Smug college students are are so much worse. They don't anything know important, are rich and spoiled brats, and they get used by big gov and money to make most everyone else's lives' even more miserable and get away with it.
Made no sense to me, Person A does all this science stuff on scene, Person B arrives, Person A asks person he has never met before: "who are you who are so wise in the ways of science"
Every line in this scene is perfect, especially the last one. “It’s a fair cop” implies that despite all that demential reasoning she was indeed a witch after all. Pure comedy.
I love how it seems he's trying to fool everybody into saving an innocent, only to reveal the absurd reasoning was correct and she's actually a witch. Genius.
No, she is not. The scales where rigged. She said "fair cop" because she succumbed to the idiotic logic of the masses and believed that she is a "witch".
@@Lion-rf8xi Tell me about it, I've seen it so many times. Gangs of young teenagers with hate and ferocity in their eyes so intense it's a sheer bloodlust. Bastards
Another great Python line from "Life of Brian". Brian addresses a vast crowd of his followers who have followed him home saying to them "You're all different, You're all individuals" and a solitary tiny voice calls out "I'm not".
@@stevebinning977 Brian: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't need to follow me. You don't need to follow anybody! You've got to think for yourselves! You're all individuals! Crowd: [in unison] Yes! We're all individuals! Brian: You're all different! Crowd: [in unison] Yes, we are all different! Man in crowd: I'm not... Crowd: Shhh!
I love how he’s interrogating the crowd like a mom in a kitchen solving a fight btwn siblings. English humor so often couches situations in these instantly relatable dynamics, and it gives it such a cool layer of hilarity. Also him having to hold his stupid face guard up the entire movie is gold.
So, let me get this straight...Witches are burned, but wood is also burned, and wood floats, but ducks also float, so, if someone weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood, therefore, she's a witch
exactly it wouldn't prove anything. once they finish the bridge it proves nothing, she could just be made out of a bridge material like granite, not necessarily wood.
@@bl1398 Well that's why he says you can also build a bridge out of stone.. the whole point of the joke is the most ridiculous and far fetched process of elimination lol
Things I've always loved about this scene: 1.) Sir Bedevere testing if a swallow can carry a coconut 2.) Sir B checking that the nose is a fake when there is a thick rope tied around it 3.) The actors not being able to keep their laughter hidden 4.) The insane logic that turns out to prove she is a witch. This whole movie is pure genius. Still holds up after over 40 years!
The "A bit, a bit" part never fails to crack me up. If I was a native english speaker, I'd quote the shit out of it as a response to every troublesome question.
@@mr.potato8000 He says he was turned into a newt, Everyone looks at him and he's clearly not a newt, He says it got better, as if newts naturally turn back into humans over time (which they don't), But they're all so stupid, they buy his explanation.
+jgonascar Not quite. No witches were burned in Salem. All those accused of witchcraft in Salem were hanged. And there was one instance of a guy being crushed to death during inquiry.
"A duck!" always killed me. The authority with which he speaks that line, framed as it is in the ludicrous situation and against Bedevere's own assuredness is perfect. It's like watching two paranoid schizophrenic homeless men meet and begin earnestly discussing their shared delusions once the second man chimes in that the flying squid's of the first man's delusions are, in fact, also telepathic.
hahah @Lapse - I just noticed that for the 1st time myself!! Must be because I first saw this as a teen and then many times in my 20s where such a jump seemed whatever. Now over 50, I cringed when I saw it...had to play it back to make sure! OUCH! :)
I love how king Arthur’s big “look at me I’m so smart for knowing something the commoners don’t know I’m so special and intelligent” moment was him saying that weighting a duck with the woman would prove she’s a witch
I was expecting this: "Why do witches burn? Because they're made of wood. And how do we tell if she's made of wood? By burning her. If she doesn't burn then she isn't made of wood and isn't a witch."
No it is not, they should have compared her density against the duck's, not her weight. I mean you have to subtract buoyancy from the weight, I think the script writers messed up this part.
I'm far more amused by their reaction to the realization that if the witch is made out of wood, they can check that by seeing whether she floats, and consequently try to rush her off to throw her into a pond. The notion that failing to prove she is a witch will cause them to drown somebody innocent was entirely beyond them.
2:25 funny thing is that throwing people into pond was an actual way people back then used to find if someone was guilty or not, called trial by water, if they floated then they were guilty.
The smart thing here is that when the person is in the water two things can happen, either the person sinks and therefor drowns or they can swim and is therefor convicted and executed. (Sorry for bad english)
When you are a King, you have to be confident like that, or else why should people follow you? You do not guess "a duck?" Instead, you proclaim: a duck, and a duck it is then.
I think it belongs more to the insanity part, where nothing makes sense, even if you thought she was the only sane person there, she wasn' t, so the phytons took the earth under your feet once again
She was denying it vehemently at the start. I think it means she accepts the proof: that scale shows she weighs the same as a duck, therefore she is made of wood, therefore she must be a witch.
