Monty Python - Science Fiction Sketch (Part3)

[@jaypierce0811]

Still holds up after fifty years. A credit to their comic genius.

[@martinbrown3408]

No - after Andy Murray the whole premise of the sketch fell apart. That man ruined python for everyone

[@richardsawyer5428]

A Scotsman playing tennis? That's too far fetched even for Monty Python.

[@paulsarnik8506]

Ye know the Scotsman dinna know ta play the tennis ta SAVE their lives!

[@SeptemberAdam]

Why? The scotties too much into golf for a try at tennis?

[@marklammas2465]

That was the late 60's. Ye cannae hurry a Murray... 😁

[@omwst1946]

Would Andy Murray's mum agree do you think?

[@spudgunn8695]

So THAT was what drove Andy Murray to be so good at tennis!😂😂

[@jaspertickler1831]

to be fair Andy Murray has never been challenged by a decent blancmange

[@spudgunn8695]

@@jaspertickler1831 lol!

[@cruddnow]

I love the idea that Andy Murray saw this and became so good at tennis out of spite 🤣🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@spudgunn8695]

@@cruddnow that was my thought process, glad you appreciate it!😉

[@EdwardM-t8p]

​@@cruddnow That's what I thought too!

[@LouisetheLithead]

When you saw this on Public Television in 1974, it was unlike any other thing you'd ever seen in the entire world. This was the first episode I ever saw in broadcast, and it didn't look lame at all. It was completely groundbreaking and totally hilarious.

[@caracortage3270]

Was?

[@andrewpetik2034]

​@caracortage3270 Yep ....and still is

[@EdwardM-t8p]

And even when it's dated it doesn't get old. That's the mark of the best humor!

[@lorrainefranchi9105]

It's funny AF

[@BassRck50]

It was, I was Stoned!

[@EdwardM-t8p]

"It could only mean one thing." "They mean to win Wimbledon." _"They mean to win Wimbledon!"_

[@markwilliams3994]

The best Sci-fi ever.

[@sarahstrong7174]

What about Mackenroe?

[@josephbelisle5792]

Here here!

[@marquonuk]

The ending with the blancmange being eaten as the solution to the plot reminds me of the sort of thing The Goodies might have done on their show a few years later.

[@28russ]

I was actually thinking this is the most Goodies like Python sketch I've seen. 🤔

[@DrFelch]

I was surprised that nobody mentioned this sketch when Andy Murray, A SCOTSMAN, won Wimbledon. They always referred to him as British.

[@Canalcoholic]

Scots are all British when they are winning anything, but are disowned when they get beaten. Likewise the Taffs and Micks.

[@rbilleaud]

Well, he was British. Seems when someone from Scotland does something well, he's British. When they do something badly, they're Scottish. They're like the rednecks of Britain.

[@tombombadil9123]

They were covering it up. It's a conspiracy by blancmanges from outer space 😂

[@johncaldwell-wq1hp]

Hey,-he turned his nose up,-at a "hagis"--& wore"bovver-boots"-so,mate he' ENGLISH !!-(and refused a pint of whiskey !!)-

[@markwilliams3994]

Maybe it was a Blancmange impersonating a human.

[@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491]

The girl actress Donna Reading is so cool

[@Demotricus]

I had such a crush on her, she was gorgeous..🥰

[@figure830]

The Giant Blancmange actually looks kind of adorable when it walks

[@firstlast5350]

So realistic.

[@KRobinson-ko1ne]

So delicious

[@coffeecigarettes9422]

Never saw it before and I must say this film is better than all SF movies combined I had the "pleasure" to watch during last 40 years.

[@shellypanfil4122]

First saw this episode in 1977 on our St. Louis Public Television station, KETC. They would show Monty Python's Flying Circus on Sunday nights at 10. There was no censorship on public TV then, so we got to see all of the parts we could never see on American television. I loved the show (I actually recorded this episode and can be heard laughing all the way through it), the series and the troupe's films, but none of my friends ever really got it.

[@RadicalCaveman]

That must have amazed the #*^% out of Saint Louis!

[@28russ]

Yeah most yanks never quite got the British sense of humour. It was all rather too silly and wasn't, well, American enough for them 🤷‍♂😂

[@lorrainefranchi9105]

Maybe not the TV show but all the Monty Python movies had big audiences. I loved both. Always thought they were funny AF ​@@28russ

[@28russ]

