This was hysterical to me as a catholic school kid. The Bishop in a Firebird convertible made it extra cool. I wish i could find the intro music somewhere
That would made one hell of a tv crime drama series lol. Imagine the bishop rushing to a church to foil its use and shape as an anti ballistic missile. After its launch The Bishop crosses himself as the smoke blackens his face.
I think you have to be raised Anglican to really relish this. (At least my brother and sister and I were when we first saw it back in the day.) The tough priest bodyguards are worth the price of admission.
I was raised in an entirely agnostic family in Texas, but of course I had friends who went to church, been to weddings and funerals ect. so the whole premise's absurdity and silliness wasn't lost on us. The scene that always gets me is the Christening and all the attendees are the Vercotti family - Italian gangsters apparently there to assassinate the priest, dressed in drag disguise but still with their pencil mustaches. The kid's name, "Francesco Luigi Vercotti." It was the Vercotti brothers who tried to muscle the British Army Colonel into their protection racket in another episode.
@@jkorshak It's the gentle parody of Anglican culture that got us. Famously nerdy Anglican priests swaggering behind a tough crime-solving bishop are only the beginning. Bishops themselves are classically stiff conservative figures who strive to show as little emotion as possible in public. The idea of one jogging about dirty urban streets in full vestments, brandishing the crozier like a nightstick and barking warnings in a working-class accent, well... it meant a lot of grinning eye-contact between us when ours made his annual visit to our church when I was a kid.
@@RobMacKendrick Also liked the nerdy priest pathetically bleating for help from a 2nd story window. On the American side, we appreciated the satire on "gritty" cop and private detective shows common on television for the era where the tough as nails star is always breaking up organized crime operations, solving mysterious deaths, stopping crime ridden plots, and generally bringing bad guys to justice.
Really good fun just a glorious ripoff the avengers the saint ( yes pun intended!!!) and the persuaders! It should be up there with the Spanish inquisition sketch !
Seriously this skit is so underrated!
The opening credits are hilarious.
It's a parody of those title sequences made by Maurice Binder for movies.
Terry Jones was always my favorite Python, and this is just one of the reasons why
Terry Jones has always been the "greasy" Python, and I love him 😅
This was hysterical to me as a catholic school kid. The Bishop in a Firebird convertible made it extra cool. I wish i could find the intro music somewhere
David Lindup - "Superformance"
@@martinhowlett9550 and later they walk to Peter Gunn theme
The cannon bit had me crying the way he's getting later and later 😂😂
Part of the KPM library. ruclips.net/video/mX0HEeuajzQ/видео.html
Hilarious stuff. I love this skit. Walking down the street smoking and bumping into people all to the theme from the old Peter Gunn show. Too much.
This is so Anglican I can smell the pews.
Honestly the graphics in the beginning is better than a lot of stuff on TV now.
Bishop: Ok, Devious! Don’t move!
Devious: The Bishop! XD
When they’re walking down the street bumping into people ROFL😂
Classic!
@@Reggie-The-Dogit's the bishop he has a right to do so
My favorite bit! 😂🤣
And the Peter Gunn theme playing to it was the icing on the cake. 🤣
That would made one hell of a tv crime drama series lol.
Imagine the bishop rushing to a church to foil its use and shape as an anti ballistic missile. After its launch The Bishop crosses himself as the smoke blackens his face.
Now we know the inspiration for Reservoir Dogs
This is my Monty Python's favorite sketch. I love how in the credits, everyone in the crew are priests, bishops or archbishops. Lmao
What a Brilliant Intro. So spot on.
I wish they did a regular series skit.
Audience was prolly like “wtf?!” When jones ran in out of nowhere dressed a bishop
As a fan of shows like the Prisoner and the Avengers, the title sequence absolutely floors me every time
We was too late.
Never gets old or stale, love the Pythons ❤☘️
I gonna say that Monty Python's The Bishop intro is good 😂😂😂
The Bishop skit is just brilliant.
A Quinn Martin production-like 😂😂😂
I would love to see a feature length slapstick comedy version of this. All full 2 hour runtime. 😂
I whole-hartedly agree.
Don't say da kid's name, Vic!!!
i rember this I was twelve thirteen Fucking good times aye
Don't say the kids name, Vic! 😂
Don't say the KIDS NAME VIC!!!! ✝️
Francesco Luigi. (*BOOM!*)
The Bishop in full regalia,so that everyone knows what a crook looks like.
We was too late!
The Reverend Neuk saw the light...😇
Superb
Anybody else noticed the run time on this video is 420? Hmmm...
We wuz too late
Fabulous!
that Bishop means business! He told me to say 500 Hail Mary's or I was gonna die in hell!
I think you have to be raised Anglican to really relish this. (At least my brother and sister and I were when we first saw it back in the day.) The tough priest bodyguards are worth the price of admission.
I was raised in an entirely agnostic family in Texas, but of course I had friends who went to church, been to weddings and funerals ect. so the whole premise's absurdity and silliness wasn't lost on us. The scene that always gets me is the Christening and all the attendees are the Vercotti family - Italian gangsters apparently there to assassinate the priest, dressed in drag disguise but still with their pencil mustaches. The kid's name, "Francesco Luigi Vercotti." It was the Vercotti brothers who tried to muscle the British Army Colonel into their protection racket in another episode.
@@jkorshak It's the gentle parody of Anglican culture that got us. Famously nerdy Anglican priests swaggering behind a tough crime-solving bishop are only the beginning. Bishops themselves are classically stiff conservative figures who strive to show as little emotion as possible in public. The idea of one jogging about dirty urban streets in full vestments, brandishing the crozier like a nightstick and barking warnings in a working-class accent, well... it meant a lot of grinning eye-contact between us when ours made his annual visit to our church when I was a kid.
@@RobMacKendrick Also liked the nerdy priest pathetically bleating for help from a 2nd story window. On the American side, we appreciated the satire on "gritty" cop and private detective shows common on television for the era where the tough as nails star is always breaking up organized crime operations, solving mysterious deaths, stopping crime ridden plots, and generally bringing bad guys to justice.
Really good fun just a glorious ripoff the avengers the saint ( yes pun intended!!!) and the persuaders! It should be up there with the Spanish inquisition sketch !
Imagine...The Bishop as a feature film directed by Guy Ritchie.
Are you sure this is a Python sketch and not something made by Lew Grade's ITC?????
Were the opening credits based on an actual show?
The Saint
Ironside