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  • The Spanish Inquisition skit from Monty Python and the Flying Circus
    I do not own any of this material it's all courtesy of Monty Python at / montypython .
    I only upload these videos because i'm tired of all the shitty quality ones on youtube.

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  • @sully4627
    @sully4627 Год назад +7082

    I didn't expect this to pop up in my recommends...but no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.

  • @garyturner5739
    @garyturner5739 Год назад +2281

    I love Terry Jones was wearing goggles and flying hat as part of the Spanish Inquisition.

    • @funkyalfonso
      @funkyalfonso Год назад +130

      That's because his name is Cardinal Biggles.

    • @tommyt1971
      @tommyt1971 Год назад +44

      C’mon now, those are period correct!

    • @nomanmcshmoo8640
      @nomanmcshmoo8640 Год назад +53

      @@funkyalfonso Cardinal INQUISITOR Biggles. (at your service)

    • @adrianjohnson7920
      @adrianjohnson7920 11 месяцев назад +9

      The other one is "Cardinal Fang"

    • @halfonso_0871
      @halfonso_0871 11 месяцев назад +9

      Spanish inquisition was ahead of its time.

  • @bobd5197
    @bobd5197 Год назад +1287

    The Spanish Inquisition. Unexpected since 1969.

    • @sirius4k
      @sirius4k Год назад +38

      1478 actually.

    • @TheWeirdTalesPodcast
      @TheWeirdTalesPodcast Год назад +63

      I had a t-shirt that said exactly that.
      I wore it to the bank one day, and had the following conversation with the teller:
      "The Spanish Inquisition?"
      "Yeah."
      "What's that?"
      "What's... The Spanish Inquisition?"
      "Yeah, I've never heard of it. Is it a band?"
      "Is it... no. It's... You've really never heard of it?"
      "Never."
      "It was a thing like 500 years ago where the Catholic Church decided to make the whole world Catholic by torturing and killing everyone who wasn't."
      "So... not a band then."
      "No, not a band."

    • @beorlingo
      @beorlingo Год назад +13

      @@sirius4k nah, it was well into the 1800s before they went unexpected.

    • @joeblog2672
      @joeblog2672 Год назад

      @@sirius4k Bastards Ferdinand and Isabella! They should have been burned at the stake!

    • @richardcleveland8549
      @richardcleveland8549 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@TheWeirdTalesPodcast OH EM GEE!!! THAT is THE funniest comment!

  • @nymalous3428
    @nymalous3428 Год назад +711

    Before my sister got married, her boyfriend at the time was on the phone at the church (I think he was talking to his brother, but I can't really remember). He was supposed to be doing something with me and my brothers, but he was taking a long time on the phone (it was a landline, by the way... cell phones were not yet prevalent). We got bored and went poking around in the church's storage cabinets and found a pair of red graduation-type robes and a drying rack for dishes (like in the skit).
    We instantly had the same idea, having seen this skit before. We continued looking until we found something to use as a rope (I think we used an old bungee cord), then got into costume and jumped into the room he was in and shouted "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
    He had seen the skit before as well, and laughed the entire time we went through our version of it (we must have found a pillow somewhere, because I remember poking him with it after we "tied him to the rack").
    They've got four wonderful kids now... in fact their oldest is about the age my sister was when we pulled that little "prank." Good times.

    • @angry_eck
      @angry_eck Год назад +11

      They are called confirmandi robes

    • @nymalous3428
      @nymalous3428 Год назад +37

      @@angry_eck Our church doesn't perform confirmation ceremonies (or confirmation at all, for that matter). The robes were leftover from a past graduation (the local school's primary color is red). As near I can tell, there are some significant differences in style when comparing the confirmation garb to the academic attire.
      But thanks for the comment, I never knew there was a difference until now.

    • @suebursztynski2530
      @suebursztynski2530 Год назад +5

      It sounds delightful!

    • @leek.3671
      @leek.3671 Год назад +4

      that's awesome!

    • @annied1827
      @annied1827 10 месяцев назад +2

      They will have been cassock robes that the choir boys had to wear 😊well thats what we call them in the uk

  • @Sids1192
    @Sids1192 11 месяцев назад +524

    Even though I specifically typed it into the search bar, pressed enter, and clicked on the top result, I still didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

    • @RageUnchained
      @RageUnchained 11 месяцев назад +12

      Obviously. Everyone knows that no body expects the Spanish Inquisition

    • @doubleletter
      @doubleletter 4 месяца назад

      Hahahaha

    • @matanuigaming2556
      @matanuigaming2556 3 месяца назад +3

      NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!!

    • @FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker
      @FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker 2 месяца назад

      Even though I thought I had already seen all of the possible comments riffing off of the Spanish inquisition, including the top one on this video, I still was not expecting your comment about the Spanish inquisition.

    • @anjinsan87
      @anjinsan87 22 дня назад +1

      @@FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker Nobody expects comments about the Spanish Inquisition!

  • @u.v.s.5583
    @u.v.s.5583 Год назад +1517

    Their devotion to the Pope is indeed unsurpassed!

    • @StonyRC
      @StonyRC Год назад +47

      ... and fanatical.

    • @warlordofbritannia
      @warlordofbritannia Год назад +19

      That’s one of their chief characteristics to be sure

    • @hazchemel
      @hazchemel Год назад +16

      We could go so far in characterizing their papal devotion as "almost fanatica",

    • @cricketlou
      @cricketlou Год назад +6

      @@warlordofbritanniaThat’s #4.