​@@lorrainefranchi9105 Not all obviously mate. I'm actually an aussie not a Brit but the Brit sense of humour tends to translate better down here then it did the states. Probably because we were and still essentially are a British colony and we had a lot of the BBC shows aired down here. But we're in kinda of a unique position though where we got a lot of the U.S comedies as well. I'm actually on a Python FB group and a Hitchhiker guide to the galaxy group which was another essentially Britocentric comedy but I'm amazed how many Mericans there are in both groups. So obviously there's more of you that get the Brits and have a good sense of humour than I would of thought. Stephen Fry famously said "that the main difference between Brit and U.S humour is the Brits would rather be the self depreciating butt of the joke and the yanks would rather be the hero of the joke". Although rather more wordier than that lol. 🙂Stephen Fry link if you're interested kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpyVcpWniaerl9Esi=88MQP7QmNng19OG2

[@28russ]

@@lorrainefranchi9105 ​ Not all obviously mate. I'm actually an aussie not a Brit but the Brit sense of humour tends to translate better down here then it did the states. Probably because we were and still essentially are a British colony and we had a lot of the BBC shows aired down here. But we're in kinda of a unique position though where we got a lot of the U.S comedies as well. I'm actually on a Python FB group and a Hitchhiker guide to the galaxy group which was another essentially Britocentric comedy but I'm amazed how many Mericans there are in both groups. So obviously there's more of you that get the Brits and have a good sense of humour than I would of thought. Stephen Fry famously said "that the main difference between Brit and U.S humour is the Brits would rather be the self depreciating butt of the joke and the yanks would rather be the hero of the joke". Although rather more wordier than that lol. 🙂Stephen Fry link if you're interested kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpyVcpWniaerl9Esi=88MQP7QmNng19OG2

[@effyleven]

Wow! That was amazing! The Blancmange was terrifyingly real. I can't remember special effcts so convincing. I think I'm having a fatal heart attack!! Aaaarr--ggghhhhhhhh... (slumps over keyboard.. not moving)

[@brianew]

Are you still with us?

[@TooSlowTube]

@@brianew Sadly, he turned into a Scotsman.

[@bretthess6376]

SNAP OUT OF IT, MAN! WE ALL KNOW YOU'RE FAKING! Oh... Not faking. Take his wallet and car keys.

[@2nostromo]

He's just sleeping. There! I saw him move!

[@MrBiggles53]

Dear sir, I have had a heart attack and I object to this comment!

[@georgestuart8656]

Still, fifty years later, the special effects stand up well.

[@jedibill111]

Finally! I now understand what all this UFO fus is about. They mean to win at Wimbelton

[@intarsienschrankzwetschgen4224]

But it was not written on the TV screen so it's far fetched.

[@Karuik2]

it takes practice to play tennis with yourself while drinking tea, now thats talent!

[@Tindometari]

Yes, but if you can do it with a G&T in your hand you just might receive a hereditary title ... 🤔

[@buskerbrian]

Good prediction. A Scotsman did win Wimbledom a little over 50 years later.

[@markscott6102]

44 years actually

[@Sir_TophamHatt]

Sounds like the Blancmange returned… time for a sequel, eh?!

[@tonyug113]

the same one?

[@AFox739]

Blancmange v. Podgorney: Dawn of something completely different.

[@AxelQC]

Andy Murray is a blancmange plot!

[@lorddornel2416]

He'll be known as Podgorny from now on.

[@RadicalCaveman]

Two great special effects at the very beginning of this part! ;)

[@kjggames]

I don’t know if this was the first ever Monty Python sketch I ever saw, but it is the first one I remember

[@MikeHL78]

"The blancmanges have swept the board, winning match after match... Rod Laver, etc., Bille Jean King, etc., and Pancho Gonzalez, serving as well as I've ever seen him, with some superb volleys and some decisive return volleys off the backhand, was sucked through the net and swallowed whole in just under 2 minutes." :)

[@ga7654]

I laughed so hard when I first saw this that I almost passed out...my brother and I were addicted to this show when it was on tv in the 70s... best show EVER.

[@ArmoredChocoboLPs]

I've seen worse SciFi movies.

[@BriGuyIL1980]

Oh, lord, yes. This is awesome.

[@MrWorf35]

The Force Awakens and its sequel, for example. Muh huh huh.

[@rochcarothers-ts3jx]

Have to appreciate British humor :)

[@rochcarothers-ts3jx]

​@@BriGuyIL1980❤

[@marklammas2465]

Mars Needs Women!

[@peterrebelwithoutamenopaus6962]

Don't remember seeing that gorgeous girl in any other Python sketches? She'd be in her 70s now like me. 😂 Great sketch.

[@RadicalCaveman]

I think she was in just that one. Donna Reading by name.

[@kjggames]

She was in 3, all from season 1. This one, the milk man seducer and girl in bed

[@AMPATL]

@@kjggames The milkman sequence was Carol Cleveland.

[@dansmithwave]

Probably got eaten by a blancmange.

[@trevormillar1576]

Her name was Carol Cleveland

[@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968]

1969. Certainly a different planet. Now we really have "something completely different".

[@pcka12]

Classic Scots name 'Podgorny'!

