This was THE sketch that pushed me from 'I don't know if I get this python stuff' to a realization that I would need to see everything they'd ever made. So happy to have found it here...
@@elijahFree2000 Honestly, it's the funniest trick in the book. That's why a lot of SNL's best hosts over the years (e.g. Christopher Walken, Adam Driver) are serious actors, who can keep a straight face while spouting outrageous lines without winking to the audience. Alec Baldwin started off that way when he was a serious actor back in the 1980s - "Second prize: a set of steak knives" - but then decided he was more of a comic actor and I no longer find him as funny (especially his horrible Trump impersonation - there are so many better ones).
It is very funny, when you watch it. If you have written it yourself, and edited it several times, had production meetings about it, assembled/constructed the set, cast all the actors, fitted all the costumes, set up the lights, memorized the lines, rehearsed the scene several times, filmed the scene a few times, honestly, the jokes are just words at that point. It's much the same reason that actors in a horror movie are not actually afraid, and actors in romance are not actually in love. Yes, Mr. Cleese is an amazing talent, and I am a lifelong fan, keeping a straight face is, when you are in the scene, remarkably effortless.
@@aquamarine99911 The best Trump impression is the one by the horrible little "man" himself, though lately even he is not as amusing as senility overtakes him. SAD!
Well, that's the case. I just hinted that furries wear animal costumes. So I think the part where men wearing mice costumes seems too accurate for furries out there.
Michael's 'what the hell?' faces when talking to the psychiatrist are brilliant :) 'How many of us can honestly say that at some point we haven't felt sexually attracted to mice? I know I have.'
Knowing about Chapman what we know today and what the sketch is about I doubt it was an accident that he played the role of the sympathetic phychiatrist/magician.
A bit of trivia - in the original transmission, when Arthur Jackson's name and address was revealed, a telephone number was also revealed (belonging to one David Frost). Frostie was not amused by the joke, hence the sudden cut in this subsequent transmission.
@@BossyGuyMike And who employed Cleese and Chapman as writers/performers on At Last the 1948 Show. I have always been curious about their feelings toward Frost. They made fun of him a lot, but at the same time there seem to have been fairly close professional ties.
Ivan Canak No, it is. From wikipedia: "The deviant way of life explored in 'The Mouse Problem' is an obvious parody of the secretive lives and social condemnation of gay men in the 1960s, and the sketch itself mimics the film and interview techniques used in serious television documentary exposés on the subject. Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune notes its similarity to a real 1967 documentary, CBS Reports: The Homosexuals. Chapman himself, who wrote the sketch, was gay." Also, the sketch was released a few months after the Stonewall riots occured.
To paraphrase a quote people use about The Simpsons, "these comedians didn't predict the future, we just haven't improved anything as a society for the past several decades"
"I mean, how many of us can honestly say that at one time or another he hasn't set fire to some great public building? I know I have." I have always loved that line!
"Look at arson! I mean how many of us can honestly say that at one time or another, he hasn't set fire to some great public building. I know I have!" :D
I don't understand why so many people here think this has to do with furries. It's very obviously about homosexuality, and substituting "wanting to be a mouse" was only done for comedic effect. And frankly, while others here laugh at the over-the-top performance of the other Pythons, I think this is in fact a terrific acting job by John Cleese here.
Well, it's obvious that attitudes towards homosexuality were the INTENDED target of satire, but you can't deny that there's a certain interesting parallel to be drawn here. People have a party and "putting on mice costumes" is certainly reminiscent of the common media portrayal of furries.
This skit was written before 1969. The furry fandom became popular in the 1980s. While there has been pre-furry fandom furry pornography since the mid 60s, I doubt that it would have been any sort of inspiration for using mice in place of homosexuality for satirical effect. I think this should clear things up.
It could be drugs, homosexuality or furries .. and well.. many furries are homosexual . so..well. In the end it is just a joke that has become true kinda. And it is not the first time this happened to them ^^
Agreed. This skit is really talking about gay culture and using "mice" in place of gay people for comedic effect. It has nothing to do with furries, which weren't even a thing in 1969.
Yes, a lot of odd behaviour is now considered normal, and that demonstrates how far morality has fallen. Who'd have thought back in 1970 when this series was made, that two men or two women could be "married", and that the public would ever accept that farce as normal ? But via leftist social engineering, they have.
