Highs:
too young and too handsome
Curly thinking
musical saws
saw see saw
wedding kiss
vendor
The Shadow
skinless frankfurter
Curly’s bed solution
Larry’s chicken
big fence in Chicago
Jasper’s tapeworm
Curly getting himself
Lows:
waking up
dancing lessons stock footage
LONG pie fight
Grade: A-
Highs:
frozen dainty
bent chisel
ice bowling
free sample
What a brain…
electric icebox
ruff!
What a brain…
blood/ketchup
cooking debate
Moe’s ingredients
Curly shaving the ice
stuffing the turkey
clip joint
tootsy-fruitsy
Curly’s father
slap fight
gas on…
Lows:
unfortunate cakes
icing
cake presentation
Grade: A
Highs:
tasty cream
teletype
vital military objects
removable moustache
They’re Nuts
six delicious favors
Turkey and Grease
too much English
hock shop medals
Moe’s personality
blubber
Lows:
Long intro
long map shot
exposition part two
pool game
the whole (long) conference
Grade: B-
Highs:
weak fish
Tarpin Monoxide
fish song
gas attack
Curly the mime
Curly’s head being used
hungry girls
Curly’s fear
mudding
Lows:
racism(no surprise)
bleaching
ending
Grade: B-
11/27/13: Again, just replaying it in my bone. Grade: B
Highs:
dandruff
malfunctioning snap
Freckled Trout
private cabinet
no room for an argument
instant plumbers
Jack and Jill
straitjacket size 36
Curly’s endless pipes
surrounded
Curly’s resentment
pipe clogged with wires
Larry the groundhog
reality tv
dangerous hole
ending
Lows:
boring (and racist) water gags
boring (and racist) electricity gags
fleeing the house
Grade: A-
Highs:
Moe thinking
Beblach!
Curly’s machine gun
goslings
Saloonatics
little gathering
safe hypocrisy
“Hiss”
here’s how
stenographer
little red book
no bones in ice cream
wrong side of the gutter
stop at Syracuse
shooting the works
in a pickle
shot in the excitement
Notre Dame and 2 points
new secretary
dancing
BURP
Lows:
8 ball joke
stormtroopers
long map shot
peace conference
Grade: A
Highs:
making a note
playing trains
toupee with brains
TS
Sherry
gin smothered in bourbon
Hay fever
reflex testing
piggyback rides
Spanish food
quick shave
Larry’s Emily Post
Lows:
ladder gags
tabasco
Curly’s biscuit
tamale-eating
food fight
Grade: B+
Highs:
henfruit
unskilled labor
sawing a saw in half with a saw
cheese knife
illiterate door
Curly’s casual crash warning
not enough time to murder Curly
barely possible
kiss for luck
kissing Moe
Lows:
short-distance chase
most of the oil scene
driving(again)
Grade: B
11/27/13: I don’t have to re-watch it. At this point, I just have to re-imagine it. Grade: B+
Highs:
Cairo
Curly’s near-seduction
Tunis
echo
talking mummy
the real McCoy
green and yellow basket
Curly the mummy
mummy alligator
Lows:
Long Intro
mirage
tomb chase from noone
Professor Tuttle interrogation
Grade: B-
Highs:
emergency mustard
super service
thawing out Curly
Swingin’ the Alphabet
hamburger with a zipper
highball
Lows:
random guy in all-female audience
basketball/football
Grade: B-
11/27/13: Oh, it’s good! Grade: B
Highs:
useless porcupine
announcement reaction
toast
Sears Roebuck III
bath controversy
collapsing bed
biting pants
dotting an eye
Lows:
sticky pancakes
“the plan”
three rich widows
the buckets
Grade: B-
Highs:
impromptu dance
direction discussion
Igpay Atinlay
CurlyQ
eating a clock
the wrong bulls
Lows:
table-painting
spotted paint research
Grade: B-
Highs:
interstate commerce
octopus
Curly picketing
gas bill
Stetson
Curly’s cement
blasting
mourning Curly
Lows:
chases
tree scene
Grade: B
Highs:
breakfast alarm
back-to-bed alarm
convenient umbrella
Salesmen!
