Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for June 24, 2021

No, it’s okay. Phoebe was overdue for a confusion.

What? They’re not fans of sketch comedies?

You had to be there.

Lo and behold, I brought up the Monty Python schtick Tuesday.

Well, Phoebe, maybe he’ll stop once you know the difference between an African swallow and a European swallow.

But first she will have to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with…A HERRING!!

I love Ethan. :-D

Ethan, restrict your Pythoning to designated Python Zones only. (So designated by the yellow diamond with a giant foot.)

NI!

Ethan is now one of the Knights Who Say Ekki​-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG. Zoom-Boing. Z’nourrwringmm.

Ah, I remember watching Holy Grail for the first time… honestly, it had been so overhyped for me at that point I couldn’t be anything but disappointed. Sure, it was funny, but it wasn’t the overwhelmingly, life-changingly funny I had been led to expect.

You have the best dad. You should learn the classics even if there over hyped.

https://youtu.be/sXE8LdXzeHM

But Monty Python is the best!

I need to binge on some Monty Python. It’s on my watchlist!

I think it’s time to upgrade the school teaching curriculum. They are leaving out one of the classics.

Psh. Even today’s jaded sprats can love some Python. Dawn knows better than to let her daughter watch certain parts, but Carmen has a blast watching “The Fish-Slapping Dance” and “Ministry of Silly Walks.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th6wJKkYeQs

And I now see the Bishop and a 16 ton weight approaching—along with the Larch.

Phoebe is actually a bit young to watch “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, unless it’s an edited version. The Castle Anthrax segment is not really kid friendly. And I’m not sure she’d really get the Knights Who Say Ni part that this references.

Family Guy nails my opinion of Monty Python

https://youtu.be/GPzO-kNvEYw

When I first met my niece, who was about a month old at the time, I sang the Philosopher’s Drinking Song to her. Her mother and grandmother (that is, my sister and mother) were not especially amused, but I said, “How is she going to learn about the drinking habits of the great philosophers if not from her crazy uncle?!” (They didn’t care for “Emmanuel Kant was a real p*ss*nt”.)

To make up for it, I also held her and sang “You Are So Beautiful To Me”.

Ni!

Dinsdale?

There is some naughty language and off-color humor Phoebe may not be ready for in the movie, but it is a classic: http://www.skjam.com/2020/02/11/movie-review-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail/

Child abuse is no laughing matter… neither is Monty Python. OOH, GET MAD MP FANS!

Alright, I’ve never watched it, so I wouldn’t really know.

So Phoebe’s dad is making Idle threats?

Phoebe and her mom have crippling gaps in their cultural awareness. They need professional help.

Isn’t Monthy Python too… adult for her?

One that looks nice.

You keep the faith, Ethan!

Ni!

Thanks to all who posted links. Have a sunny day.

I mean, we all knew it was going to come up eventually, admit it. ;)

For some reason I feel attacked… and very old now. turns to dust

Saw this one coming after yesterday’s strip.

More proof that comic strip readers are skewing older. “Six Chix” today revolves around an ad campaign for Sara Lee.

There’s a YouTube reviewer named Ashleigh Burton. She saw most of Monty Python and loved it, so she was onboard when she heard A Fish Named Wanda starred John Cleese. But even after watching all that Python she still didn’t recognize Michael Palin.

She also saw Tim Burton’s Batman and didn’t connect Michael Keaton with the previously-seen Beetlejuice. I guess she just has Michael blindness.

Three of the Pythons graduated Cambridge, two Oxford and Gilliam from Occidental. Hugh Laurie, Stephen Frye and Emma Thompson were all in Cambridge footlights together.

Funny thing, I was watching Monty Python just yesterday.

aaaaaahahahahahaha! Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place it here beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher so you get the two-level effect with a little path running down the middle!

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is one of my wife’s favorite movies.

ETHAN, KEEP IT UP.

I was going to suggest a wafer thin after dinner mint for Marigold, but it appears she didn’t eat the shrubbery

I will NEVER understand 1) the appeal of that show, or 2) why people haven’t SOMETHING NEW TO BE FANATICS ABOUT when it’s been more than 20 FREAKING years since that stuff disappeared!

I can recite every line from the MP Holy Grail.

Jokes are always funnier when delivered in a British accent. I never saw the appeal of Benny Hill, but a lot of people stateside found him hilarious.

BRING US A SHRUBBERY!

“If you don’t get that reference, then we can’t be friends.” Alton Brown

At least she didn’t have to chop down the mightiest tree in the forest with … a herring.

I’ve watched a smattering of Monty Python… I don’t get it.

One day he can do funny walks and really freak her out.

Just wait ’till they come across a bridge!

OH NO! THAT’S THREE ITS!