"If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?" is my favorite line. Love this humor

@andersonsmith979

11 ай бұрын

Can't argue with his logic! Although...I suppose you could de-bone the beasty and stuff what's left with brittle? It's still a frog but it would have brittle! :D

@federalisticnewyorkians4470

4 ай бұрын

Dead frog

@desfalloon7829

4 ай бұрын

I heard this when I was twelve! I am now sixty-two! I relate only the crunchy frog portion to young colleagues! With no exception, they love the bit, "If we removed the bones, they wouldn't be crunchy now, would they"!

Amazing how Terry Jones could make even Crunchy Frog sound appetizing just by the way he described it.

@flare242

8 ай бұрын

He could make Crunchy Frog sound delicious, and he could also make a tiny mint leaf absolutely inedible/disgusting. What a range, what a range... We lost a legend. :-( He was my favourite Python, definitely.

@jasobres

5 ай бұрын

That as may be, it's still a frog!

I love it how he says that they use no additives in their chocolates before saying that the lark's vomit is right after monosodium glutamate, one of the most used food additives in the world.

@CzechMirco

4 ай бұрын

Thats because it wasn't an additive but filling of monosodium glutamate bonbons.

'lightly killed' and no-one laughed. Don't miss that bit, it's the best.

@HomegirlOfJezu

9 жыл бұрын

I love that line. I've always wondered why it didn't get more of a reaction.

@isaackim7675

9 жыл бұрын

HomegirlOfJezu Question: How can one 'lightly kill' a baby frog when they are so fragile?

@Gaff.

9 жыл бұрын

Isaac Kim Oh, you.

@HomegirlOfJezu

9 жыл бұрын

Isaac Kim It's a pun on the descriptions but one does not apply logic to Monty Python.

@isaackim7675

9 жыл бұрын

HomegirlOfJezu Fair point. This is like the opposite of the Harry Potter chocolate frogs, huh?

"Lightly killed"

I took my kids to a chocolate factory today. My oldest and I were really bummed that we didn't get to see the room where they "lightly kill" the baby frogs.

I was actually in the studio the night this was recorded - at the Golders Green Hippodrome, where the BBC recorded a lot of early colour TV series Later this studio was converted to a radio studio

-What sort of frog? -A dead frog. Nicely put.

"Stop talking to the camera!" I loved, that in the last live performance they did, John Cleese talked, or at least acknowledged the audience, when they laughed, and in the end said "Don't talk to the audience, it's the main rule of comedy!" That just made it funnier.

Monty Python, 50+ years and it never gets old, sheer genius...

"Stop talking to the camera" is such a good line. That is the kind of "out of the box" thinking that seems so obvious when it is done, but so hard to come up with when nobody has done it before.

@gelchert

2 ай бұрын

Immediately before Graham does just that.

"What's this one, Spring Surprise?" "Oh, that's our specialty. Covered in darkest, creamy chocolate, when you pop it in your mouth, steel bolts spring out and plunge straight through both cheeks." He makes it actually sound delicious! Hilarious!!

@luisreyes1963

11 ай бұрын

The perfect sweetmeat for that ex in your life...💔

"We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind" "On the bottom of the box after Monosodium Glutamate"

"Crunchy raw un-boned _real_ dead frog" ...how will I ever repair the splitting of my sides?

"Mock Frog!? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!" LOL

The first time I saw John Cleese in the western Silverado as a sheriff I wasn't sure how he would be. It was weird to see him play a serious role.

I like how proud the guy looks when the cop asks him about each chocolate. hehehe

I remember John Cleese saying in an interview when asked what his favourite lines from Python were he often thought of lines that most people didn't consider classics and one was the line from this sketch where he says "Where's the pleasure in that?" as he often thinks of it in everyday situations.

"If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy , would it?" ROFLOL One of my very favorite Python bits ever.

"We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!" *uses monosodium glutamate*

This is really "Trades Discriptions Act". A micky take on a UK law saying items must be described accurately.

"we use only the finest baby frogs dew picked and flown from Iraq cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed and then sealed in a succulent swiss quintuple smooth triple chocolate cream envelope and lovingly frosted in glucose" :)

@camprunamok895

10 жыл бұрын

The disturbing thing is that, at first hear, his description actually sounds appetizing until you, uh, dissect it a bit.

@mikemagnus9447

7 жыл бұрын

Could you, uh, do the dissecting, please?

@lievenvanloo6011

5 жыл бұрын

is the envelope made of chocolate cream? ...that sounds amazing! ...except for the frog part btw, how can it be both quintuple and triple at the same time?

