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And he only throws it down when the viewer allegedly disapproves of his philosophy. XD

Genius!

That's part of the joke...

I once had the pleasure of no, really, ordering two potato and leek soups as a starter and as the words fall out of my mouth, i realise what I have done, I look up at the server smiling, server looks down at me... nothing, not a twitch. Time passes, table talk, ah here come the starter soups, the server is almost doing the whole back half of the 'two soups' (look for it) schtick christ! half the place was laughing at it marvelous... needless to say extra large tip at the end ;-)

🤗

I really like the idea that this could either be the sweet and positive lines, the "follow me" stuff, or literally just "fuck off" - all of which would be appropriate for waitstaff jobs haha

I’m glad.

"Snotty, annoying customers"? You sound like a libtard scumbag, entitled loser and hold a job that proves my point. I just left a 25% tip today.... maybe that's not enough for someone of your stature? If you don't like the customers... get an education or skill and switch jobs. Eatshytdiepuke.............

@thatzim wtf That's the best part. It's the grindcore of comedy and I love it and more so I love to see faces of people who decided to watch a movie with me.

The first time I watched it I was convinced they were just trolling and Eric Idle was just going to keep walking while the credits rolled.

that misses the point so hard

I fart in your general direction

@@SmashAtoms l

As a kid I loved this and the scene prior to it. Wasn't crazy about the rest of the movie, it was kinda hit or miss but this scene and the vomiting and exploding fat guy was perfection.

Exactly! I feel this dreem logic like in Alice of Lews Carrol, even in the cartoon of Disney. It's isn't the same but there both have a dream atmosfer.

Robert Medd Underrated comment.

More like being the NPC follower yourself

Same, the vintage camera helps a lot as well

At 2:41 is when the npc companion is still not following you.

It's like being a camara man 🙂

I know it's like if you take away all the context it just says "Hey, i have a life. A simple life, but a life. Fuck you."

Snake Keeper And, furthermore, I have thought about my principles and what I hold dear AND I have the confidence to share with others that what means the most to me. And if someone else judges me for that, then "fuck off" is the right answer. "I can live my own life, in my own way, if I want to." Anyone trying to stray me from that is, by definition, attempting to exercise control over me.

thi is tragic skit about small life

I can empathise with gaston fully. He lives his quiet life in his own way and it is cool. To many people today are so consumed with materialism and greed that they cannot see the wood from the trees. Covet beautiful and simple things in life and they will reward you a million times over with smiles and virtue. So what if he is a bit camp? Hey you! Fuck off with your homophobia and racism! We burn Nazi fucks like you with petrol round here!

@@MrDegsy69 you did not quite get it. They are poking fun at France as a whole.

Explain further

JPS has a interesting connotation

Brilliant

And I suppose his mother really did live in a beautiful place - but the waiter’s return to what was her house symbolises that the waiter never escaped the dominance of his mother and developed an independent philosophy motivating his own life. The waiter knows he does not feel what his mother felt and that he has failed to develop authentic activity. He resents the world as forcing this upon him. But he has repressed his recognition that this is only cover for his own failure of will. Thus taking on even positive philosophies from other people can risk existential inauthenticity. Authenticity requires the person to develop their own response to their own experience in order to avoid the resentment (following Nietzsche) of the conformist who is too afraid to live. Only by properly developing one’s own perspective does one develop the strength of mind necessary for authentic living. This is also somewhat like transactional analysis in that it indicates a failure to move from the parent child to the adult adult stance. A very clever sketch with quite a lot of psychological insight. But, I am not sure that Sartre himself ever really got to grips with a western equivalent to the daoist concept of wu wei. To me at least, existentialism can read like an attempt to rescue the western concept of the individual self from its inherent problems. Whereas Buddhist and Daoist thinkers have tried to transcend it altogether. The pursuit of authenticity a la Sartre can leave you in a cold place.

@@austinthornton3407 I started reading your comment as a joke, but it makes perfect sense and is actually helpful. Thank you, sir.

Yep, also for me this scene is very powerful and sad :) cheers

I cry as soon as he starts walking.. Just because I know what's coming

It happens to be distant from daily work and city life, where the music and suburb quietness and peace surrounds. Life would be good, there doesn't require much philosiphies I think. Love would presper- until you step into the city. I had only watched this film once but it immediately becomes my top 5. So sacarstic, yet cast cheers and tears in your heart. Cheers

Yeah it's like he tries to be good , to do the best but he suddenly realize as he say it that it has no point, he has no idea how give happiness to other and most of all, to himself. So, he begins to be angry about that sudden realization and fuck us. it's like he never had a deap think about his own life because it's too scary and sad This movie is unbelievable, we can discover new stuff everytime we watch it

It's like he is in a never ending cycle where he wants everyone to be pleased of him but he gets anxious because you can't please or make everyone happy, which is a sad reality, and if you don't figure that out soon, you are going to wear yourself out.

+Xeron Quaram Cxercxess​ Thanks, stranger.

Well, you can't take it seriously

That's what I thought when I first watched it back in 84,still mad and funny though so,fuck you don't come following me

They went through the chunnel lol

Matthew Iler He was born in England (of French descent, hence the name), and he moved to France at a very young age. He spent his formative years there and trained as a waiter, before returning to England, as an adult. Simple.

