Monty Python - Crunchy Frog

[@freeindeed7]

"If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?" is my favorite line. Love this humor

[@andersonsmith979]

Can't argue with his logic! Although...I suppose you could de-bone the beasty and stuff what's left with brittle? It's still a frog but it would have brittle! :D

[@federalisticnewyorkians4470]

Dead frog

[@desfalloon7829]

I heard this when I was twelve! I am now sixty-two! I relate only the crunchy frog portion to young colleagues! With no exception, they love the bit, "If we removed the bones, they wouldn't be crunchy now, would they"!

[@michaelcincotta3844]

lightly killed....

[@dharmaseed]

Amazing how Terry Jones could make even Crunchy Frog sound appetizing just by the way he described it.

[@flare242]

He could make Crunchy Frog sound delicious, and he could also make a tiny mint leaf absolutely inedible/disgusting. What a range, what a range... We lost a legend. :-( He was my favourite Python, definitely.

[@jasobres]

That as may be, it's still a frog!

[@tommykl]

I love it how he says that they use no additives in their chocolates before saying that the lark's vomit is right after monosodium glutamate, one of the most used food additives in the world.

[@CzechMirco]

Thats because it wasn't an additive but filling of monosodium glutamate bonbons.

[@andrewpliakis]

-What sort of frog? -A dead frog. Nicely put.

[@DrunkenCoward1]

"Stop talking to the camera!" I loved, that in the last live performance they did, John Cleese talked, or at least acknowledged the audience, when they laughed, and in the end said "Don't talk to the audience, it's the main rule of comedy!" That just made it funnier.

[@cameraman655]

Monty Python, 50+ years and it never gets old, sheer genius...

[@useyourheadpliz]

"Stop talking to the camera" is such a good line. That is the kind of "out of the box" thinking that seems so obvious when it is done, but so hard to come up with when nobody has done it before.

[@gelchert]

Immediately before Graham does just that.

[@AlanRM1000]

I was actually in the studio the night this was recorded - at the Golders Green Hippodrome, where the BBC recorded a lot of early colour TV series Later this studio was converted to a radio studio

[@Gaff.]

'lightly killed' and no-one laughed. Don't miss that bit, it's the best.

[@HomegirlOfJezu]

I love that line. I've always wondered why it didn't get more of a reaction.

[@isaackim7675]

HomegirlOfJezu Question: How can one 'lightly kill' a baby frog when they are so fragile?

[@Gaff.]

Isaac Kim Oh, you.

[@HomegirlOfJezu]

Isaac Kim It's a pun on the descriptions but one does not apply logic to Monty Python.

[@isaackim7675]

HomegirlOfJezu Fair point. This is like the opposite of the Harry Potter chocolate frogs, huh?

[@TheLeapinLemur]

I took my kids to a chocolate factory today. My oldest and I were really bummed that we didn't get to see the room where they "lightly kill" the baby frogs.

[@bezzaderbane9890]

I remember John Cleese saying in an interview when asked what his favourite lines from Python were he often thought of lines that most people didn't consider classics and one was the line from this sketch where he says "Where's the pleasure in that?" as he often thinks of it in everyday situations.

[@John-yf7iy]

"Lightly killed"

[@mattwardpictures]

"Crunchy raw un-boned _real_ dead frog" ...how will I ever repair the splitting of my sides?

[@keithmoon3190]

The cockroach cluster and the candy with coated with lark's vomit got me wheezing in extreme laughter upon watching this episode for the first time. Seriously, Monty Python is the GOAT of shock and surrealist comedy.

[@TruthSurge]

I like how proud the guy looks when the cop asks him about each chocolate. hehehe

[@NxDoyle]

One of the billion things I love about Flying Circus is the fact that the stream-of-consciousness nature of the sketches meant that there was no build to a climactic laugh as pay off, which meant more laughs on the journey. There were as many laughs in performances as there were on the page.

[@BalrogNinja]

"What's this one, Spring Surprise?" "Oh, that's our specialty. Covered in darkest, creamy chocolate, when you pop it in your mouth, steel bolts spring out and plunge straight through both cheeks." He makes it actually sound delicious! Hilarious!!

