Monty Python - Bicycle Repair Man

[arejayseeottawa]

I wonder what the "F.G." stood for?

[T1000m22]

3:10 the best scene ever!!! XD

[OliviaEngelen]

Look how BRM feels at 3 different places at the tire if its hard enough... :-)

[MrDustinksch]

Did anybody notice the number on the identification plaque of the bus at 0:17? coulb be a subliminal message

[DreadnoughtOne1]

18 people need to have their saddles altered...

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

As always the lazy English jesters are the spoiled children of the Muse of Comedy, Thalia! Instead of producing a whole piece of comedy about the ridiculous American drawn would-be heroic figures and their laughable vesture they just made a brief jest about it and then move on; real comedic playwrights like Aristophanes or Molière would have been grateful for the kind of inspiration the Pythons had but they did make so little about their greatest comical ideas and so ran out of them before time.

[AtorTheFlyingEagle]

@FireEyedMaidOfWar This is a sketch comedy television show. It doesn't need to be a whole piece.

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

@AtorTheFlyingEagle: But it would be much more fun if it were! Just look on the Holy Grail, the Life of Brian or the Man turns into Scotsman jest; as the Pythons are best when they arrange their jests on a certain topic.

[AtorTheFlyingEagle]

@FireEyedMaidOfWar Depends on what you want. I think the point they were trying to make about comic books from the cold war era being use as anti-communist propaganda is made in this short. What would elongated that to a feature length add? I like the Python movies less because they are concerned with "plot" that it tends to bog down the jokes sometimes. I've always preferred the tv show, where they shined doing abstract, surreal stuff ala Bunuel and Spike Milligan.

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

@AtorTheFlyingEagle: Reads the comedies of Aristophanes and Moliere and then decide if the Pythons should followed their example and become immortal (maybe) or be forgotten by making their vain television jests; besides: By using their best ideas so little they soon ran out of them and so abandoned their art making long before they died while the said Moliere and Aristophanes continued to do so until their deaths; and if you look at the Pythons their afterlife is a said one.

[AtorTheFlyingEagle]

@FireEyedMaidOfWar I've read all the major plays by Aristophanes and Moliere. I don't see the comparison you are trying to make. The Pythons mutually agreed to call it quits after the last film. That was a 14 year run totally from the time the original show aired in 69 to 1983. Literature and Television are two different creative mediums for which I don't hold to the same standard. What specific comedians do you personally rank on the level of Moliere and Aristophanes?

[AtorTheFlyingEagle]

@AtorTheFlyingEagle And by comedians, I mean television personalities or even film for that matter.

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

@AtorTheFlyingEagle: Well, just compare the Frogs or Birds of Aristophanes with the Life of Brian and the Holy Grail and if you then see no similarities I cannot make you see them, unless you state specific things which allow a more profound discussion; and since the jests of Monty Python are written your excuse is in vain as the plays of Aristophanes were written for theatrical performances too at first and; and so may have the Pythons had they made more full plays.

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

@AtorTheFlyingEagle: And so far I rank none with Aristophanes and Moliere, maybe Menander, but I have not read his works too much so far and in general tend more to indulge in tragedy than comedy but since every triad of tragedy had its satyr play in ancient Greek I appreciate comedy as well and therefore lament the prodigal Pythons as they had quite some talent in it but wasted it foolishly.

[leestephenj]

classic

[AidanLunn]

The character that John Cleese plays at the end is the average Daily Mail commenter.

[StrangerForever85]

I think they REALLY need to stop giving John Cleese so much sugar in his coffee. HE really gets too into these things.

[bardd11]

17 people have broken bicycles

[mouldy133]

Ohhh :)

[WiggaMachiavelli]

ALTER SADDLE!

[thislooksfun1]

I love the knight with the rubber chicken at the end. :)

[dchris1990]

yes wherever bicycles are broken, are menaced by international communism, bycicle repairman is ready.! KICK THEM IN THE TEETH! KILL KILL FILTHY BASTARD COMMIES!!!

[AndrosForever]

not as good as Repair man man man man man...

[D3rFabi]

16 supermans

[hollyb696]

Cleese's American accent as the announcer was actually pretty spot-on...

[magnitogorski]

The atmosphere is ... no words. Its a upward chain of guffaw with sublime ending about these serials that sold us political stink.

Everything turned out perfectly in this.

[jeparlebienlefrance]

lol ca lui va bien ^^

[surrealIdeal]

1:25 watch how Chapman was too late with his 'bicycle'

[ZACKWELDERS]

their capes are like captain marvel's

[ajkfrty7]

h a ha ha ha haha hah. omg

[Jousoful]

Gotta love those American accents

[rambadibow]

I HATE THEM I HATE THEM *shakes fist* AAAAH

That's just timeless/priceless

[KingLashiec]

14 people are communists threatening bicycles.

