Department Store & Buying An Ant

"Department Store" & "Buying An Ant". Parte de "Michael Ellis"(Temporada 4, Episodio 2) de Monty Python's Flying Circus. En ingles con subtitulos en español.

[@michaelellis2227]

I got chills down my spine when Graham Chapman turned to the camera and said my name out loud

[@missiletoe99]

What I like the most about this sketch is the complete mystery over why the hell they're supposed to greet Michael Ellis with weird noises and a goblin mask.

[@pressureworks]

@@krustykrevice3362 no it doesn't.

[@gregoryeatroff8608]

If you knew Michael Ellis, you'd understand.

[@ullscarf]

@@gregoryeatroff8608 I used to know Michael Ellis but it was a different one.

[@skemsen]

LEARNING THE PIANO??!

[@jourwalis-8875]

And who the hell is Michael Ellis!!

[@TheCSJones]

1:35 - Good to see the Silly Job Interview applicant finally landed a position that uses his skill set.

[@lorenwyman]

HAHAHAHAHA

[@manw3bttcks]

I met Graham Chapman at a speech he gave at a college once and asked him who Michael Ellis was. He said he was a mutual friend of the Python group and they had his permission to use his name in the sketch. Other than that, there's no special meaning to the name.

[@serpercival]

Cool you know that. So sad he's dead now, Isn't it?

[@leopardbasement2915]

+Eryn McVay Oh God no! Michael Ellis is dead?

[@serpercival]

Leopard Basement Uh... Graham Chapman.

[@Trigger_000]

*Hang on a minute. There's more than one Michael Ellis knocking about. My uncle was called Michael Ellis, yet no one popped round his house to ask if they could use his name in a sketch! It's an outrage. I'd tell him to sue but he's now a transvestite called Mandy.*

[@0326Hambone]

Now that's comedy xD

[@PhoeniixFiire]

I love how the "Roof Garden" is on the eighth floor rather than the tenth like it should be.

[@pixiniarts]

Tenth floor is the sky.... Eleventh should be heaven, must be an atheists department store they don't even have a sub-basement level for hell... Missing out on all the fun they are.

[@martinmills135]

Sub-basement is IT surely?

[@weckar]

@@martinmills135 In the 70s?

[@jamesliu8095]

Have you considered that the building may have been designed with that in mind? I've been to a store in Hong Kong that had two more levels above its roof garden since the size of the building halved past that.

[@PhoeniixFiire]

@@jamesliu8095 If I had considered that, I would have been missing out on the obvious joke, seeing as this is a comedy sketch, I tend to assume that the intention is to be funny and not weird but reasonable.

[@lolicanadian]

The second floor sells 'SATIRE'. And the tenth floor is the atmosphere.

[@RickReasonnz]

I would like to buy 5 Satire, please.

[@anibjornson]

I saw this being fimed and was working at LH Cloakes record shop in Croydon opposite at the time. the director made us stand at the bus stop or pretend to be window shopping. The bike thrown into the street got run over by a bus after the the 4 th or 5th take !

[@NeidalRuekk]

You should see all the stuff I was advised to buy when I got this cricket... A lawnmower, a ball, a team of people... Amazing the stuff a little insect needs!

[@tomfrankiewicz4030]

"Yes, I'm The Manager"

[@TTony-tu6dm]

Of all the surreal things in Python, this episode is the most surreal of all. The whole Michael Ellis existential/alienation background story

[@markwilliams3994]

It seems there’s a lot of people who have been professionally trained by these scenes.

[@manoliszervos8119]

Atom splitting services......................I had almost fallen off my chair

[@Spillage66]

The department floor menu is worth pausing and reading!

[@Loincourt]

Apparently, there are Vikings in the basement. I assume that they all want Spam.

[@Spillage66]

No, it says, "Toilet Fixings".

[@pixiniarts]

Although Vikings eating Spam would explain 'dangerous gasses'.

[@Loincourt]

Spillage66: Oops! I think I need to get me bloody glasses checked.

[@-danR]

Sixth - Complaints Fifth - Complaints . . . First - Complaints .

[@krasykay2294]

atom splitting service, floors 1, 5, 6 are complaints, basement has dangerous gases, viruses, contagious diseases and the restaurant. second floor has satire. i wonder what other things mean on the third floor

[@OeditpusRex]

This bit - indeed, much of this entire episode - came from the first draft of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," which was quite different from the shooting script. It was set in modern as well as Medieval times. The Grail was eventually found in this department store, but the knights blew their getaway from an angry mob because God was driving the van and couldn't work the clutch. ("I'm used to automatics!")

[@chinsaw2727]

I assume they changed the script due to “Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s” famously low budget.

[@NuisanceMan]

No wonder this episode's so good, unlike most of the fourth season.

[@FlipDahlenburg]

Ha! That is JUST LIKE the Lord God!

[@BelligerentPacifist]

brilliant commentary of the commercial dragnet that snares you for to spend much more than you wanted, and datawarehouses you to know your every personal detail.

