Do people still quote monty python?

Is this still a thing?

I do. But I am old. And went to an English grammar school where it was compulsory.

Funnily enough my 11 year old son and his friend, having watched the Holy Grail comepletely without any encouragement from me, still go around shouting "We are the knights that say Ni!".

i'll occasionally ref sketches from the show ('that's not an argument!' 'yes it is!') but god i haven't quoted grail since like 10th grade

As long as there are 10th graders there will be people quoting Monty Python.

I do still say "And this is where my theory falls to the ground" quite often.

Yesterday my friend remarked that he didn't like herons because they "wet their nests". Which I think is a misquote but the intent was there.

Grail is difficult to quote from in everyday life, as most of it's humour is just silly (not that there's anything wrong with that). Brian is better for quoting as it's got more satire/social & political commentary. When I was at college there was a big thing of impersonating Palin's Pilate, including going around saying "Bigus Dickus" for no reason at all, as the movie had just been shown on UK TV for the first time.

The major exception with Grail being insulting people in the style of the French knight.

As long as there are still camp counselors and campers.

Umm I had to wait for a specific coworker to leave the office so I could open this and note that the answer is yes.

To be honest, most people that quote it after grade 10 tend to grow up to be like the nerds on The Simpsons

It's definitely shrunk down to older people, though, and been overtaken by summaries of episodes of The Simpsons and/or South Park

Think it's largely faded away, though I'm sure some still do it. I mean, I heard Python quotes all the freaking time in the 70s & 80s, but hardly ever no more. Perhaps this has something to do with my aging out of certain social circles, but I also suspect it has something to do with the fact that it was like a thousand years ago and who cares.

Yeah I think the Simposons has replaced it for "annoying nerd quotes at bad parties" type behaviour. And I include myself in this obv.

a lot of people i know are more apt to quote MST3k than anything else. which is kind of awesome.

ni

yeah i will take python quotes over simpsons any day. but still college basically ruined python for me.

i just made a python quote yesterday! and the person on the receiving end got the ref. but we're dorkass gen x-ers.

thank you for your input everyone.

i thought people still did, but it's been so long since i heard one in casual convo!!

Lucky we didn't say anything about the dirty knife.

Pretty sure I've done it once or twice on ILM threads, because I am a 41-year old 10th grader.

I hope this doesn't happen anymore, because quoting Monty Python is like the worst thing ever.

Well okay, maybe not the worst thing ever, but it's up there with the Great Cat Massacre and the Holodeck Holocaust.

Holodecks don't exist. I'm a Holodeck denier...

Well, first of all I'd like to apologize for the behaviour of certain of my colleagues you may have seen earlier, but they are from broken homes, circus families and so on and they are in no way representative of the new modern improved British Navy. They are a small vociferous minority... and may I take this opportunity of emphasizing that there is no cannibalism in the British Navy. Absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than we are prepared to admit, but all new ratings are warned that if they wake up in the morning and find tooth marks at all anywhere on their bodies, they're to tell me immediately so that I can immediately take every measure to hush the whole thing up. And, finally, necrophilia is *right out*.

I quote it. I'm 22.

My old man was forever saying things - I assumed they were his witticisms. Then I got the complete '...Flying Circus'. And now I quote it more than he does!

-Is this the 5 minute argument, or the full half hour?

• *Gumbies* - Is it time? -It's time...

Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Pony trekking or camping,
Or just watching TV.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
It's the country for me.

You're so near to Russia,
So far from Japan,
Quite a long way from Cairo,
Lots of miles from Vietnam.

Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I want to be,
Eating breakfast or dinner,
Or snack lunch in the hall.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finland has it all.

You're so sadly neglected
And often ignored,
A poor second to Belgium,
When going abroad.

Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I quite want to be,
Your mountains so lofty,
Your treetops so tall.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finland has it all.

Finland, Finland, Finland,
The country where I quite want to be,
Your mountains so lofty,
Your treetops so tall.
Finland, Finland, Finland.
Finland has it all.

Finland has it all.

i quote the jerk much much more than python. do ppl still care about that movie? do today's youth even know who steve martin is?

hating people quoting python is the new quoting python

Hey, I already hated quoting Python back in 1998! I'm an OG Python quoter hater.

I'm sure something from Monty Python flashes through my brain at least once a day

That bit where the scientist goes on "I really just don't know. I'm afraid I'm going to have to tell you I really just don't know. etc etc etc" is a favourite in my team at work when something weird goes wrong.

