Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (Part 5)
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- Опубліковано 28 гру 2024
- Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus consisted of two 45-minute Monty Python specials produced by WDR for West German television in 1971 and 1972. The two episodes were first broadcast in January and December 1972, respectively. They were shot entirely on film, mainly on location in Bavaria and in the German language, although the second episode was originally recorded in English and then dubbed into German.
John Cleese's german is perfect !
Man, I'd like to eat in that restaurant...
"They're sitting down in Bavaria! Yes, Bavaria, where the trees are made of wood!"
"Er hat Sie feucht gemacht in Bavaria. Ja in Bavaria. Und jetzt haben Sie Schiss."
Einfach genial xD
Auch großes Lob wie gut Monty Python die deutsche Sprache beherrschen und sogar einen amerikanischen Akzent glaubwürdig hinbekommen, das ist heutzutage echt nicht mehr selbstverständlich
this is why i learned german
"Beyond good and evil!"
Reminder to self: never let Nietzsche run a restaurant.
omg micheal and eric coming down the steirs so funny :d xd das est ganse tholl
type in monty python kingdom of happy valley.
best python sketch ever!
What I would give to watch reaction videos of Germans who watched this.
Monty Python was out there even in the UK where British humour is easily understood so this must have been quite a shock to the system of Germans who watched it.
Actually I would love to hear the views of Germans who saw this episode in germany at the time.
+Dan Brown They friggin loved it! At that time we were craving for something new, fresh, silly. Believe it or not we have a long tradition of nonsense humour in Germany (for example Wilhelm Busch, Joachim ringelnatz, Heinz Erhard) and we loved those guys from the start.
So, whenever someone tells you germans wouldn't understand humour you can reply that they got Monty Python before any other country in the world! :-)
+Rumblefin
Hey that is a fantastic piece of social history to learn. Thank you Rumblefin.
Dan Brown my pleasure :D
Hi, thanks for that.
In Faulty towers as with so much Brit humour, the joke is actually on us, not the people being made fun of in the actual sketch.
In that particular episode we are laughing at the naked bigotry of Cleese's character and it is he who behaves laughably while the the poor German family are correctly full of righteous indignation.
Have you seen the Bavarian restaurant sketch?
It is truly hilarious and again the joke is on the "American tourists" rather than the German people.
Another one that may be relevant is the Hitler sketch ("Mr Hilter") where Hitler is running as the candidate for election in a small English town.
Another one, also very funny, was the Hungarian phrasebook sketch which again people mistook for making fun of Hungarians - the Pythons were anti racist anti establishment, anti Xenophobic in reality and the sketches that portray such behaviour are always really making fun of that character not the actually culture, country, race being denigrated by that character.
A perfect example that encapsulates all this is the sketch "Prejudice" (this time it was Belgians that felt they were being insulted) - really the title explains where the humour is coming from and who it is directed at.
(Listen carefully to the names of the competition entrants as well)
So yes the Pythons had a lot of fun with cliches and stereotypes be they British, German or whatever but it was always in the name of lampooning bigotry and ignorance.
It is great to hear your perspective so I hope you will watch those other sketches on youtube if you have not seen them (or even if you have - always worth a re-watch) and let me know what you think.
PS
The German and British people have always had a lot in common, unfortunately our leaders do not always lead us in the "right" direction. Perhaps we should lead them a little more?
I fear for Germany under Merkel and the UK under Cameron and both under the EU but that is just my political opinion.
> In that particular episode we are laughing at the naked bigotry of Cleese's character and it is he who behaves laughably while the the poor German family are correctly full of righteous indignation.
Well, the "poor German family" was part of a "poor German generation" that caused immeasurable loss and suffering to the world, and Britain, a few decades before going to the Restaurant. The husband old enough to have been cheering for Hitler and fighting in the Nazi army.
Was ist jetzt besser, die Verarschung der Deutschen (Bayern) oder die Verarschung der amerikanischen Touristen ??? Ich weiss es nicht, aber der Sketch ist der Hammer !!!!!!!!!!!! habe Tränen gelacht
Genial! Rotkäppchen und Schweinewasser eiskalt, lol!
Where can I find the second episode? I'm looking for the princess with the wooden teeth.
Never trust people who wear socks with their sandals.
5:52 BLEUUUCH!
This restaurant more or less exists in Tokyo. It's called Kagaya. There's videos of it on here
Can anyone tell me what Cleese says in German from 3:56 to 4:03?
"Ah, es ist nur, weil es SEHR traditionell ist und ich war überzeugt, dass Sie alles authentisch haben wollen." He speaks German in a very French way here, the native pronunciation would be less "rhythmic" but it sounds lovely!
@JillianLeeBrown Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus Episode 2 (part 4 of 5) and Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus Episode 2 (part 5 of 5). Type those full titles into the searh bar on youtube and shall find what you want.
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was ist das denn xD