[@mouse264]

"It's not him!" I found it so funny when the second person was wearing the mask. That was the best part along with the ant-smushingby the book.

[@Vojife]

The most Kafka-esque Python sketch

[@Thegbear]

I always loved how seriously Monty Python took being very, very silly.

[@Generalscorpio]

It is rather fascinating that even back then they knew that buying the item you want is cheap, buying all the stuff they try to sell to go with it is where it gets expensive.

[@Thomas-id4wx]

Just because it was years ago doesn't mean they were stupid lol

[@johnballentine4962]

You'd be amazed at how many people think that... I have lost track of the number of people who discuss various things in the past (like disease control or lack thereof) and comment 'but they were stupid in those days' versus uneducated, for example. If anything, we've gotten stupider as time has gone on - especially in the US. Traders and most 'educated' people in Europe knew multiple languages, most pre-writing cultures could memorize literally days worth of verbal history... I have trouble remembering what I did 1 hour ago.

[@mortalclown3812]

​​@@johnballentine4962 Thanks in advance for your forbearance in reading this: reckon I started thinking too late at night... In the mere four years since your remarks, the Dunning-Kruger effect in America is an epidemic. Ignorance in the US has skyrocketed - and it's taken on devotional quality. Coupled with weaponized evangelical conspiracy theorists who can barely do cursive writing, the ticking of the Doomsday Clock seems a mercy. I actually know someone - vs hearing about such things in the news - who frets about the possibility that tracking devices are being implanted in vaccines. His phone was in his hand as he confided this. Irony notwithstanding, it's hard to imagine what our population would be today if these folks had been extant in the polio/smallpox eras. As grim as it seemed in the early 70s, there was still a bit of light here. Here's to belly laughs, better animal shelters and keen writing in all formats. At least a beginning.

[@lauriecook2399]

@@johnballentine4962 more so I like the fact this is only from the 1960s/70s, making out as though there has been a massive period of time between then and now lol

[@grantofat6438]

Humans have always been scumbags. That is nothing new.

[@stevenm7211]

He must look like Michael Ellis if he is confused with him.

[@lausianne]

This totally reminds me of the kind of support that is generally given by some of the larger companies. Just now in a case with Google. Exactly like in the sketch. I don't see those guys, though, so I don't know if they are actually wearing goblin masks. Funny noises, definitely.

[@pinchold]

"i'm not gonna clean it out" cracked me up

[@stegatops]

Three entire floors of complaints.............still not enough! The atom splitting service could come in handy...........you can never be too careful.

[@ngobleus]

Just love all the people leaving with broken noses. Love the flamethrower too.

[@princeofcats6883]

Im personally partial to the King George Bitch ant.

[@Promses2Keep]

Pro tip: If your girlfriend laughs at this, MARRY HER.

[@vandathevampire]

one of my favourite sketches!! awesome!! :)

[@ryanbusch2885]

What is this?! A store for ants?!

[@bonnie555diablo]

retail: if you can avoid it we envy you

[@camselle]

The great Terry Gilliam at 1:17...!!

[@jojojam6012]

This was their " dopey" period, which we all went thru im the 60's, which, for them, reached its peak with Confuse a Cat. N'est pas?

[@user-hr9sk7ff3f]

I wonder if Terry Gilliam had a hand in writing this? The part with the lift made me think of his and their movies (and the wholething seemed directed almost movie-like).

[@johnanthonyp]

Missed Cleese when he left

[@Groucho-tg1tx]

Send me a book about Ants please, right away.

[@brickley2000]

How come the ant's name wasn't ERIC ?

[@MrEAus]

Perhaps because it was a full ant, not half-an-ant?

[@darthkek1953]

Ant-onio Banderas.

[@ClepsidraSideral]

Brilliant sketch !!!

[@rikspring]

Manager, Manager 😂

[@mrbenoit5018]

Mind bloggling costume change by Pallin in this skit

[@GinoZump]

Thanks ants! .. thants!

[@poetryreincarnations]

Fantastic stuff thankyou

[@stuartdryer1352]

I thought i seen them all but this one is new to me.

[@camselle]

Theatre Of The Absurd.. No one EVER did it better than MP...

[@duckserenade]

umm... I'm sorry, 'You see ants when you're depressed and alone.' ? Are you trying to tell me this infestation is a product of my imagination?

[@MarkyMarc78]

One of my favourites, though John Cleese had left :-(

[@freeindeed7]

Love Eric in this one!

[@joshuabessire9169]

This is why I stopped shopping at Grace Brothers.

[@kevhead1525]

If you ever wondered how important Cleese was to the show...

[@edaines]

ROFLLMAO @ the floor guide table :D:D

[@ShannonFreng]

Even the way Palin moves, right at the beginning, reeks of a blatant contempt for the higher classes--classic! The backbone of Python's humour was satirizing the British class system, of their day. That's why so many have trouble deciphering it. Though I'll admit, they started waning in quality, as the series progressed.

[@stegatops]

Yes............three levels of complaints and an "atom splitting service"............could come in handy. One must admire the comprehensive range of services available at this store..........you just dont get that thesedays.

