Nee! Nee!
I didn’t have to fork out any of my hard earned money for my DVD copy of The Holy Grail… it was a gift along with The Princess Bride DVD. 
However, I will be saving my hard earned pennies for the DVD set of ALL the episodes. Yes… every episode of The Flying Circus is on DVD.
In fact, it looks like everythin that Monty Python has ever done is now on DVD.
Life really is good.
My boys have just discovered Python for the very first time and they run about saying things like "There’s a penguin on the tele… " or “Come back and I will taunt you again…”
It warms a fathers heart to hear them say this much like when my eight year old comes up to me and says very seriously…
“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father… prepare to die…”
Enough of this, who owns the Special Edition of the Holy Grail and is it possibly as cool as it sounds?
I mean the fact that it has “Subtitles for People Who Don’t Like the Film (taken from Shakespeare’s Henry IV, part II)”, incredible.
WHY WASN’T I INFORMED?
That’s supposed to be “Ni!”…
(Geez, first “candy photography,” now this. When quoting from the classics, accuracy is important.)
This might have had to do with their education. With the exception of Terry Gilliam, they went to college at Oxford and Cambridge. John Cleese has a law degree, Graham Chapman was a licensed doctor (kept the license current untill he died IIRC, and was the set doctor while on location for Life of Brian), Eric Idle was (IIRC) an English major, and Terry Jones (who directed the Python films) has a degree in History - which may explain the historical detail. I forget what Michael Palin studied.
I once read an article that of the films Excalibur and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Holy Grail was more historically accurate in the depiciton of everyday life at that time, citing as an example Arthur being recognized as a king “cuz he doesn’t have shit all over him.”
But you know what they said when they were offered the land…
Ethnic Germans in other countries:
“But we don’t want any of that, we’d rather …”
German Official:
“Rather what?”
Ethnic Germans in other countries:
“We’d rather … just … sing …”
dennis, the opressed peasant?
Kwyjibo, you made me laugh out loud. tnkhas.
Danke, Monster! I’m adding that to my sig!
You’re not going to have a laugh while I’m here!
He did an excellent documentary on the Crusades for The History Channel.
http://www.click4stuff.com/ggroup/crussetchanj.html
looks like a book too
http://www.brighton73.freeserve.co.uk/bookstore/general/terryjones.htm
He made this so enjoyable to watch, you wish the Crusades (1095-1270) had lasted longer.
Palin read History too. Very nice bloke.
Nope.
Singing Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, dum de dum de dum. He steals from the rich, and gives to the poor! Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore. /Singing
Gotta watch your lupines when he’s around.
I’m nearly through watching my 14-disc DVD set of the Flying Circus. There’s a lot of great stuff in there.
But not the Four Yorkshiremen, I’m told. Sigh…I so want to watch that with Friend; we’re always trying to outdo each other with my-childhood-sucked anecdotes.
A friend of mine who was a russian major (and is a major Monty Python fan) told me that this whole bit was inspired by the real-life saga of russian czar Peter the Great, particularly the part where the king says “first we built our castle, then it sank into the swamp…”. Apparently Peter the Great had his castle built in what is now St. Petersburg, only to have it sink into the swamp.
This explains why the prince must marry the princess who’s got the “huge tracts of land”…“we live in a bloody swamp!”
“He steals from the poor, and gives to the rich! Stupid bitch!”
“Right – now who else has a tiara?”
CRAZY.