Monty Python - Psychiatry

from Monty Python's Flying Circus
Season 1 - Episode 13
It's the Arts (or: Intermission)
Recorded 04-01-70, Aired 11-01-70

[@NeidalRuekk]

'There's nothing wrong with you that an expensive operation can't prolong' Classic

[@jojones4685]

+Nik why don't you

[@simontay4851]

I don't understand that line either. Its a double negative. Double negatives confuse me.

[@dancegalop]

It's less confusing in Tibetan LOL

[@devijankowicz9491]

There’s no such thing in Polish. A double negative I mean. Don’t omit to ask anyone in Warsaw.

[@dannygjk]

@@simontay4851 It doesn't contain a double negative. At least not in the grammatical sense. The grammar in that sentence is ok.

[@judiluvshercules999]

There's nothing wrong with you that an expensive operation can't prolong. hahahaha.

[@larrylentini5688]

Jill Hammer Best line in the whole skit.

[@wcatholic1]

+Jill Hammer Best line.

[@Muckylittleme]

+Jill Hammer Sums up the whole cancer treatment regime. Think I will paraphrase in future and say there are no harmful effects of cancer that expensive medication can't prolong.

[@peanutbutterjellyfish2665]

I will take the treatment, thank you. Actual cancer survivor....

[@larrylentini5688]

nick otwell Way to take a joke way to seriously...

[@coralroper6876]

Michael Palin is so cute when he's being confused or horrified. And just in general. Like Martin Freeman.

[@elifpnarsemiz2348]

yes right ^^

[@spidervenomkilljoy]

Coral Roper same :3

[@DisneyLover022]

"There's nothing wrong with you that an expensive operation can't prolong" -- The most honest thing about medicine that you'll never hear.

[@LordZontar]

One of the best lines in the whole series.

[@SimonLovesHemis]

Well.. private medicine, anyway.

[@docsavage8640]

@SimonLovesHemis pretending government health care is quality is pretty hilarious, are you a comedian as well?

[@LordZontar]

@@docsavage8640 Pretending that private health care is quality is even more hilarious. Are you sure you're not the comedian here?

[@mikeycondry1493]

@@LordZontar”healthcare” in the modern sense is generally ineffective either private or public. both are treatment based rather than preventative. the fact is we live in a diseased society (CDC: 2/3 of Americans have diabetes or prediabetes, etc.) and instead of making lifestyle changes, the doctors tell you to take the drugs or get the operation, so they and their industry continue to be funded by suffering and death. forget the petty private vs public healthcare debate, get at the root of it!! big pharma and big agricultural! besides the military industrial complex these are the two biggest lobbies of our federal government.

[@critter7052]

Rest in peace, brilliant Graham Chapman. Thanks for posting this hilarious sketch, Chadner.

[@MrDaiseymay]

R I P TERRY JONES.

[@OperaCantata]

There is nothing to worry about, although it's extremely dangerous!

[@pulselcie1280]

"Ah, Mr. Notlob." I love self-referential comedy. Notlob comes from the Dead Parrot bit.

[@premanadi]

Bolton in reverse, but not a pallandrome!

[@Xezlec]

"Dr. Larch" also comes from the "how to recognize different types of trees" thing

[@NGS712]

​​@@premanadiYes, it's a pun!

[@neilinely]

@@premanadi It's palindrome. As such, it was also a play on Michael Palin's name.

[@premanadi]

@@neilinely Direct quote from the dead parrot sketch: "It's not a palindrome! The palindrome of Bolton would be Notlob. It don't work!" Palindromes have to spell the same backwards and forwards. Good point about Palin, though.

[@Jackarunda]

Wouldn't be a Monty Python sketch without Cleese yelling SHUTUP at someone XD

[@someguy2135]

I thought I had seen all the good Python sketches! That was a gem!

[@meyr1992]

did you watch all the flying circus episodes?

[@someguy2135]

@@meyr1992 All of the episodes shown on PBS back in the 1970's.

[@TheRip72]

This was from the last episode of series 1; The same one as "Albatross", which you can hear someone repeat during this skit & also the same episode as police using magic wands & Ouija boards.

[@someguy2135]

@@TheRip72 Thanks for telling me about it. I would love to watch that if I could find it.

[@nightw4tchman]

4:45 "Oh what a great slit" Things you never thought you'd hear Graham Chapman saying.

[@premanadi]

According to his autobiography, he had quite a bit of sex with women as well as men.

[@talastra]

But they all had a nice slit@@premanadi

[@NessyNess182]

I love these, so many memories. Thanks for posting!

