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Monty Python's Flying Circus, Season 1
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Product Details
- Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- EAN: 9780767020725
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- Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
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- ISBN: 0767020723
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- Label: A&E Home Video
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- Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
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- Number of Items: 6
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: A&E Home Video
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- Release Date: 1999-09-28
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- Studio: A&E Home Video
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1969
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- Title: Monty Python's Flying Circus, Season 1
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- UPC: 733961174281
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Product Description: In 1969, five overeducated British comics and an American illustrator invaded the homes of unsuspecting BBC viewers with a brand of comedy that was, at the very least, odd. "Absurd," "bizarre," and "incomprehensible" are other descriptions that jump to mind. Nonetheless, this wacky sextet inaugurated an absurd tradition that continued through three-and-a-half seasons of half-hour TV episodes, a series of live performances, a handful of movies, and a legacy of dead parrots and upper-class twits. Monty Python's Flying Circus, Season 1 features the first series of episodes foisted on a still-reeling public, introducing running gags ("And now for something completely different") and recurring characters (an armor-clad Terry Gilliam wielding a rubber chicken, Graham Chapman's pompous Colonel intruding on sketches he deems simply too silly, and of course Michael Palin's "It's a Man" wandered through the entire season). Among the sketch highlights are Nudge Nudge, the Funniest Joke in the World, How to Defend Yourself from a Man Attacking You with Fresh Fruit, Confuse a Cat, and The Dull Life of a City Stockbroker, all interspersed with various and sundry cut-out-animation sequences by Terry Gilliam. Also here are the Lumberjack Song, the Dead Parrot sketch, and the epic Science Fiction sketch (featuring the tennis-mad Blancmanges from outer space), and John Cleese announcing, "And now for something completely different" with all the authority of a BBC announcer who suddenly finds his news desk hijacked by mobsters. Some of these early episodes may lack the consistency and stream-of-consciousness flow of their later, more assured work, but they're packed with some of the most memorable moments of the group's brief but brilliant history. The Pythons hit their first-season stride in the middle episodes, in which clever sketches and strange and wonderful linking gags come together in a wierd logic, but if the final episodes of the series flag compared to their comic peak, their brand of comic madness infects every episode with moments of pure lunatic magic. --Sean Axmaker
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Customer Reviews
Incredibly Funny
This collection is a must for Monty Python fans. I didn't realize how many of their classic sketches were in the first season. I loved this collection so much that I bought the next one also. I only wish that I had more time to watch them.
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What's All This Then?
This set is the beginning of the greatest show in all of comic history. If you have never seen Monty Python in Britcom action, then this is the first thing that should be on your list. Python fans young and old will marvel in awe at the great comic minds that form Monty Python's Flying Circus. This set contains all 13 episodes of the first glorious season of MPFC. Some of the brilliant classics it includes are: The funniest Joke in the World, How to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away (one of my personal favorites, The Larch), Nudge Nudge, Crunchy Frog, The Dead Parrot Sketch, A Homicidal Barber Feat. The Lumberjack Song, The Upper Class Twit of the year, Albatross, and of course, Episode 6: It's The Arts, in which Terry Jones Is interviewed by John Cleese as Karl Gambolputty de von Ausfern schplenden schlitter crasscrenbon fried digger dingle dangle dongle dungle burstein von knacker thrasher apple banger horowitz ticolensic grander knotty spelltinkle grandlich grumblemeyer spelterwasser kurtslich himbleeisen bahnwagen gutenabend bitte ein nurnburger bratwustle gerspurten mitz weimache luber handsfut gumberaber shonendanker kalbsfleisch mittler aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm. Overall, This is the set to get if you're starting your Monty Python collection.
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Classics, but only 2 episodes per tape?
There's not much I can add about Monty Python - their comic legends. This box set should be owned, as each episode is hilarious. My only complaint is regarding the packaging. Although the tape quality is excellent, why package only two 30 minute episodes per tape when it is possible to pack 3 or 4? This kinda bugged me, as I was paying 15 bucks for each 1 hour tape. Keep this in mind when buying these.
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The Avangardists Of Modern Humour
To this day, Monty Python remains THE idol and source of inspiration to humourists all around. »Monty Python's Flying Circus« made the group famous, and it is the best ever to come out, not only from Monty Python, not only from Britain... but humour in general!Highlights on this tape: »The Funniest Joke In The World«, »The Mouse Problem«, »Children's Stories«, »Restaurant Sketch«, »Undressing In Public«, the generally superb Episode Five, »The Dull Life Of A City Stockbroker«, »Man Turns Into Scotsman«, »Dead Parrot«, »Buying A Bed«, »Homicidal Barber«(/»Lumberjack Song«) and »Walk-On Part In Sketch«. Own it!
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The First Season Of A Classic Comedy Series.
As many people know, the cast of Monty Python are comedy legends. This video has the first season of their hilarious television series, "Monty Python's Flying Circus". Classic sketches like "Dead Parrot", "Marrige Counsler", and "The Deadliest Joke In The World" are included. If you like their television series, you'll also like their movies like "Monty Python And The Holy Grail" and "The Life Of Brian".
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