I love everything Monty Python. Nothing will ever be as funny or amazing as anything they put out. As we slowly begin to lose them, it makes me so sad but I’m so glad I was alive during their time. Spamalot in 05 was amazing and I’m so glad I saw the original cast. Can’t wait to see it again this December when it returns to broadway :)
Yeah, but if you build a bridge out of her, she could also have been made of stone, which should be incompatible with her being a witch since a stone person would hardly ever burn.
If the Earth was really round why aren't pizzas round? It's because they aren't made of wood. The earth isn't made of wood, so it's obviously made of pizza, and is therefore not round.
“How can you tell if she is made of wood?” “Build a bridge out of her!!” “What also floats in water?” “Lead!” “Very small rocks!” “Churches!” “She turned me into a newt!” “A newt?” “I got better” “Did you dress her up like this?” “No!” “No!” “Yes..” “Yes..” “A bit.” “She has a wart!” I love this scene XD
How did over five hundred people see this and were like: "Ah, yes. I'll like this." Literally, all you did was quote a scene from the video we all watched... Just how?
Maybe so as reality TV is staged human nature, hence it is fake and we all sense that but hope that we would act in such fashion, maybe. Aesop, Cicero, Jesus Christ, Shakespeare and the authors of the US Constitution had better insight into human nature than their modern counter parts; 30 minutes of CNN will confirm that.
Whenever I see people say that humans are getting stupider and stupider, and that we are getting closer and closer to a society like the one portrayed in the film ‘Idiocracy’, I always laugh and tell them that all they need to do is look at a history book to see that we have never been a smart species.
@@jewelmathew3457 It wasn't sarcasm, it was satire. t's/that's a fair cop An admission of wrongdoing upon being caught. Primarily heard in UK, Australia.
I would guess that it's made to look as if the two platforms are linked by a rope over a central pulley, creating a 'scale'. Not very medieval perhaps, but hey!
The first second we see Bedivere as the peasants walk up to him, he's attaching a swallow to a coconut. It's one of those tiny details that you miss the first time around, but it's a great little addition.
In fact Michael Palin was the Python who was known for nearly laughing during a scene. If you watch the series you can spot him suppressing a laugh several times.
@@Relaxingtitan A(x): x is a witch B(x): x is wood C(x): x burns We know that: A(x) => C(x), B(x) => C(x) From this, Bedivere concludes that: B(x) => A(x), as they both imply C(x), but this is a logical fallacy ("Affirming the consequent" by taking a, from B(x), derived C(x) to conclude A(x)). Later, Bedivere catches this mode of fallacy when he notes that you can also make bridges out of stone, but later falls for it again.
Please explain how this is like modern politics. Or did you not think it through any further than "politics bad"? God, I fucking loathe RUclips comments
Frank G That makes sense now. I always assumed it was "court", because I was not aware of that idiom. To an American, the word cop would not make sense there.
My favourite thing about this is that they are actually asking if they can burn her. "WE FOUND A WITCH! May we burn her?" Lol! I don't know why, but that. "May we burn her?" always cracks me up, why are you even asking? Why aren't you just burning her? It's too funny to me XD
Sadly, most people today think that they are far more intelligent, educated and sophisticated than the peasants in this scene. One look on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, RUclips comments, or any random conversation you hear in your area, show how incredibly untrue this is. People are no different than the peasants here, except that the peasants are funnier.
Except modern day peasants also obsess over their own intelligence and so ironically end up post comments deeming others the idiots when in reality they themselves are the idiots
“The Wise Sir Bedivere was the first to join the King Arthur’s knights.” ... He really was the first of the Pythons to join Graham Chapman 😢😢 RIP Terry Jones
I totally agree, he was on the verge of corpsing. Watch Michael Palin, too - he scratches his face to prevent himself laughing. And right at the very back, I think that's Terry and he has to turn away completely because he starts corpsing.
Reginald Finley Hmm, I wonder if the lower percentage of the public's ability to rationalize evidence has anything in conjunction with their lower percentage of secularism in individuals.
Postghost I'd say it has less to do with being secular or sectarian, and more to do with our failing education system and the fact that we pick juries that are so stupid they can't even think of an excuse to get out of jury duty.
Max Power Yeah, except I didn't see anywhere on the scales where you dump in the loads of money to "calibrate the scales" in your favor? That's a big detail missing in the story...probably a budget trimming necessity due to the Queen's "bite"? Or not.
andrew sauer The one that lives in a ditch and combs her hair with a hickory switch. She lives off nails and snails and flies, and when you get near her, she wobbles her eyes.
That crowd reminds me of the average internet comments section.
They are way to intelligent to be any kinda' YT comment section.....uhhh I'm talkin' like a smug college student.
damiester1 - For me it's the same. There are bunch of both them who I hate.
It's more like Al Gore and the climate cult crowd.
Smug college students are are so much worse. They don't anything know important, are rich and spoiled brats, and they get used by big gov and money to make most everyone else's lives' even more miserable and get away with it.
....aaand, we're off!
