Monty Python - Crunchy Frog
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.พ. 2007
- from Monty Python's Flying Circus
Season 1 - Episode 06
The BBC Entry To The Zinc Stoat Of Budapest
Recorded 05-11-69, Aired 23-11-69
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"If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?" is my favorite line. Love this humor
Can't argue with his logic!
Although...I suppose you could de-bone the beasty and stuff what's left with brittle? It's still a frog but it would have brittle! :D
Dead frog
I heard this when I was twelve! I am now sixty-two! I relate only the crunchy frog portion to young colleagues! With no exception, they love the bit, "If we removed the bones, they wouldn't be crunchy now, would they"!
Amazing how Terry Jones could make even Crunchy Frog sound appetizing just by the way he described it.
He could make Crunchy Frog sound delicious, and he could also make a tiny mint leaf absolutely inedible/disgusting. What a range, what a range... We lost a legend. :-( He was my favourite Python, definitely.
That as may be, it's still a frog!
I love it how he says that they use no additives in their chocolates before saying that the lark's vomit is right after monosodium glutamate, one of the most used food additives in the world.
Thats because it wasn't an additive but filling of monosodium glutamate bonbons.
-What sort of frog?
-A dead frog.
Nicely put.
"Stop talking to the camera!"
I loved, that in the last live performance they did, John Cleese talked, or at least acknowledged the audience, when they laughed, and in the end said "Don't talk to the audience, it's the main rule of comedy!"
That just made it funnier.
Monty Python, 50+ years and it never gets old, sheer genius...
I took my kids to a chocolate factory today. My oldest and I were really bummed that we didn't get to see the room where they "lightly kill" the baby frogs.
'lightly killed'
and no-one laughed. Don't miss that bit, it's the best.
I love that line. I've always wondered why it didn't get more of a reaction.
HomegirlOfJezu Question: How can one 'lightly kill' a baby frog when they are so fragile?
Isaac Kim
Oh, you.
Isaac Kim It's a pun on the descriptions but one does not apply logic to Monty Python.
HomegirlOfJezu Fair point. This is like the opposite of the Harry Potter chocolate frogs, huh?
"Crunchy raw un-boned _real_ dead frog" ...how will I ever repair the splitting of my sides?
"Lightly killed"
I remember John Cleese saying in an interview when asked what his favourite lines from Python were he often thought of lines that most people didn't consider classics and one was the line from this sketch where he says "Where's the pleasure in that?" as he often thinks of it in everyday situations.
“Lightly killed” - cracks me up every time.
"Stop talking to the camera" is such a good line.
That is the kind of "out of the box" thinking that seems so obvious when it is done, but so hard to come up with when nobody has done it before.
Immediately before Graham does just that.
I was actually in the studio the night this was recorded - at the Golders Green Hippodrome, where the BBC recorded a lot of early colour TV series Later this studio was converted to a radio studio
One of the billion things I love about Flying Circus is the fact that the stream-of-consciousness nature of the sketches meant that there was no build to a climactic laugh as pay off, which meant more laughs on the journey. There were as many laughs in performances as there were on the page.
I like how proud the guy looks when the cop asks him about each chocolate. hehehe
The cockroach cluster and the candy with coated with lark's vomit got me wheezing in extreme laughter upon watching this episode for the first time.
Seriously, Monty Python is the GOAT of shock and surrealist comedy.
"We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind"
"On the bottom of the box after Monosodium Glutamate"
"we use only the finest baby frogs dew picked and flown from Iraq cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed and then sealed in a succulent swiss quintuple smooth triple chocolate cream envelope and lovingly frosted in glucose" :)
The disturbing thing is that, at first hear, his description actually sounds appetizing until you, uh, dissect it a bit.
Could you, uh, do the dissecting, please?
is the envelope made of chocolate cream?
...that sounds amazing! ...except for the frog part
btw, how can it be both quintuple and triple at the same time?
It's quintuple smooth and triple chocolate.
@Elk Lord we use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!
