Death Shows Up | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

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  • Опубликовано: 22 мар 2024
  • Death (John Cleese) makes himself comfortable as he joins for dinner and continuously repeats he is the Grim Reaper.
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  • @maxthepupp
    @maxthepupp Месяц назад +1293

    Aw, man..!
    THEY CUT THE BEST PART!!!!
    "waitaminute....I didn't have the mousse.."

    • @CFox.7
      @CFox.7 Месяц назад +22

      so how did that person die ?

    • @Bfdidc
      @Bfdidc Месяц назад +64

      And them taking their cars to Heaven.

    • @jashugg
      @jashugg Месяц назад +42

      @@Bfdidcyes lol, “shall we take the Volvo?” or similar!

    • @roguejester4986
      @roguejester4986 Месяц назад +14

      That part was not even on script.

    • @MrPatrickworthington
      @MrPatrickworthington Месяц назад +26

      @@CFox.7 She didn't. But she went along with the others.

  • @sstaners1234
    @sstaners1234 Месяц назад +651

    “Who is it?”
    “It’s a Mr Death or something. He’s come about the reaping?”🤣😂🤣

    • @mrstandfast2212
      @mrstandfast2212 Месяц назад +25

      "It's one of the little men from the village."

    • @edhoughton2609
      @edhoughton2609 Месяц назад +6

      @@mrstandfast2212 "Would you prefer white? I'm afraid we don't have any beer!"

    • @HerrPoopenstein
      @HerrPoopenstein Месяц назад +1

      VERY middle class British response😂

    • @J0Ecorreia
      @J0Ecorreia Месяц назад

      Worst comment thread ever.

  • @CaptainAhab117
    @CaptainAhab117 Месяц назад +622

    I like how Death takes the time to insult both the Americans and the English. At least he doesn't play favorites.

  • @WUZLE
    @WUZLE Месяц назад +587

    "Well, that's cast rather a gloom over the evening."

    • @experi-mentalproductions5358
      @experi-mentalproductions5358 Месяц назад +15

      I say this every Christmas dinner when someone feels the need to bring up all the family members who've died since last Christmas.

  • @JohnInTheShelter
    @JohnInTheShelter Месяц назад +310

    "Well you're dead now, so shut up!"

  • @cpuuk
    @cpuuk Месяц назад +162

    The gag on the Salmon Mousse is double, you see back in the 1970s the UK had a spate of food poisonings from canned salmon, some fatal.

  • @Joey-JoJo-Jr.64
    @Joey-JoJo-Jr.64 Месяц назад +807

    “The Salmon Mousse !” One of the greatest lines in cinematic history.

    • @Useaname
      @Useaname Месяц назад +48

      Or, "Hey, I didn't even eat the mousse"

    • @JZsBFF
      @JZsBFF Месяц назад +5

      Lucky me. I hate fish.

    • @jamesvan2201
      @jamesvan2201 Месяц назад +6

      Gets me every time.

    • @cybershark3095
      @cybershark3095 Месяц назад +6

      A mousse once bit my sister.

    • @silentrage8961
      @silentrage8961 Месяц назад +10

      "I fart in YOUR general direction!"💨

  • @maraudostrogoth747
    @maraudostrogoth747 Месяц назад +205

    "Well you're dead now so SHUT UP!"
    -Death

    • @Censored.225
      @Censored.225 Месяц назад +2

      Love it!😂

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 Месяц назад +1

      "And, deaths the final word"

    • @madnox9538
      @madnox9538 24 дня назад

      So Castlevanias Death has a predecessor.

  • @Elric54
    @Elric54 Месяц назад +87

    Notices the scythe... "Is this about the hedges?"

  • @howlingguardian9005
    @howlingguardian9005 Месяц назад +270

    You have to gve that man points- Death might have said the British don't have balls, but this guy put five bullets in Death. You can't say he didn't try!

    • @vailpcs4040
      @vailpcs4040 Месяц назад +20

      yeah, in his back...

    • @edwardbirdsall6580
      @edwardbirdsall6580 Месяц назад +7

      Is that firearm registered with the local British Police?

