History YMMV / MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail

* BilingualBonus: Subverted for the Latin chanting. One might expect a comedy troupe to hide a joke there, but the monks are chanting "Pious Lord Jesus, give them rest." A perfectly reasonable and realistic thing for monks to chant under the circumstances.
** Possibly double-subverted: Another translation of the phrase would be "Jesus Christ, make it stop" or "Jesus Christ, give us a break!" Possibly because they keep slapping themselves with the tablets.

* {{Woolseyism}}: The Italian dub of the movie is a big one. As the original movie's humour was considered "too weird" for Italian audiences, almost every dialogue was rewritten with new jokes, making half of the movie's humour being either sex jokes or political satire about taxes (for example, half of the Black Knight's dialogue was replaced with him making homophobic remarks towards Arthur, Tim the wizard says he's training to become a fiscalist and the Knights who say Ni became the Knights who say [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck You]]). Because of this, the Italian dub of the movie is deeply hated by fans. To add salt to the wound, in the early 2000 all the ''Monty Python'' movies were redubbed with more faithful dialogues... except for ''The Holy Grail'', the only one that seriously needed a redub.

** The Black Knight getting dismembered. John Cleese admitted as much in his commentary track. He explained that some viewers in America found the sequence horrifying because of [[TooSoon Vietnam War footage on the news]]; however, he noted that they began to laugh when BK's first leg got hacked off and he was still raring to go.

** Possibly double-subverted: Another translation of the phrase would be "Jesus Christ, make it stop." Possibly because they keep slapping themselves with the tablets.

** Creator/MichaelPalin became a Knight for real in 2018.

** The fight between King Arthur and the Black Knight becomes even funnier after the release of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', due to [[spoiler: Anakin]] being wounded in nearly the exact same way, and being covered in black armor afterwards.

** Arthur referring to the forest knights as the "Knights Who Until Recently Said Ni" will probably make a lot of people think of (The Artist Formerly Known As) Music/{{Prince}}.
** ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'' features a Merlin who seems remarkably similar to Tim the Enchanter.

* EarWorm:
** The drawbar organ music during the "intermission" and at the end.
** "Pie Iesu Domine, dona eis requiem" has two catchy tunes with the same words.

** Terry Jones, an actual historian, often threw in stuff that seems like it'd be a joke. For instance, Dennis the Peasant's description of their system of government is pretty accurate to how some actual medieval communities functioned (though the "anarcho-syndicalist commune" is indeed anachronistic), and the film is one of the few Arthurian adaptations to correctly have Arthur's men wearing mail armor rather than the more recent plate armor.

* DiscreditedMeme: The constant use of quotations from it has caused it to become popular to mock people for quoting it so much. They even provide the page image.

* DiscreditedMeme: The constant use of quotations from it has caused it to become popular to mock people for quoting it so much.

* TheWeirdAlEffect:

** The opening credits' moose dialogue at the bottom.

** Terry Gilliam, an actual historian, often threw in stuff that seems like it'd be a joke. For instance, Dennis the Peasant's description of their system of government is pretty accurate to how some actual medieval communities functioned (though the "anarcho-syndicalist commune" is indeed anachronistic), and the film is one of the few Arthurian adaptations to correctly have Arthur's men wearing mail armor rather than the more recent plate armor.

** As he's being "saved" from the beautiful women of Castle Anthrax, Galahad mutters that he thinks Lancelot is Gay, which Lancelot quickly denies. In [[Theater/{{Spamalot}} the musical adaptation]], he has an entire musical number dedicated to his realization that he is.

** The Black Knight and Lancelot are played by the same person (Creator/JohnCleese). And then, in ''LightNovel/FateZero''... [[spoiler:Lancelot IS Black Knight/Berserker.]]

** If the Black Knight scene wasn't funny enough, John Cleese would later land the role of [[Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Nearly Headless Nick]].

* FriendlyFandoms: A lot of people who are in the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} fandom watch this film. Jokes involving Saber and this film are quite common.

* AwesomeMusic:

** Then there's one of the earliest YouTube [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVjkTEIoJc memes]].

** It has been [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut#Origin.2C_domestication.2C_and_dispersal suggested with complete seriousness]] that coconuts really did migrate naturally. The claim is heavily disputed, but just being ''plausible'' is hilarious even if it's not true.