[joshleco]

'see how he uses a spanner to tighten that nut'

[Sami7685]

CLINK! SCREW! BEND! :D

[MrBRL]

14 dislikes?They probably watch real cutting edge humor liike Chris Rock,"black people",white people",get some material Chris.Monty Python is one of the greatest things ever written,all that talent in one show,wow.

[dovie2blue]

Good old Cleese at his best there at the end. How he avoided having a stroke I'll never know.

[Pezmobile]

Clink! Screw! Bend! Inflate! Alter Saddle!

[wkbode]

I know the Real Bicycle Repairman!

[DomIstKrieg]

"Bicycle repair man??? But how??"

[yogafan6500]

"MASH THAT DIRTY RED SCUM, KICK HIM IN THE TEETH WHERE IT HURTS, KILL, KILL, KILL, FILTHY BASTARD COMMIES. I HATE THEM I HATE THEM!!!!!"

[MtheGate]

"Bicycle repair man! But how?"

[illlite]

most underrated super hero! kill kill kill!

[xemily91]

Michael is so handsome...who wouldn't love Bicycle Repairman?!

[ImaginaryLegion]

AHAHAHAHA XD

[pudin511]

Monty Python and the quest for the holey grail is the best movie ever :P

[gschupfter]

F.J. Superman hahahahaha !

[anelson0528]

3:16

[MRSEMARTIN]

Is that a knight walking past holding a dead albatross at the end?

[eddurd]

@MRSEMARTIN No, it's a knight holding a rubber chicken.  It was kind of a running gag in the first season.

[karasusebone]

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAH!!"

"tea's ready!"

"...coming dear!"

XDDD

[xNightmarexVampsx]

0:57 that kid looks like a young Sean Penn

[Sedalb]

I love the ending.... KILL!!!!! KILL!!!!!!!

[schwoogie78]

to all of us folks that have gotten a DUI and are forced to ride a bike...you are TRULY a hero bicycle repairman

[gengis08terra]

jua jua q genial el acento yanqui trucho

[kilianhzh]

...noooo-it's bicycle repairman!!!xD

look he's banding it with his own hands!!!

[belgarde1986]

well you don't need to gov, its all in a days work for bicycle repair man.

[Achw3l]

Clink! Screw! Bend! Inflate! Alter saddle!

Just using those words as onomatopoeia prove how genius Monty Python are.

[JaguarOFcomedy]

its just a wonderful setting lol

[wsswaas]

lol!

[unity0710]

わろたｗ

バイシコーリペアマン！！

[Atharg]

2:36

looks like a broken hand

[mrbuch]

I love Terry Jones' American accent.... XD

"Thank goodness you've come!"

[assignatus]

Dolletjes....

[chefmarcgirard]

Coming dear...

[matisforever]

kings of the non sequitur

[rocketman468]

haha "tea's ready."

[AsuranAark]

Tea's ready.

Coming dear!

:P

[ManRayDali]

I'd like to know why Bicycle Repair Man is walking down the road instead of riding a bicycle.

[DeepBlueDDR]

Because he hasn't got around to repairing his bike OF COURSE!

[Rebelion03]

@ManRayDali

He repairs 'em, he doesn't ride 'em. Riding bicycles is a job for Bicycle Ride Man (:

[TariqAlSuave]

@ManRayDali He's Bicycle Repair Man, not Bicycle Rider Man.

[98nfsmw98]

@TariqAlSuave But it would just make sense if he rode one.

[lauriebooth]

@ManRayDali His bike has broken down

:)

[D8271]

@lauriebooth yeah, the shoe maker has the worse shoes...and those are SUPERBIKES and SUPERBUSSES, u moron! hahahahahahaha

[lauriebooth]

@D8271 ?

[D8271]

@lauriebooth I was kidding...and it is a saying that a shoemaker has the worse shoes...thus our hero has no interest in having his own new shiny bike...he can make one out of a shoe and a cable wire... hahaha...just love this one

[lauriebooth]

@D8271 :- :)

[ZACKWELDERS]

@ManRayDali have you thought this ? they are all supermen  yet they prefer taking buses or riding bicycles

[wiredlord]

@ManRayDali He forgot to repair his own bicycle

[thehoff1982]

@ManRayDali because he fixes them - does every doctor have a broken arm, kidney disease or aids? (well maybe in africa)!

[bardd11]

@ManRayDali i'd like to know why thousands of supermen take the bus

[WytZox1]

@bardd11 -- I'm still trying to figure out wh Potter, with hismacal wizardry powers, needs to wear glasses. Can't he just go "Abra cadabra 20 20 vision"?☺☺☺

[radaja2003]

@ManRayDali because he needs to blend in...When he is needed,HIS SUPER BICYCLE IS THERE!