[@luisreyes1963]

The perfect sweetmeat for that ex in your life...💔

[@IntheeyesofMorbo]

"we use only the finest baby frogs dew picked and flown from Iraq cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed and then sealed in a succulent swiss quintuple smooth triple chocolate cream envelope and lovingly frosted in glucose" :)

[@camprunamok895]

The disturbing thing is that, at first hear, his description actually sounds appetizing until you, uh, dissect it a bit.

[@mikemagnus9447]

Could you, uh, do the dissecting, please?

[@lievenvanloo6011]

is the envelope made of chocolate cream? ...that sounds amazing! ...except for the frog part btw, how can it be both quintuple and triple at the same time?

[@daveloomis]

It's quintuple smooth and triple chocolate.

[@jtb1990419]

@Elk Lord we use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!

[@neilraymond3304]

Ah I remember this performance as a 6th former in 1970. I have just realised how much since that day I have used the phrase Larks Vomit frequently throughout my life to describe anything remotely unpalatable. It is short, succinct and perfectly describes so much.

[@scottsiebert4559]

Blimey, Squiffey! Cabbage crates coming over the briney!

[@ThinPicks]

@@scottsiebert4559 Sorry old chap, can't understand your banter!

[@julieanne824]

"If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy , would it?" ROFLOL One of my very favorite Python bits ever.

[@flare242]

There is now a frog logo on certain food products. If i understand it correctly, it means that the product doesn't contribute to destruction of rainforests, doesn't harm animals or something like that. Turns out, some unfortunate souls in Czech Republic took it literally and created a hoax that all these products contain parts of frogs. There's even a facebook group in Czech "monitoring frog containing products". I hoped it was made just for the lulz, but looking at the comments, at least SOME members are completely serious about it. I immediately remembered who started this lovely trend of adding frogs into confection. So i'm truly very happy that Whizzo Chocolate Company is back in business, and expanded out to include manufacturing of different food products, not just chocolate. GO WHIZZO!

[@timrizzo3941]

Never gets old. Also holds a special place in my heart for having originally exposed me to the expression "that's as maybe" which apparently no one in the US understands

[@MiNa-kv3lp]

To be pedantic, I thought it was "that's as may be".

[@timrizzo3941]

@@MiNa-kv3lp Yeah, tbh, I debated a sec. I've seen it both ways. Clearly 'may be' is what's meant but I'm no expert on colloquialisms, esp outside the US

[@TheWarnerSister]

This sketch is a family ledgend. Whenever we say something like - say, 'Lizzy made this salad herself' someone else has to come in with "Ah yes, the cucumbers were lightly killed, dew picked and flown from Iraq!" ALWAYS.

[@pineutrino]

No no, that's right, I've got the audio of that, and it's definitely Constable Clitoris. And there's also a "Fuck your sales, we've got to protect the public!" in there :D

[@pineutrino]

Aw. Turns out I’d written this comment aeons before KZbin introduced actual comment-replies, and now I can only guess at what was being asked in whatever I’d been responding to.

[@momboto1]

“Lightly killed” - cracks me up every time.

[@the_starbyte9362]

"We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!" *uses monosodium glutamate*

[@Yngvarfo]

*Natural* monosodium glutamate, grown organically and pesticide free next to the spaghetti crop.

[@johns3106]

I’ve always wondered just what is involved in making sure a frog is “lightly killed” 😂

[@luisreyes1963]

Quickly frozen in liquid carbon dioxide, perhaps?

[@Mark73]

"We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind" "On the bottom of the box after Monosodium Glutamate"

[@TheRapasc]

The first time I saw John Cleese in the western Silverado as a sheriff I wasn't sure how he would be. It was weird to see him play a serious role.

[@Yngvarfo]

"Tonight my jurisdiction ends here!" It wasn't an entirely serious movie, and I think John Cleese's part was as funny as the style of the movie allowed. 😊

[@trishoconnor2169]

It's listed on the bottom of the box, right after the monosodium glutamate.

