# Have the Simpsons ever referenced Monty Python?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833
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**Created:** [December 31, 2005, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833 "2005-12-31T07:31:06Z")
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2005, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/1 "2005-12-31T07:31:06Z")
All I can think of is the couch gag that had the Foot squashing the family. Other than that, I don’t believe they have. Or have they?
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2005, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/2 "2005-12-31T07:46:16Z")
There aren’t many others. [SNPP.com](http://SNPP.com) says there was a reference to the Knights Who Say “Ni!” in “Homer Goes to College.” His roommates are the three nerds, and I think they say they know the words to every MP sketch. There’s also apparently a reference to Angus Podgorny (the plucky Scottish tailor who wins Wimbledon, defeating the blancmanges from the planet Skyron in the galaxy of Andromeda) in “Marge Be Not Proud.”
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### Author:  [@carrot50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrot50)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/3 "2013-04-20T15:19:17Z")
there is the foot couch gag the one where the nerds talk about the knights who say ni both in ‘homer goes to college’ and also in one episode Monty Burns is a python, I’m not sure if that was meant to be a reference or just a coincidence.
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### Author:  [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/4 "2013-04-20T17:01:54Z")
Lisa must answer three questions asked by Comic Book Guy to sit on a bus seat.
Lost Our Lisa 5F17 5/10/98
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/5 "2013-04-20T17:18:59Z")
> [@carrot50](#):
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> there is the foot couch gag the one where the nerds talk about the knights who say ni both in ‘homer goes to college’ and also in one episode Monty Burns is a python, I’m not sure if that was meant to be a reference or just a coincidence.
Monty Burns is a python in the Harry Potter episode, so that’s a Voldemort (Montymort) reference, not a Monty Python reference, most likely.
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### Author:  [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2013, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/6 "2013-04-20T18:19:11Z")
In the episode “Principal Charming,” the name on [Hans Moleman’s driver’s license](http://babysimpson.co.uk/gallery/frames/2/7f15/38.jpg) is very nearly [a Python character’s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf7rntVimhw).
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### Author:  [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2013, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/7 "2013-04-21T04:13:11Z")
Eric Idle was in a couple of episodes playing a British documentary filmmaker called Desmond Declean. I don’t know if he was supposed to be a parody of a real Brit TV personality, but the show he was parodying was 7-Up, that series that followed people their whole lives in seven year intervals. Were pretty good episodes, especially for the later seasons…
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2013, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/8 "2013-04-21T04:20:59Z")
The couch gag in one episode featured the Monty Python foot squashing them all.
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2013, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/9 "2013-04-21T05:26:56Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#):
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> Eric Idle was in a couple of episodes playing a British documentary filmmaker called Desmond Declean. I don’t know if he was supposed to be a parody of a real Brit TV personality, but the show he was parodying was 7-Up, that series that followed people their whole lives in seven year intervals. Were pretty good episodes, especially for the later seasons…
Desmond Declean’s _oeuvre_ was more along the lines of _Upskirt Dreams_, IIRC…
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2013, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/10 "2013-04-21T12:51:22Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#):
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> The couch gag in one episode featured the Monty Python foot squashing them all.
As mentioned in the first sentence of the OP.
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### Author:  [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/11 "2013-04-21T13:59:40Z")
Why hasn’t anyone mentioned the foot crushing them on the couch yet? That couch gag where the monty python foot came down and crushed them. Anyone? No? Guess I’m the only one who saw this.
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### Author:  [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/12 "2013-04-21T14:49:52Z")
I think it referenced Rio, by Duran Duran.
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### Author:  [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/13 "2013-04-21T17:18:10Z")
One episode with “The Nerds” had them mention the knights who say Ni. Then Homer chuckles and says “Ni”. I don’t recall which episode that was and it is the only reference besides the foot couch gag I recall.
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### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2013, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/14 "2013-04-22T23:56:38Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#):
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> Monty Burns is a python in the Harry Potter episode, so that’s a Voldemort (Montymort) reference, not a Monty Python reference, most likely.
I haven’t listened to the commentary in a few years, so I might be off, but I think they did bring up the whole Monty (is a) Python thing.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/15 "2013-04-23T00:09:43Z")
Personally, I think _Family Guy_ had the best reference. Meg has been tied up and forced to watch the lamer Python sketches:
Meg: I’m a girl! I don’t even like _good_ Monty Python!
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### Author:  [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/16 "2013-04-23T05:04:47Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Personally, I think _Family Guy_ had the best reference. Meg has been tied up and forced to watch the lamer Python sketches:
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> Meg: I’m a girl! I don’t even like _good_ Monty Python!
This is perhaps the greatest reference to Monty Python that any other television series has made. Because it references all of Monty Python, which admittedly, is full of steaming turds that aren’t funny. And I LOVE Monty Python.
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### Author:  [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/17 "2013-04-23T12:54:03Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#):
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> This is perhaps the greatest reference to Monty Python that any other television series has made. Because it references all of Monty Python, which admittedly, is full of steaming turds that aren’t funny. And I LOVE Monty Python.
Not quite the greatest - that hono(u)r belongs to [The Chaser’s War on Everything](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTZTiTp9Vn8).
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### Author:  [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/18 "2013-04-23T13:29:31Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Personally, I think _Family Guy_ had the best reference. Meg has been tied up and forced to watch the lamer Python sketches:
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> Meg: I’m a girl! I don’t even like _good_ Monty Python!
what is the season and episode number or title?
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/19 "2013-04-23T13:42:11Z")
> [@johnpost](#):
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> what is the season and episode number or title?
“The Former Life of Brian” [The Former Life of Brian - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Former_Life_of_Brian) which is, of course, another Python reference.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833/20 "2013-04-23T18:53:31Z")
There was a Simpsons where they referenced Find the Fish. Or maybe that was Family Guy. Probably Family Guy.
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