Funny / Monty Python and the Holy Grail

"'Tis but a scratch."

Short answer to Funny Moments for Monty Python and the Holy Grail:

THE WHOLE MOVIE. It's one of the funniest movies ever made and pretty much every minute of it is side-splitting.

Long answer:

• The opening credits with inserted subtitles. The subtitles in faux Swedish have nothing to do with the movie or the credits at all.
  • The opening film as well (Dentist on the Job). Back when the movie was first released, it was a fairly common mistake by the cinemas to put in the wrong film and roll it anyway, since the audience had paid to see a movie. Here came this film that did it on purpose and people found it hilarious.
  • A boilerplate disclaimer assuring the audience that This Is a Work of Fiction ends with "Signed Richard M. Nixon."
  • "A møøse once bit my sister."
  • The producers halt the credits in order to get rid of the Swedish subtitlers... only to have the second team of credit-makers still obsess over møøse being in the film. THAT team gets sacked, with a third team of credit-makers hired on from some South American firm... that quickly inserts llamas into the credits. Somehow, this is ignored... or more likely the producers just gave up at that point.
    We apologize for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.
    (After the moose Non Sequitur continues) We apologize again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.
    (After it still continues) The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked. The credits have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.
  • They then state that, short on time and due to the lack of decent credits, the producers will insert their own cheap, last-minute credits. What follows is an epilepsy-inducing nightmare. Filled with llamas and Mexican music. It's quite obvious that the film makers just gave up at this point.
  • "Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti..."
  • There's also the fact they used the word "sacked." It's supposed to mean they were fired, but there's something funny about imagining all of the incompetent people responsible for the credits being tackled like football players. Or better yet, being stuffed in a sack and thrown out.
• The very first scene after the credits. A sound of horses... followed by one guy pantomiming horse riding while another behind him claps coconut halves together.
  • And then that is followed by Arthur trying to get a castle guard to let him speak to the castle's master, which starts with the guard lampshading the presence of the aforementioned coconut halves in medieval England. Which then shifts to the first guard and another guard getting into a Seinfeldian Conversation about swallows and their carrying capacity, at which point Arthur just gives up and leaves. Really sets the tone for the movie.
    Guard 1: Where'd you get the coconuts?
    Arthur: We found them.
    Guard 1: Found them? In Mercia? The coconut's tropical!
    Arthur: What do you mean?
    Guard 1: Well, this is a temperate zone!
    Arthur: The swallow may fly south with the sun, or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climates in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land!
    Guard 1: ...Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
    Arthur: Not at all! They could be carried!
    Guard 1: What? A swallow carrying a coconut?!
    Arthur: It could grip it by the husk!
    Guard 1: It's not a question of where it grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut!
    Arthur: Well, it doesn't matter! Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the court of Camelot is here?
    Guard 1: [is silent for a moment] Listen, in order to maintain airspeed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?
    Arthur: [exasperatedly] Please!
    Guard 1: Am I right?
    Arthur: I'm not interested!
    Guard 2: [interjecting] It could be carried by an African swallow!
    Guard 1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow, maybe, but not a European swallow, that's my point.
    Guard 2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that.
• The entire "Bring out your dead!" sequence...
  Peasant: [carrying an old, obviously not-dead man] Here's one!
  Dead Collector: Nine pence.
  Old Man: I'm not dead!
  Dead Collector: What?
  Peasant: Nothing! Here's your nine pence.
  Old Man: I'm not dead!
  Dead Collector: Ere, he says he's not dead.
  Peasant: Yes, he is.
  Old Man: I'm not!
  Dead Collector: He isn't.
  Peasant: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
  Old Man: I'm getting better!
  Peasant: No, you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment!
  Dead Collector: Oh, I can't take him like that; it's against regulations.
  Old Man: I don't want to go in the cart!
  Peasant: [to the old man] Oh, don't be such a baby!
  Dead Collector: I can't take him...
  Old Man: I feel fine!
  Peasant: Oh, do us a favor...
  Dead Collector: I can't.
  Peasant: Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
  Dead Collector: Naaah, I got to go on to the Robinsons. They've lost nine today.
