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Summary: This is liquid happiness baby!!!
Review: Lets face it kiddies: Television these days stinks like a fishmarket when the AC breaks down. It is horrid. Putrid. Icky. Between reality shows and the excruciating network shows, a person is sorely tempted to Elvis their TV. (Elvis: Shoot it with a .357 magnum) But don't load the hollowpoints in that Smith and Wesson yet! There is still the greatest of all comedy shows, Monty Python's Flying Circus! And lo, the villagers did rejoice... Monty Python was the name of a group of young Brittish men who were given a budget and some TV cameras. They wrote comedy that made THEM laugh, and not some empty corporate suit. The result is some of the funniest stuff ever broadcast in the history of television. If you loved the old SNL stuff with Belushi and the other all-stars, you will love Python more. This set has all of the TV episodes ever aired. There is pure gold in them thar episodes. Jokes about everything from Nixon, to flying sheep, to the Royal Philharmonic going to the bathroom are all in here. This is a sure cure for the network TV doldrums. Python will make you laugh until you cry, and you will enjoy watching the episodes over and over. I have seen every episode literally over 3 dozen times, and I still love it. The world is nuts and the Pythons have the guts to demonstrate that. God Bless em!
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Summary: I'd give it 100 stars
Review: This is it, the only DVD collection you'll ever need. I bought them in the sets of 2 before the 14 volume set was available. They were the reason I bought DVD in the first place...my VHS set was getting worn from constant viewing. You get all 45 episodes, bonus trivia tests, fun facts about each episode, and profiles on the 6 funniest men who ever lived. So, order this set today and have a few Crunchy Frogs and enjoy something completely different.
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Summary: You don't need anything else
Review: Simply put, if I was trapped somewhere with only one thing to watch, I would want this set of the complete monty python. End of story!
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Summary: No time to lose!
Review: Monty Python's Flying Circus is one of those entertainment phenomena that has to be seen to be believed. Describing to newbies it is impossible (I've tried, and it can't be done). It's like going through a funhouse -- a funhouse composed of the bizarre thoughts of six guys (five Brits, one American) who wanted something "different." Well, they gave us something different. Verrrrry different. So different, in fact, that it's still unique. The Python crew present us with confused flower-stealing bandit Dennis Moore; the kamikaze Scotsmen; Elizabethan Pornography (and the supposedly-Shakespearean "Gay Boys in Bondage"); a game show devoted to prejudice; the Pantomime Horses, Pantomime Goose, and Pantomime Princess Margaret; a frustrated man trying to return a dead parrot he was sold ("Bereft of life, it rests in peace!"); hairdressers climbing Mount Everest; "senile delinquents," also called "Hell's Grannies"; the Fish-slapping Dance (which is EXACTLY what it sounds like); buildings that collapse if you stop believing in them, and many, many more. Oh yes -- and the killer tennis-playing blancmanges from the galaxy Andromeda, who are turning people into Scotsmen. Sprinkled through the DVDs are the wacky animation skits that somehow tie it together (like a TV actively abusing a man's eyeballs). They're joyously politically-incorrect (I'm surprised they didn't get sued by everyone, including the entire countries of Scotland and Belgium). They're so funny that regardless of gender, creed, or cheese preference, you'll laugh yourself sick. And not just because all these men like to dress as (ugly) women. Don't watch this if you can't sit down and watch it in full. Walking in in the middle of a sketch is the most disorienting thing I can imagine, but watching any of them (well, most of them) in full is almost guaranteed to make you laugh. The material is always surreal, delivered either with a straight face or a mocking smile, and often running jokes that keep cropping up (like Eric Idle constantly disrupting sketches to demand a pound). So check out Monty Python's Flying Circus, and pretty soon you'll be speaking in anagrams and quoting random lines about dead parrots, cheese shops, full-frontal nudity, and torture in... the comfy chair. British comedy at its best. Actually, it's just comedy in general at its best.
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Summary: If I could give this 6 stars, I would in a heartbeat
Review: It all started with six men (five Brits, one American) who wanted to make "something completely different". It's all their fault. But thank A&E for bringing a wonderful DVD set to us. It may have the occasional bum sketch, but most of them had me rolling on the floor in my room, laughing hysterically. Seeing Spam for the first time was like nothing else. I'm still laughing at these old classics. And,one last thing: LONG LIVE THE PYTHONS!!!! Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und slatermeyer? .... Ja! Beiyerhund odie Der flipperwaldt gersput!
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Summary: And now for something completely essential...
Review: Okay, let's look at the pros and cons of this behemoth, shall we? Yes, it would've been nice if they added the two German episodes (A&E stuck both on their other DVD sets) or some other really rare extra historic clips on the Pythons (again see other sets). And yes, if you really, really have the spare time, look really hard, and follow the script books line by line, there are a few minor words and/or bits they apparently deleted or couldn't dig up in the archives to digitally remaster...bloody Vikings! Beyond that though, the set is fantastic! Blimey! All 45 episodes, the best Brit com ever, menus, trivia, Carol Cleveland (wink wink nudge nudge, say no more), Albatross!, all in one box, and cheaper than buying them all separate - one of the best investments I've ever made! I only hope A&E can do the same and put out a solid DVD set for their films as well. For those complaining that A&E messed this one up, 99.9999% of fans won't even be able to find/notice the cuts...I know I haven't and I'm a huge collector/fan. (The "Live" and "Life" sets, well, that's a whole other story.) But then I never wanted to review this set anyway...I always wanted to be...A LUMBERJACK.
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Summary: Only one problem with this collection.
Review: They left the laughtracks in. I hate laughtracks, I feel as if these were put into the episodes to let American audiences know when to laugh at the sometimes
difficult to understand, due to cultural differences, comedy of the Monty Python crew. Other than that it's a good set, the transfers are about as good as you could expect from what was a low budget show filmed for a different
TV format (PAL vs NTSC).
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Summary: Missing the Legendary Gumby Theatre GODFATHER Sketch
Review: As a well-known Amazon.com critic who occasionally speaks too loud in restaurants, I wish to protest the utter absence of the Gumby Theatre GODFATHER sketch, in which R.M. Gumby plays Marlon Brando and the other Gumbies sit around the conference table of the Five Families and make squawking noises. This sketch was missing on the video version of the complete Monty Python, and it now is absent on the complete DVD Monty Python. It may be assumed that it also will be missing on the cloned version of Monty Python, soon to be available for electronic implant (but to be avoided by all those from Liverpool). Except for this glaring omission, the DVDs are quite lovely as they spin round and round in their little tray. Each comes with a still of John Cleese silly walking on the front. I understand that if one hooks up the DVD player with a television screen, one also may obtain sound and images from the original Python series. Since I have yet to purchase a television set (my penguin is allergic), I can verify this only as heresay.
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Summary: Funnier than SNL!
Review: At last...the complete Monty Python series on DVD. Have fun watching "The Silly Walks", "Gumby Brain Surgeon", "The Dead Parrot","The Penguin on the Telly" & "Spam" Loads of laughs!
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Summary: Oh go ahead, buy it!
Review: I agonized over this purchase for quite some time. After all, $170+ is a large chuck of money. I finally decided what the heck, I had always wanted to buy this collection and I might as well do it now. I received the collection a couple of days ago and started viewing the DVD's. The picture and sound quality are good, and the content is, well, MONTY! With all of the stress of our lives and this world, it's nice to be able to start a DVD and get lost in some great humor. So, if you are like I was reading reviews and trying to decide what to do, go ahead and buy this one. You will be glad you did!
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