"who are you who are so wise in the ways of science"
+Alexander Cummins That's the part that really killed me haha :D
Made no sense to me, Person A does all this science stuff on scene, Person B arrives, Person A asks person he has never met before: "who are you who are so wise in the ways of science"
A FoxNews contributor.
He will stay with us into the next segment where we discuss global warming.
the 1986 generation King OF Underworld tradeMark:GoldenLine Trading Enterprise
any problem again?
@@bobgibbs7888King Arthur was wise in science because he knew that ducks could float.
Translation of the last line of British slang from the Witch;
“It’s a fair cop” = “you got me”
i dont get it
Thanks for this, had no idea what she said
Zak Dalloul; she actually WAS a Witch.
@@zaky4127 In the U.K. if you're guilty as charged, you'd say _"It's a fair cop"_ i.e. she's admitting they're right, she's guilty.
was looking for this, thanks, had no idea what she said
Every line in this scene is perfect, especially the last one. “It’s a fair cop” implies that despite all that demential reasoning she was indeed a witch after all. Pure comedy.
I think she said court, not sure though.
@@bystanderbutch3509 she said cop, i think it is british slang. Basically meaning fair enough.
Well, she did weigh the same as a duck. Seems there's at least some witchplay there
with the scales they used, I wouldn't be surprised if everything weighed the same as everything else.
@@bionicleapple1254look right here 3:58 the scales didnt match up lol
"What do you burn apart from witches? "
"MORE WITCHES!"
SHH! WOOD!!
@@Ih8kone ....dont tell Oliver that....unless it wins gryffindor the cup.
@@Ih8kone which make no sense as all humans burn.
Wizards?
Is it just me or most wizards are always pictured as wise and noble men, but witches are like evil and ugly?
@@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933 wizards can be both Male and female
“..A duck”
“Who are you,who so wise in the way of science?”
Its the meme
I am Arthur, king of the Britains
@@b.d6642 Who?
@@asoru5573 We're all the Britons.
'Exactically'
0:18 Love how he's testing to see if the swallow can fly carrying a coconut.
Where did he get that coconut
@@EfromR Imported most likely.
@@quarryspanish By a swallow?
I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE THAT HAHAHHA
Its not a question of where it grip it, its a simple question of weight ratio. A 5 ounce bird cannot grip a 1 pound coconut
I love how it seems he's trying to fool everybody into saving an innocent, only to reveal the absurd reasoning was correct and she's actually a witch. Genius.
Criminals never just come clean, do they.
The scales weren't even.
@@EverettWilsonit was, the reason it tilted to one side after they took her out is because the duck is still in the other side of the scale.
No, she is not. The scales where rigged. She said "fair cop" because she succumbed to the idiotic logic of the masses and believed that she is a "witch".
@@tl1326but the duck was on top of stone therefore making it imbalanced?
"Build a bridge out of her!" That line gets me every time.
ah but can you not also make bridges out of stone
iandhr1 Then she's a golem?
DarkAdonisVyers Sounds about right.
When you think about it that would have been a gruesome sight.
"I got better" got me
This is a fairly accurate portrayal of how a mob justifies its actions.
Mobs just want blood on their hands
@@SamuelBlack84 Modern mobs use much different tactics, so many creative ways to destroy and maim people without ever drawing blood.
@@Lion-rf8xi Same thing, violence for it's own sake
@@SamuelBlack84 Violence is a like a drug for some people
@@Lion-rf8xi Tell me about it, I've seen it so many times. Gangs of young teenagers with hate and ferocity in their eyes so intense it's a sheer bloodlust. Bastards
"She turned me into a newt!"
"A newt?"
"Well, I got better"
Pure genius.
BURN HER ANYWAY!!!
SquidHub Central how are you so wise in the ways of science
“I’m getting better!” - Sick Man
“I got better.” - Sir Lancelot
“He’s getting better” - Castle Guest
Another great Python line from "Life of Brian". Brian addresses a vast crowd of his followers who have followed him home saying to them "You're all different, You're all individuals" and a solitary tiny voice calls out "I'm not".
@@stevebinning977
Brian: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't need to follow me. You don't need to follow anybody! You've got to think for yourselves! You're all individuals!
Crowd: [in unison] Yes! We're all individuals!
Brian: You're all different!
Crowd: [in unison] Yes, we are all different!
Man in crowd: I'm not...
Crowd: Shhh!
I love how he’s interrogating the crowd like a mom in a kitchen solving a fight btwn siblings. English humor so often couches situations in these instantly relatable dynamics, and it gives it such a cool layer of hilarity. Also him having to hold his stupid face guard up the entire movie is gold.
I always saw it like a kindergarten or preschool teacher lol
So, let me get this straight...Witches are burned, but wood is also burned, and wood floats, but ducks also float, so, if someone weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood, therefore, she's a witch
Seems legit.
That's why this knight was wise enough for the Round Table.
You call that logic?? I've heard better reasoning from people with schizophrenia!