@daveloomis

5 жыл бұрын

It's quintuple smooth and triple chocolate.

@jtb1990419

5 жыл бұрын

@Elk Lord we use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!

One of the billion things I love about Flying Circus is the fact that the stream-of-consciousness nature of the sketches meant that there was no build to a climactic laugh as pay off, which meant more laughs on the journey. There were as many laughs in performances as there were on the page.

Luv how every time someone describes an igredient in that candy, Graham runs out of the room about to puke.

The cockroach cluster and the candy with coated with lark's vomit got me wheezing in extreme laughter upon watching this episode for the first time. Seriously, Monty Python is the GOAT of shock and surrealist comedy.

"Mock frog?!? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!"

I’ve always wondered just what is involved in making sure a frog is “lightly killed” 😂

@luisreyes1963

Ай бұрын

Quickly frozen in liquid carbon dioxide, perhaps?

When I read in HP that Cockroach Cluster was a selection at Honeyduke's...I laughed. I even think the chocolate frogs were a variation of the crunchy frog.

@luisreyes1963

11 ай бұрын

What, no Ram's Bladder Cup? 🐏

@feiery

11 ай бұрын

@@luisreyes1963 unfortunately no. Personally, I’m saddened that Anthrax Ripple was also left off the menu.

“Lightly killed” - cracks me up every time.

There is now a frog logo on certain food products. If i understand it correctly, it means that the product doesn't contribute to destruction of rainforests, doesn't harm animals or something like that. Turns out, some unfortunate souls in Czech Republic took it literally and created a hoax that all these products contain parts of frogs. There's even a facebook group in Czech "monitoring frog containing products". I hoped it was made just for the lulz, but looking at the comments, at least SOME members are completely serious about it. I immediately remembered who started this lovely trend of adding frogs into confection. So i'm truly very happy that Whizzo Chocolate Company is back in business, and expanded out to include manufacturing of different food products, not just chocolate. GO WHIZZO!

The live version is hilarious, too! Terry Gilliam plays the 2nd inspector and throws up in his helmet.

@sroevukasroevuka

11 ай бұрын

His name was constable clitoris. Lol.

@jasobres

5 ай бұрын

Actually, he runs offstage and stuffs some cold beef stew into his mouth to simulate vomit.

This sketch is a family ledgend. Whenever we say something like - say, 'Lizzy made this salad herself' someone else has to come in with "Ah yes, the cucumbers were lightly killed, dew picked and flown from Iraq!" ALWAYS.

Graham Chapman was splendid as a sick cop! He is missed!

@MA-wq2ih

6 жыл бұрын

Even better in the "Hollywood Bowl" version of this sketch...he absolutely stole the show.

Ah I remember this performance as a 6th former in 1970. I have just realised how much since that day I have used the phrase Larks Vomit frequently throughout my life to describe anything remotely unpalatable. It is short, succinct and perfectly describes so much.

@scottsiebert4559

9 жыл бұрын

Blimey, Squiffey! Cabbage crates coming over the briney!

@ThinPicks

11 ай бұрын

@@scottsiebert4559 Sorry old chap, can't understand your banter!

Never gets old. Also holds a special place in my heart for having originally exposed me to the expression "that's as maybe" which apparently no one in the US understands

@MiNa-kv3lp

10 ай бұрын

To be pedantic, I thought it was "that's as may be".

@timrizzo3941

10 ай бұрын

@@MiNa-kv3lp Yeah, tbh, I debated a sec. I've seen it both ways. Clearly 'may be' is what's meant but I'm no expert on colloquialisms, esp outside the US

I love the way Cleese says "Prrrrrraline" here, especially because that's his character's name in the dead parrot sketch

It's listed on the bottom of the box, right after the monosodium glutamate.

Have you noticed them mentioning 'Cockroach Cluster'? That's mentioned as sweets in the Harry Potter world. Methinks JK was watching Monty Python while thinking up these names!

@karlrovey

11 ай бұрын

I know it's 16 years since your comment, but I immediately thought the same thing when I heard "cockroach clusters."

@Clive697

11 ай бұрын

Man from the future opines that JKR plagiarised nearly EVERYTHING in those interminable children's books.

Dumbledore's password was Cockroach Cluster... a Monty Python tribute in Harry Potter? I knew those guys were wizards!

I didn't know that Cockroach Clusters was a Monty Python reference, then again it makes perfect sense.

@BlaizeTheDragon

9 жыл бұрын

Pretty much everything is a Monty python reference.

@John-yf7iy

7 жыл бұрын

Everything apart from the thousands and millions of Simpsons references, Marx Brothers references, Seinfeld references, Star Trek references, John Wayne references, Star Wars references, Michael Caine references, DIrty Harry references, Bible references, Shakespeare references.

