That's taking the micky out of our driving dads at the start... They were google maps and sat-nav before those existed. (And maybe other driving dads from other countries). They knew all the roads and road numbers, and stations and train times etc etc etc. But they could fix their own cars by the roadside. And always explain the route they took in great detail.
The best line is the phone call: "Telephone for you, Mr Hilter! It's that nice Mr McGoering from the 'Bell and Compasses'. He says he's found a place where he can hire bombers by the hour."
All the Pythons wrote scripts & sketches. Eric did most of the songs as well. And Terry Jones (R.I.P.) was a respected mediaeval scholar who wrote a book on Chaucer.
Eric Idle, the road route enthusiast, did a famous monologue about the disappointment of standard package tours. I saw him do it live at Drury Lane in 1975. Outstanding.
It seems that when the Brits say they're having or taking tea, it doesn't mean just a cup of tea, but a small snack or even light meal such as sandwiches (with tea). For instance, in an episode of The Young Ones, one of the roommates is berated for not "making the tea" yet because "I'm hungry". Cleese may have come up with this since he was good at the H*tler impression, but all the Pythons were writers. They all came up through the ranks as writer/performers on other comedy shows.
Certainly when having a cup of tea in the United Kingdom one might have biscuits (cookies!) cake or even a sandwich perhaps....traditionally working class people, at any time of day but especially in the afternoon, may have had slices of buttered bread (sometimes with the addition of dripping!) with their cup of tea....as a light repast....to stave off the hunger pangs before a main meal....certainly having a middle class at home 'tea' would involve scones cakes and finger sandwiches....maybe of the cucumber variety....likewise when going out for tea to a restaurant hotel or even a cafe scones cakes and sandwiches would be expected....an at home birthday tea would naturally involve a formal cake however modest, smaller cakes, sandwiches, crisps (chips!) and probably also set jelly and balloons!....in this context cups of tea might not be served at all, more likely glasses of orange or lemon squash and or fizzy pop!....moreover to complicate matters somewhat having 'tea' can also mean sitting down to eat the main evening meal of the day depending upon ones social class or region....certainly in the past but also still today often....a working or lower middle class northerner or Welsh person might have a big cooked meal of tea for dinner....whereas they would also have dinner for lunch!....it was commonplace in the past for especially industrial workers and labourers to expect and indeed have two big cooked meals a day....meat and two veg....egg beans and chips(thick cut French fries!) as two examples....and why not!....so it can be seen that having or taking or indeed being invited to tea might not involve cups of tea at all!....however it was and perhaps sometimes still is commonplace to have a cup of tea with ones main meal....other soft drinks maybe nowadays being more common....certainly it would be considered rather continental and indeed unusual to have wine as an accompaniment to a commonplace meal....at least in most social milieu....notwithstanding however in the United Kingdom (and indeed the republic of Ireland), despite the ever increasing popularity of coffees, it seems there is rarely a time that is not deemed suitable for a nice cup of tea!....
The British, and many other European countries, have standalone “kettles”, you don’t need a stove to heat the water up, it’s faster and more energy efficient.
This was filmed in 1970, only 25 years after the war ended. Nobody had to blur out the Swastika (the logo you were looking for) We are too worried about offending everyone now.
Exactly - if you "blur out" the swastika, the whole point of the sketch, i.e. making neo nazis look ridiculous (as presented here 1969-70) is lost. It's obvious to anyone with a brain what the sketch is about anyway. However, it's true that You Tube is very stupid in some of its 'rules' and "guidance" - just as the nazis were ! - and that many channels cannot afford to ignore them.
@@wordsmith52 It's also to anyone with a brain that 1) There are plenty of social media participants who do not qualify for that criteria 2) That there are social media platforms that actively promote that ideology, whose groups seem to have increasing members and 3) The sketch isn't so much to make them look ridiculous, but to present them in an absurd and overall ridiculous situation outside of the historical context. Many UA-cam standards make sense, and I'm glad that they're there.
Hi, Tysheen. Minehead is a seaside town in SW England, on the northern coast; just down the coast from John Cleese's native Weston-Super-Mare. The places and roads mentioned are all in the Minehead area: Taunton is a nearby large town.
