I found this via Google search: Bally = intensifier Jerry = German Pranged his kite = crashed his plane How's your father = rear Hairy blighter = Reference to caveman like hair; stupid person Dicky birdied = Dicky = injured, so reference to manoeuvre that looks like an injured bird; probably a corkscrew Feathered back on his sammy = slowed down his engine Took a waspy = got shot (stung) Flipped over on his Betty Harper's = turned upside-down Caught his can in the Bertie: Plane sunk in the sea
The Monty Python RAF Banter skit is probably one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I come back to watch it every now and then and to this day it still makes me laugh so hard it hurts my chest. God is it good...And I'm American.
Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.
My favorite Monty Python sketch intro EVER: "There have been many stirring tales told of the Sea! And also some fairly uninteresting ones only marginally connected with it. Like this one....."
The last thing I saw him do was a promo during a live MTV News segment where he put on some kind of uniform and half a mustache and said his line. Can't remember what it was for.
So much influential stuff here, from the quick show-and-tell cuts later used by The Day Today, to Blackadder's co-opting of 'Shirley' for Captain Darling.
I understood the gist of this sketch the 1st time I saw it 50 years ago, must've been all those war films I watched as a kid!! And my dad was fond of slang😊
There are more segues and plot twists in the first three and half minutes of this skit than a movie trailer on speed. 🤣I love the first 80 seconds. Classic Monty Python silliness. Just wonderful comedy.
A few years ago, my work supervisor was a transplanted Brit, and when he one day arrived at work and asked me how I was doing, I pulled this perfectly ordinary flight banter on him...
This was the very first scene I saw of Monty Python on TV, I couldnt stop laughing while my parents were surprised I understood the joke as a dutch 8-9 yo kid. MP instantly became my favorite show! ;)
I caught the Python bug at about that age. Me and my mates used to narrate bits of the sketches at each other. Favourites were the arguement sketch and the Cheese Shop sketch.
@@diverguy3556 John Cleese said that he could not do a show like Python in the new millennium as he didn't understand modern culture to the extent that he could make fun of it.
@@PreservationEnthusiast Good for him. At least he has the sense to rest on his laurels, and not keep pumping out increasingly unfunny stuff like other comedians past their prime. Edit: Just remembered he's doing a reboot of Fawlty Towers, which will be set in the carribean. 😐
True, and yet they'd still be "canceled" today by the politically-correct woke crowd. This takes me back to the days when hows were actually allowed to be funny and if someone was offended that was on them.
@@tomservo75 No, sorry - I'm not on board with your reactionary "waah waah woke brigade" nonsense, mate. And if you think I am, you've misunderstood my post.
@@tomservo75I always see a hundred times more people complaining about the “woke brigade” and how “they wouldn’t get away with this now because too many people would be offended” than I ever do people actually offended…
@@tomservo75 You losers are insufferable. This isn't even true and you're just looking for outrage because it's obvious your team is not only losing now but is going to get absolutely creamed in what comes next.
I've come to the conclusion that this sketch is the pre-internet era equivalent of trying to understand what some people post in TH-cam and Facebook comment sections.
"Cabbage crates coming over the Briney" could be a reference to German bomber planes (cabbage crates) coming over the English Channel (the "briney deep") to attack. However, we soon find out that the Germans are indeed using cabbages "instead of decent bombs."
I don't know which of the Monty Python team wrote this RAF banter sketch, but I wonder if they were inspired from reading the 'Biggles' series of adventure story books. I think it may have been Terry Jones and Michael Palin because they went on to write the brilliant 'Ripping Yarns' TV series, that also parodied boys-own adventure genre of stories.
And next week; Biggles Flies Undone… There were not many of their/my generation in the UK and Commonwealth who weren’t inspired’ by Biggles I’d have thought.
A German got hit in the tail, so he pulled back on the throttle to spin around and crashed in the water is my best understanding of it but idk if the Harry blighter is his wingman or still the same German
...That was sooooo good: As a Canadian that spent [too much] time in England.......-that 'banter' made more sense than what I encountered around London and Black Country'......... even when you understood it..-it was gibberish anyways..... thx: CS
Hey, what a coincidence! My Uncle, who's co-workers close friend, Robert Sands once worked as a waiter for a restaurant owned by the actor Thomas Hawkes, who's third cousin Dorothy Wright once bought a car from a man who got his milk delivered by the great-nephew of a man who attended one of Rev. Hyper Squawk-Smith's sermons! ;)
Everytime i watch this i can’t help but think abt the Polish and Czech volunteer RAF squadrons back in the day, going from not speaking english to full immersion in Bally Jolly Rightio Old Chap language
"Get me the prime minister!"
"Sir!"
"NOT THAT QUICKLY!"
My favorite joke of the whole skit
Jolly good my chap!
