The funny thing is that they used the coconuts because they couldn't afford horses. Almost no-one wanted to fund this movie because they thought it was gonna bomb.
They were even prohibited from filming any castles except that single one. So they had to get creative and try showing it in different ways, to make it appear as different castles. However, the limitations make this movie even funnier.
It was filmed in three days and only had a $400,000 budget. The fact that it was so cheaply made is what makes it so funny. I don’t think they planned for it to be as successful as it was.
the even funnier thing was that all the Pythons sans Gilliam worked in radio before Do Not Adjust Your Set and At Last the 1948 Show - and one of the things done on radio to simulate horses trodding on paved streets is to bang two halves of a coconut together. They had enough budget - especially for $400,000 - to get horses for each of the main sets of knights (every extra in the final raid on Castle Aaaargh had a horse, if you notice carefully), but they thought it'd be a funnier sight gag just for the film to look so cheap at times that it looks like people are doing the foley sounds in frame, i.e. they're too cheap to rent out post-production facilities. And it also undercuts the epic majesty of such a period piece - not only is this film the total opposite of Camelot in terms of how it does not look ornate (even for Arthur King-of-the-Britons) even down to the super period-accurate dirt and grime on EVERYBODY (maybe outside of Castle Anthrax and its grail-shaped beacon), but the fact that the film has everybody pretend to gallop on a horse while an unlucky guy behind them carries their shit and claps the coconut halves together really drives home the point. This ain't your mother's Arthurian epic. Mocking the majesty of historical epics is the primary reason - budget had little to no reason for why the production couldn't rent horses, even on paltry budgets given to BBC light programmes. And the Pythons were already somewhat of a big cult name by the time Holy Grail entered into production - half of the $400,000 came from Charisma Records and prog rock bands, along with some funding from Channel 4 (who were trying to entice the Pythons into doing another TV series). Remember the Black Knight fight - most historical epics at the time would've had a fair fight with no blood, but the Black Knight fairly vanquished. You wouldn't even show him losing an arm. But here, not only does he lose an arm, he also loses another one and both his legs, with gratuitous blood spurting, AND with him still wanting to fight Arthur to the death despite literally not being able to hold a weapon. Hell, the Black Knight stabbing a dude in the FUCKING HEAD should tell you that they do not like the crop of historical epics coming out at the time - that they're turning people away from the dirtiness of the time period. And the Middle Ages were METAL.
The funny thing is that anyone that has suffered through guard duty can relate to this video, namely that bored guards have some of the strangest conversations when trying to pass the time.
patrick watkins Which considering that the scene was written by Geoff (who was a combat journalist), I'm not surprised. Funnily enough, RvB was quite the popular show to watch while deployed.
I laugh when I see him go into the screen with the lackey banging the coconuts, then I laughed again when other characters in the movie questions it too
Not quite so. The people in this video are debating while providing facts to back their claims, and while Arthur isn't interested in the debate, he doesn't once insult the person. TH-cam comment threads are debates with 'facts', a lot of name calling and angst.
As a fan since boyhood and an eventual anarcho-syndicalist, I can honestly say I appreciate that piss take even more than I used to. If you can't laugh at yourself, what have you got?
@@speldrong5010 "If you can't laugh at yourself, what have you got?" Oh, how true. Also, if you can't laugh at the absurdities of our society, your life is pretty grim.
Fun fact: While migrating, European swallows have been known to "pair up" in order to transport objects, such as coconuts, weighing as much as 1 pound. Though only weighing 5 ounces themselves, they have the ability to attach the much heavier object to a strand of creeper before taking flight. To help distribute the weight, each swallow holds an end of the creeper under its dorsal guiding feathers while flying to successfully displace said objects great distances from their native locales. Conversely, African swallows are much stronger and can carry objects, like coconuts, on their own, by gripping them at their husks. However, since the African swallow is nonmigratory, an object carried by one is generally transported and released within its area of origin.
@@42elliott I think the biggest issue is that nothing in this sketch is philosophical. It's just lampshading the weirdness of the coconuts being in the movie at all.
I felt so proud to be the only one in my 8th grade social studies class to get the reference to the extra fun question “What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?” On the daily warm up. Nobody knew wtf me and the teacher were talking about but I didn’t care.
Probably one of the greatest comedic opening scenes of all time.. Completely dumbfounding to the viewer and leaves you gasping in a deep comedic stupor, as it marches onwards in valor. Brilliance!!
