My annoyance with the 2012 previews was the inability of the airplane pilot to find the climb controls so they can get above all the collapsing buildings.
Spike: You pissed in the Big Man's Chair? That's fantastic! Gunn: Spike, can you please turn off that warm fuzzy? Spike: What, the Lorne thing? Worn off. I just think that's bloody fabulous.
'Life of the Party'
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Connie Neil - Nov 15, 2009 10:19:08 am PST #4947 of 30000
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Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 15, 2009 10:27:51 am PST #4948 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
In the defence of the pilot, he claimed he'd had two lessons.
Jesse - Nov 15, 2009 10:33:56 am PST #4949 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG, Jess, that was brilliant.
le nubian - Nov 15, 2009 4:59:34 pm PST #4950 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
DavidS - Nov 15, 2009 5:50:20 pm PST #4951 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Random tidbits on Monty Python (as I write up a Terry Gilliam piece):
The Pythons were shockingly well adapted and successful in their early lives. Terry Gilliam was freakin' Prom King and voted Most Likely to Succeed. Terry Jones was Head Boy at his school. So was Idle (though he was stripped of that title for watching an X movie.) Cleese was a star pupil, winning a prize in English and excelling at cricket and boxing. Graham Chapman finished medical school but never practiced.
Burrell - Nov 15, 2009 6:05:20 pm PST #4952 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
You saw the recent documentary, right?
DavidS - Nov 15, 2009 6:08:06 pm PST #4953 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You saw the recent documentary, right?
The Lawyer's version or something on IFC? (Sundance?) I saw a tidbit of it.
Burrell - Nov 15, 2009 6:12:29 pm PST #4954 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
First episode was all about what upstanding, promising young men they were. Probably my favorite episode, although I also like the one that got into the scandalous personal details. The rest were meh. Lots of English actors and comedians describing their favorite sketches.
DavidS - Nov 15, 2009 7:32:56 pm PST #4955 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's shocking! (as Matilda would say) Or rather, intriguing that such cultural anarchists would be so successful and popular in their early years. It's like finding out that Gordon Gano (Violent Femmes) was his high school's quarterback, or that Lily Tomlin was a cheerleader. (Brian Wilson was also his school's quarterback, and Meryl Streep was also a cheerleader.)
DavidS - Nov 15, 2009 7:39:34 pm PST #4956 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's also interesting to find the substrate of the Pythons. There's an Oxford/Cambridge split, and Idle is a bit of an outlier/outcast. The formation of Python basically turned on Cleese's mancrush on Palin.
Chapman/Cleese was one writing team. Though it was about 90% Cleese writing and 10% Chapman pushing the weird buttons. (It was Chapman who turned a broken toaster sketch into the Dead Parrot.)
Palin/Jones was another writing team, and Jones was probably the least able comedian, but the best conceptualist (hence his influence on the flow of the show and directing the movies).
Chapman was gay and alcoholic, but the best straight actor.
Idle wrote his own bits and most of the musical stuff, and is seen as a wee bit greedy and grubbing (and Spamalot is seen as rather mild and unPythonish).
Idle and Palin excelled at playing insincere characters. Chapman and Cleese got the authority figures.
They were all pretty shattered by Chapman's death.