Another flick that is easily in my personal Top-10 of All-Time favorite Comedies.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail was released in 1974.
I have no earthly clue when I even saw this movie for the first time, seeing as how I was only 9 years old when it came out.
All I remember is that I laughed my butt off the first time I watched it, and I still laugh my butt off every time I have watched it since. (See Dear wife…this movie is why I have no ass!)
The film was written by the members of the famed Monty Python comedy troupe:
John Cleese
Graham Chapman
Terry Jones
Michael Palin
Eric Idle
Terry Gilliam
The film was directed by both Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam.
“Come back here! It’s just a Flesh Wound!”
Made on a tiny budget with the equivalent of $365,000….the film went on to make over $127 MILLION in theaters, making it a huge success.
Most of the film was shot on location in Scotland.
The production was so short on money that some outdoor scenes had to be filmed in a popular London Park, just adjacent to a busy intersection.
“Attack of the Killer Rabbit”
Michael Palin ended up playing 12 characters in the film.
John Cleese’s wife, Connie Booth played a Witch in the film. She and Cleese would go on to write and co-star in the classic British Sitcom “Fawlty Towers“.
The famous depiction of galloping horses by using coconut shells came about from the purely practical reason that the production simply couldn’t afford real horses.
Still a classic Comedy!
Now, if you’ll excuse me….I’m gonna go dig out the DVD and watch it again!
I’ve also heard that the movie ended the way it did because they ran out of money and needed a way to end it quick.
This is another movie that I quote endlessly in my everyday life. “And there was much rejoicing. Yayyy.”
By: Amy on September 29, 2011
at 11:21 am
Amy – I would totally believe that ending!
By: TheIdiotSpeaketh on September 29, 2011
at 11:24 am
Such a classic.
By: gcampanale on September 29, 2011
at 12:01 pm
And just who COULDN’T love the “Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch”?
“Three shall be the counting, and the counting shall be three.”
Priceless!
By: John Erickson on September 29, 2011
at 12:11 pm
Absolutely one of my favorites! Thanks for the smile today, id.
By: Seasweetie on September 29, 2011
at 12:39 pm
So many great quotes from this movie! “Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!” “She turned me into a newt! …I got better.”
By: thoughtsappear on September 29, 2011
at 12:49 pm
When I was in high school I kept dating losers, so my best friend decided that my next boyfriend had to meet certain criteria that she set up for me. She literally interviewed boys by asking them the same questions as that guard-guy (I’m hoping you know what I’m talking about, because I’m not sure if I do). Well finally one of them answered correctly and so he’s the guy I went out with.
Ok, he was kind of a nerd, but he was also the sweetest person I ever met and totally different from the jerks I was dating at the time. We ended up dating for over a year before he went off to college. We still talk today and laugh about how if it wasn’t for this movie we never would have met.
By: H.E. ELLIS on September 29, 2011
at 3:01 pm
H.E. ELLIS – You can never go wrong with a Monty Python nerd…..
By: TheIdiotSpeaketh on September 29, 2011
at 3:06 pm
One of my all-time favorite movies!
By: mairedubhtx on September 29, 2011
at 3:29 pm
so are you a religious bigot and that is the reason my INFORMATIVE reply was NOT posted?
By: Neil C. Reinhardt on September 30, 2011
at 1:08 pm
Neil – No …. I am not a religous bigot…. I just think that publishing a long rambling tirade against all religion as a comment on a movie comedy post is not appropriate. If you care to comment about the actual MOVIE…feel free…. if you want to rant and rave about anything else….go elsewhere
By: TheIdiotSpeaketh on September 30, 2011
at 1:10 pm
Poor Mark,
You Just Proved You Really Actually are an IDIOT!
1. THE MOVIE WAS MANY TIMES MORE OF AN ATTACK ON RELIGION THAN ANYTHING I SAID. (Or are you just not bright enough to have a clue about this fact?)
2. Two, or perhaps three SHORT paragraphs are most certainly NOT any LONG Rant!
3. There was NOT any “F—ing” “RAMBLING”
in what I said at all!
