Monty Python - The Mouse Problem

[MyRafarodrigues]

are they talking about furries or homosexuals?

[yronwyatt49b]

Your video went viral on Bern

[FatherWindsorMcShane]

I've always thought that humour was funnier when canned laughter wasn't present and listeners were left to their own devices without prompts and left with their own minds to decide for themselves. Considering the time that this was filmed it was common for canned laughter to be used to prompt ignorant viewers that something was actually funny and this no mind attitude still persists today. In the end, without the canned laughter, this skit was still funny to me

[0g0dn0]

@FatherWindsorMcShane There's also the question of how long that laughter stays canned. In short, skits being laughed at when many of the people recorded laughing are long dead. Which is a grim prospect in itself when you understand the principle of canned laughter.

[noobsaibot25]

Long live Furry's

[ramonshaw921]

This video went viral on Barbados

[TheCatskillHillbilly]

5:15 Crap even at the beginning it was Sparrow's this and Swallow's that.

[ChaosSolider1]

In short,

BURN FURFAGS.

[mijadane]

Chapman is so cute doing the "eek!"

[WatchVenusSpa]

Who was the better straight man, (no pun intended,) Chapman or Cleese? Both are just epic in this one!

[somahiru]

Wait, so this wasn't a documetary about "Bronies"/MLP fans?

[BlackRaven117]

@somahiru I thought this was a documentary about furfags. Damn Encyclopedia Dramatica.

[Anonie324]

@BlackRaven117 nope, this was originally a very obvious reference to the then-underground homosexual groups in Britain.  Furfags claim that this video predicted their emergence about 20 years after this came out.

[BlackRaven117]

@Anonie324 I know, lol.

[DiscordianDisciple27]

I think I'll have to use the phrase "Thank you, Janet" more often in my daily life

[SgtHydra]

Eeek Eeek in hell, furfags.

[Daviticus042]

Not only did they predict furries, they also predicted anti-furry discrimination!

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

I really wonder how the Pythons acquire the ideas for their nonsense! I would surmise that this time they took vengeance for having to read the book “Of Mice and Men” in school and wanted to mock the hysteria about drug abuse; since the description of the Mouse Problem resembles much the taking of illegal substances; and the psychologist arguing that reducing the number of offences would lower the crime rate because forbidden things attain a mystery which attracts the younglings is legend.

[flammasherman]

Remember this so well the first time round, it still cracks me up !

[Evolinag]

I'm just wondering how many people feel either offended or insult furries.

This was made WAY before furry fandom and wasn't meant to insult. And please, furries and humans, just let each other be. You've got different sights of things. and

@tjb2693

Insults both furries and homosexuals. Not cool.

[LizTaylorsGhost]

@Evolinag: Go yiff yourself you god damn furfag

[Rikiunne]

@LizTaylorsGhost ur trying too hard to be funny.

[LizTaylorsGhost]

@Rikiunne: I'm not trying to be funny at all. I fucking hate furfags or was that to hard for you to figure out when I literally told him to go fuck himself? You're probably one yourself, I wouldn't doubt it considering this is the comment you came to respond to. You probably put on a fursuit and jack off to Whiny the Poo

[Rikiunne]

@LizTaylorsGhost see: still trying too hard.

[LizTaylorsGhost]

@Rikiunne: Whatever hipster. You go on taking potshots on comments and being cool. You're still a faggot and a furry.

[Rikiunne]

@LizTaylorsGhost echs dee

[BigLouieLittlePhilly]

scheiss staub in meinem drink

[tjb2693]

5:31 this guy knows how to deal with fur fags

[WormYourHonor64]

Hehe... blue cheese movie.... i get it.

[Maphysto]

"Kargol, speaking as a psychiatrist as opposed to a conjurer..."

"...Oh."

[comradeJoe2]

Baaaaa

[Startrekboy1138]

Oh, uh, I'm a Chartered Accountant, and consequentially too boring to be of any interest.

[Startrekboy1138]

Baaa!! Baa!

"BANG!"

*thud*

"Goodnight!"