Life of Brian is a more fuller movie with a deeper message. I love Holy Grail also because it’s silly and clever. I can’t choose one over the other. They’re both masterpieces. There’s no denying that.
And despite loving this movie for thirty years I only now realized that this scene specifically mentions air speed velocity, part of the question about swallows in the Bridge of D3ath scene
Haha that slight pause at 1:42 as the faceless knight on the castle contemplates his one-sided discussion completely ignoring arthur gets me everytime. and when the second guy shows up who has also been following one side of the convo intently! lol
Later on in the movie, before the witch scene, you can see Sir Bedivere release two swallows tied together with a string with a coconut tied to the string. It’s a great nod to one of the films many running jokes.
Honestly this movie has genius comedy like if you break it down it's almost fascinating how they can make anything entertaining this is peak entertainment and I can't think of anything that's been able to do at this good since
This film is just bliss from start to finish. Just brilliant line after brilliant line. Life of Brian is always viewed as being the superior, but when in the right mood, nothing quite does it more that a good old chat about wether a swallow could carry a coconut or when I should throw the Holy Hand Grenade.
Why is it the audiences fault? It's the comedians/entertainers responsibility to be funny. As it is, they lack that talent. Typical millennial to blame everyone else.
@@applejacks971 millennials, funnily enough, are the ones running today's society. You were the people who ruined the economy, making them have to work even harder.
I think your talking about Life of Brian where he made a production company and 4 million pounds to have the movie made. This one was funded by Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Elton John, and channel 4 to have a £400k to make it
have to love the pythons. due to buget costs, time, hassle and for pratical reasons thay needed to avoid useing horses, so the coconut idea was born. even in comic movie terms the idea of banging coconuts together as a joke seems a step to far by a country mile, only the pythons could make us as an ardiance hole heartedly accept this completley ridiculas concept right from the off. after being introduced to the pretend coconut riding we simple go with it from there on in without giving it a secound thought. i think the even more rediculas conversation over how thay got them instantly defuses us from giving it a secound thought. these guys were brilliant. love the holygrail movie.
Right!!!! i had to look this up, swallows beating their wings 43 times per second is insane. Turns out....according to google its 15 times per second. By any standard that is both crazy fast and impressive, all hail the swallow. You have to know these things when your a king y'now
What a ridiculous man, really, asking whether or not coconuts migrate. Anyone would know that they dig holes that go from Hawaii to wherever that is. Such a simple fact, I can't believe he didn't know that.
The low budget is what made this comedy a classic. I love that all the lower caste people have intellectual discussions on things while the nobles speak in their lofty terms. It kills the romance of the people who dream of nobility because, most of us would be digging mounds of slop and concerned with various types of muck that filled our days.
0:29 he says "pull the other one" meaning "you are joking" (you're pulling my leg) and King Author replies "I am". I always thought he said "Whose the other one?" meaning I thought he was claiming that Patsi was who he was talking about and his reply "I am" would mean that K. Author was agreeing with him that K. Author wasn't talking about himself being the king. It all made sense, but now that I know he says "pull the other one", the reply "i am" is now confusing, because by saying "I am" that means he is telling the guard that "yes, I am joking, i made that up and to continue joking with you, this is my trusty servant..."
He is saying "pull the other one" meaning something like 'You can't possibly be the king of Briton with nothing but a single servant and coconuts instead of a horse.". His response "I am!" means something like 'I *am* the king of Briton!', in an attempt to rebuke the guards disbelief
The guard isn't just saying "you're joking". He is saying "you're joking. You aren't King Arthur." So Arthur response makes sense. Arthur is essentially saying "but I am King Arthur."
For some reason I find it funny the way Graham Chapman says 'what do you mean?'- he also says it in a funny way in the Meaning of Life- with the protestant Yorkshire couple
"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"
Not at all. They could be carried.
+Fernando Ramos What a swallow carnying a coconut?
+Fernando Ramos It's not a question of where he grips it it's a simple question of weight ratios."
+iandhr1 Well, it doesn't matter! Will you go and tell your master the Arthur from the court of Camelot is here?
hint aT creationISm
The funny thing is that they used the coconuts because they couldn't afford horses. Almost no-one wanted to fund this movie because they thought it was gonna bomb.
They were even prohibited from filming any castles except that single one. So they had to get creative and try showing it in different ways, to make it appear as different castles. However, the limitations make this movie even funnier.
Wouldn't have it any other way. Even the ridiculous ending.