[@keihopa]

How scary the doll behind!

[@OhFishyFish]

Just a regular day at John Lewis...

[@onemorejoe]

They must've crawled along here and made their escape through soft toys.

[@TheLindz2798]

i lold at the half p ants being on the mangy side bahah

[@user-xw1qs4dv8w]

An ant is worth the sun: from a Japanese haiku.

[@UmusBejokeene]

Important: Do not attempt to DRINK LIQUIDS while watching this sketch.

[@ExtremeskierX]

Read the sign 1:01 to 1:12 hilarious, one of my favorite sketches.

[@Groucho-tg1tx]

Complaints

[@quadturbo4]

Terry Gilliam is remarkably easy to spot in this one.

[@Roger.Coleman1949]

In reply to SolarNuke1 it's The Knightsbridge March by Eric Coates

[@camselle]

"Thank you Mr. Ellis!!" "No.. He said he was Jealous!!"

[@jourwalis-8875]

To bad picture quality here (only 240p) to make it really enjoyable. A pity.

[@izzauropod]

Omigod this is sooo funny i nearly wet my pants hahaahah

[@joedellinger9437]

1:05 We get an explanation for all the people wearing bandages over their noses. 3rd floor!

[@keennickolas8575]

wow, that sketch just doesn't end ... sadly the video ended before the sketch ...

[@sebuniversidad]

an atom spliting service.

[@ClockworkComputer]

@henrycaville I think it could be. The road beyond looks very similar, a one-way, but the store itself looks very different. I must say after years of walking past and into Whiteley's that I'm not sure, although I never got to see it in the '70s and they might've renovated it since then, or whatever.

[@Kuchenwurst]

"Now here's... Oh I dropped it." "No problem, have another one." "thank you." Beautiful exchange. Blink once and it's over. Still, I laughed every single one of the four times I rewinded the video to see these two seconds again.

[@misspinkpunkykat]

Mr. Ellis made three you tube accounts.

[@yellowfish555]

2 floors for complaints.

[@camselle]

How in the hell did they get the shot with guy's bum on fire??

[@snoopy8099]

yey id so go ther for the flamer and a lot of pet ants :)

[@31rS3RP3N7]

the names on the list. mior corner on the list. de noemi dur ellis, michael ellis.

[@TheDjKoul]

It's hell. Just hell.

[@ClockworkComputer]

@ClockworkComputer Scratch that, just read a comment below saying it was in Croydon. My mistake!

[@Gasoline85]

"I don't want him!"

[@WhiteTiger225]

rule 2 never dance naked with the french during ant farm recreational activitys

[@vonzigle]

A mangy ant... LOL

[@mike129995]

yes he's not wearing his armor.

[@RogueCrockett]

do not go to the basement cuz you are surely likely to die XD

[@AtomiskZabaleta]

You should, It's much less painful.

[@demerzel3798]

This is like what happens in a fever dream

[@yangcy]

Sometimes my whole life looks like that MP episode ...

[@SolarNuke1]

I love the music at the start. What's it called?

[@Kelly14UK]

AYRSHIRE!!

[@BrianSmith-ix3ns]

god bless these fucking comedy gods

[@phantomphan77]

Terry Jones has some purdy teeth. I wish he could be like Jimmy Fallon and laugh during every skit he's ever been in for no reason just so that I could see his teeth.

[@MrKmanthie]

Are you actually talking about Terry Gilliam? The guy who makes a rare appearance in a sketch, being the lone American in Monty Python? (in the sketch he's a well-dressed store functionary-type)... Terry Jones is another Python regular, but he's in many sketches. Darker hair & darker colored eyes, though. Also, Gilliam did the animation for M Python too (& directed or co-directed w/Terry Jones films like The Holy Grail, Life of Brian, etc)

[@45r2d2]

When he calls the lift, what does the letter (floor) "C" stand for?

[@Kelly14UK]

+45r2d2 Orange C*** Maybe we've just been looking at a bunch of them. Those guys, talking shit just before it ,were Scots Protestant bigots from Paisley.

[@pintpot]

It's not a C. It's a G. G stands for "Ground". In Britain and Ireland the floor that North Americans would call "the 1st floor" is called "the Ground Floor" instead. Otherwise, we are perfectly normal

[@simonatford1]

3 people don't know Mr Ellis

[@TheFoadolfat]

who the hell is this Ellis fella?

[@fahadafzal904]

No one you'd know.

[@chucknola484]

lmao

[@ImperatorPenguin]

Whats rule number 3?

[@johncheetham4607]

😂😅

[@iagree5313]

😅

[@kadentoews7792]

Modern economics

[@Jesus_Hippie]

Minnow requisites

[@Jesus_Hippie]

I don't care who Michael Ellis is.

[@alephnull3404]

I don't care.

[@col4574]

You do really ,sir

[@kev747]

I dont want him!

[@EvilApple818]

'The fuck? lol

[@williamsterben]

I'm not going there, it's a silly shop.

[@brandonbruce-lund2524]

I am not easily squishable. ants have queens do they not, and army around them.