The fact that Arthur and the knights are just a bunch of lunatics role playing and stumbling across actual magical stuff makes scenes like this so much funnier.
The best part is Arthur wasn't even testing his knowledge, he was just asking for clarification. The guy just was so unprepared for someone asking HIM anything that he fumbled his answer. Never be afraid to go against the grain.
@@NostalgicGamerRickOShay Arthur was very careful to refrain from saying anything that indicated his ignorance. Thus he states "As King one mist know these things." Thus he is understood to be ignorant of the speed of the swallow without ever confessing such.
There is a scene when they approach a wall and the guard on the wall chastizes him for having coconuts, arther makes a remark about swallows, than the guards asks a question about swallows but ponders the difference between african or european swallow.. such amazing writing
Same. We like to get under the nerves of our DM and rank up diplomacy and talk our way out of epic fights he set up. Quite fun for the four of us, not very fun for him. The best of trolling imo.
Every time I see "we do X in the game, and the DM is powerless" I know that person has a rubbish/incompetent DM. "The Orc chief's brother was killed by a human, and diplomacy is impossible. He stabs you."
The funniest part was that not even the old man is safe from being thrown into the pit if the question cannot be answered. you could get him by asking a question before he does. heck, you could get him if you don't understand the question, but he doesn't understand it either. I just love the brilliant writing. Lol
The really funny part is if Sir Robin had asked, 'during what time period.' The old would have gone off the bridge, and everyone would have made it across. 5 or six cities were the capital of Assyria at different times.
At one time my acting teacher asked, "What is your name?" and I couldn't resist throwing in "What is your quest?" He chuckled and followed it up with a third question (forgot which one).
One time I was talking to my history teacher about this movie and the rest of the class had never seen it or even heard of it. Neither of us could believe it so he told me to bring the DVD in and we'd all watch it. It was a great lesson when I brought it in
Sir Robin was actually doomed from the start, since Assyria was already nonexistent by that time, and that Assyria itself had many capitals during its lifetime. (Unless Sir Robin managed to ask, "which period?", which may cause the bridge keeper to answer, "I don't know that!", and thrown earlier to the gorge of eternal peril himself.)
assyria technically still exist as a place and medieval people are aware of it . its just that it is no longer the classical assyrians who inhabited it.
He really DID ask five questions. 1. What is your name? 2. What is your quest? 3. What is your favorite color? 4. What is the capital of Assyria? 5. What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? The joke was the first two questions are the same, but he chooses one of three variations for the third question.
I like that Arthur consistently confuses three with five. In the Holy Hand Grenade scene he fail to count to three until corrected, instead counting "one, two, five!"
They probably didn't even had enough money to buy insurance. I read that the reason the final scene was done outside with modern day cops was that they simply ran out of film production budget.
My brother got super pissed off at it the first time he watched it because he was really into knights and the Middle Ages and he wanted see the awesome battle scene but the police ruined it.
When I moved out of my folks place to the party house we'd all cluster around the TV for Monty Python. We loved it. Did our own skits. They're gone and will never be replaced.
The German synchro makes Sir Gallahad at 2:21 even funnier. While he gets thrown into the gorge after saying Blue/Yellow he says "..but I'm colorblind!"
What is your name? The Chosen One of Arroyo. What is your quest? To seek the holy GECK! What is the minimum requirement for the Quick Pockets perk? What do you mean? The statistics or the level requirement? I...I don't know that! (Flies into pit) **Fallout 2 Bridgekeeper Special Encounter**
@@ciprianpopa1503 I know you are being sarcastic but I hope you didn't misunderstand my comment as a complaint about not using real people for the scenes to look genuine. I clearly enjoy the fact that the way they use puppets as substitutes is hilarious. This is a comedy movie after all. :D
I could only imagine audiences when they first saw this got tricked by the intermission to the point when they came back 10 minutes later, the movie was already over without warning.
The way he says "Whaaat?!" has stuck with me since I saw this at the Notting Hill Coronet way back when. I still say "Whaaat?!" in the same way now. Comedy has shaped so much of my language from Python through to the Comic Strip, Blackadder, The Young Ones etc. Love Terry Gilliam's work, Baron Munchausen, Time Bandits, Jabberwocky etc. such a talented chap.
