2:14 "I came here for a good argument", "No you didn't, you came here for an argument". Probably the best line for me, so subtle and implies that they could start an argument about the quality of the argument. 🤣
I’ve always loved that last hand on Cleese’s shoulder before the cutaway. All he says is “hold it”, implying a never ending line a coppers waiting to nick the one before.
Yep. And the last sentence of the clip "It's a fair cop" is also brilliant. Someone elsewhere clarified that the phrase is a British-ism meaning something to the effect that someone made a good point Also that the "arrest" was justified, playing upon the fact ther were three "cops" in the room, one-upping each other. Until I had read this comment section, I was unaware of any significance to that ending, and until now, I did indeed consider that a cheap way to end the skit.
The perfect Python sketch. Cleese and Palin bouncing off each other, the satire on language, the commentary on the way arguments are structured, the layered word play, the one liners, the timing, the delivery, the premise, Chapman, Idle and Jones' bit parts. If they'd made just this one sketch, they'd be legends.
Monty Python unintentionally invented the term “spam” for “something unwanted and asked for”. This sketch is a tutorial for social media arguments, plus the rooms of abuse and complaint.
@@neoneapolitan2122 Instead of thinking you know what you are talking about.. and being wrong... there is a thing called google search... use it and find out the facts... Spam was a canned pork product made in USA
A place you can willingly subject yourself to where you can have arguments with total strangers about nothing. Kind of like the internet! Love this sketch!
Watching this sketch again, I came to an incredible realization. Someone heaping abuse on you for no reason? Arguments aplenty? Trying to complain, only to have other people complain with or to you? This is just Twitter!
I was thinking Facebook. People keep posting political memes on the Monte Python fan page I joined. Seriously, those people ARE the sketch! The lack of self-awareness is breathtaking and hilarious sometimes.
Just left an "argument" room, and "I came here to complain!" "Oh, that's next door! It's being-hit-on-the-head lessons in here!" "What a stupid concept!"
The Greatest Skit of All Time!!! Being hit on the head lessons… “I came in here for a good argument” “No you didn’t, you came in here for an argument.”
So many repeatable lines in one sketch. It is brilliant in every single line, execution, and concept, from beginning to end. It is THE funniest MP sketch for me, but of course there are dozens (at least) which could attract that accolade for others.
John and Michael have spent their entire career arguing. This one, the Fish License, the Parrot sketch, the Cheese shop, the Lion Tamer, the Fish Slapping dance....what else am i forgetting?
Just for the sake of _argument..._ the first encounter went from the 1:29 mark, when Palin says "Is this the right room for an argument?" to the 2:42 mark, when Cleese hit the bell. So once and for all, Palin was right. It wasn't five minutes, it was only one minute thirteen. 👍😆
This is my favorite Monty Python sketch. I have many favorites but this one is Number One! Monty Python enabled me to appreciate the utter insanity of the world.
Probably my favorite Monty Python sketch, although it is hard to decide. Two nits though: (1) Michael Palin never paid for the first five minutes (?) of argument, and (2) the choice given by the secretary was a single 5-minute argument or a course of 8 arguments, whereas John Cleese asks Michael Palin if he's there for the 5-minute argument or the full half hour. The secretary never offered Palin a full half-hour argument. Maybe I should take make a visit to the complaint department?
The poms have a special knack for making the ridiculous, funny, very funny, hysterically funny, rolling on the floor funny, all the while being serious, how did they keep a straight face? would love to see some of the bloopers for a show like this
Oh, my goodness, this is funny! The way these guys can take such a simple concept and create comedy magic is priceless! I’ve never seen this one before, but I’ll be back for a few more bonks on the head!
I loved this sketch back in the mid-70s when I was in HS, and I loved it just now!!! Thanks Monty's Boys for all the years of humour, RIP to those time has taken, and a BIG THX to the folks who posted this.
Seriously, though, it is useful to know that all of them wrote and acted in TV comedy before Python, just not all as one group. The Goon Show in particular was a big influence on them.
I have watched this for at least twenty times, and it never failed in getting me at full laughter. God, Monty Python will last for the next centuries ahead. It's superb.
my favourite was I think the travel agency sketch where the woman at the desk asks the man "have you come to book a holiday?" and then in a quite and suggestive manner follows it with "or do you want to go upstairs?". Well of course we never got to find out what happens upstairs!
The idea of some strange goverment ministry somewhere, full of such peculiar departments amuses me almost as much as the actual content of this sketch.
Yes definitely my favourite Python sketch- so many memorable and brilliant lines. Years ago I translated it into Spanish for my actor friends in San Sebastian, as we couldn't find, at the time, the TV series in Spanish
In reading the comments to these Python clips on RU-vid, I get the feeling that there are people who don't understand that part of what they were about was playing with and subverting traditional sketch structure. That's why watching clips in isolation actually hinders you in appreciating them. You don't see how the links and the running gags tie everything together.
Absolutely priceless. Me and my best mate did zero work in Science classes. Instead we had memorised every sketch we could lay our hands on. LP's at the time. We tried to do the exact voices. We were pretty good. We carried it on after class. And then when we were offered we joined drama club and from there we learnt about beyond the fringe, the Goon show and much else. Thank you dear Monty Python. All those sketches were so very good. Eternally grateful.
Do we get any humour anymore? Seriously...so much entertainment has kind of died off because so much is considered offensive now, even though it was considered a lot of fun a couple of decades ago.
Anyone else notice how many of these classic videos, posted up to SIXTEEN YEARS AGO or even longer, didn't turn up in searches for so long, until just the past few weeks?
One of the most brilliant things of this sketch is the camera work when they're arguing back and forth. I think the first time I saw I just went "WOAH"! Too bad the sketch didn't call for more rapid-fire back and forth, because it was funny seeing the view switch back and forth so much. I guess it would've been funny, to do what they did early portion of the argument, and then at some point the camera gets in a back and forth rhythm despite the fact by that point the argument wasn't going that quickly back and forth. It's almost a disappointment now that I think of it, because the show frequently loved to get into camerawork going amiss.