🤣😂🤣
"We're going to SHOW these CHINESE..."
Python really was about 50 years ahead of its time.
This was the one to crack me too!! After ALL these years. Blimey!
The Germans had Enigma, we had Banter... And not even we could crack the banter....
Maybe if he said it slower.
darkridge What, slower banter?
I know, I know. It's not the same slower.
Sausage squad up the blue end!
Thoran666 . . . No, still don't follow you. Give us it slower.
I found this via Google search:
Bally = intensifier
Jerry = German
Pranged his kite = crashed his plane
How's your father = rear
Hairy blighter = Reference to caveman like hair; stupid person
Dicky birdied = Dicky = injured, so reference to manoeuvre that looks like an injured bird; probably a corkscrew
Feathered back on his sammy = slowed down his engine
Took a waspy = got shot (stung)
Flipped over on his Betty Harper's = turned upside-down
Caught his can in the Bertie: Plane sunk in the sea
awesome, thanks, old horse!
Good job he’s a real chip off he old block this one is yes !
You could say Bally instead of Bloody 😊
How's your father also means sex, so I am told. So interesting if it also means rear.
Most of it is based on cockney-rhyming slang.
I can't believe the audience didn't react at all when the woman stood up from under the desk at 6:01
+Plato Smith her uniform was blue also. weird, just like Monica's dress.
Didn't even see that!!! Funny shit!!
Chuck.Raney Raney she was a WAAF. They were notoriously promiscuous.
it was the 60s. if anyone knwe then, they would hides it.
It was the 60s. That was just a weak joke.
The Monty Python RAF Banter skit is probably one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I come back to watch it every now and then and to this day it still makes me laugh so hard it hurts my chest. God is it good...And I'm American.
Cabbage Crates coming over the Briny was about as obvious as you could get!
Sausage squad was completely clear to me!
Of course it perfectly ordinary banter Squiffy
that one made me laugh out loud
Cabbage crates is the Sour Krauts. Briny is the brine water or salt water. Germans coming over the Channel. Im not a Brit. Did I get that right?
Theresa Metcalf
Fighter planes coming over the ocean 😊
German bombers = Cabbage crates x
German bomber squads = Sausage squads 😊
Don't let this distract you from the fact that one of the cross beams has gone out of skew on the treadle
"I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition!...."
Monty Python was always so strangely aware of "Britishness" and was quick to poke fun at it.
You see the same in American comedy now they have entered into the cycle of decline.
We Brits are not afraid to poke fun at ourselves, Monty Python is a good example but one of the best is "Dad's Army"
The into is my attention span when trying to study
@6:00 “thank you Shirley”. This was so subtle it could be easily missed. That is “Shirley” emerging from under the desk😂😂😂.
That bit and the following eight seconds has me in tears 🤣
The consequences of operating in different banter paradigms to one's chums
Bigglesworthicus Lemon Curry?
Oooh! Look at you, all fancy with the language using "paradigms" like some prancing linquist!
Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.
I love the way the squadron leader has completely lost all conviction in his own bantering abilities by the end of his third recitation.
Discipline from his subordinates?
My favorite Monty Python sketch intro EVER:
"There have been many stirring tales told of the Sea! And also some fairly uninteresting ones only marginally connected with it. Like this one....."
"Sorry, this isn't a very good announcement."
I love this. It's like Bertie Wooster fighting in WWII with everyone from the Drones Club, and no Jeeves.
Graham Chapman looks ridiculously good in any kind of military-ish uniforms and caps...
It's the pipe mate
The last thing I saw him do was a promo during a live MTV News segment where he put on some kind of uniform and half a mustache and said his line. Can't remember what it was for.
This is what made Monty Python so great, running jokes throughout several sketches and the ability to be consistently funny. Great Post!
So much influential stuff here, from the quick show-and-tell cuts later used by The Day Today, to Blackadder's co-opting of 'Shirley' for Captain Darling.
It's a wonder we won the war. That was perfectly good banter.
We owe so much to the joke that was deadly in the field. ✌
I understood the gist of this sketch the 1st time I saw it 50 years ago, must've been all those war films I watched as a kid!! And my dad was fond of slang😊
Hah too true. Came back to this after many years of WW2 flicks/Docs and now I don't understand what the problem is.
"Lets get the bacon delivered" that was hilarious!!
It was 'dropping in the custard' that got me!
There are more segues and plot twists in the first three and half minutes of this skit than a movie trailer on speed. 🤣I love the first 80 seconds. Classic Monty Python silliness. Just wonderful comedy.
A few years ago, my work supervisor was a transplanted Brit, and when he one day arrived at work and asked me how I was doing, I pulled this perfectly ordinary flight banter on him...