SHE'S A WITCH
***** BURN THE WITCH
'Build a bridge out of her' the conversation makes no sense, but this was the most ridiculous idea
@John Matrix absolutely
Its brilliant though
"Grain! apples! very small rocks!"
exactly it wouldn't prove anything. once they finish the bridge it proves nothing, she could just be made out of a bridge material like granite, not necessarily wood.
@@bl1398 Well that's why he says you can also build a bridge out of stone.. the whole point of the joke is the most ridiculous and far fetched process of elimination lol
Well, at least she got a fair trial.
Jon Bilgutay lol with rigged scales?
Fawn No who said they were rigged?
+Fawn No Are you a witch?
+Paul939 fawn is witch may we burn her?
+dufaan green is she lighter than a duck?
"We've found a witch, shall we burn her?"
"Burn her! Burn her!"
"How do you know she's a witch?"
"Cuz she looks like one!"
Twitter basically
Racist!
"We've found a racist! Shall we cancel them?"
"Cancel them! Cancel them!"
"How do you know they're a racist?"
"Because they look like one!"
Lol
Stop twiterphobe
@@kzik3635 consider the rope. Twitter user.
This is legitimately how you write a long-winded joke.
Just as funny tl;dr style, I'm sure
@@Cjnw “How can you tell if a woman is a witch? She weighs the same as a duck.”
I’m not convinced.
Yes
It was a dark and stormy night,
And the Captain said to the bo'sun:
Bo'sun, tell us a tale.
And the bo'sun said:
It was a dark and stormy night...
Except it needs to be funny to be a joke
I just noticed the knight send a bird with a coconut attached on him before the crowd arrive x)
Pigeons carrying coconuts...
An interesting theory.
@@gangrenousgandalf2102 i think its a swallow
Lol 😆
But... Whare did he get a coconut?
I just noticed the same thing yesterday and I've been seeing this movie for well whatever long time
"What also floats in water?"
"A DUCK."
(crowd gasps)
That part always cracks me up.
Hey! But what are ducks made out of then?
Wood... Obviously.
Very small rocks!
So ducks are witches then?
that part Quacks* me up
I love that he's trying to teach them how to use logical, critical scientific thinking and yet....it's all so wrong.
Not so! She weighed the same as a duck!
@CP Skaggs a duck is 3 pounds while a female human is about 135 pounds during that time. That was fair game at that point lol
Shes a witch tho
When your teacher use outdated textbooks
That is why it is funny
Who built King Arthur's round table? Sir Cumference.
Who killed King Arthur?
Sir Osis of Liver
très très bon jeu de mots . j'adore . from France ;-)
Eda Bean
But it’s also sexual
I'm borrowing this one
@@ValGOPLock what does god need with a borrowed pun?
Things I've always loved about this scene:
1.) Sir Bedevere testing if a swallow can carry a coconut
2.) Sir B checking that the nose is a fake when there is a thick rope tied around it
3.) The actors not being able to keep their laughter hidden
4.) The insane logic that turns out to prove she is a witch.
This whole movie is pure genius. Still holds up after over 40 years!
Plus her casual "It's a fair cop" attitude toward her impending death! XD
always wondered what she said
Also when the remove the witch an the duck, the scale was out of balance
"I got better" was always my favorite quote.
The "A bit, a bit" part never fails to crack me up. If I was a native english speaker, I'd quote the shit out of it as a response to every troublesome question.
"She turned me into a newt!"
"A newt?"
"I got better"
“ She turned me into a newt!” *Looks around in awkward silence* “I got better...”
i dont get this, can u explain a bit thx a lot
@@mr.potato8000, it’s just a line said during the film.
@@gerryjweathersthethird5284 newt? The water lizard?
@@wiratamadean5994, I believe that’s what they said.
@@mr.potato8000 He says he was turned into a newt,
Everyone looks at him and he's clearly not a newt,
He says it got better, as if newts naturally turn back into humans over time (which they don't),
But they're all so stupid, they buy his explanation.
Teacher: "You have a test today"
My brain during the test:
so this must be justin y rivals isnt it ahahahahaha
Have you successfully defeated Justin Y yet?
@@The_Sunny_One nope
We will watch your career with great interest
Your braincells go on a witchhunt for what exactly?
Actual footage of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692
+jgonascar Not quite. No witches were burned in Salem. All those accused of witchcraft in Salem were hanged. And there was one instance of a guy being crushed to death during inquiry.
+Quinntus79 Way to kill a joke, man
When it comes to making a joke and historical accuracy; historical accuracy takes precedence.
+Quinntus79 This also works as joke
And a recent Trump rally in California.
Rest in peace Terry Jones, you made my life a warmer and a much funnier place.
"A duck!" always killed me. The authority with which he speaks that line, framed as it is in the ludicrous situation and against Bedevere's own assuredness is perfect. It's like watching two paranoid schizophrenic homeless men meet and begin earnestly discussing their shared delusions once the second man chimes in that the flying squid's of the first man's delusions are, in fact, also telepathic.
I love this comment so much.
Except that they're both trying to save her, but ... oops.