    • @madigorfkgoogle9349
      @madigorfkgoogle9349 Год назад +3

      ...ah common, nothing beats the cool red uniform, does it?

  • @warlordofbritannia
    @warlordofbritannia Год назад +1331

    The granddaughter tearing up family photos is such a great little touch 😂

    • @xCupressocyparis
      @xCupressocyparis Год назад +27

      I never noticed until now that she's tearing up the photos and chucking them away. 😂

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Год назад +33

      Surprise, fear, and a fanatic devotion to tearing up photos!

    • @jamerv86
      @jamerv86 Год назад +19

      It’s very obvious

    • @billy101456
      @billy101456 Год назад +25

      @@xCupressocyparisI believe it’s part of a previous bit where they enacted a tax on holiday snaps

    • @xCupressocyparis
      @xCupressocyparis Год назад +11

      @@billy101456 "I would tax... holiday snaps!" Oh yeah, that does ring a bell now that you mention it. 😅

  • @emmagrove6491
    @emmagrove6491 Год назад +652

    I quote this sketch all the time, whenever anyone is settling down into a comfy chair. "Put him/her in the comfy chair!" Sadly, most people have no idea I'm quoting one of the best comedy sketches ever.

    • @suebursztynski2530
      @suebursztynski2530 Год назад +23

      I once quoted it to one of my Year 8 students and, to my delight, he did know it. His parents must have been fans.

    • @warbird1992
      @warbird1992 8 месяцев назад +7

      I do similar if anyone ever mentions Albatross ....🙂Do you get wafers with it?

    • @randomcamus9445
      @randomcamus9445 7 месяцев назад

      ​@peterubbels2385 Many do not say that those who colonized the United States were Protestant Christians and were the ones who wiped out the Indians. Well, people of peace they were not..nnn

    • @yoshispongegirl
      @yoshispongegirl 5 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@warbird1992 No, you don't get bloody wafers with it!

    • @gokaury
      @gokaury 3 месяца назад

      ​@@yoshispongegirlbut what flavor is it?

  • @paulbaranofsky4995
    @paulbaranofsky4995 6 лет назад +359

    love the look on her face when they put her in the comfy chair

    • @ninocanito
      @ninocanito 9 месяцев назад +3

      indeed, the best part

    • @-danR
      @-danR 3 месяца назад +3

      Her role is understated but her performance was exquisite.

  • @retrogamingcommentary4163
    @retrogamingcommentary4163 Год назад +217

    When I used to grade English papers, I'd sometimes see a topic sentence that mentioned the "three main points" of the paper, and then go on to list four things. It always made me think of this sketch.

    • @mhyotyni
      @mhyotyni 7 месяцев назад +8

      Our president starts almost all his speeches with three points, while more points are typically added later. Pure torture.😵‍💫

    • @stringercorrales6627
      @stringercorrales6627 3 месяца назад +2

      What did British papers say tho?

  • @warlordofbritannia
    @warlordofbritannia Год назад +600

    I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition to have so many chief weapons…

    • @michaelbauers8800
      @michaelbauers8800 Год назад +31

      So many chief weapons, they need a chief of weapons to keep track of them

    • @craigkdillon
      @craigkdillon Год назад +22

      Yes. They had 3 weapons. No, make that 4. No, it is 5 weapons. Uh, 6 weapons. 7 really. etc etc.

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 Год назад +12

      Ruthless efficiency demands peruse of varied and extended weaponry.

    • @Gaminggoodboi
      @Gaminggoodboi Год назад +10

      Nobody expects the spanish inquisition or its quantity of cheif weapons.

    • @markh.6687
      @markh.6687 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@u.v.s.5583 "peruse"?? Hang on; I need a dictionary....nope, that's not it. "peruse" refers to reading or examining with great care. I think you're more looking for "a variety of", or perhaps even "a plethora of varied and extended weaponry." Yes, it's a Man's Life in the British Library Association!

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman Год назад +1217

    The satire is that the Spanish Inquisition used to write in advance and tell people when they were arriving!

    • @regiodeurse6513
      @regiodeurse6513 7 месяцев назад +139

      also they werent the band of cruel torturers and executioners they are made out to be by so called "history" in modern times. in fact the last thing they sought was false confession. Their so called "torture" techniques were actually as the name implies inquisetive interrogation tactics aimed at getting the truthfull intent and beliefs of the subject first and formost. The rules set for the more harshes methods were that they wouldnt draw blood, wouldnt mame or mutilate and were to leave no lasting injury or handicap the subject. Executions were deemed failures of their efforts to quel/pursuade, bring to repentace and convert violent heretical cultists that were rampant. particulairy catharism, which were basically the first suicide terrorists. and to a somewhat lesser extent the so called "conversos", false christian/catholic converts (mostly muslim or jews) which banded together seeking to subvert and undermine the church and christian society which included assasinations. Execution would made them martyrs to their cause which was to be avoided at all cost. The actual executions were carried out by the state. Documentation shows that in the 300+ years of these inquisitions only about 3000 people, or about 2% of all cases ended up being executed. Some modern historians claim that this number is actually 30 to 50 thousand, but it seem this number has been inflated (x10).. Still even if true this is far less then the pseudo historical poplair notion of millions or even dozens of millions claimed. Which is outright ridiculous and completely unfounded. Especially modern or even less modern media like in a roman of edgar allen poe paint a completely distorted picture of what the inquisition was like which sadly has been adopted by most people as historical fact. You can ask yourself why this is...