[@franceleeparis37]

Yep, mad as hatters… the whole lot of them… brilliant😂

[@vonzigle]

Park your hips on the sitting device! 😝

[@TTony-tu6dm]

The fact that Chapman went to med school makes it that much funnier

[@jehanashraf8219]

Tonyt-mfudm All Western Medicine was Made to Make Money Big Pharma has got a Pill For Everything Al Sears MD USA Emailed me this information

[@GOFLuvr]

"It's nothing to worry about... Although it is extremely dangerous!"

[@TruthSurge]

HA! 2nd guy.... Notlob Bolton backwards from the dead parrot skit.

[@diurmidderggae3007]

TruthSurge its a palindrome

[@reptomicus]

A Palin playing a palindrome. Sneaky recursive humor.

[@TruthSurge]

You don't have access to a dictionary online? A palindrome is a word that spells the same whether you write it normally or backward - like madam. How is "notlob" a palindrome? It's not. It's just the place from the other skit written backwards. that is all.

[@premanadi]

@@TruthSurge They say all that in the Dead Parrot Sketch. "It's not a palindrome. It don't work."

[@TruthSurge]

@@premanadi ok

[@nuthineatholl6434]

"I shall be running me mitts over the pith of your marrow!" -- Dr. G. Chapman, bedside-mannerist extraordinaire

[@gregoryschleitwiler9601]

If you're playing soccer try and favor the other leg😂

[@Serenity_Dude_X]

I love it how Graham Chapman marks a mustache on John Cleese's photo!

[@randman21]

Ooooh this is one I'd never seen! Good one. Did that door bother anyone else besides me?

[@cnrdoll]

Yep, it bothered me!!! Haha!

[@donashcroft93]

randman21 I think that was deliberate, they are just like that

[@BrianBattles]

Cheesy set

[@ericanelson1973]

Not at all. You need to take a look at the doors at my workplace! 😧

[@stelios83]

Yep it bothered me 😂

[@freddylubin]

Monty Python almost made the 20th century worth living through.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

And it's only because of reruns that I can't stay away from mental hospitals.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

@@jorgefiguerola1239 Never mind!

[@Xezlec]

If you think the 20th was bad, wait till you see the 19th!

[@stephenbachmann1171]

Is the 21st any better?

[@globe2555]

@freddylubin Well, people could talk with each other without a mobile phone....that's not bad, is it?

[@neuvocastezero1838]

"What are you doing in there!?" "We're doing our own thing, man."

[@Levacque]

This one meanders in some great directions. The surgeon vs the squatters, now there's a segment that should have gotten into a movie.

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

I got to work with Graham once, and then hang out with him for a bit afterward. No jelly-babies, mind, but it was nonetheless one of the finest experiences in my long life.

[@inspectortanzi]

He didn't put a paper bag over his head every time you said 'mattress', did he?

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

@@inspectortanzi No, and I tried. He did smile at my silliness, though, once even politely guffawing at my 20 year-old American's attempt at John Cleese's accent in his famous "Walpoling activities" speech from the Cheese Shop.

[@inspectortanzi]

@@haeuptlingaberja4927 Tungsten carbide drills? What the bloody ell's tungsten carbide drills?

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

snarky mr. notlob: "a mad physiciatrist. that must be new" ....LMAO

[@danielorlando8172]

Back in the day when comedy, satire, tolerance, and absurdity all traveled hand in hand with the same common goal: LAUGHTER. praise be to Monty Python

[@spencnaz]

'slit you up a treat', classic!

[@greg55666]

What a great slit! One of my favorite MP jokes!

[@lilmissmusic2012]

HIPPIE: Too much man groovey, great scene, great light show baby! DR: What are you doing in there? HIPPIE: We're doing our own thing man. XD

[@KuntaKinteToby]

RIGHT THAT'S IT WE'RE GOING IN RELEASE THE VICIOUS DOGS!!

[@LilyyyoftheRose]

"Push off, fuzz." "Alright that's it we're going in, release the vicious dogs!" xD

[@Genogenesis7]

I swear to god, this is the most random-ass Monty Python sketch I've ever seen!

[@xiahoupaul19]

"It's nothing to worry about, although it is extremely dangerous." If I was the patient, that line wouldn't give me much hope.

[@lamrethal695]

That's the joke ~

[@bobsaggat]

I love how they get around there shitty production values

[@user-cl8oi4gu9y]

Well it'll dry

[@diabl2master]

Угарный ЮМОР. Подписывайся I'm sure that's a reference to something...

[@TheKrensada]

Around where?

[@inferneko]

"Are you rolling your own jelly babies in there?" Who Knows. :33

[@dannydetonator]

That's the one i don't get.. but then again, english is not my first anymore. Anyone?

[@thexalon]

@@dannydetonator Probably a reference to the Fourth Doctor Who, who routinely offered everybody around him a jelly baby.