[@LyingPrauses]

A tournament to save earth?! I wonder if Mortal Kombat got their inspiration for their entire series off of this

[@8440k]

I think you might actually be right!!!!

[@animoetprudentia2865]

More Donna Reading plz!!!😍😍😘😘

[@JGalt-em4xu]

😆 Australia! Try again! Australia?!

[@Camurgladius]

For this very reason, this sketch just keeps getting funnier. It's just too bad the Pythons didn't choose some larger number than 15: otherwise they might have turned into oracles. (Though I think my man Federer will win it this year, I also think Murray'll get it at some point.)

[@mvp019]

Pure comic genius

[@stephaniehale3379]

I was so sad when each episode ended I can watch MPFC continuously

[@monacaravetta]

I aw this as a kid and laughed my ass off. A fond memory.

[@brianarbenz1329]

Sarah Hart Dyke did the research. Thanks to her work, the show knew just how big blancmanges are on the planet Skyron.

[@theresarenee]

it's Oct 2024....considering world stage now...this is so funny and surprising not banned.... hahaha 🤣

[@donaldavis]

Thanks to the Pythons, I first learned about blancmange and went on to eat one soon after-- still haven't eaten an alien all these year later, but did watch a Scotsman win Wimbledon. "He's no fun, he fell right over" (Oh wait--that's another comedy troupe).

[@Chuck-ui5il]

Shoes for Industry.

[@ZENmud]

Firesign Theater 🎉🎉🎉

[@uttini]

i love the last scene where they catch michael jumping in the air ^__^

[@Spillage66]

Donna Reading, was the blonde assistant.

[@nicholaswhyte9442]

how do you know?

[@petermaxwell4904]

donna yum..!

[@gribwitch]

They could have got a better looking blonde bimbo, surely ?

[@Tmanaz480]

Graham Taylor ... Hot enough for standard definition.

[@RadicalCaveman]

I guess she was safe with Graham Chapman's hand on her thigh...

[@jhdgdyhi8]

At least now we know what to do. Next time a blancmange, or any other sweet opaque gelatinous dessert made with flavoured cornflour and milk, from planet Skyron in the Andromeda galaxy is ordering 2 million kilts to Angus Pongorny, we will need to send the army to protect tennis in Wimbledon.

[@STSWB5SG1FAN]

Arm them with sporks and foons.

[@LouisBertrandTech]

How did I miss this one?! Epic! Please up the philosophers' soccer match, it was also totally insane.

[@SerenissimaRepublica]

Donna Reading. Only episode she ever appeared in.

[@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv]

She was in 3, all the first year.

[@therogers4432]

Damn shame... She was stunning ❤️😍❤️😋❤️🤤❤️

[@bakidk]

Once again, Monty Python was right about things.

[@MiguelAntilsu]

Back then, Scotland was considered the worst tennis-playing nation in the world. Apparently, that's no longer the case. Andy Murray's from Scotland.

[@benjaminmaybury4238]

MiguelAntilsu Nobody mentions how awfully dreadful Federated States of Micronesia. They're much worse than Scotland.

[@patl709]

No he’s not.

[@davidrule385]

Even though the title of the episode is "You're No Fun Anymore", imagine how "completely different" the episode would've ended, if Graham Chapman's scientist's assistant had what was coming to her, as of what the first few minutes of the episode were doing before the rest preceeded with the "Science Fiction Sketch", saying "Oh, you're no fun anymore." Then, Chapman would break out of character shouting "She said it!" Then, with the assistant continuously flirting, Eric Idle's camel spotting character and the cast of the sketch all break in and grab and take her out of the studio and she would end up put in the same scenario Terry Jones' pope character was; tied to the railway track.

[@paulm749]

1:42 Well, that's one way to end a stale side-plot! 😆

[@davemiller3345]

That's when TV was funny.

[@michaelrose8073]

Now I'm getting a copy of Andy Murray's autobiography 'Hitting back'. Blancmanges from the planet Skyron indeed!

[@manw3bttcks]

That's such a huge Erlenmeyer flask

[@thecreativecurator7829]

how refreshing to see the begginings of andy murrays career

[@scienceguy8]

@kozmon0t Think really thick vanilla pudding. It is made and allowed to set up in a muffin tin or similar cup and then turned out. It is firm enough to hold its shape.

[@AlexanderDeWolf-v7q]

Mr and Mrs Brainsample

[@acciaiomorti]

i've always wondered what a blancmange sounds like

[@MrWombatty]

I've always wondered what a blancmange tastes like!?!

[@johnsimpson8893]

I think that scientist is not interested in his assistant for her general knowledge.

[@hplovecraft1402]

This may of been filmed just before Andy Murray took centre stage :)

[@angies.7689]

The day Monty Python jumped the shark. And British tennis was never the same.