I understand parody alright, as this ( obviously ) was. However my point is that what they parodied then, is what is reality today. Can you therefore, grasp the meaning of.... irony ?
I reckon that Dutch mouse parties take place in windmills in Amsterdam. There you put on a pair of clogs as well as the mouse skin and go Clip Clop Clippety Clop on the stairs.
this sketch is targeted at the documentaries made in the 1960s about contentious subjects. It is especially aimed at one which focused on the Gay scene after decrimilisation. the way the sketch is done is how the documentaries portrayed their subjects. some of the lines are even taken from the documentaries with Homosexual/Gay being substituted by Mouse. It is a really interesting parody and is funny because it highlights the idiocy of the original Programmes x
@@premanadi The big problem with clipping these sketches and viewing them in isolation is that you lose the context of little details like that. I've seen TH-cam comments from people who seem to be coming to Python for the first time complaining about the aimlessness and lack of structure in the sketches, and they don't remember how the links and running jokes held everything together.
One of my favorite sketches ever! John Cleese as an awkward shy man is flipping brilliant. And I love the concept. Trying to breach the subject of perception of homosexuality by displaying something completely different, but that is just as baffling and repellent to the public in general at the time. The fact that they had no idea of what furries were back then is just a huge added bonus.
Back in the last century , when Monty Python was in it's first presentation on PBS ... i once saw a commercial on Late Night tv from Kraft Cheese that directly played on "_When You Have Your Mouse Party_", etc. and i Never Saw It Again !! Tell me i'm not dreaming 😵💫
Well, I've been to mouse parties and there is a great amount of peer pressure in to becoming a mouse. Generally the mice are people with relative family issues.
The sketch was obviously a commentary about public attitudes towards homosexuality, and in no way could they have been aware of the furry fandom. But that doesn't mean that the points it makes could not just as well be applied to furries as well. It's a sketch that challenges the viewer to consider accepting something that may seem weird and unappealing to them, as long as it is shown to be truly harmless, and that it provides comfort, pleasure, and a chance for group identity to their practitioners.
toonbat It is very interesting how this clever analogy for homosexuality that Monty Python cooked up ironically ended up being very similar to an actual literal subculture that emerged decades later.
+Rabbi Herschel Lieberman-Bergblattsteinowitz Homosexuality per se had little to do with the spread of HIV in the USA. Homosexual men, compared to heterosexual men, had sex with more partners and little was done in the way of prophylactics for STIs. It should be noted that worldwide, HIV is primarily spread via heterosexual sex.
HUUUUUURRRR Then again, HIV has not really been much of a problem in the USA. On the other hand, HIV has been absolutely devastating in parts of Africa. For this we can honestly blame the catholic church for reprimanding the use of condoms/contraceptives (incidentally this also did not help with their overpopulation problem).
@neoprankster The sketch is a parody of Panorama's usual format. A lot of the MP sketches are absurdist parodies of well-known TV programmes of the time, like the BBC2 discussion show "Late Night Line Up"
Thanks for reminding people of that. The social setting at the time these were made is so important to remember. Too often, people (particularly Americans) think Python was just indulging in meaningless silliness, when a lot of it was social commentary through humor.
talented actors. all of em especially cleese and palin. Flyins circus is the best thing ever made on tv. Best humor ever tasted. Too bad 4th season couldnt make it.
John Cleese restraining to bear his teeth in the later part of the interview is such a small thing but it's one of the best moments in this sketch. Also I love how he refers to the mouse costume as 'mouse skin'.
Armand Karlsen I've been searching for quite some time for the answer, and finally found it! It is the main theme from the fourth movement of the Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 1 in D Minor.
This heavily parodies documentaries of the time about homosexuality, especially a particular 60 minutes episode. And it was written by a gay man. Furries came later. Although, I don't really get why people hate furries so much. No one's actually having sex with animals here It's just a thing that makes certain people feel comfortable, like how some people just feel better in the clothes of the opposite sex. And furry fandom is relatively harmless, as it's not usually a sexual fetish.
@@pa20065 It could be argued that your appreciation for Monty Python reveals quite a bit of refinement. 🙂 Glad I could help... and now for something completely different...