[fucktardickis]

fursecution at it's finest

[RevolutionaryRed11]

@fucktardickis It's not going after furries, it's parodying way LGBT people had to live in the 1960 and how the media performed investigations into the matter. Good line though

[ZharekRaldeesh]

@fucktardickis The furry fandom didn't exist until the 80's. This is from '69.

[DarkRubberDucky]

Am I the only girl that watches and quotes Monty Python a lot? I often quote this sketch. Its hilarious! And way ahead of its time. Cracked.com was right. Monty Python predicted furries!

[EpicFailGirl]

@DarkRubberDucky Monty Python is popular and being a girl does not make you unique.

[KingAlanI]

I even noticed what seemed like separate passing references to Vocational Guidance Counselor and Cheese Shop.

[sickweirdo]

Lo and wonder for the prophecy has been fortold

[epoppinbazz]

Burn in hell furries!

[Xunkun]

@epoppinbazz Put yer real name and docs on, Arthur, ya potato-eatin' bog-dweller!

[beggo321]

@Xunkun Go fuck a dog u abomination

[Xunkun]

@beggo321 Go fuck a dictionary, you illiterate illegitmate ginger.

[vitralizer]

@epoppinbazz

Hahaha! Go back to ED. OH WAIT! BAHAHAHAHAHA!

[bigbrothersucksarse]

monty pythons sketches are usually about animals or food.

[UberMetallMaschine]

lol ceiling sheep, the meme that didn't quite take off...

[Raxer21]

If only we had seen the warning...These gentlemen predicted the rise of furries O_o

[AgnarchyBeats]

It's a shame that people only recognize Monty Python from the Holy Grail movie.

[pewmanfustudios]

Best comedy show of all time.

[readordiefanatic]

lol what was up with the sheep at the end?

[redback3]

@readordiefanatic Monty Python

[BEASLAND000]

if monty python did a sketch of today's furries, what would be the rediculous audience?

[Xelig00n]

Master of time and space

[SpitshineSneakers]

Graham Chapman is a Timelord.

[gupta889]

How many people came here after reading the cracked article?

[Reepz00]

@gupta889 Actually I came here because I felt like watching some Python skits, then I read the Cracked article after hearing it from you.

[flaggerify]

@gupta889 No.

[DarkLordoftheMeme]

@gupta889 I'd already seen it, but I also read the cracked article

[6020e3]

@gupta889 what article?

[rekcaHrepyH]

Squeak.

[vavra222]

Well, it seems Monthy Python´s knowledge was far beyond our imagination. It seems like he knew about furries and the problem they are. Not all of them, but mostly they are very strange, awful and pervert. Say whatever you want, but furries will never be liked by most people, because they are not so mindfucked. Of course i expect a lot of comments about me being so bad troll or something, but i do not care, i know that i am normal and furries are NOT!

[Popcultureguy3000]

@vavra222 To each his own. Really Furries are just one of many perverted fetish's that the world now knows about thanks to the internet.

[SuperMetroCardMan]

10 people have been squeakin 2-3 times a day.

[dasstu]

if this isn't proof that Grahm Chapman was a time traveler, I don't know what is.

[OliveTheBreloom]

He knew....this .....problem....would happen.

[socialcrimeradio]

@ArmedtotheTeethProd Karl's right, being a BBC program they had access to their huge Library of stock footage and stock audio.

[ReitersOfTheStorm]

If I were to make a serious television program, I would make it like monty

[Oxylepy]

Wow when I first saw this, years ago, I hadnt realized that furries didnt exist at that time. It's stunning now that I know there werent any how well this parady predicted the future.

[feraldarryl]

Terry Jones as the farmer's wife LMFAOL

[ArmedtotheTeethProd]

Where's the tune at the beginning from?

[Karlfalcon]

@ArmedtotheTeethProd

Probably BBC stock. Most of their tracks were.

[jellywillreturn]

Monty Python. Always ahead of its time.

[greybrother0001]

So.... Life imitates art, then?

