History YMMV / MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail

* WeirdAlEffect:
** It can be very hard to take Arthurian legend seriously after seeing this movie. There have also been reports of audiences bursting into laughter during violent sequences in movies like ''Film/{{Excalibur}}''.
** Quoting The Holy Grail has become such a tradition among ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' tabletop due to its close association with Medieval Fantasy, that most newcomers become well immersed in the film's jokes before they've even seen it, and are likely introduced to it through tabletop.
*** As shown [[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=673 here]].
*** As noted under SeinfeldIsUnfunny above, it's become ''so'' prevalent that many groups actively discourage quoting the film. Not only because ''everyone'' has already heard it, but because once one person starts in, it's inevitable that the ''entire group'' will soon recite ''the entire movie!''
** The humorous on-again, off-again RunningGag of characters shouting "''RUN AWAAAAY!!''" is well-known to fans of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', but younger fans aren't as likely to recognize it as being an homage to this film, where it's repeatedly yelled with the exact same inflection as Arthur and his knights flee from danger.

** The Hungarian dub had dialogue changes of its own, some that worked and some that didn't. Comedian an Python-expert Miklós Galla counted no less than 47 standout examples of these.
*** The dub reinterpreted the coconuts used throughout the movie as dried-out pumpkins or gourds. Since the Hungarian word for pumpkin (tök) is also slang for testicles, the gags about the "airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow" consequently became "airspeed velocity of a ball-less swallow."

*** The exchange between Galahad and Lancelot ("I bet you're gay." "No, I'm not!") was changed to Lancelot basically admitting he's gay by saying "Come, come... I'm nice and warm!" (warm is a synonym of gay in several languages, including Hungarain).

* {{Woolseyism}}: The Italian dub of the movie is an example of this backfiring. 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.

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

* ValuesDissonance: the fact that the temptresses of Castle Anthrax are described as being "between 16 and 19 and a half" can be a bit disconcerting to viewers from places where the age of consent is above 16, as it is in the UK - or places where people ''believe'' the age of consent is above 16, thanks to HollywoodProvincialism. Also, while Creator/CarolCleveland as Zoot & Dingo is clearly a case of DawsonCasting in action, the two girls who describe themselves as doctors appear to be played by actual teenagers - or at least, [[OlderThanTheyLook women who could pass as teenagers]] - making watching them come on to the thirty-something Michael Palin... uncomfortable.

** The sword duel between King Arthur and the Black Knight may have mirrored the lightsaber duel between [[Franchise/StarWars Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi]] in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. A rare ''Star Wars'' prediction from a film that came out way before the ''Star Wars'' franchise could begin.

* FountainOfMemes:
** One of the single most quoted works within "nerdy" circles. More or less every single line is a meme to some extent. Find them [[Memes/MontyPython here]].
** Then there's one of the earliest Website/YouTube [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVjkTEIoJc memes]].

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A staple of Monty Python humor.

** The sudden ending? While that was mostly because the Python's ran out of budget and patience, a few Arthurian Legends end with them suddenly being wiped out before they could actually find the Grail.

** The chant by the monks is from a real hymn - "Dies Irae" ("Day of Wrath" in Latin) is a poem of the era describing the Last Judgment, appropriate for a bunch of self-flagellating monks to focus upon. For simplicity's sake, the monks only chant the last two lines. It is still sometimes used at a requiem mass to this day.

** "What is the capital of Assyria" is a trick question. Assyria had ''Seven'' capitals over it's nearly 2000 year long history.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: WebVideo/RobAger theorizes that the "anachronisms" aren't actually anachronisms at all--they tell the audience point-blank the film is set in contemporary England, and that it's a sort-of SpiritualSuccessor to the "Upper Class Twit of the Year" sketch where a bunch of delusional, up-their-own-arse 1970s aristocrats, faced with the decline of the British class system, force all of England to abandon modernity and play along with their medieval LARP power fantasy to reclaim some of their old prestige and glory.

* SpecialEffectFailure: The rapid cutting featured during the attack of the Killer Rabbit doesn't ''quite'' hide the fact that the Rabbit itself is a hand puppet, but it's no great loss, [[NoFourthWall since this isn't the kind of film where immersion is terribly important]].

* AdaptationDisplacement: There are fans of the film who have no idea [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus there was a TV series before it]].

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: WebVideo/RobertAger theorizes that the "anachronisms" aren't actually anachronisms at all--they tell the audience point-blank the film is set in contemporary England, and that it's a sort-of SpiritualSuccessor to the "Upper Class Twit of the Year" sketch where a bunch of delusional, up-their-own-arse 1970s aristocrats, faced with the decline of the British class system, force all of England to abandon modernity and play along with their medieval LARP power fantasy to reclaim some of their old prestige and glory.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Creator/RobertAger theorizes that the "anachronisms" aren't actually anachronisms at all--they tell the audience point-blank the film is set in contemporary England, and that it's a sort-of SpiritualSuccessor to the "Upper Class Twit of the Year" sketch where a bunch of delusional, up-their-own-arse 1970s aristocrats, faced with the decline of the British class system, force all of England to abandon modernity and play along with their medieval LARP power fantasy to reclaim some of their old prestige and glory.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Creator/RobAger theorizes that the "anachronisms" aren't actually anachronisms at all--they tell the audience point-blank the film is set in contemporary England, and that it's a sort-of SpiritualSuccessor to the "Upper Class Twit of the Year" sketch where a bunch of delusional, up-their-own-arse 1970s aristocrats, faced with the decline of the British class system, force all of England to abandon modernity and play along with their medieval LARP power fantasy to reclaim some of their old prestige and glory.

* ValuesDissonance: the fact that the temptresses of Castle Anthrax are described as being "between 16 and 19 and a half" can be a bit disconcerting to viewers from places where the age of consent is above 16, as it is in the UK - or places where people ''believe'' the age of consent is above 16, thanks to SoCalization. Also, while Creator/CarolCleveland as Zoot & Dingo is clearly a case of DawsonCasting in action, the two girls who describe themselves as doctors appear to be played by actual teenagers - or at least, [[OlderThanTheyLook women who could pass as teenagers]] - making watching them come on to the thirty-something Michael Palin... uncomfortable.

* Sir Lancelot saving Sir Galahad from 'great peril' at Castle Anthrax could be a nod to the fact that in a lot of stories Lancelot was the father of Galahad. Which makes changes the ending of the scene to a father dragging his son out of a WildTeenParty.

** The antics of the Black Knight, staking out a little bridge and attacking anybody who tried to pass by, are based on a real practice called the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pas_d%27armes pas d'armes]]''. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes, knights back then were a little too enthusiastic sometimes.]]

** The "Camelot" song. 'Tis a silly place indeed.

* {{Adorkable}}: Michael Palin plays Galahad as a preppy UpperClassTwit, but you can't deny he has a certain awkward charm. The ladies of Castle Anthrax certainly think so!

*** The humorous on-again, off-again RunningGag of characters shouting "''RUN AWAAAAY!!''" is well-known to fans of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', but younger fans aren't as likely to recognize it as being an homage to this film, where it's repeatedly yelled with the exact same inflection as Arthur and his knights flee from danger.

*** The humorous on-again, off-again RunningGag of characters shouting "''RUN AWAAAAY!!''" is well-known to fans of WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy, but younger fans aren't as likely to recognize it as being an homage to this film, where it's repeatedly yelled with the exact same inflection as Arthur and his knights flee from danger.