Poetry Reading (Ants)

[bettercall2]

This was hilarious!

[armadafanforever]

parts where I laughed:

0:17 just the way he says "oh" is hilarious for some reason

2:19 do I really need to say why?

2:24 - 2:27 good afternoon!

[tecagroindustrial]

God bless you alles! :p

[vef444]

Whats with the queen being german?

[Teggethoff]

@vef444 Queen Victoria has a german origin. She was a member of Hannoverian dynasty, kings of Hannover and later kings of Great Britain (George I).

[tru7hhimself]

it's rather "it tastes like a shithouse"

[beachblue5]

Is Graham actually intoxicated in this video ? Or did he fall over on purpose ?

[sebuniversidad]

john cleese didnt appear in this episode

[ParrryHottter]

Chapman was playing himself in this sketch

[dcspc]

what did queen victoria say in german from 4:35 -- 4:43?

[DontTouchMyTea]

It was partly Greman partly nonsense, but it was somethign like "What is that aweful smell? It stinks like a shit house. And so on...", and then it goes back to English.

[qwerti666]

I'd like to ask one or two of you in the back not to soil the carpet. There is a restroom upstairs if you find the poems too exciting *boom* :D

[homersleepnow]

"I hesitate to even call it a pram"

This is brilliant...

[7H3P1A6U3]

Was ist das shreckliche gepong?

Es shmecke vie ein sheisshaus!

Und so weiter...

[amarnamriju]

palin's delivery of the first line got me rofl. just to be sure...it IS gibberish right?

[Chris512095]

Sort of, it's like pidgin german, roughly I'd translate it as 'What is that terrible smell? (pong being english slang for smell, with 'ge' in front to make it sound german) then 'It smells like a shithouse, etcetera'

[FishTitan64]

I think Terry Jones plays a better Wordsworth than Eric, personally.

[groundlings123]

I'm in 8th grade and I just read the poem "Ozymandias" for the first time today in school, and I thought, "Yay, it's Monty Python!" LOL :D

[kristell9]

Like an ant eater! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

Eric Idle is a genius.

[freeindeed7]

I really want to watch this whole episode through. It seems very funny. Eric, Michael, and Graham all do a great job :)

[MarkyMarc78]

It is indeed one of my favourite episodes and one of their best in the last series. You must watch it ;-)

[MATTMAN92ish]

actually i have seen this episode recently and the whole thing is fucking hilarious one of the best episodes!

[bitnola]

From one of the greatest shows of the Python's BBC run: the Michael Ellis episode. And it's all about ants. And enormous department stores. And sperm whales.

As great as the romantic poets mashup is, Palin coming in as Queen Victoria does it for me. Note how the spanish subtitles disappear as Palin lapses into German. Why ever would they do that, I wonder?

Where'd this clip come from? Bolivia? (Wonderful storage jars there.)

[catchersmitt0]

You know, I too noticed those storage jars. Storage jars are really quite the most amazing pram. Storage jars in different shades of green results naturally from iron impurities in the sand when just the basic ingredients (sand, soda, & lime) are used. Some storage Jars have airtight bail & seal closures to hermetically seal out air and ants.

[Kain456]

A little pram entitled "I Wandered Lonely as a Crab." And it's all about ants.

[MrsGamgee977]

One of my favourite sketches of theirs. Chapman at his absolute best. :D

[almadora]

"...ode, to a glass of sherry...!"

[VictorianAnnie]

Brilliant!! I'll never be albe to read the Romantics with a straight face again :)