Crunchy frog? Meh. Ram's bladder? Whatever. Lark's vomit? Big deal. Monosodium glutamate? *hurl* Recall this garbage at once!

I love when Graham says "take more care in buying their sweeties..." I always laugh.

If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy would it? Haha 👏👏👏

@stevenhulbert6973

5 жыл бұрын

Joe Young he won that round

I love Johns entrance in the studio with that little smirk.

@typacsk

9 ай бұрын

"Hellew."

"Mock Frog?".....😂😂

Yer a wizard Terry :D LOL

"If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it ?" LOL

I love how almost every Monty Pytho sketch is such incredibly subtle satire

@charlie-obrien

11 ай бұрын

They are working on at least 5 levels of comedy in this sketch...Brilliant!

Classic sketch! In a way, this reminds me of the Ren and Stimpy fake commercials for Dog Water, back in the 90s I think. On the Monty Python Flying Circus album, interestingly enough, this is listed as "Trade Description Act".

@Randomlad.0737

2 ай бұрын

Does anyone know what John. K thought of Monty Python's Flying Circus?

Forrest Gump: "Life is like assorted chocolate: You never know what you will get" ;-)

@AngelusDlion Crunchy Frog is a great band name, I'm the guitarist in the band Frowning Crabcake XD

Life's like a box of chocolates!

@ketheranechromate7479

6 жыл бұрын

It often involves Crunchy raw unboned real dead frogs.

@virginiaconnor8350

5 жыл бұрын

Robin Leedham My brother gave me a little box of chocolates to give to a teacher I had in 4th grade. There were 16 small chocolates with 4 different coloured wrappers. The label on the Pier One box didn't give the ingredients but they were: ants, cockroach clusters, bees, and crunchy frog. I know this because after I told him I gave it to her, he told me the ingredients. She said they were a bit crunchy, but I doubt she tried more than a few. This is the same brother who got me in trouble the year before with a blue loose leaf notebook with the phrase,"candy is dandy, but sugar is sweet". Quite the prankster, but I'm the one that got sent to the principal and had to explain it.

@_tertle3892

5 жыл бұрын

If you eat to much it goes fast

2:28 Cleese stumbles and ends up saying "If the the bore" when he should have said "If the box bore" but he just about manages to cover it up ;)

This sketch makes me laugh and gag at the same time.

I can't watch the first Harry Potter movie without thinking of this sketch.

I love the deeper meaning of food products having cryptical descriptions for ingredients which otherwise wouldn't sound as tasteful.

@geoffreyherrick9900

6 жыл бұрын

Ratelzwatel like locust bean gum.

@Rubyofthedead

5 ай бұрын

​​@@geoffreyherrick9900That's just an extract from the seeds of the carob tree. Nothing gross about it.

As a child this is how I found out that the shiny coating on chocolates was glucose.

"lightly killed" is a pretty awesome turn of phrase

"stop talking to the camera!" "i'm sorry..." XD

In the O2 performance, the lark's vomit's been changed to mouse poo, John Cleese's reaction to that is priceless.

@John-yf7iy

7 жыл бұрын

Also changed "Iraq" to "Swaziland".

This is one of those sketches that worked way better live. The audience here has no idea what to think of it.

Isn't a baby frog a tadpole?

@toussaintgervais8285

9 жыл бұрын

Not all

@crunchyfrog555

9 жыл бұрын

No that's rather a foetal frog if you like. Obviously the stages of development are different to mammals, but "baby" determines a young 'un in it's early stages AFTER birth.

@isaackim7675

9 жыл бұрын

Daniel Linger If there were a chocolate shop that actually sells these sort of things, they would really get sued for making people sick. It's almost like the opposite version of the chocolate frog from Harry Potter.

@williamcrowe2576

7 жыл бұрын

Don't ask.

@John-yf7iy

7 жыл бұрын

They would get it from the same place that the United States government got the anthrax to poison citizens and senators in late 2001 - from United States government military laboratories.

I forgot bout thi till I randomly remembere the phrase "if we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy" and remembered it. Nice upload

How about the ingredient bee vomit? I'm sure some of you put some in your tea. It's better know as honey.

@Gaff.

9 жыл бұрын

By Jove, you've just opened my mind to all manner of delicious, heretofore discounted vomit.

@SpaztallicA

9 жыл бұрын

Oh but I do! Not without my daily chicken period on toast of course, thought I heard some chap call them eggs before!

@bezzaderbane9890

5 жыл бұрын

who puts honey in their tea?

