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

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    Averagemoe  over 3 years ago

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

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    codycab  over 3 years ago

    What? They’re not fans of sketch comedies?

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    Concretionist  over 3 years ago

    You had to be there.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

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

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    Jungle Empress  over 3 years ago

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

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    overtherainbow  over 3 years ago

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

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    overtherainbow  over 3 years ago

    I love Ethan. :-D

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    OBBWG  over 3 years ago

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

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member over 3 years ago

    NI!

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    aKG1  over 3 years ago

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

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    ratton8  over 3 years ago

    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.

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    kaykeyser  over 3 years ago

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

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    RyanOrtega  over 3 years ago

    https://youtu.be/sXE8LdXzeHM

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    Aladar30 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    But Monty Python is the best!

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    Troglodyte  over 3 years ago

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

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    Qiset  over 3 years ago

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

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    Monster Hesh  over 3 years ago

    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

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    docforbin  over 3 years ago

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

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    sueb1863  over 3 years ago

    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.

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    Billavi Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Family Guy nails my opinion of Monty Python

    https://youtu.be/GPzO-kNvEYw

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    MD Bear Premium Member over 3 years ago

    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”.

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    timemastertim  over 3 years ago

    Ni!

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    mistie710  over 3 years ago

    Dinsdale?

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    SKJAM! Premium Member over 3 years ago

    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/

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    Decepticomic  over 3 years ago

    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.

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    squeakybunny  over 3 years ago

    So Phoebe’s dad is making Idle threats?

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    cocavan11  over 3 years ago

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

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    Neo Stryder  over 3 years ago

    Isn’t Monthy Python too… adult for her?

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    Robert Nowall Premium Member over 3 years ago

    One that looks nice.

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    Cincoflex  over 3 years ago

    You keep the faith, Ethan!

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    eolan59  over 3 years ago

    Ni!

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    RonnieAThompson Premium Member over 3 years ago

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

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    scyphi26  over 3 years ago

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

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    salenstormwing  over 3 years ago

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

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    jessiesboy1313  over 3 years ago

    Saw this one coming after yesterday’s strip.

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    Bradley Walker  over 3 years ago

    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.

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    Teto85 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    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.

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    Funny thing, I was watching Monty Python just yesterday.

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    s b  over 3 years ago

    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!

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    corpcasselbury  over 3 years ago

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

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    LrdSlvrhnd  over 3 years ago

    ETHAN, KEEP IT UP.

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    dv  over 3 years ago

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

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    Corpse Horn Light Premium Member over 3 years ago

    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!

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    NWdryad  over 3 years ago

    I can recite every line from the MP Holy Grail.

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    InquireWithin  over 3 years ago

    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.

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    JennaChidichimo (ImBACK)  over 3 years ago

    BRING US A SHRUBBERY!

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    DDrazen  over 3 years ago

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

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    asrialfeeple  over 3 years ago

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

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    Taracinablue  over 3 years ago

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

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    MAGA Premium Member over 3 years ago

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

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    Just wait ’till they come across a bridge!

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    Official Foxtrot Page  over 1 year ago

    OH NO! THAT’S THREE ITS!

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