The long pause when the peasants can't figure out Sir Bedevere's question. You can see Eric Idle bite his scythe to keep from laughing. The more you watch (do look up Flying Circus 👍) the more you will notice the Pythons 'corpsing' (trying not to laugh) in scenes.

Sorry to be a broken record Jen, but "Life of Brian " is a must! Please consider!

they didnt kill the old guy. The old guy was killed by someone on a horse, they dont have any horses

A great reaction, Jen, I knew that you'd appreciate the humour, not everyone gets it the first time around. My favourite French taunt is, "I fart in your general direction", my favourite scene is 'The Black Knight' "It's just a flesh wound". 😅😂

If Monty Python and the holy Grail was great, try, Monty python the meaning of life. It’s where a fat guy goes boom.

Totally!!! 🐦🥥

No It Isn't !!!

and now you see the repression inherent in the system

@@jenmurrayxoomeone’s already mentioned it, but I have to just in case since you said you liked it and are watching Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys soon. A short fun fact,not only did he direct half of the film with the other Terry, Terry Jones, like the tv show the Python’s did, he also provided and made the animation sequences.

Also hard to edit because the audio from many of the sketches was made into an album(s?) and it'll throw up copyright blocks like popular music will in a soundtrack.

Also, if you look closely, the killer had different heraldry than the others. A sort of light blue figure possibly a lion rampant, but it passes too quickly to get a good look at.

They were framed. Didn't the shrubbery guy have a horse?

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I like that it could mean that he either recuperated or has better false claims and the "wha" before the quote

Oh good to know 😂👍

Also hamsters have lots of offspring so he was calling Arthur's mother a Ho.

@@jenmurrayxo Not true, sadly. It's just typical Monty Python silliness, like "empty-headed animal food trough wiper", "illegitimate-faced bugger folk", "wiper of other people's bottoms", etc.

​@@ftumschk Monty Python silliness; true. Not a real insult and only made up by them: possibly false. In fact, elderberries were used in the middle ages to make "poor man's wine", as they were more readily accessible than grapes in Britain. After looking through about 2 dozen websites about this phrase, I could not find any verified entimological evidence, however I did find reference to the origins of elderberry wine on a gardening website which would imply that it was a peasant drink and provided a cheap drunk. "I fart in your general direction", yelled from atop a castle wall, has a direct historical origin related to a specific incident after the Norman conquest, which is far too long for me to explain here but is not hard to look up.

On top of the fact that people in the Middle Ages were always middle-aged...

It's the perfect combination of sketch comedy and complete narrative. Has anything else combined those two types of structure as well as this has?

And Connie Booth's "It's a fair cop" 😂

I feel like I'd be that guy in this movie 😂

I always thought that guard looked like Conan O'Brien

I can’t blame him for voicing some protest. Running up, and stabbing the other guard was a bit uncalled for.

@@scouseofhorror104 It wasn’t until years after my first watch that I learned that “It’s a fair cop” means “Okay, you caught me.” Completely changed the whole scene.

Lol at taunting

I have a photo of my friends standing guard at the castle gate, waiting for Lancelot to charge

They even have a pair of coconut husk halves you can rent to approach the castle properly...

Agreed! and it is a HEIST movie!

@@randy7831 Randy! Don't say the word " heist " to loudly around Jen. She goes bananas 🍌

@@e.d.2096 don't I know it! 😂

Great shout! Comedy heist classic. 🐠

Yes a fish called Wanda. I've not seen a reaction to that one yet by anyone

And Miracles! Don't forget the Miracles!

"Do you have any cheese at all?"

@@ggrarl "Now, i'm going to ask you that once more..."

Soooo good ☺️👍🐦🥥

So, in other words, a proper upbringing!

Agreed. The fear in her eyes when saying "we have no shrubberies here" is great acting.

Bee Duffell - sadly she died before the film was released.

Bee Duffell, also with prominent roles in Fahrenheit 451 (1966) and Quatermass and the Pit (1967).

“Do you know where we can find a shrubbery?” “Who sent you?!”

Adam adding your middle name Le-Roi, was that for my benefit?

I have great friend in Rome called

@@jwn411 Yes, Jen, would definitely find that bit funny. 😁

@@e.d.2096 No, I did it ages ago, Eric, about six months, it's looked like that to me since I changed it, has it only just started showing up recently?

You are so lucky! I hope you saved those coconuts! 🌴 🥥 🐎

Brilliant!

r/thathappened Seems unlikely that a theater would hand you stuff that makes a bunch of noise. Not every viewer would want that.

And I thought 3D movies were great.

True, but at least a "The End" title card over the last shot or fade out, was a fairly standard thing. This one just stops. It's great.