    • @SenkaBandit
      @SenkaBandit 7 месяцев назад +5

      @@regiodeurse6513 thanks

    • @EuronBulle
      @EuronBulle 7 месяцев назад +93

      @regiodeurse6513 Yeah bud but a failure to quell means forced conversion or death​, this is apology of a fucked thing

    • @regiodeurse6513
      @regiodeurse6513 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@EuronBulle the methods of state and later the seculair revolution in france for example were the real fucked things that actually did end up in massacres and mass tortures/executions. Yet we didnt see them put into that ligth of context in schools do we?... again ask yourself why that is.. ask yourself y the church and european christian society are slandered and demonized in such an unfair and historically false way...

    • @Samuel42069
      @Samuel42069 7 месяцев назад +4

      doubt it. Maybe rarely to some people. Mostly certainly not. Otherwise person would get away, it wasnt that hard to disapear unseen during that age.

  • @JBofBrisbane
    @JBofBrisbane Год назад +257

    When I started watching RUclips clips tonight, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition...

    • @MarsitheDeceptihog
      @MarsitheDeceptihog Год назад +28

      *NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!* Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four* ...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.

    • @alex35agm
      @alex35agm 10 месяцев назад +6

      Nobody expects The Spanish Inquisition.

    • @dudanunesbleff
      @dudanunesbleff 9 месяцев назад +4

      Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, they say 😂

    • @matanuigaming2556
      @matanuigaming2556 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@MarsitheDeceptihog I didn't expect The Spanish Inquisition.

  • @infantiltinferno
    @infantiltinferno Год назад +224

    It's been decades and only now do I pick up on the fact that "the rack" is a _triple_ entendre considering the placement on the heretic in question.

    • @yinoveryang4246
      @yinoveryang4246 8 месяцев назад +21

      Don’t get too excited. Rack was not a slang term for female anatomy in uk in early 1970s

    • @MegaMisskitty1978
      @MegaMisskitty1978 5 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@yinoveryang4246 Now it is so the comment still stands 😊

    • @RobertJarecki
      @RobertJarecki Месяц назад +2

      Perhaps those cosmopolitan Monty Python buggers were familiar with American slang.

    • @HershyWeiss16
      @HershyWeiss16 27 дней назад

      Monty Python Came Up With It like they cam up with transgenderism

  • @craigkdillon
    @craigkdillon Год назад +369

    I had experiences in the UK that seemed like Monty Python episodes.
    First experience ---
    It was the winter of '91. The coldest winter ever.
    A blizzard destroyed Brit Rails new trains. Snow was ingested into the electric motors and shorted them out.
    People couldn't get to work throughout the realm. They were pissed.
    Parliament talked about nothing else.
    The nation was at a standstill.
    Fortunately, I used a diesel line out of Waterloo Station.
    I came home, turned on the telly, and watched the news.
    There was Brit Rail spokesman, stiff and wooden (like John Cleese).
    A reporter (like Michael Palin) asked him the question
    "What happened?"
    The Cleese-like spokesman calmly answered ----
    "Wrong kind of snow" (actual quote).
    I fell on the floor laughing. Composed myself quickly - I did not want to miss the follow-up question. --- (How many kinds of snow are there? What kind of snow were you expecting? etc. ANYTHING.)
    But, the reporter turned to the camera and said, "There you have it, wrong kind of snow, and back to you....".
    Now, that really happened. Look it up.
    That was a real-life Monty Python skit.

    • @michaelbauers8800
      @michaelbauers8800 Год назад +53

      I always think of the british as erring on the side of understatement. I was hanging out with friends, new years eve, We were in a primitive cabin, in the middle of northern minnesota. So I have my shortwave radio. We were drinking beer, playing a boardgame, and listening to the BBC on shortware. It was mainly news. Then at midnight in the UK, the announcer says "As it's nearly midnight, we will take you to big ben, for the chiming of midnight." (Big Ben Chimes 12 times.) "It's now midnight, a new year. Back to the news". We all laughed at this, being so used to the american way of trying to hype up everything.

    • @craigkdillon
      @craigkdillon Год назад +63

      @@michaelbauers8800 Very true.
      But, it is still a crazy country.
      Note my next story ----
      I worked in London, lived in Esher, Surrey.
      Each morning, I took the diesel train into Waterloo Station. British trains run like clockwork and are very reliable.
      I am relaxed, on the train, reading the paper. All the passengers were reading the paper.
      Then -- the train slowly rolls to a stop. No station. It just stopped rolling.
      I looked around trying to figure "what is going on?"
      All the Brits just acted like everything was OK, and stayed calm, as if they didn't care.
      I am an American. I had to get to work. I had appointments to make, and business to do. I was getting agitated, asking people, "What's going on?" "Should we stage a train mutiny?" Something !!
      The Brits just looked at me blankly, as if they were saying to themselves, "what is wrong with these Americans??"
      Anyway, the train speaker crackles to life, and it says, "Pardon for the delay, there are swans on the line". W T F ? ?
      Swans??? In Chicago, if there were swans, geese, or any birds on the line, we would not stop our trains. METRA would have made pate out of them.
      BUT -- in UK, they stop for swans?!?!?
      Well, it turns out, ALL the swans in all of UK belong to the queen. No one f**ks with the Queen's swans. She will mess you up if you do.
      My conclusion?? Britain is a crazy country.