Calling what I write “rambling” is a tactic often
used by those (losers) who are unable to factually or logically prove me wrong so I am used to such stupidity.
4. Simply informing people of something any rational, thinking intelligent person should have figured out on their own as to why nearly all religious people are religious in the first place is NOT an “Attack” on Religion.
5. IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT A REAL ATTACK ON THE CHILDISH MYTHS OF RELIGION LOOK LIKE, JUST ASK AND I’LL
BE MOST HAPPY TO OBLIGE!
So Mark, try Some thng New to you, get a CLUE!
By: Neil C. Reinhardt on September 30, 2011
at 1:56 pm
Neil- let me give you a tip…you mess with Mark, you mess with all of us. There are a lot more of us than you. Mark is the kindest human being on the planet who is entertaining the masses. You don’t like what he has to say- Get Lost!. We don’t need you here. People like you are angry- we aren’t angry here.
By: thelifeofjamie on September 30, 2011
at 4:36 pm
Mafia Princess – This is why I love Jamie
My head of Harem Security 
By: TheIdiotSpeaketh on September 30, 2011
at 5:01 pm
I am with Jamie…we are an army and not just Dumbledore’s we are Mark’s army and will protect him and and…..well Neil, you asked for it…I so resist curses…but may your armpits be infested with the fleas of a thousand camels. You are messing with the forces of the universe..and guess what…the FORCE IS WITH US?
By: Bridgesburning Chris King on September 30, 2011
at 8:53 pm
Why not infest his armpits with the camels of a thousand fleas? That’d REALLY be nasty!
By: John Erickson on September 30, 2011
at 9:06 pm
No-Hio – Why do that to the poor fleas?
By: TheIdiotSpeaketh on September 30, 2011
at 9:07 pm
hmmm the camel thing could work as well…
By: Bridgesburning Chris King on September 30, 2011
at 9:09 pm
Chris – I love animals…why subject the poor creatures to him?
By: TheIdiotSpeaketh on September 30, 2011
at 9:11 pm
aw heck..you are right..curse withdrawn..it’s bad for my karma to do it anyway! But we did have fun discussing it!
By: Bridgesburning Chris King on September 30, 2011
at 9:14 pm
Chris – Yes we did
By: TheIdiotSpeaketh on September 30, 2011
at 10:37 pm
Saw this the other day: http://flickriver.com/groups/1246390@N20/pool/interesting/ and thought of you.
Dunno if you’re a Lego fan as well as comedy, but I was pretty impressed!
By: thebozzman on November 2, 2011
at 8:22 am
Hi Mark,
I have to confess I just stuck the link on this page after our previous chat as I thought you’d like it and plus it matched the content. Sadly, I didn’t have time to read the post and now wish I had as I have been contacted by the afforementioned Neil. “There are some who call him… Tim!”
Neil,
Whilst I may personally wish for the same line from John Lennon’s “Imagine” as you do, I have to agree with everyone else that this is the wrong forum for it. This is a very enjoyable light hearted blog, so why try to make it anything else? “On second thoughts, let’s not go to Camelot. It is a silly place…”
Amy,
I’ve heard that too, but then the Python boys were famous for abrubtly ending sketches with no real conclusion. “Right, stop that, its silly! Look, off you go, you’re not even a proper woman!”
All,
When suffering from the heat one day on our honeymoon, I spent a very enjoyable hour teaching my wife the “Listen, strange women lying in ponds…” speech. She can still recite it in record time over four years later.
Mark,
Sorry for the long rambling. Keep up the good work! Ha! Ha! That’ll teach me to read the thread first…
By: thebozzman on November 2, 2011
at 2:59 pm
Bozzman – So sorry the wonderful Neil has graced your steps……. As long as you ignore him, he will slither away into the night…..eventually…… but only after he tries to sell you his miracle juice and correct every wrong belief that you obviously have about religion and the world as we know it……:) Maybe he just needs a good shrubbery…….
By: TheIdiotSpeaketh on November 2, 2011
at 3:02 pm
Bozzman – Unbelievable what they can do with those Lego’s these days
By: TheIdiotSpeaketh on November 2, 2011
at 3:03 pm