Brighto Jingle
woof vs. hiss
banana peels
quick ride
Curly’s health
three more chances
Brighto!
one-way round trip
information
fight summary
six delicious flavors
busy line
long-term dandruff treatment
inability to find the clutch
Curly hurrying
ending
Lows:
persistent dog
persistent begging
most of the chase scene
sailing on the street
Grade: A
Highs:
the bell
Fireman’s Ball
shot at sunrise
matching coat and hat
little baby hoses
Hercules
the bell again
long distance eye-poke
Curly losing a slap-fight
Lows:
hose punishment
cake race for naught
too much driving
Grade: B
Highs:
fillet of sole and heel
Curly the G-Man
spider/turtle
woman trying to avoid laughing at Curly
crab refill
playing post office
fortunate steer placement
Lows:
racism
multiple sleep attempts
monkey-tail clipping
Grade: B
Highs:
sound asleep
Gable slap
mutiny in the boxcar
surprise wheatcake
sucking
letter to Santa
toast
Curly’s sacrifice
Curly’s mother
actions/no words
a new face
Curly in drag
Lows:
ironing Larry
chase scene
ending(as usual)
Grade: A-
Highs:
Dry cleaning
shooting a seven
fore five six seven
picking up balls
washing day
extreme ball-retrieval method
divot improvement
ending
Lows:
high-speed golfball assault
fleeing the scene
barrel scene(unfortunately long)
Grade: B
Highs:
Reluctant gentlemen
bottled up
dirty rat
two bucks
a loose stitch
sparing a nickel
dancing if asking
impromptu shave
a slice of throat
Curly’s utensils
the Eternal Spring
trading slaps
Lows:
Eating lessons
occult speech
extras trying to be Stooge-like
ending
Grade: A-
Highs:
Door on the right
left/right discussion
Mr. McSnort
Lockjaw
breadroll eye-poke
Lows:
singing/grape-flinging
Lowland Shim
ending
Grade: B-
Highs:
Potomac poisoning
reckonings
Good-Time Charlie
Union underwear
working as a pilot
limited spy-smelling range
a weak back
Mrs. Dodge and whiskey
Lows:
extended cake-eating
coughing feathers
everything after “whiskey” (thankfully not much)
Grade: B
Highs:
Ana Conda
Larry being ready
YNUNG!
ba-ba-ba-boo!
unfortunate recovery
not saying a word
dueling phones
incision/insertion/excursion
plucking for ripeness
anaconapooner
Lows:
giggling nurse
most of Larry’s acting
hiccuping nurse
everything post-jackhammer
Grade: B+
2/11/13: Overrated, I think…parts of it are dull. But too many parts are brilliant not to make this a must-see. Grade: A-
Highs:
Most awful families
Liberal Party candidate
Indifferent doctor
Idle in a tu-tu
extremely rich people
finishing sentences
Batsmen of the Kalahari
Lows:
Beans
horrible song
Overrated:
Beans
Grade: B (The End)
Highs:
Mr. Neutron
conjuring today
Lows:
Mailbox opening
armpit-smelling
U.S. ballet
Overrated:
Teddy Salad
Grade: C-
Highs:
Bogus psychiatrists
dark model-ship-building
Lows:
comfortable chair interview
boxing
hospital outbursts
animated boy
Grade: D
Highs:
None
Lows:
The Entire Show
Overrated:
RAF Banter
Grade: F (Embarrassing. The sort of stupid, boring, horrendous nonsense some people think of all Python as)
2012: Utterly worthless. Grade: F-
Highs:
Buying an ant
ant dissection
toupees
endings
Lows:
Ant restaurant
Victorian poetry
German Queen Victoria
complaints
Grade: C
Highs:
washing cartoon
merchandise
King Louis (at first)
Reading to George III
things close to Norway
AIRSHIP!
