From the meaning of life we have the Monty Python Universe song. A great rendition that shows just how amazing the universe really is from one ridiculous movie.
Wait a minute, that's a man?! My god, Monty Python always seems to sneak that past me, I've the suspicion other females may have been played by male actors from the troop. Help! 😂🤯😜
One of the best (if not the best) movies about the meaning of life. "And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth" Brilliant.
Well, most people in England today would say it means it anal sex (between men), and used as a swear word, like "f*ck". But go far enough back into the history of the word (back to the 13.th century) , it's a derogatory word for Bulgarian.
That's awesome, man! I hope, now that it's 5years later, that you can look back on that as the amazing reminder of who your grandfather was as a person and smile. That was a really cool request from him, assuming that was the case... He really wanted the people he cared for to understand this. I love it
"And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space cause there's bugger all down here on Earth" The first time we saw this in a classroom and heard that, we all audibly gasped haha.
This song reminds of a friend who has now left this earthly plane. He used to sing and play this on guitar. I miss him, but I know he's being cosmic somewhere. RIP Shaun. x
I memorized this song as a teen. My senior year in high school I was on the academic decathlon team - nerds who take tests to compete. The superquiz was astronomy. I got 3 questions right because the answers were in these lyrics!
Thank you Monty python, You gave my father a smile when he was diagnosed with cancer until his last days. A new perspective on life was past down to me because of it.
Grew up on these guys in the 70's. Silly and smart, never tired of them and couldn't wait to see what they came up with each time. The series, the movies, the spin offs like "How to Irritate People" and "Fawlty Towers"...just brilliant and no one comes close.
Driving across the mountains in California, I came to a vista across Tehachapi to a huge array of wind turbines, and starting singing that. I can never see wind farms the same way again.
If I ever need to ground myself and durn my sad face upside down, The Pythons are always there! It is impossible to be down when you listen to this or Always look on the Bright side of life, truly impossible...... We all have to have a funeral eventually and both of these are on my playlist!!!! Plus, Doris Day, Pink and Queen ... Fab
Imagine nightmare on elm street and instead of the force fed girl you get this guy coming out, breaking a quarter of your home, and singing about the universe.
Hesus,! One of my favorite skits! I love singing it walking around drinking. This and The Philosophers song! Hats off all to Eric the not at all Idle !!!!!!
Really puts things into perspective doesn’t it? Will I get married? Will I get my dream job? Will I get to see the world? Etc. It doesn’t fucking matter. So liberating!
these guys where educated in the best colleges in the world in Britian they are all scholars and together they were genius this has always been one of thier best movies The Meaning Of Life do yourself a favor and watch it
Transcribed for your benefit: Whenever life gets you down, Mrs.Brown, and things seem hard or tough...and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft... And you feel that you've had quite ENO-HA-HA-HAAOOUUGH!!! Just...reee-member that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles. It's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, are moving at a million miles a day...in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour of the galaxy we call the Milky Way. Our galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars, it's 100,000 light-years side to side. It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick, but out by us it's just 3,000 light-years wide. We're 30,000 light-years from 'Galactic Central Point', we go round every 200 million years. And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe. The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding in all of the directions it can whiz. As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, ya' know, 12 million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth. And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, cause there's bugger all down here on Earth."
The truly astounding thing about this song is that Palin basically guessed at all of the numbers and he as ridiculously close to the actual measurements. Which makes this song all the better.
Hexx Bombastus not true at all. Eric Idle researched this before he wrote it, he even says so in an interview. He rounded a lot of the numbers off to make the song fit together.
First time I saw MPFC around 1977 with the sketches and outrageously great graphics, thought I was having my first LSD Flashback.1984 when this song came out,I was sure it was a great flashback. NO, it was reality. God allowed a few more genius's to brighten our life!
Eric Idle... what a very awesome, clever and talented man. Ditto Dr Cox. I hadn't heard of this song before today, when I began watching The Infinite Monkey Cage, a special tv show of the 100th episode. Eric Idle and Brian Cox were on it and Eric sang a different version of this song, called The Higgs Bosun song, for Neil deGrasse Tyson (who hadn't heard of it before either, so I'm not the only one). This version is brilliant, as all the Python stuff was. So many thanks for posting.