[@MagiMysteryTour]

The music at 3:18 was the theme to Dr. Kildare, a medical drama from the 1960s. Anyone who presumes that "rolling your own jellybabies" was a reference to Beatlemania is surely too innocent for me to want to inform them otherwise.

[@kerryedavis]

They used the same song for "Gumby Brain Specialist."

[@firstlast5350]

'Raymond Massey' leapt into my head on hearing

[@nootnewt]

@@kerryedavis wherein Graham Chapman also played the surgeon. Monty Python humor really is just next-level

[@michaelosullivan8359]

One of the all time great!

[@luisreyes1963]

At 3:19 the Dr. Kildare theme plays, it's called 3 Stars Will Shine Tonight. ✨

[@MSCViolin]

Mr. Notlob, the master of puns.

[@planetary109]

I think it's from the Parrot sketch yeah lol

[@funkyalfonso]

@@planetary109 A palindrome? It don't work.

[@someguy2135]

@@funkyalfonso Almost an anagram of lobotomy.

[@johncitizen306]

It's Bolton backwards you filthy casuals

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

​@@funkyalfonso It does if you live in Bolton.

[@cait72590]

"There's nothing wrong with you that an expensive operation can't prolong" Did he just sum up healthcare in America in one sentence?

[@Waltham1892]

#1, The Larch.

[@taylorharbin3948]

“Of course they’re not paying me rent! Get them out!”

[@jreaganmorganchannel]

IM GOING TO OPERATE! ! !

[@jreaganmorganchannel]

+Jonathan Morgan WE FORGOT THE ANESTHETIC! ! !

[@isaackim7675]

+Jonathan Morgan I brought the semprini!

[@thexalon]

@@isaackim7675 Out!

[@MeenyMcSweeny]

Holy crap! Was that "We're All Going to the Zoo" song from Putt-Putt!? Hopefully I'm not the only one that may have caught that...

[@anonamously5858]

I noticed that too...

[@miroalebi7155]

+Meeny McSweeny Julie Felix - Going to the Zoo

[@derkaiser7968]

+Meeny McSweeny Thank you for telling the name of the song, I felt it was really good and wondered what it was named and you gave me the answer. Thank you very much indeed! :D

[@TyDie85]

Damn broken door!! I havent finished the video, but I HOPE they improvise with the broken door lol. Love live production :D

[@tommyhaynes521]

I was in England in the 70s and met some squatters..apparently if a property wasn't occupied it was legal to live in it

[@SwarthySkinnedOne]

Tommy Haynes Funny. That"s the same thing I told a British tourist slumming in the St. Louis, MO ghetto I was squatting in.

[@ingvarhallstrom2306]

As it should be. The housing market is held at ransom for people that have no other alternative than ponying up.

[@sharkusvelarde]

Monty Python is an acquired taste. I love it!

[@talastra]

Tastes like jelly babies

[@Konjo316]

Mr. Notlob, (Bolton) a reference to the Parrot sketch

[@LisaGemini]

Now THAT's a KNIFE!

[@DonPeyote420]

It is where I stand and it blows my mind, young lad!

[@billyandrews4728]

Ahh...miss you guys.

[@krielkip]

"Right, That's it" like naturally coming from John's lips.

[@mrhombreman]

I want that portait of Cleese!!!!

[@stephaniehale3379]

"How do I love the pythons? I cannot count the ways"

[@peanutbutterjellyfish2665]

2:15 is priceless python....When they turn their heads to listen in unison.

[@zeldagoblin]

Palin has the single cutest face in the world!

[@katanaki3059]

What a great slit!

[@Ratelzwatel]

2:13 Is that 'We're All Going To The Zoo, Tomorrow'? :lol: (BTW. The artist is Julie Felix.)

[@MrSirBalls]

I love monty python but the animation I'll never get used to

[@MiJerk]

I remember that as a kid they used to freak me the fuck out

[@DarthPedobear]

They still freak me out.

[@TheDisKit]

I know, right? It still freaks the fuck out of me...will never get used to them ever, I guess.

[@chrishill601]

I think that's kind of the point. They keep you a little off balance and make it so you're in the right state of mind for the rest of the show.

[@PrinceWesterburg]

I saw them as a child and fucking loved them! They are why I became a professional animator :) Watch Terry Gilliam's Christmas cards animation, its what he did that got him the Python gig

[@paulh7589]

Goofy and funny as hell. I love this stuff.

[@toussaintgervais8285]

IMO, the best MP scenes were the sparrow part of Quest for the Holy Grail, and at the end of court charades...'NOBODY EXPECTS THE oh bugger.

[@SchoolhouseTechno]

I think I just got that this time through. And I have seen both sketches well in excess of 5 times.