@FatherWindsorMcShane There's also the question of how long that laughter stays canned. In short, skits being laughed at when many of the people recorded laughing are long dead. Which is a grim prospect in itself when you understand the principle of canned laughter.
Graham Chapman the man who wrote it and played the shrink, came out in the 70's, the only known homosexual in Monty Python. In real life the preacher would most certainly not air the view that gay love was ok if he wanted to keep his job. And just as not all furies want to be mice/foxes etc some men just like to dress up as women on occasion and don't all want to be women or date other men.
Well, he was an Anglican preacher. The Church of England doesn't have any official policy on gays, so it's really up to each individual priest to make the call.
Dude, these sketches are already up... Arthur Two Sheds Jackson, is interviewed in the "It's The Arts" programa, from episode 1 The Man with three buttox appears on the "Talent Show" from episode 2... Just look'em up in my videos
LOL, Monthy Python's humor is so random, it's still relevant today. Bear in mind, the date of this sketch is 10 full years before the word "furry" was even invented!
+Killian Deathjoy When did I mention animals, let alone their potential to create art? if you refer to the lascaux cavepaintings, they are about 2000 years younger. What differs this artefact from Egyptian gods is that it represents a humanoid, not a god in itself.
I'm wondering why they mentioned Hilaire Belloc. Was he that well known back then? Now he seems relegated to Distributist and Catholic circles, perhaps some history ones too.
A passage from the chapter entitled "On Them" from Belloc's 1908 book "On Nothing & Kindred Subjects"... "If you will take a little list of the chief crimes that living beings can commit you will find that They commit them all. And They are cruel; cruelty is even in Their tread and expression. They are hatefully cruel. I saw one of Them catch a mouse the other day (the cat is now out of the bag), and it was a very much more sickening sight, I fancy, than ordinary murder. You may imagine that They catch mice to eat them. It is not so. They catch mice to torture them. And what is worse, They will teach this to Their children-Their children who are naturally innocent and fat, and full of goodness, are deliberately and systematically corrupted by Them; there is diabolism in it."
This was THE sketch that pushed me from 'I don't know if I get this python stuff' to a realization that I would need to see everything they'd ever made. So happy to have found it here...
Look at arson. How many of us can honestly say that at one or time or another, he hasn't set fire to some great public building? I know I have.
Wanting to be mouse is harmless.
Saw that line in a Python book. Laughed heartily.
How John Cleese could keep his face straight while saying those lines has my greatest respect.
One of his best talents is keeping absolutely serious in the most absurd situations.
@@elijahFree2000 Honestly, it's the funniest trick in the book. That's why a lot of SNL's best hosts over the years (e.g. Christopher Walken, Adam Driver) are serious actors, who can keep a straight face while spouting outrageous lines without winking to the audience. Alec Baldwin started off that way when he was a serious actor back in the 1980s - "Second prize: a set of steak knives" - but then decided he was more of a comic actor and I no longer find him as funny (especially his horrible Trump impersonation - there are so many better ones).
It is very funny, when you watch it.
If you have written it yourself, and edited it several times, had production meetings about it, assembled/constructed the set, cast all the actors, fitted all the costumes, set up the lights, memorized the lines, rehearsed the scene several times, filmed the scene a few times, honestly, the jokes are just words at that point.
It's much the same reason that actors in a horror movie are not actually afraid, and actors in romance are not actually in love.
Yes, Mr. Cleese is an amazing talent, and I am a lifelong fan, keeping a straight face is, when you are in the scene, remarkably effortless.
@@aquamarine99911 The best Trump impression is the one by the horrible little "man" himself, though lately even he is not as amusing as senility overtakes him. SAD!
Trumpites were very triggered by his hilarious Trump bits.
Wow, no wonder Cleese was heading to the cheese shop. It all adds up, now!! He was wanting the hard stuff!
“Sorry Gov’ner…we’re all out of the hard stuff. The van broke down”
I love Graham Chapman.
"Kargol, speaking as a psychiatrist rather than a conjurer..."
"Oh."
He is so dejected!
The love that dare not squeak its name...??
Hilarious response 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"You might have a run on the wheel, and then maybe check out one of the blue cheese films". comic genius.
I love John Cleese's reluctant character! Great acting.
John Cheese.
Only the Pythons could make an absurdist parody of the rampant homophobia of the 60's and accidentally predict furries in the process.
