"Every Poll is Sacred" - Monty Python's Meaning of Life

Can't really bring myself to watch this again.

Mr Creosote is the obvious choice and will probably win, but there's an embarassment of riches here with the spectaculalrly vituperative "Live Organ Transplants" being one of the standouts.

haven't seen in years, but "Every Sperm is Sacred" is a stupendous production number (choreographed by the woman who did Annie).

yes, Mr Creosote is a grossout w/ a point.

Crimson Permanent Assurance

just reading "Sex Education" makes me looooool, that scene is so great

Crimson Permanent Assurance is possibly the best thing Monty Python ever did

Find the Fish!

If we're splitting the "Live Organ Transplants" gross-out stupidity from the Eric Idle song contained therein, I vote for the song. But since we're apparently not, I vote for "Stolen Leg," which is just so classically Python.

fishy fishy fishy fishy fish

Prob between Sex Education, Find the Fish and Stolen Leg. Mr Creosote is overrated - in fact the film goes steadily downhill after the terrific Noel Coward penis number.

Crimson Permanent Assurance is possibly the best thing Monty Python ever did
― peter in montreal, Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:26 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

always loved sex ed

drill sergeant - palin gets so angry his hat looks like it's going to fly off his head.

crimson permanent assurance? are you guys serious? that's some seriously laboured bullshit right there and not at all funny.

Part V, if that's the one with the song:

Whenever life get you down, Mrs. Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enu-hu-hu-huuuuff

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way

Our galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars
It's 100,000 light-years side-to-side
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick
But out by us it's just 3000 light-years wide
We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point
We go round every 200 million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
Because there's bugger all down here on Earth

"It's a Mr. Death, dear. He's here about the reaping."

The racist cleaning woman always brings the lols, but there's loads of good stuff in that list that I barely remembered.

my least favourite MP movie...however i always really liked Man Who Chooses Own Death...

When does this close? Next week? I'll try to watch it again before that. Haven't seen it since I was about 14 but recorded it the other week ...

ANyone else find this film to be kind of dark/disturbing in lots of ways? It takes on a particularly surreal tone towards the end and the climax is Mr Creosote but there's something nightmarish about the whole tone that MP never really touched on in other films.

Good call - I think the episodic structure makes some things jar even more than they would normally (intentionally, I guess, and pretty like the tv show in that respect). The Find The Fish into Live Organ Transplants section is particularly peculiar.

I own a cover of the Idle song above by an octogenarian female SF Bay Area folksinger; it's a delight.

dark/disturbing in lots of ways?

This is the level I appreciated it on. Angrier than funny; A-OK.

"It's an ocarina, sir" <--- on one random viewing, this line completely cracked me the fuck up and it's been one of my favorites ever since

the hymn they sing in chapel is pretty great, too

It's that nonsense about "move your coat to the lower peg, before chapel, after you've gotten your hair cut, before you greet the visitors" etc. that gets me everytime

Can't decide between "Christmas In Heaven", TCPA or the philosophising waiter or shit "Every Sperm" or maybe Find The Fish...dammit, this is the sort of film where the parts are definitely worth more than the sum, to the extent to which there's a decent reason for voting almost any of 'em.

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ANyone else find this film to be kind of dark/disturbing in lots of ways

yeah the whole movie is pretty dark, I think it reflects much more of Gilliam and Jones' sensibilities than the previous films do; partly it's the bigger budget, I think, that allowed them to get more expansive in the set pieces and get away from the characters, so the whole thing seems less personal. Plus apparently they all hated each other by the time they filmed it which maybe seeps through. In some ways I think it's the best Monty Python film actually, it's certainly the least played-out one and the only one I could imagine watching all the way through these days.

30th anniversary BR out today. Still waiting for my review copy, grrrrr!

Does it have a stupid subtitle? Like "30th Anniversary Every Sperm Is Sacred Edition"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGBZnfB46es

Appears not to have a funny subtitle, but a "Soundtrack for the Lonely."

The Crimson Permanent Assurance bit is so shit.

and yet still he keeps posting

The Soundtrack for the Lonely is on my DVD copy. It's pretty funny, just the sound of someone coughing and getting up to make tea/shout at his dogs.

7 deleted scenes on this, anyone seen those?

someone on ILX once said the message of this film is "middle age is shit" which i always thought was pretty well OTM.

found this movie on VHS a month ago, been playing it non-stop over the past few weeks. Monty Python are so classic.

The Crimson Permanent Assurance is maybe the most amazing thing they ever did, i could rewatch just that bit over and over again.

Never enjoyed it. Some good effects I guess, but always thought it was boring.

obv i need a rewatch as i have no idea what Crimson Permanent Assurance is

it's the one where the old financial workers declare a mutiny and turn into pirates, sailing their building like it was a ship

changed my mind the best bit in the film is during "Every Sperm is Sacred" when they cut to the little girl singing a beautiful solo with these lins:

Let the heathen spill theirs
On the dusty ground
God shall make them pay for
Each sperm that can't be found

brilliant

So many great bits in this film. Plus it's dark AF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YUiBBltOg4

This is the worst Python film by leaps and bounds, and that's including "And Now For Something Completely Different."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCu_M36fSHA

one: people are not wearing enough hats. two: matter is energy.

"not wearing enough"? enough for what purpose??

This movie was basically my introduction to Monty Python. Crimson Permanent Assurance completely blew my mind. I didn't know movies/comedy/whatever could work on that level.

poll results are correct. also yes this is easily the worst Python movie

well they only made like 3 movies!

really love the army doctor coming in and asking "Been in the wars, have we then?"

If you count "And Now For Something Completely Different" (which, granted, was just re-performed sketches from the show) and "Live at the Hollywood Bowl," that's five.

You don't count em