All nine appearances of the iconic 16-ton weight from the Flying Circus.
Notice how Mike gets the weight dropped on him the most times. Awww.
Naomi’s top five favourite Flying Circus episodes (ft. her favourite Python) 3:
Man’s Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century, S1E05.
Naomi’s top five favourite Flying Circus episodes (ft. her 2nd favourite Python) 2:
Royal Episode 13, S2E13.
Naomi’s top five favourite Flying Circus episodes (ft. her favourite Python) 1:
How Not To Be Seen, S2E11.
Slightly Adequate Relatively Unknown Pythony Factoids #25:
Before going to work for the BBC, John Cleese read for the bar at Cambridge and had intended to become a barrister. He also spent two years at another career which is not as well known - he worked as a schoolteacher, instructing ten-year-olds.
The winner of that Python quiz goes to ALEX! And for her most excellent effort in getting all of them silly questions correctomondo, she gets Eric as her reward :)
If you think the credits in Grail were priceless, take a look at these raunchy ones from the E. Henry Thripshaw’s Disease episode from the third series of Flying Circus. Even if you’ve seen them before, I had to post this because I honestly haven’t laughed so much at anything for a long time:
MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS WAS CONCEIVED, WRITTEN AND CENSORED BY:
MICHAEL ‘BULKY’ PALIN
TERRY JONES ‘KING OF THE LASH’
JOHN CLEESE ‘A SMILE, A SONG AND A REFILL’
TERRY GILLIAM ‘AN AMERICAN IN PLASTER’
GRAHAM ‘A DOZEN WHOLESALE’ CHAPMAN
ERIC IDLE (ACTUAL SIZE - BATTERIES EXTRA)ALSO APPEARING:
CAROL CLEVELAND (‘FOUR REVEALING POSES’ HARD PUBLICATIONS PRICE 40p)
AND, IN A VARIETY OF INTERESTING POSITIONS: THE FRED TOMLINSON SINGERS UNDER THEIR LEADER ‘BUTCH’ TOMLINSON
ROSALIND (‘AFORE YE GO’) BAILEY NOV AVAILABLE FROM BBC ENTERPRISES PRICE 30p AND A BOTTLE OF BELLS
BODY MAKE-UP: MADELAINE GAFFNEY AND THE BBC NAUGHTY LADIES’ CLUB
UNUSUAL COSTUMES AND LEATHERWEAR: HAZEL PETHIG AND THE NAUGHTY LADS OF ‘Q’ DIVISION
ROSTRUM CAMERA MOUNTED BY: PETER WILLIS (MASSAGE IN YOUR OWN HOME OR MOTEL ROOM)
ANIMATIONS AND EROTIC CARTOONS: TERRY GILLIAM AND MISS HEBBERN 043-7962
GRAPHIC DETAIL: BOB BLAGDEN ‘DENMARK HAS NEVER LAUGHED SO MUCH’
RED LIGHTING: BILL BAILEY
HEAVY BREATHING AND SOUND: RICHARD CHUBB
FILM CAMERAMAN AND ‘RIK’: ALAN FEATHERSTONE ‘MEN IT CAN BE DONE’
BLUE FILM EDITOR: RAY MILLICHOPE ‘WHAT YOUR RIGHT ARM’S FOR’
DESIGNED BY: BOB ‘BIG, BLACK, BUTCH AND BEAUTIFUL’ BERK
PRODUCED BY: IAN MACNAUGHTON WHO IS ASSISTING POLICE WITH THEIR ENQUIRIES
UNE ÉMISSION NOCTURNALE PAR TÉLÉVISIONE FRANÇAISE ET BBC TV
COPYRIGHT BBC TV £5 IN A PLAIN WRAPPER
Ken Clean-Air System, MPFC SE02 EP05 (Live From the Grill-O-Matt)
Michael Edward Palin - born in the Broomhill area of Sheffield, Yorkshire on May 5th 1943. Amiable, adorable, and an absolutely top-notch bloke.
This picture is so full of win that I can’t.
Edith Bowman with Gilly and Palin - posted on Twitter.
