"It's!"Whether it's confusing your cat, singing of cross-dressing lumberjacks, Venezuelan beaver cheese, Spam, Norwegian blues, or just musical mice that you are looking for, Monty Python's got them.
Most people in my generation know Monty Python more by the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but Flying Circus was broadcast the better part of a decade before Holy Grail's release. As a matter of fact, a guy in room 102 of my college dorm (I was in room 106) had a VCR that looped and he played Holy Grail on loop from September to April non-stop with an open door policy stating that everyone in the entire school was welcome to come in any time and watch as much or as little of the movie that they wanted. The only concession that he had was he turned the volume low at night.
Now, I'm not disparaging the movie at all, but when I'm watching Flying Circus, it's just funny. Because it's in skit format, there's not a lot of time for a lot of setup, so you kinda have to keep up for some of the humor to make any sense, and unless you are British or have take remedial brummy git, you are probably going to miss some of the 40-year-old pop culture references. That being said, I think that the humor for Flying Circus is actually funnier than any of the movies that Monty Python did, and is the pinnacle of their whole collective work.
There is a DVD set that was released a while ago, and while you can still find it used some places like eBay, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a new boxed set of the entire collection re-released some time in the future.
"And now for something completely different."
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