# And Now For Something Completely Different... A Monty Python Feud by 42fish\[Game Over\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [September 23, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283 "2009-09-23T20:16:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/21 "2009-09-23T21:32:31Z")

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1. John Cleese
2. Dead parrot
3. Black Knight
4. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
5. Pining for the fjords
6. The animated foot
7. Fawlty Towers
8. Benny Hill
9. Carry On
10. Cobra

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/22 "2009-09-23T21:33:42Z")

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> [@Ultraviolet](#):
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> 1. the naked organist (Terry Gilliam)

Wrong Terry.

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/23 "2009-09-23T21:38:22Z")

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> [@Tom\_Scud](#):
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> And once again one of the choices I thought was a dead cinch hasn’t been picked by anyone else yet (Fawlty Towers). Kicking myself for not thinking of the lumberjack song.

You’re on much safer ground now.

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/24 "2009-09-23T21:38:51Z")

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> [@ArchiveGuy](#):
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> Wrong Terry.

[Both](http://www.pythonline.com/files/pythonline/images/Terry%20Gilliam%20Organist.jpg) [Terrys](http://www.dailyllama.com/spam/miscellany/images/magnet_organ.jpg) did it.

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**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/25 "2009-09-23T21:53:16Z")

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1. John Cleese
2. Dead Parrot
3. Constitutional Peasant
4. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
5. It’s a fair cop
6. The Foot
7. Around the World in 80 Days
8. Are You Being Served
9. Jeeves and Wooster
10. Cobra

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**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/26 "2009-09-23T21:54:31Z")

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1. John Cleese
2. The Ministry of Silly Walks
3. The taunting Frenchman
4. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
5. And now for something completely different…
6. The knight with the rubber chicken
7. Brazil
8. Blackadder
9. Mr. Bean
10. Rattlesnake

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/27 "2009-09-23T22:09:30Z")

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1. John Cleese

2. Parrot Sketch

3. The Knights Who Say Ni

4. Always Look On The Bright Side of Life

5. Splitter

6. The Foot

7. Fawlty Towers

8. Red Dwarf

9. The Goons

10. Boa

11. Well, no, not really. But I know people who have, and seen it on this board.

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/28 "2009-09-23T22:14:14Z")

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1. John Cleese
2. The Architect Sketch
3. French Castle taunting
4. Always Look on the Bright Side of Liff
5. He’s pining for the fjords
6. Foot stomping the title
7. Time Bandits
8. Fawlty Towers
9. Dudley Moore and that other guy
10. Boa

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/29 "2009-09-23T22:18:11Z")

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Good god, I had no idea people liked Benny Hill over here. I thought of Blackadder as something that didn’t catch on here, but I wasn’t sure–I know a lot of ppl who love it and a lot of people who don’t know what it is.

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/30 "2009-09-23T23:01:45Z")

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> [@ShibbOleth](#):
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> 1. Fawlty Towers

I’m pretty sure Cleese counts as ‘Python-related’.

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**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/31 "2009-09-23T23:08:49Z")

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> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> Shouldn’t this have been your answer to #5, Dolores? 🙂

I didn’t write this set of rules! ( **GaryGnu** did.) I had no idea that was a quote, I just thought it was funny. :smack:

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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/32 "2009-09-23T23:16:58Z")

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1. John Cleese
2. Funny walks
3. witch burning
4. Every Sperm is Sacred
5. I’m not dead!
6. Colonel stops the skit
7. A Fish Called Wanda
8. cross-dressing
9. cross-dressing
10. rattlesnake

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**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/33 "2009-09-23T23:18:22Z")

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> [@Tom\_Scud](#):
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> And once again one of the choices I thought was a dead cinch hasn’t been picked by anyone else yet (Fawlty Towers). Kicking myself for not thinking of the lumberjack song.

At least you understood the question and used the name of a show!

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**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/34 "2009-09-23T23:29:26Z")

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1. John Cleese
2. Cheese shop
3. Storming the French castle (Your father smells of elderberries)
4. Universe song
5. This is an un parrot
6. Cartoons
7. Time bandits
8. Absolutely Fabulous
9. Mr. Bean
10. Rattle Snake

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**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/35 "2009-09-23T23:30:12Z")

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1. John Cleese
2. The Dead Parrot sketch
3. The Bridge of Death
4. The Lumberjack Song
5. Run Away!
6. Cleese as The Announcer
7. Fawlty Towers
8. Mr Bean
9. Blackadder
10. Rattlesnake

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**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/36 "2009-09-23T23:31:41Z")

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4: It’s the scene where they must answer the Three Questions before crossing.

6: “And now, for something completely different…”

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**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/37 "2009-09-23T23:44:30Z")

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1. John Cleese
2. Dead Parrot Sketch
3. Knights Who Say Ni
4. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
5. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisiton
6. Stomping Foot
7. Fawlty Towers
8. Benny Hill
9. Blackadder
10. Cobra

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**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/38 "2009-09-23T23:46:58Z")

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1. John Cleese
2. Dead Parrot
3. Arthur fighting the Black Night
4. The Lumberjack Song
5. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
6. The old hermit who says “It’s”
7. Eric Idle voiced Merlin in Shrek the Third
8. Absolutely Fabulous
9. The Good Neighbors
10. Asp  
2 actually there’s a dead tie between the Dead Parrot sketch, “Déja Vu on It’s The Brain”, and Argument Clinic

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**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/39 "2009-09-23T23:50:56Z")

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> [@Tom\_Scud](#):
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> And once again one of the choices I thought was a dead cinch hasn’t been picked by anyone else yet (Fawlty Towers). Kicking myself for not thinking of the lumberjack song.

Fawlty Towers was _all_ Cleese and the question said “non-Python related” so I think that’s why folks avoided it as the obvious choice

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**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-a-monty-python-feud-by-42fish-game-over/511283/40 "2009-09-23T23:51:25Z")

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1. Eric Idle
2. Dead parrot
3. Black Knight duel
4. The Spam Song
5. It’s only a flesh wound
6. pass
7. pass
8. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
9. Fawlty Towers
10. Boa constrictor  
OK, I know I’m not going to score well with two passes, but let’s see what I can get.

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