Monty Pythons Flying Circus: The Lost Episode
I was a big fan of comedy, I loved all sorts of comedy, slapstick, fart jokes, physical comedy, you name it. I had seen some of the Monty Python sketches on youtube and had really liked them, my favorite was the parrot sketch. Dying to see more of this comedic genius, I decided to see if I could find some of the Monty Pythons Flying Circus episodes at garage sales, If you don't know what that show is here's the rundown:
Monty Python’s Flying Circus (known during the final series as just Monty Python) is a British sketch comedy series commissioned by David Attenborough,[ created by the comedy group Monty Python and broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974. The shows were composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches withoutpunchlines. It also featured animations by Terry Gilliam, often sequenced or merged with live action. The first episode was recorded on 7 September and broadcast on 5 October 1969 on BBC One, with 45 episodes airing over four series from 1969 to 1974, plus two episodes for German TV.
The show often targets the idiosyncrasies of British life, especially that of professionals, and is at times politically charged. The members of Monty Python were highly educated. Terry Jonesand Michael Palin are Oxford University graduates; Eric Idle, John Cleese, and Graham Chapman attended Cambridge University; and American-born member Terry Gilliam is an Occidental College graduate. Their comedy is often pointedly intellectual, with numerous erudite references to philosophers and literary figures. The series followed and elaborated upon the style used by Spike Milligan in his ground breaking series Q5, rather than the traditional sketch show format. The team intended their humour to be impossible to categorise, and succeeded so completely that the adjective "Pythonesque" was invented to define it and, later, similar material.
The Pythons play the majority of the series characters themselves, including the majority of the female characters, but occasionally they cast an extra actor. Regular supporting cast members include Carol Cleveland (referred to by the team as the unofficial "Seventh Python"), Connie Booth (Cleese's first wife), series Producer Ian MacNaughton, Ian Davidson, Neil Innes (in the fourth series), and the Fred Tomlinson Singers (for musical numbers).
Anyway, back to the story, I could almost never find episodes, or if I did I would find them or outrageous prices, until one day when I found this woman who had all of the episodes on VHS tapes (Thumbs up, Rate 10/10, Comment, and Subscribe If you remember VHS tapes). All of them had this strange label that said "John".
I decided to ask the lady how much they cost and why they were all labeled John. She said that John was her husband who was a solider who died during World War II, and that the VHS tapes were free.
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