Monty Python The French Taunt

I think most of them were graduates of Cambridge University

The constitutional peasant 🍄🦡🍄🐄🍄🇬🇧🍄

Also, the French often did fart in the general direction of England.

Hamsters aren't native to England and were not known here till sometime later, elderberry wine is really good, the romans made grape wine here but the vinyards mostly fell into disuse after the empire fell. But aside from that it is by far the funniest historical documentary ever.

@@rad4924 😆

Fetchez la vache does it for me.

@@truantray YES!!!!! 😂

You and all your silly English Kinnnnnigetts

‘‘Tis but a scratch 😂

Kevin "You tiny brained wiper of other peoples bottoms."

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

Not quote but curse

My favorite as well😝

Just fractures me after hearing it again after all these years!!

@@Auntypatti To some of us, that's a declaration of love.

They aren't just running away. They're *tactically* running away ;)

“Retreat” sounds strategic. “Run away!” Sounds cowardly and spur of the moment.

😂😂😂😂😂

I don't remember any of the Knights by looks, but one of them stays back and hits the castle once during their "run away" 😂

Retreat sounds like a term an adult would use "run away " a child would use

*french honhonhonhon-ing*

Kkkhhh khh khh khh...

Well ohm... Can we come up and have a look?

@@aliramezani2333 - "No! Now go away before I taunt you a second time!!"

lol so evil!

Elderberry is Sambuca. The plant has a very pungent odour.

I've heard that the modern equivalent is similar to, "Your mom was a lur and your dad was a drunkard."

From what I heard it was all written and rehearsed. The Pythons didnt like going off script and never did.

It meant that your mother bred like a hamster and your father couldn't afford to buy wine so he had to make it himself.

They released a book of the Holy Grail script complete with handwritten amendments. The original version was much different to the film - basically a bunch of old sketches cobbled together.

My girlfriend did not tell me about the rabbit scene. I had just taken a big swig of coke and that didn't go down as planned.

in german this sounds even better: "So, what are you looking for in England then? - We drill for inseed oil you sucker of Tea" kzhead.info/sun/Y5ZmiZinj56tpXA/bejne.html

J'adore !

Relax ryan zimerman its just a movie 😂 and its from the aeventies !😊 😁😆

​ @Erik Ulnes Hey stupi.d He's quoting.

As french i expected it to be harder in tone but it is 'bon enfant' - rivalry in good spirits. Compared to the world we live in today the French -English rivalry is much insignificant. Like invasion from non European cultures.

@@goognamgoognw6637 Actually it was all really French vs French. The English were just the sword fodder for the French rulers of England. The Angevin rulers were very French when they succeeded the Normans who actually were French speaking Vikings. An Angevin ancestor is documented as turning in to the devil and flying out of a church window so a scary family indeed. It was not until the Welsh Tudors took over that the French were pushed out. Then a Scottish hierarchy took over, interrupted by a short interregnum with a rather miserable killjoy Englishman, followed by the Dutch and then finally and to this day the Germans. English history ended in 1066 but the poor English just get all the blame for everything. I preferred the stage presentation to the film as the mock horse scenes just seemed better on the stage.

@@michaeld5888 I enjoyed your concise and clear summary of English history and saved it. It is impossible to find that from any documentary as it always turns into a nationalistic marathon of unilateral minute details leaving out major lines from the other side. One question, the French themselves are a mixture of Francs a Germanic tribe from the Bavaria region, and Romans and Celts. Weren't the English population before the Normand conquest also Germanic tribes : the Saxons and the Angls and before that a more ancient Celtic population first indigenous inhabitants ? Around the bronze age the Europeans became violent changed from grain farming , from pastoral herders, from hunter and gatherer to raiding and violent conquest based on race according to a recent neolithic genetic study. This is how the stock of European genes was built and recognizable today and dominated by Nordic tribes where land resources were limited. Only the oldest son inherited the local land all the other sons had to prepare for conquest, were trained for raiding and combat from a young age and then had to leave and find new land to raid. Based on historical genetic studies and graves they would raid other races only and systematically kill all the males and children and keep the women to reproduce and as labor. Today Europe is disappearing because the exact opposite is being done, a replacement of all the stock gene by africans being invited by a non-european pseudo elite minority.

