what is your favorite episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, and why?

‘How To Recognise Different Types of Tree From Far Away’ has plenty of classic sketches in it, definitely one of my favourites.

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Series 2, episode 1: Face the Press. Everything in this episode works, from the titular opener to the New Gas Cooker Sketch, to the Ministry of Silly Walks (of course), and what I consider the greatest sketch in all of Flying Circus, Ethel the Frog. Big, long, sprawling sketches like that almost never work, no matter what show they're on, because it's usually one joke dragged out to interminable lengths. Ethel the Frog is like four or five mini-sketches in one, and that's what makes it work. If one section of it isn't working for you, you don't have to wait long for it to change up.

Plus, I mean come on: Dinnsdale...

The episode with "The Spanish Inquisition" is the peak of the entire Python series. It represents everything the team was trying to do in terms of surreality, twisted logic and high-flown intellectual humor.

I almost laughed myself to death the first time I saw the Upper Class Twit of the Year competition. Particularly when Oliver St John-Mollusc managed to run himself over.

It's...The Bishop! Catholic church/70s gangster flick mashup.

WWII Deadly joke episode.

I'll reference sketches because episodes are dense with features: Putting things on top of other things, fish slapping, the funniest joke in the world and the double vision explorer all because they're absurd in the most refreshing way.

Lately I've been thinking a lot about the Welsh playwright and his coal mining son.

Also Mr. Hilter and his pals at the terrible little Bed-n-breakfast

The blancmange that "means to take Wimbledon" is pretty good, too

The barber who can't bring himself to cut-cut-cutCUT CUT

Lately the sketch they has been most on my mind is the one about Australian table wines. The Perth Pink: "this is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down, and avoiding". Brilliant. Don't know what episode it's from though.

It would need to be something from S3, for me that's the best. Either 'Salad Days' or 'Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror'

How do I choose between the dead parrot sketch, cheese shop, crunchy frog, argument clinic, ministry of silly walks, and self defense against fresh fruit?

The why is I find them clever and/or they make me laugh

Does anyone remember which episode has the sketch where people are kidnapped by an UFO and turned scottish/sent to Scotland?

Cheese shop and dead parrot are definitely up there. The bloody Sam Peckinpah skit was hilarious as well.

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The Golden Age of Ballooning (sketch). Kept wanting to post it here recently due to all the ballooning news. Also Philosophers football.

The Spanish Inquisition. It can’t get better than that, even at the end “two…. Three….. to the old Bailey please”.

How to recognise different parts of the body.

I can't tell what it is, but every second is a gold mine.

Deja vu is my favorite episode, it’s really funny and smart. It almost reminds me that Deja vu is my favorite episode, it’s really funny and smart. It almost reminds me that Deja vu is my favorite episode, it’s WHAT IS HAPPENING really funny and smart. It almost reminds me that Deja vu is my favorite episode, it’s really funny and smart. It almost reminds me that Deja vu PLEASE HELPis my favorite episode, it’s really funny and smart. It almost reminds me that Deja vu is my favorite episode, it’s really funny and smart. It almost reminds me that Deja vu is my favorite episode, it’s really funny and smart. It almost reminds me that OH GOD NO

Full Frontal Nudity- The Mattress Sketch will always be my favorite

Dennis Moore, because John’s delivery is brilliant and I love the way he keeps coming back

"The Ant, an Introduction." It's got Lumberjack, Llamas, Kilimanjaro, Man with Tape Recorder, etc. but I remember specifically seeing The Visitors when I was a real little kid and it permanently warping my brain.

Michael Ellis. It’s just the right type of absurd for me.

michael Ellis. or the Hugh Prither Cycling in Cornwall.

Tie between The Light Entertainment War and Michael Ellis. Both episodes crack me up in just about every sketch.

Dead parrot and ministry of silly walks

“It’s the mind” deja vu sketch is a classic

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Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father; hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie.

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