Seriously, it's been said a zillion times, but bears repeating, "furries" are just fans of anthropomorphism, in whatever sense. Dressing as a mouse or any other animal is not required. Fun sketch though, I hadn't seen that one.

[lastswordfighter]

@greybrother0001'm glad you get that. I've been researching furries and from what I've gathered just like you or me. The fandom does have its share of loonies but what fandom doesn't. Besides I've seen some of the artwork they've done and it's pretty good. Also from a philisophical stand point it is rather interesing. The anthromorphic being to me is a representation of mankinds more primitive aspect and it's ultimately balanced out by his humanity and his emotions.

[DerekBayRoberts1]

What's a furry??????

[OliveTheBreloom]

@DerekBayRoberts1

Go on DeviantART, browse through about two pages.

Anyway... a furry is someone who wishes they were an animal (almost always something cool like a wolf, fox, dragon, thylasine, ambulocetus exc...) cosplays as said animal, draws fanart of them as said animal, and basicly looks like an anthropomorphic animal. ...

...Most furries are downright creepy, although a few are okay. I personally am glad to be human.

[andyjay729]

HOSTILE!

[59296935]

Exvuse me, but does anyone know the name of the piece played at the beginning.

[neoprankster]

@59296935 It's the fourth movement of Rachmaninoff's first symphony. It was also the theme song for a BBC news show called Panorama.

[merrylegs234]

@neoprankster The sketch is a parody of Panorama's usual format. A lot of the MP sketches are absurdist parodies of well-known TV programmes of the time, like the BBC2 discussion show "Late Night Line Up"

[troutmaskbob]

What the hell is a furrie. Maybe I don't want to know.

[noobsaibot25]

LONG LIVE FURRY'S ^-^

[McPfoot]

@noobsaibot25 Die in hell.

Fagfur

[neoprankster]

A typical case, which we'll refer to as Mr. A, although his real name is this:

Arthur Jackson

32a Milton Avenue

Hounslow, Middlesex

[32410382]

"Speaking as a member of the stock exchange, I would suck there brains out with a straw, sell their orphans and widows, and go into South American zinc."

Exactly the way furries should be dealt with.

[juzbunny]

Oh rubbish, chaosmyr's just putting a bucket on his head and beating it to hide his face. (Bleach reference). BoomBoomSticks is a bit wrong too. I mean Norse have been dressing as bears and such, and the English as all sorts of things. They just didn't have the internet so you could see it in your loungeroom.

This was, I think, an allegory of drug behaviour and homosexuality, then again, those guys in MP were pretty smart. The surreal made real...

[tarnopol]

Graham Chapman's character's comment at 5:30 sums up the danger of over-naturalizing orientation. Exactly right on.

[TheBumbleBunny]

it just sorta happends .... 

[hannabeth32]

OMG this show is psychic. :O

[macr0machine]

Fucking furries...

[isoldehammond23]

2:51 to 3:08 amazing!

[seriesscratch]

Amazing Kargol is a predictor of Dr. Drew!

[BishopMonster]

its a play on the overreaction people have towards gay people and the arbitrary prejuidice. "there is nothing you can really do about it, so i'd kill them" is supposed to be the extreme part, the irony is that people in the 21 century think "liberal" means to be stupid. Liberal means to consider before you do something, to be open minded if a gay person would save your life would you care that hes gay? hating gay people = hating jews like the nazis did are YOU a discriminist? shame on you

[elFulberto]

@BishopMonster But liberal is gay, isn't it?

I mean, in conservative societies gay people are oppressed and have to conceal their orientation. Amount of gay people is limited. When society is growing liberal gay people get less oppressed and start openly practicing and even advertising their ways. That attracts other open minded people who join the ranks, and amount of gays grows exponentially. That's a good marker of democracy. Lack of openly gay people means the society isn't liberal enough.

[yonskii]

@elFulberto

Uh, I think it would be more accurate to say "gay is liberal" rather than the other way around...

[elFulberto]

@yonskii

But that wouldn't sound as funny, would it?:-)

[Evolinag]

What do you have?

