GQ:
The word “shrubbery” is dead. I’m not sure how often it was used before 1975, when the British comedy troupe Monty Python released Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but hence, a not insignificant number of people couldn’t say it without the urge to raise their voice a pitch. There are people who can’t see a coconut without yammering on about swallows. Who can’t be injured without hollering, “It’s just a flesh wound.” Who, out of nowhere, will yell “ni!” As adults, they’re insufferable, but as kids…well, I was one of many.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which is now streaming on Netflix, remains a funny film by a group of English comedians that’s become shorthand for a postwar, absurd, self-deprecating kind of humor.
Asking around, it seems that Monty Python and the Holy Grail is not dead yet.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail was meme-worthy before that was even a word. I saw it when it first came out and I’ll still quote its silliness on a weekly basis.
Yes, but what have Monty Python really done for us?
The movie came out when I was still in high school. You’d better believe that every nerd I knew (a slightly narrower category in those days) picked up on it with almost instant, lasting, and eidetic affection.
“…it seems that Monty Python and the Holy Grail is not dead yet.”
No you’re not, you’ll be stone dead in a moment.
I have very fond memories of this film. For an English project I reshot the entire film with two classmates and a whole lot of extras. We had no idea what we got ourselves into and spent months filming and editing but it was the most fun we had in our entire time at school.
When it first came out? How old are you really? Oo
Aqueducts?
If nothing else, I learned a new word from that article: incel.