  Peasant: Well, when is your next round?
  Dead Collector: Thursday.
  Old Man: I think I'll go for a walk!
  Peasant: [to the old man] You're not fooling anyone y'know. [to the dead collector] Look, isn't there something you can do?
  Old Man: ♪I feel happy... I feel happy!♪
  [the dead collector takes a quick look around and then whacks the old man on the head with his club]
  Peasant: [loading the now dead old man on the cart] Ah, thanks very much.
  Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
  • As Arthur rides disdainfully by...
    Peasant: Who's that then?
    Dead Collector: I dunno, must be a king.
    Peasant: Why?
    Dead Collector: He hasn't got shit all over him.
  • And then the French dump crap all over him near the end. Literal crap.
• In the scene with the monks hitting their faces with the tablets, there's one who's way too early. Watch him after and it is obvious the actor's trying not to screw up again by waiting for everyone else to hit first. Starts here at :22 on the right, second to last guy.
  • On the same hit as the guy that goes too early, the one in front of him stumbles. Hitting yourself in the head a few dozen times will do that.
  • The chanting is a standard funeral rite meaning roughly "Merciful Lord Jesus, grant them rest." In context, though, you could interpret it as "Jesus Christ, make it stop!" Or "dear God, give them a break."
• Dennis the anarcho-syndicalist peasant taking apart the legend of the Lady of the Lake and Excalibur, to the increasing annoyance of Arthur:
  King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.
  Dennis: Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!
  King Arthur: Be quiet!
  Dennis: Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!
  King Arthur: Shut up!
  Dennis: If I went 'round sayin' I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
  King Arthur: Shut up! Will you shut up?!
  • Even when Arthur finally loses it and starts to drag him off, Dennis still won't shut up. "Come and see the violence Inherent in the System! Help, help, I'm being repressed!"
  • "Bloody peasant!"
• Arthur's duel with the Black Knight, who keeps getting his limbs cut off and then acting as if nothing bad happened to him.
  Black Knight: 'Tis but a scratch.
  King Arthur: A scratch?! Your arm's off!
  Black Knight: No, it isn't.
  King Arthur: [points at his severed arm] Well, what's that then?
  Black Knight: ...I've had worse.
  King Arthur: You liar!
  Black Knight: Come on, you pansy!
  • When Arthur points out the severed arm to the Black Knight, the Knight just stares at it for a moment, either trying to process that the arm is indeed his, or just trying to think of a witty comeback.
  • After Arthur cuts off both arms the Black Knight refuses to admit defeat and kicks Arthur in the face to Arthur's shock.
    King Arthur: Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left!
    Black Knight: Yes I have.
    King Arthur: LOOK!
    Black Knight: Just a flesh wound!
  • Even after losing a leg, the King Arthur can't seem to intimidate the Black Knight.
    Black Knight: Right! I'll do you for that!
    King Arthur: [passionately exasperated] You'll WHAT?
    Black Knight: Come here!
    King Arthur: What are you gonna do, bleed on me?
    Black Knight: I'M INVINCIBLE!
    King Arthur: You're a loony.
    Black Knight: The Black Knight always triumphs! HAVE AT YOU! Come on then.
  • Having lost all of his limbs, the Black Knight offers to call it a draw, but Arthur ignores him and moves on...
    Black Knight: Ooh, ooh, I see, running away, eh? YOU YELLOW BASTARDS!! Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll bite your legs off!!
  • And before that, the Green Knight attempting to take down the Black Knight with his sword, then a flail, then a battle-axe. The first two are straightforward attempts, but then the Green Knight simply resorts to running at the Black Knight screaming and holding his axe above his head. The Black Knight simply throws his claymore and stabs the poor guy through his helmet.
  • Neither of them really cover themselves with glory, either. The entire fight feels one stumble away from devolving into complete flailing, which just becomes even funnier when contrasted with Arthur's effortless dismantling of the Black Knight.
• The "burn the witch" scene.
  Sir Bedevere: What makes you think she's a witch?
  Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt!
  Sir Bedevere: A newt?
  (beat)
  Peasant 3: I got better...
  Crowd: BURN HER ANYWAY!
