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Monty Python's influence on culture

posted 10 years ago by Superunknovvn
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Name some signs of influence Python have had on culture (outside of the world of comedy).

Here are two that spring to mind:

SPAM as in SPAM MAIL is derived from the Spam sketch
There is the programming language called PYTHON

What else?

"We learned more from a three minute record than we ever learned in school"

[–] randbanks 10 years ago

When Christine O'Donnell, who ran for the U.S. Senate for Delaware twice was talked about on Bill Maher, several comments like "I'm Not a Witch", and several others if memory serves.

You cannot reason a man out of a position he has not reasoned himself into

[–] tseybert 10 years ago

That's GOP politics, so it counts as comedy.

Janet! Donkeys!

[–] jwelker 10 years ago

There you go, bringing politics into it again.

[–] darryl-tahirali 10 years ago

Name some signs of influence Python have had on culture (outside of the world of comedy). - Superunknovvn

In "Burning down the House," the Season Three episode of Northern Exposure, one of the characters, Chris Stevens, a deejay with artistic ambitions, builds a trebuchet (a medieval siege weapon) and plans to flings a cow to create a "pure moment." When he is told that Monty Python had already done that, he is forced into an "artistic crisis" as he does not want to repeat what has been done before.

As Northern Exposure is often considered to be a comedy-drama, this may only half-qualify. The trebuchet did return the following season to create a very poignant dramatic moment, though.
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