Crunchy frogs?
Probably The Crimson Permanent Assurance or The Art of Not Being Seen
Oh, or Tim.
In my first year of high school I had Latin, which I hated with a passion. Before, I thought that it would boil down to learning some common words and sayings and proverbs, but no. It was learning latin as a foreign language. I don’t think I was taught anything remotely as useless as that. And I really don’t like the teacher and she didn’t like me and it was truly awful and I hated every second of it. It was so awful that I had nightmares about it, even years after high school.
A couple (two I think) of years after that latin studies I saw the Life of Brian for the first time. I didn’t know what I was going to see, so when the “romanus eunt domus” scene came. It wasn’t just hilariously funny it was also cathartic.
So I’d say that. I remember that sketch almost by heart since the first time I saw it.
Oof, too many to choose from. The first that came to my mind were the argument clinic and the cheese shop sketch.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
If one studies any foreign language, one of the first things one should learn is how to say “My Hovercraft is full of eels”. And in fact I have done this. Why? Because when someone is studying an unusual choice of language (in my case it’s Modern Greek) one is inevitably asked to “Say something in (Greek in my case)”. So the sentence, which is objectively absurd, actually becomes useful. I’m considering Irish as my next language. Why Irish? Maybe speaking some Irish would help me get an Irish passport so I can escape from Fascist America.
Argument clinic is what I was going to choose haha
my go-to phrase for this is always “lots of snow but no flashlight” due to a scene in an old Swedish movie
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, song from Life of Brian
The Universe Song from Meaning of Life is also great
Such a jaunty representation of nihilism.
I forgot about this one! Brilliant
The burn the witch sketch. I still show it to students to show how bad science and good science differ
In a happier timeline, there’s a Judge Dredd movie with John Cleese as Dredd. Directed by Terry Gilliam.
Also the Terry Gilliam directed Harry Potter movies.
“A balm? What are you giving him a balm for? It might bite him.”
The ministry of silly walks
The fish dance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8XeDvKqI4E
I like the defective Hungarian/English phrase book sketch a lot.
“My nipples explode with orgasmic delight”.
The programming language is pretty good
I can’t believe no one has mentioned my favorite running Python gag:
That’s because nobody expects them
My top favourite is already the top most voted so I’ll just mention a few that I think are classics that I didn’t see on the list:
Sir robin bravely ran away
Holy hand grenade
The animator having a heart attack
Erik the Viking