@bezzaderbane9890

5 жыл бұрын

an egg isn't a period, there's no blood...

@Trev359

5 жыл бұрын

@@bezzaderbane9890 i don't but I believe a lot of people do.

"Where's the pleasure in that?" Apparently John Cleese's favourite line. Ahh... The things youtube can teach you. :)

It's also sort of funny that they are more concerned about the chocolates that are disgusting than the one that would actually be deadly (the anthrax ripple).

@rudyschmidt3916

3 ай бұрын

Well, it was sufficiently off-putting to send Graham back to the lavatory again and again.

Comedy peaked with monty python’s flying circus

The greatest Python skit of all time, and one of the greatest comedy skits, period.

@larryellisreed280

10 ай бұрын

No doubt up there with the obvious classics: *The Dead Parrot *Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam *The Lumberjack Song *Coal Miners of Wales *Naval Expedition to Lake Pahoe *Ministry of Silly Walks

@emilyadams3228

10 ай бұрын

I like the one where Ken (Eric Idle) comes home to visit his parents (Graham Chapman = Dad, Terry Jones = Mum). They're dressed as normal middle-aged working-class people, and he's wearing a suit. His dad seems resentful, and you think it's because Eric got into some high-dollar career and turned his back on his parents. Then it turns out his dad is a playwright, and he left home to be a coal miner. Dad: Hempstead wasn't good enough for ya, was it? Nooo, you had to go poncin' up to Barnsleigh! YOOOU and your COAL-MINING FRIENDS!!

Is J.K. Rowling a Monty Python fan? -- One of Dumbledore's favorite sweets is cockroach clusters!

@parasitex5

8 жыл бұрын

DaveLH Chocolate Frog = Crunchy Frog

@phousefilms

6 жыл бұрын

And Nearly Headless Nick is John Cleese. :)

@virginiaconnor8350

5 жыл бұрын

DaveLH Must be a favourite like Dr. Who (Tom Baker)'s jelly babies.

@Kahnugo

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/pYqWxJipiq_Mqrg.html about a minute in :) sounds kinda familiar

@tokutickler

5 жыл бұрын

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.

This is one of their absolute best! Amazing comedy!

But our sales would plummet!!

2:15 “LARK’S VOMIT!!?”

Crunch S Frog, sir.

@MA-wq2ih

6 жыл бұрын

"SHUT UP!"

That's very interesting, because I am now made entirely of tin.

I could eat all of them, except for the anthrax and the spring surprise.

@CosmicCompassionQuest

7 жыл бұрын

cassandra5322 I could definitely go for one of the baby frogs.

Had to look this up as John Cleese mentioned this as the press conference announcing their first show in 30 years!!

'lightly killed, dipped and cleansed in the purest spring water' that got me laughin

Crunchy Unboned Real Dead Frog, just rolls right off the tongue.

"it's a fair cop!" "stop talking to the camera!"

"What sort of frog? A dead frog." WELL YOU DON'T SAY! XD

Amazing....They knew that even the "Pitch to the executives" route. could be hysterical...True Genius....Even more so by a team of people who attended University in pursuit of a more traditional way of life.

"What kind of frog?" "A dead frog" Lmao

Ram's Bladder Cup, lol.

Crunchy frog -- heap good!

Django and Ringo!!! I have deciphered your screen-name! two musicians that I love.

its impossible to not like this.

Monty Python gets the "Highest" ratings of any utube vids, hands down. Professor Gumby Studied it !

@geoffreyherrick9900

6 жыл бұрын

BabbittdaWabbitt my brain hurts! Lol!

I find your posts to be thrilling and insightful. I find my responses to be ridiculously sarcastic.

This is my fave of all time. I love how the other guy is constantly off screen vomiting.

Every bit as funny in 2024 as it was back in the day.

"That's the nice thing about being a hermit. At least you get to meet people." "Yes, I wouldn't go back to Public Relations."

"Lightly killed" I love it.

You can buy Crunchy Frog in Warcraft at the Darkmoon Faire.

"Where's the pleasure in that?"-Cleese's fav Python line

"don't you even take the bones out?" "if we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?" LOL

"What kind of frog?" "A dead frog." My favorite line XD

lightly killed. lmao Monty Python is amazing.

Fun fact: The Inspector's line "Where's the pleasure in that?" is one of John Cleese's favourites!

@peterrebelwithoutamenopaus6962

11 ай бұрын

Indeed, it's a great line, but my all-time favourite from the Hungarian Phrase book is, My hovercraft is full of eels.

“Lightly killed”

Monty lives on :)) still the same taste though.