In the german Version. 1. What is your name? 2. What is your quest? 3. What is your favorite color? Blue, no Red. -> during the fly he said "iam color blind" PS all in German
"Look, there's the old man from scene 24!" Never taking themselves seriously is one of their hallmarks. Still, for me, the funniest part of this movie is the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch scene: ruclips.net/video/xOrgLj9lOwk/видео.html Here's the transcript of that scene, brilliantly written: _"And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large chulapas. And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'"_
@@moonscar119Forgot that part! The long windedness of it is what cracks me up, like _"Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached"._ All this just to say "count to three". LOL.
"do YOU believe in God?" "That's a complicated question... Depends on what YOU mean by "God". You see I ..." "Yes or no?" "IT helps no one to be reductive. I believe that... that we are here applies to some degree that, there are forces, larger than us. Now we can get in to this menticality... "YES OR NO?!?"" "The very notion of "believe" itself can be rhetorically whittled to bare nub of its meaning. I'd like to talk to you a lot more about this. Would you be interested in reading in some of my literature?" "NO!!!" Jumps to the pit
Well, so you believe in your savior? If you do you may sun in his name for you are already forgiven if sun and may commit any act if you have true faith. So, do you believe in your savior?
Monty Python was so great. Casually great. They were irreverent and no silliness was safe from their scrutiny. Even themselves. Like the crusades or fine dining or bicycling.
I like to assume that answering the bridgekeeper's questions is not necessary at all and you can just walk past him with him whining "Stop! No! Stop please!"
"Well, you have to know these things when you are a king, you know". Just fantastic. (wonder, did he learn it from the previous episode where he got bounced off another castle having been bogged in discussion on how possibly swallows could have brought coconuts to England)
One of the funniest scenes in any movie. I love the way Python takes a long time to set you up for a joke, then suddenly springs it on you. In this case it's the wind velocity of a swallow and whether it's African or European. The old geezer doesn't have any idea himself, so it's off into the chasm for him too. 🤣
The funny thing is that he was given the answer by the questioning guard on the high wall at the beginning of the film. The answer is that a swallow has to beat it’s wings 43 times per second in order to maintain its airspeed velocity.
@@BenTsangKun I didn't see any mention of ground speed (and I do know the difference between air and ground spd); also velocity has two components - speed and direction making it a vector, where speed is just a scaler - so maybe it isn't redundant after all? Regardless, MP just being as verbose as possible for the audacity of the scene 😀
@@jime8532 You've basically shown that it is not redundant - "airspeed velocity" specifies then the speed component of the air velocity, i.e., the magnitude of the air velocity (y) EDIT: Though now I'm wondering if it means the velocity of the airspeed, i.e., the vector quantity!
@@BenTsangKun I seriously don't believe their writers know the difference between speed and velocity, like most people don't, but figured "sounds good, put it in the script". and PS., should be "the airspeed of the velocity". as in "the magnitude component of the velocity". cheers
As a kid, Sir Robin was my favorite character in this movie. Ironically, as a geography and history enthusiast, I actually knew the answer to the question that got Sir Robin yeeted into the abyss. I still have memories of shouting "Nineveh! Nineveh!" at the TV screen when I was 6 years old. As for why I was watching this movie at age 6, it's because my mom had never seen the movie before, but my dad had described parts of it (without mentioning the level of crudeness) and my mom thought it sounded funny and that it would be a good idea to check out a copy of the movie from our local library and watch it with me (age 6) and my sister (age 4). She spent much of the movie cringing at the crude parts and wondering if she should turn the movie off. Fortunately, my sister and I were young and sheltered enough that we were completely oblivious to the cruder aspects of the movie's humor and really enjoyed the jokes that we COULD understand!
3:26 i always use that intermission gag on my gameplays as a running gag joke on my let's play when my PlayStation decides to be a dick and stops recording on a blocked scene.
The first time I heard about Monty Python was from a Family guy cut away gag. It was that one episode where Brian meets his son for the first time. Glad I watched that episode.
It's funny how clarification can really help you in a situation. And not just in school or work (not my that close-minded boss is helpful or understanding).