[@jkorshak]

Bro, there's a sketch with a couple living inside a flat inside a lake. They are discovered by a British naval expedition to the lake. They literally have to fight off a shark.

[@keithmcwilliams7424]

What a spunky chic wonder what she looks like now.i bet she still looks good.😊

[@wojciechbieszk1074]

The Scotsman has Polish surname because it is SciFi!

[@bergamotblonde]

blancmange sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded

[@peterrebelwithoutamenopaus6962]

I read somewhere that the original recipe for blancmange was lost during the French Revolution and that it was never as good again. Not sure how they knew that though?

[@cavramau]

Blanc white mange to eat

[@ColinBarrett001]

I just wanted to see more of Donna Reading (Graham Chapman's glamourous assistant). What became of this stunning girl?

[@slytherinsheirx]

Bloody good volley at the end there.

[@andrewberry6194]

Andy Murray has foiled the plot.

[@avcassin]

Andy Murray gets to don the Golden Kilt of Skyron!

[@happyfreeky]

Well that was exceptionally silly. I wonder what Google Withers has to say about it

[@searchingforthree]

I like It! And It's so funny!

[@borgduck]

Whilst we're on the subject of Doctor Who : padding.

[@denvan3143]

They just don’t make sci-fi films anymore that feature fromages.

[@una_10bananas]

Good old Python...

[@wittylibrarian]

ANDY MURRAY has defeated the Blancmanges for ALL TIME!

[@harrietlyall1991]

They should remake this with Andy Murray in the role of Angus.

[@jatodd3746]

Does that mean that Angus Podgorny won Wimbledon 2 years ago?!?

[@KRobinson-ko1ne]

“Look at the BONES!” Seriously, I’m convinced Graham Chapman’s character killed more people than the blancmange

[@donberry7657]

I have gay friends and i know Chapman was gay but show me a blondie English rose like that and i still find it hard to believe any guy can say "eh" instead of hell yeah!

[@lorddornel2416]

This was posted eleven and a half years ago. 2018 anyone?

[@Demotricus]

...Try 2024, and it'll still be here in another 10 - 20 years if we don't all destroy each other.. Python is timeless.

[@JGldmn333]

This whole sketch was just an excuse to get that ravishingly beautiful blonde Chemist's assistant some air time!!!

[@therogers4432]

I don't have a problem with that... ❤️😍❤️😋❤️🤤❤️

[@RussJoysandsorrows]

Came for Harry Potter. Ended up finding Andy Murray 🤣👍

[@savoytruffle96]

"they mean to eat the blancmange!" THWACK! this sketch is great.....

[@jeanmarieboucherit7376]

Brilliant

[@aw3s0m3n1nj4]

she's donna reading. credits are your friend.

[@neddyseagoon9601]

No one ever caught on when I called Andy Murray Podgorny...😂

[@davesy6969]

Underground, overground, wobbling free, Wobbles of Wimbledon Common are we......

[@Mariusioannesp]

The funny part is that the narrator sounds like Rod Sterling and the introduction sounds like it comes out of The Twilight Zone or War of the Worlds. It's like a parody of The Twilight Zone

[@Cocarat206]

Funny, now there's a Scotsman winning Wimbledon. xD

[@keithmcwilliams7424]

By the way as a scotsman i still find this scetch offensive.😂😅😊😂

[@golzog1]

well, if that wasn't the best point for the video to start

[@MarkkuKoljonenwTinja]

Heeh! 💖 Tinja,Markku&Huns

[@AxelQC]

I love how the assistant names Australia and Czechoslovakia, the homes of Margaret Court, Rod Laver and Martina Navratilova, as the worst tennis players in the world!

[@Butts666]

Navratilova wasn't even ALIVE when this was made, mind you

[@phike8870]

She was, although young (13 years old) and hasn't started her career yet.

[@jmatos316]

It is better than some actual sci-fi movies

[@videolabguy]

I bet 20 quatloos on the earth man!

[@peterwynberg]

Daddy's turned into a Scottsman!

[@iluvcheezitsheyhey]

I love watching Michael all dressed up Scottish trying to play tennis!! Does the blond remind anybody besides me of Galinda from Wicked?

[@plainlake]

I think its the meaning that you will somehow look more at the woman than the sketch.

[@wonjubhoy]

I don't think Andy Murray watched this before beating Novak Djokovic!

[@dinsdaleseven1627]

Silly you say? But what if it really happened? Keeps ME up at night I'll tell you.

[@allanbrown4802]

such clever comedians

[@eshatbereitsbegonnen7313]

A better sci-fi movie than some of the 90s shöt and certainly a better lovestory than twilight.

[@dharmaseed]

Couldn't agree more.

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

The first 5 seconds are the best.

[@Tmanaz480]

Lol... Cole's lip mic. Nice touch.

[@Ava-oc1dg]

R.I.P 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🫶🏽