# When did Monty Python become geeky? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-monty-python-become-geeky/142105 "2002-12-11T21:50:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-monty-python-become-geeky/142105/21 "2002-12-12T07:28:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Early Out \* > \*\*Have you considered having her put down? It’s the only merciful thing to do. \*\* We could burn her, bury her - or eat her! AUUGH!! I’m a geek! Monty Python had its first run on Canadian TV when I was in junior high school. Those are the prime geeking years, and I had all my favorite sketches memorized. I and my geeky friends would act them out, with the accurate accents and voices, or as close as we could manage. Yep ---
**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:** [December 12, 2002, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-monty-python-become-geeky/142105/22 "2002-12-12T07:34:40Z")
What I like is how you can learn to mindlessly um… parrot… the sketches as a yoot and yet still not get _all_ the subtle bits until you’re well out of school. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-monty-python-become-geeky/142105/23 "2002-12-12T15:43:48Z")
Well, here’s Elvis’ VCR, with his 1974 copies of Holy Grail and Godfather. [http://weeklywire.com/ww/08-16-99/memphis\_cvr.html](http://weeklywire.com/ww/08-16-99/memphis_cvr.html) Ah. Interview with Elvis’ Stepbrother. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/talking\_point/forum/2193305.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/talking_point/forum/2193305.stm) David Sillito: Chris in the UK asks: Elvis had a bit of a sense of humour didn’t he? David Stanley: Absolutely. If you couldn’t laugh, you couldn’t work for Elvis - it just wouldn’t happen. His favourite movie was the Holy Grail, Monty Python. We sat in a theatre many, many a night and watch that movie - we only had about 12 people in the theatre because it was just us. He loved the Holy Grail - he would watch it time and time again and he’d just laugh and laugh. He was a practical joker - he was always pulling jokes on the guys who worked for him. We were always wrestling in the hallways, always in the backyard playing football - always upbeat and fun and laughing. He always said - when it ceases to be fun, then quit. All the guys around Elvis sometimes would say - hey this is a tough tour, I’m tired etc. and he’d always say, it could be worse - you could have nothing. He said, we’re so blessed we have so much and we’d sit down and just start laughing - telling jokes etc. or watching Monty Python. The guy loved Monty Python. ---
**Author:** ![lothos2002](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/df788c/32.png) [@lothos2002](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lothos2002)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-monty-python-become-geeky/142105/24 "2002-12-12T16:11:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by av8rmike \* > \*\*Maybe, maybe not, but dressing up like the characters and acting it out, or knowing the right things to shout out at the right times sure is. IMHO. \*\* I see your point. Actually, I have heard of that but, where I live we don’t have that kind of showings, AFAIK. They must be fun though. All I have seen is the movie on DVD and I liked it a lot. About Elvis, having a good sense of humor and liking Monty Python just made him even cooler in my book. (I’m thinking of becoming a fan now). I would like to say that I find sports-geeks far more annoying than Sci-Fi or other geeks. At least Monty Python and HHGG are supposed to be entertaining, but quoting incessantly game averages and hits, and whatever is just dull. YMMV ---
**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:** [December 13, 2002, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-monty-python-become-geeky/142105/25 "2002-12-13T02:13:23Z")
Sports-statistics geeks approach trainspotting levels of geekdom. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-monty-python-become-geeky/142105.md?page=1)