Monty Python and the Holy Grail is 50 today. Also a Moose bit my Sister

Showing on Prime and Peacock if you don’t have the DVD or the book of the movie.

I just witnessed some taunting in an outrageous French accent.

Precautionary xkcd

I’ll take “What makes you feel old today?” for $1,000.

Seriously, when I first saw that movie in the early 80s as an impressionable 13 year old., I thought of it as an impossibly old relic. NOW I AM THE OLD RELIC.

This is a movie I heard quoted so often that by the time I watched it I didn’t really care for it. A victim of its own success perhaps.

I remember going to see it alone on a Saturday afternoon in August 1975. There were maybe a half dozen other people in the audience, and the only time I laughed was when Sir Lancelot kicked Princess Lucky in the chest.

1979 or ‘80, I’m 15yrs. old & had seen a few episodes of Python’s Flying Circus on our local PBS station. This station would sometimes play classic movies on Sat. nights @ midnight and I came home on one of those nights, slightly herbalized and ready to trip on a little late night TV. I flip it on and the wicked weird opening credits with which the trip that is’‘Holy Grail’’ begins. This a couple years b4 the Internet existed, I’d never even heard of this movie and it just blew me away with it’s wry weirdness. That’s an impossible circumstance for someone coming of age these days to see it for the 1st time. I think, like for alot of films and music that have an impact upon and occupy a special spot inside of one’s self, seeing it as a freshly formed teen made this movie 1of my favorite cinematic trips. 'Tis a silly place, indeed :wink:

A coworker reported that there was nobody in the whole movie named Monty Python.

Your sister smells of elderberries.

Back in December 2023 the Mrs and I attended a theater showing of Holy Grail, in celebration of the 48 and a halfth anniversary of its release. I wore my “Tim the Enchanter” hat, posed for pics with other fans (sadly I was the only one costumed up), and had a most merry time. The Mrs and I had seen it together during its theater release back in '75 and have watched it a few dozen times since. But there’s nothing like seeing it on the big screen with a crowd of fellow fans!

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Wom!

I fffffart in your general direction.

Poll up in Polls Only (link on bottom of OP).

They probably wondered which instrument Pink Floyd played too I’d bet.

Huh? What link where?

At the risk of a MP related whoosh, if I link this thread to another one, a link to it will show up at the bottom of the OP here: [linky symbol] Polls only: No discussion. You may have to refresh to get it to show up.

My parents and their friends took us impressionable children to see it at the Drive-in. I think they expected us to fall asleep in the back seat. Little did they know of the monster they had created by introducing me to absurdist humor at the impressionable age of five.

When I was in school, there was a wee, tiny movie theater on Hillsborough Street, nestled between a bar and the McDonald’s which showed MP&tHG every Saturday at midnight. They had entirely too much of my money.

So, what I want to hear about is the moose biting your sister. Was it a “love bite” from a moose in heat, or was it a “stop looking at me or I’ll really kick your XXX” kind of bite? What happened, exactly?

I think the møøse was justified. The sister was assaulting the poor animal.

No realli! She was Karving her initials øn the møøse with the sharpened end of an Interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: “The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink”…

I saw it for the first time on a tiny little tv in the back room of my great uncles townhouse. I was probably around 10 years old and it may have been on a Thanksgiving day. It really made an impression.

I’m afraid that @gnoitall has been sacked.

Sexually, or in anger?

Simple vandalism, I think. There are no indications of any emotional content to the initial-carving, just boredom. (Probably.)