I love Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail(the movie). I especially like the song Sir Robin’s minstrels sing when they are about to meet the three-headed thing. Does any Monty Python fan know the lyrics to that song? I only know one part: ‘and his nostrils raped’ blah blah blah.
I love Monty Python. The show, the movies, the songs, all are classics. In fact, this Saturday I’m having a Python Party that I am very excited about.
I couldn’t find the lyrics to the song but here’s a plethora of information on Monty Python including the script for Holy Grail in which you could find the song I assume.
I don’t have anything to add to this discussion. I just wanted to say that I’m glad we finally have a poster named Sam Lowry. 
One of my favorite movies. I believe you’ll find what you want here. (I love Google.)
“I’m not talking to you anymore, you empty-headed animal food-trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries! Now go away, or I shall be forced to taunt you again!”
Y’know, I as big a Python fan as the next guy, but I think Holy Grail is seriously over-rated. It’s got a lot of good jokes, but it just doesn’t hold together as a movie. The scenes could be showed in almost any order without affecting the narrative (such as it is) and even within individual scenes, there’s no real resolution. To say nothing of the ending. It was a lot like the TV show: a lot of good ideas hastily abandoned as soon as they run out of steam. While that worked in a half-hour format, if I’m going to invest ninety minutes of my time in a movie, I want a better pay off.
Compare it to Life of Brian, which has a strong story, not to mention an actual point to make, or even to The Meaning of Life, which is another collection of sketches which, though more tenuosly connected than in Holy Grail, are much better conceived and executed, and the weaknesses of this freshman effort* are even clearer. It didn’t even have any catchy songs. Remember the astronomy song from Meaning of Life? Beats the pants off those minstrels, any day of the week.
Of course, the only reason I’m saying this is because everybody loves this movie, so I must be cool because I’m dissing it. Right? Right? Damn, where’s dalovindj when you need him?
*Ignoring the redundant And Now for Something Completely Different
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What’s this? A compliment by a moderator? I’m as giddy as a schoolgirl!
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Jodi, I am dissapointed and embarassed for you.
Everyone knows the line is “…or I shall be forced to taunt you a second time-uh!”
Excellent job, Sam, can you help me here?
'Preciate it. You must be able to drive Google better’n me.
The song was written and performed by someone who was a big influences on Monty Python – Neil Innes. Innes wrote a lot of their songs, after making a name for himself in England as a member of the Bonzo Dog Band.
I don’t think the Knights Who Say Ni ever said Nee.
Of course, when they received their First Shrubbery, they became the Knights Who Until Recently Said Ni.
So the thread title must refer to the Knights Who Never Said Nee, whoever they were.
We are no longer the Knights who say Ni. We are now the Knights who say ecky-ecky-ecky-p’tang-ZOOP-poing-numanumanumanummm…
…and IIRC (from The Book of the Film) it’s “Your mother was a humpster…” (tho I have to admit it was funnier when I thought it was “hamster”…)
Now I am upset. Take out the “be forced to.”
Sorry for the nitpick, “but it’s just as easy to get these things right as they are easily found in the BALPA handbook.” (Sorry, that’s a Flying Circus quote.)
You know if you get a DVD player you can turn the captions and learn a lot about a movie you have watched a hundred times.
Really