  • Bedevere tries to reason with the mob with some bizarre science:
    Bedevere: What else do we burn apart from witches?
    Villager 1: MORE witches!
    Villager 2: (nudges him) Shh!
    Villager 3: Wood!
    Bedevere: So, why do witches burn?
    (very, very long pause while the villagers think)
    Villager 2: 'Cause they're made of... wood?
  • During the long pause Eric Idle suddenly starts biting down on his scythe; he was that close to losing it entirely.
  • After being put to Bedevere's test — which is weighing her against a duck, because if witches float, they must be made of wood; wood and ducks both float, and so must weigh the same — and failing — thanks to a hilariously off-balance scale — the "witch" grumbles:
    "Witch": It's a fair cop.
    • That line implies that despite all Insane Troll Logic, she actually was a witch
• The Camelot Song
  Patsy: It's only a model.
  Arthur: Shh!
  • "... On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place."
• When King Arthur meets God.
  • Firstly, God's a barely-animated picture of W.G. Grace.◊
  • Secondly, God starts with the sort of booming, ethereal voice, complete with an angelic choir, one would expect of an almighty diety descending from His domain to assign a holy quest, only to completely revert to a tone of haughty annoyance when Arthur's court drops to their knees at His prescence.
    God: Oh, don't grovel! One thing I can't stand, it's people grovelling...
    Arthur: Sorry.
    God: AND DON'T APOLOGIZE!! Every time I try to talk to someone it's "sorry" this and "forgive me" that and "I'm not worthy"... WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW!?
    Arthur: I'm averting my eyes, O Lord!
    God: Well, don't! It's like those miserable Psalms, (eyes rolling) they're so depressing. Now, knock it off!
  • And then...
    God: [resuming his booming etherial voice] Arthur, King of the Britons, your Knights of the Round Table shall have a task to make them an example in these dark times.
    Arthur: Good idea, O Lord!
    God: [haughtily annoyed again] 'COURSE IT'S A GOOD IDEA!
  • At the end of His speech, God returns to the heavens, and as the etherial choir rises, the clouds once again close up....with a resounding and out-of-place clunk! as they come together. God really should oil the latches on His heavenly viewport.
• Any appearance of the French.
  • "I told them we've already got one."
  • "I'm French! Why do you think I have zis outRAEgous aczent, you silly kin-gu?" "What are you doing in England?" "MIND YOUR OWN BIZNESS!"
    French Guard: You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you so-called Arthur King! You all your silly English k-nnnnni-gits! (blows raspberies while tapping the top of his helmet)
    Sir Galahad: What a strange person.
    Arthur: Now, look here, my good man—
    French Guard: I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a 'amster and your father smelt of elderberries!
    Sir Galahad: Is there someone else up there that we could talk to?
    French Guard: No! Now go away or I Shall Taunt You a second time!
  • The French bombarding Arthur and his men with livestock. "Fetchez la vache!"
  • "AND THIS ONE IS FOR YOUR MOTHER!" [throws duck]
• Sir Lancelot tries to stab the castle like that'd somehow be effective.
• The failed attempt at entering the French castle in a "Trojan Rabbit", particularly Sir Bedevere's reaction upon realising the problem (hint: he's supposed to be in the rabbit at the time). "I... uh... look, if we built this large wooden badger..."
  • The French promptly catapult the rabbit back out and it lands on a coconut-carrying squire.
  • Something you may not notice at first is that French Guard and his friends are investigating the "Trojan Rabbit," the Guard's friends don't seem to understand him until he repeats what he says in English. Apparently some of the "French" guards don't even speak French.
• The song by Sir Robin's minstrels, by the end of which Sir Robin is looking rather uncomfortable:
  Minstrel: (singing) ♪ Bravely bold Sir Robin
  Rode forth from Camelot.
  He was not afraid to die,
  O brave Sir Robin.
  He was not at all afraid
  To be killed in nasty ways.
  Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin.
  
  He was not in the least bit scared
  To be mashed into a pulp.
  Or to have his eyes gouged out,
  And his elbows broken.
  To have his kneecaps split
  And his body burned away,
  And his limbs all hacked and mangled
  Brave Sir Robin.