It's still banned from the cinema in my town apparently (Newbury, Berkshire UK) They've never got round to lifting the ban imposed when the film came out here !

The decision for having coconut-shell clopping serfs instead of horses was decided at an early stage simply because it was silly, not for budgetary reasons. (The Pythons were hugely influenced by The Goon Show on radio, where clopping coconut shells featured frequently.) Besides, few, if any, of the Pythons could ride horses, and it would have been more expensive to hire actors/extras to play the horses than to have real ones. Not only that, but coconut jokes run throughout the film, and the "Concord" scene would only have worked if Eric Idle was playing the "horse".

It also makes it funnier that the one horse they did spring for is part a brick joke that ends the movie.

@@LordVolkov Exactly. The Pythons were into creating the funniest, silliest jokes they could, and men clopping coconut shells together meets that description perfectly. It was so clearly a deliberate choice, not for budget reasons, but simply because it looks ridiculous and it's as funny as hell.

@@ftumschk, literally every member of Monty Python, as well as members of the crew, have said that it was because of budgetary reasons for them not having horses, and that they had to come up with something else.

@@sithlordkaeyl21 Actors love nothing more than regurgitating an entertaining anecdote, even if they're not true. The fact is that the clopping coconut "horses" were in the earliest versions of script, long before the budget was decided. Furthermore, references to coconuts (and/or swallows) run all the way through the film, and there are scenes requiring one or other of the knights to talk to their "horses" and for the "horse" to talk back. There is NO WAY that those scenes were last-minute additions, as they're so intrinsic to the script, and take up many minutes of screen-time. As for "literally" every member of the Pythons saying otherwise, Terry Jones, who was "literally" the director and co-scriptwriter, said NOTHING about ditching the idea of having real horses due to budgetary, or any other, constraints. In the official "biography" of the Pythons ("Monty Python Speaks"), Jones said quite clearly, that Michael Palin came up with the coconuts idea in an early brainstorming session.

A good point. It never occurred to me and I've seen the film many times .Arthur was innocent .He must be freed immediately .

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@@jenmurrayxo The ending is a literal "cop out".

And now for something completely different.

@@mikejankowski6321 Yes. Of course, now that you say that, I am pining for the fjords.

@@mikejankowski6321 "A man with three buttocks." "We did that already." "A man with nine legs." "He's run off." "Oh, bloody hell...a Scotsman on a horse!"

... And now, On the Mouse Organ, "The Bells of St. Mary's".....

And now, a man with a tape recorder up his brother's nose...

I'm so glad! Thanks Eric! ☺️👍🐦🥥

@@jenmurrayxo Jen, " Life Of Brian " is an absolute must! IMO even funnier than this film!

Hi Eric, I agree with you, 'The Life of Brian' is a must do for Jen to react to.

Agreed, "Life of Brian" is a must. Great reaction Jen!

@@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis. Hi Adam, I'm sorry I was busy with something else. I am so happy that Jen is reacting to Monty Python! Quick question, have you ever met any of the troupe?

Yes, I'd definitely recommend watching them in the order they were made.

Agree with your Dream Trilogy suggestion ☝️👏

I liked going in not knowing anything, it was a shock to my senses lol 😆

@@jenmurrayxo That is the correct way to absorb any art form. The black-slate mind is best. Most artists make their creations for a brand new audience rather than the fan. Just as the church is for the sinner, not the saint...

@Runaway Mindtrain That may be one school of thought, but not the only one. When this movie came out, almost anyone likely to see it would have been familiar with the show. It was incredibly popular with the British public and the vast majority of college age Americans. There's a reason nearly every English dictionary has an entry for Pythonesque. Saying you should go into any movie completely blind seems like a blanket policy rife with holes. Are you saying it's fine to watch Spaceballs without having ever seen Star Wars? Or watch Avengers: Endgame without seeing any other MCU film? Sure, the creators try to make sure you will enjoy it without context, but how much better are they when you have the proper frame of reference. I've seen many youtubers and friends watch Holy Grail that get so hung up trying to understand the style that they miss all the humor. I'm glad Jen didn't have a problem, but that's not always the case.

@@jenmurrayxo I'm glad you enjoyed it. But I'm pretty sure you would also have enjoyed it if you'd seen it after seeing The Fish-Slapping Dance. 😉

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Oh that's cool!

It's Castle Stalker in Scotland.

@@jerryward3311 Doune Castle, actually. Castle Stalker filled in for Castle Aargh at the end of the film, but most of the rest of it, if it featured a castle, was at Doune.

@Steven Sauer oh yeah, you're right. I love that the scenes of the French from the top of the battlements was just a short wall they shot behind because there was no walkway on the real castle.

Nope. We nurses and anesthesia assistants quote it ad nauseum, too.