History YMMV / MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife

** 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.

* HarsherInHindsight: During the Death segment, Creator/GrahamChapman answers the door for Death. He was the first Python to die.

* NightmareFuel:
** The UncannyValley characters in the "Find The Fish" segment.
** The Live Organ Transplants scene. And the scene with Death. And Mr. Creosote. It's that kind of movie.

%%* CrazyAwesome: The Crimson Permanent Assurance

* CrazyAwesome: The Crimson Permanent Assurance

* ProtectionFromEditors: ''The Crimson Permanent Assurance'' was filmed as if it were a completely separate project. Creator/TerryGilliam got his own soundstage, crew and cast. This segment continued to expand because, according to Gilliam, nobody told him to stop.

** So there were a lot of Music/MenWithoutHats

** Some contemporary viewers joke that this film predicted the rise of so-called "[[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad SJW's.]]"
*** A man being sentanced 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.

** 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.

** The headmaster's wife in the school sketch, with whom he has sex in front of the class, is [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Magenta]]

** Some contemporary viewers joke that this film predicted the rise of [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad SJW's.]]

* {{Narm}}: The Pythons' American accents are all pretty bad.

** Nowadays, people will say that Graham Chapman wearing the corset, mask and white wig in "Find the Fish" reminds them of Music/LadyGaga.
** Some contemporary viewers joke that this film predicted the rise of [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad SJW's.]]
*** A man being sentanced 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.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Again, the "Find the Fish" scene. If you think that can't happen in a Monty Python sketch film, watch the scene and think again. Justified in that, [[WordOfGod according to Terry Gilliam,]] it's supposed to represent weird dreams in general.

* HarsherInHindsight:
** During the Death segment, Creator/GrahamChapman answers the door for Death. Graham Chapman was the first Python to die.

* RetroactiveRecognition
** The teacher's wife in the sex education scene? That's Patricia Quinn, better known as Magenta from ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''. Quinn got the part due to the fact that Michael White, who produced ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', also produced ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' as well. [[{{Fanservice}} Many RHPS fans were pleased]].

** Also harder to notice, but Creator/MichaelCaine is a British soldier injured in the Zulu war scene.

** Some contemporary viewers joke that this film predicted the rise of SJW's.

* {{Squick}}:
** The "Live Organ Transplants" scene.
** The "Mr. Creosote" scene.

** Nowadays, people will say that Graham Chapman wearing the corset and white wig in "Find the Fish" reminds them of Music/LadyGaga.

** During the Death segment, Graham Chapman answers the door for Death. Graham Chapman was the first Python to die.

* TearJerker:
** The final shot of the film, arguably: [[spoiler: Michael Palin (in drag, of course) has just finished up a rambling and bizarre speech about film censorship, when the Flying Circus theme music begins to play, loud and clear. The film suddenly cuts to the beginning of a Flying Circus episode playing on a TV set, pulling away from the camera to reveal that it's floating around in space. It then flies off into space, and the end credits roll. An appropriate way to end Monty Python itself, and more than a little moving if you're a big Python fan.]]
** Seeing Graham Chapman in the Colonel getup one last time.
** The soldiers preparing a party for their commanding officer, all the while getting shot at.
** The Catholic children all being marched out of their home, tearfully singing "Every Sperm is Sacred". Then you see them in heaven. That's right. Their devout Catholic father ''sent them to their graves'', all because he wouldn't wear a condom or get a vasectomy.

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

** 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 actually see several extras actually throwing up as they leave.