There is now a frog logo on certain food products. If i understand it correctly, it means that the product doesn't contribute to destruction of rainforests, doesn't harm animals or something like that.
Turns out, some unfortunate souls in Czech Republic took it literally and created a hoax that all these products contain parts of frogs.
There's even a facebook group in Czech "monitoring frog containing products".
I hoped it was made just for the lulz, but looking at the comments, at least SOME members are completely serious about it.
I immediately remembered who started this lovely trend of adding frogs into confection.
So i'm truly very happy that Whizzo Chocolate Company is back in business, and expanded out to include manufacturing of different food products, not just chocolate.
GO WHIZZO!
Ah I remember this performance as a 6th former in 1970. I have just realised how much since that day I have used the phrase Larks Vomit frequently throughout my life to describe anything remotely unpalatable. It is short, succinct and perfectly describes so much.
Blimey, Squiffey! Cabbage crates coming over the briney!
@@scottsiebert4559 Sorry old chap, can't understand your banter!
"What's this one, Spring Surprise?"
"Oh, that's our specialty. Covered in darkest, creamy chocolate, when you pop it in your mouth, steel bolts spring out and plunge straight through both cheeks."
He makes it actually sound delicious! Hilarious!!
The perfect sweetmeat for that ex in your life...💔
This is really "Trades Discriptions Act". A micky take on a UK law saying items must be described accurately.
"We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!"
*uses monosodium glutamate*
*Natural* monosodium glutamate, grown organically and pesticide free next to the spaghetti crop.
I’ve always wondered just what is involved in making sure a frog is “lightly killed” 😂
Quickly frozen in liquid carbon dioxide, perhaps?
The first time I saw John Cleese in the western Silverado as a sheriff I wasn't sure how he would be. It was weird to see him play a serious role.
"Tonight my jurisdiction ends here!"
It wasn't an entirely serious movie, and I think John Cleese's part was as funny as the style of the movie allowed. 😊
"If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy , would it?" ROFLOL
One of my very favorite Python bits ever.
"Mock Frog!? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!" LOL
It's listed on the bottom of the box, right after the monosodium glutamate.
Luv how every time someone describes an igredient in that candy, Graham runs out of the room about to puke.
This sketch is a family ledgend.
Whenever we say something like - say, 'Lizzy made this salad herself' someone else has to come in with "Ah yes, the cucumbers were lightly killed, dew picked and flown from Iraq!"
ALWAYS.
Never gets old. Also holds a special place in my heart for having originally exposed me to the expression "that's as maybe" which apparently no one in the US understands
To be pedantic, I thought it was "that's as may be".
@@MiNa-kv3lp Yeah, tbh, I debated a sec. I've seen it both ways. Clearly 'may be' is what's meant but I'm no expert on colloquialisms, esp outside the US
I didn't know that Cockroach Clusters was a Monty Python reference, then again it makes perfect sense.
Pretty much everything is a Monty python reference.
Everything apart from the thousands and millions of Simpsons references, Marx Brothers references, Seinfeld references, Star Trek references, John Wayne references, Star Wars references, Michael Caine references, DIrty Harry references, Bible references, Shakespeare references.
I love the way Cleese says "Prrrrrraline" here, especially because that's his character's name in the dead parrot sketch
Graham Chapman was splendid as a sick cop! He is missed!
Even better in the "Hollywood Bowl" version of this sketch...he absolutely stole the show.
I love Johns entrance in the studio with that little smirk.
"Hellew."
If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy would it? Haha 👏👏👏
Joe Young he won that round
I love when Graham says "take more care in buying their sweeties..." I always laugh.
As a child this is how I found out that the shiny coating on chocolates was glucose.
The live version is hilarious, too! Terry Gilliam plays the 2nd inspector and throws up in his helmet.
His name was constable clitoris. Lol.
Actually, he runs offstage and stuffs some cold beef stew into his mouth to simulate vomit.
"Mock frog?!? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!"