[@dwightdaone2815]

I love Johns entrance in the studio with that little smirk.

[@typacsk]

"Hellew."

[@coconutgrove8]

I love when Graham says "take more care in buying their sweeties..." I always laugh.

[@Josephdorf03]

Django and Ringo!!! I have deciphered your screen-name! two musicians that I love.

[@wickedfeylady]

I love the way Cleese says "Prrrrrraline" here, especially because that's his character's name in the dead parrot sketch

[@tonyharding3013]

This is really "Trades Discriptions Act". A micky take on a UK law saying items must be described accurately.

[@mugglesarecooltoo]

I didn't know that Cockroach Clusters was a Monty Python reference, then again it makes perfect sense.

[@BlaizeTheDragon]

Pretty much everything is a Monty python reference.

[@John-yf7iy]

Everything apart from the thousands and millions of Simpsons references, Marx Brothers references, Seinfeld references, Star Trek references, John Wayne references, Star Wars references, Michael Caine references, DIrty Harry references, Bible references, Shakespeare references.

[@Elric33239]

"That's the nice thing about being a hermit. At least you get to meet people." "Yes, I wouldn't go back to Public Relations."

[@FlickerFlee]

"Mock Frog!? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!" LOL

[@GalenNight]

0:06 thank you

[@Stephie2007]

Luv how every time someone describes an igredient in that candy, Graham runs out of the room about to puke.

[@tapeduk]

Ram's Bladder Delight

[@BigKwell]

Graham Chapman was splendid as a sick cop! He is missed!

[@MA-wq2ih]

Even better in the "Hollywood Bowl" version of this sketch...he absolutely stole the show.

[@Apostate_of_hell]

This is one of their absolute best! Amazing comedy!

[@JohnChandlerEdmonton]

2:15 “LARK’S VOMIT!!?”

[@ngobleus]

The live version is hilarious, too! Terry Gilliam plays the 2nd inspector and throws up in his helmet.

[@sroevukasroevuka]

His name was constable clitoris. Lol.

[@jasobres]

Actually, he runs offstage and stuffs some cold beef stew into his mouth to simulate vomit.

[@Dresdentrumpet]

The live version is the one I saw first, it is more animated than the studio sketch.

[@ellyem1885]

Classic sketch! In a way, this reminds me of the Ren and Stimpy fake commercials for Dog Water, back in the 90s I think. On the Monty Python Flying Circus album, interestingly enough, this is listed as "Trade Description Act".

[@Randomlad.0737]

Does anyone know what John. K thought of Monty Python's Flying Circus?

[@Ratelzwatel]

I love the deeper meaning of food products having cryptical descriptions for ingredients which otherwise wouldn't sound as tasteful.

[@geoffreyherrick9900]

Ratelzwatel like locust bean gum.

[@Rubyofthedead]

​​@@geoffreyherrick9900That's just an extract from the seeds of the carob tree. Nothing gross about it.

[@Sojoboscribe]

It's also sort of funny that they are more concerned about the chocolates that are disgusting than the one that would actually be deadly (the anthrax ripple).

[@rudyschmidt3916]

Well, it was sufficiently off-putting to send Graham back to the lavatory again and again.

[@joeyoung9246]

If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy would it? Haha 👏👏👏

[@stevenhulbert6973]

Joe Young he won that round

[@terryhaines8351]

Without a doubt, the BEST Monty Python routine ever!

[@immortalass]

"lightly killed" is a pretty awesome turn of phrase

[@katemctiernan7167]

This sketch makes me laugh and gag at the same time.

[@Falconlibrary]

The greatest Python skit of all time, and one of the greatest comedy skits, period.

[@larryellisreed280]

No doubt up there with the obvious classics: *The Dead Parrot *Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam *The Lumberjack Song *Coal Miners of Wales *Naval Expedition to Lake Pahoe *Ministry of Silly Walks

[@emilyadams3228]

I like the one where Ken (Eric Idle) comes home to visit his parents (Graham Chapman = Dad, Terry Jones = Mum). They're dressed as normal middle-aged working-class people, and he's wearing a suit. His dad seems resentful, and you think it's because Eric got into some high-dollar career and turned his back on his parents. Then it turns out his dad is a playwright, and he left home to be a coal miner. Dad: Hempstead wasn't good enough for ya, was it? Nooo, you had to go poncin' up to Barnsleigh! YOOOU and your COAL-MINING FRIENDS!!