In the 60s and 70s comedians made light of Hitler and the Nazis all the time. Hogan's Heroes was a popular TV series. Almost every Mel Brooks movie has a Hitler joke in it. During the war, British kids comics included strips titled "Musso the Wop" and "Addie and Hermy", which always ended with the title characters being subjected to some cartoon violence.
The main joke is that Somerset is in the middle of the scenic English equivalent of hick farming country, like the one hick farmer afraid of “boncentration bamps”. Basically, Hitler trying to start his new reich from Mudflat, Nebraska.
its a swastika :) It should be noted the ratzis didnt INVENT this symbol .. its still on the finnish air force planes, for instance, an ancient finnish symbol of luck .. its in the hindu religion, (not that I know what they use it for lol) and just as a pattern in tiles or beadwork can be seen everywhere from old rome to american indian art. I say we RECLAIM this simple and useful geometric form, the ratzis shouldnt be able to ruin a basic shape for everyone for all time .. should they now? I mean .. its in a circle .. were not gonna let them have the CIRCLE are we?? ofc we are not lol
If you go to someone's house and you don't get offered a cuppa, there's something up.
Even bergarlys
@grahamjeffries4566 * burglaries
That's taking the micky out of our driving dads at the start... They were google maps and sat-nav before those existed. (And maybe other driving dads from other countries). They knew all the roads and road numbers, and stations and train times etc etc etc. But they could fix their own cars by the roadside. And always explain the route they took in great detail.
The best line is the phone call: "Telephone for you, Mr Hilter! It's that nice Mr McGoering from the 'Bell and Compasses'. He says he's found a place where he can hire bombers by the hour."
I started laughing as soon as I read the title! I know this will be good!
Tea is a gateway drug...to biscuits
All the Pythons wrote scripts & sketches. Eric did most of the songs as well. And Terry Jones (R.I.P.) was a respected mediaeval scholar who wrote a book on Chaucer.
I was thinking about this skit just a few days ago. I think I've seen every TV episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Eric Idle, the road route enthusiast, did a famous monologue about the disappointment of standard package tours. I saw him do it live at Drury Lane in 1975. Outstanding.
If you can do something so utterly silly and off the wall, but so well, then you're a genius.
We have an electric kettle here in California. “Sur la Table” from Costco. It’s genius.
The tea is just a cultural thing for Brits. They also have beans, mushrooms and stewed tomatoes for breakfast. Just a different upbringing.
A cross is a cross, but this version with hooks is called a Hakenkreuz or Swastika.
Yes tea is much better when it's raining outside
It seems that when the Brits say they're having or taking tea, it doesn't mean just a cup of tea, but a small snack or even light meal such as sandwiches (with tea). For instance, in an episode of The Young Ones, one of the roommates is berated for not "making the tea" yet because "I'm hungry".
Cleese may have come up with this since he was good at the H*tler impression, but all the Pythons were writers. They all came up through the ranks as writer/performers on other comedy shows.
Certainly when having a cup of tea in the United Kingdom one might have biscuits (cookies!) cake or even a sandwich perhaps....traditionally working class people, at any time of day but especially in the afternoon, may have had slices of buttered bread (sometimes with the addition of dripping!) with their cup of tea....as a light repast....to stave off the hunger pangs before a main meal....certainly having a middle class at home 'tea' would involve scones cakes and finger sandwiches....maybe of the cucumber variety....likewise when going out for tea to a restaurant hotel or even a cafe scones cakes and sandwiches would be expected....an at home birthday tea would naturally involve a formal cake however modest, smaller cakes, sandwiches, crisps (chips!) and probably also set jelly and balloons!....in this context cups of tea might not be served at all, more likely glasses of orange or lemon squash and or fizzy pop!....moreover to complicate matters somewhat having 'tea' can also mean sitting down to eat the main evening meal of the day depending upon ones social class or region....certainly in the past but also still today often....a working or lower middle class northerner or Welsh person might have a big cooked meal of tea for dinner....whereas they would also have dinner for lunch!....it was commonplace in the past for especially industrial workers and labourers to expect and indeed have two big cooked meals a day....meat and two veg....egg beans and chips(thick cut French fries!) as two examples....and why not!....so it can be seen that having or taking or indeed being invited to tea might not involve cups of tea at all!....however it was and perhaps sometimes still is commonplace to have a cup of tea with ones main meal....other soft drinks maybe nowadays being more common....certainly it would be considered rather continental and indeed unusual to have wine as an accompaniment to a commonplace meal....at least in most social milieu....notwithstanding however in the United Kingdom (and indeed the republic of Ireland), despite the ever increasing popularity of coffees, it seems there is rarely a time that is not deemed suitable for a nice cup of tea!....
