It depends... Which German philosopher did they have as a goalkeeper? Technically, the move was not yet considered offside until 1990 and the sketch itself was filmed in the 1970s with other rules about what the linesmen would consider an offside (Although technically the defenders were not enabling or disabling the play by position) Technically it was a goal for Greece.
"There’s the referee, Confucius, and he’s looking very bemused. And at the Germans now are arguing, Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant, via the categorical imperative, is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside!”
I heard John Cleese on a Chicago radio show, maybe ten years ago, lamenting that it had become far to difficult to perform historical comedy. I watched Monty Python, when I was in high school. But, this sketch became much funnier after studying political science, European philosophy, and the Great Books in college.
@@SiqueScarface As someone with Autism, Diogenes must've been the most infuriatingly autistic philosopher in history, so he probably liked it that way. Dude made Sokrates look chill by comparison.
The Philosophy Football was shown at the Hollywood Bowl. However, this clip was originally part of "Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus", a two-part German version produced by Monty Python and German broadcasters for the German market in 1971 and 1972. Eric Idle once said, "The Germans came to us and said, 'Look, we don't have a sense of humor, but we understand that you do. Can we use yours?'". I am still grateful to Alfred Biolek, a German producer and entertainer who had the idea for these two Monty Python specials.
Possibly my favourite sketch of all time. The French were strong favourites, but as they were all heavy smokers, it didn't work out. The Romans didn't make it to the finals, they just built the stadia.
Franz Beckenbauer was known as a very smart player, extremely team oriented, and deeply devoted to Fair Play. If the German Philosophers were to include an actual football player in their team, it would most certainly be Beckenbauer.
Exactly, Infinite commute, lol. Also he would have been a terrible goalkeeper due to his belief that a kicked ball is motionless b/c at any given time it occupies a space equal to its own size. Zeno is my fav!
@@jostein1195 Marx was wrong. If you're behind the ball when it is played, then you are very much onside. The player clearly runs in from behind. The second goal was offside, though...
Thanks for reacting, Michael Palin and Terry Jones were both history graduates, so they infused so a lot of history into there sketches, The Spanish Inquisition probably being the most famous.
@@ErisRising But also including the jab at Frederick II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, who wrote a treatise on bird hunting and migratory birds, including the European and the African Swallow.
The Nobody expects the Spanish Inquistion sketch became a meme and is spoofed / used in lot of other sketches of other creators. f.e. The German History video of Bernd das Brod pictures a spoof (Inquistors with WW1 flight goggles) Bern das Brod is a kids tv show character and like Kermit the Frog in the Mupet show it had also a more adult theme. In the night after regular children programming endend on the kids chanel an aldult themed edgy nightloop did ran who became famous.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the silly/stupid funny Monty Python (I'd put 'the Knights who say 'Ni' and the Black Knight in that category), but the clever funny like this, and "Romanes eunt domus" , is where they really shine.
@@cardinalhamneggs5253 Actually, I did not know that about Plato. I suppose that's why he was able to wrestle with metaphysical concepts. 😁 Then there's the bit at 1:57 when the match commentator says, "Aristotle very much the man in form." Of course he was - - Aristotle felt that every physical object is a compound of matter and form. 🤣
There was actually a brilliant Brazilian footballer by the name of Socrates. He famously played in the fantastic Brazil team that should have won the 1982 World Cup.
Somewhere in the sketch, Palin says that Germany got into the final by beating Scotland. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were on their front line. That line became very funny, after my Intro to Political Science class, where I read both Hobbes and Locke.
I also recommend the Treaty of Wesphalia skit from Fry and Laurie. It's a good historical skit of how Luxemberg got split in two between Sweden and France. If you find "Treay of Westphalia skit" it's the first one.
Great reaction! The Pythons were also historians themselves, allowing them to shine in The Life of Brian among other things. Terry Jones wrote several books on medieval history.
I love this gag but I can't share it, except with one friend who is licensed in philosophy and speaks a decent English. Many should have commented already but I remember Beckenbauer from my childhood, he was like the Beckham or Messi of the early 70s. During the 80s and the 90s he was a successful coach. The last arguing with the referees is hilarious 😅 Thanks for sharing
@@haroldbrooks5930 Actually you are right, I stand corrected. On the first take I didn't see the player head the ball. It looked like the player running in had finished it himself. When I saw that replay later it looked to me like a different goal, so I took it as being a second.
