Monty Pythons - Meaning of Life - The Crimson Permanent Assurance

[@eaglescout1984]

Pixar: "We include shorts before our movies." MST3K: "We make fun of shorts before making fun of movies." Monty Python: "Our short attacked our movie."

[@nunceccemortiferiscultu7826]

"What was that about.....hats?" Gets me every time lol.

[@lawrencium2626]

same! thine line follows me around, for some reason XD

[@KarlSturmgewher]

Acme Construction... What's up, Doc?

[@ianhinkle1878]

“We interrupt this film to apologize for this unwarranted attack by the supporting feature.”

[@MrThischarmingman2]

"Luckily, we had been prepared for this eventuality, and are now taking steps to remedy it."

[@alexiaNBC]

@@MrThischarmingman2 (giant building collapses on Crimson Permanent Assurance building) Thank you

[@Shadowkey392]

God I love Monty Python. I would have LOVED to have seen this in theatres.

[@raist76]

And the supporting feature did more to address the topic of the film than the film did.

[@philvanderlaan5942]

No we don’t! Seize their contracts and portfolios me Harties and lock the cowardly dogs in the mailroom.

[@borderlineiq]

"Which brings us to the urgent realization of just how much there is still left to own!"

[@lucbic]

That moment when you realize they do talk about the true meaning of life in the movie, but it ends up as a joke (obviously)

[@primatein]

Funny how the top 2 comments are basically proving their point about people.

[@lastswordfighter]

Always look on the bright side of life.

[@FartMaster69]

These are the most reddit fedora comments I've seen in years holy fuck all of you should feel ashamed. Go stand in the corner for half an hour to repent.

[@username4441]

@@FartMaster69 been a while since ive seen the F word on youtube.

[@FartMaster69]

@@username4441 I'm taking you back to the past with me baby, to play the shitty games that suck ass

[@jtgre4833]

Eric idle nails the accent right up until he says "distracted"

[@KarlSturmgewher]

The Python cast did good New York accents.

[@edthejester]

Yup. STILL prefer this over Mortal Engines.

[@richardextall2002]

Lol

[@5ilver42]

their accents are hilariously forced, yet, somewhat believable...

[@Germania9]

They seem to treat it like it was one of the weird regional accents from the UK.

[@DanielWesleyKCK]

Or, it's just a silly joke and nobody really cared all that much.

[@FroggyMosh]

@G*man I believe it was John Cleese who asked: "But, Is it funny?" That's the only thing that matters.

[@mikitz]

Tim the Enchanter was a believable Scot. Ask anybody, John Cleese, for one.

[@Fan_Made_Videos]

They're mocking indifferent corporate American businessmen

[@kingmany1]

Eric lives in California so his accent was good, but graham is just amazing

[@DiRF]

*Is this TROOOO?*

[@Synthgamer]

Sounds like these guys work on Team Fortress 2. Never enough hats.

[@michaelcaton5236]

As a Yank, I've always been affronted that the Pythons didn't make more fun of Americans. They even have a token American in their ranks to make it safer to do so! But this is one of my favorites (the American corporate power-gestures are great) but I have to say my favorite Python American moment ever is Michael Palin's bitchy-wife character when death comes.

[@geordiejones5618]

Mr. Neutron is the greatest piece of American propoganda I've ever seen and its perfect coming from Monty Python

[@aredub1847]

you always have clarkson for that. though he is pathetic at it.

[@nubreed13]

I always loved how she goes "but I didn't eat the salmon moose"

[@borderlineiq]

@@nubreed13 Came here for this. Such a great coda.

[@altareggo]

I think it's because it would have been just too dang easy!!

[@SamWeltzin]

Mortal Engines lookin' pretty good.

[@marcusdemowbraytoys7075]

I love the way this film "gate-crashes" the actual film. Fabulous bit of dramatic music too.

[@notme1048]

1:29 One of the best existential / intellectual jokes I've ever witnessed

[@wouterthemanify]

I don't get it!

[@mikitz]

I was watching a cat video at the time so I must have missed it.

[@MrToontuber]

A joke ???

[@zacharymorin5696]

Wouter K He got distracted

[@georgemccartney8906]

@@wouterthemanify The joke I believe is that he got distracted and therefore has no soul (souless being a common stereotype/trope of big corporations)

[@Dane_Youssef]

I liked when this skit started running into itself again. See, the universe of MONTY PYTHON is very circular. They are all connected, they all come together... in one way or another.... Has that animated porcupine found Dinsdale yet... ?