  
  His head smashed in
  And his heart cut out
  And his liver removed
  And his bowels unplugged
  And his nostrils raped
  And his bottom burnt off
  And his penis... ♪
  Sir Robin: (interrupting) That's...! That's, uh... That's enough music for now, lads. There's dirty work afoot.
  • "Brave Sir Robin ran away!"
    • "I didn't!"
  • The detail that Sir Robin's shield bears the obvious insignia of a chicken is a nice touch.
• "We are the Knights who say... Ni!"
  • "We want... a shrubbery!" [Scare Chord]
  • "...Then, you must chop down the tallest tree in the forest. WIIIIIIIITH...A HERRING!" [Scare Chord]
  • "Oh please."
  • The completely serious way Eric Idle declares himself to be "A Shrubber. I design, arrange and sell shrubberies." As if this was ever a real profession or guild. He even sports tiny bushes as guild markings on his clothes!
    Roger the Shrubber: Are you saying 'ni' to that old woman?...Ah what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say 'ni' at will to old ladies.
• The Tale of Sir Galahad.
  • Galahad the Chaste meets the maidens of Castle Anthrax. He gets more and more uncomfortable until Zoot insists he sees the doctor, at which he promptly tries to get away.
    • The doctors are another two very young maidens.
      Sir Galahad: They're doctors?!
      Zoot: (evasively) They have a basic medical training. (to the girls) Dr. Piglet, Dr. Winston, practice your art.
    • Galahad wants to face the peril...of spanking and oral sex.
      Lancelot: We were in the nick of time! You were in great peril.
      Galahad: I don't think I was.
      Lancelot: Yes you were, you were in terrible peril!
      Galahad: Look, let me go back in there and face the peril.
      Lancelot: No, it's too perilous.
      Galahad: But it's my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can!
      Lancelot: No, we've got to find the Holy Grail. Come on!
      Galahad: Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?
      Lancelot: No. It's unhealthy.
      Galahad: ...Bet you're gay.
      Lancelot: No, I'm not!
    • The script called for Galahad to give Lancelot a "knowing look".
    • There were only a hundred-and-fifty of them.
    • And they hadn't a chance.
    • "Do you think this scene should have been cut? We were so worried when the boys were writing it. But now we're glad! It's better than some of the previous scenes, I think."
      Three-headed Knight: At least ours was better visually.
      Dennis the Peasant: At least ours was committed; it wasn't just a string of pussy jokes.
      Old Man from Scene 24: Get on with it.
      Tim the Enchanter: Yes, get on with it!
      Army of Knights: YEAH! GET ON WITH IT!
      Dingo: Oh, I am enjoying this scene.
      God: GET ON WITH IT!
    • And in the theatrical release, that bit of the scene WAS cut.
• All of Sir Lancelot's Quest. No really, all of it.
  • [Arrow hits his squire through the chest] "Message for you, sir!"
  • "One day, lad, all of this will be yours!" "What, the curtains?" "No, not the curtains, lad! All that you can SEE!"
  • "But mother..." "Father, lad! I'm father!"
  • "Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing! When I started here, aaall there was was swamp! Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp. (beat) But I built it all the same! Just to show 'em! It-sank-into-the-swamp, SO! ... I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp! But the fourth one... Stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad! The strongest castle in these isles!"
  • "But I don't want any of that... I'd rather..." "Rather what?!" "I'd rather... Just... Sing!" "Stop that! Stop that! You're not goin' into a song while I'm here!"
  • "Listen, Alice!" "Herbert..." "Herbert."
  • "DON'T LIKE HER?! What's wrong with her?! She's - beautiful! She's - rich! She's got huuuuuge... tracts of land!"
  • The confusion with the two guards, one of whom has hiccups.
  • Lancelot running towards the castle with dramatic music, but making no ground. They cut between him and the guards watching five times before he suddenly gets there.
  • "A-HAAA!"
    • The guard's mildly worried "Hey" after Lancelot murders his fellow guard.
  • The Rampage of Sir Lancelot.
  • On his way up the stairs, he stops to chop a bouquet of flowers before proceeding with the slaughter.
