Patsy, the first guy with the coconuts, was played by the same guy who played the Old Man in Scene 24. He was also the director, animator, and the only American in the group.

@Tateorsomething

4 ай бұрын

Not to mention he was the director of several other terrific movies like Time Bandits, Brazil, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, 12 Monkeys, Fisher King etc.

@David-fp1fj

4 ай бұрын

The one and only Terry Gilliam!

@surf101-

4 ай бұрын

​@Tateorsomething Time Bandits is one of my favorite movies!! Great fantasy and love the Sean Connery segment.

@JuandeFucaU

4 ай бұрын

Terry was also credited with being the gorilla hand that turned the book pages which, I personally think, was completely overlooked by the academy.

@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710

4 ай бұрын

@@surf101- " Brazil " as it displays totalitarian and dystopian times and a man's efforts to end them.

The bit where Lancelot is charging the castle and never getting any closer always makes me laugh my ass off.

@stephanginther9051

4 ай бұрын

Pretty sure that's where the movie 'Kung Pow' got it. I believe the writers of Kung Pow took a lot from _this_ movie now that I think about it. If you haven't seen it, Kung Pow is a spoof of 80's kung fu movies out of Hong Kong and...well Cheech of Cheech and Chong is the narrator. Need I say more?

@wallyman292

4 ай бұрын

Then to have him suddenly appear at the gate, catching the guards completely unaware is the icing on the cake! Pure Monty Python right there! ;)

@keeperofthecheese

4 ай бұрын

Agreed ! Lancelots "running gag" is one of the most genius visual jokes ever.

@m.cigledy6769

3 ай бұрын

That gag was duplicated in Kung Pow as a tribute to Monty Python.

Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film was Michael Palin's (Galahad) actual newborn son.

Don’t know if anyone ever mentioned this in the other comments, but the knights were framed for the murder. The historian was killed by someone actually riding a horse, whereas the knights and Arthur didn’t have horses, just coconuts, because they couldn’t afford horses in the budget.

@taun856

4 ай бұрын

Also the killers heraldry was different.

The greatest “cop out” ending in film history. 🤣😂🐍🐇✌🏼🇺🇸

The witch said "it's a fair cop" which means she WAS a witch. I mean, she did weigh the same as a duck, after all.

@dr.burtgummerfan439

4 ай бұрын

Yep. Witch trials usually involved "tests" that were almost impossible to pass. This one should've been impossible to fail, unless she WAS a witch.

@charlesedwards2856

4 ай бұрын

She was saying it sarcastically, but it was very dry in the delivery. The only other thing I could think she would mean by that is that she went along with the batshit crazy logic he put out there about how to prove she was a witch. HOWEVER, like the ladies mentioned, the scales were clearly rigged with the one for the duck already being much lower, so she really wasn’t a witch.

@garylee3685

4 ай бұрын

@charlesedwards2856 disagree, she didn't fit it at all. And i don't see sarcasm. If the scales were rigged at all it was for the movie, to balance them. It's funnier if she Is a witch, so they wrote it that way.

@bfdidc6604

4 ай бұрын

@@garylee3685 Yes, she was a witch, which means she probably escaped burning, unlike all those stupid innocent people.

@30noir

4 ай бұрын

'fair cop' in this context means guilty by the criteria they suggested - based on comparing her weight to a duck. I don't think this was a confession of witchcraft at all.

"On second thought let's not go to Camelot.... Tis a silly place." Needs to be said more often about more places and more people. It's such a classic line.

Lancelot running towards the castle NEVER fails to make me laugh. This film is a comedy pioneering masterpiece. Even the Simpsons references it !

You guys somehow managed to make the "coconuts" bit even funnier! lol

7:55 "I guess she is a witch." Yes. That's why she says "It's a fair cop" which the Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines as something you say "to admit that you did something wrong and were caught fairly." The fact that they used such absurd "logic" but turned out to be right is the joke.

The “chronological inconsistency” isn’t supposed to make sense. The mass arrest was just an absurd way to end it. It’s just a very silly movie. In the witch burning scene, the joke is that she really was a witch (because she was made of wood, I guess?). This was a thoroughly enjoyable reaction. I think you both got into the spirit of the thing.

@mikejankowski6321

4 ай бұрын

"It's a fair cop" reveals the truth of this conclusion. Some of their TV sketches ended with the players being arrested for being too silly. One of their trademark moves.