[Superphilipp]

Bicycle repair man is funny, but John Cleese owned thie bit.

[Iagreetothethermsof]

Haha, got to love a good anti-communist tirade.

[PeterPumpkinhead1]

A classic!

[pedroGhandi]

oh the ending :D

bicycle repair man is MY HERO!

[Wr417hj0v1]

'Is it a stock broker? Is it a quantity survayor? Is it the Church warden? No! its Bicycle Repair Man!'

[Lluvio3]

MASH THE DIRTY RED SCUM

[TheStapleGunKid]

I see, so it was our Bicycle repairing skills that enabled us to win the Cold War.

[jpsutcliffe]

when trouble strikes......he runs away.

[elmuthafuckinpedro]

"all in a days work for bicycle repair man"

[mewsikal]

But HOW?

[calamariattack]

lol i wasnt expecting the end part

"when bicycles are broken or menaced by international communism"

XD

[rukafukapuk]

tee hee hee....genius.

[GorgeouslyFallen]

Tea's ready!

...Coming dear!

[superman12211331]

Oh my God I can't stop laughing!

[Schfifty12]

hahaha INFLATE!!

[mwwhahahahahaha]

anyone want to tell me if stratification is a necessary function?!

[89horizon]

Darn, that's what I should have been for Halloween! Oh well, guess I'll have to wait 'til next year.

[RudolfMaister]

"Yes, where ever bicyles are broken or menaced by INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM, bicycle repairman is ready..."

OMFG, I almost pissed myself!

[ChrisDeBoar]

G O D L I K E  !!

[Totalyvaporized]

shit sucks, it was funny for 6 mins back 30 years ago.

[johnrichards2008]

...you're a fool

[rachelXheckXyes]

i hate him i hate him!

aghhhhh!

[MadDogBV]

The sketch alone is hilarious, but the tirade against Communism at the end just makes it gold. The Monty Pythons were always great at satirizing social issues.

[FiretwigZed]

I IS SPYING ON YOU!!!! MWUHAHAHHA LOL

[FiretwigZed]

HI JULI BUG! AND AMY!

[kololero]

The funniest guys ever!!! :D :D :D

[TheStapleGunKid]

Repairing Bicycles is the best way to fight communism.

[poniesinashed]

I love these capitalist pigs

[mulletman175]

Why he's bending it with his own hand! Look how he uses a spatter to tighten that nut! It's all in a days work for bicycle repairman *snort* This gets me everytime.

[jastrebok]

The same with me :) And "There's a bicycle broken - up the road!" :D

[poniesinashed]

That's spanner mate :)

[anaalinaama]

oh god its so funny the supermen are pointing the bicycle repair man :D

[Jasonmcintyre2007]

smash the commies! lol

[1anda405]

"This man is no ordinary man..."

"He's known as Mr. F.G. Superman..."

"He is ready to become Bicycle Repair Man"

"FLASH!" "CLINK!" "SCREW" "BEND" "INFALTE"

"ALTER SADDLE" "See how he uses that screw to tighten that nut."

One of my personal favorites...

[kapsi]

Parody is a low form of comedy but the skit is still great.

[Mucky1little2me3]

@kapsi

This is satire dressed as parody though.

Satirical in that it was mocking the hysterical fear and hate Americans had(have) of communism.

[skepticaldemocrat]

@Mucky1little2me3 After all the people the commies killed we cant blame the yankees`s hysteria.

[Mucky1little2me3]

@skepticaldemocrat

Maybe we can. The same hysteria did not exist in other democratic, capitalist, countries. concern yes but not the sort of internal hysteria of McCarthyism where a society turned in on itself.

If you look back at that period and see how perfectly good, patriotic Americans were persecuted for supposed communist sympathies it is easy to see why even many Western democracies were actually more afraid of what the Americans might do rather than the Russians during the cold war.

[skepticaldemocrat]

@Mucky1little2me3 I must admit that McCarthism was a paranoic hysteria who made many inocent victims. But you must admit the Red Terror in comunist countries made much more victims, not to mention, unlike McCarthy, people were killed (and in great numbers). Its natural people were afraid of bloodthirsty comunists who were no better than the fascists nor islamists.

[Totalyvaporized]

Simple minded comedy from a long ago time. I'm not impressed anymore. Just because I thought Monty was funny before, dose not mean I will continue to blindly say they are funny not matter what. The truth is, it's not that funny anymore.

[maikedulk]

Hey, where do you get those 'Truths'?

I seem to be lacking them because I think it is hilarious ...