    • @Bestself2015
      @Bestself2015 Год назад +11

      @@craigkdillonhaha, I really enjoyed reading your stories. You have a natural gift my friend. One of the few regrets I have was I wish I worked in the UK in my early 20’s as I have always been fascinated with the country. I did do a backpacking trip in 2019 for 3 weeks but ended up spending most of my time in Scotland and visiting the various breweries. I do miss some millionaire shortbread as I have never seen that sold anywhere here in the US.

    • @nothingposted9056
      @nothingposted9056 Год назад +11

      @@craigkdillon Britain is the crazy one, and not the country that would turn swans into paté?

    • @nothingposted9056
      @nothingposted9056 Год назад

      I arrived in Britain last August, I'm hanging out by a beach town, and I read a sign outside of a Fish shop that says, and I quote "#pollockstopputin: Russia owns half of Europe's stocks. Sanctions have added at least 35% to the price of cod. So, we're saying Pollocks to Putin! IF YOU WANT TO SAY THAT TOO, BUY SOME EUROPEAN CAUGHT POLLOCK AND CHIPS!"
      A few days later, and for seemingly unrelated reasons, the Queen died.

  • @blondegirlsezthis8798
    @blondegirlsezthis8798 Год назад +129

    Terry Giliam went from using a 2 dollar dishrack as a prop to making films that went 50 million over budget and I'm here for both!

    • @Polxzaw
      @Polxzaw 2 месяца назад +2

      Terry Giliam is a goat, I loved adventures of Monchauser

  • @matthewtalbot-paine7977
    @matthewtalbot-paine7977 Год назад +980

    Ironically everyone expected the Spanish inquisition because they not only told people they were being investigated but gave them time to get their defence in order.

    • @blastermasterguy
      @blastermasterguy Год назад +104

      Even though whatever defense people accused by the Spanish Inquisition could possibly mount would ultimately be overturned regardless of how sane it was due to the Inquisition quite literally viewing everyone they persecuted as heratics.

    • @ElizabethPrentice-zy1ec
      @ElizabethPrentice-zy1ec Год назад +44

      I think the forewarning was tocrank up the anticipation and fear

    • @Pumpherstonsmith
      @Pumpherstonsmith Год назад +2

      You`ve been watching QI.

    • @HansDelbruck53
      @HansDelbruck53 Год назад +5

      @@blastermasterguy heretics

    • @chheinrich8486
      @chheinrich8486 Год назад +16

      ​@@HansDelbruck53well most of the Inquisition targeted former jews and Muslims, actually

  • @craigkdillon
    @craigkdillon Год назад +469

    I once loved Monty Python for its surreal humor.
    Then, I lived outside of London for three years.
    I stopped enjoying its surreal humor.
    I started enjoying it as documentary on actual British life.
    I learned and saw so much living there.
    What I saw will curdle your cackle bone.

    • @LEGOALEX97
      @LEGOALEX97 Год назад +69

      This sounds like the setup for a sketch
      "Here is John Sawyer. He's visiting the United Kingdom for the first time, and experiencing the queen's horrors firsthand"

    • @DavidELD
      @DavidELD Год назад +46

      @@LEGOALEX97 "Only those that are fortunate enough to exist outside of British society, are blessed with copious amounts of sanity."
      "Those that are born in Birmingham, are not."

    • @christopherchander2754
      @christopherchander2754 Год назад +3

      @craigkdillon
      Please do elaborate.
      I'm quite curious.

    • @craigkdillon
      @craigkdillon Год назад +60

      @@christopherchander2754 OK.
      This is real. Nothing added or exaggerated.
      Winter of 1992. The worst winter on record.
      BritRail had gotten hundreds of new train electric train cars.
      Most trains in Britain are electric. I lived in Cobham, near Esher, on a diesel line out of Waterloo Station.
      Many of the new train cars had their engines burning out, because snow was being sucked into the electric motors.
      Millions were stuck at home or at work. People were pissed.
      Parliament was at a standstill. MPs complaining, and yelling at each other.
      The whole government stopped on this one issue.
      I was very interested, and very lucky to be on a diesel line.
      Ok, I worked in The City - central London. I came home, plopped down in front of the telly to see what happened that day for BritRail.
      Turned on the News. There was a BritRail spokesman - stiff, and humorless (like John Cleese) and a reporter (eager, and small) like Michael Palin.
      The Palin like reporter asked "what happened??"
      The stiff, humorless, BritRail spokesmen then said -----
      "Wrong kind of snow".
      I Fell out of my chair laughing. I had to control myself. I wanted to hear the incisive question the reporter would surely ask.
      "What kind of snow did you expect?" or
      "How many kinds of snow are there?, Something.
      B U T --- the reporter turned to the camera and said, "there you have it, Wrong kind of snow. And back to you."
      Now if that isn't a Monty Python skit, I don't know what is.
      Like I said, Monty Python is NOT comedy.
      It is documentary.

    • @craigkdillon
      @craigkdillon Год назад +7

      @@christopherchander2754 BTW -- I do have more.

  • @morbius109
    @morbius109 2 месяца назад +20

    0:32 - I always loved that little sideways hop Michael Palin does when they enter, lol.

  • @omegahyperes96
    @omegahyperes96 10 месяцев назад +24

    I wasn't expecting this to be even more hilarious as the years went by 😂

  • @knight4883
    @knight4883 Год назад +78

    The grandma smiling when she was put in the comfy chair just makes me crack 🤣🤣

  • @aquamarine99911
    @aquamarine99911 Год назад +310

    Terry's such an underrated performer.

    • @CalHarding01
      @CalHarding01 Год назад +20

      He was really committed to that cardinal. The expression on his face when someone else is talking is hilarious.

