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Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1, Ep. 1 "Whither Canada"

Wolfgang A. Mozart emcees a talent contest won by Genghis Khan; a professor gives Italian lessons to Italian students; the funniest joke in the world becomes a weapon of war.

Runtime: 32 minutes
Original air date: January 01, 1969
Network: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Episode 1, "Whither Canada"

Synopsis: Wolfgang A. Mozart emcees a talent contest won by Genghis Khan; a professor gives Italian lessons to Italian students; the funniest joke in the world becomes a weapon of war.

Original air date: January 1, 1969

Runtime: 32 minutes

ASIN: B001O1VRQ0

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #52,629 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1

Synopsis: A fathomless source of profound non sequiturs, Monty Python's Flying Circus has supplanted Shakespeare as the British variety act most quoted by people who haven't actualy seen the original show in the original order as it is here. In fact, Monty Python is nearly indistinguishable from Shakespeare, except that the lines don't rhyme and there are very few bodkins or codpieces. There are, however, British accents and men in drag - two well-known staples of Shakespearean drama. And most of the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus are still alive. So Shakespeare can just piss off.

Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese

Supporting actors: Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Donna Reading

Season year: 1969

Genre: Comedy, Music

Executive producer: Ian MacNaughton

Network: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

ASIN: B001NXTG4E

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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars More than met the eye August 23, 1999

By F. Behrens HALL OF FAME

Format:VHS Tape

If you saw the Monty Python episodes on commercial teevee, you expected to see a lot less than the non-commerical British stations showed for such is the fact of life in these United States. But those who saw them on PBS might have reasonably expected to see uncut versions; and until I saw the first three tapes in the upcoming series soon to be made available to the general public by the A&E people, I thought I was getting (forgive this one) the Full Monty!!! Witness my delight, then, when I saw not only parts of sketches that were never included in the PBS airings but also an entire hysterically funny sketch of home movies of Queen Victoria having a merry romp on the lawn with Gladstone. So it is not my purpose here to make you want to see these sketches which vary from utterly tasteless to genuinely Swiftian; but to advise you that they contain a considerable amount more than met your eye in the past. And if that is not a motivation to buy these tapes, then you should join a local Mouse Club and cheese it. But for something completely different, these are the sets for all lovers of Lumberjacks, Nudge Nudge, and Upper Class Twits of the Year. And thank you, A&E for making them finally available in their pristine manifestations.

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5.0 out of 5 stars You don't know why, but it's just so funny! November 7, 1999

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This collection of the Monty Python TV show truly as some of their best stuff ever made, with such things as the Lumberjack Song, Nudge Nudge, Dead Parrot, and (my favorite) Crunchy Frog. I have watched this over and over and over again, and its truly a bargain to see the best comic minds of all time in the place that launched them to stardom.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Still astoundingly hilarious October 4, 1999

These guys are almost in a religious category for me. What they did was so innovative, intelligent, silly, and most importantly, funny, that they deserve every accolade they've ever received. These early episodes reveal how inspired they were right from the gate. Inventiveness pops right off the screen at you. As a comedy writer now myself, I can honestly say that it was this stuff that made me want to do it in the first place. I know I'll never reach the heights these guys did but this collection reaffirms for me how brilliant they were together. I will always be grateful for the laughs they've given me and the inspiration they continue to provide.