I was in Scotland on vacation with my dad. Came across this little town called Dune, I think that’s how it’s spelled. Checked into the local hotel and went to see the local castle. Every town has one. Walked in and there is all this Monty Python stuff. It was the castle they filmed in. Awesome surprise!
The capital of Assyria was first Assur and later Nineveh. You wanted to know, admit it. I don't own the rights of that comment, the owner is: KnowJesusKnowPeace I just thought everybody wants to know it, after watching that scene.
I sometimes wonder if Arthur being asked, "How do you know so much about swallows?" was an in-joke just for the Pythons as they were most of only a handful of people that definitely knew at the time that Graham was gay.
@@twinzzlersGraham Chapman is the guy who played King Arthur in this movie. The swallows thing is probably some in-joke of the Monty Python crew as the the original commenter suggested, if it is I don’t get it (because I’m not part of Monty Python) but it could also not be, I don’t know. Either way I had no idea he was gay.
I wonder....what if somebody answered the question with "Could you repeat that please?" And if he repeats it, answer it correctly. If he just says "Of course i can" then say "Then will you?" That way you could get past the 3 questions by just answering your name.
I like how Sir Lancelot answered all the questions and crossed the bridge safely only to be arrested by the police.
He should have just made a feint to the North-East 😭
Holy shit I forgot how this movie ended, it was so fucking surreal
😂 proper pat down as well 😂
@@mitchconnor3233 he wanted to make a feint to the north east lol
Hahahahaha the ending
The fact that Arthur and the knights are just a bunch of lunatics role playing and stumbling across actual magical stuff makes scenes like this so much funnier.
It'd be even funnier if they came across actual peasants and French medieval soldiers who think the French empire still exists or something similar.
@@dr.wallacebreen3859wtf is french empire lmao
@@Samuel42069Are you stupid or just plain dumb?
What's even better, some of them are actual knights roleplaying being knights roleplaying being knights.
@@Samuel42069have you learned history? It was one of the biggest empires in history
The best part is Arthur wasn't even testing his knowledge, he was just asking for clarification. The guy just was so unprepared for someone asking HIM anything that he fumbled his answer. Never be afraid to go against the grain.
And to think that Authur would have likely not known the answer.
@@NostalgicGamerRickOShay
Arthur was very careful to refrain from saying anything that indicated his ignorance. Thus he states "As King one mist know these things." Thus he is understood to be ignorant of the speed of the swallow without ever confessing such.
There is a scene when they approach a wall and the guard on the wall chastizes him for having coconuts, arther makes a remark about swallows, than the guards asks a question about swallows but ponders the difference between african or european swallow.. such amazing writing
It's a callback to the opening scene.
Bridgekeeper should have just chosen one of the two
I don't know how Dungeons and Dragons goes for everyone but when I'm playing with my friends it's basically just this movie.
Same. We like to get under the nerves of our DM and rank up diplomacy and talk our way out of epic fights he set up. Quite fun for the four of us, not very fun for him. The best of trolling imo.
Thats awesome
What? Who or what is this DM you speak of?!?!?🧐
Every time I see "we do X in the game, and the DM is powerless" I know that person has a rubbish/incompetent DM.
"The Orc chief's brother was killed by a human, and diplomacy is impossible. He stabs you."
@@ComicGladiator Our DM isn't powerless. He sets these situations up intentionally. Comedy is a significant part of our campaigns.
I love how it’s implied that Arthur would have actually known the answer due to his sheer confidence in asking for specification
Someone in a castle told him when they were rambling on about it.
yeah there was an earlier scene that overtly set up and mentioned the answer to the question. you should really watch the movie
It was a payoff that had been set up in the opening scene.
We’ll you have to know these things when you’re king you know.
@@tomgimon5267 That too of course
The funniest part was that not even the old man is safe from being thrown into the pit if the question cannot be answered. you could get him by asking a question before he does. heck, you could get him if you don't understand the question, but he doesn't understand it either. I just love the brilliant writing. Lol
The really funny part is if Sir Robin had asked, 'during what time period.' The old would have gone off the bridge, and everyone would have made it across. 5 or six cities were the capital of Assyria at different times.
Now who's going to be the bridge keeper to ask the questions?
