Best Monty Python Sketch

[David Fryer]

What is your favorite Monty Python sketch? I would say mine is either the Cheese Shop or the Spanish Inquisition.

[Richard Pett]

fish slapping dance:)

[The Jade]

I

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couldn't really pick

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a favorite scene.

But I know what my favorite bizarre tangential cut-in was.

[Sayler Van Merlin]

The one that gets quoted most around our house is the witch scene from Holy Grail :)

My girlfriend is a major Monty Python nerd (can't get her to play RPGs, though :( )

[Lipto the Shiv]

Good lord! Too many to name...

Though I would say that both the Silly Job Interview, and Confuse-A-Cat sketches hold special places in my heart.

[Sayler Van Merlin]

BTW-she's got a cassette tape of the audio version of the Holy Grail movie :)

[Sayler Van Merlin]

I like the ministry of silly walks; the argument dept. ; the lumberjack sketch; dead parrot sketch; etc. etc. :)

[Sayler Van Merlin]

-and the silly animations...

[carborundum]

Ohhh - the Argument Clinic, Self Defence Against Fresh Fruit, and the Hungarian Phrasebook.

Parrot, Sily Walk and Say No More are so good I've seen them too much!

[Crimson Jester]

Pet Shop

"But I want a Cat, that's a terrier"
"well with a shortening of the tail and I can shave it and attach whiskers it will make a fine cat"
"but that wouldn't be a cat it would be a mangled terrier"
"how about this, I chop off the front of the face and attach a beak and we make you a nice parrot sir"
"Well how long would that take?"

[lastknightleft]

when we got our dog her name was originally going to be named Aurther Two-Sheds Knight, but then we realized only we would get the refrence so we just named her Monty Two-Sheds Knight

[Cuchulainn]

The Fish License, Spam, Just about all of Life of Brian, The Organ Donor Card, the Anti-Church ballistic missile, the Spanish Inquisition.

[David Schwartz]

Argument Clinic

[Timitius]

"How Not to be Seen".

Other favs:

"Silly Olympics"

"Crunchy Frogs"

[Ubermench]

Pet Shop and the two Ladys talking about burying the cat.

Didn't get a wink of sleep last nigh.

Why not?

Spent all night burying the cat.

Why did it take all night?

The cat keep getting up and running away.

[Bill Dunn]

I've always liked "Cheese Shop" and "Close Order Swanning About" by the Second Armoured Division.

[flynnster]

RAF Officer grilling pilot over his perceived homosexuality due to visual clue of wearing a pink ballerina's too-too over uniform..

Officer - Are you Sir, or are you not, a Pufta!?!?!?

[Mike Welham]

The Cheese Shop and the following sketch, "Salad Days". The over-the-top death and mayhem makes me laugh.

Another favorite is The Dead Parrot.

[thefishcometh]

I think I may have to go with either "The Bishop" or "Election Night Special". But they are all so, so funny. Oh, and if we are counting sketches from movies, I laugh every time I see Mr. Creosote explode in The Meaning of Life.

"Would you like a waffer-thin mint?"

[Kobold Cleaver]

The "I'm not dead" scene in Holy Grail. Also, any scenes involving the word 'Ni!' or the thing with people beating cats.
Also, 'How not to be seen'.

[Adam Daigle]

"Upperclass Twit of the Year"

and

"Philosophy Football"

[DM Lil" Eschie]

How to irritate people

[Joe Kondrak]

Olympic Hide and Seek

[Kajehase]

"Philosophy Football"

and

"Fish slapping dance."

[Haladir]

"Nudge, Nudge"

and

"Argument Clinic"

[atheral]

Dead Parrot Sketch is by far my favorite one off bit. But Holy Grail is to my mind the..well...Holy Grail of Monty Python bits.

[lucky7]

Cheese Shop, definitely.

[Irontruth]

"How not to be seen" is probably my favorite.

Not mentioned so far, but I love it:

Archeologists

[Profession Smith 6 ranks]

It's more of an Honorable Mention, but I can't help but smile every time I see the "A Tiger?! (In Africa?!)" bit from "The Meaning of Life."

[MageHunter]

So hard to pick a favorite.

One I LOVE that isn't mentioned yet is the dirty fork sketch.

[MageHunter]

The first man to jump the British Channel!

Reporter:How do you respond to accusations you are taking advantage of him?

Agent: That is completely and utterly ridiculous. All I do is help him find his true inner passion, and find them.

Reporter: And what is his passion now?

Agent: He's going to split a railway with his nose.