I literally searched for this video yesterday because I had it in my mind, and now Mr Terry is reacting to it. That’s weird but I’m not complaining. The music and commentary is typical of 80s UK football. The only thing that’s missing is a fight between the fans! But then again, they are Greek and German, not English
It goes well with Monty pythons “ philosophers drinking song” also some may argue Archemiedes was a suprise because he is a scientist and mathematician rather than a philosopher
Haven't seen this in ages, still as funny as I remember. FYI there was actually a footballer called Socrates, a legendary Brazilian midfielder from the 1980s⚽🇧🇷🇬🇷
There is a series by Michael Palin called Ripping Yarns that has a brilliant football episode called Golden Gordon. Very evocative of 1930s northern life and old timey football fandom specifically. I think you would enjoy it.
When I was an undergraduate philosophy student, I once encountered two professors arguing about prescriptivity. One because frustrated that the other has adopted what he considered a tautological position, and rebutted, "Well, yes, if that's what prescriptivity is, then that's prescriptivity." This inane remark drew the attention of a third professor who argued that this new statement was itself not necessarily true, because the logical functions on which it relies are only provable in a non-empty universe. Essentially, if there's no such thing as prescriptivity, then nothing is prescriptivity, no matter what prescriptivity is. As he was right.
An African team: Edward Wilmot Blyden - Al Hajj Salim Suwari, Ahmed Baba, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Zera Yacob - Ptahotep, Ibn Khaldun, St. Augustine - Muhammad Abdu, Samuel Etoo, Rifa Al Tahtawi. Samuel Etoo ibviously a bit of a surprise there.
What's so funny is not only did the Python's all have a really solid education where all of these philosophers would have been household names... But they also could play football well enough to act out the scetch. I know, there are probably mostly extras in these parts, but to me that looks like Michael Palin as Socrates, juggling the ball before kick off.
Another thing they should have included: Socrates going up to one of the German players, engaging them in debate, and causing them to physically trip themselves up via his use of the Socratic method.
To add extra context, there was a Brazilian player in the the late 70s early 80s named Socrates who probably was part of the inspiration for this sketch.
He was brilliant in reading the game, and stepping in before danger would develop. But he was no classical sweeper, and would often play before the defense, setting up offensive actions with brilliant passes. It was typical that he was absent in the center of the defense during the quick final attack. They should have included Schwarzenbeck or Vogts to cover for him, but coach Martin Luther probably wasn't aware how the modern Libero played.
The Goodies show (same era as Monty and from the same school) had a great soccer match to end WW2. All the soldiers were too injured to play so they subbed off the whole English team for the clockwork Winston Churchill. Then the Germans replaced their team with a tank. Pity none of it is on youtube.
I remember a really short short one Transylvania v Treasure Island ( a team of one legged Long John Silvers). The Pythons did use history quite a bit in sketches and of course Life of Brian and Holy Grail are satirical.looks at events .
re Monty Python and history .. Did you know Terry Jones did a 4 part 2006 TV series called The Barbarians. It explodes the elevated view we have of the Romans (because they were the winners), and examines the reality behind myths we've bult about the "barbarian" alternatives of the time. (Ie. Celts, Goths, Greeks, Persians, Vandals)
This is why we love Monty Python, moronically intellectual humor. This is what the Pythons did with their degrees from Cambridge and Oxford. Excepting of course the lone American Terry Gilliam who it is confirmed did graduate from Elementary School at some point in his life.
My favourite part was Martin Luther bringing on Marx as a substitute, trying to influence the outcome of a match he surely knew had been predestined by God. Not realistic! Oh and also, it was offside, VAR would have ruled it out.
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Wonder why Marx wasn`t used to replace Hegel, since he claimed that he (Marx) had put Hegels philosophy "from the head to the feet" and put some sense of reality into it.
Wikipedia: Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira[1] (19 February 1954 - 4 December 2011), simply known as Sócrates [ˈsɔkɾat͡ʃis], was a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder. His medical degree and his political awareness, combined with style and quality of his play, earned him the nickname "Doctor Socrates". Easily recognizable for his beard and headband, Sócrates became the "symbol of cool for a whole generation of football supporters".[3] In 1983, he was named South American Footballer of the Year. In 2004, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players.[4]
One of the finest, and certainly one of the most elegant, footballers in history. Like all the very best Brazilian players, he made it look so effortless.