My favourite part
@@EdBoonSucks maybe tim
@@EdBoonSucks I don't know. *Gets thrown into pit*
2:30 Michael Palin changing his answer has still got to be one of the funniest, and shortest, gems of pure inspired comedy ever.
Thats what happens when you copy your seatmates answer.
In the german version he says he is colourblind while he falls (dunno why they added it) but was fun xD
@@jayman1772 lol that's great
“Blue, no, ye- WWWAAAAAAOOOOOHHHHH!!”
"Well, you have to know these things when you're a king you know" - the most humble quote ever
At one time my acting teacher asked, "What is your name?" and I couldn't resist throwing in "What is your quest?" He chuckled and followed it up with a third question (forgot which one).
One time I was talking to my history teacher about this movie and the rest of the class had never seen it or even heard of it. Neither of us could believe it so he told me to bring the DVD in and we'd all watch it. It was a great lesson when I brought it in
No, what is the guys name on second base.
@@Dr.Strangmemewho's on second?
@@lonewolf5238
I don't know?
@@Dr.Strangmeme I don't know's on third
Ahh, Terry Gilliam. Animator, film director, and bridge-keeper extraordinaire.
I didn't know that. Aaaaaarghhh! (Dictated)
I do appreciate very much how he suppressed his American accent for this one (i.e. assuming he wasn't dubbed ;-))
Sir Robin was actually doomed from the start, since Assyria was already nonexistent by that time, and that Assyria itself had many capitals during its lifetime.
(Unless Sir Robin managed to ask, "which period?", which may cause the bridge keeper to answer, "I don't know that!", and thrown earlier to the gorge of eternal peril himself.)
That would've been hilarious!!!!
Trust you to spoil a good story. 😡
I mean, for the absloute majority of its history its capital was the city of Assyria, So I assume that would suffice as an answer, really.
Assur
assyria technically still exist as a place and medieval people are aware of it . its just that it is no longer the classical assyrians who inhabited it.
He really DID ask five questions.
1. What is your name?
2. What is your quest?
3. What is your favorite color?
4. What is the capital of Assyria?
5. What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
The joke was the first two questions are the same, but he chooses one of three variations for the third question.
Oh, I never thought about that
That's clever actually
holeesh thank you garrison
and actually the capital of Assyria is Nineveh
Well, you have to get to know someone before you throw them into a pit...
I like that Arthur consistently confuses three with five. In the Holy Hand Grenade scene he fail to count to three until corrected, instead counting "one, two, five!"
I love how the not being able to count to 3 is a running gag in this movie.
Valve took that bit seriously.
@@fakecomedyandtheabsurd2527I'm fine with HL 5 coming out next...
That accent on "what" tho'
Right, off you go!
Rhat is yer nayme?!
Ye
And “peril”
They actually did cross over that super dodgy 'bridge of death' in those costumes, well maybe stunt actors. At 3:41 the guy misses a step too!
If they're using coconuts instead of horses I don't think they had the budget for stunt actors hehe.
They probably didn't even had enough money to buy insurance. I read that the reason the final scene was done outside with modern day cops was that they simply ran out of film production budget.
I remember seeing this movie as a kid and hating it because I didn't know anything about Monty Python or their humor. I like it now.
My brother got super pissed off at it the first time he watched it because he was really into knights and the Middle Ages and he wanted see the awesome battle scene but the police ruined it.
@removethatpfp yousubhumansackofshitcuntprick I do reccomend ‘H’anime though
Very good culture indeed
When I moved out of my folks place to the party house we'd all cluster around the TV for Monty Python. We loved it. Did our own skits.
They're gone and will never be replaced.
Not only you. I could not understand that time, why ppl think its funny.
@@Paleo-y1ydid the police arrest your brother?
Right, off you go.
😶
. . .Oh, thank you. . Thank you very much
Love that part
The German synchro makes Sir Gallahad at 2:21 even funnier. While he gets thrown into the gorge after saying Blue/Yellow he says "..but I'm colorblind!"
What, didn't understand.
@@mirko7587 German dub
@@mirko7587To the pit you go, then.
"But I didn't even eat the salmon."
What is your name?
The Chosen One of Arroyo.
What is your quest?
To seek the holy GECK!
What is the minimum requirement for the Quick Pockets perk?
