Monty Python's and Now for Something Completely Different
An anthology of the best sketches from the first and second seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).An anthology of the best sketches from the first and second seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).An anthology of the best sketches from the first and second seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
- Man in Restaurant
- (uncredited)
- Self - Leader of the Hitler Youth
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Guard
- (uncredited)
- Sound Man
- (uncredited)
- Self - with Munich Accord
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Themselves
- (uncredited)
- Self - Speech to RAD, from T.d.W.
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Distraught Mother
- (uncredited)
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Writer and Actor Terry Gilliam asked British animation legend Bob Godfrey if he could use his camera to re-create his animated sequences for this movie, Godfrey didn't know who Gilliam was and told him to "bugger off". Later, Godfrey found out that Gilliam was a member of the Monty Python team and helped him complete the sequences for this movie.
- GoofsDuring the mountaineer sketch, Eric Idle clearly breaks character and suppresses laughter when John Cleese reads from the dictionary.
- Quotes
Customer: Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.
Owner: Well, o'course it was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed that bird down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its beak, and VOOM! Feeweeweewee!
Customer: "VOOM"? Mate, this bird wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised!
Owner: No no! 'E's pining!
Customer: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!
- Crazy creditsAfter the opening theme song, a "THE END" screen comes up, and stage manager Terry Jones apologises for the brevity of the film.
- Alternate versionsAt the last minute, producer Victor Lownes insisted on having a big credit in the opening title sequence (which had no names otherwise), a static drawing which some animation was removed to make room for. Most copies of the film use this version, but some, such as an early German video transfer, retain the cut footage (between the title and the parachuting lady): about 4 seconds of a head bouncing around a landscape and finally shattering on a giant tack in the middle of the ground.
- ConnectionsEdited from Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
- SoundtracksThe Lumberjack Song
Written by Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Fred Tomlinson
Performed by Michael Palin and The Fred Tomlinson Singers
All the greats are here Parrot Sketch, Dirty Fork, Hell's Grannies, Fresh Fruit Self Defence, Marriage Guidance and more besides. The animated links, specially created for the movie, are funny and well put-together: and new versions of Killer Cars and the story of the Spot are excellent. In many cases the film versions of the sketches outshine those in the TV series and are more memorable, particularly those which first appeared in series 1.
This is a very good introduction to the team and a strong reminder of their early work for the BBC.
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- Monty Python's wunderbare Welt der Schwerkraft
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- Budget
- $100,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $6,979