Lol. Tins of cat food.

They were a bad bunch!

There's no laughs because these parts weren't filmed before a live audience, they were originally filmed as inserts for the episode and would have been shown to the audience during the taping of the show proper.

@@laservampire This doesn't look like it was filmed as an insert, it looks more like it was taped at the studio.

@@jasobres No, these were definitely from pre-filmed (in the studio, on videotape) inserts which is the only reason they survive (similar to the french "Ovine Aviation" outtakes what Monty Python Museum channel used to have uploaded). Because Hell's Grannies was mostly an outdoor (16mm filmed) sketch, they would have shown it to the studio audience during the studio taping of the rest of the show so as to record their laughter and reactions. It would have been very inconvenient to have the actors in costume and sets built just for a 40 second studio cutaway in the middle of showing the pre-filmed Hell's Grannies sketch to the audience.

jasobres They hardly used any semprini

@@isaackim7675 OUT

Python without a laugh track is dire.

@@darthkek1953 hi. Not really - this was not funny, and I understand folk thinking the same of a proportion of their stuff. Not all good, not all bad. Therefore, we can argue about the relative proportions. I will stop there, for fear of turning into 'Mr Logic', a rather good character within the "Viz" magazine here in the UK, where, even today, wildebeeste only rarely are seen sweeping - majestically - to Torquay's distant horizon :)

@@tim40gabby25 Glad to know it's still in publication. Here in San Francisco, USA, I haven't found anyone carrying it in stock for ten years or so.

Ikr, reality is stranger than fiction

Well said

While Gilliam's cartoons and some remote sequences outside the studio were shot on 16mm film, the bulk of MPFC is on video, so it's stuck in SD. I read somewhere they've rescanned Terry Gilliams cartoon sequences and they look better.

@@Tmanaz480 Actually most indoor scenes were recorded on video but a lot of the outdoor scenes were filmed on chemical film. That's the way a lot of British TV series were done at the time, probably because expensive video equipment existed in studios but not in portable form. This created a surreal experience, with the 50fps soap opera effect in some scenes but not in others. Also the lighting was noticeably different -- noticeable even to me as a kid, watching a lot of British series with my grandmother at the time. So not just Gilliam's animations might still exist somewhere at a higher resolution.

@@OolTube02 they even made fun of this in the Society for Putting Things on top of Other Things sketch. "We're surrounded by film!"

In the latest blu ray release they’ve restored the whole series, all the film bits and Gilliam’s animations have been re-scanned and cleaned up I believe

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Never recorded. John Cleese point blank refused to do it.

@@anonUK i mightve been filmed tho...we see Palin emerging from wine barrels

@@anonUK Recorded, but now lost.

or maybe an oxymoron? if unseen it's not rare, it's non existent!

Yes - that's why I love it so much

OMG! A job for the brigadier!

Hell's Grannies was a sketch about cute little old ladies who turn to crime. It was a parody of news stories about young men who were criminals. This clip shows things that little old ladies might carry, repurposed as weapons. I don't understand the handbag part at the end.

@@someotherwag . Thanks for that. (Leave it to the Pythons for twist things around in way too sophisticated ways.) Thinks again.

@@someotherwag well, the shopping bag with cans was used as a weapon, so I assume handbags were banned too

@@stephenpriest2766 . Thanks I was searching for more Pytons and found some really funny stuff. Several clips of (the same) CHeese Sketch and some parts of movies. The one where the knight is try to get the villagers to use logic to deduce the woman is a witch., Man, shure beats the current day lame beat driven dialogues on TV.

@@stephenpriest2766 . Funny that you should bring up the Holy Grail... I just found the full movie... You seem to be quite the Python Connoisseur. +++ to that! Say, I was wondering... During the beginning credits thre are a few starts and stops with various medic passages. At around 2:20 into the credit roll there is some orchestral music that is so wonderful... I was wondering if you know where that passage comes from? TIA

I'm surprised that PBS stations still allow Fawlty Towers on the air these days. Wokeness has killed comedy.

@@sapinva Faulty Towers is great, really not politically incorrect. Monty Python, on the other hand, was the definition of "political incorrectness". And that is why its being targeted. Love the stuff. May it live forever on youtube!

2 words... hogan's hero's i'd guess the {3 letter word for extremely happy} cop scene got it cut.

Are you sure about that? Because they used that accent in plenty of other sketches and they weren't censored.

No way, what about Hitler and the Nazis staying at the hotel in Minehead?

Not much besides the fact that handbags are weapons.

+gietek Indeed. Wasn't it a Mrs Ada Unsworth from 47A, William Gladstone Terrace, Burton-on-Trent who once menacingly decried: *"From Hell's dentures, I'll stab at thee!"* before twatting Capt JT Kirk with her handbag, while casually chewing on a mint imperial.

@LeftTenantSith JediPirateNinja Wait, so you mean..... ........with a melon?!

@@Kris.G Pre-dates Mrs. Thatcher!

I didn't get it the first time. "you can borrow it for the night ..." the other cop answers, not the detainee.

you're a total snowflake and everyone wrong with todays society

Maybe you could send an indignant handwritten letter to the BBC.

Graham seemed to get along

Dear Sir, I wish to complain most strongly about the sketch snippet I saw recently on KZfaq. I am a gay transvestite, and I am only occasionally stereotypically effeminate! Yours faithfully, Brigadier Proudfoot-Smythe (Mrs.)

@@mikekole Time I replied to something. You make a very good point, unlike the others. Graham was openly gay, and participated in at least one transvestite sketch, where he played an outrageous government Minister in a pink chiffon dress. I can only think that he was unusually tolerant, but it's unreasonable to ask everyone to be like him. Suppose I called all the other commenters here knuckle-draggers, would they think it funny? Two other points. By transvestite, I wasn't referring to the typical Monty Python member dressed up as a woman, with no reference to cross-dressing - that was just their schtick. I meant sketches like the Lumberjack song. And, secondly, transvestites are rarely gay, strange as it may seem.