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-
Highs:
Gilliam’s intro
Architect Sketch
Recognizing a mason
Satire…Satire…Satire
Mr. Devious
The Bishop!
Wombat Harness
Sudden weather report
nude man
The Bishop!
Apology
Apology
Chemist Sketch
the basement
Buzz Aldrin
Grade: A+ (The unquestioned one-episode height of ‘Flying Circus’)
Highs:
Flying lessons
BALPA spokesman
polite hijacker
Cleese’s blue chair
most of the complaints
Psychiatric Milkman
It’s The Mind
Gilliam’s world of hands
Lows:
Unexplained (and unfunny) exploding zoo
Longggggg walks
Overrated(On Purpose):
50 Pounds To Mend The Shed
Grade: A-
Highs:
Terry Jones’ intro
Spanish Inquisition theme
“The Rack”
Opening a door
Chapman’s head
Soft Cushions/Comfy Chair
Court Charades
Cup/Ant
Lows:
Semaphore Wuthering Heights
other weird juxtaposition movie shorts
parts of the Court Sketch
Grade: A-
Highs:
Small patch of brown liquid
New Cooker Sketch
Vintage Monarch shaving
A bit of pram in good condition
Ministry of Silly Walks
well-crafted links throughout
heads nailed to things
Doug, Dinsdale, and Spiny Norman
Psychotic criminologist
Chinese Watches from Mr. Luigi Ficotti
Lows:
Anglo-French Silly Walk lead-up and performance
Grade: A
Highs:
Albatross!
A.T. Hun
Similar offices
Lows:
Intro
Restaurant Cannibalism sketch of INTERMINABLE length
Intermissions
Gumbys
John the Baptist
Fairy Stories about the Police
Grade: C-
Highs:
Wilkins/Robertson
Meaningless graph
Mr. Hilter (at the beginning)
Ken Shabby
The Wood Party
Spectrum Host’s Demise
Lows:
Hilter and company get a bit dull after a while
Vocal Annoyances
Speech Analysis
“No…No…No…”
Overrated (But not bad):
Upper-Class Twits
Grade: B-
Highs:
Wistful undertakers
Terry Jones’ pep talk
Nobody being asked to leave the room
very long arms
Proustian display of modern existentialist football
Jimmy Buzzard
Sleepy bricks
Flying Cat
Lows:
Mr. Walters
Extreme undertaker attrition
The World of History
Overrated:
Gumbys
Pearl Harbor re-enactment
Grade: B-
2012: Bad parts not so bad, just not nearly as good as the good parts. Grade: B
Highs:
Polite robber
“It’s a Tree”
A piece of laminated plastic
Vocational Guidance Counselor
gay banter
“The Larch”
Luigi Ficotti
Ron Obvious
Pet Conversions
Gorilla Librarian
Gilliam’s “Survival of the Fittest” during an intellectual debate
Lows:
Lonnnnnnnng (and boring) bedroom seduction
Grade: A-
Highs:
Llama info
Cleese behind a desk
Double Vision Mountaineering
Michael The Homicidal Barber/Lumberjack
The Larch
Ken Buddha
Unwanted Knight
“Let’s have a ding-dong”
Lows:
Professor Gumby
Gilliam’s animation goes on a BIT too long
“Hunting Film”
Overrated:
Man with a tape recorder up his…
Grade: B
Highs:
Watkins the Coward
Army Shakedown
Colonel Chapman’s bits throughout
Art Critic
“Dog Kennels”
Vicious “Keep Left” signs
Dead Parrot Sketch
Lows:
None…just mediums.
Grade: A-
8/8/12: The “Lows” are only low compared to the other bits. They’re not actually bad. Grade: A
Highs:
(very) minor embezzling
“Detective Inspector!”
“Tragic” vs. “Funny”
Lows:
Most of the “Science Fiction Sketch”, unfortunately
Grade: C
Highs:
Cleese’s impromptu burial
The Whizzo “Quality Assortment”
Dull City Stockbroker
Cleese’s “Free Officer”
Twentieth Century Vole
Yes Men/Pencil Droppers/Lousy Ideas/SPLUNGE
Lows:
The self-indulgent and admirable but somewhat painful Yohan G…whatever.
Grade: A-
8/8/12: Yohan G. is brilliant in its apathy for ratings. But it still gets dull. Grade: A-
Highs:
Confuse the……..cat
The world’s worst smuggler
A Duck
A Cat, and
A Lizard
“Sandwiches???”
Attacking the lower classes
Unfortunate Newsreader
Stock film or sex
Gilliam’s marked improvement
Management Training Course
Encyclopedia Salesmen
Lows:
Careers Advisory Board
Grade: A+
Highs:
Last slap of “Art Gallery”
Army Spokesman Graham Chapman’s frequent interruptions
Self Defense (Against Fruit)
The first appearance of the 16-ton weight
Lemming…of the BDA
Lows/Overrated:
Terry Jones trying to strip
Grade: B+
Highs:
The Larch
Mr. Larch’s “Freedom” rant
The late Arthur Aldridge
John Cleese going “Wooooo…”
“E-wic” and “Mi-chael”
Nudge Nudge Wink Wink
Dirty Cutlery
THE HORSE CHESTNUT
Lows:
Bicycle Repairman (Except the random “international communism” part)
Grade: A-
Highs:
A quick…visual…Arthur Frampton
Palin’s first charming utter wimp receiving counseling with gorgeous “wife” Carol Cleveland
Tungsten-Carbide Drills
“The Epilogue” : A Question of Belief
Mr. A (Arthur Jackson)
Lows:
Eric Idle’s first (and only) attempt at being the “completely different” guy
Queen Victoria “Vaudevillian” film
Overrated: The whole “Sheep” theme
Grade: B-
2012: Flickering with energy, just not fully focused yet. Grade: B
Highs:
Sir Edward………….Ross.
Arthur “Two Sheds”……………Jackson(And a Viking) in a remarkably similar studio.
Palin’s “lost soul” emerging from the water.
Lows:
Terminally mediocre Palin/Jones bit about Picasso on a bicycle.
Early Terry Gilliam misses and “hits”.
Overrated:
The not-very-funny-World’s-Funniest-Joke.
Grade: C+