[@BardOfShwa]

I can't watch the first Harry Potter movie without thinking of this sketch.

[@ThinPicks]

"Mock Frog?".....😂😂

[@dharmaseed]

That's very interesting, because I am now made entirely of tin.

[@wx7fm]

“Lightly killed”

[@LouisEmery]

As a child this is how I found out that the shiny coating on chocolates was glucose.

[@Mrlzman]

This is one of those sketches that worked way better live. The audience here has no idea what to think of it.

[@tomb8419]

I love how almost every Monty Pytho sketch is such incredibly subtle satire

[@charlie-obrien]

They are working on at least 5 levels of comedy in this sketch...Brilliant!

[@hatfieldrick]

Crunchy frog -- heap good!

[@markwilliams7712]

Crunchy, raw, unboned, real dead frog.

[@maxpower789z]

"Mock frog?!? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!"

[@MrROTD]

@AngelusDlion Crunchy Frog is a great band name, I'm the guitarist in the band Frowning Crabcake XD

[@Komicklepto]

2:28 Cleese stumbles and ends up saying "If the the bore" when he should have said "If the box bore" but he just about manages to cover it up ;)

[@BenBanjo87]

Fun fact: The Inspector's line "Where's the pleasure in that?" is one of John Cleese's favourites!

[@peterrebelwithoutamenopaus6962]

Indeed, it's a great line, but my all-time favourite from the Hungarian Phrase book is, My hovercraft is full of eels.

[@TheAkelei]

Forrest Gump: "Life is like assorted chocolate: You never know what you will get" ;-)

[@KRobinson-ko1ne]

2:50 “What’s the pleasure in that?!” “We have such sights to show you!”

[@Elric33239]

It's called "The Theatre Sketch." "Me heap big fan of Cecily Cortnege!"

[@jacktheripoff1888]

Terry was the go-to for someone to describe a disgusting edible product with such sophistication.

[@siegfried7469]

One of my favourite python skits

[@CopperIron]

I find your posts to be thrilling and insightful. I find my responses to be ridiculously sarcastic.

[@siegfried7469]

Crunchy raw unboned real dead frog if you want to avoid prosecution

[@cillian9029]

Isn't a baby frog a tadpole?

[@toussaintgervais8285]

Not all

[@crunchyfrog555]

No that's rather a foetal frog if you like. Obviously the stages of development are different to mammals, but "baby" determines a young 'un in it's early stages AFTER birth.

[@isaackim7675]

Daniel Linger If there were a chocolate shop that actually sells these sort of things, they would really get sued for making people sick. It's almost like the opposite version of the chocolate frog from Harry Potter.

[@williamcrowe2576]

Don't ask.

[@John-yf7iy]

They would get it from the same place that the United States government got the anthrax to poison citizens and senators in late 2001 - from United States government military laboratories.

[@HarrisO.R8]

Amazing....They knew that even the "Pitch to the executives" route. could be hysterical...True Genius....Even more so by a team of people who attended University in pursuit of a more traditional way of life.

[@frankeyboi87]

I forgot bout thi till I randomly remembere the phrase "if we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy" and remembered it. Nice upload

[@Crusader1987]

Foreshadowing the greatest sketch in the history of comedy.

[@firemarioproductions2003]

Poor Superintendent Parrot. He doesn't get paid enough. He needs a raise... and probably his stomach pumped...

[@Erkynar]

"Where's the pleasure in that?" Apparently John Cleese's favourite line. Ahh... The things youtube can teach you. :)

[@charlietuba]

How about the ingredient bee vomit? I'm sure some of you put some in your tea. It's better know as honey.

[@Gaff.]

By Jove, you've just opened my mind to all manner of delicious, heretofore discounted vomit.