    • @heavywestern5943
      @heavywestern5943 Год назад +11

      which one?

    • @ethelredhardrede1838
      @ethelredhardrede1838 Год назад

      @@heavywestern5943
      Either of course. Both directed, both 'acted' both wrote. OK so maybe he was talking about Terry Jones but CHarding was likely talking about Terry Gilliam. Then again no one ever accused Gilliam of being a good actor. Hmm, among actors neither has been accused of such. Oh bugger.

    • @dannyspelman1468
      @dannyspelman1468 Год назад +10

      Which Terry? Gilliam or Jones?

    • @aquamarine99911
      @aquamarine99911 Год назад +18

      @@dannyspelman1468 Yes, sorry, I meant Gilliam. (Terry Jones, or any of the other four main guys, would NEVER be underrated by me).
      I loved Gilliam's movies, particularly Brazil and Fisher King, so it's always a treat to seem him ham it up in a sketch.

  • @shawncrosby5076
    @shawncrosby5076 Год назад +37

    Nobody can even come close to the brilliance, majesty & hilarity that the Monty Python cast brought to the world of comedy!

  • @179cpv
    @179cpv Год назад +269

    I love how the one Inquisitor wears a World War I pilot hat 😅

  • @kevincaldwell4707
    @kevincaldwell4707 Год назад +102

    Thanks for this RUclips, it's not like I expected the Spanish Inquisition...

    • @Cdearle
      @Cdearle Год назад +19

      Nobody expected you to expect the Spanish Inquisition

    • @MLaak86
      @MLaak86 Год назад +7

      “No body expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!”

    • @matanuigaming2556
      @matanuigaming2556 6 месяцев назад +1

      NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!!!

  • @nemo6686
    @nemo6686 Год назад +68

    Watching this and a car alarm goes off across the street exactly as they first jump in - most unexpected!!

    • @craigmclean8260
      @craigmclean8260 Год назад +8

      "Nobody expects the Spanish--" BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! "--Oh, bugger!!"

    • @RKroese
      @RKroese Год назад +1

      Well, nobody expects the Spanish eeh... Okay...

  • @monolithsound
    @monolithsound Год назад +39

    Gilliam's animation. I think he must have been very much out of his mind during their construction! So insane, and hilarious!

  • @deerfish3000
    @deerfish3000 Год назад +26

    "And where the hell was Biggles, when you needed him last Saturday?"

  • @countiblis1246
    @countiblis1246 6 месяцев назад +9

    The diabolical laughter (and acting) of Cardinals Ximinez, Biggles and Fang never ceases to terrify.

  • @funkydozer
    @funkydozer Год назад +92

    It’s impossible to mention the Spanish Inquisition to Brits now without somebody thinking of this sketch, it is so entrenched in British culture

    • @NONO-hz4vo
      @NONO-hz4vo Год назад +3

      Curious when or if it will leave. Will kids stop showing it to their kids or will the broadcast TV quality be so foreign that people stop watching and it dies.

    • @H-Zazoo
      @H-Zazoo Год назад +2

      I was in high school in the UK in the late 70s. We pretty much just lived Python all day.

    • @45CaliberCure
      @45CaliberCure 7 месяцев назад +4

      Same here in the U.S., although, I'm not sure about the younger generation. They're into weird shit that I can't keep up with. 😁

  • @peterhewson3216
    @peterhewson3216 3 месяца назад +12

    The day after this was broadcast most of our class were re-enacting this with the "unexpected cry" during a French lesson. As a punishment we had to translate the phrase into french: personne n'attend la Inquisition espagniole. I can still remember it after 50 years which is more than I can say for the rest of the lessons in their entirety.

  • @rupertschwarz5477
    @rupertschwarz5477 Год назад +76

    Michael Palin is so brilliant

    • @beorlingo
      @beorlingo Год назад +1

      It's it "Paylin" or Palin, really. Actually I think I've heard Cleese pronounce it both ways in 1 single interview!

    • @babytigerbeats
      @babytigerbeats 10 месяцев назад

      “I’ll come in again” reliably kills me every time, all these years later… 😂

  • @Kagomai15
    @Kagomai15 10 лет назад +114

    "You don't know me but I'm from BBC. We were wondering if you'd come and answer the door in a sketch over there in that sort of direction..."
    Where is the 4th wall though??

    • @hellomate639
      @hellomate639 9 лет назад +5

      animarune isnotmyfirstname Monty Python breaks the fourth wall frequently.

    • @Kagomai15
      @Kagomai15 9 лет назад +1

      I know and I love every second of it !

    • @prylosecorsomething3194
      @prylosecorsomething3194 7 лет назад +4

      The fourth wall never exists

    • @Retro_Red
      @Retro_Red Год назад +2

      This show never had a fourth wall.

  • @brunobucciaratiswife
    @brunobucciaratiswife 6 месяцев назад +15

    I love the way they just *jump* from the side into the room 😭

  • @jimlang7461
    @jimlang7461 Год назад +26

    i first saw this in 1976 or so.. watching it again Iliterally laughed out loud

  • @colinmoore7460
    @colinmoore7460 Год назад +13

    The biggest joke is that the Spanish Inquisition was by appointment.

  • @brianschapp6996
    @brianschapp6996 9 лет назад +39

    Ah, the Spanish Inquisition. A welcomed refresh from the Roman Inquisition.