What do you mean? The statistics or the level requirement?
I...I don't know that! (Flies into pit)
**Fallout 2 Bridgekeeper Special Encounter**
And one of the best armor in the game, bridgekeeper's robes, acquired.
Ah, memories.
I mean, there is no pit, he just dies on the spot, but yea... I remember coming across that encounter too :D
Find out the origin of that encounter. Like 23 years after
How do you know so much about perks?
Well you got to know these things when you're the Chosen One ya know.
I always find it hilarious when they use puppets, to shoot scenes where someone is being ejected or is falling down. XD
With Monty Python, it is undoubtedly deliberate. The whole point is for things to look a bit 'naff'.
I find it disgusting. Why didn't they use real persons? Obviously a cheap movie.
@@ciprianpopa1503 I know you are being sarcastic but I hope you didn't misunderstand my comment as a complaint about not using real people for the scenes to look genuine.
I clearly enjoy the fact that the way they use puppets as substitutes is hilarious. This is a comedy movie after all. :D
i love the fact Cleese and Graham had stuntmen to cross the bridge for them 'cus they were afraid to go.
Ah, Sir Robin. Your cowardice was your ultimate undoing.
The bit that makes me laugh the most is when Michael Palin gets his favourite colour wrong 02:27
I always took that he repeated ‘blue’ because Lancelot said it first, but then suddenly realised it wasn’t HIS favourite colour.
My favorite part of this scene was when everytime the bridge keeper would always keep changing the 3rd question
he could as it was never specified what questions were to be asked as long as it were three questions.
I could only imagine audiences when they first saw this got tricked by the intermission to the point when they came back 10 minutes later, the movie was already over without warning.
The way he says "Whaaat?!" has stuck with me since I saw this at the Notting Hill Coronet way back when. I still say "Whaaat?!" in the same way now. Comedy has shaped so much of my language from Python through to the Comic Strip, Blackadder, The Young Ones etc. Love Terry Gilliam's work, Baron Munchausen, Time Bandits, Jabberwocky etc. such a talented chap.
In the german Version.
1. What is your name?
2. What is your quest?
3. What is your favorite color? Blue, no Red. -> during the fly he said "iam color blind" PS all in German
that's hilarious!🤣
His favorite color is yellow!
"Look, there's the old man from scene 24!" Never taking themselves seriously is one of their hallmarks.
Still, for me, the funniest part of this movie is the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch scene: ruclips.net/video/xOrgLj9lOwk/видео.html
Here's the transcript of that scene, brilliantly written:
_"And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large chulapas. And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'"_
Awesome text😂
Amen
Skip a bit brother
@@moonscar119Forgot that part! The long windedness of it is what cracks me up, like _"Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached"._ All this just to say "count to three". LOL.
Amen.
Classic scene. Always cracks me up when the gate keeper gets tossed in when he doesn't know the answer.
"do YOU believe in God?"
"That's a complicated question... Depends on what YOU mean by "God". You see I ..."
"Yes or no?"
"IT helps no one to be reductive. I believe that... that we are here applies to some degree that, there are forces, larger than us. Now we can get in to this menticality...
"YES OR NO?!?""
"The very notion of "believe" itself can be rhetorically whittled to bare nub of its meaning. I'd like to talk to you a lot more about this. Would you be interested in reading in some of my literature?"
"NO!!!" Jumps to the pit
Ohh I see what you did there, lmao
Xavier: Renegade Angel is top shelf.
I hate how I know where this is from
Well, so you believe in your savior? If you do you may sun in his name for you are already forgiven if sun and may commit any act if you have true faith. So, do you believe in your savior?
@@_JesusChrist. What????
Monty Python was so great. Casually great. They were irreverent and no silliness was safe from their scrutiny. Even themselves.
Like the crusades or fine dining or bicycling.
I like to assume that answering the bridgekeeper's questions is not necessary at all and you can just walk past him with him whining "Stop! No! Stop please!"
I wouldn’t bet on that….🫣
@@Chafflivesyet he couldn't stop himself from falling into the pit.
Try it and see...
@@areaxisthegurkha
Rules is rules. 🤨
"Well, you have to know these things when you are a king, you know". Just fantastic.