Heh heh...
Ducks
@@jonmeltzer1361 ....what?
This is the best comment I have ever read in RUclips.
And nobody is talking about how he just casually jumped down 7 feet onto the ground.
hahah @Lapse - I just noticed that for the 1st time myself!! Must be because I first saw this as a teen and then many times in my 20s where such a jump seemed whatever. Now over 50, I cringed when I saw it...had to play it back to make sure! OUCH! :)
Its not that high
@@powerpug964 You do it then, dressed in armour
@@GordonHeaney ok the armor might hurt
Soft ground and he litterly fell down his own height so that no biggy
"There are ways of telling she's a witch..."
"There are?"
"DO THEY HURT???"
Do they bleed?
I've seen this scene dozens of times and never noticed that before, that's amazing!
I always love that
I can’t believe all these years I never noticed he said that. lol
“DO THEY HURT!?” 😂
I love how king Arthur’s big “look at me I’m so smart for knowing something the commoners don’t know I’m so special and intelligent” moment was him saying that weighting a duck with the woman would prove she’s a witch
I was expecting this:
"Why do witches burn? Because they're made of wood. And how do we tell if she's made of wood? By burning her. If she doesn't burn then she isn't made of wood and isn't a witch."
Make sense, you lads wanna try this out?
@@santiagofaiella1255 Sounds reasonable, alright, try away!
@@santiagofaiella1255 Few, for a second their I thought you notic-uh I mean, totally. I guess its time for some witch hunting.
Xla Csn They would drown old women to see if they were witches back then. If they didn’t drown, they were witches.
@@BoraCM Yeah, it's like the Spanish Inquisition that would torture innocent people until they said they were guilty (Nobody expects that)
Flawless logic.
Better logic than just having her prove she's not a witch. How do you prove you aren't something.
Terminian Link draw a contradiction
No it is not, they should have compared her density against the duck's, not her weight. I mean you have to subtract buoyancy from the weight, I think the script writers messed up this part.
@@dkechag1979
You're right! THAT's the problem with their reasoning!
dkechag1979 I think that’s the joke.
"How do we tell if she is made of wood?"
"Build a bridge out of her!"
“Ah, but can’t you also build a bridge out of stone?”
“Oh yeah.”
Many times, I've encountered women I suspected were witches made of wood. It turned out, they were normal women with hearts made of stone.
I'm far more amused by their reaction to the realization that if the witch is made out of wood, they can check that by seeing whether she floats, and consequently try to rush her off to throw her into a pond.
The notion that failing to prove she is a witch will cause them to drown somebody innocent was entirely beyond them.
@@smc1942 deep
2:25 funny thing is that throwing people into pond was an actual way people back then used to find if someone was guilty or not, called trial by water, if they floated then they were guilty.
The smart thing here is that when the person is in the water two things can happen, either the person sinks and therefor drowns or they can swim and is therefor convicted and executed. (Sorry for bad english)
If you sink, you are declared innocent, however you are also dead.
I love the confidence behind the line:
A duck!
_ekkssssaektley_
And then they test her against the weight... of a goose.
When you are a King, you have to be confident like that, or else why should people follow you? You do not guess "a duck?" Instead, you proclaim: a duck, and a duck it is then.
@@TonyEnglandUK It's clearly a duck.
You have to know these things when you're commenting on RUclips.
@@AndrewGivens I can't believe you took that comment seriously.
The Internet Mob Justice in a nutshell.
"Justice"
1000 dudes without Reason and A Fella with 1000 Reason that make sense......
So, LOGICALLY, if he weights the same as a pug, he's made of gas, and therefore, is a nazi
Trump supporters chanting "lock her up"
Yep, this is pretty much Twitter today.
"What also floats in water?"
Some random guy in the crowd: "Lead! Lead!"
"Churches!"
@שחר א. It's like metal, people in the old days used to call it that
Pretty sure they said bread.
@@webbess1 it was definitely "Lead"
Someone else said bread though
The guy with the shaving cream kills me every time 3:25
Holy shit! I never notice him before
It's Spike Milligan. He had a cameo in Life of Brian, too.
As Pontius Pilatus from Life of Brian would point out, "he's wabid"
Also at 0:13
0:02 Me at any given moment:
But in the end, she really was a witch. She admits it in the end. "It's a fair cop."
I kept wondering what it was she said. Thanks.
I think it belongs more to the insanity part, where nothing makes sense, even if you thought she was the only sane person there, she wasn' t, so the phytons took the earth under your feet once again
She was denying it vehemently at the start. I think it means she accepts the proof: that scale shows she weighs the same as a duck, therefore she is made of wood, therefore she must be a witch.
Or, you know, sarcasm
you sound like one of the mob
Rest in Peace Terry Jones. You will be remembered for legendary scenes like this forever
Don’t do sadness
He's not dead, he's... (I'd better not).
@@1mouseman lol thank you
“What also floats in water?”
“Churches!”
Hilarious😂
I do not understand the joke, can you explain it to me please
@@bobbobby632 no
Does that mean the church is a witch? Or is the witch a church?