    • @WokerThanThou
      @WokerThanThou Месяц назад +7

      It would have made more sense to have the American pull out his conceal and carry.

    • @grmpf
      @grmpf 21 день назад +1

      ​@@WokerThanThou Would you have preferred it if the thing that made sense happened in a Monty Python film?

    • @emillyyelen5169
      @emillyyelen5169 19 дней назад +1

      @@vailpcs4040 actually he just shot up his house...

  • @TheScientist43
    @TheScientist43 Месяц назад +90

    "Well, DO get Mr. Death a drink, darling." 🤣

  • @yankee1376
    @yankee1376 Месяц назад +134

    "Is this about the hedge?"

  • @jakelevinson7802
    @jakelevinson7802 Месяц назад +57

    Oh, you cut out the best moment, “ but I didn’t have the salmon?”

  • @myleschilton3473
    @myleschilton3473 11 дней назад +5

    Those boys always looked comfortable in drag. Oxbridge style.

  • @missopowers
    @missopowers Месяц назад +135

    My mother made salmon mousse once for a fancy dinner we were having with guests. My little brother, maybe 5 or 6 years old, called it "fish jello" and put everyone off. I can't recall that she ever made it again.

    • @maggs131
      @maggs131 Месяц назад +4

      Is salmon mousse a uk thing? Here in the states I've never seen or even heard of it

    • @janedoe-hq9vn
      @janedoe-hq9vn 19 дней назад +2

      That's downright funny! I bet she was pissed! 😂😂😂

    • @jontruss3781
      @jontruss3781 18 дней назад +2

      The old British mariners suffered from lead poisoning from the soldering on the canned salmon.......

  • @Kyle-ir6ij
    @Kyle-ir6ij Месяц назад +61

    That's a good impression of death especially for Monty Python standards

    • @unsinnkim3690
      @unsinnkim3690 Месяц назад +2

      Rather good indeed.

    • @Abi-kk4nl
      @Abi-kk4nl Месяц назад +1

      The thumbnail scared me

    • @edhoughton2609
      @edhoughton2609 Месяц назад +7

      Yes - there's a great shot of the Reaper waiting on the moors before he comes to the door. A very atmospheric and chilling shot. He moves without moving, if you get me, but they didn't show that part here, it started with him just knocking on the door.

  • @foxythejokerfox87
    @foxythejokerfox87 Месяц назад +86

    How Could We All Have Died At The Same Time?
    Grim Reaper:................ *points* THE SALMON MOUSSE....*dramatic music plays*
    that always cracked me up 😆

    • @strike1977
      @strike1977 Месяц назад +8

      ‘I’m most dreadfully embarrassed’ 😅

  • @qwargy
    @qwargy Месяц назад +57

    Haha the way the most terrifying supernatural ever spins around when he gets interrupted by their inane comments😂

    • @thorstenguenther
      @thorstenguenther Месяц назад +4

      Who is the more terrifying supernatural being though - death or the taxman?

    • @edhoughton2609
      @edhoughton2609 Месяц назад +4

      Yes brilliant - classic Python, this should be the most terrifying moment of their lives and they are all just wittering on around him, no wonder Death was getting more and more frustrated and angry, he wasn't getting through to any of them.

    • @JohnDough-yr2zt
      @JohnDough-yr2zt 29 дней назад

      Hahahaha

  • @novavon88
    @novavon88 Месяц назад +162

    Funny to hear Terry Gilliam being an American doing an American accent.

    • @professornuke7562
      @professornuke7562 Месяц назад +4

      It's about the only time he every got truly let off the chain.

    • @cygnustsp
      @cygnustsp Месяц назад

      Umm he was born and grew up in USA

    • @landonmiller6943
      @landonmiller6943 Месяц назад +3

      @@cygnustsp Renounced his American citizenship and now a British citizen...tax reasons I believe.

    • @strangelee4400
      @strangelee4400 Месяц назад +2

      @@landonmiller6943
      How does he shoot his guns then?