It's kinda disturbing, how an abstract satire became a geniue occurence. And it's not even the first time MP did this
Not to mention doxing Mr. A aka Arthur Jackson.
Well, that's the case. I just hinted that furries wear animal costumes. So I think the part where men wearing mice costumes seems too accurate for furries out there.
Did they predict it, or inspire it?
@@rperlberg They predicted it. Furries are'nt around since the 70s (followed by Fritz The Cat).
"Well I'm an accountant, so I'm too boring to be of interest!" I loved that part!
Michael's 'what the hell?' faces when talking to the psychiatrist are brilliant :)
'How many of us can honestly say that at some point we haven't felt sexually attracted to mice? I know I have.'
Knowing about Chapman what we know today and what the sketch is about I doubt it was an accident that he played the role of the sympathetic phychiatrist/magician.
A bit of trivia - in the original transmission, when Arthur Jackson's name and address was revealed, a telephone number was also revealed (belonging to one David Frost). Frostie was not amused by the joke, hence the sudden cut in this subsequent transmission.
Interesting,
I always wondered why there was that abrupt cut-off. It happened a handful of times throughout the show.
Would that be the same David Frost who was the producer of "How To Irritate People" starring John Cleese et al?
@@BossyGuyMike And who employed Cleese and Chapman as writers/performers on At Last the 1948 Show. I have always been curious about their feelings toward Frost. They made fun of him a lot, but at the same time there seem to have been fairly close professional ties.
Wow. Monty Python predicted furries.
It's not about furries, it's about homosexuality and the mice represent gay men.
***** wat
***** Maybe,but i don't think so.
Ivan Canak No, it is. From wikipedia: "The deviant way of life explored in 'The Mouse Problem' is an obvious parody of the secretive lives and social condemnation of gay men in the 1960s, and the sketch itself mimics the film and interview techniques used in serious television documentary exposés on the subject. Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune notes its similarity to a real 1967 documentary, CBS Reports: The Homosexuals. Chapman himself, who wrote the sketch, was gay." Also, the sketch was released a few months after the Stonewall riots occured.
***** Thanks.Did not know that.
The comedic satire of the past is the genuine phenomena of today
And the genuine phenomina of today will be the comedic satire of the future.........AKA You can`t trump a Referendum (or two).
To paraphrase a quote people use about The Simpsons, "these comedians didn't predict the future, we just haven't improved anything as a society for the past several decades"
"It's not a question of wanting to be a mouse, it just sort of happens to you."
Remember this so well the first time round, it still cracks me up !
"I mean, how many of us can honestly say that at one time or another he hasn't set fire to some great public building? I know I have." I have always loved that line!
That's my very favorite line!
"Look at arson! I mean how many of us can honestly say that at one time or another, he hasn't set fire to some great public building. I know I have!" :D
I think I'll have to use the phrase "Thank you, Janet" more often in my daily life
I don't understand why so many people here think this has to do with furries. It's very obviously about homosexuality, and substituting "wanting to be a mouse" was only done for comedic effect. And frankly, while others here laugh at the over-the-top performance of the other Pythons, I think this is in fact a terrific acting job by John Cleese here.
Well, it's obvious that attitudes towards homosexuality were the INTENDED target of satire, but you can't deny that there's a certain interesting parallel to be drawn here. People have a party and "putting on mice costumes" is certainly reminiscent of the common media portrayal of furries.
This skit was written before 1969. The furry fandom became popular in the 1980s. While there has been pre-furry fandom furry pornography since the mid 60s, I doubt that it would have been any sort of inspiration for using mice in place of homosexuality for satirical effect. I think this should clear things up.
Nonetheless, this can still be added into the furry fandom lol
It could be drugs, homosexuality or furries .. and well.. many furries are homosexual . so..well. In the end it is just a joke that has become true kinda. And it is not the first time this happened to them ^^
Agreed. This skit is really talking about gay culture and using "mice" in place of gay people for comedic effect. It has nothing to do with furries, which weren't even a thing in 1969.
Today they would all be using an 'app' named Cheeslr and would send each other pictures of Tails and lumps of Cheddar.
Dressing up as a mouse for sexual gratification doesn't even seem odd in the 21st century.
What a time to be alive!