[Doppeldiva22]

This has to be seen in context. When this was made around 35 years ago, it was very different and funny for its time. Since then, Monty Python, Steve Martin, Saturday Night Live, Andy Kaufmann, Sam Kinison, Jim Carry Etc... have taken comedy to another level altogether. So this has lost some of its uniqueness and is now more "normal" humor.

[Loctondan2]

if it is so simple minded, I suggest you grace us with more intricate satire. Cant?!? didnt think so. This truth you claim is merely personal opinion...

[kololero]

I'm racist only when it comes to views against Monty Python and Monster Magnet. So FUCK OFF!

[nosperv]

Bicyle Repair Man, Lord of the Cosmos!!!

[SWEViktor300]

haha love this

[deislily]

I love their bad American accents!!

[Kilmori]

Not American - it's a British "Superman" accent. :P

[fcukicnatsplel]

this sketch smells like communism

[KaitainCPS]

Rubbish! It's ace. "See how he uses a spanner to tighten that nut!"

[MisterWensleydale]

"ALTER SADDLE!"

[scorpiogirl2]

"INFLATE!"

[bagrym]

I Love Monty Python...

[vooteleaer]

hehe...ready to smash the communists :D

[CanadiaMadCow]

FILTHY BASTARD COMMIES! I HATE 'EM I HAT 'EM! AAAAAHHH!Coming Dear.

thats it the best part lol

[Isabella4444]

If people don't like or appreciate Monty Python, then they just shouldn't watch their stuff. I personally love it.

[otterinbham]

Okay. Funny bit. But in a world full of Supermen, who can all fly, why do you need bicycles?

[Isabella4444]

I don't think that making sense is one of their main goals. Just laugh, it's funny! :)

[otterinbham]

Hey, I've watched everything that MP has ever done. Just a philosophical question. Think of me as playing the straight man on this one.

[kwando1313]

ARE YOU STUPID! Monty Python videos are CLASSICS. You probably have a lame sense of humor.

[bobbyknightmare]

This is my favorite skit! I love how they do the stilted dialouge just like they had in 1960s comic books. All they needed was a scene where Bicycle Repair Man throws everyone Hostess Fruit Pies and it would have been a perfect satire of how bad comic books were at the time!

[BalCleric]

Did he just say Family Guy was more intelligent/funnier than Monty Python? I'm in disbelief, clearly an inferior mind.

[soulonice858]

You must not be smart cuz Monty Python is smart funny. You have 2 b funny 2 understand them.

[billiejoehun]

Smash racism not communism!

[WallyGamerBF2]

hey StormRisingOriginal SHUT THE FUCK UP. these are classics you bloody disgrace. go throw yourself into a river and drown in your own self loving filth.

[TAMcFalls]

Good job my friend storms probly just a commie though.

[SkateSka]

Well Storm, it is pretty simple, but pulled off so well... that's what makes Monty Python great.

[SkateSka]

Well Storm, it is pretty simple, but pulled off so well... that's what makes Monty Python great.

[ZeEvilKohl]

let me guess, you are 14 now and sooooo grown up *sigh*

Just learn to enjoy bizarre humor!

[KojiTsunami]

On the contrary. A fourteen year old is quite more sophisticated than this person's post.

[Haloman0153]

Wow. If you're going to go around saying that only idiots laugh at Monty Python and you're much smarter than everyone who's watching this don't make grammatical mistakes or type sentences that make no sense whatsoever.

[ragagaga]

Monty Python is one of the funniest things to ever be conceived by the human mind. I feel sorry for you if you fail to appreciate its greatness.

[toofhurt]

eh heh heh heh mee fink dat dee siks yeeur eolds fink dat dis ees funny. Eh heh heh heh me fink no funny pyfon makes

[kispetery]

I love these guys.They are so f....ing funny.:D

[MattAmazo]

Alter saddle~!

[fI00w]

these guys are more intelligent than we are today. FACT.

[baku354]

Amen!

Wait, what? xD

[theylive23]

Those who remember the past can now condemn it, it seems....doh

[austin00013]

wow sounds kinda like your face stormrising

[mamacarla]

You mean, YOUR OPINION is that it is not funny anymore.

[mamacarla]

This was supposed to be a reaction to StormRisingOriginal's posting.

[twiggystick]

Still funny after all these years. Absolute classic - thanks for posting.

[McKlayAnimation]

Those accents are hilarious. Classic sketch.

[LucaTanz]

*berserk mode on*

KILL! KILL! IHATEEM IHATEEM! RAAAAAAH!

*berserk mode off*

lol thats just the best part. ^^

the fake american accents are fun too ^^

[janwillem3000]

hilarious

[willinghost]

genius.

[BeatleMania1963]

ahahahahaha!!

John Cleese is just tooooooo funny!

[bosox381]

Cleese's monolouge about his views on communism were the best part!