@@goognamgoognw6637 Thanks it was a bit tongue in cheek but hopefully the summary of kingship is accurate. France itself was a small political region but grew in to one nation from what I remember especially when the faction based in England became isolated so my saying French kings is a bit of a generalisation. The Anglo Saxons were Germanic but seemed very Norske in their habits especially as regards the sea. I recall reading a quote somewhere from a Roman saying the Saxons were not human, a compliment indeed from a Roman, saying they feared neither sea nor shipwreck which they considered as more an exercise than a disaster or words to that effect. I read a lot of history but forget a lot so do not take my word for it too much.

@@michaeld5888 I vaguely remember a documentary that the Saxons were a different Germanic tribe than the Angles and all these groups might have common ancestors with vikings. We talk in term of countries today but there were no countries in England or France even when imperial rome imposed roman laws among the many groups, even after the fall of Rome, it took many centuries for the so called barbarians to replace the Roman head of states by feudal conquest between themselves. Before Romans came, each barbarians had a precise define race and raided and killed any other groups. They did not attempts to conquer to impose a law to another group probably because their way of life was just tied to mysticism without written laws . The Romans taught them administration, the imposition of taxes by the state for a common good (a great innovation but always diminished by corruption) and only then they chose to rule instead of destroying competition. France is a good example, composed of groups living alongside without being a country. Until one chieftain wants to become the highest of all and like a Cesar. The notion of country is tied to a King. Even then vassal states were not ruled directly but paid tribute. So it was for England first a French vassal state until these vassals separated to make an independent country.

No money for nothing..shows or movies..it effects the style of the storytelling.....bare bones ,sparse , reductionary

They pretended because it was FUNNY

Likely how fishing was done during those times

I think this random guy with stick could have another task - make sounds of "horses" acrossing the stream.

I think he's doing something called irrigation

​@@ahbrando I can't tell if this is supposed to be a joke. _Please_ tell me it's a joke.

The guy beating the water with a stick is also at the begining of the constitutional peasant skit.

Lydia Volpe "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!!!"

“Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.”

That was one of the “Taunts” that just kills me

Insults in broken English are the best! Thanks terry Gilliam, you made me shit myself so many times I have no need to use any laxative’s anymore.

A classic line!!

Black Adder should be much better known than it is!

It's in your time the moment you discover a masterpiece.

I was born in early 1990s and first found this film and Blackadder in early 2000s on VHS tapes my elder brother had recorded. Along with other Monty Python works, these masterpieces inspired me to hone my English as a non-native speaker to a level where, years later, the opponent of my PhD defence, a native English speaker, actually praised the quality of my writing and speech in his written statement.

2 sides every story

No one cares about your shitty little anecdote you son of a silly person

...clo-pa-da clo-pa-da clo-pa-da 🥥🥥

I FART IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION! 🤣🤣🤣

I only have one favorite quote from this movie, but that quote is 1 hour and 29 minutes long

Daniel Hawthorne I've said that many times to ppl.

He’s already got one . Brilliant!

And yet I keep coming back to be taunted

You taunt, youtube bans your account. How life has changed!!🤣😂🤣

Good thing the French didn't try that tactic in WW2. 😆

I like the funniest joke ever written

Nobody expects it.

I mean, who would have expected the Spanish Inquisition?

@@danielcalvert2700 I sure didn't.

During the height of the pandemic, someone on Twitter compared vaccine mandates to the Spanish Inquisition. I replied, "Nobody expected that," to which the original tweeter responded with a two-paragraph diatribe about China, the CDC, Fauci, the Deep State, et al.--all the usual suspects. He had no idea what I meant.😁

Me too. Good, humour never gets old.

I'm 21 and I just watched this movie for the 1st time. OH MY GOSH, this movie is comedy GOLD! It's way funnier and sillier than comedy nowadays.

@@daderowley4514 Welcome to the club.

Fetcher la vache Quoi? Fetcher la vache!

@@daderowley4514 comedy nowadays is a thing?

Quebec-Ontario relationship too. It's important to preserve the tradition.

Kaamelott🔞© Alexandre Astier a apporté depuis beaucoup de précisions . Je crois qu'il n'existe pas encore de version traduite, mais c'est historiquement bien attesté.

Nice rehash of the same comment that appears on all these videos.

@@gw7624 nah I invented this comment after watching various versions of Agincourt

@@tabularasa7350 Of course you did sweetheart.

But two retainers were!