[@martinXY]

DINSDALE!

[@WilliamRWarrenJr]

Has anyone ever actually been delivered an order of Chocolate-covered Groat clustereds in Sector R??

[@Lord_Skeptic]

Holistic

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

Corporate Shark 1: "Most people never get souls because they're too easily distracted." Corporate Shark 2: "You said something about hats eariler?"

[@Hewylewis]

RIP Terry Jones.

[@Useaname]

Lots of people overlook this as a Monty Python work, but it really was brilliant and up there with anything else they did.

[@agfagaevart]

Best part of the whole damn movie!

[@daemonicnimrod4772]

I gave you 2 thumbs up because of 1) your comment 2) you're doing a great job as president

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

We are not worthy yet to form opinion on these masters.. hehe. That is in my top 5 best scenes of all time.

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

Hey usa president. Dude. Nice to see you here. Have a great day.

[@jamiemeadows17]

easily my favorite skit of Monty Python. and sadly this perfectly describes the average person

[@taekinuru2]

Man, reading the company names at the start now I have the power of pausing is amusing. D.Crepid Holding Company, hah.

[@melikey3758]

If you didn’t understand/listen to the second point. This skit is about you.

[@loonie5468]

What was that about hats again?

[@johnsmith1926]

@@loonie5468 Ooh ah, people are'nt wearing enough.

[@juansantos-lq2kz]

@@johnsmith1926 Is this true?

[@johnsmith1926]

@@juansantos-lq2kz Certainly. Hat sales have increased but not pari passu, as our research init...

[@simonjohnlivingstone248]

Pays affectionate homage to parts of Tony Hancock's "The Rebel" and the synchronised accountants at United International Transatlantic Consolidated Amalgamation Ltd.

[@seanconway7515]

How dare somebody not like this!

[@tximinoman]

probably they dissagree about people wearing enough hats.

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

Trolls can be so nasty sometimes brrrrr.. just be glad you are not that bad. 🖖🐶

[@mladenstific2459]

Thank you for uploading this clip!

[@chrisdaigle5410]

He said "agender" instead of agenda. British do this and only a few Americans.

[@geo_walters]

Bostonians move R's around.

[@MadameHelgasFolly]

Only a few British too, actually.

[@matthewgg9286]

I like the hats joke and the Pythons, let alone Gilliam, damn they're good at talking with an clear American accent, particularly Eric and the late Graham Chapman.

[@Paolo8772]

That's Matt Frewer (a.k.a. Max Headroom) @ 1:00. Saw him on the Expo Skytrain line from Vancouver to Surrey in 2014. He was born in Washington D.C., raised in Ontario Canada, took acting classes in England and now likely lives somewhere in South West B.C.

[@jailcatjones3250]

I love the score and I wish this was a full length movie.

[@RicoCobos]

Eric Idle has the best Pseudo - American accent of the Pythons

[@matrixcole2091]

this brilliant scene is why this movie is in my top ten favorite movies of all time.

[@blastromlifyedah]

I feel like I am stepping into another universe when I hear members of Monty Python speaking with American accents.

[@romanramirez7847]

Graham sounds scarily good as a American. I can’t even hear his real voice at all.

[@rainbowcoloredsoapdispenser]

Anytime i get to name something, be it our bowling league team one year, a new username for an account, etc., it's always the Crimson Permanent Assurance

[@mlewellyn]

Username... does *not* check out! :D

[@spacem4n375]

Huge truth drop in there. Soft disclosure.

[@feywildheart2878]

About the hats or all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves?

[@SamsonKingDavid]

@@feywildheart2878 here’s Tom with the weather

[@richardbellett3534]

I watch this now, remembering when I saw this film in a theatre, and I recognize genius!

[@frankgutter173]

Wall street vs reddit

[@ImHankMardookis]

Accurate representation of Reddit trolls attacking Wall Street

[@borderlineiq]

Let it all burn.

[@ScaricoOleoso]

How many meetings I have been in where I wish this would happen...

[@nhmooytis7058]

I forgot about this! Thanks!

[@Powerlounger2002]

"Is this *true*?!" Great line to drop and see who perks up. :-)

[@kennethclark4599]

Their American accents are awesome.