Yes, a lot of odd behaviour is now considered normal, and that demonstrates how far morality has fallen. Who'd have thought back in 1970 when this series was made, that two men or two women could be "married", and that the public would ever accept that farce as normal ? But via leftist social engineering, they have.
Graham Taylor please stop watching python because you clearly can't grasp their usage of parody
Graham Taylor please stop watching python because you clearly can't grasp their usage of parody
I understand parody alright, as this ( obviously ) was. However my point is that what they parodied then, is what is reality today. Can you therefore, grasp the meaning of.... irony ?
I reckon that Dutch mouse parties take place in windmills in Amsterdam. There you put on a pair of clogs as well as the mouse skin and go Clip Clop Clippety Clop on the stairs.
Is that Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson?
Now he's Arthur "No Sheds" Jackson.
5:07 "I'd stuff sparrows down their throats until the beaks stuck out through the stomach walls" I can't stop laughing XD
this sketch is targeted at the documentaries made in the 1960s about contentious subjects. It is especially aimed at one which focused on the Gay scene after decrimilisation. the way the sketch is done is how the documentaries portrayed their subjects. some of the lines are even taken from the documentaries with Homosexual/Gay being substituted by Mouse. It is a really interesting parody and is funny because it highlights the idiocy of the original Programmes x
Thanks for adding all of this information.
This show was so fucking ahead of it’s time. And it aged like the finest of wines
The amazing part is that it was admitted at one point they were all on acid while writing the scenes and actually performing them. Truly amazing.
I’m glad he got that creepy “ceiling sheep” at the end. Taught him a lesson he won’t soon forget.
I think that was one of their recurring animal jokes, like exploding cats
@@MLaak86 It's from the flying sheep sketch, which was part of the premier episode of the show. This sketch is from episode 2.
@@premanadi Could have sworn it got used a fair bit more for a while
@@MLaak86 Yes, I think those sheep popped up in various episodes!
@@premanadi The big problem with clipping these sketches and viewing them in isolation is that you lose the context of little details like that. I've seen TH-cam comments from people who seem to be coming to Python for the first time complaining about the aimlessness and lack of structure in the sketches, and they don't remember how the links and running jokes held everything together.
Love these classics. "I know I have!"
Whaddya mean this is a parody?! I realized I wanted to be a mouse a long time ago...
As a furry i can confirm that at furry parties there is a clock and when it strikes twelve we run up it, when it strikes one we all run down again
Lmfao
Ahhh lord have mercy! Have mercy !?!
1250
One of my favorite sketches ever! John Cleese as an awkward shy man is flipping brilliant. And I love the concept. Trying to breach the subject of perception of homosexuality by displaying something completely different, but that is just as baffling and repellent to the public in general at the time. The fact that they had no idea of what furries were back then is just a huge added bonus.
Thanks to 5:30 it's been 20 years that I can't hear "hostile" without listening to that voice repeating the word.
One of my favorite Python sketches
Back in the last century , when Monty Python was in it's first presentation on PBS ...
i once saw a commercial on Late Night tv from Kraft Cheese that directly played on
"_When You Have Your Mouse Party_", etc.
and i Never Saw It Again !! Tell me i'm not dreaming 😵💫
Well, I've been to mouse parties and there is a great amount of peer pressure in to becoming a mouse. Generally the mice are people with relative family issues.
Are you my mummy?
Western Brumby
You'd better not have a gas mask on!
Using Rachmaninoff's 1st Symphony in a comedy sketch... those were the days!
The sketch was obviously a commentary about public attitudes towards homosexuality, and in no way could they have been aware of the furry fandom. But that doesn't mean that the points it makes could not just as well be applied to furries as well.
It's a sketch that challenges the viewer to consider accepting something that may seem weird and unappealing to them, as long as it is shown to be truly harmless, and that it provides comfort, pleasure, and a chance for group identity to their practitioners.
toonbat It is very interesting how this clever analogy for homosexuality that Monty Python cooked up ironically ended up being very similar to an actual literal subculture that emerged decades later.
toonbat Furries: disgusting in the 70s, disgusting in the 2010s
+Rabbi Herschel Lieberman-Bergblattsteinowitz Homosexuality per se had little to do with the spread of HIV in the USA. Homosexual men, compared to heterosexual men, had sex with more partners and little was done in the way of prophylactics for STIs. It should be noted that worldwide, HIV is primarily spread via heterosexual sex.