(wonder, did he learn it from the previous episode where he got bounced off another castle having been bogged in discussion on how possibly swallows could have brought coconuts to England)
"What...is the capital of Assyria?"
"Before or after the Bronze Age Collapse?"
"I don't know that!"
Sir Robin gets to live.
3:00
“How do you know so much about Assyria?”
@@finelineguy8733 "As a coward... I mean, brave man, you have to know these things".
My Dad and I watch this movie. We couldn't stop laughing
I didn't know either
So did me and my dad
One of the funniest scenes in any movie. I love the way Python takes a long time to set you up for a joke, then suddenly springs it on you. In this case it's the wind velocity of a swallow and whether it's African or European. The old geezer doesn't have any idea himself, so it's off into the chasm for him too. 🤣
i swear this has to be one of the funniest god damn movies of all time! its aged like fine wine.
This was years before game of thrones. And in this master piece really anyone could die!
"right, off ya go." I dont know why I love that bit so much
The "oh great" makes me laugh probably more than it should.
I love how the ‘five, three’ gag was just a set up for a future gag with the holy hand grenade
My dad would always quote this scene. Miss him so much
Good luck brave Sir Lancelot, God be with you!
What a fantastic move. I remember watching it many decades ago. Good memories.
So impressed by king Arthur's knowledge !
The intermission always gets me. Movie has maybe 10 minutes if even and then boom 5 second intermission.
Idk why this cracks me up so much
"huh, what? Idk that". The way the troll is confused seems so natural.
The funny thing is that he was given the answer by the questioning guard on the high wall at the beginning of the film. The answer is that a swallow has to beat it’s wings 43 times per second in order to maintain its airspeed velocity.
isn't that redundant? airspeed - velocity? 😂
@@jime8532 not necessarily, groundspeed and airspeed can be different because the ground is uneven (not level) or there is wind to account for
@@BenTsangKun I didn't see any mention of ground speed (and I do know the difference between air and ground spd); also velocity has two components - speed and direction making it a vector, where speed is just a scaler - so maybe it isn't redundant after all?
Regardless, MP just being as verbose as possible for the audacity of the scene
😀
@@jime8532 You've basically shown that it is not redundant - "airspeed velocity" specifies then the speed component of the air velocity, i.e., the magnitude of the air velocity (y) EDIT: Though now I'm wondering if it means the velocity of the airspeed, i.e., the vector quantity!
@@BenTsangKun I seriously don't believe their writers know the difference between speed and velocity, like most people don't, but figured "sounds good, put it in the script".
and PS., should be "the airspeed of the velocity". as in "the magnitude component of the velocity". cheers
As a kid, Sir Robin was my favorite character in this movie. Ironically, as a geography and history enthusiast, I actually knew the answer to the question that got Sir Robin yeeted into the abyss. I still have memories of shouting "Nineveh! Nineveh!" at the TV screen when I was 6 years old. As for why I was watching this movie at age 6, it's because my mom had never seen the movie before, but my dad had described parts of it (without mentioning the level of crudeness) and my mom thought it sounded funny and that it would be a good idea to check out a copy of the movie from our local library and watch it with me (age 6) and my sister (age 4). She spent much of the movie cringing at the crude parts and wondering if she should turn the movie off. Fortunately, my sister and I were young and sheltered enough that we were completely oblivious to the cruder aspects of the movie's humor and really enjoyed the jokes that we COULD understand!
I just realized Robin, Galahad and the Old Man falling into the gorge is clearly just the same footage
I like the Intermission song. It's real catchy
I'm always amazed by the things you need to know to be king...
3:26 i always use that intermission gag on my gameplays as a running gag joke on my let's play when my PlayStation decides to be a dick and stops recording on a blocked scene.
I've always got a kick on their blank expressions when they watch their fallen colleagues plummet toward their demise in the pit.
1:26 I love the space in between "what" and the rest of the question, its almost like he was mad that Lancelot was trying to find the Holy Grail
The first time I heard about Monty Python was from a Family guy cut away gag. It was that one episode where Brian meets his son for the first time. Glad I watched that episode.
Man, I laughed so hard when the bridge-keeper himself gets hurled over the edge lol
"What is the Capital of Assyria?"
"Which era? and who's empire is controlling the region of Assyria?"