Lows:
George III sketch ending
Barry Zeppelin
Palin/Jones/corpses
colonic irrigation
The Mill on the Floss
Grade: C+
Highs:
Oscar Wilde sketch
Pasolini’s ‘The Third Test Match’
Curry’s brains
Urine/Blood
Dirty Vicar
Lows:
Charwoman
David Niven’s fridge
Overrated:
Wife-swapping
Grade: B (Last John Cleese episode)
Highs:
Kamikaze Scotsmen
No Time To Lose
Gilliam’s 2001 parody
web-footed little bastards
discoveries
Brain sizes
Test chart
Fenced-In people
Subtitles
Unexploded Scotsmen Disposal Squad
Spot the Looney
Microphone wars
Lows:
Ending
Grade: A (The last great Python episode)
Highs:
Botany lesson
Astrology
Criminal doctor
Gilliam’s ambulance
Lupins
The Great Debate
Dennis Moore theme song
judging
Gilliam’s black hole
solicitor
Dennis Moore’s moment of clarity
Lows:
Hospital scene
Gilliam’s “frog”
Boring Noble conversations
Overrated:
Ideal Loons
Grade A-
Highs:
smutty books
Gay Boys In Bondage
Free repetition
Is There?
Thripshaw’s Disease
Lows:
Silly noises
Sherry-drinking Vicar
Overrated:
Disturbing
Sir Philip Sydney
Grade: B
Highs:
Cleese’s most intellectual argument ever for comedy(in a 5 second throwaway)
The Amazing Mystico
Mr. K.V.B. Liar
PROBE
split-crotch panties
Lows:
English Lit buildings
Janet
Executions
Mortuary Sketch
Overrated:
Hide and Seek
Grade: C+
Highs:
Intermittent bits of ‘The Cycling Tour’
Dancing animated monsters
Lows:
Many parts of ‘The Cycling Tour’
Overrated:
‘The Cycling Tour’
Grade: C-
8/8/12: It’ll do in a pinch. Grade: C
Highs:
Biggles
Ginger
Climbing
Storage Jars
Cartoon tv link
Cheese Shop
Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Salad Days’
Interlude
Lows:
Algae’s death
Lifeboat House
Intricate surveillance
Overrated:
Lemon Curry
Grade: B+
Highs:
Chapman preparing for surgery
Molluscs
Baby suction
odd ministers
The Big Bad Rabbit
Match of the Day
Cleese turning into a pirate
NO cannibalism or necrophilia
Lake Pahoe
Silliest Sketch Ever
Lows:
Intro
Welk-bashing
Overrated:
Gumby Brain Surgery
Idle’s flagrant display of verbosity called “Politicians”
Grade: A-
Highs:
Summarizing Proust
A Magnificent Festering
Useless! and Right Out!
Gilliam’s Communist Revolutions
Bat
Bloody Gob
Watney’s Red Barrel
Thrust
Lows:
Everest hairdos
Fire Brigade Choir
the BBC cutting out Chapman saying “masturbating”
Overrated:
Shoe sizes
Grade: B-
8/8/12: “Somehow “strangling animals” is ok, but “masturbating” isn’t” – Terry Jones
Grade: B
Highs:
BDDW+H
Chamran Knebter
Gradually more ridiculous nature documentary
Hungry house
Army Recruitment
Spectrum
Out of work announcer
The news
Chaotic ending
Lows:
NCP Car Parks/Animation
Overrated:
Late Night Flim
Grade: A
Highs:
The Money Programme
Leopard of the Yard
unlucky stick-up
Jugged fish
Rat tart
The Church Police
jungle restaurant
Gardening Club (1958)
film crews
Baboon of the Yard
Abuse
Argument Clinic
Complaints
Wah!
Endless Policeman Ending
Overrated:
Dead Bishops
Grade: A+
Highs:
The Kon-Tiki
How To Do It
TNT treatment
the life of Tschaikowsky
The Fish-slapping Dance
Sinking Ship
Venezuelan police sketch
Lows:
Schoolboys sketch
baby talk
Trim Jeans
Overrated:
Wrong-Way Norris
Grade: B+
Highs:
Terrible Njorl’s Saga
checking the spleen
stock market report
burying the cat
Mrs. Cutout
Lows:
the majority of the Mrs. Premise/Mrs. Conclusion sketch, which is QUITE long
Overrated:
“I’m Sorry” trial
Whicker’s World
Grade: C+
2012: Cleese and Chapman do their best to drag this down…maybe Cleese just insisted on doing something “new”, and a long, boring, drawn-out sketch about book interpretation was, admittedly, new. Still, the rest shouldn’t suffer QUITE as much for that. Grade: B-
Highs:
Opening titles
Coal mine dispute
Roundabout speech
dragon cartoon
feeding a goldfish
Dinsdale!
