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Monty Python's Flying Circus - Set 5 (Epi. 27-32)

starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones

: Monty Python's Flying Circus - Set 5 (Epi. 27-32)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767024495
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0767024494
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 02, 2000
Running Time: 180 minutes
Sales Rank: 27447
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1971



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Amazon.com:
This set contains six '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 it was 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; a courtroom burlesque featuring Eric Idle as a very apologetic mass murderer; 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.' Chief among these is the one in which Terry Jones appears as a pitiable man whose every utterance reduces listeners to hysterical fits of laughter; the ill-fated expedition to Lake Pahoe (located at 22A Runcorn Avenue); and an in-person documentary about the sex life of the mollusk, from the scallop ('second in depravity only to the common clam') to the whelk ('gay boy of the gastropods'). Episode 30 has the distinction of featuring two of the most hilariously annoying characters Monty Python ever perpetrated on the public: John Cleese as Miss Anne Elk, who has a theory on brontosauruses, and Idle as the extremely loquacious Mr. Smoke-Too-Much. --Donald Liebenson



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Five stars, plus one black hole for quality control
I must offer kudos to A&E. Before these DVDs, all I had were 12-year-old VHS copies of Flying Circus ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Avangardists Of Modern Humour
To this day, Monty Python remains THE idol and source of inspiration to humourists all around. »Monty ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - CENSORED!
Don't get me wrong. Anyone who has the first two seasons of this series knows that these discs are of ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - They took the bones out and it's not crunchy anymore!
The actual episodes rate 5 stars (and more if they could be given). Not only was MPFC unlike anything ... Read More


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