  • "You got my note!" "Well, uh... I got a note..."
  • "He's come to rescue me!" "Well, let's not jump to conclusions..."
  • "You see, I thought your son was a lady..." "Well, I can understand that!"
  • "You only killed the bride's father, that's all!"
  • "Well, I really didn't mean to..."
  • "Didn't mean to? You put your sword right through his head!"
  • "Oh dear... Is he alright?"
  • "THERE HE IS!" "Oh, bloody hell..." (massacre re-ensues)
  • "He killed my auntie!" "Now then, now then, this is supposed to be an 'appy occasion! Let's not bicker and argue about 'oo killed oo'!
  • The entire following exchange is definitely worthy of mention:
    Herbert's Father: [continuing from the above quote] We are here today to witness the union of two young people in the joyful bond of the holy wedlock. Unfortunately, one of them, my son Herbert, has just fallen to his death. [The crowd gasps in dismay] But I don't want to think I've not lost a son, so much as... gained a daughter! [The crowd applauses] For, since the tragic death of her father—
    Guest #2: He's not quite dead!
    Herbert's Father: Since the...near fatal wounding of her father—
    Guest #2: He's getting better!
    [Herbert's father frowns and glances at one of his guards, nodding meaningfully to the recovering bride's father]
    Herbert's Father: [speaking while intently watching the guard advance, pacing his speech with the guard's progress] For, since her own father...who, when he seemed about to recover...suddenly felt the icy hand of death upon him...
    [The guard kills the bride's father, though nobody seems to notice the act]
    Guest #2: Oh! He's died!
  • Lancelot going out of his way to kill people on his second trip up the stairs.
• This:
  "There, they met sir Lancelot and Sir Galahad. And there was much rejoicing."
  "Yaaaay..."
  "In the frozen land of Nador, they were forced to eat Robin's minstrels. And there was much rejoicing."
  "Yaaaay..."
  • Bonus: the "Yaaaay" for eating Robin's minstrels was a bit less Flat Joy than the one for meeting Lancelot and Galahad.
• Tim the Enchanter hyping up the Beast of Caerbannog:
  Tim: And so, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage, come no further! For death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth!
  Arthur: What an eccentric performance.
• The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.
  • "What, behind the rabbit?" "It is the rabbit."
  • This little exchange after they see the rabbit is just wonderful:
    Tim: Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!
    Sir Galahad: Get stuffed!
    Tim: He'll do you up a treat, mate!
    Sir Galahad: Oh yeah?
    Sir Robin: You manky Scots git!
    Tim: [thoroughly offended] I'M WARNING YOU!
  • The Killer Rabbit bites a knight's head off in a second!
    Arthur: JESUS CHRIST!!!
    Tim: I warned you!
    Sir Robin: Ooh. I've done it again...
    Tim: I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little bunny, isn't it? Well, it's always the same. I always tell them, but do they listen to me?
    Arthur: Oh, SHUT UP! Right! CHARGE!!!!!
    Knights: CHARGE!!!!! (The Knights try to rush the Killer Rabbit by attacking all at once... and fail miserably)
    • "RUN AWAY!"
    • Sir Robin on the ground with his shield up while getting away from the Rabbit is the same as his pictures in the book earlier in the movie.
  • "O Lord, bless this thy Holy Hand Grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy..."
    • "And the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu..."
      "Skip a bit, brother."
  • "Three is the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Thou shall not count four. Nor shall though count two unless thou then proceed to three. Five is right out!"
  • "...who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."
    "One, two, five!"
    "Three, sir!"
    "Three!"
• The cave containing the last words of Joseph of Arimathea:
  Brother Maynard: 'Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Arimathea. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of (puts on a pained face and voice) aaarrrrggh...'.
  Arthur: What?
  Brother Maynard: 'The Castle of...aaaaaargh.'
  Bedevere: What is that?
  Brother Maynard: He must've died while carving it.
  Lancelot: Oh come on!
  Brother Maynard: Well, that's what it says.
  King Arthur: If he was dying, he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaaarrrgh"! He'd just say it!
  Sir Galahad: Perhaps he was dictating.