I agree! It also amusingly heightens expectations. You'd expect that after showing a solid 60 seconds of someone walking around, there'd be some sort of crazy comedic payoff... but there usually isn't.

I guess I saw a different joke when that look of realisation came across his face. "My mother told me to spread happiness... so now I'm a French waiter..."

Sod off.

@The Wandering Knight It's a very respectable profession. Waiters are responsible for the edibility of food, too.

not you, the general public, that would laugh at him, not understanding that simple meaning of life. And so much better meaning than ruling the world, causing harm and suffering...

Idiot - its about how he becomes a waiter and forget his dreams and meaning of life. waiters are trash , and you are stupid idiot. its not about how good to be a waiter lol

How not to be seen..

The penguin on top of the television just might.

"Man is driven in toto by his insecurities." Hesh, The Sopranos.

Exactly. Insecurity about his life and it's philosophy, the realisation followed the insecurity. Perhaps people don't critically evaluate their beliefs as you say because of this insecurity?

And unbearable cliché of our life stories while we think we are unique

Yes to emphasize how important would be to the observer what he would disclose.And in the end he realizes how mundane his story is and how common his life is and projects his anger and shame with the "f...ck of"....Sad but true for almost all of us...

I heard that this scene was going to happen after Christmas in Heaven.

Editor Julian Doyle had originally structured it to go over the end credits. For whatever reason, this idea was rejected.

The indifferent Cat archetype

Nah, just a cheap Chinese gimbal and a go pro mate.

Steadicam?

Steadicams were developed for Kubrick's "The Shining" in 1979. Those were available in late 1982 which is when this was shot, but the camera was indeed heavy and it could not store too much film.

@@ricarleite the first steadycam was used in Rocky I, going up the stairs of the museum.

Yes a variation of the steadicam. Adding to the complexity is the exposure going from indoors to out as well as pulling focus. This would have been much more difficult than using the technology today.

@@r3dl0g1c and look at that nice subtle rack focus when he points out his childhood home, it was so perfectly smooth I couldn't believe it

Now it is my headcanon this waiter is just this character as an aged up person

Some how to me , that's the French !

J’aime cette histoire

Me too My dad was a posh waiter!

this sounds too good to be true, but I'm inclined to believe it.

Well you can't.

@@mattiemclean9882 And that's what makes it all the more desirable, we always want what we haven't got, or can't have.

levitation...

A special reciprocating dual blast stairlift

He had whirrring helicopter blades around his head www.flickr.com/photos/joecws/19732505232/

They rolled him

There is a lift for industrial crates. I suppose.

+TheFiresloth, he made a terrible accent in this sketch. I'm not sure if it was on purpose or if his fake french accent is actually that bad...

It's Python - anything is allowed.

TheFiresloth Yeah. He kind of sounds like Al Pacino.

Oh, it's definitely on purpose. It's even worse in the Holy Grail movie

I'm French and I feel like he has a pretty good french accent

The french taunter?

@@nurlindafsihotang49 YES!

@iwan2die Mind your own business!

Absolutely

In the book "Monty Python Speaks!", one contributor felt that this whole scene, from the aftermath of Creosote to the arrival at the country House, should have been put right at the very end of the movie after the end credits. It would have served as a callback to the memorable Mr. Creosote, and also worked as a typical Monty Python abrupt ending following a moment of poignancy.

Nah, the Death segment is brilliant too. I consider this one the best Monty Python movie. The other two, somehow do not connect as much.

I do not think that is the point here. It is a bitter remark on the meaning of life...

@@zotsi6218 I don't care if you don't think that's the point. Lol it's literally up to the person watching it...why don't you get that?

Yeah but he lived life his mother's way 😁

I was looking down scrolling through the comments, hoping to find this answer, its beautiful dont you think,.. FOLLOW ANDRE EVERYBODY

Yes I saw it, me and my mate watched it in a downtown picture theatre. And it was 1983.

By far the best of the Python films. Holy Grail is 100% silliness and hasn’t aged that well. This movie will still be fantastic 200 years from now

I have a feeling its a parody of Sartre's example of the waiter in Being and Nothingness

What a silly request 🤪 Why don't you ask for reasonable charges when you're at it ?!

@@lamaisontokyo4696 I like your thinking....we should do lunch! Bien cuit pour moi s'il vous plait. 😂

You see it as your right as a customer to get it cooked the way you want. But it pains most people who have some appreciation of the culinary arts to have good-quality cuts wasted with overcooking. "Well done" and "bien cuit" really mean "badly overcooked" for grilled beef. It becomes dry, chewier, and the difference between a good meat-cow and an old dairy-cow vanishes.

Non..ce ne est pas le cas..il était passager

Eric Idle was the one who was better with words, puns, and lyrics. He wrote most of the lyrics used for Python show and films, and wrote sketches that involved fast paced dialogue, puns, or difficult dialogue (which he was a master of). He wasn't the funniest one or the most talented performer (except musically, he was the best singer).

Superb acting and comic timing. I've seen this skit a dozen times and every time, the punch-line hits me out of nowhere.

Palin. All-day

no that's chapman

Hahahaha

Brilliant

Well played, sir.

Let us play rugby!

Felix Catora By hovercraft full of eels, duh.

He bounced silly

There is a lift

He probably found another job. London is full of restaurants and waiters are much sought after.