The British, and many other European countries, have standalone “kettles”, you don’t need a stove to heat the water up, it’s faster and more energy efficient.
we don't drink tea in America.. we toss it into the bay!
If you think the guy talking about the roads had a lot to remember watch the travel agent sketch !
This was filmed in 1970, only 25 years after the war ended. Nobody had to blur out the Swastika (the logo you were looking for) We are too worried about offending everyone now.
Exactly - if you "blur out" the swastika, the whole point of the sketch, i.e. making neo nazis look ridiculous (as presented here 1969-70) is lost. It's obvious to anyone with a brain what the sketch is about anyway. However, it's true that You Tube is very stupid in some of its 'rules' and "guidance" - just as the nazis were ! - and that many channels cannot afford to ignore them.
@@wordsmith52 It's also to anyone with a brain that 1) There are plenty of social media participants who do not qualify for that criteria 2) That there are social media platforms that actively promote that ideology, whose groups seem to have increasing members and 3) The sketch isn't so much to make them look ridiculous, but to present them in an absurd and overall ridiculous situation outside of the historical context. Many UA-cam standards make sense, and I'm glad that they're there.
3:30 - I thought kettles were rarer in America because your power supply is a lower voltage
Hi, Tysheen. Minehead is a seaside town in SW England, on the northern coast; just down the coast from John Cleese's native Weston-Super-Mare. The places and roads mentioned are all in the Minehead area: Taunton is a nearby large town.
I think the Tea drinking started more in India as the water needed to be boiled plus Gin & Tonic the tonic water contained quinine
Ever since that incident in Boston, there has been a shortage of good leaf in the United States.
They've changed the boundaries since this was made. Peterborough is in Cambridgeshire, not Lincolnshire.
And I think Minehead is now spelt "Meinhead".
I’m so glad Minehead never annexed Taunton.
In the 60s and 70s comedians made light of Hitler and the Nazis all the time. Hogan's Heroes was a popular TV series. Almost every Mel Brooks movie has a Hitler joke in it.
During the war, British kids comics included strips titled "Musso the Wop" and "Addie and Hermy", which always ended with the title characters being subjected to some cartoon violence.
The main joke is that Somerset is in the middle of the scenic English equivalent of hick farming country, like the one hick farmer afraid of “boncentration bamps”.
Basically, Hitler trying to start his new reich from Mudflat, Nebraska.
Kettles are electric. Plug and boil. Americans boil on the stove
Not all. Mine is a nice little electric model. Very convenient.
30°! I'd be sweating already. 😂
If you think Eric's speech about traffic was good, you should see the bit in "Live At The Hollywood Bowl" where he's talking about Watney's beer...
Whatney's Red Barrel.
I think all the python lads wrote it all together .. probably half of it during rehearsals you know? pissing about until it felt right
Cold?!? You should drink more hot tea! (With apologies to the Python "self-defense" sketch.)
I wish it was 30 in England 😂😂😂
all the Monty Python gang wrote
30° is hot
20° is nice
10° is cold
0° is ice
All the Month Python guys loved to dress up as women didn't they? There were ahead of their time
its a swastika :) It should be noted the ratzis didnt INVENT this symbol .. its still on the finnish air force planes, for instance, an ancient finnish symbol of luck .. its in the hindu religion, (not that I know what they use it for lol) and just as a pattern in tiles or beadwork can be seen everywhere from old rome to american indian art.
I say we RECLAIM this simple and useful geometric form, the ratzis shouldnt be able to ruin a basic shape for everyone for all time .. should they now? I mean .. its in a circle .. were not gonna let them have the CIRCLE are we?? ofc we are not lol
Tea smells nice but when you drink it it's only warm water. Coffee for me, thanks ;)
LOL. Tysheen does'nt seem to get it.
Its ok only the British and Israelis understand this kind of humour
More boring than I thought. Good reaction tho
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