Nah, it's a call to kill them. There's nothing you can do about it, so I'd kill them.
HUUUUUURRRR
Then again, HIV has not really been much of a problem in the USA. On the other hand, HIV has been absolutely devastating in parts of Africa. For this we can honestly blame the catholic church for reprimanding the use of condoms/contraceptives (incidentally this also did not help with their overpopulation problem).
That was some of the best they did right there it was perfect everything worked just right
"And then the farmer's wife"
Lol, Three Blind Mice.
Damn Harold teaching others to fly
Cheddar or Gouda, if you're on the harder stuff!
John Cleese is simply brilliant.
Cheese. John Cheese.
This is some legit cutting-edge social commentary though.
Chapman is so cute doing the "eek!"
I think my favorite line is "blue cheese films".
@neoprankster The sketch is a parody of Panorama's usual format. A lot of the MP sketches are absurdist parodies of well-known TV programmes of the time, like the BBC2 discussion show "Late Night Line Up"
Thanks for reminding people of that. The social setting at the time these were made is so important to remember. Too often, people (particularly Americans) think Python was just indulging in meaningless silliness, when a lot of it was social commentary through humor.
Very good comedic piece. Love how it's implied to be something like drugs, creating this real culture shock
Not only did the Pythons predict furries, they also predicted (a slightly understated version of) the MAGA shaman (4:50 )
talented actors. all of em especially cleese and palin. Flyins circus is the best thing ever made on tv. Best humor ever tasted. Too bad 4th season couldnt make it.
5:31 “there’s nothing you can do about so uh I’d kill them.”
Underrated line
John Cleese restraining to bear his teeth in the later part of the interview is such a small thing but it's one of the best moments in this sketch.
Also I love how he refers to the mouse costume as 'mouse skin'.
Yesterday's absurdism is today's realism. Marvelous!
On the edge of horrifying.
You had over 7 minutes to figure it out but the plot still went over your heads
@@rosaiglarsh9987mouthbreather
@@Leto_0 Huh?
Incredibly timely, perhaps they could not have known that such things would be taken quite seriously today.
This is from 1969. Humor from over 50 years ago.
I was going to say "Monty Python predicted Furries" but then I saw the comments.
I was going to say "Monty Python predicted Furries, but then I saw the comments."
But then I saw that comment.
+Robert Sides And then that one.
Hahaha Napoleon eating a giant cheese of slice didn't surprise me at all lol
This appears to be some of the first Python that came over to the US which had canned laughter added here for the US audience.
It wasn't canned laughter. The studio based sketches were filmed in front of a live studio audience.
What the... hang on... wait what?? Where did the sheep come from?!?!
Edward Sim it's harold the flying sheep :V
John Cleese way ahead of his time here, identifying as a mouse.
What is the music used in the start of the sketch, from about 0:17 ?
Armand Karlsen I've been searching for quite some time for the answer, and finally found it! It is the main theme from the fourth movement of the Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 1 in D Minor.
This heavily parodies documentaries of the time about homosexuality, especially a particular 60 minutes episode. And it was written by a gay man. Furries came later.
Although, I don't really get why people hate furries so much. No one's actually having sex with animals here It's just a thing that makes certain people feel comfortable, like how some people just feel better in the clothes of the opposite sex. And furry fandom is relatively harmless, as it's not usually a sexual fetish.
Although, who can't say they thought about such acts as mingling with an animal atleast once in their life, I know I have
Anyone knows that piece of music starting at 00:16?
Rachmaninoff's 1st Symphony, 4th Movement(?)
@@bque8391 Thanks! Turns out not all fans of silly humor share the same lack of refinement as I do! 😄
@@pa20065 It could be argued that your appreciation for Monty Python reveals quite a bit of refinement. 🙂 Glad I could help... and now for something completely different...
@@bque8391 You are correct.
I'm female and I like Monty Python.
IN an age before Furries became a thang, a buncha british men held nothing back for the sweet good love of gouda. ^,;,^
The Twit Race is one of my favorite all time skits. Bow your head for the rabbits.
@FatherWindsorMcShane There's also the question of how long that laughter stays canned. In short, skits being laughed at when many of the people recorded laughing are long dead. Which is a grim prospect in itself when you understand the principle of canned laughter.