I-I don't know that. WAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
It's funny how clarification can really help you in a situation. And not just in school or work
(not my that close-minded boss is helpful or understanding).
Ah yes, comedy in the comments. Btw this film scene is probably one of the funniest ever. Next to Tim the enchanter
The dude not knowing his own favorite color was a pretty good one.
My favourite part of this seen is when it did the intermission, the combo of the music and the fact it caught me off guard really cracked me up
Funniest part is it’s him sending them plummeting for wrong answers 😂 so he sent himself for not knowing.
My favourite Fallout 2 moment.
Love how this ties in with the very first scene when King Aurther just walked away in frustration 😂😂😂
One of the funniest movies ever made!!!
Hard to believe this was published more than five years ago.
Getting searched by the COPS at the end i definitely wasn't expecting that 😂😂
I SO miss Monty Python's flying circus! Great comedians every one of them!
I re-enacted this scene in a theater class in middle school with a few of my peers.
The music is awesome
as a king i know a lot about swallows. Its important for a succesful rule!
For those wondering the capital of Assyria was Assur.
The way their eyes and head follow the bodies being flown into the pit is comedic genius.
I was in Scotland on vacation with my dad. Came across this little town called Dune, I think that’s how it’s spelled. Checked into the local hotel and went to see the local castle. Every town has one. Walked in and there is all this Monty Python stuff. It was the castle they filmed in. Awesome surprise!
The capital of Assyria was first Assur and later Nineveh.
You wanted to know, admit it.
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I just thought everybody wants to know it, after watching that scene.
What do you mean? Old, Middle, or Neo-Assyria?
@@wetbadger2174 Wha...I don't know that!
@@Bro-cx2jc AHHHHHHHHHHH
Ta, I know now , might come in useful l8r , pub quiz etc. 😀
Just nonchalantly “Right. Off you go.”😂
I think about this on a daily basis😂😭
I sometimes wonder if Arthur being asked, "How do you know so much about swallows?" was an in-joke just for the Pythons as they were most of only a handful of people that definitely knew at the time that Graham was gay.
Who's Graham and what do gay people have to do with swallows?
I would also like to hear an answer to this question
@@twinzzlersGraham Chapman is the guy who played King Arthur in this movie. The swallows thing is probably some in-joke of the Monty Python crew as the the original commenter suggested, if it is I don’t get it (because I’m not part of Monty Python) but it could also not be, I don’t know.
Either way I had no idea he was gay.
This is legit my favourite gag in the whole movie XD
Well well. Look who got released.
I think this might be my favourite scene
It's so funny when the old man gets yeeted xD and he kinda looks like William Dafoe with prosethic makeup 🤣 I don't know why
Possibly because he WAS Willem Dafoe in prosthetic makeup 😅
@@lonewolf5238I don't think so because the movie came out in 1975, so he would be in his mid 20's
2:50 "Sire, thou hath pull ye olden Uno reverse card."
Ahhh just like a 2021 corporate call centre for customer services🤣
I wonder if he would've accepted Nineveh as the answer for "What is the capital of Assyria?" as Ninevah was the capital in Old Testament times.
The correct answer is Assur. It was always spiritually the heart of the empire.
How To Be King:
Know about swallows
“Well you have to know these things when you’re a king, you know!”
I wonder if anyone got up in the theatre for 'intermission' 😂😂😂
"There's the old man from scene 24" lmfao missed that when I was a kid
Hilarious! I love how the King got him lol😃😁🤣🤣😅😅!!!
Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
"Well you have to know these things when you are king you know"
The Old Man from scene 24: Stop! What is your name.
Me: No, What is the guy's name on second base.
WHAT...about the droid attack on the wookies?
blue.. no! yelloooooow χαχαχα πεθαινω
Η καλύτεροτερη ταινία που έχω δει.....
In a previous scene arthur got to know about the two kinds of swallows😂
I wonder....what if somebody answered the question with "Could you repeat that please?" And if he repeats it, answer it correctly. If he just says "Of course i can" then say "Then will you?" That way you could get past the 3 questions by just answering your name.
I forget about the question of the capital of Assyria. That is one terrific skit.
Arthur outsmart the old man because he is so wise in the ways of science