# Japanese Monty Python

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-monty-python/122619>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 6, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-monty-python/122619 "2002-08-06T15:28:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![tetsusaru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@tetsusaru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tetsusaru)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-monty-python/122619/1 "2002-08-06T15:28:08Z")

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I bought a Monty Python video here in Japan a while back, and the Japanese-English blurb on the box deserves to be reproduced in full:

“MONTY PYTHON IS BACK!!  
`Monty Python`s Flying Circus`is back now - a comedy legend for everyone in the world who are almost killed by the death of laugh! Bet you cannot stop laughing with the fool, radical and merciless six guys. If you get this, there is no dread, for example a cataclysm or a sacking!. This`Parrot Sketch Not Included`presented by Steve Martin is the digest cuts from their magnificent nonsense world. There also includes some exclusive sketches. this and forthcoming`Monty Python`s Flying Circus` series in 14 volumes consists of all 45 episodes would surely be the MUST-ONE to survive the violently 21st century with a big laugh?”

I swear I have not made this up.

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-monty-python/122619/2 "2002-08-06T16:05:19Z")

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So if I buy a Monty Python collection, I don’t have to fear a cataclysm or a sacking, huh?

I wonder if any of the Pythons had a hand in translating that.

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**Author:** ![p\_cific\_812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@p\_cific\_812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/p_cific_812)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-monty-python/122619/3 "2002-08-06T16:42:49Z")

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Those responsible for the erroneous translations have been sacked.

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**Author:** ![heresiarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-monty-python/122619/4 "2002-08-06T16:57:46Z")

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That’s hilarious! I do have to wonder if someone intentionally wrote it in the “Engrish” style. If so, they did a good job.

You oughta submit that to [www.engrish.com](http://www.engrish.com)

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-monty-python/122619/5 "2002-08-06T19:30:20Z")

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> … a comedy legend for everyone in the world who are almost killed by the death of laugh!

Ah, _The Joke That Won The War_. Classic.