    • @cygnustsp
      @cygnustsp Месяц назад +1

      @@landonmiller6943 yeah but that don't change your accent lol

  • @gandalfstormcrow8439
    @gandalfstormcrow8439 Месяц назад +175

    "Wait a minute, I didn't have to salmon mousse

  • @TurboLoveTrain
    @TurboLoveTrain Месяц назад +29

    Meta.
    also:
    4:27 "none of you have any balls"
    cut to Eric Idol dressed as a woman looking shocked

  • @bob_thebuilder
    @bob_thebuilder Месяц назад +66

    Missed the part where they get in their cars to follow him

  • @dennisbraun5747
    @dennisbraun5747 Месяц назад +112

    Michael Palin's smug look when he asks "how can we all have died at the same time" is priceless.

    • @jdgustofwinddance.7748
      @jdgustofwinddance.7748 Месяц назад +8

      Also, when he asks if there is an afterlife.

    • @geigertec5921
      @geigertec5921 Месяц назад +12

      He makes a very convincing woman with the way he delivers those sassy lines.

    • @kimsoares3271
      @kimsoares3271 15 дней назад

      If I remember correctly, when they are walking away the character remarks; ”Hey! I didn’t even have the salmon mousse!”😂

  • @stingerjohnny9951
    @stingerjohnny9951 Месяц назад +13

    Honestly, unloading a gun into him was relatable. You never know unless you try right? And he had nothing to lose 🤣

  • @michaelzawadzki6436
    @michaelzawadzki6436 Месяц назад +70

    Monty Python!!!! The GREATEST comedy troupe in WORLD history!!!

  • @theyearwas1473
    @theyearwas1473 Месяц назад +160

    When I bought my house it came with a scythe hanging in the garage. It's got to be over 100 years old. I would refuse to get rid of it just in case it belongs to a man who's on vacation and wears a black robe and misplaced his work tools. I feel he'd be more upset if I threw it away.

    • @SilverShards
      @SilverShards Месяц назад

      Congratulations, you are the new death. Since its taking a vacation, you do its chores.

    • @darcreven5497
      @darcreven5497 Месяц назад +4

      Or maybe the owner of the scythe tried the salmon mousse when he went to reap the past owners of the house. 😂

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 Месяц назад

      Property of Mr. Joe Black
      No relation

    • @JohnDough-yr2zt
      @JohnDough-yr2zt 29 дней назад +1

      I got one with my property, too. I use it instead of a weed whacker.

  • @f.frederickskitty2910
    @f.frederickskitty2910 Месяц назад +25

    😂 My husband and I saw this in the theaters when we were in high school. We ditched class and were the only people there on a weekday.

  • @malcolmclements9254
    @malcolmclements9254 Месяц назад +30

    This is why tinned Salmon tins are so strong. Never buy a tin which has been dented or damaged.

  • @paulgoshorn4827
    @paulgoshorn4827 Месяц назад +30

    It’s social death to serve canned salmon.

    • @vilefly
      @vilefly Месяц назад +1

      (eyes the potential shame cans in his cupboard nervously with compound eyes)

  • @Ming1975
    @Ming1975 Месяц назад +27

    That's one awesome cloth based costume of death!

  • @johnwestcott5612
    @johnwestcott5612 2 месяца назад +28

    That’s some dark comedy.

  • @Jowda1467
    @Jowda1467 Месяц назад +23

    You should have shown it to the end, when they all agree that they might as well take the car to follow death 🤣

  • @moussetache1815
    @moussetache1815 Месяц назад +8

    04:35 I will never get tired of this expression. Michael Palin rules!

    • @edhoughton2609
      @edhoughton2609 Месяц назад

      Yes - brilliant, a superb comic actor like they all were. and look at Terry Jones done up as the drunk woman - superb. I don't recognise the guy with the bow tie though, just one of their mates I guess.

  • @TramJizzle
    @TramJizzle Месяц назад +20

    Michael Palin always makes me laugh 😂😂

  • @prospero4183
    @prospero4183 Месяц назад +11

    Nobody ever suspects the salmon moose, that is its greatest weapon

    • @user-pb7bt9nf9i
      @user-pb7bt9nf9i Месяц назад +1

      Fear and surprise, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope..