[@SpaztallicA]

Oh but I do! Not without my daily chicken period on toast of course, thought I heard some chap call them eggs before!

[@bezzaderbane9890]

who puts honey in their tea?

[@bezzaderbane9890]

an egg isn't a period, there's no blood...

[@Trev359]

@@bezzaderbane9890 i don't but I believe a lot of people do.

[@lowellriggsiam]

"If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it ?" LOL

[@RobinTrich]

Life's like a box of chocolates!

[@ketheranechromate7479]

It often involves Crunchy raw unboned real dead frogs.

[@virginiaconnor8350]

Robin Leedham My brother gave me a little box of chocolates to give to a teacher I had in 4th grade. There were 16 small chocolates with 4 different coloured wrappers. The label on the Pier One box didn't give the ingredients but they were: ants, cockroach clusters, bees, and crunchy frog. I know this because after I told him I gave it to her, he told me the ingredients. She said they were a bit crunchy, but I doubt she tried more than a few. This is the same brother who got me in trouble the year before with a blue loose leaf notebook with the phrase,"candy is dandy, but sugar is sweet". Quite the prankster, but I'm the one that got sent to the principal and had to explain it.

[@_tertle3892]

If you eat to much it goes fast

[@Scriptor42]

Yer a wizard Terry :D LOL

[@nanusantos1696]

My favorite skit so far, i love it.

[@Supervillain725]

This is my fave of all time. I love how the other guy is constantly off screen vomiting.

[@katemctiernan7167]

In the O2 performance, the lark's vomit's been changed to mouse poo, John Cleese's reaction to that is priceless.

[@John-yf7iy]

Also changed "Iraq" to "Swaziland".

[@BabbittdaWabbitt]

Monty Python gets the "Highest" ratings of any utube vids, hands down. Professor Gumby Studied it !

[@geoffreyherrick9900]

BabbittdaWabbitt my brain hurts! Lol!

[@duffler]

Had to look this up as John Cleese mentioned this as the press conference announcing their first show in 30 years!!

[@Elric33239]

This was before Hollywood Bowl. In Hollywood Bowl, Graham was Chief Superintendent Praline and Terry Gilliam was CONSTABLE Parrot. I thought that was MORE effective since Parrot retched into his helmet instead of rush offstage each time he did it.

[@Leonette]

Have you noticed them mentioning 'Cockroach Cluster'? That's mentioned as sweets in the Harry Potter world. Methinks JK was watching Monty Python while thinking up these names!

[@karlrovey]

I know it's 16 years since your comment, but I immediately thought the same thing when I heard "cockroach clusters."

[@PaIaeoCIive1684]

Man from the future opines that JKR plagiarised nearly EVERYTHING in those interminable children's books.

[@feiery]

When I read in HP that Cockroach Cluster was a selection at Honeyduke's...I laughed. I even think the chocolate frogs were a variation of the crunchy frog.

[@luisreyes1963]

What, no Ram's Bladder Cup? 🐏

[@feiery]

@@luisreyes1963 unfortunately no. Personally, I’m saddened that Anthrax Ripple was also left off the menu.

[@ZacharyHardyaspergarian]

This video is pure genius.

[@Tejayes042383]

Crunchy frog? Meh. Ram's bladder? Whatever. Lark's vomit? Big deal. Monosodium glutamate? *hurl* Recall this garbage at once!

[@stasbala]

'lightly killed, dipped and cleansed in the purest spring water' that got me laughin

[@Rumpio]

You can buy Crunchy Frog in Warcraft at the Darkmoon Faire.

[@pie4897]

"What kind of frog?" "A dead frog." My favorite line XD

[@GaminattheBarricades]

that one's great--A menagerie of animals called Eric (the fish, the half-a-bee, the frootbat...) brilliantly messed-up, I say! let's see...out of all of the Praline sketches...I'm very fond of this one, actually!

[@owg59]

"don't you even take the bones out?" "if we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?" LOL

[@TMX1138]

1:21 I bet this would be his reaction to Anna’s cookies from Shimoneta!

[@Chadner]

Wow, nice one! I had never realized it!