@@bobbobby632 I think it's a reference to the biblical story where Jesus walked on water
"And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped."
My 10th grade Philosophy and Ethics teacher liked Monty Python. She showed us this to teach us about formal fallacies, it's still funny now 😂
I have to find fallacies in this video. You know any lmaoo
@@michaeldonatelli7166 everything that the executioner Says is fallacy
You had a philosophy and ethics class in 10th grade!? I deeply envy you.
@@BlackSnow2389 What I'm sayin.
Almost 50 years later, and this is still one of the funniest movies in history. This is one for the ages
YEESSSS🤣🤣🤣🤣
Favourite Christmas movie *hugs*
Movie/Social Commentary
I love everything Monty Python. Nothing will ever be as funny or amazing as anything they put out. As we slowly begin to lose them, it makes me so sad but I’m so glad I was alive during their time.
Spamalot in 05 was amazing and I’m so glad I saw the original cast.
Can’t wait to see it again this December when it returns to broadway :)
Thanks to BBC, the next Python will have an equal number of female writers. :(
"Build a bridge out of her!"
Underrated line
Yeah, but if you build a bridge out of her, she could also have been made of stone, which should be incompatible with her being a witch since a stone person would hardly ever burn.
"She turned me into a newt!"
"A newt??"
".....I got better."
"BURN HER ANYWAY!"
lmao xD
Isn't it mute?
@@kalebbruwer Pretty certain it's newt. Witches always turn people into frogs, mice, salamanders, etc.
How did he get better? She is a witch, what powers does he have?
*BURNEH*
Monty Python is a treasure
"It's a fair cop."
Holy shit I'm crying
I didn't get that line.
I thought she said "that's a fair court" sarcastically lol
In other words she really was a Witch.
Cursing is a sin
@@djsjajjsjs168 my brother in christ; fuck.
She turned me into a newt!
A newt?
I got better...
(can they be any funnier?)
BURN HER ANYWAY!!
+ElectricBuckeye THROW HER INTO THE POND!!!!!
That's one of my faves....
There is a place with all the answers. They call it google
Something like that. I'm not familiar with the exact species
This is basically flat earth logic in a nutshell.
hahaha
Lmao so is that pfp
If the Earth was really round why aren't pizzas round?
It's because they aren't made of wood. The earth isn't made of wood, so it's obviously made of pizza, and is therefore not round.
@@MrScigeek101 😂
but this one arrived at the correct conclusion. She was a witch, she said it herself it was a fair cop.
One of the best scenes ever in one of the best movies ever. I love the final words of the scene, "it's a fair cop." After all the illogical silliness,
love how one guy in the crowd just has shaving cream all over his face
I know right hahaha it's just so random i love it
I got really drunk one night and decided to watch this movie again so I ended up losing it over the dude with the shaving cream beard
Well he was shaving then he heard of a witch to burn obviously he would put it on hold he turned a man into a newt
Apparently it wasn't even a cast member, it was some dude who heard all the commotion and wanted to see what it was about
@@defenestrated23 He looks a lot like Spike Milligan to me
I just noticed he was attaching a coconut to the dove xD
+CircuitMembrane It was a swallow. Now the real question is wether it was an African or European swallow
+Magnum WO i..I don't know that. AAAAAAAAH
Sir Bedivere is indeed wise in the ways of science. :)
+CircuitMembrane But did you notice the guy with the shaving cream facial hair?
+Midget Tosser Just saw it at 3:24. Good eyes :)
You can see how much Eric Idle wants to crease up laughing - it's hilarious. LOVE these guys ^_^
"She's a witch!"
"I am not a witch, I'm your wife!"
princess bride, classic. 1 year later. lol
Same thing
LIAR. LIAAARRRR
Hilarious, because that actress was actually John Cleese's wife
Daemous
I would’ve died if someone said “Same thing”
Apparently, the "MORE WITCHES!!" line wasn't in the script.
@Liam Berg (STUDENT) like half the movie wasn’t in the script m8
@@aardwoof_ imagine saying m8 in 2020
@@thedoctor6560 i don’t have to imagine m8
@@thedoctor6560 It's not our problem m8
8m
Merriam Webster definition of "it's a fair cop":
British, informal - used to admit that one did something wrong and was caught fairly.
“How can you tell if she is made of wood?”
“Build a bridge out of her!!”
“What also floats in water?”
“Lead!” “Very small rocks!” “Churches!”
“She turned me into a newt!”
“A newt?”
“I got better”
“Did you dress her up like this?”
“No!”
“No!”
“Yes..”
“Yes..”
“A bit.”
“She has a wart!”
I love this scene XD
Bread not lead
@@9000888sora both lead and bread was said
“Build a bridge out of her!!” can you not also build bridges out of stone?
How did over five hundred people see this and were like: "Ah, yes. I'll like this." Literally, all you did was quote a scene from the video we all watched... Just how?
