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pericat | 09:04 Mon 05th Oct 2009 | ChatterBank

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Any one else a python fan ?

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David Black

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Yes I remember the first series on BBC2 it was late around 9pm at the time. That is late if you were 12 in 1969!

09:32 Mon 05th Oct 2009

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dothawkes31

Morning peri, i was a huge 'Do Not Adjust Your Set' fan back in the pre-python days when it was the best childrens TV show, then they split up and David Jason went one way and the pythons grew up!!! But I never really watched them when the python shows started, all the lads at school did though i recall.

David Black

Yes I remember the first series on BBC2 it was late around 9pm at the time. That is late if you were 12 in 1969!

B00

Nar not all that much.

I liked their films, but was never a fan of their TV series' , I just found the cartoony bits too wierd.

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dothawkes31

i was 14 in 1969 and it was later than 9pm, I think it was after 10pm, and some series went out even later than that. The following day the lads at school would all be mumbling the theme tune under their breath in unison or quoting the stuff loudly, it had a massive impact almost immediatly. In 1969 i was probably watching High Chapparel and The Virginian, Department S and stuff like that lol

pericat

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I came across them at a slightly later stage and although like BOO I never liked the animated parts everything else just cracked me up. The lumberjack song being one of my favourites as I love michael palin. The life of brian is a comedy favourite of mine too.

David Black

The High Chapparel was a lovelly western. First time I realised the John Wayne type story was just pleasant propaganda to feed American cinematic mythology.

dothawkes31

Well it's all about the era the genre was made in David, in the 1960s the Native Americans were fighting alongside their countrymen in Vietnam and recieving the same wages.

eyeshade

Pericat, I saw a DVD of George Harrison's memorial the other day held at the Royal Hall of Albert as Michael Palin would say and the Python team had been invited by George's widow to do a stint and they did, it was absolutely hilarious, amongst of course all the brilliant music George wrote. Harrison did of course fund the film "Life of Brian at the eleventh hour after the film people pulled the plug on it. Bet they kicked themselves later.

pericat

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And had a cameo role in it eyeshade - I love their irreverence also - how they had graham chapmans ashes on stage with them etc - their is a lot of affection in it

andy-hughes

I loved the Pythons, but more from their albums, which we all memorised word for word.

I saw them 'live' a Knebworth Festival, and like all their stuff, some worked, some didn't.

I always loved their pin-point satire about 'the establshment', including the church and the army - wonderful.

The Spanish Inquisition still makes me ache with laughter, but like all comedy, it is subjective, so I understand why people don't find it at all funny.