It was filmed in three days and only had a $400,000 budget. The fact that it was so cheaply made is what makes it so funny. I don’t think they planned for it to be as successful as it was.
the even funnier thing was that all the Pythons sans Gilliam worked in radio before Do Not Adjust Your Set and At Last the 1948 Show - and one of the things done on radio to simulate horses trodding on paved streets is to bang two halves of a coconut together. They had enough budget - especially for $400,000 - to get horses for each of the main sets of knights (every extra in the final raid on Castle Aaaargh had a horse, if you notice carefully), but they thought it'd be a funnier sight gag just for the film to look so cheap at times that it looks like people are doing the foley sounds in frame, i.e. they're too cheap to rent out post-production facilities.
And it also undercuts the epic majesty of such a period piece - not only is this film the total opposite of Camelot in terms of how it does not look ornate (even for Arthur King-of-the-Britons) even down to the super period-accurate dirt and grime on EVERYBODY (maybe outside of Castle Anthrax and its grail-shaped beacon), but the fact that the film has everybody pretend to gallop on a horse while an unlucky guy behind them carries their shit and claps the coconut halves together really drives home the point. This ain't your mother's Arthurian epic.
Mocking the majesty of historical epics is the primary reason - budget had little to no reason for why the production couldn't rent horses, even on paltry budgets given to BBC light programmes. And the Pythons were already somewhat of a big cult name by the time Holy Grail entered into production - half of the $400,000 came from Charisma Records and prog rock bands, along with some funding from Channel 4 (who were trying to entice the Pythons into doing another TV series). Remember the Black Knight fight - most historical epics at the time would've had a fair fight with no blood, but the Black Knight fairly vanquished. You wouldn't even show him losing an arm. But here, not only does he lose an arm, he also loses another one and both his legs, with gratuitous blood spurting, AND with him still wanting to fight Arthur to the death despite literally not being able to hold a weapon. Hell, the Black Knight stabbing a dude in the FUCKING HEAD should tell you that they do not like the crop of historical epics coming out at the time - that they're turning people away from the dirtiness of the time period. And the Middle Ages were METAL.
Well, i mean boy were they wrong. Never judge a movie by its cover???
The funny thing is that anyone that has suffered through guard duty can relate to this video, namely that bored guards have some of the strangest conversations when trying to pass the time.
i'm reminded of red vs blue and the "why are we here" conversation.
patrick watkins Which considering that the scene was written by Geoff (who was a combat journalist), I'm not surprised.
Funnily enough, RvB was quite the popular show to watch while deployed.
Tbf, it just sounds like the conversations that any 2 dudes will inevitably end up having when enough time has passed.
But African Swallows are non-migratory.
we should all work as guards, then.
The greatest joke setup ever
I laugh when I see him go into the screen with the lackey banging the coconuts, then I laughed again when other characters in the movie questions it too
Idk what about biggus dickus?? “He has a wife you know...”
What a bout the guy who paid to have an argument or the holy hand grenade?
@@craigfarmer3878 incontinentia... incontinentia buttocks.
@@Ocelopillitl Pfffffffft! Ha ha ha ha ha!
It's not a question of where he GRIPS it, it's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut!
Unless that bird is batman.
For some reason, that is the FUNNIEST line to me!
Look, in order to maintain airspeed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?
@@Homeless_Pigeon_History it could be carried by an African swallow!
@@variache Well an african swallow maybe, but not a European swallow, that's my point!
"What is your name? What is your quest? What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?" Hahahaha I love this movie
What do you mean? An african or european swallow?
@@aldocachudo3799 "I don't know that!"
How do you know so much about swallows?
@@hollyjackson488"Well, you have to know these things when you're King, you know..."
@@illicitbike2782
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!
TH-cam argument comment threads in a nutshell
Not quite so. The people in this video are debating while providing facts to back their claims, and while Arthur isn't interested in the debate, he doesn't once insult the person.
TH-cam comment threads are debates with 'facts', a lot of name calling and angst.
More like a COCONUT SHELL
I'm sorry
What? how can you fit an entire argument inside a nutshell.
A coconutshell*
the real question is where did you get a coconut shell?
Ladies and gentlemen behold, the most intelligent lookouts of all time.
Specifically trivial pursuit smart.
@@jonathanlanoue7543 Trivial Pursuit Smart is still smarter than the average movie lookout 😂
But the, of course, African swallows are non-migratory..... I love this and the Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune.
The Commune is great. Not too hard to find some relevancy with society today.