[@user-uk8xh5fg3v]

"Беспокоиться не о чём, хотя это черезвычайно опасно" ))

[@SableSeraph17]

Albatross!

[@martinashwoodsmith7674]

"Now there's and ending for you: romance, laughter ... "

[@piccinini02]

I understand this is Bolton....

[@baciyelmo]

"There is nothing wrong with you that an expensive operation can't prolong"

[@sergioreyes298]

"Are you rolling your own jelly babies in there?"

[@shaalis]

WHAT A GREAT SLIT!

[@hopefullylost4012]

"Park your hips on the sitting device" Is this German?

[@chris-qw4xb]

Brilliant 😂

[@davidrule385]

When this 2:13 started playing in the background, and as soon as I recognised it, a little bit of my childhood watching a VHS called A Trip to the Zoo, which is not a Barney VHS by the way, I literally burst out laughing.

[@raven_of_zoso455]

I believe this song is from Peter, Paul and Mary. Edit: or rather, I believe it was written by them.

[@jehanashraf8219]

@raven_of_zoso455 Now I why Britney Spears Uses the names Peter Paul And Mary in her Song 123!

[@raven_of_zoso455]

@@jehanashraf8219 now I know Britney Spears has a song called 123.

[@jehanashraf8219]

@@raven_of_zoso455 yeh you mean cos their are 3 members Peter Paul and Mary?

[@oldcremona]

Oh, what a great slit!

[@crushercathy69]

SMILE!!.......................lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@user-ce7es2sv3e]

"But it's mainly folk-songs" "Oh my God...." :D

[@ghiribizzi]

1:08 park your hips in the sitting device!! hahahaha

[@JoeyIndolos]

LOL at the office door 😄 It could have been on purpose, but it’s just as likely that the props people slipped up serendipitously and they kept it in.

[@alecfoster4413]

I love it when the reverential "Dr. Kildare" music starts! LOL

[@FigaroHey]

Why "reverential"?

[@mzq333]

love the office very much like this one part ahahaha

[@753nano]

Favourite favourite

[@YourXavier]

Good catch, hadn't noticed that.

[@Ettoredipugnar]

Lol Mr. Notlob Bolton

[@cyansparkle]

The end was the creepiest thing I've ever seen I think.

[@gillestremblay3465]

Shut up! You're keeping us awake!...

[@Tabish29]

Mr Notlob. Hahaha!!! Nice homage.

[@YouzTube99]

02:37 Ah, good, Graham Chapman who was a Real Doctor!

[@raymind1313]

They're Beyond Laughter

[@wcatholic1]

"..there's nothing wrong with you that an expensive operation can't prolong!"

[@ronigbzjr]

There's nothing to worry about, though it is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS 😂😂

[@BlissSymphony]

But the receptionist’s hairdo/wig… That’s pure late 60s, and I fell into a catatonic time warp and needed expert attention from a team of recovering Clairol junkies.

[@robertmartin8762]

Tis Irish Bob saying hello When great bits if comedy were and are still enjoyed by millions the world over. Testament to clean, cruso, zaby, clever wit vs profanity of modern performers. The classic great artists will always be GREAT BLOODY LEGENDS FER ALL TIME. Irish Bob will always remember the comedic genius of all The LEGENDS. Enjoy yer weekend and week ahead fer all the fans everywhere who still enjoy the Real Masters of Comedy. Irish Bob🤗😇😎🇮🇪🇨🇵🍀☘️🦾🩺🥂

[@playmannn]

"Shut up!You're keeping us awake!" lol

[@kerryedavis]

There's also the dairy psychiatrists, and Hamlet.

[@levoGAMES]

"organs of touch" is a good way to say "hands". I shall use that phrase at some point.

[@NYCOPERAFAN]

As great as they all are, Chapman is particularly spectacular.

[@literallyamoose8314]

Gotta love Mr. Notlob

[@wil0853]

Doctor: Are you rolling your own Jelly Babies in there? XD

[@dingoswamphead]

'There's nothing wrong with you that an expensive operation can't prolong'.

[@adamrice9740]

“Ah WHAT A GREAT SLIT”

[@edmundkockenlocker4672]

I don't remember that one! 😂

[@ritawing1064]

Reminds me of the alternative title for "Your Life in Their Hands" - "Your Bits in Their Mitts".

[@joeyfitz9]

For those who care to hear: "We're Going to the Zoo" as preformed by Ms. Julie Felix kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4XIaqWegahljqc

[@brianarbenz1329]

"Not without a court order."

[@MPHstep]

I'm dying at the ending cartoon!

[@luisreyes1963]

Just a sample of Terry Gilliam's sense of humor. 🤭