There was another soccer sketch I loved from a British sketch show from ... the early 90s, I'm guessing? The Harry Enfield Program. I'm pretty up on British comedians, and even I never heard of that guy, but he does awesome sketches. He did one about soccer featuring this black and white film of players 100 years ago or so facing off against modern (as of 1990) players. Just showing how soft as casual these sports once were compared to now. And they did a lot of satirical educational short films in a 1940s/50s style with deliberately outdated advice and beliefs, etc. The funniest one is a sex ed film, I think it's called "Conjugal Rights Guide" or something.
Yes that right. He did a lot of work with Paul Whitehouse too. The various sketches are broadly called the Mr Cholmondley-Warner sketches and parody early British TV, public information films, and accepted norms of the time. I imagine you've seen The Fast Show and Vic and Bob, who were around at a similar time. Would recommend Chris Morris too, especially The Day Today. Genius satire about the news from the mid 90's.
You know I've noticed something else having watched it again. If you take a look, Leibniz the German goalkeeper-philosopher is standing in a different position on the replay than he was in the "live" goal. So maybe the Germans were right and it did only exist in the imagination. Also, can we just applaud the skill in the goal; it's certainly the best goal I've ever seen scored by a team of ageing men in togas and sandals!
I'm guessing Beckenbaur is a surprise because less people know who he is. Though I guess Archimedes is a surprise because of being more famous for geometry.
unfortunately the Greeks couldnt play Diogones as he was sent off with a red card in the previous match for picking up the ball with his hands and exclaiming "behold! a man!"
Brilliant! If you want some interesting History The movie "Zulu" is a classic. or British TV Sitcom "Black Adder" each mini series puts Edmund Black Adder (along with Baldrick his side kick) in a different period in British history. Start with Series 2 (the writers changed after series 1) You'll recognise Edmund (Mr Bean) and actors such as Hugh Lorry, Stephen Fry and the outrageous Rik Mayall
Did the Germans get robbed?
definitely!
Ya that was off sides
@@MalikF15 Clearly offside!
It depends... Which German philosopher did they have as a goalkeeper?
Technically, the move was not yet considered offside until 1990 and the sketch itself was filmed in the 1970s with other rules about what the linesmen would consider an offside (Although technically the defenders were not enabling or disabling the play by position) Technically it was a goal for Greece.
Schrodinger would argue yes and no.
How could Germany win when they clearly used Karl Marx on the right wing, knowing he plays much better on the left wing?
Oof.
Brilliant😂
😂😂 Nice
On Point 😂
"There’s the referee, Confucius, and he’s looking very bemused. And at the Germans now are arguing, Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant, via the categorical imperative, is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside!”
Funny thing is, it was offside.
They went to Oxford and Cambridge and they liked to remind viewers from time to time
I heard John Cleese on a Chicago radio show, maybe ten years ago, lamenting that it had become far to difficult to perform historical comedy.
I watched Monty Python, when I was in high school. But, this sketch became much funnier after studying political science, European philosophy, and the Great Books in college.
@@victorcapel2755 marx being correct as always
Diogenes was meant to play but he was banned for inappropriate behaviour on the sideline
Diogenes already had an accumulation of red cards.
@@Nolroa He doesn't mind in the slightest, using them as toilet paper.
@@MrMortullYeah, he was a very eccentric guy, to say the very least!
@@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n Eccentric is a nice euphemism for being excluded from the center of the action.
@@SiqueScarface As someone with Autism, Diogenes must've been the most infuriatingly autistic philosopher in history, so he probably liked it that way.
Dude made Sokrates look chill by comparison.
franz beckenbauer was real football players but he was so good at it they call him The Philosophers. that why is so funny.
plural?
@@robertocaputo3518 Dyslexia i don't do Plural.
@@robertocaputo3518 Yes, at times he seemed like he was in two places at once.
He was known as the Kaiser
That is not correct, he was known as "Der Kaiser" (The Emperor).
The Philosophy Football was shown at the Hollywood Bowl. However, this clip was originally part of "Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus", a two-part German version produced by Monty Python and German broadcasters for the German market in 1971 and 1972. Eric Idle once said, "The Germans came to us and said, 'Look, we don't have a sense of humor, but we understand that you do. Can we use yours?'". I am still grateful to Alfred Biolek, a German producer and entertainer who had the idea for these two Monty Python specials.
