If Mr. Smoke-too-much has trouble saying the letter 'C', then how come he successfully pronounces it twice (not counting instances when it's next to a K) before Bounder of Adventure finds a suitable solution?
Smoke-too-much: My name's Smoke-too-much, Mr. Smoke-too-much.
Bounder: Well, you'd better cut down a little, then!
Smoke-too-much: ...pardon?
Bounder: You'd better cut down a little, then.
Smoke-too-much: Oh, I see; Smoke-too-much, so I better cut down a little, then.
Then, later, and perhaps the most face-palming of all...
Smoke-too-much: I'm afraid I can't pronounce the letter 'B'.
All of this falls under Rule of Funny. The Pythons were likely aware of the irony.
Duh.
He was spelling them with a K.
Who filled his hovercraft with eels?
Same person who infected him. Maybe Sir William?
Considering that the problem was resolved by giving him a matchbook, it's possible that they accumulated over time as his match supply ran low.
What do they mean by the "battle of Pearl Harbor"? Do they mean the attack on Pearl Harbor? 'Cause it wasn't really much of a battle as, well, a surprise attack. Do British people call all attacks battles? Or were the Pythons just woefully ignorant of American military terminology?
The attack lasted two hours, came in two waves, and resulted in several dozen Japanese people being shot down. It wasn't a particularly long or two-sided battle, but it was a battle. Nothing like a bunch of old ladies having a hand-to-hand skirmish in a mud puddle, but that was exactly the joke.
It's fairly clear from the series - by "the battle of Pearl Harbor", they meant "the first heart transplant".
Were the cartoons supposed to be creepy? To this day I cannot watch them. The'y're not funny in the slightest to me.
Some of them were extremely funny, but yes, there was a certain amount of Nightmare Fuel, such as the red-eyed woman who keeps saying, "Harold? Harold?" (Though even that cartoon was pretty funny nonetheless)
Well, it's Terry Gilliam's work, so it's a safe bet that they were just supposed to be surreal. Tip: if cartoons scare you, don't watch any of his films. Never ever.
Pre-python, it was always assumed that audiences couldn't handle thirty minutes of wall to wall comedy and so there'd be breaks for 'variety' entertainment - generally a middle of the road singer. It's possible to look at Gilliam's cartoons as fulfilling exactly the same purpose - only more surreally.
The first two items on the menu at the Viking-infested diner were "egg and bacon" and "egg, sausage and bacon". Why didn't our spamophobe just order one of those?
They were off.
Why are people asking questions about this series? I thought almost exclusively, the whole idea of the series was that it made very little sense at all (but was hilarious nonetheless)?
Because they believe this is the right place for an argument?
No it isn't.
Oh, yes it is!
Because people by nature seek for explanations of the unexplained?
