Monty Python and the Holy Grail Retold
The Black Knight scene from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” as recounted by my 12-year old son, Matt.
So, there’s this knight, and he’s really mad at the King and won’t let him pass. So they start fighting with their swords, and it’s like boom and swoosh. You remember what happened next, Dad? His arm goes flying off like whirrrrrr and blood starts squirting out like this (mimes a fountain of blood).
And the knight, he’s like, “Oh, that didn’t hurt. Come here, you loser, and take that” *wham* and then they start fighting again, and soon he’s got them all cut off. And the King goes away, except the knight is going, like, “Dude, come back here and fight like a man!” Remember that part, Dad? Yeah, that was cool.
And then later someone threw a cow at them. And there was a Trojan bunny. That was cool, too.
Now I know how I sound when I try to retell George Carlin jokes.
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What I find interesting is what scene’s make an impression on different people. When I first saw “The Holy Grail” (around 1975) I went about telling people in a very bad Spanish like voice that I “Fart in your general direction”. This usually garnered a blank stare to which I would reply “You just had to have been there”.
My first exposure was via Boy Scout skits. I must have heard “fart in your general direction” dozens of times before I finally saw the movie and finally got the joke. Delivery is everything.
And in reading an interview with the Python team in NME all those years ago, they were saying that when they resting between shoots whilst filming the “castle scenes” up outside a castle in Scotland, a group of schoolgirls on a day trip stopped to watch - and then asked for autographs.
Yes - the girls went back with autographs of “Matt Munroe”, “Johnny Mathis” etc etc