As a fan since boyhood and an eventual anarcho-syndicalist, I can honestly say I appreciate that piss take even more than I used to.
If you can't laugh at yourself, what have you got?
@@speldrong5010 "If you can't laugh at yourself, what have you got?"
Oh, how true. Also, if you can't laugh at the absurdities of our society, your life is pretty grim.
@@speldrong5010 a physical disfigurement that prevents laughing at all.
@@louisvictor3473 Stephen Hawking would have laughed at your comment with a series of eye blinks.
Such a balance between totally silly and incredibly clever. You can't help but smile.
later we see that science knight attaching coconuts to swallows on a string
Well he did it on a pigeon but that part got me good!
Bedevere, my liege!
@@chocolat-kun8689 he found them
@Undone Mind exactly, mercia is a temperate zone!
That's one of my favorite things about this film. Random people have encyclopedic knowledge of random subjects
"Autism: the movie"
The wikipedia article on South African swallows says - "They are well known for being able to carry coconuts."
Nice.
Non migratory though
No it dosnt
@@TailcoatGames Yeah I checked... they changed it sadly
@@taylors.607 are they suggesting coconuts migrate?
African swallow article still has hilarious Talk section though
Fun fact: While migrating, European swallows have been known to "pair up" in order to transport objects, such as coconuts, weighing as much as 1 pound. Though only weighing 5 ounces themselves, they have the ability to attach the much heavier object to a strand of creeper before taking flight. To help distribute the weight, each swallow holds an end of the creeper under its dorsal guiding feathers while flying to successfully displace said objects great distances from their native locales. Conversely, African swallows are much stronger and can carry objects, like coconuts, on their own, by gripping them at their husks. However, since the African swallow is nonmigratory, an object carried by one is generally transported and released within its area of origin.
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You should narrate a nature documentary.
saying it like that was a smoov moov
This sounds like absolute boll*cks. :-) Bravo. Well told.
I subscribed you for your name only.
Wait till Biggus Dickus hears of this
John Smith 🤣
@@pepijn23 What's so funny about Biggus Dickus? I have a very great friend in Rome called Biggus Dickus.
And his wife Incontentia Buttocks
@@texasBMXer He heads a quack legion of a very high wank
😂😂😂
this scene sums up every debate in the youtube comment section
potatolord 163 I see you're the type to debate in the TH-cam comment sections then
:^)
PotatoLord 163 your comment is underrated
@PotatoLord 163 yes it does! ;)
These are some complicated philosophies for the middle ages.
ugh. your ignorance is showing. plato.stanford.edu/entries/medieval-philosophy/
Middle ages had great philosophers
@@42elliott Ugh, your arrogance is showing.
Francisca Silva Baghdad house of wisdom anyone?
@@42elliott I think the biggest issue is that nothing in this sketch is philosophical. It's just lampshading the weirdness of the coconuts being in the movie at all.
I felt so proud to be the only one in my 8th grade social studies class to get the reference to the extra fun question “What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?” On the daily warm up.
Nobody knew wtf me and the teacher were talking about but I didn’t care.
Well suppose 2 swallows carried it together
Right. But how would they tie the string?
@@johntuttle9544 under the dorsal guiding feathers, of course.
but is that enough, perhaps you would need a whole flock for just one coconut
@@10Exahertz What is the average airspeed of a flock of unladen African swallows?
@@u.v.s.5583 WTF
Probably one of the greatest comedic opening scenes of all time..
Completely dumbfounding to the viewer and leaves you gasping in a deep comedic stupor, as it marches onwards in valor.
Brilliance!!
IMO this is the greatest opening AND the greatest exchange in any movie ever. Never will be topped in my mind.
"Its not a question of where he grips it, its a simple question of weight ratio"
A 5 ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound coconut!
LOVE LOVE LOVE that line ;-)
Phrasing.
yup that sure is one of the lines from the scene
They truly are "The Beatles" of Comedy.
Most people choose Life of Brian, but i've always preferred Holy Grail more.
From what I can tell, British viewers do prefer _LOB,_ while Americans prefer _HG._
I really didn't care for Life of Brian either honestly
I love both movies, but they are a bit different in style. HG is sillier, but also funnier, while LOB has a deeper and more subtle critical humour
Life of Brian is a more fuller movie with a deeper message.
I love Holy Grail also because it’s silly and clever.
I can’t choose one over the other.
They’re both masterpieces. There’s no denying that.
And funnily enough, without The Beatles, this movie wouldn't exist.
01:18 Coconuts migrate?