This sketch was released in a time where no one thought this could really happen.

[TheThroatwarbler]

hahahahhha I'm trans and I think this is fucking hilarious hohohohohohohohho!!!

From Throatwarbler Mangrove

[cbaile]

@TheThroatwarbler It's spelled Throatwarbler Mangrove but it's pronounced Brian Luxury Yacht.

[dharmaseed]

@cbaile You're a very silly man, and I'm not going to interview you.

[kinkly777]

to me it seems to be more about transsexuals then homosexuals.

[xhellonhighheels69x]

lol "the problem of mice and men"

:D~

[free0fight]

man, is it just me, or do the Pythons tend to make fun of psychology and psychologists in general..?? .seems like when they show up in their sketches they're just a bunch of silly buffoons...

[curriejean]

@free0fight

Sex and Violence was broadcast in 1969. Homosexuality wasn't removed from the DSM-II classification of mental disorders until 1973. Graham Chapman was gay.

[SirBroadsword]

Frankly, I prefer the episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Riker became involved with a genderless alien "woman" for commentary on this sort of thing (that is, seuxal "perversions" et al.), but whatever, to each his own...

[aquagrl63]

I know this is about gay people but did Monty Python just predict furries?

[BlueManIan]

@aquagrl63 Pretty much.

[lisambofoh]

I've always found Minnie Mouse sexy...

[theDave110]

@lisambofoh

its mickey mouse with a bow

[dharmaseed]

Wow, no wonder Cleese was heading to the cheese shop. It all adds up, now!! He was wanting the hard stuff!

[maxxumiv]

lol its a subtle joke abt soft and hard cheese. i love monty python!

[evilegg288]

Of course! Good insight there!

[Toxin8888]

lol yiffing

[tarlcabot18]

Hostile.

Hostile!

[TailsClock]

I have always involountarily looked at things differently due to knowing about furries, but it was extra hard not to see this as being made almost specifically about furries.

Though you'd never get any kind of funny thing about furries now a days as the furries will go rabid when they feel frusecuted. Which is a shame, you could make some really damn funny programs based on furries. I know I'd watch such a show.

And if furries could stop being so defensive about everything, they'd be more liked.

[ALXXMaXX]

@TailsClock

True, but I doubt they were in existance at the time that this was made, at least as we know them now.

And yes, I don't believe anyone should take anything too seriously, even--or especially--themselves.

[gamgii]

haha 'go rabid'

[strangemutt]

@TailsClock they had furries back then?

[TheWonderfulWombat]

Replace "mouse" with "gay" and you'll see what they're on about.

[SilentHillFTW]

@TailsClock I'm a furry. Most don't want to be, I guess the word would be, ridiculed by those who find furries disgusting. I do love a nice comedy about furries though, as long as it's not too insulting. Like "All furries do is want to fuck their dog and wear a fursuit all day, bunch of furfags." That I find insulting, since it's talking about ALL furries and not those who are tame in manner, like I try to be. I have a sense of humor and have no problem being poked fun at for being a furry.

[Mikkael365]

@SilentHillFTW

wtf do you mean most don't want to be one. dude, this isn't a matter of genetics or sexual preference, yuor a furry because you chose to be one, not because your genes say you are.

[evilegg288]

@Mikkael365 I don't think he was saying he doesn't want to be a furry, I'm fairly sure he was saying he doesn't want to be ridiculed for his furriness.

[curriejean]

@TailsClock

Replace "furry" with "gay" and you'll see what furries are on about. Jeez, man.

[DarkRubberDucky]

"I mean, how many of us can honestly say that at one time or another he hasn't set fire to some great public building? I know I have." I have always loved that line!

[Progulous]

I'd kill 'em.

[GiantArapaima74]

the priest was a mouse

[chaosmyr]

This is a brilliant sketch. It made a social commentary on drugs and homosexuality when it was first released. however it can apply to the furry fandom now as well, adding to its timelessness. while it is true that there are people in the fandom who are quite messed up and perverted, they are a minority and a loud one at that. while the over all majority of the fandom are relatively normal people. as with all fandoms there are perverts, the furs have been blown way out of proportion however.

