History YMMV / MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Live Organ Transplants, Mr. Creosote, "Every Sperm is Sacred," etc...

** The aforementioned American business executives claim that the meaning of life is dictated by the fact that "Matter is Energy" and "[[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 People are not wearing enough hats]]."
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kMdNkAcQx8 And so, inevitably...]]

** The fish in the film strongly resemble the [[UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast Dreamcast]]'s ''VideoGame/{{Seaman}}''.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "Every Sperm Is Sacred" presents opposition to contraception as a uniquely Catholic position, contrasting them with Protestants who were more lenient on the issue. In the years since the film released, a large number of Protestants, chiefly those of evangelical denominations, would also come to condemn contraception and unite with Catholics in their vocally opposition towards it.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "Every Sperm Is Sacred" primarily targets Catholics for their opposition to contraception, contrasting them with Protestants who were more lenient on the issue. In the years since the film released, evangelical Protestants would adopt similar hardline positions against contraception, and become extremely vocal about it.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "Every Sperm Is Sacred" primarily targets Catholics for their opposition to contraception, contrasting them with Protestants who were more lenient on the issue. In the years since the film released, evangelical Protestants would adopt similar hardline positions against contraception similar to those of Catholics, and become extremely vocal about it.

** One of the dinner guests who get taken away by Death is [[Series/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981 Simon Jones]]. This is especially uncanny given that the afterlife appears to be some kind of [[Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse restaurant]]. And humourously, he plays the husband of Terry [[NamesTheSame Jones]].

** Creator/MattFrewer as a CorruptCorporateExecutive.

** One of the dinner guests who get taken away by Death is [[Series/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy Simon Jones]]. This is especially uncanny given that the afterlife appears to be some kind of [[Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse restaurant]]. And humourously, he plays the husband of Terry [[NamesTheSame Jones]].

* AcceptableTargets:
** Lampshaded with the Zulu war segment. The deaths of dozens of soldiers is treated less seriously than a high-ranking officer losing a leg.
** A soldier also notes the double standard regarding killing people:
-->"Here is better than home, eh, sir? I mean, at home if you kill someone they arrest you, here they'll give you a gun and show you what to do, sir. I mean, I killed fifteen of those buggers. Now, at home they'd hang me, here they'll give me a fucking medal, sir."

** Lampshaded with the Zulu war segment. The deaths of dozens of soldiers is treated more seriously than a high-ranking officer losing a leg.

** Harder to notice, but [[{{Series/Frasier}} Daphne]] is a dancer in the "Christmas in Heaven" and "Every Sperm is Sacred" numbers.
** Series/MaxHeadroom as a CorruptCorporateExecutive.
** The headmaster's wife in the school sketch, with whom he has sex in front of the class, is [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Magenta]].

* CrazyAwesome: The Crimson Permanent Assurance

* FridgeBrilliance: In "The Miracle of Birth", Mr. Moore asks to enter the delivery room and see his wife only for one of the doctors to brush him off with, "I'm sorry, but only people involved may enter here." [[YourCheatingHeart Perhaps one of the doctors is the father of the baby]].

** Mr. Creosote serves as this both within and without the film. With the bath tubs of dairy-based vomit FX going off by day three or so of shooting, he even began to affect the filmmakers themselves... In fact, if you look closely after he [[spoiler:explodes]], you can see several extras [[EnforcedMethodActing throwing up]] as they leave. It was [[EveryoneHasStandards the only scene to have ever disturbed]] Creator/QuentinTarantino with its violence and grossness.

** Mr. Creosote serves as this both within and without the film. With the bath tubs of dairy based vomit FX going off by day three or so of shooting, he even began to affect the filmmakers themselves... In fact, if you look closely after he [[spoiler:explodes]], you can see several extras [[EnforcedMethodActing throwing up]] as they leave. It was [[EveryoneHasStandards the only scene to have ever disturbed]] Creator/QuentinTarantino with its violence and grossness.

* HarsherInHindsight: During the Death segment, Creator/GrahamChapman answers the door for Death. He was the first Python to die. And to keep you from brushing that off as just a coincidence, 31 years after his death in 1989, he was the ''only'' Python to have died until Terry Jones passed away as well in 2020.

** Some contemporary viewers joke that this film predicted the rise of so-called "[[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad SJW's]]."
*** A man being sentenced to death for making sexist jokes, and executed by being hounded to death by naked women brings to mind a story about a man nearly being lynched because he flashed a Slut Walk.
*** At the end of ''Birth part 1'', the mother asks "Is it a boy or girl?" and the obstercian responds that it's too early to start enforcing gender roles.

* HarsherInHindsight: During the Death segment, Creator/GrahamChapman answers the door for Death. He was the first Python to die. And to keep you from brushing that off as just a coincidence, 30 years after his death in 1989 he's still the ''only'' Python to have died.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: During the rugby game, the sex education teacher sticks out his leg from the sidelines and trips a boy carrying the ball. In 2010, New York Jets coach Sal Alosi was fired for tripping a Miami Dolphins player during a punt.

* MemeticMutation: "It's a Mr. Death or something, he's come about the reaping?"

** Mr. Creosote serves as this both within and without the film. With the bath tubs of dairy based vomit FX going off by day three or so of shooting, he even began to affect the filmmakers themselves... In fact, if you look closely after he [[spoiler:explodes]], you can see several extras [[EnforcedMethodActing throwing up]] as they leave. It was the only scene to have ever disturbed Creator/QuentinTarantino with it's violence and grossness.