History Fridge / MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail

* The French Knight tells Arthur that they already have a Grail. Its passed off as a joke, but the French reappear at the end in castle Aaarrrgh, so they actually did have the Grail the whole time. Perhaps they are laughing at Arthur's determined quest for something that was easy to find.

* When Sir Robin avoids a fight with the Three Headed Knight, the minstrels incorporate his cowardice into his song. Why? It’s not cowardly to avoid a fight. Until you realise how he did so. The Three Headed Knight was so busy arguing with himself, Sir Robin could have just rode past without him noticing. But Sir Robin didn’t. He rode back the other way.
* The historian is killed by a knight who rode past on horseback— a real, live horse. One of the consistent things about Arthur and his knights is that they don’t ''have'' real horses, therefore they couldn’t have killed him. However, that raises the question, who set them up?
* The French knight threatening to "Fart in [Arthur's] general direction" could easily be a reference to how the French word for fart ("Pétar") became the basis the explosive known as the petard; in other words, its a crude way of saying "We will throw explosives at you".

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4_9kDO3q0w&feature=related The Coconut Scene.]] [[UrExample The Python's accurately predicted the basic premise of every single Internet Fight over plot holes in media.]] You have Guard #1 who argues one side of the argument which makes the issue seem bigger than it really is. Guard #2 who argues the other side using one or two plausible in-verse explanations for the plot hole. And Arthur, who doesn't give a darn either way and wants to discuss something else with more significance.

* The historian is killed by a knight who rode past on horseback— a real, live horse. One of the consistent things about Arthur and his knights is that they don’t ''have'' real horses, therefore they couldn’t have killed him. However, that begs the question, who set them up?

* The historian is killed by a knight who rode past on horseback— a real, live horse. One of the consistent things about Arthur and his knights is that they don’t ''have'' real horses, therefore they couldn’t have killed him. However, that begs the question, who set them up?

* After the [[TheReveal big reveal]] of Camelot, note the one person who notes that 'It's only a model' - Patsy played by Creator/TerryGilliam. Of course he knows it's a model, he directed the film. The irony being that it's not actually a model. It's a real castle! ('''shh!''')

* It may take some time to make the connection between the three minutes of blackness that ends the movie and the ''sacking of the credits staff at the beginning of the film.''

* "What is the capital of Assyria?" isn't just obscure, it's a trick question. Assyria had multiple capitals over its history, and was no longer a country by the time this is presumably set. The region formerly known as Assyria was part of the Abbasid Caliphate, whose capital was Cairo. You'd presumably have to treat it like the swallow question (unless Assyria still exists in the 10th century in this film, which given it's such an AnachronismStew anyway, there's no reason it shouldn't).

* "What is the capital of Assyria?" isn't just obscure, it's a trick question. Assyria had multiple capitals over its history, and since it was no longer a country by the time this is presumably set, any answer given would be wrong unless you treated it like the swallow question.

* The historian is killed by a knight who rode past on horseback— a real, live horse. One of the consistent things about Arthur and his knights is that they don’t have real horses, therefore they couldn’t have killed him. However, that begs the question, who set them up?

* When Sir Robin avoids a fight with the Three Headed Knight, the minstrels incorporate his cowardice into his song. Why? It’s not cowardly to avoid a fight. Until you realise how he did so. The Three Headed Knight was so busy arguing with himself, Sir Robin could have just rode past without him noticing. But Sir Robin didn’t. He rode back the other way.

* When Sir Robin avoids a fight with the Three Headed Knight, the minstrels incorporate his cowardice into his song. Why? It’s not cowardly to avoid a fight. Until you realise how he did so. The Three Headed Knight was so busy arguing with himself, Sir Robin could have just rode past without him noticing. But Sir Robin didn’t. He rode back the other way.
* Why did the Swamp King's fourth castle stay up while the previous three sank? Because he keeps building them ''in the exact same spot'' and if you looked in the swamp muck underneath the current castle, you would find a perfect stack of three castles one of top of another (the third one scorched and sideways) reaching to the firm bottom of the swamp and providing a somewhat stable foundation for the fourth castle to stand up.

* When Sir Robin avoids a fight with the Three Headed Knight, the minstrels incorporate his cowardice into his song. Why? It’s not cowardly to avoid a fight. Until you realise how he did so. The Three Headed Knight was so busy arguing with himself, Sir Robin could have just rode past without him noticing. But Sir Robin didn’t. He rode back the other way.

* When Sir Robin avoids a fight with the Three Headed Knight, the minstrels incorporate his cowardice into his song. Why? It’s not cowardly to avoid a fight. Until you realise how he did so. The Three Headed Knight was so busy arguing with himself, Sir Robin could have just rode past him without him noticing. But Sir Robin didn’t. He rode back the other way.

* The Knights Who Say "Ni!" change their name. You could therefore refer to them as The Knights who say Ikki-ikki-ikki-p'TENG-zoop-BOING-nawumbbawobba (Née Ni).

** And the impetus for them all to yell "Get on with it" is Dingo [[BreakingTheFourthWall turning to the camera]] and asking if the scene should've been cut. In the VHS releases, that part of the scene ''did'' get cut.

** "I bet you're gay!" "I'm not!" Also takes on a different meaning, seeing as how some Athurian scholars have interpreted the relationship between Lancelot and Galahad as a homosexual one.

** And the fourth character who yells "Get on with it" is God, who sent these yahoos on their quest and is getting impatient to find out if they succeed.

* Three of the four instances of people yelling "get on with it" (the Old Man from Scene 24, Tim the Enchanter, and Arthur's army) are characters introduced later in the film. They're annoyed at the current scene dragging out because it means they have to wait longer for their parts! The Old Man literally appears in the ''very next scene'' so he's probably really anxious to get started. This is also why the army gets to yell it a second time- they don't appear until the very end so they're getting fed up with the narrator seemingly causing ''another'' tangent that's making them wait longer than they already have to.

* Wait, what was the name of that method they used to use to test if women were witches? Oh yeah, that's right. ''Ducking.''cast

** Also, what's one of the only ''real'' animals that get tossed from the castle ramparts by the French? The ''same duck''. As in, either the production was sufficiently cash-strapped that they made sure to use the one duck they'd rented in multiple scenes, or they wanted it to ''look'' that cash-strapped in the spirit of StylisticSuck.

** It's also a creative license interpretation to how the Legend of King Arthur ended; he goes to a climatic final battle, and is ultimately killed in it. Here, he and every knight on the field were all arrested, ending the 'modern' parody of the legend.

* Take a look at the emblem on the Black Knight's armor. It's a [[FullBoarAction boar]]. The AnimalStereotype for boars is that they're [[SuicidalOverconfidence suicidally overconfident]] in combat. Indeed, boars in real life were known to impale themselves on the spears of their attackers just to get a chance to kill them. This aggressive and self-destructive behavior is a perfect fit for the Black Knight's character.