  • @billy1673
    @billy1673 Год назад +45

    Every Sunday night of my childhood was spent watching this show!🤣👍🏻🇬🇧🇺🇸

    • @SpeckleKen
      @SpeckleKen Год назад +4

      A childhood lasting only 45 Sundays. And you try and tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe you.

  • @Kjata316
    @Kjata316 Год назад +72

    😂 I love this skit so much. They’re all so cute! The look Terry Jones has when he has to turn the rack !!!

  • @Autopsy6
    @Autopsy6 Год назад +18

    Hurrah for Carol Cleveland!

  • @halwasserman7905
    @halwasserman7905 Год назад +54

    Nobody may expect it but it's always welcome. Love the bit where she tears up the photographs. My father was once sitting with an elderly relative who was showing him pictures of her grandchildren or somebody and my dad (an awful person for the most part) told her he did not want to see the pictures. She was outraged.

    • @andyman8630
      @andyman8630 Год назад +1

      outraged! when you let your inner rage out!

    • @mattrogers5188
      @mattrogers5188 Год назад +2

      @@andyman8630 It's actually along the lines of advantage, patronage, arbitrage. It's from Anglo-French outre (beyond) with -age added, from Latin ultra (beyond)

    • @andyman8630
      @andyman8630 Год назад

      @@mattrogers5188
      indeed - 'beyond rage'

  • @msa4548
    @msa4548 Год назад +12

    This makes so much more sense when you realize that drugs were widely used when these were made.

  • @stephenharfield781
    @stephenharfield781 Год назад +64

    I like the ‘oh bugger, at the end.😂

    • @richardrice8076
      @richardrice8076 Год назад +7

      Right before that they're riding on a double deck bus and Michael Palin says" hurry, the credits".

    • @MLaak86
      @MLaak86 Год назад +3

      @@richardrice8076 hell the producer! QUICK!

    • @andrewtaylor8899
      @andrewtaylor8899 Год назад +1

      When the show was originally broadcast the final "oh bugger" was omitted in some BBC regions.

  • @craigkdillon
    @craigkdillon Год назад +18

    I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.
    Thanks.

  • @Ferrindel
    @Ferrindel Год назад +14

    This is so stupid and I love it and it's amazing and I can't get enough.

  • @argelbargel7680
    @argelbargel7680 Год назад +79

    The comfy chair is brutal.

    • @lupodelupis3672
      @lupodelupis3672 Год назад +6

      Yes it's hideous and vicious. It's really an instrument from hell!

    • @Lord_Skeptic
      @Lord_Skeptic Год назад +10

      Not as brutal as the soft cushions

    • @geraldstephens6612
      @geraldstephens6612 Год назад +2

      The fiends !!!!!

    • @kxmode
      @kxmode 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@Lord_Skeptic or the rack! 😩

    • @TheLeebo1962
      @TheLeebo1962 7 месяцев назад +1

      Almost as brutal as tying Mr Bean's shoelaces together.

  • @centralscrutinizer6108
    @centralscrutinizer6108 Год назад +80

    Michael Palin cracks me up too much, I have to say he is my favorite.

  • @cl0wnsh0es27
    @cl0wnsh0es27 Год назад +12

    Some time around 1975 I was clinking the big sundial shaped dial that had between 8 and 10 VHF channels on my TV(the main networks were on this, NBC,ABC,CBS and local and public stations that shared signal output my little TV antenna could pick up.) while clicking from one channel to another I came upon this very sketch.... and a kind of permission seemed to have been granted. It was the way we found our friends. By saying little bits of sketches from Monty python and reenacting them in front of our schoolmates we exposed our irreverence to the world, outing ourselves as Pythons. We naturally would gravitate toward one another for saying things like " I'd like to return this Parrot," or spontaneously singing the "Spam" song.

  • @eliasar5051
    @eliasar5051 5 месяцев назад +7

    I certainly did not expect the Spanish Inquisition in my recommended videos.

  • @MohamedSinclair
    @MohamedSinclair Год назад +100

    Not all of their humour worked, but when it did, it was truly groundbreaking and amazing! We'll never see the like of such again, more's the huge pity!

    • @angry_eck
      @angry_eck Год назад +3

      What youre not a fan of cheese shops

    • @ontheroad5317
      @ontheroad5317 Год назад +7

      For me, pretty much all of their humor worked.

    • @NONO-hz4vo
      @NONO-hz4vo Год назад +1

      @@angry_eck Not much a cheese shop really.

    • @NONO-hz4vo
      @NONO-hz4vo Год назад +1

      @@ontheroad5317 Are you sure? Kind of like people saying SNL in the 80s was hilarious. If you are watching highlights sure, but if you are watching every episode then not so much.

    • @ontheroad5317
      @ontheroad5317 Год назад +2

      @@NONO-hz4vo yeah, when they started showing these on PBS, maybe 50 years ago now, I watched them religiously. I was never disappointed.

  • @matthewpaul6904
    @matthewpaul6904 Год назад +17

    "Nobody expects the...OH BUGGER!"

  • @danielgertler5976
    @danielgertler5976 Год назад +11

    Thanks to this PSA and Mel Brook's documentary "The History of the World Part 1" most people these days are ready to expect the Spanish inquisition.

  • @ryandalton2834
    @ryandalton2834 4 месяца назад +9

    9:25
    Nobody expects the- Oh, bugger!