  King Arthur: Oh, shut up!
• All leading, of course, to the dramatic entrance of the legendary Black Beast of AAAAARRRRRRGGGHHH!
  • The animator abruptly having a heart attack mid-chase scene. "The cartoon peril was no more."
  • Made funnier in the DVD commentary, where immediately after this happens, you can hear John Cleese going, "Oh, god! So young, too!"
• The Bridge of Death, where the Knights must answer three questions from an old man to be allowed to cross or be plunged into the Gorge of Eternal Peril.
  • After Lancelot is given really easy questions (name, quest, and favorite colour), Robin decides that answering the questions will be no problem for him, only for the bridgekeeper to throw a curveball with the third question.^note Not only would that be unexpected, it would be impossible. Assyria has had multiple capitals and wasn't even a country during the movie's supposed time frame.
    Bridgekeeper: What... is the capital of Assyria?
    Robin: (beat) ...I don't know that! [ejected into the Gorge of Eternal Peril]
  • Next is Galahad, who gets the same three easy questions as Lancelot did, but he still manages to screw up once he hits the third.
    Galahad: Blue... No! Yellow!! AAAAAAAARRRRRRGHHHHH!! [plop... bubble bubble]
  • Then comes King Arthur's try, who turns the tables on the bridgekeeper in a hilarious way.
    Bridgekeeper: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
    King Arthur: What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
    Bridgekeeper: (beat) Huh? ...I- I don't know that! [ejected into the chasm]
    Bedevere: How do you know so much about swallows?
    King Arthur: Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
• Arthur and Bedevere finally get all the way to Castle Aaaaaargh, where the Holy Grail is kept, and find it already held by...the French. Seems they did already have one!
• The Ending, in which Arthur and Bedevere are arrested by modern-day police officers.
  • Even more Hilarious in Hindsight when the ending itself brings the implication that the whole story occurred in modern times and Arthur and his knights (and all of the other Arthurian denizens) were literally just gallivanting around the English countryside acting like it was the Middle Ages.
• The scene in Swamp Castle when Herbert's father is instructing the guards to keep Herbert in his room. The guards finally seem to understand their simple instructions after much frustration. Then when Herbert's father goes to leave, they follow him, not staying to guard Herbert.
  Guard #1: We're coming with you.
• Just before Sir Robin encounters the three headed knight the peasants show up again.
  Dennis: Anarcho-syndicalism is a way of preserving freedom.
  Woman: Oh, Dennis, forget about freedom. We haven't got enough mud.
• The Trailer.
  Narrator: Once in a life time, there comes a motion picture, which changes the whole history of the motion picture. A picture so stunning in its effect, so vast in its impact, that it profoundly affect the lives of all who see it. One, such as—(music abruptly stops)
  Director: There you go! Thank you, thank you. Next, please! (trailer rewinds)
  Narrator #2: (with even heavier accent) Once, in a, lifetime, there comes a mo-tion picture, which, changes the who-le, history of mo-tion picture. A—(music abruptly stops)
  Director: Yeah, thank you. Next! (trailer rewinds)
  Gumby Narrator: ONCE! IN! A LIFETIME!!--(music abruptly stops)
  Director: Go away!
  Gumby Narrator: What!?
  Director: Next!
  Gumby Narrator: (mumbling) What's wrong with my voice? My voice is alright, my brain is hurting...
  Chinese Narrator: (in Chinese) Once in a life time, there comes a motion picture, which changes the whole history of the motion picture.
  Director: That's more like it!
  Chinese Narrator: (in Chinese) One such film is Kurosawa's Seven Samurai... Another is Ivan the Terrible. Then there are more run-in-the-mill films like... Herbie Rides Again... La Notte... and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (the Camelot model collapses, Arthur then stabs the knight he just anointed to death). It has some quite funny moments... a fairly exciting story... and some low-budget adventure... But compared to something like Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal... It's all rather silly. So if you're an intellectual midget... and you like giggling... you could do worse than see... Monty Python and the Holy Grail! (switch to a fancy Chinese restaurant) And come have a meal here afterwards.
  Subtitle: MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL. Only 4 minutes from this restaurant.

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