Life's like a box of chocolates!
It often involves Crunchy raw unboned real dead frogs.
Robin Leedham My brother gave me a little box of chocolates to give to a teacher I had in 4th grade. There were 16 small chocolates with 4 different coloured wrappers. The label on the Pier One box didn't give the ingredients but they were: ants, cockroach clusters, bees, and crunchy frog. I know this because after I told him I gave it to her, he told me the ingredients. She said they were a bit crunchy, but I doubt she tried more than a few. This is the same brother who got me in trouble the year before with a blue loose leaf notebook with the phrase,"candy is dandy, but sugar is sweet". Quite the prankster, but I'm the one that got sent to the principal and had to explain it.
If you eat to much it goes fast
Django and Ringo!!! I have deciphered your screen-name!
two musicians that I love.
"That's the nice thing about being a hermit. At least you get to meet people."
"Yes, I wouldn't go back to Public Relations."
This sketch makes me laugh and gag at the same time.
Classic sketch! In a way, this reminds me of the Ren and Stimpy fake commercials for Dog Water, back in the 90s I think. On the Monty Python Flying Circus album, interestingly enough, this is listed as "Trade Description Act".
Does anyone know what John. K thought of Monty Python's Flying Circus?
I love the deeper meaning of food products having cryptical descriptions for ingredients which otherwise wouldn't sound as tasteful.
Ratelzwatel like locust bean gum.
@@geoffreyherrick9900That's just an extract from the seeds of the carob tree. Nothing gross about it.
This is one of those sketches that worked way better live. The audience here has no idea what to think of it.
How about the ingredient bee vomit? I'm sure some of you put some in your tea. It's better know as honey.
By Jove, you've just opened my mind to all manner of delicious, heretofore discounted vomit.
Oh but I do! Not without my daily chicken period on toast of course, thought I heard some chap call them eggs before!
who puts honey in their tea?
an egg isn't a period, there's no blood...
@@bezzaderbane9890 i don't but I believe a lot of people do.
In the O2 performance, the lark's vomit's been changed to mouse poo, John Cleese's reaction to that is priceless.
Also changed "Iraq" to "Swaziland".
This is one of their absolute best! Amazing comedy!
I love how almost every Monty Pytho sketch is such incredibly subtle satire
They are working on at least 5 levels of comedy in this sketch...Brilliant!
Isn't a baby frog a tadpole?
Not all
No that's rather a foetal frog if you like. Obviously the stages of development are different to mammals, but "baby" determines a young 'un in it's early stages AFTER birth.
Daniel Linger If there were a chocolate shop that actually sells these sort of things, they would really get sued for making people sick. It's almost like the opposite version of the chocolate frog from Harry Potter.
Don't ask.
They would get it from the same place that the United States government got the anthrax to poison citizens and senators in late 2001 - from United States government military laboratories.
The greatest Python skit of all time, and one of the greatest comedy skits, period.
No doubt up there with the obvious classics:
*The Dead Parrot
*Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam
*The Lumberjack Song
*Coal Miners of Wales
*Naval Expedition to Lake Pahoe
*Ministry of Silly Walks
I like the one where Ken (Eric Idle) comes home to visit his parents (Graham Chapman = Dad, Terry Jones = Mum). They're dressed as normal middle-aged working-class people, and he's wearing a suit. His dad seems resentful, and you think it's because Eric got into some high-dollar career and turned his back on his parents.
Then it turns out his dad is a playwright, and he left home to be a coal miner.
Dad: Hempstead wasn't good enough for ya, was it? Nooo, you had to go poncin' up to Barnsleigh! YOOOU and your COAL-MINING FRIENDS!!
Yer a wizard Terry :D LOL
Had to look this up as John Cleese mentioned this as the press conference announcing their first show in 30 years!!
Crunchy frog? Meh. Ram's bladder? Whatever. Lark's vomit? Big deal. Monosodium glutamate? *hurl* Recall this garbage at once!
I can't watch the first Harry Potter movie without thinking of this sketch.