Now go back to the scene of *A witch*
And see The knight tying coconut to a swallow😂😂😂
This movie is sheer brilliance.
And despite loving this movie for thirty years I only now realized that this scene specifically mentions air speed velocity, part of the question about swallows in the Bridge of D3ath scene
I literally could not breathe the first time I watched this scene. Honestly, what makes it so funny to me is how serious they were taking it lol.
"What held under the dorsal guiding feathers?" "well why not?" Lol
Haha that slight pause at 1:42 as the faceless knight on the castle contemplates his one-sided discussion completely ignoring arthur gets me everytime. and when the second guy shows up who has also been following one side of the convo intently! lol
Later on in the movie, before the witch scene, you can see Sir Bedivere release two swallows tied together with a string with a coconut tied to the string. It’s a great nod to one of the films many running jokes.
You have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
I lost it when the guy said, “oh yeah I agree with that”😂
But then of course African Swallows are not migratory.
coconuts weren't found in the carribean till about 500 years ago, they drifted over from asia, coconuts DO migrate
That doesn't make sense. A 5 oz fish couldn't possibly carry a 1 pound coconut.
@@asylumskp4391 but if was a shark?
@@SonsOfHllor Oh yeah if it was a shark, maybe. But not the average fish, that's what I'm saying.
@@asylumskp4391 but then of course, most sharks are non-migratory past 1000 miles
This is why as a skeptic I don't have any friends.
Hiya friend!
Honestly this movie has genius comedy like if you break it down it's almost fascinating how they can make anything entertaining this is peak entertainment and I can't think of anything that's been able to do at this good since
These are the kind of dialogues I want in video games
When the side conversation grabs more attention than the main plot.
Well, it saved Arther's life u kno.
This film is just bliss from start to finish. Just brilliant line after brilliant line. Life of Brian is always viewed as being the superior, but when in the right mood, nothing quite does it more that a good old chat about wether a swallow could carry a coconut or when I should throw the Holy Hand Grenade.
*_I didn't know they knew so much about swallows in 932 AD_*
When I saw this in theater decades ago the audience went completely hysterical.
Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate? Love MP!
Try to watch this without laughing or grinning.
+Anariel Anastil
even the Lord did grin
Gawd.. I NEVER get tired of watching this scene. LOL
Arthur: I am Arthur, King of the Britons!
Guard: What king uses coconuts to imitate a horse?
Arthur: ...
In the witch scene a coconut gets tied to a bird and released .
yes! it's like a Mel Brooks movie, packed with little side-gags that you only spot on the nth viewing!
Thank you from France.
"what? Held under the dorsal guiding feathers?" hahaha this scene is pure comedy genius
Its not a question of where it griiiips ittttt!!!!
There's a fine line between absurdity and genius
The Pythons saw illogical internet arguments coming a mile off
The history here makes no sense but still such a great scene
praise the sun
Why don't they make comedy like this anymore?
Because today audience is retarded!
GalaxyTraveler because we are not allowed too for fear of offending others !
Because 'comedians' aren't this talented. Before the 90's, one had to actually be funny. That doesn't exist anymore
Why is it the audiences fault? It's the comedians/entertainers responsibility to be funny. As it is, they lack that talent. Typical millennial to blame everyone else.
@@applejacks971 millennials, funnily enough, are the ones running today's society. You were the people who ruined the economy, making them have to work even harder.
Horiffically good writing.... timeless
I think it was John Cleese who said the coconuts joke was due to them not having the budget to afford real horses.
This was my absolute favourite Monty Python movie.
Loved the pay off at the end for this ridiculous swallow conversation 😂
George Harrison gave £1000s to fund it when asked why he replied "Because I wanted to see the film."
I think your talking about Life of Brian where he made a production company and 4 million pounds to have the movie made. This one was funded by Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Elton John, and channel 4 to have a £400k to make it
@@jakealhalabi8194 Sorry yes I should have said it was The life of Brian not the Holy Grail.Thanks.
We never did find out where he got those coconuts.
2 African swallows carried it to them of course
mayu rush but then of course, African swallows don’t migrate
I think it pretty obvious: Coconuts do migrate
he found them.
@@Lauren-br7ep Found them? In Mercea? The coconut's tropical!
Conversations like this have happened since the dawn of man and are responsible for all civilization.
Seeing this again after many many years just makes me so happy! : )
No one will see this, but I am definitely using this scene in my evolutionary biology class to teach about natural ranges and limits to dispersal.
