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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780767027182
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0767027183
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Release Date: May 02, 2000
Running Time: 390 minutes
Sales Rank: 33397
Studio: A&E Home Video
Editorial Review:
Description:
Python fans rejoice. A&E has finally completed their long, expensive journey through the first three seasons of the legendary FLYING CIRCUS shows that caused mass confusion, hysteria and mayhem when originally aired. Now digitally- remastered and presented in their original order, uncut and with attractive packaging, this 6-video set of all thirteen shows from the final season with John Cleese is a must-have for all Anglophiles (the rest of you can look it up, but you should buy this just to be on the safe side). So don't wait another second, reach for your credit card and negotiate the purchase of some of the finest, aged humor available on the planet. This treasury of inspired looniness includes such classic bits as Argument Clinic, Cheese Shop, Sherry Drinking Vicar and the Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign. All conveniently sliced into single serving packages to keep your VCR happy.
Amazon.com:
This set contains the 12 'persistently silly' episodes from Monty Python's third and final full season (the ones introduced by Terry Jones's naked keyboardist). The quality of the sketches is not as consistent as in the first two seasons, but no Monty Python collection is complete without such series benchmarks as Njorl's Saga, an exciting Icelandic tale appropriated by the North Malden Icelandic Society; the Argument Clinic sketch; Gumby brain surgery; and the Fish-Slapping Dance, which Michael Palin is on record as saying is his personal favorite bit of Python nonsense.
A warning to more sensitive viewers: There is 'material that some may find offensive, but which is really smashing,' as well as blatant violations of something called the Strange Sketch Act. Some may also wish to fast-forward through clunkers such as Prices on the Planet Algon or the rather obvious game-show sketch Prejudice to reach beloved sketches such as The Cheese Shop, a fermented curd variation on the famed Parrot Sketch, in which John Cleese is unable to get any 'cheesy comestibles' from woefully understocked proprietor Michael Palin; the extended epic Cycling Tour, perhaps Palin's finest half-hour; the increasingly surreal Tudor Jobs Agency, in which an intrepid smut confiscator (Palin again) finds himself seemingly transported back to Elizabethan times, where he turns 'the tide of Spanish porn'; Cleese's lupin-stealing highwayman Dennis Moore; the Oscar Wilde Sketch, in which Wilde (Graham Chapman), Whistler (Cleese), and Shaw (Palin) match wits in an escalatingly profane game of verbal oneupsmanship ('Your Highness is like a stream of bat's piss....') and the self-explanatory Dirty Vicar Sketch. --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The final, partial season of Flying Circus
Many have criticised this final season (of about six episodes) as inferior to the first two of "Monty Python's Flying Circus". It has been said that the writing had suffered, as did the execution into skits, by the departure of John Cleese. John Cleese only appears in the persistently overwrought introductions to the episodes whilst standing on the scaffolding (the intro with him in the bikini is better). Perhaps true, these episodes are an important contribution to the Python ouvre. Sketches ... Read More
Rating: - What's all Then Then?
John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, and Terry Gilliam return for a third wonderful season! By this time John Cleese wanted to leave the silliness of MPFC, and start a show called Faulty Towers. Eric Idle convinced him to stay for one more season, and thankfully he did, for the third season would be nowhere without him. While many people (me included) felt the second season was by far the best MPFC season of them all, the third season has many things that set it apart ... Read More
Rating: - 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: »Mrs Niggerbaiter Explodes«, »Argument Clinic«, »The News With Richard Baker (Vision Only)«, »Fire Brigade«, »Molluscs - 'Live' TV Documentary«, »Cheese Shop« and »Mr Pither«.
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Rating: - More really good monty python sketchs
Its another good series of tapes for Monty Python. Some of the most recognizable are: Fish Slapping dance, Dead bishop, Travel agent with Mr. Smoke-too-much, the Cheese shop that sells no cheese, Dennis Moore (the lupin robber), Penquin on the Telly. Also who could forget the Gumbys, Burying the Cat (Mrs. Conclusion and Premise), Man Who Speaks in Anagrams. Futhermore, you will find the Argument Clinic on these series of tapes and that sketch is just as good as the Dead Parrot Sketch and Nudge, Nudge.
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