Even watching them when they were first transmitted as a teenage schoolboy I found them totally unfunny and couldn't wait for the sketches to start again. Watching the re-runs now I feel exactly the same. Does anybody here think they were even remotely funny?
shareNo they're just weird. But it usually gets fun when people discuss them.
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a lot of the sketches were very 'miss' when you look up the ones that didnt stick in your mind.
2 cartoons i thought were funny:
1) guy covers head in shaving cream and cuts it off
2) the suicideal leaves (i think thats in 'The Meaning of Life')
That's a very good question. I loved/love them but for their artistic merit - I wasted hours drawing Pythonic intestines and caterpillars and sad bulbous faces in the margins of my schoolbooks. Was it funny? I don't know. I do still find the animations attractive.
Actually the iconic bare foot coming down to squash everything in the intro - yes, I find that funny.
Some of them are. I have quite a dark sense of humour and I always found "the mole " skit funny but the vast majority used to scare me as a child, particularly "the Killer Cars"!!!!
having said that, nowadays I cant get enough of Gilliam's work
also, yes!!!!
2 cartoons i thought were funny:
1) guy covers head in shaving cream and cuts it off
2) the suicideal leaves (i think thats in 'The Meaning of Life')
Do the *beep* snow angel, dude. Do the *beep* snow angel!!
Like the sketches themselves, the animations were hit-and-miss. Some were funny, some were just plain weird! But they were only there as a linking device (they'd just use CGI these days!), and did give the show a very strong visual trademark.
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No. They're creepy and crazy.
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