The whole amazing thing of this conversation is that it’s completely valid and logical questions the guard is asking 😂
I’ve always loved this movie. So funny 😂
After Tellkamp's Ornithology class, a slew of David Attenborough's videos, this is an indelible impression of bird comedy at its finest
You have to know these things when you're king you know
I’ve learned so much about swallows in this video
the guard doesn't even care about the important thing king arthur questioned, he's only care about the coconut shell
The most educated early-medieval warriors ever portrayed.
have to love the pythons. due to buget costs, time, hassle and for pratical reasons thay needed to avoid useing horses, so the coconut idea was born. even in comic movie terms the idea of banging coconuts together as a joke seems a step to far by a country mile, only the pythons could make us as an ardiance hole heartedly accept this completley ridiculas concept right from the off. after being introduced to the pretend coconut riding we simple go with it from there on in without giving it a secound thought. i think the even more rediculas conversation over how thay got them instantly defuses us from giving it a secound thought. these guys were brilliant. love the holygrail movie.
Right!!!! i had to look this up, swallows beating their wings 43 times per second is insane. Turns out....according to google its 15 times per second. By any standard that is both crazy fast and impressive, all hail the swallow. You have to know these things when your a king y'now
What a ridiculous man, really, asking whether or not coconuts migrate. Anyone would know that they dig holes that go from Hawaii to wherever that is. Such a simple fact, I can't believe he didn't know that.
The low budget is what made this comedy a classic. I love that all the lower caste people have intellectual discussions on things while the nobles speak in their lofty terms. It kills the romance of the people who dream of nobility because, most of us would be digging mounds of slop and concerned with various types of muck that filled our days.
Well actually the dirty peasant myth is just that, a myth. Which is being mocked in this movie. Although it goes over the heads of most viewers.
"I'm not interested"
Said every person who answered a spam call. 🤣🤣
0:29 he says "pull the other one" meaning "you are joking" (you're pulling my leg)
and King Author replies "I am".
I always thought he said "Whose the other one?" meaning I thought he was claiming that Patsi was who he was talking about and his reply "I am" would mean that K. Author was agreeing with him that K. Author wasn't talking about himself being the king. It all made sense, but now that I know he says "pull the other one", the reply "i am" is now confusing, because by saying "I am" that means he is telling the guard that "yes, I am joking, i made that up and to continue joking with you, this is my trusty servant..."
He is saying "pull the other one" meaning something like 'You can't possibly be the king of Briton with nothing but a single servant and coconuts instead of a horse.". His response "I am!" means something like 'I *am* the king of Briton!', in an attempt to rebuke the guards disbelief
@@slinkerdeer I thought it's because he *IS* pulling the other one. Whatever the other one is.
The guard isn't just saying "you're joking". He is saying "you're joking. You aren't King Arthur." So Arthur response makes sense. Arthur is essentially saying "but I am King Arthur."
@@protoborg Oh okay. Thanks.
For some reason I find it funny the way Graham Chapman says 'what do you mean?'- he also says it in a funny way in the Meaning of Life- with the protestant Yorkshire couple
Good old Patsy!
Just a masterpiece of comedy
COMEDIC GENIUS AT WORK HERE !
Those guards single-handedly saved the entire plot.
I love the idea of the king of the britains walking around his country with literally one guy
possibly one of the funniest scenes in movie history!!
and then, this conversation saved arthur at the bridge of death
Best scene in the movie
One of the greatest comedic scenes of all time.
👍👍
One of the best scenes ever.. i feel sory for people who do not like or dig this kind of humor
Well don't feel bad
This is the greatest ever
I am an unladenswallow and i am offended by this
Are you an European swallow or an African swallow ?
+subash chandran I Don't know, I hadn't thought to check.
This is a really hilarious scene. I love the whole movie!!
Little did Arthur know that, the entire time, he _was_ talking with the Lord of the castle.
"Held under the dorsal guiding feathers" X)
One of the best scenes ever...
This pretty much sums up most comment threads on Reddit.
At 1:38 you think the joke is over and their conversation moves on, only for him to keep going at 1:43
The best summary of seeds migrating in Charles Darwin's Origin of Species out there!
I love that they are having this insane conversation by shouting it over a castle wall...lol
Terry Gilliam is such a great actor LOL
That's bloody hard to Swallow!😄
I've never seen guards that are smart and dumb at the same time....
absolute genius...
"A 5 ounce bird can't carry a 1 pound coconut !" / "Well it doesn't matter !!!"