became a re-enactment after the sudden demise of the historian---otherwise it would have been a docudrama.

The killer of the historian was NOT one of Arthur's knights; that person rode a real horse!

The gorge of eternal peril presumably leads back to castle anthrax. Conservation of peril.

You should watch this movie a few times ,I've been watching hing it for years and I still find something new to laugh at

There are for sure illuminated manuscripts with little cat paw prints across them, so your observation as the tale of Sir Lancelot was starting was on the money. Also God in this movie is actually an animated picture of a cricket player named W.G. Grace.

I don't know why, but there's something about the French knight's little hand pats on the wall that crack me up.