    • @ralphoperaphile
      @ralphoperaphile Месяц назад +1

      "moose"?!🤣

    • @adamcole4623
      @adamcole4623 Месяц назад

      @@ralphoperaphile It's a salmon-coloured moose! :D

  • @timbrown8038
    @timbrown8038 Месяц назад +22

    It's a Mister Death or something.

  • @j.dmetalhead7517
    @j.dmetalhead7517 Месяц назад +13

    " I didn't have the mousse"

  • @seanys
    @seanys Месяц назад +19

    All of the times I seen this movie and I’ve only just realised it’s John.

  • @user-pb7bt9nf9i
    @user-pb7bt9nf9i Месяц назад +25

    Death comes knocking and they make him wait.

  • @Suedetussy
    @Suedetussy Месяц назад +3

    „I‘m most dreadfully embarrassed.“ 😂
    I‘ve laughed over this sentence every now and then, when it happens to cross my mind. It’s such an understatement . I just can’t! 🤣

  • @truthveritas8730
    @truthveritas8730 Месяц назад +11

    " he's come about the... reaping?"

  • @professornuke7562
    @professornuke7562 Месяц назад +16

    It's Christmas time in heaven
    There's great films on TV
    The Sound of Music twice a day
    And Jaws 1,2 and 3.

    • @inisipisTV
      @inisipisTV Месяц назад +1

      Oh, no. Not Jaws 3.😬

    • @jongruber4494
      @jongruber4494 Месяц назад

      Even the hot chix in parts 2 & 3 couldn't save the scripts, I personally kept rooting for the shark..........

  • @ADAPTATION7
    @ADAPTATION7 Месяц назад +10

    He's the reapo man.

  • @tamphex
    @tamphex Месяц назад +48

    I cannot BELIEVE you totally missed the punchline!

  • @thegreatvantastic5689
    @thegreatvantastic5689 Месяц назад +30

    you skipped the punch line.

  • @foxcell
    @foxcell Месяц назад +7

    Is it about the hedge 😅 classic lol

  • @ayndie38
    @ayndie38 Месяц назад +9

    Is this about the hedge? 😂😂😂

  • @vadersfather1248
    @vadersfather1248 Месяц назад +24

    It’s one of the little men from the village always cracks me up and you left out I didn’t have the salmon mousse

  • @Wandjina104
    @Wandjina104 Месяц назад +8

    It's one of the little people from the village.

  • @Einwetok
    @Einwetok Месяц назад +30

    The mousse even made it's way into the video game.

    • @blackdragoncyrus
      @blackdragoncyrus Месяц назад +2

      its*

    • @Einwetok
      @Einwetok Месяц назад

      @@blackdragoncyrus It's really sad when a closet Word Nazi misspells😁 their own correction.

    • @charlesjunior5087
      @charlesjunior5087 Месяц назад +1

      There was a video game??

    • @Einwetok
      @Einwetok Месяц назад

      @@charlesjunior5087 late 90's early 2000's. It had a whole library of markers you could use. Fun if you're a python fan.

  • @barkingmouse8152
    @barkingmouse8152 Месяц назад +5

    "Let's take the cars"

  • @rcnelson
    @rcnelson Месяц назад +9

    Quite naturally Death speaks with a croak.

  • @MrOrmanley
    @MrOrmanley Месяц назад +2

    "None of you have any balls!"
    I'm quite certain even the women have them.

  • @persephoneblack888
    @persephoneblack888 Месяц назад +2

    Castlevania Death and this Death have a bit in common 🤣

  • @Foebane72
    @Foebane72 Месяц назад +1

    It's part of the Monty Python humour that none of the people in this house are freaked out over a hooded figure that has skeletal hands and can glide through tables!

  • @wazza33racer
    @wazza33racer Месяц назад +3

    the real joke is, they were already dead, and thats how they could "see" him.

  • @herrlogan17
    @herrlogan17 Месяц назад +19

    "shut up, you american" :) :)

    • @marzipanmonkey
      @marzipanmonkey Месяц назад +1

      "You always talk, you Americans...."