Which explains the lineups being in German
To quote an oldie but a goodie "German humor is no laughing matter."
Possibly my favourite sketch of all time.
The French were strong favourites, but as they were all heavy smokers, it didn't work out.
The Romans didn't make it to the finals, they just built the stadia.
Franz Beckenbauer was known as a very smart player, extremely team oriented, and deeply devoted to Fair Play.
If the German Philosophers were to include an actual football player in their team, it would most certainly be Beckenbauer.
Franz Beckenbauer devoted to Fair Play? He was a cheating bastard who played a major part in Bayern Munich stealing the European Cup in 1975.
He was so impactful that he pioneered the Sweeper position
The Greek team tried to get Zeno of Elea but he said it would be impossible for him to get to any of the matches.
Exactly, Infinite commute, lol. Also he would have been a terrible goalkeeper due to his belief that a kicked ball is motionless b/c at any given time it occupies a space equal to its own size. Zeno is my fav!
“And Marx was claiming it was offsides!” 😂
And Marx was correct...
@@jostein1195 Of course he is correct but nobody cares. 😉
@@jostein1195 Martin Luther's tactics were all wrong. He should have played Marx on the left wing.
@@jostein1195 Marx was wrong. If you're behind the ball when it is played, then you are very much onside. The player clearly runs in from behind.
The second goal was offside, though...
@@weescotspaul There's only one goal, it ends 0-1.
Thanks for reacting, Michael Palin and Terry Jones were both history graduates, so they infused so a lot of history into there sketches, The Spanish Inquisition probably being the most famous.
That's also why Holy Grail works so well; Jones had specialized in the Arthurian tales.
@@ErisRising But also including the jab at Frederick II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, who wrote a treatise on bird hunting and migratory birds, including the European and the African Swallow.
The Nobody expects the Spanish Inquistion sketch became a meme and is spoofed / used in lot of other sketches of other creators.
f.e. The German History video of Bernd das Brod pictures a spoof (Inquistors with WW1 flight goggles)
Bern das Brod is a kids tv show character and like Kermit the Frog in the Mupet show it had also a more adult theme.
In the night after regular children programming endend on the kids chanel an aldult themed edgy nightloop did ran who became famous.
@@SiqueScarfacewow thank you for that bit of knowledge, I had no idea!
The Germans would have won if it had gone to a penalty shoot out. ‘Confucius say ‘name go in book’ will never not be funny.
It was the most important Cup in Sokrates's life.
What about the cup of hemlock?
Oof 😂
Oo. Nice!
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the silly/stupid funny Monty Python (I'd put 'the Knights who say 'Ni' and the Black Knight in that category), but the clever funny like this, and "Romanes eunt domus" , is where they really shine.
As with a lot of what the Python crew did, because they were all very intelligent in their own rights, this is absolutely genius.
Plato's performance was ideal.
Well, he _was_ apparently an Olympic wrestler in addition to being a philosopher and mathematician.
@@cardinalhamneggs5253
Actually, I did not know that about Plato. I suppose that's why he was able to wrestle with metaphysical concepts. 😁
Then there's the bit at 1:57 when the match commentator says, "Aristotle very much the man in form." Of course he was - - Aristotle felt that every physical object is a compound of matter and form. 🤣
There was actually a brilliant Brazilian footballer by the name of Socrates. He famously played in the fantastic Brazil team that should have won the 1982 World Cup.
His goal against USSR is one of my all-time favourites.
@@MarkRyan-u3u what, when he feints once then again and shoots from distance? Yeah, one of mine too.
@@jasonharris8486 That's the one. And the 1982 Brazil team is my favorite team, just ahead of 1974 Netherlands.
"Should have won" ... Well, if you can't defend you're gonna be punished by ruthless teams like the Italians.
@@Fredrik-gw9fj True. Although some of the Italian 'defending' bordered on assault.
Showed this to a friend at work and he absolutely loved it. We used to talk a lot together about history.
Well, it WAS offside!
I also like the elderly English women going to France to settle an argument over the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre.
