History YMMV / MontyPythonsFlyingCircus

** Yes, it's ''that'' Creator/DouglasAdams whose name appears in the credits for the last episode of the series (as "Silly Words (North)"). He co-wrote the "Patient Abuse" sketch.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Several of the female roles are played by Creator/ConnieBooth who would later be best known for playing Polly Sherman in ''Series/FawltyTowers''.

* OnceOriginalNowCommon: Hearing people recite their favourite sketches for the 16,047th time can be aggravating, to say the least - especially since the creator's aim was to make a show that is completely unpredictable.

* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: Hearing people recite their favourite sketches for the 16,047th time can be aggravating, to say the least - especially since the creator's aim was to make a show that is completely unpredictable.

** The "Germany vs. Greece Football Match" ends with Socrates realizing that the philosophers are in a football match, dribbling the ball to Germany's goal, and scoring the only goal in the match. Later, in the 1980s, there was a player on the Brazilian World Cup team named Socrates.

** "The Mouse Problem" satirized then current attitudes of homosexuality by replacing homosexuals with men who dress up like mice; today, we now have [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom fursuiters]].
** "The Cycling Tour," starring Michael Palin parodies presciently the same travelogues he would be famous for decades later.

* DiscreditedMeme: The jokes have been quoted so many times that it's become a joke to repeat the jokes. They even provide the page image.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Hearing people recite their favourite sketches for the 16,047th time can be aggravating, to say the least - especially since the creator's aim was to make a show that is completely unpredictable.

** The initial attempts to bring the show across UsefulNotes/ThePond met with this, as American TV executives believed British humor would go right over the heads of American TV audiences. Then ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' turned out to be a surprise cult hit in America. KERA, a Creator/{{PBS}} station in Dallas, Texas, began airing the show, and it became a hit with younger viewers, giving the fledgling network a hip countercultural cachet. The series soon spread by word of mouth to other PBS stations around the country, with reruns becoming a staple of PBS programming for many years.

* SpecialEffectFailure: [[{{Gorn}} "Salad Days"]] features several, such as John Cleese's [[MadeOfPlasticine "hands"]] being blatantly severed ''before'' the piano cover gets smashed on them, and the woman whose head is knocked off by a piano keyboard clearly being a mannequin. [[RuleOfFunny This only adds to the humor]], and was [[StylisticSuck probably intentional]] (in addition, there were obviously budget constraints as well).

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: WordOfGod insists unanimously that it wasn't. Their sketches may ''look'' spur-of-the-moment, but they were actually very tightly written, often depended on split-second timing, and hence were well-rehearsed -- they actually wouldn't have been able to produce the show had they been under the influence (their frustration with Chapman's alcoholism ''still'' emerges in reminiscences forty-odd years later). Of course, what they may have got up to in their leisure hours was something else again...

** One sketch saw Eric Idle as an ''intensely'' narcissistic television personality named Timmy Williams. 35 or so years later, a real-life (and very much ''not'' narcissistic) actor named Timmy Williams would become well-known in the world of sketch comedy as a member of the troupe Series/TheWhitestKidsUKnow.

** The attempts to bring the show across UsefulNotes/ThePond met with this, as American TV executives believed British humor would go right over the heads of American TV audiences. Then ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' turned out to be a surprise cult hit in America. KERA, a Creator/{{PBS}} station in Dallas, Texas, began airing the show, and it became a hit with younger viewers, giving the fledgling network a hip countercultural cachet. The series soon spread by word of mouth to other PBS stations around the country, with reruns becoming a staple of PBS programming for many years.

* WidgetSeries: The series established the U.K.'s reputation as a purveyor of weird comedy.

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets:
** This being the 1970s, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon is a frequent topic of satire.
** Britain's Labour Party. The "party political broadcast" in the final episode has the announcer crack up just saying their name.
** The Conservative Party as well, particularly Edward Heath, Reginald Maudling, and Gerald Nabarro.
* AcceptableReligiousTargets: ''Just about everyone,'' including non-religious people. Most frequently mocks the Church of England. The only known exception is a sketch involving a radical Muslim Caliph originally slated for ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'' which was later removed (Cleese is particularly thankful for that, considering he claims it would have resulted in a fatwah put upon the Pythons).
-->'''Creator/GrahamChapman on AudioPlay/MontyPythonsContractualObligationAlbum:''' It's like I always say; there's nothing an agnostic can't do if he doesn't know whether he really believes in anything or not.