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Jaquandor once said this about quoting Monty Python at a Renaissance Festival, although this applies just as well to playing D&D:
[…] So it’s with nothing but love and heartfelt concern that I inform you that walking around shouting quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail like “I’m bein’ repressed!” and “Ni!” is the Renaissance Festival equivalent of shouting “Freebird!” at a rock concert. Don’t do this, folks. Wandering through a Renaissance Festival with your friends, pretending to debate the airspeed of an unladen swallow, is just shooting fish in a barrel. Don’t do it.Having said that, just try to get through this part of the movie without thinking about it. I swear the old woman in panel six is just about to say, “There’s some lovely filth over here.”
This really is like shooting fish in a barrel.
The link to the original is on just the date above this, due to the fact the links were getting well out of hand in that particular blurb, with me trying to add around his cited source.
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Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of Python?
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I’ll be honest, I’m not sad that the age of endless Monty Python quotes seems to have largely passed. At least to the point where your average D&D table doesn’t need a Monty Python Reference jar in place of a swear jar.
It’s kind of wild looking back now and seeing how absolutely that one movie dominated nerd popular culture for so long.
The more interesting thing, to me, is the time lag.
Flying circus aired from 1969-1973. Holy Grail (far and away the most quoted in need culture) was 1975, and last movie (Meaning of Life) was 1983.
And yet the age where you couldn’t go two steps without a Python reference wasn’t the 70’s. Or even the 80’s. For some reason, Python was “memes before memes” for the 90’s, 00’s, and even into the teens.
I was in high school from 1990-1994. We were all born after Holy Grail premiered. But not one of the math club, theater kids, or sci fi kids (I was an equal opportunity nerd) couldn’t quote the movie by heart.
VHS tapes, same reason Star Wars was so big for 90s kids too.
Nobody mentioned Monty Python. Why are you bringing up Monty Python?
Although now that you did…