@ReddwarfIV

3 ай бұрын

@@mikejankowski6321 Usually when they couldn't think of a good way to end the sketch

I grew up with this movie. I saw it as a young child in the theater with my uncle (along with all the Mel Brooks movies). I saw it in theaters over the years in special showings and limited releases. I've watched the movie countess times, equally matched by the number of reactions I have watched. That being said, I have never experienced, encountered, or seen someone who so compassionately cared about the health and feeding of the coconut horses. Ryl, after almost five decades of watching this brilliant film, you have given me something new to consider. That is a rare gift.

I saw this in theaters when it first came out. The number of people that just sat in their seats at the end, staring at the black screen, was hysterical. I don't know if to this day they realized they were the joke.

"I will fart in your general direction!"

@TheGodofChaosItself184

10 күн бұрын

And your mother is a hamster, and your father smelled like elderberries!

Trying to make sense of Monty Python will result in watching more Monty Python. Next....The Life Of Brian.

A word of advice....Never try to make sense of monty python. Your heads will explode. 😂 Great reactors ladies. ✌❤🇬🇧

@brilicusgaming6922

4 ай бұрын

@coot1925 Agreed my mom tried and she walked away hating everything about the franchise. My dad found this movie hilarious and was one of the few times where he didn't take a movie seriously.

@coot1925

4 ай бұрын

@@brilicusgaming6922 yep. You have to take python for what it is....lunacy and satire. I'm 62 and remember watching the TV show. I remember all the kids at school doing their own silly walks. You either get it or you don't. 👍

@brilicusgaming6922

4 ай бұрын

@@coot1925 Just got into Flying Circus and I have been watching it on repeat and it never gets old. Plan to get the Blu ray collection on Amazon soon.

This movie was absolutely *huge* in nerd/geek circles back in the 70s and 80s (at least) when I was a kid and teen. There are *so* many quotes from the movie and we'd use every opportunity to use them in conversation. "Tis but a scratch" and "It's just a flesh wound" any time you got hurt, "I got better" when something went right, "He's not to leave, even if you come and get him" if you didn't understand what someone told you, "let me face the peril!", "she's got huge.... tracts of land", "and there was much rejoicing", "a moose once bit my sister", etc. and of course all the various insults the French soldier said including the "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!" Everything in the movie is a joke or troll... the intermission, even... back then it wasn't uncommon to have an intermission but this one is so short that the audience would likely get up and make their way down the row only to have to run back to their seats.

@wallyman292

4 ай бұрын

'scuse me, but my best friend in high school and I absolutely loved this movie, and even got our Senior year English teacher to play it for the class before Xmas break back in '83, and neither of us were either a geek or a nerd! ;) ps: The best part of the "She's got huge. . . tracts of land!" is him holding his hands out in front of him to show exactly what he was referring to at the time! lol!

'You have to know these things to be king' is an incredibly useful statement; it has gotten me into and out of fights, resolved differences with women, and made children laugh. Don't say it if you aren't 100% convinced you're the king, though. Man, that'll get you messed up.

“That rabbit is the most foul-tempered rodent ye ever laid eyes on!! Look at the bones!!!”

@kylestubbs8867

8 күн бұрын

"What's he do, nibble your bum?"

No one ever finds the Grail. The original author died without finishing the story. Subsequent additions to the original are stories about the search, and about how the adventures during the journey change the seekers. This general theme has been dubbed "The Hero's Journey" by folklorist Joseph Campbell.

@adaddinsane

4 ай бұрын

I would title this comment "How not to explain The Hero's Journey"

@motodork

4 ай бұрын

@@adaddinsane Yeah this is the strangest and oddest take on this film I've ever seen

@pirbird14

4 ай бұрын

@@adaddinsane "Hero's journey. In narratology and comparative mythology, the hero's journey, also known as the monomyth, is the common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed." That's what happens in the Grail story. It's not about the Grail, it's about the search.

@mikejankowski6321

4 ай бұрын

@@pirbird14 "It's not about the Grail, it's about the search." Definitely the point of the movie.

@dudermcdudeface3674

4 ай бұрын

@@pirbird14Literally the first time I've ever seen the word "narratology." I like it.

I think it was a different castle at the end than earlier, even though it was the same Frenchman taunting them. My favorite scene was the people packing mud in the field discussing their form of government compared to Arthur's story of how he became king.

@_Shadoh_

4 ай бұрын

In the story of the movie yes, but iirc in reality it WAS the same castle used in all the castle scenes 😉

YEEES! You are the 1st reactors I've ever watched who actually noticed the witch scales weren't even!!! Thank You!!! I'm always shouting at YT like "Look at the scales, look at the scales, it was RIGGED!!" Hahahahaha!

