Monty Python's Flying Circus - Set 4 (1998) USA
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Director:John Howard Davies, Ian MacNaughton
Studio:A&E Home Video
Writer:Peter Crabbe
Rating:4.5
Rated:NR
Date Added:2006-03-19
ASIN:0767018907
UPC:0733961700503
Price:$39.95
Genre:Monty Python's Flying Circus
Release:1999-11-16
IMDb:0287570
Duration:237
Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
Sound:Stereo
Languages:English
Subtitles:English
Features:Box set
John Howard Davies, Ian MacNaughton  ...  (Director)
Peter Crabbe  ...  (Writer)
 
Robert Klein  ...  Host
John Cleese  ...  Himself / Various roles (also archive footage)
Terry Gilliam  ...  Himself / Various roles (also archive footage)
Eric Idle  ...  Himself / Various roles (also archive footage)
Terry Jones  ...  Himself / Various roles (also archive footage)
Michael Palin  ...  Himself / Various roles (also archive footage)
Graham Chapman  ...  Himself / Various roles (archive footage)
Eddie Izzard  ...  Himself / Monty Python Imposter
Carol Cleveland  ...  Various roles (archive footage)
Cathleen Summers  ...  Herself
Summary: More "humorous vignettes and spoofs" from the second groundbreaking season of Monty Python's Flying Circus. This set contains episodes 20 through 26, available for the first time on DVD in chronological order. Included are signature sketches that were adapted for the Pythons' first film, And Now for Something Completely Different, such as How Not to Be Seen, Conrad Poohs and His Dancing Teeth, the camped-up military drill, and the alleged English-Hungarian phrasebook (the Hungarian phrase meaning "Can you direct me to the station?" is translated by the English phrase "Please fondle my bum"). Also on the menu are such tasty classics as Spam; the Lifeboat and Undertaker cannibalism sketches and spam; spam, spam, the Man Who Says Things in a Very Roundabout Way and spam; Spam, spam, the Hospital for Over-Acting and spam; spam, The Exploding Version of the Blue Danube and spam; The Death of Mary Queen of Scots and spam. "And, of course, there's sport." Not content with forgoing traditional punch lines, Monty Python further subverted television convention with these episodes. In Episode 23, for example, the credits don't appear until midway through. They further demonstrate why Entertainment Weekly ranked Monty Python No. 77 (only 77th?) among the top 100 entertainers of the last half of the 20th century. --Donald Liebenson