Ten minutes ago my seven year old son had his existential crisis, and I played this song for him and he calmed down . Thanks pythons
Awwww!
Almost 37 and this is why I'm listening right now
Monty Python, The Ultimate Anti-Depressant.
+Sajirou Plays True.
I`m laughing so hard I`m crying^^^,
I just came here after listening to Father John Misty's Pure Comedy- bloody depressing.
Had to cheer meself up.
I am a miserable and inconsolable manic depressive but I like liver and onions smothered in rich gravy. Can I have your liver, then?
More powerful than weed or other drugs...if only more people knew this lol
RIP Terry Jones. No one could do an English housewife any better than he....
Or a middle eastern mother
uh.... can we have your liver then?
Or a striptease business man lol
Cut it out dude. I don't need to be tenting at work. @@christineperkins4451
Wait a minute, that's a man?! My god, Monty Python always seems to sneak that past me, I've the suspicion other females may have been played by male actors from the troop.
Help! 😂🤯😜
Movie: *NOT SO popular
Song: *WHOLE PLANET SINGS IT
*WHOLE GALAXY SINGS IT
One of the best (if not the best) movies about the meaning of life.
"And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth"
Brilliant.
Adrian Bara what does that mean? Bugger?
Well, most people in England today would say it means it anal sex (between men), and used as a swear word, like "f*ck".
But go far enough back into the history of the word (back to the 13.th century) , it's a derogatory word for Bulgarian.
@@o7_AP in this context it means fuck all
uhhhh..... can we have your liver then?
they played this at my grandads funeral yesterday, so I think this is going to stick with me for a while
Played at my brothers and yes it its been 10 years, and It will pop up in your head from time to time.
That's awesome, man! I hope, now that it's 5years later, that you can look back on that as the amazing reminder of who your grandfather was as a person and smile. That was a really cool request from him, assuming that was the case... He really wanted the people he cared for to understand this. I love it
Your grandad sounds like a straight up G
If you're going to memorize any song in your life, this is the one to be able to spew off the cuff.
Agreed. I've learnt Tom Lehrer's element song off by heart and can almost do it at the speed he can. Now this is in my sights.
One to impress the nerdy girls down the pub
i wonder if this is on karaokes?
uh...... can we have your liver?
Done and done
When ever I feel down, this is the only thing that makes me feel better
I'd love to get one of those refridgerators with a separate Eric Idle compartment.
youd better start saving up for the planetarium extension aswell
"And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space cause there's bugger all down here on Earth" The first time we saw this in a classroom and heard that, we all audibly gasped haha.
Eric Idle has got such a nice and calming voice.
Yes
This song reminds of a friend who has now left this earthly plane. He used to sing and play this on guitar. I miss him, but I know he's being cosmic somewhere. RIP Shaun. x
Mr Jones will now be traveling this amazing universe. May he rest in peace
(1:49)I love how he says "expanding".
'expainding' universe~
Ex-pine-ding
"bugger all down here on earth"
yeah we feeling that hard now.
Yeah were feeling it even harder now... god dam people thinking covid is caused by 5g smh
Whenever politics get me down, I remember this song and am instantly cheered up.
I memorized this song as a teen. My senior year in high school I was on the academic decathlon team - nerds who take tests to compete. The superquiz was astronomy. I got 3 questions right because the answers were in these lyrics!
...were you in Acadec 2005 as well?
uh..... can we have your liver then?
No comedy could ever beat Monty Python. It'll always be the best. haha
Monty Payton, totally overrated
Thank you Monty python, You gave my father a smile when he was diagnosed with cancer until his last days. A new perspective on life was past down to me because of it.
Oh my this song from my youth. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Monty Python & Dr. Demento are basically my entire Christmas.