Jyn and Ryl crush it with another reaction And there was much rejoicing…

The Crown will have a very difficult time convicting King Arthur, Sir Bedevere and Sir Lancelot of murdering the famous historian. Defence counsel will argue that the perpetrator of the crime was riding a horse, and the three defendants had no horses, only servants banging coconuts together. Defence counsel could also point out that all the defendants, King Arthur, Sir Bedevere and Sir Lancelot, were fictional characters, and even if they had been “real persons” at some point in history, they would have been dead long before the crime was committed.

Yesss!!! Great reaction! You lady's were the first to really crack up at my favorite part… the slaughter at the wedding for whatever reason always gets me

@taun856

4 ай бұрын

I always laugh when I see the dancers continue the dance as Lancelot goes on with his rampage.

@wallyman292

4 ай бұрын

I love his sincere attempts at apologizing for it later on! Like all he'd done is fart in an elevator or something! ;)

@batape1965

4 ай бұрын

I have seen other reactors failing to note Lancelot attacking the flowers in the vase on the wall while running up the stairs during his slaughter frenzy. How can you not laugh at that?

The intermission is a prank to trick theater audiences into getting up from their seats.

@wallyman292

4 ай бұрын

Anyone who even thought for a second it was a true intermission obviously weren't fans of Monty Python! ;)

1:51 "Are you suggesting coconuts _migrate?"_ You _never_ would've expected, when you started this movie, that it would drop a discussion about _ecology_ into a _medieval_ setting.

I appreciate your brave attempts to apply logic to the plot of the movie.

if anyone watched monty python's flying circus, youd know that the organ at the end is being played by a naked man

@aftonair

4 ай бұрын

A naked grinning Michael Palin. (My favorite variety of Michael Palin)

20:55 I've never seen Jyn laugh so much.

This was priceless watching you two trying to make sense out of pure silly humor. Thanks for the laugh. Nothing made sense because it wasn't supposed to make sense due to budget restraints and the speed at how fast they needed to film this movie. Monty Python is a comedy troop of guys in the UK who had a half hour show in Britain which this movie followed the same utter craziness that their half hour show was based on. Some day you 2 should watch their half hour show so you get an idea where this all started from.

To those of us who grew up watching Monty Python, the ending makes perfect sense. They often ended their TV sketches with no apparent ending. Great reaction, young ladies.

Lancelot's assault on the wedding is my favourite scene too. Thanks for the reaction. :)

The funniest thing is the over-arc of it all... The historian was killed by a knight with an actually horse! Their alibi is thus coconuts!

This movie never gets old, that's all I can say.

LMAO! Ladies, don't try to make heads or tails of anything Monty Python just enjoy it. Great reaction. LOL

1975, that's a very long time ago - thanks... i was born in 1975 - great year 😎🤘 Respect & Peace ☘

The thing that makes this movie work is that the silliness is juxtaposed by these very serious moments. Arthur doing his short speeches, the Black Knight menacingly declaring "None shall pass", Lancelot bravely stating "Ask me your questions, Bridgekeeper. I am not afraid!". As an audience member, I BELIEVE these brief dramatic scenes. I get pulled into the characters' peril. And then, the rabbit POUNCES. Your reaction was great. Your flashing smiles and real laughter were a delight.

"Dude, nobody cares." Great edit. I chuckled on and off for a few minutes.

1. Don't try to make too much sense of a Monty Python movie. 2. The nearest I can come to making sense is that it was all a LARPing (live action role play) gone horribly wrong, lol. I guess... 3. The coconut horsey thing was partly a result of the low budget they had to work with...but they went with it and the film was more hilarious because. 4. The cast members hated the filming as the weather was pretty bad. 5. Congratulations ladies - you are the only reactors I've seen who noticed the chicken on Sir Robin's shield. Bravo!

I've watched a lot of Holy Grail reactions and you are the first reactors I 've seen who noticed (or at least commented on) the uneven scales in the witch/duck scene. I salute you.

They couldn’t have killed the famous historian because he was killed by a guy with a REAL HORSE 🤯

Your enjoyment of this absurd silliness was delightful. You got all the jokes and visuals, and Ryl's comments about the "horses" cracked me up! This is typical Monty Python humor, so was the "cop out" ending. They trolled the audience with the short intermission (imagine getting up in the theater to go get a drink just to have to sit down right away) and the black screen ending with the music, leaving folks to wonder if it is really over. Just like the French trolling the king about the grail. Great reaction, you packed a lot of choice moments in where others leave them out.

You can't ask too many questions about logic. It's just fun, absurdist humor. If it makes you laugh - that's all that the Monty Python guys cared about.