@@papajohn5279 quoting the video is a pathway to many likes, some consider to be... unnatural
Ah, medieval entertainment. Say what you will, still beats the hell out of reality tv.
If the Oscars were like that, I'd watch.
Maybe so as reality TV is staged human nature, hence it is fake and we all sense that but hope that we would act in such fashion, maybe. Aesop, Cicero, Jesus Christ, Shakespeare and the authors of the US Constitution had better insight into human nature than their modern counter parts; 30 minutes of CNN will confirm that.
Bran Phillips not sure what is dummer?? this or the Kardashians show. lol. this is funnier yes. haha. ps yes I missed spelled dumber ;)
almostfm these guys science logic is as about as good as the Oscars are at picking awards for quality movies each year. ouch lol so true though.
Considering recent events, this sketch aged surprisingly well.
Which events lol
@@Sueuhevffbcjjidis hogwarts legacy controversy. Need i say more?
Im here to point out the swallow flying off with a coconut 0:17
I noticed that recently and started laughing
the shaving cream beard guy...
That ain't no swallow.
I find that hard to swallow.
I guess the only way to know for sure would be to measure its airspeed velocity.
Whenever I see people say that humans are getting stupider and stupider, and that we are getting closer and closer to a society like the one portrayed in the film ‘Idiocracy’, I always laugh and tell them that all they need to do is look at a history book to see that we have never been a smart species.
I love that after all that apparent nonsense, she turned out to actually be a witch.
Hahaha!! NOOO...she wasnt a witch! She was sarcastic
Nah the scale was just off lol
@@FrankMontes24 she literally admitted it at the end.
@@AesirUnlimited Apparently, you are not wise in the ways of sarcasm
@@jewelmathew3457 It wasn't sarcasm, it was satire.
t's/that's a fair cop
An admission of wrongdoing upon being caught. Primarily heard in UK, Australia.
I like how it isn't even a scale, it's two baskets hanging from a post.
It is a balance scale. Very old design. Works enough to compare masses.
So, a scale then?
@@vksasdgaming9472 Yes but I´m assuming is not balanced at all lol
It doesn´t matter anyways, she´s a fucking witch.
I would guess that it's made to look as if the two platforms are linked by a rope over a central pulley, creating a 'scale'. Not very medieval perhaps, but hey!
But it is a scale
Gotta love Monty Python...this is freaking hilarious
The first second we see Bedivere as the peasants walk up to him, he's attaching a swallow to a coconut. It's one of those tiny details that you miss the first time around, but it's a great little addition.
It's a dove. It's one of those tiny details that you miss the first time around...
@@stubmandrel no it’s a swallow
@@tsardudebroii African or European?
@@ezelfrancisco1349 I don’t know that’
Yeets @@tsardudebroii to the boiling gorge
"Did you dress her?"...."No! No!".....*pause*....."Yes. A bit, a bit." ...LOVE this movie!
“And what do you burn apart from witches?”
“MORE WITCHES!!!!!”
That's a fair cop. Can you imagine a real-life victim of a Witch hunt saying that?!
+borgduck At least he didn't pile stones on her chest or drown her.
+borgduck Actually, most witch trials ended in acquittal of accused person.
Hyper Ah! You saw that Matthew Hopkins-Witchfinder General documentary too (?)
Hey, you! The one with the Homer Simpson avatar. Rewrite your deleted comment, it was hilarious!
borgduck huh.... i wish i could remember what it was. I could do with a chuckle myself ^^
She turned me into a newt! ....I got better.
BURN HER ANYWAY!!!!
I crack tf up at the way he turns his head after he says that.
Newt Gingrich never got better! :D
The spell must have worn off. BUT BURN HER ANYWAY!!!!!!!
You can see Eric hiding his smile behind the scythe over how ridiculous the scene is to avoid breaking character at 1:55
I thought he was biting it lol
@@angrydoodle8919 yeah same :)
No he was looking at his teeth in its reflection. It has the same meaning as picking your nails when not knowing an answer for example.
@@resistentia7442 That was the most bizarre and yet most funny comment I've read today.
In fact Michael Palin was the Python who was known for nearly laughing during a scene. If you watch the series you can spot him suppressing a laugh several times.
The most rediculous yet brilliant scene ever
I lose it every time at "What do we burn apart from witches?" "More witches!!" 😂
Best part of this scene is when he says “So, logically”
What about this wasn’t logical?
@@Relaxingtitan
A(x): x is a witch
B(x): x is wood
C(x): x burns
We know that:
A(x) => C(x), B(x) => C(x)
From this, Bedivere concludes that: B(x) => A(x), as they both imply C(x), but this is a logical fallacy ("Affirming the consequent" by taking a, from B(x), derived C(x) to conclude A(x)).
Later, Bedivere catches this mode of fallacy when he notes that you can also make bridges out of stone,
but later falls for it again.
@@centril Pretty sure it was a joke but alright.
@@TheDream64 Yes, but, unlike the previous comment, he wasn't being sarcastic.
A witch!
A WITCH!