2:28 Cleese stumbles and ends up saying "If the the bore" when he should have said "If the box bore" but he just about manages to cover it up ;)
My favorite skit so far, i love it.
"lightly killed" is a pretty awesome turn of phrase
It's also sort of funny that they are more concerned about the chocolates that are disgusting than the one that would actually be deadly (the anthrax ripple).
Well, it was sufficiently off-putting to send Graham back to the lavatory again and again.
But our sales would plummet!!
I find your posts to be thrilling and insightful.
I find my responses to be ridiculously sarcastic.
Crunch S Frog, sir.
"SHUT UP!"
Foreshadowing the greatest sketch in the history of comedy.
"Mock Frog?".....😂😂
Forrest Gump: "Life is like assorted chocolate: You never know what you will get" ;-)
@AngelusDlion Crunchy Frog is a great band name, I'm the guitarist in the band Frowning Crabcake XD
"If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it ?" LOL
Is J.K. Rowling a Monty Python fan? -- One of Dumbledore's favorite sweets is cockroach clusters!
DaveLH Chocolate Frog = Crunchy Frog
And Nearly Headless Nick is John Cleese. :)
DaveLH Must be a favourite like Dr. Who (Tom Baker)'s jelly babies.
th-cam.com/video/sVbb6pZLfzU/w-d-xo.html about a minute in :) sounds kinda familiar
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.
Cockroach clusters! Any Harry Potter fans in the audience?
JK Rowling is a big Monty Python fan, so that's probably not a coincidence
The way they broke the fourth wall near the end. 🤣
I could eat all of them, except for the anthrax and the spring surprise.
cassandra5322 I could definitely go for one of the baby frogs.
Fun fact: The Inspector's line "Where's the pleasure in that?" is one of John Cleese's favourites!
Indeed, it's a great line, but my all-time favourite from the Hungarian Phrase book is, My hovercraft is full of eels.
You can buy Crunchy Frog in Warcraft at the Darkmoon Faire.
24 people were lightly killed.
its impossible to not like this.
Comedy peaked with monty python’s flying circus
I forgot bout thi till I randomly remembere the phrase "if we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy" and remembered it. Nice upload
Best MP skit ever.
"Where's the pleasure in that?" Apparently John Cleese's favourite line. Ahh... The things youtube can teach you. :)
Wow, nice one! I had never realized it!
Amazing....They knew that even the "Pitch to the executives" route. could be hysterical...True Genius....Even more so by a team of people who attended University in pursuit of a more traditional way of life.
Ram's Bladder Cup, lol.
Have you noticed them mentioning 'Cockroach Cluster'? That's mentioned as sweets in the Harry Potter world. Methinks JK was watching Monty Python while thinking up these names!
I know it's 16 years since your comment, but I immediately thought the same thing when I heard "cockroach clusters."
Man from the future opines that JKR plagiarised nearly EVERYTHING in those interminable children's books.
Absolute classic! :)
This is my fave of all time. I love how the other guy is constantly off screen vomiting.
Watch anime online today with Crunchyfrog!
This video is pure genius.
Crunchy Unboned Real Dead Frog, just rolls right off the tongue.
“Lightly killed”
lol, if they didn't have any bones they wouldn't be crunchy would they..classic stuff :)
thanks for the share Andy :D
***** for this,
Del
I actually did this sketch in my acting class without ever hearing about it. Now it's one of my favourites.
Lucky man!
Every line is a classic
"stop talking to the camera!"
"i'm sorry..." XD
Every bit as funny in 2024 as it was back in the day.
Ram's Bladder Delight
Watching this while hungry, some of it did sound appealing...
When I read in HP that Cockroach Cluster was a selection at Honeyduke's...I laughed. I even think the chocolate frogs were a variation of the crunchy frog.
What, no Ram's Bladder Cup? 🐏
@@luisreyes1963 unfortunately no. Personally, I’m saddened that Anthrax Ripple was also left off the menu.