This was by far the best reaction I’ve seen to this movie. You both nearly had me in tears. I thought June was going to lose it.❤❤❤

Coconuts are transported by the Gulf Stream to England, and end up getting washed up on beaches there.

A movie I have dared to watch more than 100 times. It is insanely insane.

"Those horses must be tired." Aaaaaaahhhhh! I see you get the spirit of it! ;) For context: the reason they used coconuts to simulates horses is because there was no money in the budget for actual horses. So Monty Python had to resort to turning their predicament into a visual gag. Budget is also the reason there's no end credits. A lot of the gags in this film were born mostly out of budgetary limits.

Love Monty Python and their strange humor, I was around 14 when this came out and the PBS station was playing the TV show Flying Circus, which is just as crazy and funny

This was great. Not everyone is into Python humor, but you guys were naturals! Can't wait until you check out Life Of Brian.

You have a great sense of absurd humour ladies. Animator was Terry Gilliam, the only American in the Monty Python group

THe knights were framed, the knight who killed the historian had a real horse. No credits at the end because they were all sacked in the beginning

The French person was my favorite character. The roasting was hilarious! "I fart in your general direction!"

I don't know if you ladies are ready for Monty Python! 😂 Have u ever read the Far Side comic strips? Well, these guys were the Far Side before there was a Far Side, and they're even further out! LOL I've been laughing at these guys for over 50 years since their old tv show, and they still crack me up now as much as ever! Saw this in the theater in the 70s! Their humor pushes the boundaries of the absurd past the breaking point every time! 🤣 Great reaction, ladies! ❤

One! Two! Five!

The confusion at the end is always the best part of a reaction to this film.

NEVER think "does this make sense?" when dealing with anything Monty Python!

28:14 the horrified face 😂😂😂 and the RUN AWAAAAYYY tactic 😂😂😂

*officer arresting Lancelot* "Sure, buddy. Some other guy running around in plate mail and a sword. Don't worry, Ser, we'll send word to King Louie down at the station. Get in the car"

Almost 50 years later, and you'll still probably not find a single video where people didn't laugh their butts off when reacting to this masterpiece! 🥰 They don't make em like this anymore. Hope you'll react to "Life of Brian" by Monty Python too!

They were in the 10th century - this was one of the first movies to break the 4th wall and get crazy meta in 1974 - glad you enjoyed it : )

My two favorite recurring small jokes is King Arthur repeatedly says “Jesus Christ” as a curse, and that his tunic has the image of a sun with a mustache.

Sir Lancelot, played by John Cleese, was in a very good but short run BBC tv series: Fawlty Towers. Cleese ran an with new guests every week. The staff and the guests are funny in their unique way.

Now The Life Of Brian 🤪

21:54 i thought so too 😂😂😂 especially the rose on the wall 😂😂

"Where'd you get the coconuts?" Hilarious how the first characters Arthur meets point out a major plot hole in the storyline and then proceed to try to figure out how it might be plausible. Absolutely genius writing!

@wallyman292

4 ай бұрын

The man tying a coconut to a pigeon and tossing it in the air right before the "witch" scene makes it all the more hilarious! Then of course the bridge tender asking for the average velocity of an "un-laden" swallow is just great comedy writing!

@CanadianSam999

4 ай бұрын

@wallyman292 even better since Arthur pinned him on the "African or European swallow" specifics. AND the only person left with Arthur at that point was the knight who had tied the coconut to a swallow! Hilarious and Uber consistency

@wallyman292

4 ай бұрын

@@CanadianSam999You sure it was supposed to be one of the knights doing the testing??? I don't doubt it was one of the same actors, but I always thought he was just playing some joe-shmoe villager who, by coincidence alone, happened to have an interest in whether birds could carry coconuts! Which to me is just as hilarious, even if not quite as uber consistent! ;)

@CanadianSam999

4 ай бұрын

@wallyman292 yes, it was the one who became Arthur's first knight, Sir Bedevere

@wallyman292

4 ай бұрын

@@CanadianSam999Never noticed that! Awesome! 😃

I'm so pleased the two of you enjoyed this treasure. This movie is like comfort food for me. It's what I turn to when I need cheering up STAT. 100cc pure silliness. It's comforting like chicken soup when you've got a cold. It never stops being funny. (It's like funny chicken soup. What could be better?) If you enjoyed this, you may also enjoy the entire "Monty Python's Flying Circus" BBC series. It is one of the most ridiculous things you'll ever have the privilege to laugh hysterically at. ❤

the castle on the island was a 2nd location.