Insurance sketch intro
Nautical pepperpots
letter from O.W.A. Giveaway
Lifeboat cannibals
Undertaker sketch
Lows:
parts of words
surgical garments
racing pigeon-fanciers
dormitory voices/sketch
Overrated:
Bird-Watchers’ Eggs
Queen watching
Hospital Sketch
Exploding version of the Blue Danube
Grade: B+
Highs:
“The Black Eagle”
Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook
Pleading incompetence
Gilliam’s 2001 parody
World Forum
Karl Marx trying to win a beautiful lounge suite
Molineux
Ypres sketch
Knickers
lots of extras
Sotheby’s sell-off
Cleese overacting
Richard III Ward
disproportionate bomb
Flower arrangement
Spam
Vikings
Lows:
Cutouts
Art Walkout
Grade: A+
Highs:
Conquistador Coffee
Palin stripping
American defense
Crelm toothpaste
Gavin Milarrrrrrrrr
Crackpot Religions
nude organist
Hymn 437
Archbishop Nudge
Cartoon religion
How Not To Be Seen
filing cabinet interview
the entire show repeated
Lows:
train schedule sketch
audience reaction
weird bishops
lunatic religion
Overrated:
Huge teeth
Grade: A-
Highs:
Idle’s pretentious review
pretentious stock footage
“Scott of the Antarctic”‘s parody of pretentious “epics”
“epic” lion fight
sled dogs
giant electric penguin
Eric the fish
Eric the cat
Eric the fruitbat
Kamel Attaturk (Page 91)
Lows:
Rubbish dump
odd rugby matches
ending
Overrated: Conrad Poohs and his Dancing Teeth
Grade: B+
Highs:
Intro (Woohoo! Errr…)
parts of the body
Bruces
Not contradicting people
Cleese’s pig
Raymond Luxury Yacht (again)
military performances
Gilliam’s eyeball bit
Cleese meeting the ocean
the death of Mary Queen of Scots
Penguin on Telly
Intercourse
Posh talk
Lows:
The killer cars
underwater productions
“Bing Dittle Dittle Bong”
Grade: B+
8/8/12: In comparison to almost everything non-Python, the lows don’t seem so low anymore.
Grade: A-
Highs:
Gilliam’s bits
The Gits
Hunting Mosquitoes
Beethoven’s bird and friends
Lows:
Idle’s Intro
Archaeology Today (very long, unfortunately)
The National Truss
Hunting sketch petering out
Poofy Judges
Talking about shopping
Mrs. Beethoven
Colin Mozart
Grade: D (Their worst…so far)
Highs:
Intro
Terry Jones’ improved stripping
random tv interview
Council Rat Catcher
Wainscotting
Killer Sheep
Palin cracking up
Random Viking
Parliamentary Report (For Humans)
Idiots
Ritual Idioting
Naught for Naught
Mrs. Scum trying for a blow on the head
Lows:
Attila The Nun
A Tale of Two Cities (For Parrots)
City Idiot Interviews
Furniture race
REALLY blatant racism
Grade: A-
Highs:
Time Check
L.F. Dibley’s film ‘If’
Human pyramid
Palin cracking up during a poetry reading
Dung
Raymond Luxury Yacht
Registrar of Marriages
Election Night Special
Lows:
People tossed into water
Grade: A-
8/8/12: The water bit goes on as long as Yohan G. but with less point…otherwise can’t complain.
Grade: A
Highs:
Blackmail
The RSFPTOTOOT
Three nuns
Prawn Salad
Hunting Piggy-banks
Cleese breaking down
Overrated:
Ken Clean-Air System
Grade: B+
2012: Nothing tremendously good, but nothing really bad. Nothing at all. Grade: A-
