# I just saw an ep of Monty Python that I had never seen before! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-an-ep-of-monty-python-that-i-had-never-seen-before/301647 "2005-04-29T00:40:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-an-ep-of-monty-python-that-i-had-never-seen-before/301647/21 "2005-04-29T16:06:14Z")
You are obviously humor-impaired. While the blancmange skit was, admittedly, a bit long, what it may have lacked in humor density was more than compensated by the brilliant absurdity of the premise. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-an-ep-of-monty-python-that-i-had-never-seen-before/301647/22 "2005-04-29T17:28:16Z")
> [@LateComer](#): > > Is this the one with Mr. Neutron? Played by Graham Chapman? Nope. IIRC the space blancmange ep is from S1 and Mr Neutron (which is most profoundly irritating) was from the final half-series. > [@Stranger](#): > > Either that, or the film with the giant electric penguin. "Scott of the Antarctic/Sahara/Antarctic. Featuring one of the best character names ever, Miss Vanilla Hoare. I don’t know why everyone slags the Bicycle Tour episode. It’s not a laugh riot but is so completely absurd. It’s this amazing dadaist shaggy dog story whose chief fault is that they apparently couldn’t think of any way to get themselves out so they resorted to that “scene missing” bit. I didn’t care for it when I first saw it because it didn’t have the same laugh out loud qualities as other eps but after a few viewings it became one of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-an-ep-of-monty-python-that-i-had-never-seen-before/301647/23 "2005-04-29T18:50:48Z")
I like that episode, expecially Palin’s scientist. In fact a staple answer in our physics class would be: “I don’t know, I just don’t know…even I…just don’t know” ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-an-ep-of-monty-python-that-i-had-never-seen-before/301647/24 "2005-04-29T19:21:52Z")
> [@Arch Trout](#): > > I like that episode, expecially Palin’s scientist. > In fact a staple answer in our physics class would be: > > “I don’t know, I just don’t know…even I…just don’t know” Palin? I thought it was Chapman. (But it has been a while.) ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-an-ep-of-monty-python-that-i-had-never-seen-before/301647/25 "2005-04-29T19:25:33Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > And it was really not that funny. > I think the title of the ep was “You’re no fun anymore”. A great deal of the time was spent on a sci-fi horror movie spoof about a blancmanch from Andromeda that was trying to win Wimbeldon by truning all Englishmen into Scotsmen. > Anyone else seen this one? It was a joke implying that the players at Wimbleton are as interesting as a bland vanilla pudding. ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-an-ep-of-monty-python-that-i-had-never-seen-before/301647/26 "2005-04-29T21:53:09Z")
> [@Random](#): > > Palin? I thought it was Chapman. (But it has been a while.) Eric Idle as I remember it. ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-an-ep-of-monty-python-that-i-had-never-seen-before/301647/27 "2005-04-29T22:00:37Z")
I looked it up. Chapman. [http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/scotsman.htm](http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/scotsman.htm) ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-an-ep-of-monty-python-that-i-had-never-seen-before/301647/28 "2005-04-29T22:18:51Z")
My 11-year-old son has developed a love for Monty Python. I’m so proud. _sniff_ I think the Blancmange episode is one of the first I ever saw. ---
**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-an-ep-of-monty-python-that-i-had-never-seen-before/301647/29 "2005-04-30T03:31:47Z")
> [@Random](#): > > I looked it up. Chapman. [http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/scotsman.htm](http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/scotsman.htm) How strange, it’s Palin in my mind’s eye. Wonder how many other sketches I’ve got mixed up in my head? At least we all know it was Idle that played the blancmange :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-an-ep-of-monty-python-that-i-had-never-seen-before/301647/30 "2005-04-30T15:51:02Z")
Chapman was the scientist in that episode, but Eric Idle, as another scientist, said the “I just don’t know” bit in another episode. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-an-ep-of-monty-python-that-i-had-never-seen-before/301647/31 "2005-04-30T19:30:37Z")
One of my favorite bits from this episode, with the scientest (Charles) and his girlfriend (She): **Charles** : Now, which is the worst tennis-playing nation in the world? **She** : Er … Australia. **Charles** : No. Try again. **She** : Australia? **Charles** : No… try again but say a different place. **She** : Oh, I thought you meant I’d said it badly. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-an-ep-of-monty-python-that-i-had-never-seen-before/301647/32 "2005-05-01T15:08:59Z")
Graham Chapman was the scientist in the incredibly lame “Blancmange” episode. Eric Idle was the scientist who said “I don’t know, I just don’t know” in the episode with Basil and the killer sheep. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-an-ep-of-monty-python-that-i-had-never-seen-before/301647.md?page=1)