Somewhere in the sketch, Palin says that Germany got into the final by beating Scotland. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were on their front line. That line became very funny, after my Intro to Political Science class, where I read both Hobbes and Locke.
The two linesmen were Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas. Each had a halo.
Posted in my graduate history of ethics class.
I also recommend the Treaty of Wesphalia skit from Fry and Laurie. It's a good historical skit of how Luxemberg got split in two between Sweden and France. If you find "Treay of Westphalia skit" it's the first one.
Great reaction! The Pythons were also historians themselves, allowing them to shine in The Life of Brian among other things. Terry Jones wrote several books on medieval history.
I love this gag but I can't share it, except with one friend who is licensed in philosophy and speaks a decent English. Many should have commented already but I remember Beckenbauer from my childhood, he was like the Beckham or Messi of the early 70s. During the 80s and the 90s he was a successful coach. The last arguing with the referees is hilarious 😅 Thanks for sharing
I like how he is wearing his Bayern Munich kit haha
Marx was right and was focused on the material conditions which was on brand
Marx was mistaken on this one. Can't be offside if you're behind the ball when it's played.
He also achieved absolutely nothing in the end. It was Archimedes' heureka moment that decided the game. One of my favorite hidden jokes.
@@weescotspaul Socrates is clearly offside in the replay shown at 7:51. It's not the same take as the "live" shot, which looks borderline.
@@haroldbrooks5930 Actually you are right, I stand corrected. On the first take I didn't see the player head the ball. It looked like the player running in had finished it himself. When I saw that replay later it looked to me like a different goal, so I took it as being a second.
@@weescotspaul A spectre is haunting Europe. The spectre of the offside rule.
Now imagine if we had French philosophers like Voltaire.
Rousseau, Camus, Sartre, ...
And, of course, Descartes. Cogito, ergo ustulo?
Would love to see a series of this. The French, Brits, Chinese, and Americans would all be able to field decent teams.
or the Marquis de Sade🤣
French vs English philosophers
I literally searched for this video yesterday because I had it in my mind, and now Mr Terry is reacting to it. That’s weird but I’m not complaining.
The music and commentary is typical of 80s UK football. The only thing that’s missing is a fight between the fans! But then again, they are Greek and German, not English
It goes well with Monty pythons “ philosophers drinking song” also some may argue Archemiedes was a suprise because he is a scientist and mathematician rather than a philosopher
This was from "Live at the Hollywood Bowl" (1982)
To 8:14 I can only say: Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Haven't seen this in ages, still as funny as I remember. FYI there was actually a footballer called Socrates, a legendary Brazilian midfielder from the 1980s⚽🇧🇷🇬🇷
There is a series by Michael Palin called Ripping Yarns that has a brilliant football episode called Golden Gordon. Very evocative of 1930s northern life and old timey football fandom specifically. I think you would enjoy it.
Awesome stuff. Tomkinson's Schooldays my Favourite. The Very first Episode.
@@simondalzell5635hehe, that 1/1 scale model ship he was building in shop 😂
Comedy was much more intellectual than it is now!😀
It goes well with Monty pythons “ philosophers drinking song”
I also like the Summarize Proust Competition
A satire on the exam system.
The other assistant referee was St Augustine.
Also there was a footballer called Socrates and he was involved in activism! But it happened AFTER this sketch I think.
Played for Brazil in the 80's. A qualified medical doctor as well.
this is the program on the tv when i was about 9 or 10. i loved them my aunt hated them my mother thought they were ok.
i think in the states a commitiewould debate if it would be ok to show this in family entertainment
Archimedes was also a first class engineer, so he's presumably realized that kicking the ball will actually move it.
"Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the ball."
Yes it was so offside and yet in another way onside too
When I was an undergraduate philosophy student, I once encountered two professors arguing about prescriptivity. One because frustrated that the other has adopted what he considered a tautological position, and rebutted, "Well, yes, if that's what prescriptivity is, then that's prescriptivity." This inane remark drew the attention of a third professor who argued that this new statement was itself not necessarily true, because the logical functions on which it relies are only provable in a non-empty universe. Essentially, if there's no such thing as prescriptivity, then nothing is prescriptivity, no matter what prescriptivity is.
As he was right.
An African team: Edward Wilmot Blyden - Al Hajj Salim Suwari, Ahmed Baba, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Zera Yacob - Ptahotep, Ibn Khaldun, St. Augustine - Muhammad Abdu, Samuel Etoo, Rifa Al Tahtawi. Samuel Etoo ibviously a bit of a surprise there.