This was the very first scene I saw of Monty Python on TV, I couldnt stop laughing while my parents were surprised I understood the joke as a dutch 8-9 yo kid. MP instantly became my favorite show! ;)
hartstikke leuk! :)
I caught the Python bug at about that age. Me and my mates used to narrate bits of the sketches at each other. Favourites were the arguement sketch and the Cheese Shop sketch.
@@jeffreybarton1297a couple of the best for sure!
Michael Palin makes everything better.
He’s got nothing on Graham Chapman, though.
The best comedy group in the world - every. Nobody has ever even got close.
The WRAF officer getting up from under the desk went unremarked
That was very subtle and hilarious at the same time.
he said "Thank you, Shirley"
@@derekmills5394 by the audience
I can’t believe they were confused by “sausage squad up the blue end”. Clearly it means “Bosche up in the billows.”
Either way, it clearly was a wizard prang
@@pauledwards3055 Right in the how's your father!
Our generation was so lucky Monty python and oodles of great music!
You can always count on the BBC for authentic RAF costumes.
Cheer~~~~the playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks.
The phrase "From an idea by LORD CARRINGTON" almost singlehandedly justifies the existence of nobility.
Lord Carrington was a senior
Conservative party figure and cabinet minister in Heath's 1970-74 Govt. And again under Mrs Thatcher 1979-82.
I've never seen this before! It's something completely different!
The first three minutes are very sophisticated comedy. Hard to believe it was so very very long ago.
Entertainment used to be vastly more sophisticated.
@@patricksmith4424It's just not funny any more to most people as millennial will struggle to understand it.
@@PreservationEnthusiastMillenials won't understand this as the cultural references are at least 30 years old.
@@diverguy3556 John Cleese said that he could not do a show like Python in the new millennium as he didn't understand modern culture to the extent that he could make fun of it.
@@PreservationEnthusiast Good for him. At least he has the sense to rest on his laurels, and not keep pumping out increasingly unfunny stuff like other comedians past their prime.
Edit: Just remembered he's doing a reboot of Fawlty Towers, which will be set in the carribean.
😐
Get me the Prime Minister!
Sir!
NOT THAT QUICKLY!!
Sir!!
Lose it there every time
Bollthorn same here! That is my favorite part!
"Where going to show these Chinese!"
"...Germans"
"These Germans"
"QUIET, CRITIC!!"
Me too x 😊
I strongly suspect that this sketch inspired the Armstrong & Miller RAF pilots. "Isn't it. Isn't it though"
It's incredible how fresh MP still seems now. It just hasn't aged and it's still utterly hilarious 😍🍿🍿
True, and yet they'd still be "canceled" today by the politically-correct woke crowd. This takes me back to the days when hows were actually allowed to be funny and if someone was offended that was on them.
@@tomservo75 No, sorry - I'm not on board with your reactionary "waah waah woke brigade" nonsense, mate. And if you think I am, you've misunderstood my post.
@@tomservo75I always see a hundred times more people complaining about the “woke brigade” and how “they wouldn’t get away with this now because too many people would be offended” than I ever do people actually offended…
@@tomservo75 You losers are insufferable. This isn't even true and you're just looking for outrage because it's obvious your team is not only losing now but is going to get absolutely creamed in what comes next.
@mooglancashire424 It's almost as if it's projection all along...
python the legends of comedy never gets old just gets better
Another classic documentary.
Good show! Bloody Good Show!!
Hear hear
Ah yes! Back when British High Streets still had shops 👍🏻💪🏻🇬🇧
I don't see what's so hard to understand about "Sausage squad up the blue end." Wouldn't that be "German bombers overhead" ?
Palin is just so good.
Idle's not bad either. Best banter I think :)
There's been a confusion of the tongues, hard cheese on those blighters.
By gum, old bean.
"QUIET, critic!!"
"Grab your keyboards and start prattling! Floppy disks on the ceiling!"
Entire Internet: "...No.....not getting it at all...."
"We're gonna show these Chinese" "Germans Sir" "These Germans"
SHUT UP CRITICS!
Hilarious line, heard it many times and it gets me every time.
Charlie chopper's chucking a handful doesn't require too much imagination!
British comedy is brilliant, no wonder Norman Lear based his American sitcoms on British ones!
Pity he didn't pick up that Sitcom with the homeless couple. 🤭
This episode is definitely my favorite non-cleese episode
Brilliant.
"Banter's not the same if you say it slower" LOL
"Sausage squad up the blue end."
I'm fairly sure the pavement they're walking up at the beginning is Cowick Street (B3212) in Exeter, near Cecil Rd
And Southernhay W, when we first see the Rear Admiral
Christopher Nolan took this sketch to heart.
Michael Palin = Best Narrator in History
I love the way there's so much activity in that forlorn-looking little quonset hut.