Great reaction. You ladies did it just right. Forget logic ….. just laugh.

In the Arthurian legends, either Sir Percival or Sir Galahad successfully retrieves the Holy Grail. I've always liked to believe that Sir Galahad would've discovered the Grail in this movie if he had spent just a bit more time at Castle Anthrax.

@0okamino

4 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, there was too much “peril” there. Then he ended up in the likely even more perilous Gorge of Eternal Peril (I can scarcely imagine how much spanking and whatnot goes on down there, but I’ll try).

I've seen this movie many many many times and it still can bring me to tears laughing. Dennis the Repressed Peasant and the Killer Rabbit are my favorite scenes. Great Reaction to your introduction to the Monty Python universe. Please check out Monty Python and the Life of Brian.

Another excellent reaction -- but the ending was meant to be a literal and metaphorical _cop out._ Watch this film a second time and you'll spot even more jokes. For example, read the credits at the beginning more carefully (freeze the video so you can), they are full of hidden jokes. The two castles with the French guys in them weren't the same. The first was in a wooded area, the second was on a tiny island in the middle of a lake. The French guy lied, they didn't have the Grail, no one had it. As others have pointed out -- it isn't supposed to make sense.

Monty Python is a Comedy group from England, and had a regular TV show that was this typical non-sense. The majority of speaking roles in this were the different cast members, they just put on different costumes. You should do more of their stuff.

it ended with 'a cop out'

The actor playing King Arthur was having alcohol DT’s while walking across the bridge (after the questions…). If you watch “Life of Brian” it was partly paid for by George Harrison (the Beatles) because funding was pulled by the film company a few days prior to filming (it cost 4 million to film). “The Meaning of Life” is another film but it’s done in “chapters”.

I think we can safely add Jyn to the Monty Python fan club now. Welcome.

This is why I love your reactions. You never take anything too serious (unless it is serious), you are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor. One of the best reactions to this movie I have seen so far. Virtual Hug!

I enjoyed your reaction to one of favorite movies ever. You laughed a whole lot more than I thought you would.

the pythons had a tv sketch show.

Fun fact: tim was supposed to have a long, complicated name but the actor forgot what it was and just said 'tim?', and they just rolled with it.

Cos-players didn't exist in 1975. It was time travel or alternate realities. LOL

Aloha from Maui. Love watching classic movies with you two!

I think the reason the knights were using coconuts was because the production could not afford to rent the horses. I've read that somewhere or seen it in a documentary. The production thought it would be funny to use coconuts and added scenes to make fun of the knights using coconuts. I like your reaction and your laughter at a funny movie.

Funnily enough, it is all the same castle, just from different angles. So the French person already being there, kinda makes sense in that sense as well

I loved your reaction to this. Watching you laugh was so beautiful.

The best reaction to one of my favourite films. Thank you.

Love your reviews and your laughs 😁

The girl on the left gets it so much... it's a type of humour....aaahhhahhh... maybe Alan Partridge?

In particular, you should check out Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983), which no one is reacting to on KZread and which is the best of the entire trilogy.

All movies had the credits at the start back then.

You two make me smile every time! The horses never did get any water

Welcome to the collective madness of Monty Python.😂

It was endearing to see how much this old classic cracked Jyn up. Thanks.

Best reaction to monty python ever !

9:37 If they had Synchronised Giggles at the next Olympics, you two would be medalists.

"Where did all these people come from?" CAMELOT!

I'll summarize this entire reaction. "Yes. That's the joke"

Graham Chapman - King Arthur, Middle Head of Three-Headed Knight, Hiccuping guard, God John Cleese - Sir Launcelot, French Taunter, Black Knight, Tim the Enchanter, 2nd Coconut guard Eric Idle - Sir Robin, Dead Collector, Roger the Shrubber, Concord, Dumb guard, Brother Maynard Terry Jones - Sir Bedivere, Prince Herbert, Left Head of Three-Headed Knight, Dennis' mother Michael Palin - Sir Galahad, Swamp King, Leader of the Knights who Say Ni, Right Head of Three-Headed Knight, Dennis, 1st coconut guard, narrator Terry Gillam - Patsy, Bridgekeeper, Green Knight, Bors, weak-hearted animator Connie Booth (John Cleese's wife at the time) - "witch" Carol Cleveland - Zoot, Dingo Neil Innes - Sir Robin's minstrel, Lead monk John Young - Historian, "not dead" old man

I was born in 1975, whippersnapper!

WATCH MONTY PYTHON AND THE MEANING OF LIFE! DON'T STOP AT LIFE OF BRIAN!