    • @ev6558
      @ev6558 Месяц назад

      Can't stop talking, how else would your leaders know what to do if we didn't tell them.

  • @trevorsmith7753
    @trevorsmith7753 Месяц назад +2

    The real grim reapers wear skullcaps.

  • @RobertEskuri
    @RobertEskuri Месяц назад +8

    They make him wait because they insist on driving their cars to heaven too.

    • @letolethe3344
      @letolethe3344 Месяц назад +1

      And then show ghosts of the cars pull away, leaving the cars' "bodies" behind!

  • @jwenneberg
    @jwenneberg Месяц назад +8

    You left out "...but I didn't even eat the Salmon".

  • @tinytim71301
    @tinytim71301 Месяц назад +2

    Eric Idle in drag is funny

  • @paulschofield2630
    @paulschofield2630 21 день назад +2

    Its classic 😂😅 uking ❤ hilarious yes best line omitted " I didn't have the mouse " !!! 😂😅😊

  • @billy1673
    @billy1673 Месяц назад +6

    To this day I will not eat salmon mousse!

  • @johnmichaelson9173
    @johnmichaelson9173 9 дней назад

    Any excuse to get the frocks out, smh. 😆Absolutely brilliant. 😂

  • @timl.b.2095
    @timl.b.2095 Месяц назад +2

    Amazing, a Python sketch I've never seen.

  • @markpaterson2053
    @markpaterson2053 Месяц назад +2

    Underrated movie; people always say how it's the worst Monty Python movie--just shows how great the other movies really are.

    • @stevemarshall4822
      @stevemarshall4822 Месяц назад +1

      I'd say it was the second best, by a narrow margin.

    • @edhoughton2609
      @edhoughton2609 Месяц назад

      Well the Meaning of Life was just a series of loosely connected sketches but it was everything the Pythons wanted to do on television but the BBC wouldn't let them, organ donations, every sperm is sacred, over-eating, sex education cranked up to the max, the list goes on....

    • @jetuber
      @jetuber Месяц назад

      It's the best Python movie, and by a long shot.

  • @mr.t114
    @mr.t114 Месяц назад +2

    Splendid scene, Monty Python experimented a lot but when they´re good they´re rather excellent.

  • @wucebrayne
    @wucebrayne Месяц назад

    Remarkable how he was able to understand everyone, being deaf and all.

  • @user-wt7rm1ze3i
    @user-wt7rm1ze3i Месяц назад +2

    Ok I really need to watch this lol

  • @jeremyfusenliu3859
    @jeremyfusenliu3859 Месяц назад +8

    They give 'inviting death in' a literal meaning 😂

  • @craigarmstrong5291
    @craigarmstrong5291 Месяц назад +2

    I always judge A Christmas Carol by how well they do thr Ghost of Christmas future this would of fitted so well in that story as it does in this little masterpiece from the meaning of life film 🎥 🎞
    🎉🎉🎉

  • @definitelynotthequestion5359
    @definitelynotthequestion5359 4 дня назад

    "I was just testing"
    This is how i want to go.

  • @reneeelias9514
    @reneeelias9514 Месяц назад +1

    Timeless! Never gets old!

  • @trueoverload8908
    @trueoverload8908 16 дней назад +1

    At least they treated Mr. Death fondly. I think he is too grim. He should cheer up a little. It wouldn't kill him.

  • @Quickdrawingartist
    @Quickdrawingartist 17 дней назад

    I like this Grim Reaper. He seems like a good working man, knows his stuff.

  • @janedoe-hq9vn
    @janedoe-hq9vn 19 дней назад

    The part i love was left out. When they get into their cars, and even the cars died and are a ghost! 😂😂😂

  • @jingboy7
    @jingboy7 14 дней назад

    This movie was the weirdest thing I've ever seen in all my life. And I love it for that

  • @HellOnWheel
    @HellOnWheel Месяц назад +8

    The very concept of salmon mousse sounds utterly disgusting. Has anyone tried it?