I'm not sure, some fowls were real, and as fowls perhaps don't fly very well... And the cow, that we saw alive, was in very poor condition once on the ground.

I laughed at this because they had no horses (I thought that was the joke), until I saw the rest of the video 😅

History of mankind teaches us the animals are still being trampled upon... Is that anything to laugh about...?!

I feel constricted 🍄🇬🇧🍄

Monty Python was funded by Pink Floyd & Led Zeppelin

True, Russian here, this movie and Life of Brian were my favourite in teenage years :) and there was computer game too!

“Naw, he’s pinin’ for the fjords!”

« C’est un cadeau ! » “What?” “A present!” « Oui oui, un cadeau ! »

@@andresf1984 MoooooOOOOOOOOOooooo *splat*

Hey, no Get Smart jokes allowed here.

Believe it's fechez la vache, get the 🐄 🍄🇬🇧🍄🦡🍄

"Cherchez" la vache you silly English poofs!

@@albertdewulf7688 it's not cherchez la vache. It's Fechez, la Vache. Fechez, get the cows. Cherchez, look for, search for the cows 🍄🌍🍄

@@stephansteohanlarsen7457 I'm french and fechez doesn't mean anything, i think they did a mix between fetch and chercher ? Or that's you mean't already ?

@@Lou1ouze thanks, didn't know, took French for seven years and been to Paris three times and Normandie, mont Saint Michel, and Madagascar. It does sound like fechez to me..I love France 🍄

67, me... Same deal. Quite possibly the most quotable texts in the English language.

Tiz but a flesh wound 🍄🦡🍄🐄🍄🇬🇧🍄

Same with finding a platonic BFF. My friend Heidi's favorite bit from this movie was "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt like elderberries." She also happens to be a massive Mel Brooks fan. Gotta love her! 😁

@@a.katherinesuetterlin3028 blazing saddles is not for the timid

@@stephansteohanlarsen7457 “Someone’s gotta go back and get a shit-load of dimes!” or some version of that is what we say when we see something expensive. 😂

@@elless4817 you are very clever with a sense of humor. Thank you for the reply. Black white, who cares One people One planet One love One destiny 😱🔥🍄🦁🍄⚡🍄🌹🍄🌍🍄

Blessed be the Name of Jesus.

Not really.

I always liked the killer rabbit skit, having to answer the questions 3 and the other side you'll see. What is your favorite color; " red I mean blue and the knight flys into the air

Bring out your dead! But I'm not dead yet! 🤣

Which part of the clip is funny ?

My fave line was. He must be a king...Why? He ain't got shit all over im.🤣💩💩🤣

The Knights who say Ni are utterly absurd and I love it! Fetchez la vache!

Monty Python was funded by Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin

A. Soldier Runaway!

Nope, it was normal to throw "offal" (garbage) at attacking troops, as well as the boiling oil...

I don't remember the exact battle but there once was a siege in Portugal going on for too long, the defenders were at risk of starvation. They decided to actually throw part of the little food supply they still had over the wall. The besieging Spanish army growing tired and frustrated took it as "we have enough food to hold out forever" and the siege was abandoned (probably because the attacking army wrongly figured other castles would be easier to starve into submission.

@@Thomas-yo2zu Yeah I kinda remember hearing something like that recently as well.

I was just realized the same thing,then i just saw your keen awareness like me thinking it outloud the algorithm hit out a response to it.if was them i woild heave gotten them to throw all of their food out then have a barbeque just out of catapault range and fan the party backnin their direction,screaming how terrible it was.

Are you still in British army?

VHS makes it even better

@@pmacc3557 No I’m retired Cdn Army. I did serv with Britfor @ Camp Souter in Kabul

@@MoosefromCanada ok great you made it out in one piece 👍 how come soldiers were so silent the past couple of years?

@@MoosefromCanada My buddy did a posting on Cyprus. One night he relieved a detail on a tower position and they re-enacted this scene line for line.

Fetchez la vache!

Oui, from NY

Moi aussi ! J'adore cette scène ! Pauvre vache !

Ten years ago I see . The Cow launch is when I stop the video and give a down vote .

Dude. It wasn't a real cow.

@@philip5940 You serious? You can't see it's a fake cow? 🤭

@@Acadian.FrenchFry well that's just great isn't it . AUKUS launched an eight years crusade in Iraq for freedom fries and we still have you die hards tagging yourself as French Fries .

