# Monty Python and the Holy Grail is 50 today. Also a Moose bit my Sister **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 28, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632 "2025-04-28T22:48:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/61 "2025-05-06T22:22:50Z")
Any Greeks about? 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/62 "2025-05-06T22:26:38Z")
How about the cheesemakers? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/63 "2025-05-06T22:47:08Z")
[Moderating] Merged some posts into the existing thread. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/64 "2025-05-06T22:48:47Z")
They are blessed. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/65 "2025-05-07T00:34:25Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Then Dingo announced “And after the spanking , the oral sex”. Was she talking about fellatio or cunnilingus? Whichever is funniest. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/66 "2025-05-07T03:24:45Z")
And is more likely to get Sir Galahad to stick around, er, to tarry yet awhile longer. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/67 "2025-05-07T05:19:22Z")
Screen Junkies just posted _Honest Trailers - Monty Python and the Holy Grail_, 12 hours ago on YouTube. Spoilers. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/68 "2025-05-07T11:31:35Z")
I watched the Honest Trailers last night. Funny, as usual. But they uncharacteristically got something wrong. They said that _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ was the troupe’s first movie. Evidently they didn’t know about **And Now for Something Completely Different** , which came out four years earlier, > **[And Now for Something Completely Different](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Now_for_Something_Completely_Different)** > > And Now for Something Completely Different is a 1971 British sketch comedy film based on the television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus featuring sketches from the show's first two series. The title was taken from a catchphrase used in the television show. > The film, released on 28 September 1971 in the United Kingdom and 22 August 1972 in the United States, consists of 90 minutes of sketches and animation sequences seen in the first two series of the television show. All of the ske... ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/69 "2025-05-07T12:45:18Z")
_And Now for Something Completely Different_ was like a greatest hits collection, only without any of the energy of the _Flying Circus_. It will scratch the itch a bit, but I would stick to the show or the albums. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/70 "2025-05-07T13:46:26Z")
ANFSCD was my first exposure to Monty Python (aside from a couple of bits I saw broadcast on American TV). PBS hadn’t started showing MPFC yet, so this was the only way to get a concentrated dose of python. I loved it. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/71 "2025-05-07T14:07:21Z")
Could be that I had been an avid watcher of the show and had several albums when I rented ANFSCD. The Parrot Sketch in particular stands out. John Cleese seemed bored and just going through the motions. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/72 "2025-05-07T14:11:36Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > 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. I saw its 25th anniversary re-release to theaters in 2000. I can’t believe it has been another 25 years since then. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/73 "2025-05-07T14:16:21Z")
How could I have forgotten? For Fathers’ Day several years back, my kids gave me a Blu-ray box set of MPatHG, complete with Trojan Rabbit, cows, and a little catapult to launch them with. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/74 "2025-05-07T22:38:26Z")
My 25 year old niece understood some reference I made to _A Møøse once bit my sister_ yet she has a cool dad. I remember learning so much british-english from even the credits (My dad was Norwegian so I got the font bit and in the show “pining for the fjords”. Even for a movie & show that regularly has appearances from God, the end credits where they say the next Python film will be “The Life and Times of Jesus Christ” But the guys who were going to make that movie were _sacked_. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/75 "2025-05-07T23:52:21Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > Even for a movie & show that regularly has appearances from God, the end credits where they say the next Python film will be “The Life and Times of Jesus Christ” Was that planned before they made up Brian? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/76 "2025-05-08T02:35:37Z")
That was the plan, but they couldn’t make it work. Finally someone asked why they couldn’t tell the story of just some guy whose life paralleled Jesus’s. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/77 "2025-05-08T02:46:42Z")
I reckon it was as much a joke as the opening credits. And just to be provocative for it’s own sake. They didn’t even have the funds to properly complete Holy Grail. No way there was going to be a producer to fund a _comedy_ about Jesus. “Life of Brian” was clearly a funny script and funny blasphemy still makes box office. I mean, Brian has to tell his followers repeatedly he’s not the messiah, till he gives in and says he is the messiah, followed by “Now, fuck off!” Nothing to do with anything, really, yet as I was thinking of movies about Jesus, the Mel Gibson one popped into my head, yet in the film “Donnie Darko” he goes to a double feature of “Evil Dead” and “The Last Temptation of Christ” - an extremely odd pairing. Sam Raimi was happy to allow Kelly to actually use some actual footage of the movie and I’ve no idea if Scorcese had to or did give permission to have his movie on the marquee. Though were Temptation a comedy, Bruce Campbell would have been a fine Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/78 "2025-05-08T03:08:49Z")
I believe the title they bandied about was “Jesus Christ: Lust for Glory”. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/79 "2025-05-08T03:15:51Z")
And thanks to George Harrison, they had access to Beatles money. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632/80 "2025-05-08T12:55:51Z")
A second mortgage on his house, actually…which, granted, was probably bought in the first place with Beatles money. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-is-50-today-also-a-moose-bit-my-sister/1017632.md?page=5)