  • @mirandarights9635
    @mirandarights9635 Год назад +33

    Oh how I loved Monty Python!!! It was the only reason I EVER watched PBS pledge drives!!!😆😆😆😆😆

  • @cricketlou
    @cricketlou Год назад +54

    I grew up watching Monty Python from the time I was 9 or so. I remember seeing the Holy Grail repeatedly at the local drive-in and watched the show every Sunday on PBS. My mom set me up on a blind date who tried to “educate” me on the genius of it all. When I could throw quotes, characters & skits right back at him, he said he was amazed a “girl” could know so much about MP. Then he told my mom I was out of his league and I never heard from him again. Still makes me laugh.

    • @angusbauman7887
      @angusbauman7887 Год назад +2

      You would be one of a kind! 😁

    • @teresabenson3385
      @teresabenson3385 Год назад +7

      Lucky you! No girl wants to be saddled with a mansplainer who is easily threatened.

    • @cricketlou
      @cricketlou Год назад +1

      @@teresabenson3385Amen to that!

  • @markmcarthy596
    @markmcarthy596 3 месяца назад +7

    I specifically went incognito-to a search engine that only speaks ebonics-yet here the Spanish Inquisition finds me

  • @jameshowland7393
    @jameshowland7393 Год назад +17

    "Oh bugger..." Great ending!

  • @sherryluna8325
    @sherryluna8325 Год назад +45

    My ex mother-in- law was Spanish & Portuguese. We would watch this and laugh our butts off. 😂❤😅.
    This is one of my favorite scenes.

  • @enriquesanchez2001
    @enriquesanchez2001 Год назад +12

    The COMFY CHAIR! 🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣

  • @mariannebuckley3841
    @mariannebuckley3841 Год назад +10

    One of my all time favorites
    I would wait till my brother came home from college and we would watch it late at night

  • @prospero4183
    @prospero4183 Год назад +18

    How long in the future will people never expect the Spanish inquisition

    • @lorisewsstuff1607
      @lorisewsstuff1607 Год назад +5

      I raised my children on Monty Python so they could educate future generations.

  • @solentbum
    @solentbum Год назад +13

    Monty Python was almost cult watching when it was first broadcast. I'm waiting for bicycle repair man, non of that Marvel comic rubbish, just a proper hero!

    • @melmeadowside9038
      @melmeadowside9038 2 месяца назад

      I took my son and nephew on holiday with my parents. The kids bikes broke every day. My dad was super bicycle repair man 💙

  • @donaldlove4547
    @donaldlove4547 Год назад +10

    This is so underrated in the history of comedy

  • @SneakyCheeseThief
    @SneakyCheeseThief Месяц назад +4

    I always thought it was hilarious that the ‘costuming’ is from like twelve different historical periods, and none of them fits together. No one ever seems to mention it. It’s clearly intended though - I mean, they dressed three 16th century inquisitors like Cardinal Richelieu and gave one of them aviator goggles from the 1920s.

  • @Reggie-The-Dog
    @Reggie-The-Dog Год назад +9

    I always wonder what happens to those who do in fact expect the Spanish Inquisition.

  • @CybrosPrime
    @CybrosPrime 7 месяцев назад +4

    The "Diabolical Laughter" and "Diabolical Acting" were not expected by me, just like the Spanish Inquisition!

  • @danieldougan269
    @danieldougan269 Год назад +7

    It's interesting how John Cleese was the only person who did expect the Spanish Inquisition.

  • @rjwh67220
    @rjwh67220 Год назад +7

    The algorithm gave me this just as I was settling into my comfy chair. I don’t know why, maybe it’s because of my backyard shrine to the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

  • @Clos35
    @Clos35 4 месяца назад +3

    "NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!" (Monty Python's show Flying Circus )

  • @1sirgrandmastermrkingrober216
    @1sirgrandmastermrkingrober216 9 месяцев назад +1

    Tough one to uprate what with jesting towards the honest Coppers & Bobbies etc., but Monty Python always gets the uprate & the upvote, for unmentionable merits, credits, honors, & work, all in good fun.

  • @the_AtomicPunk
    @the_AtomicPunk Год назад +15

    Fun fact: the Spanish Inquisition was actually expected. They were given 30 days notice.

    • @BrookeAuty
      @BrookeAuty Год назад +3

      I'd leave before they arrive.

    • @MN8
      @MN8 7 месяцев назад +1

      I didn't expect that

  • @daniellemhall1358
    @daniellemhall1358 Год назад +6

    Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition indeed. This popped up out of nowhere.

  • @clawofthefallen
    @clawofthefallen 6 месяцев назад +3

    "GIVE THE RACK- oh dear..." He's struggling so hard to stay in character. XD

  • @DragNetJoe
    @DragNetJoe Год назад +45

    While this is a great sketch I find it rather disturbing that I have not searched for it or watched it for years, but I did talk to someone about it today with my phone in my pocket at this was at the top of my recommended list. Just a coincidence, right?

    • @morse_code.y
      @morse_code.y Год назад +12

      Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

    • @carmelopappalardo8477
      @carmelopappalardo8477 Год назад +3

      The inquisitors were spying on you.

    • @GermanLeftist
      @GermanLeftist Год назад +5

      Google Analytics. If you can, try to revoke consent that Google bots follow your every online activity.

    • @Brick_One_A_Lego_Story
      @Brick_One_A_Lego_Story 2 месяца назад +1

      Nobody expects the Google Analytics!

  • @cristinabumbac151
    @cristinabumbac151 Год назад +23

    One of the best satire for spanish inquisition and much deserved! Mel Brooks has a very good one in History of the World.

    • @PedroSteckecilo
      @PedroSteckecilo Год назад +8

      The Inquisition! Lets Begin! The Inquisition... look out sin...

