History ReferencedBy / MontyPython

* The UsefulNotes/{{Python}} UsefulNotes/{{programming language|s}} is a shout-out to the show, and the standard IDE for it is known as ''[[Creator/EricIdle IDLE]]''[[note]]an [[FunWithAcronyms acronym]] for Integrated Development and Learning Environment[[/note]] with this in mind. In fact, the official guide for Python outright encourages the programmers to make Monty Python references in their code! For example, it uses the terms "spam" and "eggs" as generic placeholder values[[note]], instead of most languages' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar "foo" and "bar"]][[/note]], as a reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(Monty_Python_sketch) the Spam sketch]].

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--> The Black Knight from Monty Python, named Tony here.

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* ''Film/AsGoodAsItGets'': Jack Nicholson plays "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" on the piano and sings along with it.

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** The Black Templars use a Holy Hand Grenade...carried by Brother Maynard.

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* The UsefulNotes/{{Python}} UsefulNotes/{{programming language|s}} is a shout-out to the show, and the standard IDE for it is known as ''[[Creator/EricIdle IDLE]]'' with this in mind. In fact, the official guide for Python outright encourages the programmers to make Monty Python references in their code! For example, it uses the terms "spam" and "eggs" as generic placeholder values[[note]], instead of most languages' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar "foo" and "bar"]][[/note]], as a reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(Monty_Python_sketch) the Spam sketch]].

* The computer language Python is a shout-out to the show, and the standard IDE for it is known as ''[[Creator/EricIdle IDLE]]'' with this in mind. In fact, the official guide for Python outright encourages the programmers to make Monty Python references in their code!

* Not only is the UsefulNotes/{{Python}} UsefulNotes/{{programming language|s}} named after the troupe, but it uses the terms "spam" and "eggs" as placeholders[[note]], instead of most languages' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar "foo" and "bar"]][[/note]], as a reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(Monty_Python_sketch) the Spam sketch]].

* The computer language Python is a shout-out to the show, and the standard IDE for it is known as ''[[Creator/EricIdle IDLE]]'' with this in mind. In fact, the official guide for Python outright encourages the programmers to make Mony Python references in their code!

* The computer language Python is a shout-out to the show, and the standard IDE for it is known as ''[[Creator/EricIdle IDLE]]'' with this in mind.

* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': At the end of "[[Recap/RockosModernLifeS1E13CabinFeverRinseAndSpit Rinse and Spit]]", Filburt is distraught after he fails his dental exam. When Rocko tries to cheer him up, Filburt says that he never wanted to be a dentist anyway, and that he always wanted to be a chimney sweep. The speech he delivers paraphrases that of the Homicidal Barber's regarding his desire to become a lumberjack. However, before Filburt can sing, Rocko tells him that there's no time for a song.

* ''Film/TheOthers'' opens with Grace telling a story to her children, and it starts, "Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin."

* ''Literature/AmongstOurWeapons'' revolves around a dangerous magical artifact created by the Spanish Inquisition. The novel's title, and the titles of each section within it, are references to Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition sketch. Also, when the protagonists realise the origin of the artifact, one of them remarks that he hadn't expected it to be the Spanish Inquisition.

* Music/{{Madness}} have dressed up in drag similarly to the show's "Pepperpot" characters several times, especially in the video to "House of Fun". The video for "Our House" features certain band members dressed as "Gumbies".

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* ''Film/SlidingDoors'': In the AlternateReality where Helen catches the train - and therefore comes home to find her boyfriend with another woman - she meets James in an elevator not long after, and when he sees how upset she looks, he tells her, "Cheer up, you know what the Monty Python boys say." She replies, "[[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian Always look on the bright side of life]]?", but James corrects her, "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition." Becomes an IronicEcho near the end.

* The word "spam" for unwanted emails is a direct reference to the Python sketch of the same name.

* Wiki/TVTropes has named several of their articles after sketches from Monty Python, including UpperClassTwit, MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels and SillyWalk.

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