    • @fan2jnrc
      @fan2jnrc Месяц назад +2

      But that's absolutely not disgusting haha that's very good. There are many excellent recipes. You mix fresh and smoked salmon with cream, fromage frais, a little mustard, herbs and lemon... Diced cucumber and tomato can be added before serving, along with salmon or trout roe.
      You can serve in shot glasses or on toast. That's delicious.

  • @aaronelya
    @aaronelya 11 дней назад

    I always love when the Pythons "did" American accents. :D

  • @RedTail1-1
    @RedTail1-1 Месяц назад

    I found this on DVD back when I was in the Army at my first duty station. I had also gotten an Xbox from GameStop, Xbox not 360 lol. I watched this movie every single night after playing a little bit of that Hulk game they made for xbox. I went around saying "a fishy, fishy, fishy, oh" for no reason. Great memories.

  • @maraudostrogoth747
    @maraudostrogoth747 Месяц назад +2

    Spoiler alert: It was the salmon mousse.

  • @Baltimoreed
    @Baltimoreed Месяц назад +1

    I don’t remember this Python bit. Good stuff. I had a dream as a kid that I remember to this day, I’m 73 now, where I emptied a .45 auto into the devil. Was in the front yard of my house in Baltimore. Crazy dreams.

  • @rosestorey2189
    @rosestorey2189 Месяц назад

    You left out the end! That's the best part.

  • @Swarm509
    @Swarm509 Месяц назад +8

    I've always wondered if Terry Pratchett saw this version of Death and took some inspiration for his version. Or at the very least what he thought of this scene, I could totally see it in a Diskworld book.

  • @stevetillcock7361
    @stevetillcock7361 Месяц назад +2

    I have seen all of their films and this my favourite.

  • @notreallydavid
    @notreallydavid Месяц назад +7

    The Pythons don't rate this film, but they're wrong. _Love_ its weirdness and misanthropy.

  • @raspherion
    @raspherion 4 дня назад

    Susan: So, Grandfather, how was your trip that planet called Earth?
    Death: It was a peculiar experience; they invited me to dinner.

  • @RussinTirnaNog
    @RussinTirnaNog Месяц назад +4

    Check the height of the candles... some scenes they are higher than in others. They must have been laughing so much between takes.

  • @WaywardSister92
    @WaywardSister92 Месяц назад +1

    Deaths weakness....shhh....it's his own weapon, the scythe itself. 😅

  • @soupbone7345
    @soupbone7345 Месяц назад +2

    Always makes me laugh!! These guys are amazing comedians,actors, they crack me up when they're in drag.😂

  • @triomach3362
    @triomach3362 Месяц назад +3

    A normally humorless subject everyone is interested in.

  • @dirkbenning9489
    @dirkbenning9489 Месяц назад +1

    :" Ihr seid alle tot "! .... :"Diiiie Fisch - schaum - speise"!...... :"Oooooh, das ist aber schade, dabei fühle ich mich doch gar nicht tot"! .... :"Dasssss kommt noch meine Liebe"!
    ❤❤❤😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤪🤪🤪

  • @prokesuk
    @prokesuk Месяц назад +4

    You cut it before Death is shown skipping up the hill

  • @Barot8
    @Barot8 Месяц назад +2

    Such a great scene.

  • @eddenoy321
    @eddenoy321 Месяц назад +1

    I did not know salmon mousse was ever a real thing😁

  • @tecacotes
    @tecacotes 17 дней назад

    When they are leaving, one of them says: "But i didn't even have salmon mousse"!Them shrugs her shoulders and goes anyway.

  • @sakshishekhar5211
    @sakshishekhar5211 12 дней назад

    this is called spirit to live, outwitting dimwits and crashing sarcastic satires!😂🐽💀❤️

  • @quinnholloway5400
    @quinnholloway5400 28 дней назад +1

    To be fair he was just coming to do his job, they were about to die or did die from old food/food that wasnt properly cooked
    He was pretty polite, just got annoyed how it took them a bit to get that he was acutally Death

  • @balloonhatch
    @balloonhatch Месяц назад

    Eric: “But I didn’t have any of the mousse.”

  • @carmaela2689
    @carmaela2689 14 дней назад

    She's "most dreadfully embarrassed" to have used the canned salmon lol