I'm more of a Father Ted-quoting nerd myself though.

As we all tend to use the word 'spam' because of a Python-nerd interface back in the mists of time, we should check ourselves GUILTY, maybe?

Python is for the clever junior high student in my neck of the woods; they live in isolation and find one another in high schools wherever there are backstage areas or airbrush machines. Therefore theatre techies who had the manlove for Python and The Police in high school ruined it for me, although I'm a big fan of 'bring out your dead!' and 'only a flesh-wound'. Girls who like Python are a bit more subtle. My best friend's dad, the elderly English mad scientist who went to Cambridge, watched it religiously on PBS so I'll always associate it with tea after school at N3lli3's while sheep explode on screen and her posh old dad practically falling out of his chair.

When I first laid eyes on Britisher dog-on-string crusties I could not help but think of Grail peasants.

I can't believe this thread has gone this far without mentioning that irritating John Hannah character in Sliding Doors. That alone should be enough to stop anyone quoting Monty Python, ever.

You'd have to get ILXors to admit to watching a crap chick-lit film with extra Paltrow. Bleurgh.

Paltrow AND Hannah

I kinda liked Sliding Doors, but the Python-quoting was indeed irritating.

Though I like most chick flicks anyway. I even liked Serendipity.

My best friend does this quite frequently. This is why she's my best friend. I heart ppl who quote it.

When at the dinner table I sometimes quote a couple of lines from the scene with the fat guy exploding in Meaning of Life: "It's only a little waffer" and "fac' off".

i resisted the temptation to go on the fave 5 cheeses thread and quote it up

I'm one of those older people, but I've restrained my Python-quoting in recent years to "My theory, which is mine..."

You'd have to get ILXors to admit to watching a crap chick-lit film with extra Paltrow. Bleurgh.

i, er, watched sliding doors at the dentist recently. although i wasn't paying very close attention since noisy and painful dental work isn't that conducive to movie-watching.

ETHEL THE AARDVARK GOES QUANTITY SURVEYING

Hey, I already hated quoting Python back in 1998! I'm an OG Python quoter hater.
― Tuomas

Umm, just wondering - do people still quote Matti Nykanen in Finland?

There's not that much intentional quoting, but I think a few of his phrases have become so much part of the language that people use them without thinking (or even knowing) that they're quoting Matti Nykänen.

I sing "Oh fishy fishy fishy fish... and it went wherever I did go!" to my toddler while he plays with his toy fish in the bath.

As far as the movies go, quoting "Brian" > quoting Zoot/Dingo in "Grail" > quoting "Life" > quoting the rest of "Grail"

i do the whole "tinny" and "woody" thing when people say particular words, but only in my head

i watched the entire series (much of it for the first time) last year and was surprised by how unfamiliar much of it was. most people just talk about the four or five famous sketches; there's dozens and dozens of shows i've never heard anyone quote anything from.

the only bit in "grail" that still makes me laugh is "one day lad, all this will be yours!" "what, the curtains?"

actually, the "not to leave the room, even if you come and get him" bit still works for me too, but i'm a sucker for abbott and costello type wordplay routines.

there's dozens and dozens of shows i've never heard anyone quote anything from.

Yup -- flipside is of course that not all of them really work to start with, while some sketches are so utterly contextual to time and place that their humor is baffling now.

And then some jokes are strictly non-verbal -- my own favorite moment from the shows is actually the same as Michael Palin's, the fish-slapping dance, which is barely fifteen seconds of slapstick.

I am forever breaking language down into tinny sorts of words and woody sorts of words.

oops it's already been done.

Quoting the more obscure sketches is fine, but quoting the REALLY obvious stuff incorrectly (i.e. 'DON'T EXPECT THE SPANISH INQUISITION!! LOL') is disgusting.

uhhhh-oui
I sure did that thang

OH Mr. Belpit, your legs are so swollen!
Oh Mr. BELPIT, your LEGS are so SWOLLEN!

I referenced the Judean People's Front/People's Front of Judea in a conversation with somebody last week. Actually helped illustrate a point we were discussing, but the reference flew over his head.

A tiger? In Africa?

...Tim.

I am quietly hoping Slocki is bashing his head repeatedly against a desk right about now.

So glad I quoted Mr. Belpit line on here.
Little things like that make me friends with myself.

ni

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