Jim Lianos and stick out your thumb
+Michael “Fishbits” Hraba Ah yes, the major players in my own upbringing as well! And people wonder why I have such a twisted sense of humor...lol
Luna Callowyn It's probably helped quite a bit with this absurdity we call life. =) Humor and low expectations will get you places.
and the wizard of oz no??
Grew up on these guys in the 70's. Silly and smart, never tired of them and couldn't wait to see what they came up with each time. The series, the movies, the spin offs like "How to Irritate People" and "Fawlty Towers"...just brilliant and no one comes close.
can we have your liver then please?
"In this amoizing and ex-pending yoonivuhhhs" lol
X-painding.
XD
This was the best musical of the 1980s.
NEVER gets old.
Another great one by them is “Always look on the bright side of life” from The Life of Brian. These guys were comedic geniuses in my opinion.
Driving across the mountains in California, I came to a vista across Tehachapi to a huge array of wind turbines, and starting singing that. I can never see wind farms the same way again.
The song of the Total Perspective Vortex... :)
Zaphod BeetleBrox went in, survived it, was told what an amazing guy he was.
My 8th grade science teacher told my class anyone who memorized this song got extra credit. I'm glad i did.
Sheldon Coopers favorite ringtone.
So true
you miss one episode of docter who.....
Doctor *_Womb_* ...
This killed me! Im ded now, thanks
If I ever need to ground myself and durn my sad face upside down, The Pythons are always there! It is impossible to be down when you listen to this or Always look on the Bright side of life, truly impossible...... We all have to have a funeral eventually and both of these are on my playlist!!!! Plus, Doris Day, Pink and Queen ... Fab
I LOVE. The Meaning of Life... The bottom line at the end.... Perfect!
Imagine nightmare on elm street and instead of the force fed girl you get this guy coming out, breaking a quarter of your home, and singing about the universe.
This song got more astrophysics right than my high school physics class
Hesus,! One of my favorite skits! I love singing it walking around drinking. This and The Philosophers song!
Hats off all to Eric the not at all Idle !!!!!!
"Can we have your liver, then?"
"All right, you talked me into it. "
But I'm still using it...
Enter Eric...
Really puts things into perspective doesn’t it? Will I get married? Will I get my dream job? Will I get to see the world? Etc. It doesn’t fucking matter. So liberating!
my dad had our scout troop sing this as part of a skit once, it was pretty cool
Listening to this and "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life" always keeps me in check. Ultimately, nothing really matters. And be thankful for that.
Rest In Peace Terry Jones, died Tuesday 21st aged 77 from Dementia
RIP Terry Jones thanks for the laugh's.
We watched this in Theology to introduce the Teleological argument and I couldn't stop laughing
I love the chorography and facial expressions!
I should point out that the actual title of this piece is "The Galaxy Song".
these guys where educated in the best colleges in the world in Britian they are all scholars and together they were genius this has always been one of thier best movies The Meaning Of Life do yourself a favor and watch it
So they’re the precursors to the futurama writing staff.
This is the song I envisioned singing to my grandchildren.
Transcribed for your benefit:
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs.Brown, and things seem hard or tough...and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft...
And you feel that you've had quite ENO-HA-HA-HAAOOUUGH!!!
Just...reee-member that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles.
It's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, are moving at a million miles a day...in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars, it's 100,000 light-years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick, but out by us it's just 3,000 light-years wide.
We're 30,000 light-years from 'Galactic Central Point', we go round every 200 million years.
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding in all of the directions it can whiz.
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, ya' know, 12 million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth.
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, cause there's bugger all down here on Earth."
Absolutely wonderful. loved it, regardless if there was any more intelligent life out there, somewhere
The truly astounding thing about this song is that Palin basically guessed at all of the numbers and he as ridiculously close to the actual measurements. Which makes this song all the better.
true
Hexx Bombastus hi, just a small correction, that's Eric Idle not Michael Palin. No big deal; just encase someone trolls.
dsmyify
I'm horrible with names... thanks.
Hexx Bombastus not true at all. Eric Idle researched this before he wrote it, he even says so in an interview. He rounded a lot of the numbers off to make the song fit together.
Richard Lyman exactly. OP is seriously mistaken.