Decades since I've seen this and it still cracks me up - and if you like this wait until you see "romanes eunt domus"
Please react to “Mrs Premise and Mrs Conclusion” its JUST as funny
3:40 oh ya! Forgot about that
This was always my fav Monty Python sketch!
Socrates would eventually score 22 goals for Brazil. He scored three in the 1986 World Cup.
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What's so funny is not only did the Python's all have a really solid education where all of these philosophers would have been household names...
But they also could play football well enough to act out the scetch.
I know, there are probably mostly extras in these parts, but to me that looks like Michael Palin as Socrates, juggling the ball before kick off.
Not seen this for ages. It put a much needed smile on my face.
Blackadder II has a brilliant history joke with Blackadder trying (and failing) to teach his manservant Baldrick how to count with beans.
I miss Diogenes in the Greek team but that was actually really good and funy.
Bechenbauer is AN ACTUAL German soccer player ... therefore a surprise, even to himself!
You're right about Sokrates. Remember, the Gorgias is literally about Soktrates and his gang crashing party.
7:03 it was the clearest offside in history
Another thing they should have included: Socrates going up to one of the German players, engaging them in debate, and causing them to physically trip themselves up via his use of the Socratic method.
6:53 - Sophocles is clearly offside at the moment the ball is passed.
I'd argue he's more likely to be behind the ball than ahead of it. Definitely not clearly offside, at least
To add extra context, there was a Brazilian player in the the late 70s early 80s named Socrates who probably was part of the inspiration for this sketch.
Interesting thought, but the dates don't line up. The sketch was filmed in 1972. Socrates started to play professionally in Brazil in 1974.
Beckanbauer was a brilliant defender.
He was brilliant in reading the game, and stepping in before danger would develop. But he was no classical sweeper, and would often play before the defense, setting up offensive actions with brilliant passes. It was typical that he was absent in the center of the defense during the quick final attack. They should have included Schwarzenbeck or Vogts to cover for him, but coach Martin Luther probably wasn't aware how the modern Libero played.
"I think, therefore I goal"
Ah, Monty Python, the only troop who can make such an academic punchline actually hilarious...!
The Goodies show (same era as Monty and from the same school) had a great soccer match to end WW2.
All the soldiers were too injured to play so they subbed off the whole English team for the clockwork Winston Churchill.
Then the Germans replaced their team with a tank.
Pity none of it is on youtube.
I remember a really short short one Transylvania v Treasure Island ( a team of one legged Long John Silvers). The Pythons did use history quite a bit in sketches and of course Life of Brian and Holy Grail are satirical.looks at events .
re Monty Python and history ..
Did you know Terry Jones did a 4 part 2006 TV series called The Barbarians. It explodes the elevated view we have of the Romans (because they were the winners), and examines the reality behind myths we've bult about the "barbarian" alternatives of the time. (Ie. Celts, Goths, Greeks, Persians, Vandals)
With an empty net they coulda just kicked the ball straight in. But the Greek philosophy worked well. 😂Marx shoulda been netminder.
First soccer lesson: play right-footed, play left-footed, put on wax, take off wax, The Karate Kid. Soccer coach since 1982. Ciao
This is why we love Monty Python, moronically intellectual humor.
This is what the Pythons did with their degrees from Cambridge and Oxford. Excepting of course the lone American Terry Gilliam who it is confirmed did graduate from Elementary School at some point in his life.
My favourite part was Martin Luther bringing on Marx as a substitute, trying to influence the outcome of a match he surely knew had been predestined by God. Not realistic!
Oh and also, it was offside, VAR would have ruled it out.
One of my most favorite skits from MP.
Anotherone being the Argument Sketch. Because I'm pedantic.
A T-Shirt that is painted as a suit of armor? *Awesome!!!*
You should check out Python's Philosopher song too!!
All the big-boys get a mention!! 🤣
Hegel was also a footballplayer with a 54 World champions which is the generation before Beckenbauer
A lot of British comedians come from a few well known university comedy troupes, so they tend to be intelligent and well educated.