[@jeroenarends5234]

This scene is brilliant. The whole movie is brilliant. As is The Life of Brian. That movie caused a big stir when it came out. British MPs wanted to ban it. Monty Python itself recently said that they could not make a movie like that in the current political correct climate and they certainly could not make something similar about Islam. Satire is being persecuted everywhere under the banner of political correctness and sensibilities. Well, F your sensibilities. Long live satire!

[@CalridRobnor123srs]

You could make a film like that now, but you'd have to clear it with The Very Big Corporation of America first. ;)

[@CalridRobnor123srs]

Don't you love Max Headrooms enduring sneer at the idiots?

[@CalridRobnor123srs]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/laTSmmN5m66bb9U :P

[@benjaminclarke7984]

@@CalridRobnor123srs Fuck off.

[@wesleyrodgers886]

@@benjaminclarke7984 a decent enough physical endeavour to participate in when wandering off into the distance.

[@dolsonpa056]

Graham Chapmen’s American accent is perfect 👌🏻

[@Dane_Youssef]

I liked when this skit started running into itself again. See, the universe of MONTY PYTHON is very circular. They are all connected, they all come together... in one way or another.... Has that animated porcupine found Dinsdale yet... ? When I saw this sequence coming up again in the movie, I remember wondering: “Wait, did the tape rewind itself or something? Did they cut back to this scene? What’s going on?” Damn Pythons. They always knew how to keep us on our toes.

[@swistedfilms]

Actual footage of the Redditors buying Game Stop stock.

[@aranerem3767]

I love this part

[@gabe_s_videos]

As an American, I imagine that this is what it feels like when WE do this to OTHER people's accents. XD

[@GaryYork-tk2ow]

"Tea dear?"

[@Floridaballer]

Somehow this scene paved the way for the movie mortal engines

[@3fjn3t]

Oh damn. I didn't realize M-M-M-M-Max Headroom was in this

[@codyadams120]

Disney when it finally buys everything

[@acenosce3334]

Except the Afterlife

[@mercenaryknight5419]

Would love to see someone edit this and the main pre-feature together.

[@TwinRiver100]

When i first saw this clip, i thought it sounded like they said THE CRIMSON PIRATES OF ZURICH!😂😂😂

[@unmitigated-claustrophobia]

Now I understand the starting on Monty Pythons The Meaning of Life

[@FinlayLavery303]

I need more hats...

[@g0ldingkev]

yeah, i need more souls

[@chap666ish]

That's Max Headroom at 1:00 !!! :-)

[@zacharymorin5696]

chap666ish This was his debut

[@matthewpaul6904]

Probably the costliest setup to a joke ever!

[@rootfish2671]

Funimation and their customers

[@walteradamvondewitz9978]

GENIAL

[@holden6104]

I saw this as a kid, and I could've sworn there was a scene in a corporate boardroom where the executives stand and pledge allegiance to a screen depicting a dollar sign. I seem to recall the pledge ending with something like "without you (money), we are all in the crapper."

[@saschamayer4050]

There is a longer version of this short movie that I have seen, but I don't recall the scene you're describing.

[@schrire39]

Yes, you did see that scene but you saw it in a 1976 Mel Brooks movie called "Silent Movie" Here's the clip of that scene kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYS0lKBvZs-YiJo

[@holden6104]

@@schrire39 wow thanks!! Didn't recall it being silent, but that's the clip alright. It's been more than 30 years since I saw it randomly on tv as a kid.

[@johnrussellpelt9091]

"Agender"? The only American I know who speaks like that is Major Winchester reading a letter from Radar's mother.

[@edthejester]

"Mortal Engines" says hi.

[@bettyottman1718]

1:51 Oh my God! Someone breaks in through the windows!

[@CapnBlackJackHonour]

The agenderrrr

[@Johnnywiseify]

They must be in the south because Graham's like "next item on the Agenderr"

[@northernpharma]

That bit about people's souls not developing because we get distracted is interesting because....hang on.....wait, I'll be back in a minute....

[@warsawpacked418]

I remember seeing this as a kid, but I always thought it was from Time Bandits.

[@mickys411]

I like Michael's real voice, it's more soft spoken

[@KarlSturmgewher]

The surviving pirates are taken into police custody.

[@arcadealchemist]

this happens 5th may when the OLD crimson dragon is denied the KINGDOM and it's given to the NEW dragon

[@americasultimateweapontalo3933]

Ironsides sent me

[@markgnarz5399]

Gamestop!!