    • @meli7408
      @meli7408 Год назад +4

      The inquisition ! On the show ! The inquisition ! Here we go ! We have a mission !
      Love this movie ❤

    • @JohnSmith-el2nj
      @JohnSmith-el2nj Год назад +4

      Was that the one where you can't talkemarda anything?

  • @mirandatrenholm4504
    @mirandatrenholm4504 Год назад +9

    I never expected the Spanish Inquisition, to keep my customers laughing and sharing their enjoyment of The Great Monty Python!!!! Thank you for all the laughter...
    Thank you for sharing, because no one would expect the Spanish Inquisition!!!!

  • @billcobbett9259
    @billcobbett9259 19 дней назад +3

    I've just advertised a similar chair on my local forum under the heading 'As used by the Spanish Inquisition'

  • @robg2657
    @robg2657 Год назад +10

    It's gold - pure GOLD!! 🤣

  • @Lord_Skeptic
    @Lord_Skeptic Год назад +10

    Nobody expects the span
    Oh bugger

  • @nonosays
    @nonosays Год назад +29

    Never gets old. 😅

  • @Rgoid
    @Rgoid Год назад +22

    The Inquisition!
    What a show!
    The Inquisition!
    Here we go!
    We know you’re wishin’ that we go awaaaaaaay . . .
    but the Inquisition’s here and it’s here to stay!
    The Inquisition, oh, boy!
    The Inquisition, what a joy!
    The Inquisition, oy oy!

  • @annwilliams6438
    @annwilliams6438 Год назад +93

    How on earth did they get through these skits without breaking?! 😂

    • @matthew8153
      @matthew8153 Год назад +20

      Many, many takes.

    • @davidlong1786
      @davidlong1786 Год назад +21

      Palin almost lost it several times I noticed.

    • @coops1964
      @coops1964 Год назад +4

      It was close so many times on watching.

    • @warlordofbritannia
      @warlordofbritannia Год назад +10

      Oh but they did. Watch carefully when the heretic is put to the rack 😂

    • @carmelopappalardo8477
      @carmelopappalardo8477 Год назад +3

      On this series of sketches you can see Palin just covering his mouth and trying to hold back the laughter.

  • @excrono
    @excrono Год назад +52

    This skit is an allegory for how Google operates the RUclips platform, if you create content.
    Fear, surprise, arbitrary copyright strikes, making you confess under duress.
    90 days in the comfy chair.

  • @richardcleveland8549
    @richardcleveland8549 11 месяцев назад +2

    I don't think I ever saw the entire sketch - this is 100 degrees above hilarious!

  • @davidrule385
    @davidrule385 7 месяцев назад +4

    "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" 0:36, 1:14, 1:46, 5:06, 9:26 (before being interrupted by title card reading "The end")

  • @jameswilliams3241
    @jameswilliams3241 Год назад +6

    DAMN! THEY GOT ME AGAIN! NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

  • @glassesmemerman
    @glassesmemerman Год назад +4

    I didn't expect Monty Python in my recommendation.

  • @masterofallthelakesintown2472
    @masterofallthelakesintown2472 Год назад +24

    I didn’t know that dr. Robotnic was so into Catholicism back then.

    • @matanuigaming2556
      @matanuigaming2556 3 месяца назад +1

      Just as what Movie Dr. Eggman says.... "Nobody cares!!!!:

    • @franchest1454
      @franchest1454 3 месяца назад

      Nobody spected that

  • @iainritchie988
    @iainritchie988 Год назад +109

    Still funnier than the modern crap we suffer these days long live the Spanish Inquisition may it never be expected

  • @protoclown4717
    @protoclown4717 6 дней назад +1

    Terry Gilliam's diabolical Cardinal Fang with his e-vil expression is the Spanish Inquisition's secret weapon.

  • @chrissteed8170
    @chrissteed8170 4 месяца назад +4

    Someone needs to teach Cardinal Ximinez how to count.

  • @iflarnted
    @iflarnted 10 месяцев назад +2

    I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition but the Spanish Inquisition burst into my room and told me to knock it off or I'd face a Spanish Inquisition.

  • @andrewlorenz3139
    @andrewlorenz3139 Год назад +4

    So glad I saw this live at the O2 in London.

  • @jasonsmouse6570
    @jasonsmouse6570 2 месяца назад +1

    I love this skit so freaking much! Funny thing is, towns were warned well in advance when an inquisition team was doing a visit.

  • @lakonikos8791
    @lakonikos8791 Год назад +3

    What a relief when she said “I don’t understand”

  • @davidcreager1945
    @davidcreager1945 Год назад +4

    Best Python sketch ever !! The second is the Spam sketch 😂😂😂

  • @CliffSedge-nu5fv
    @CliffSedge-nu5fv 4 месяца назад +3

    No one inquires the Spanish Expectation!

  • @biet1
    @biet1 Год назад +6

    First saw it in San Antonio on PBS all of 14 years old (the Gilliam animation of the hammy opera singer and the canon)…”what in the $¥# is THIS?!”…the infectious insanity and occasional bare breasts hooked me for life

  • @NovaRuner
    @NovaRuner Год назад +7

    It’s like if villains were trying to be all evil and tough and nasty, while there brains are also suffering from a chronic and ongoing case of being “a total and complete moron”
    And it’s funny! They try so hard, and fail so badly. Sad, yet so funny.

  • @hudsonsilver4482
    @hudsonsilver4482 3 месяца назад +2

    That's why will be forever so good