*BURN HER!! BURN HER!!!*
The modern political discourse summed up in 4 minutes and 15 seconds. Released 33 years ago....
Please explain how this is like modern politics. Or did you not think it through any further than "politics bad"? God, I fucking loathe RUclips comments
@@AAAJWH Still waiting for that explanation
@@catscratchfever7540 No, please tell me if you can actually figure out a connection deeper or more intricate than "politics bad lol"
@@AAAJWH Do you actually have two brain cells of your own to rub together, or do you just parrot stuff you've heard from other people to sound smart?
isnt it amazing how witch hunts take different forms over the years.
It took me 30 years to realize she said something at the end. “It’s a fair cop...”
I love how the scale they weighed the duck in is clearly heavier than the other one at 3:52
😂 never saw it
Thats the duck
"It's a fair court..." Fricking hilarious!
+Pat Doyle "it's a fair cop" is what was actually said.
+Narwilliam |Aussie commentary and gaming videos| It means the same thing as fair court.
Frank G i know, i was just saying what was said in the clip
Frank G
That makes sense now. I always assumed it was "court", because I was not aware of that idiom. To an American, the word cop would not make sense there.
+Pat Doyle
I'm a literate American, and I immediately understand that usage of the word.
Eric Idle breaking character within 2 seconds of being on screen adds so much to the scene
My favourite thing about this is that they are actually asking if they can burn her.
"WE FOUND A WITCH! May we burn her?"
Lol! I don't know why, but that. "May we burn her?" always cracks me up, why are you even asking? Why aren't you just burning her? It's too funny to me XD
He's obviously in charge there.
They're acting as little kids asking for permission to their parents, that's why it's funny.
“She turned me into a newt” besides “‘tis but a scratch”is one of the best lines in the entire movie
Both of the above got better.
I love how at the end she's just like:
"Damn, can't argue with results"
The length of that silence after “Why do witches burn?” was absolute gold. I love this movie.
Damn straight.
So much subtle humour like the way they show that the scales are clearly rigged at the end.
Sadly, most people today think that they are far more intelligent, educated and sophisticated than the peasants in this scene.
One look on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, RUclips comments, or any random conversation you hear in your area, show how incredibly untrue this is. People are no different than the peasants here, except that the peasants are funnier.
Except modern day idiots don’t have the jurisdiction to burn people they accuse of being blasphemous witches. 😂😂😂
this is too real and honestly deserves more likes. I was re-watching this and thinking of Twitter
Oh my god do you even know how pretentious you sound right now?
Except modern day peasants also obsess over their own intelligence and so ironically end up post comments deeming others the idiots when in reality they themselves are the idiots
Modern day witchunts are no better than the mob shown here.
“The Wise Sir Bedivere was the first to join the King Arthur’s knights.” ... He really was the first of the Pythons to join Graham Chapman 😢😢 RIP Terry Jones
John Cleese's face throughout this bit seriously lifts my spirits.
Almost a half-century on and it DOESN'T get old.
I love how Eric Idle's face is clueless until he hears the word witch. Then he starts freaking out.
+Barney Os. The reason why it's so genius is on the details, liek the one you mentioned.
1:55 Eric Idle bites his scythe to keep from laughing
nah he just does it to act like hes totally clueless
No, he was totally on the verge of corpsing as John Cleese held out on delivering his line longer and longer and longer.
I totally agree, he was on the verge of corpsing. Watch Michael Palin, too - he scratches his face to prevent himself laughing. And right at the very back, I think that's Terry and he has to turn away completely because he starts corpsing.
The American justice system in a nutshell.
Max Power I wouldn't say the entire justice system just jury cases
Max Power Sadly, that's about right. The general public's ability to rationalize evidence is sorely lacking.
Reginald Finley Hmm, I wonder if the lower percentage of the public's ability to rationalize evidence has anything in conjunction with their lower percentage of secularism in individuals.
Postghost I'd say it has less to do with being secular or sectarian, and more to do with our failing education system and the fact that we pick juries that are so stupid they can't even think of an excuse to get out of jury duty.
Max Power Yeah, except I didn't see anywhere on the scales where you dump in the loads of money to "calibrate the scales" in your favor? That's a big detail missing in the story...probably a budget trimming necessity due to the Queen's "bite"? Or not.
I loved how uneven the scale was at the end
i was laughing at this in my head when my class was learning Salem Witch Trails. . .
Kiku no Honda this, this is all the knowledge I need about which trials
which trials are you talking about?
Metrion77 the Salem Massachusetts witch trials
Which old witch?
andrew sauer The one that lives in a ditch and combs her hair with a hickory switch. She lives off nails and snails and flies, and when you get near her, she wobbles her eyes.
"How do you know she's a witch?"
"She looks like one!"
😆
It's so weird seeing a video recommended to you and then seeing, "uploaded 16 years ago". How time flies...
"And what else do you burn apart from witches?"
"MORE WITCHES!"
Gets me every time.
Said with such gusto!
0:02 All the kids in my class when they get clipboards.
Ion get it
Never gets old