[asdfzxc920]

@Dhuman571

lol @ terribad trolling

[jhhwild]

@Dhuman571 What's wrong with being a sick fuck? Some of our most prominent government officials are sick fucks.

[akriloth69]

@chaosmyr Thankyou! Finally someone that fucking UNDERSTANDS that!

[murielsartre]

"Well, I was shocked!"

[BoomBoomSticks]

Now imagine a Monty Python sketch that directly parodied this sketch, where the original cast members were asked about whether this covered furries. Now that would make me laugh.

[Fandorex]

I'm pretty sure this is a commentary on the treatment of homosexuals during the 70's

[BoomBoomSticks]

Holy crap Monty Pythion predicted Furrys before anyone even knew about them!

[gamerguy980]

@BoomBoomSticks monty python knows all

[BloodspillingSam]

@BoomBoomSticks And you just predicted an article from Cracked.com! Nice predicting :)

[GoblinXXX]

No sane person would have seriously predicted furries back in the early 70s. Face it, folks-- Some of our kinks are just plain silly.

[pikadsplode]

YOU FACIST BASTARDS! (not the pythons) Why are furries so hated?

[burfsak]

cuz they are sick and stupid

[pikadsplode]

you're sick and stupid. where did you even find the definition of furry? encyclopedia dramatica?

[burfsak]

well there is a thing calld internet

[makka432]

Because you have a sick, bizarre obsession with anthropomorphism. You are all basically asking for it.

[pikadsplode]

erm no I don't think you understand not ALL furries are well... like that.

[S0AP117]

Because what you do is sick and should just keep it to your self.

[Squigsaplenty]

lol MP FTW

[somercet1]

Released a few months after the Stonewall riots, it's more about homosexuality than drugs. But yeah, thank God they didn't cover foxes, them's are all perverts!! :-D

[mwells219]

this sketch is a brilliant parody of the medias' reporting of drug use.

[sparkybluefox]

Thank God they didn't do an expose on Foxes !!!!

[Reelbigearth]

Oh Ho, So your a Fox as well?

[Timstuff]

This sketch is truly scary, because it was originally a parody of homesxuality but it's actually a DEAD ACCURATE prediction about fursuiters / furries. And I agree, we should kill the furries!

[metallkette]

Furry fandom didn't become widespread until the '80's. This skit was actually intended to satire drugs. Look up "satire" on Wikipedia.

[Stealthsuit07]

Ahh, so fucking accurate without being pinpointed to the furry fandom.

Also, love the goat at the end.

[jigglesnap]

hahahahahaha furries

[StoneTemp1Pilot]

What the Sheep?

[vigo894]

He finally got them to fly.

[Nicecatholicgirl]

"They can't help it, can they?"

[frankwilliams987]

maybe the sketch was inspired by the public view of homosexuality, but that's not what's it about. it's really about mice men.

[toonbat]

One of my favorite sketches ever! John Cleese as an awkward shy man is flipping brilliant. And I love the concept. Trying to breach the subject of perception of homosexuality by displaying something completely different, but that is just as baffling and repellent to the public in general at the time. The fact that they had no idea of what furries were back then is just a huge added bonus.

[Rynosaur94]

Seeing as you cant do anything about it, I'd kill 'em.

Lol

Also: yiff in hell furfag/micemen

[Thalanna]

This man speaks the truth !

[eddievhfan1984]

Is that insult in jest?

[nak54222]

I love John's voice as Mr. A.

"Hostile!"

[scollov09mo]

replace mice with furry

[simmyludilo]

i know i have...

[InternetArgument]

Damn furfags in my Monty Python.

[kktnxby]

my fav sketch:D

[AresKrl]

What's the name of the music in the beginning?

[TashkentFox]

It's the old Panorama theme tune.

[tinuviel874]

It's the 4th movement of Rachmaninov's 1st symphony. It was apparently used as the Panorama theme around this time.