Hi remember during the live stream when u had a conversation about views. Releasing 2 videos at the same time is like shooting yourself in the foot because then u loose out on thr views you would get in the first 15 minutes by subscribers which makes the algorithm think that you do not have a good thukbnail or title.
You missed the Aristotle joke about being in "form".
The third referee is Augustinus of Hippo the 'Church Father', one of four of those.😉
You should check out Monty Python's "The Battle of Perl Harbor" sketch.
Wonder why Marx wasn`t used to replace Hegel, since he claimed that he (Marx) had put Hegels philosophy "from the head to the feet" and put some sense of reality into it.
Wikipedia:
Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira[1] (19 February 1954 - 4 December 2011), simply known as Sócrates [ˈsɔkɾat͡ʃis], was a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder. His medical degree and his political awareness, combined with style and quality of his play, earned him the nickname "Doctor Socrates". Easily recognizable for his beard and headband, Sócrates became the "symbol of cool for a whole generation of football supporters".[3] In 1983, he was named South American Footballer of the Year. In 2004, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players.[4]
One of the finest, and certainly one of the most elegant, footballers in history. Like all the very best Brazilian players, he made it look so effortless.
There was another soccer sketch I loved from a British sketch show from ... the early 90s, I'm guessing? The Harry Enfield Program.
I'm pretty up on British comedians, and even I never heard of that guy, but he does awesome sketches.
He did one about soccer featuring this black and white film of players 100 years ago or so facing off against modern (as of 1990) players. Just showing how soft as casual these sports once were compared to now.
And they did a lot of satirical educational short films in a 1940s/50s style with deliberately outdated advice and beliefs, etc.
The funniest one is a sex ed film, I think it's called "Conjugal Rights Guide" or something.
Yes that right. He did a lot of work with Paul Whitehouse too.
The various sketches are broadly called the Mr Cholmondley-Warner sketches and parody early British TV, public information films, and accepted norms of the time.
I imagine you've seen The Fast Show and Vic and Bob, who were around at a similar time. Would recommend Chris Morris too, especially The Day Today. Genius satire about the news from the mid 90's.
Philosophy - the major that prepares you either for higher learning or fast food service. My father was a philosophy major.
How long was he in the armed forces?
@@Psmith-ek5hq He did ROTC in college, but was cut right before graduation. He’s now a preacher.
You know I've noticed something else having watched it again. If you take a look, Leibniz the German goalkeeper-philosopher is standing in a different position on the replay than he was in the "live" goal. So maybe the Germans were right and it did only exist in the imagination.
Also, can we just applaud the skill in the goal; it's certainly the best goal I've ever seen scored by a team of ageing men in togas and sandals!
The names are I. german spelling because this clip originally produced for the fist German language Monty Pythons episode.
There's the ball... THERE'S THE BALL!!
I'm guessing Beckenbaur is a surprise because less people know who he is. Though I guess Archimedes is a surprise because of being more famous for geometry.
Technically, mentioning Beckenbauer was not a surprise, he was a star at the 1974 World Cup in Germany.
Beckenbauer was a surprise because he was actually a footballer, not a philosopher.
unfortunately the Greeks couldnt play Diogones as he was sent off with a red card in the previous match for picking up the ball with his hands and exclaiming "behold! a man!"
A favorite MP sketch.
It was actually an own goal so the German Philosophers really won...
Monty python has some of the most intelligent people on the planet. I love the "look I'm being repressed" in the holy grail
Brilliant!
If you want some interesting History
The movie "Zulu" is a classic.
or
British TV Sitcom "Black Adder" each mini series puts Edmund Black Adder (along with Baldrick his side kick) in a different period in British history.
Start with Series 2 (the writers changed after series 1)
You'll recognise Edmund (Mr Bean) and actors such as Hugh Lorry, Stephen Fry and the outrageous Rik Mayall
Soccerates
"Why are you calling me that?" Socrates says!
The Golden age of Ballooning
“I think Marx might be right” I hope that isn’t clipped.
Good call on going to the replay
Socrates brilliant for Brazil during the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain
Marx is correct, it was Offside.
Socrates himself was permanently pissed
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya about the raising of the wrist
🎶lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed🎶😁@@theotherwayofstopping4717
Lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed @@theotherwayofstopping4717
I have this as a t-shirt.
The Pythons were/are very intelligent men!
Socrates was my favourite Brazilian player of the late 70s early 80s