[@arcadealchemist]

and when i understood this movie this scene i was 42. because it was the age i was told answers would come :3 Eternal life is so easy once you have an ETERNAL goal like creating a Magnum opus that can never be completed only improved on. Secret to source

[@alejandrogn4]

DINGGGGG

[@raymondfiammetta72]

Like Bruce Willis and Billy Zane and Howie Mandel, Matt Frewer looks the same in his age to.

[@thesunman]

this movie had gnostic themes

[@sharptoothtrex4486]

1:39 Has anyone noticed that building there before?

[@mikitz]

I just wanted to know if global hat sales really went higher after the release of the film.

[@drunkpunch7334]

What was that about hats?

[@tarquinshawyoung6997]

Tiny tots agency trailer

[@oddsandbods]

What was that about hats again..?

[@WilliamRWarrenJr]

Can't hear it for Schickelgruber.

[@josephhebert1785]

#gamestoprebellion #timpool

[@superduperbard]

always did hate an oxford shirt with a stripe

[@LackeysLack]

I too would like to know how many is "enough" hats, and for what purpose is "enough"?

[@johnsmith1926]

Can I just ask with reference to your second point: When you say, souls don't develop because people become distracted... Has anyone noticed that building there before?

[@gregoryschmidt1233]

"Peri-passu"

[@KBAFourthtime]

I came because it's been said that Matt Frewer, a dual American/Canadian, played a part as a "Cornered Executive who Jumps." Which is he?

[@walrusArmageddon]

Does anyone know the name of the song used here?

[@grahammaddeaux1363]

Item. SIX, on the agender..... Convincing American accent no?

[@saintagora6959]

"agender"

[@aloof_cardinal]

what's the name of the music?

[@standardprotocolformat6090]

0:39

[@Kukenango]

Hats are like masks... one is never enough.

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

But.. what about the hat market.. WHY DIDNT THEY .. i want to know what happened there in the hat business.. oh.

[@Hobo1030]

Anyone know the name of the song that starts at 1:51? Can I get it anywhere? Because if I can't that's a major bummer.

[@ortyballs]

I was looking for this too on this vid. Sounds like a Richard Strauss symphony rip-off, but can't locate any mention in the credits or film score.

[@RobBush]

From an article on the CPA: "[...] the rest of the score, by John Du Prez, was based on movie scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, particularly his score for the pirate movie The Sea Hawk." And here's a link to the Overture on Slacker: slacker.com/r/ZkZr9

[@raist76]

Trust the circus to drop profound truths and then distract the viewers from them immediately and then do so for the duration of the film. To top it off, they tell the viewers that's what is going on before they go about doing it. Such irony is lost on most, but to the enlightened, it is brilliantly hilarious. When it comes to hats and religions, please reference George Carlin. ;)

[@MrLGD1234]

Is his quote about the soul from any form of thought in philosophy or any religion?

[@hopeh.cloudweaver3163]

It is hidden in all of them 😉

[@gabrielquintanilha957]

G.I. Gurdjieff the 4th Way.

[@videosuperhighway7655]

MrLGD1234 what would Hats have to do,with any of that?

[@spacem4n375]

It's soft disclosure

[@jonbuckley1798]

@@videosuperhighway7655 Maurice Nicoll, Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky Volume 3: Now I return to the "hat". That part of the invisible psychology or psychological body of a person that is connected with how he or she thinks is the "hat"-the thinking-cap. The head thinks-so its covering is what clothes it. A person thinks from what to that person is truth. You think from what you take as truth. What forms of truth you have been taught and accept constitute your "hat". So it is a legitimate question to ask a person, not only: "Why do you think this or that is true?" but "Where did you get that hat?" which equals the question: "Why think like that?" The answer is, of course: "Because I was brought up to think like that". Yes, but another person, brought up differently, thinks in another way-that is, wears another hat, of a different colour or a quite different shape. And so on and so on. Yet each thinks he thinks aright and each thinks he thinks from absolute truth. So everyone wears a different hat-an invisible hat, because it belongs to the invisible body-that is, the person's acquired psychology. Cleese is well acquainted with Nicoll's work.

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

I know it wasn't meant to be the "True" meaning of life, I did find what they said to be very profound. Not many people are wearing enough hats.

[@harryramsden4734]

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[@lidlpropagandaministry2901]

I love the way they copy american accent