# Best Monty Python Sketch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593 "2009-10-12T22:08:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/41 "2009-10-13T16:22:51Z")
Thanks for the links. ---
**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/42 "2009-10-13T16:23:47Z")
I had to vote for Funniest Joke in the World, just for one awesome moment. It was after the joke was weaponized by translating it into German and was tested on a German POW, played by Terry Jones. The POW was this complete slump-shouldered, coke-bottle-glasses doofus. The sound and facial expression he made as he read the joke and toppled over dead from the funni-ness was beyond priceless. It came back to me in my sleep the night after I saw the skit, and I literally woke myself up laughing. Only time in my life that’s ever happened to me. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/43 "2009-10-13T16:39:09Z")
Argument Clinic, because it’s the most real, in an absurd way. It connects with the “bad customer service” experience as well as Dead Parrot and Cheese Shop, but it really nails the universal experience of trying to reason with someone who just blindly contradicts you. (First clown to respond “no it doesn’t” gets slapped with a halibut.) And then someone unexpectedly gets hit on the head with a mallet. That’s gold. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/44 "2009-10-13T18:21:55Z")
On the SDMB, one is not permitted to make death threats. Perhaps there should also be a rule prohibiting telling the joke:Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/45 "2009-10-13T18:27:47Z")
I voted for Spam, though my favorite is really the Penguin on the Telly. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/46 "2009-10-13T18:36:04Z")
If it was an option, I’d have voted for the sketch where the newlyweds (Terry Jones and Carol Cleveland) were trying to buy a mattress. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/47 "2009-10-13T18:55:21Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > If it was an option, I’d have voted for the sketch where the newlyweds (Terry Jones and Carol Cleveland) were trying to buy a mattress. Great, now Mr. Lambert has a bag over his head. Everyone into the tea chest and start singing “Jerusalem”. I voted Parrot, but there’s a severe lack of sketches in the list of the Pythons dressed and acting as middle aged housewives, like the exploding penguin sketch. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/48 "2009-10-13T19:07:35Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > On the SDMB, one is not permitted to make death threats. Perhaps there should also be a rule prohibiting telling the joke:Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput! Hahahaha! :: thud :: ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/49 "2009-10-13T19:44:22Z")
Philosophers’ Football Match has always been my favorite.When I saw the poll, I thought I was gonna have to pick the “other” option.Glad it was included. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/50 "2009-10-13T19:57:46Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I voted for Spam, though my favorite is really the Penguin on the Telly. Oh, intercourse the penguin! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/51 "2009-10-13T20:01:48Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > Oh, intercourse the penguin! Burma!! ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/52 "2009-10-13T20:11:05Z")
> [@Haunted\_Pasta](#): > > I had to vote for Funniest Joke in the World, just for one awesome moment. It was after the joke was weaponized by translating it into German and was tested on a German POW, played by Terry Jones. The POW was this complete slump-shouldered, coke-bottle-glasses doofus. The sound and facial expression he made as he read the joke and toppled over dead from the funni-ness was beyond priceless. It came back to me in my sleep the night after I saw the skit, and I literally woke myself up laughing. Only time in my life that’s ever happened to me. I voted for that one also. I love the soldiers in the forest marching telling the joke. I also like when the inspector goes into the house to recover the joke. With the men of Q division chanting laments and somber music played on gramophone records. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/53 "2009-10-13T22:51:15Z")
A couple of my friends thought that there really was a joke that would make one die laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/54 "2009-10-13T22:59:01Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Burma!! Why did you say Burma? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/55 "2009-10-13T23:13:03Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > Philosophers’ Football Match has always been my favorite.When I saw the poll, I thought I was gonna have to pick the “other” option.Glad it was included. Almost as good as the match between the Bournemouth Gynecologists and the Long John Silver Impersonators. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/56 "2009-10-14T01:10:07Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > Why did you say Burma? He panicked. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/57 "2009-10-14T01:19:02Z")
I first saw MPFC back in the mid-late 70s on NC Public TV. The first show had World’s Deadliest Jolen it, and I thought I really was going to die laughing. I’d also like to nominate Confuse a cat as well. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/B2Je1CEPkUM/hqdefault.jpg "Monty Python - Confuse-A-Cat") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Je1CEPkUM) ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/58 "2009-10-14T01:33:14Z")
Why is it that these threads never seem to remember the sketch about Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm? ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/59 "2009-10-14T01:50:37Z")
I have an absolute fascination with the Cheese Shop sketch; while there are a ton of them that are hysterical, and perhaps ones that I even prefer more, I feel that particular sketch is the finest example of their comedy. Everything comes together perfectly, with an equally absurd ending. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593/60 "2009-10-14T02:20:10Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Why is it that these threads never seem to remember the sketch about Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm? Yes, we do seem to consistently overlook the great composer Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm. I have no explanation for it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-monty-python-sketch/513593.md?page=4)