Puts things into perspective in just the mood I'm in!*
RIP Terry. You will be missed.
The last two lines get me every time!👍😄
I came to this video explicitly for that. The only other video on here of it omits that and just have the song
Decades ago, my Nanna cracked up laughing at 2:23 I remember her saying "Did you see that?!"
"We could be a turtle's dream in outer space!" - Frank Reynolds
Now that I came across this I'll be singing this sh*t in my head for days.... Thanks :D
Justs remember memorys they are infinite.❤like universe.
RIP Terry Jones
First time I saw MPFC around 1977 with the sketches and outrageously great graphics, thought I was having my first LSD Flashback.1984 when this song came out,I was sure it was a great flashback. NO, it was reality. God allowed a few more genius's to brighten our life!
I come here when All defenders of All faiths on Earth depress me. YOU ALWAYS MAKE SENSE! Big Hugs.
I'm significant!!!
Says the speck of dust.
Supernatural lyrics :) and an ingenious composition!
very good. it is stuck in my head
Eric Idle... what a very awesome, clever and talented man. Ditto Dr Cox.
I hadn't heard of this song before today, when I began watching The Infinite Monkey Cage, a special tv show of the 100th episode.
Eric Idle and Brian Cox were on it and Eric sang a different version of this song, called The Higgs Bosun song, for Neil deGrasse Tyson (who hadn't heard of it before either, so I'm not the only one).
This version is brilliant, as all the Python stuff was. So many thanks for posting.
Also, IMHO, Eric's accent is perfect for singing this type of song!
My doctor during my checkup talking me into also getting the flu shot while im there:
Learned so much from these brilliant guys!
I really need this right now.
Great song. Scientifically accurate too!
i want this to my funeral
Someone to ask you for your liver?
we`ll share it
Cramming before my astronomy exam
So precious.
Thanks!
My mind interrupts with Outlaw Daves closing music.
Yeah - the grand conspiracy of science to make us all feel so useless that they can rip our livers out :-)
and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
cause there's bugger all down here on Earth
R.I.P Terry Jones
We're just bugs on a rock in a void...
That in itself is nothing but amazing! :D Imagine if we had 2 or 3 rocks :)
CC never fails to amaze me.
i still remember when education could be fun
In the "outer spiral arm"we are moving at 483,000 miles per hour.Wrong by a factor of 12.
Keep in mind it was in the 80s or smth and they wanted to fit it into the song. Not saying you're wrong, just pointing it out
Love Monty Python
RIP #TerryJones
Don't forget the knights that say. Nee!
2:23 birth of a new solar system?
put this along side the one from animaniacs, Yakko's universe
***** its what i do best
I like it
A ridiculous notion of the Universe from an amazing film, more like!
2:15 "Splurt"
We’ve all been there
Someone show this to Ken Ham!
The refrain Idle uses sounds a bit like the refrain in the tune
'Alley Cat' by a group called Bent Frabric😉
I got ripped off. My fridge contained no Eric Idle. It just kept things cold.
Timeless
me too!! I wanna die to it as well.. it's ridiculous that we live!
"If were the only intelligent life the universe aimed very low and settled for very little"
-George Carlin
True story, Eric Idle sat on my lap while serenading this song to his wife at a show.
Kinky...
Was she a goer? Does she go? Nudge, nudge, wink, wink... Say no more... Say no more!!
This is why I get depressed. So many idiots arguing about rubbish when the universe is so incomprehensible and they never think about it.
It makes me feel extremely claustrophobic here on earth.
I would love to hear Neil dygrasse Tyson sing this
Some needs to make this happen!
Andrew Kind Steven Hawking did!
Andrew Kind He would only sing it with updated lyrics, a lot of these figures are now known to be inaccurate.
Camillo Coccia That was really funny
Andrew Kind Why modernize everything? Just enjoy it.
*ERIC!*
THE BEST
The Big Bang. It didn’t start from nothingness. The universe had to get knocked up with ☄️ panspermia from a comet. ☄️
Looking at the full moon in Libra to the stage right of Arcturus.