You can be whatever you want per today's perspective
if this isn't proof that Grahm Chapman was a time traveler, I don't know what is.
It’s amazing how progressive society is today. I hope Mr. A is loudly and proudly being his best mouse-self.
Absolutely not. May he rot in hell with all the other perverts and furry degenerates.
The thinking for this episode was voice cracks sounds like mice, and they made a whole sketch out of it. XD
Graham Chapman the man who wrote it and played the shrink, came out in the 70's, the only known homosexual in Monty Python. In real life the preacher would most certainly not air the view that gay love was ok if he wanted to keep his job.
And just as not all furies want to be mice/foxes etc some men just like to dress up as women on occasion and don't all want to be women or date other men.
Well, he was an Anglican preacher. The Church of England doesn't have any official policy on gays, so it's really up to each individual priest to make the call.
2:26 is that 2 sheds?
I love the satire!
Thanks, Adum
Who was the better straight man, (no pun intended,) Chapman or Cleese? Both are just epic in this one!
Of course! Good insight there!
I know, right? Utterly brilliant.
"Kargol, speaking as a psychiatrist as opposed to a conjurer..."
"...Oh."
Lest one forget, add Arthur Ewing mallet bashing his musical mice to perform that swinging disco ditty, 'The Bells of St. Mary's'....one last time....
Dude, these sketches are already up...
Arthur Two Sheds Jackson, is interviewed in the "It's The Arts" programa, from episode 1
The Man with three buttox appears on the "Talent Show" from episode 2...
Just look'em up in my videos
How did John Cleese not laugh during his interview? I woulda died!
Well, we live in times when a fiction comes true.
Fuck it I'd join 'em, life's too short to be hating people.
And yeah I'm already a furry...awoo
Fist time I watched this (a few years agot) I didn't realise it was a satire of Homosexuality. But when I watched it again, it really came through.
reflects the absurdity of future generations angst
He finally got them to fly.
LOL, Monthy Python's humor is so random, it's still relevant today.
Bear in mind, the date of this sketch is 10 full years before the word "furry" was even invented!
The concept certainly isn't new to the world, since furry art predates human art.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man
+Killian Deathjoy
When did I mention animals, let alone their potential to create art? if you refer to the lascaux cavepaintings, they are about 2000 years younger. What differs this artefact from Egyptian gods is that it represents a humanoid, not a god in itself.
***** An argument implies a conversation between two people. All I see is a furfag talking to a brick wall.
***** What is there to win?
You will never find love or caring in the world, let alone a single compliment.
Zootopia called.
It said your children are furries.
So this is where it all began... Nice
44 years later…. Squeak
55 years now.
Only some of them do. The majority of them do not.
Really funny. Does anyone know the name of the music at the begining please?
Only 14 years late: it's the finale of Rachmaninoff's 1st Symphony.
First he’s hidden in shadow then in full light and closeup as the camera moves around
my fav sketch:D
Saw this first time round…….
I wonder what the Pythons would be satirising now.
Their nightmares are now policy.
I'm wondering why they mentioned Hilaire Belloc. Was he that well known back then? Now he seems relegated to Distributist and Catholic circles, perhaps some history ones too.
They loved to throw in obscure intellectual references. Or maybe he was pretty well known for his "cautionary" children's stories?
A passage from the chapter entitled "On Them" from Belloc's 1908 book "On Nothing & Kindred Subjects"...
"If you will take a little list of the chief crimes that living beings can commit you will find that They commit them all. And They are cruel; cruelty is even in Their tread and expression. They are hatefully cruel. I saw one of Them catch a mouse the other day (the cat is now out of the bag), and it was a very much more sickening sight, I fancy, than ordinary murder. You may imagine that They catch mice to eat them. It is not so. They catch mice to torture them. And what is worse, They will teach this to Their children-Their children who are naturally innocent and fat, and full of goodness, are deliberately and systematically corrupted by Them; there is diabolism in it."
Classic. Scary similar to wots going on today but funny! 👍😄
What's the name of the music in the beginning?
@TheThroatwarbler It's spelled Throatwarbler Mangrove but it's pronounced Brian Luxury Yacht.
The bird with the cards was nice, eh wot?