I've come to the conclusion that this sketch is the pre-internet era equivalent of trying to understand what some people post in TH-cam and Facebook comment sections.
Like this one? Sorry, old boy: couldn't understand a word.
Shits fire no cap fam
"Cabbage crates coming over the Briney" could be a reference to German bomber planes (cabbage crates) coming over the English Channel (the "briney deep") to attack. However, we soon find out that the Germans are indeed using cabbages "instead of decent bombs."
Bally them all by German Kraut
funny
How Brits sound to Americans
And to other Brits, apparently.
I'm glad I have a laptop so I can watch this on the toilet.
Douglas Adams as the surgeon at 1:21
No he is really him
Are you sure that's not just banter?
The look Idle gives Gilliam when he’s not understood 😂
Still just as relateable today.
I don't know which of the Monty Python team wrote this RAF banter sketch, but I wonder if they were inspired from reading the 'Biggles' series of adventure story books.
I think it may have been Terry Jones and Michael Palin because they went on to write the brilliant 'Ripping Yarns' TV series, that also parodied boys-own adventure genre of stories.
they like biggles, remember cardinal biggles from the inquisition
@@dont-want-no-wrench Well remembered. Played by Terry Jones wearing Cardinal garb and a leather flying helmet.
"Where the hell was Biggles when you need him last Saturday. . ." Jethro Tull, "Thick As A Brick"
And next week; Biggles Flies Undone…
There were not many of their/my generation in the UK and Commonwealth who weren’t inspired’ by Biggles I’d have thought.
Weird, but I actually understand him, should I have a psych evaluation?
A German got hit in the tail, so he pulled back on the throttle to spin around and crashed in the water is my best understanding of it but idk if the Harry blighter is his wingman or still the same German
I first heard this when i was about 12 never forgot "cabbage crates over the briny"
I find it absolutely inexcusable that I haven't commented on this until now.
Well done 👏
sir digby chicken caesar
I was just thinking that! And Miller and Armstrong had a riff on the RAF banter
Before "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" there was "Up Your Pavement."
" Not taking the war seriously "😂
God
I LOVE THE OLD CARS.
...Rover 2000...Austin A40...Austin 1100...😊
I love Cabbage crates over the briny😂❤
Thank you Shirley! 😂
...That was sooooo good:
As a Canadian that spent [too much] time in England.......-that 'banter' made more sense than what I encountered around
London and Black Country'.........
even when you understood it..-it was gibberish anyways.....
thx: CS
Missed this for some reason - wonderful!
Cabbage crates over the briny
Classic brilliance
+Tom Robinson
It's the Dambusters theme
Jolly good show old boys, keep your end up for England, tally ho 😅🤣🤪😀 👍😎👍🏴🏴 jul twenty three 🇬🇧
By half-way through the sketch, we still don't know who it's about, but fortunately, by the last quarter, we still don't.
The dead moth brigade strikes again
An unknown fact about The Battle of Britain, is. When our plans run out of bullets , our brave pilots just shot gerry down with humor.
They also had their Killing Jokes ready.
@@estoy1001 My dog has no nose.
@@u.v.s.5583 How does he smell?
@@estoy1001 Awesome... Blimey, awful!
Why miss the 'e' out of 'planes' and the 'u' out of 'humour.' No wonder you had a problem understanding the banter.
Maybe it's because I was an airman.. but I really enjoyed the banter
The local PBS station always does an "Up Your Pavement" marathon during their spring pledge drive.
Hey, what a coincidence!
My Uncle, who's co-workers close friend, Robert Sands once worked as a waiter for a restaurant owned by the actor Thomas Hawkes, who's third cousin Dorothy Wright once bought a car from a man who got his milk delivered by the great-nephew of a man who attended one of Rev. Hyper Squawk-Smith's sermons! ;)
You British had some pretty clean streets when they filmed this. Not bad.
Get me the Prime Minister... Sir!!!
NOT THAT QUICKLY!!!!
Sir!!!
Hilarious...
I so glad that I live in a nation that's unafraid to take the piss out of it's heroes.
Affectionate ribbing. Aka banter.
Everytime i watch this i can’t help but think abt the Polish and Czech volunteer RAF squadrons back in the day, going from not speaking english to full immersion in Bally Jolly Rightio Old Chap language
Jolly good British stuff!!!!
It's perfectly ordinary banter. Squiffy!
Super Squawk, the cleft palated chaplain
i just love how the wraf bird was totally ignored
Rear Admiral Humphrey De Vere's daughter is Haaaaawt!
Good Lord! How did our chaps react?!
Well, they were jolly interested, sir.
I understood every word of that RAF banter! Pretty rather squiffy, say what?
The bants were good. 🇬🇧
♥️🇬🇧😀 if more people were silly rather than stupid , the world would be a better place. Halibut Noseflange.🎉