The meaning of life is my favourite. I love the catholics vs the protestants and the fish are freaky! And death, who hates English and Americans 🤣

In the ''Life of Brian" they explained how you could be a woman even if you are a man. 🤣

They never get old I laugh everytime It's funny cause we all know the lines but we still laugh now that's true comedy it's timeless.

The Jabberwoky!!

Blessed are the cheese makers! What’s so special about the cheese makers? Well, it’s not suppose to be taken literally 🙄 it’s all manufactures of dairy products, of course.

The decline of the movie industry is DELIBERATE, the result of long-range planning by the Suits of Hollywood. The lower classes in America have greatly increased since 2007, and the Suits know that this "new audience" wants the Tried & True, not creativity! That's why we're getting comic book movies & cartoon (animated) movies instead of Monty Python, or The Usual Suspects,or Minority Report...RIP

You should say that in 2019

This the effect of "Balkanization of society"

Gobbledygook tinfoil response. A major reason why there arent many movies like this anymore is that movies have become so expensive to make. Studios cant afford to pour a ton of money into a film and it bombs at box office anymore. They used to be able to tolerate that. Studios now prefer franchises or similar because there is a reliable fan base which guarantees viewers. It gets boring though. Audiences also want perfection in movies now so that means off the rails expenses with things like CGI etc. Cant make a silly movie like this without 10,000 people trying to criticize it either. “Theres no way the Black Knight could charge a second time having lost that much blood…”

@@co94 but it was just a flesh wound!

Mmmmmm…I think it’s the sword fight with The Black Knight for me (‘tis but a scratch!) 😊

Yes it even makes Ben Hur look like an epic.

Second after the being chased to death by topless women in Meaning of Life. Now that nudity is mysteriously scary, it will never be replicated.

"Is there someone else up there we can talk to?" 😆😆😆😆😆

No..."You have to answer for Santino, Carlo" is the pinnacle. That being said, there's room at the top!

Mind you own business.

Redguard

I believe the scene of building the rabbit was actual footage from hundreds of years ago.

@@jeffphakenewz8556 yep... Probably authentic.🤣

It’s how the French make authentic whipped cream. Would have been a great educational segment on one of the Julia Child cooking shows.

And an excellent pause before he says it.

@@NickHarman Superlative writing & delivery. It also helps that it's delivered by the well meaning Galahad (Michael Palin).

"No! Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!"

@@Jason-rp3jg You're mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

you’re mother was a hamster

Elderberries stink?

@@edp3202 Elderberries apparently were used in alcohol, so basically the French guy is saying that his dad's a drunk. And the hamster was saying his mom's a whore. Some real shit lmao!

@@katem.2899 😣😨 😂

@@edp3202 i heard it refers to alcohol made by poor ppl, he basically said your mom is nypmho and your father is a poor drunkard

Did you do it in Carcassonne because there is this myth about them throwing a pig at the enemy during a siege?

If memory serves, the Geneva Convention now prohibits farting in one's general direction.

It already felt old the first time I saw it about 30 years ago. But none-the-less memorable and immensely quotable. This scene was always my favourite part. "I told him we already got one!" Nice to see it again.

Monty Python was funded by Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin

@@mandoz5441 If this is true, that's very impressive! Nice to know they did something so great with their money!

@TisEyerish1 i believe Genesis also helped with financing the movies....low budget....they didn't use real horses cause they couldn't afford them...they also used local college students as actors

Typical reaction when one meets a Frenchman for the first time.

@@kdrapertrucker me when I see myself in the mirror every morning

Interesting-ish fact about Elderberries. Blackbirds love eating them following which their shit is purple.

I think you're looking into that too much

Hamsters breed year round, basically saying that “your mother is a whore.”

The hamster comment is because they were an animal notorious for being horny and overbreeding. So calling your mother a hamster implies she is a whore. You are quite right about the father being called an alcoholic drunkard however.

And what's wrong with that?

The Best of Ferdinand Celine, lol

No, no way

Purely coincidental.

Of course your senses were fortunately altered to allow the intelligence and un paralleled humorists ever, to penetrate your mind. Lucky for you. To this day they reign as Best!

Allways watched python on acid , perfect sence , allways , the programs after did not , and never have since ..... thank you .....

You were stoned? Well stop saying Jehovah, then.

( every RTS game foot soldier) Just like the simulation🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