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"
Absurd humor is called "Pythonesque"
"Never shall ye get me alive ye rotten hound of the burnie crew"
In 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher quoted the Parrot Sketch while mocking the Liberal Democrats (of whom, coincidentally, John Cleese has long been a vocal supporter) as a political force: ("It is no more, it has ceased to be..." etc.)
She later admitted she didn't really understand the reference.
And looking at their current polling, she might finally be right about them being dead...
Make tea, not war. π
SPAM as unwanted mail actually dates back to a SAD SACK cartoon from World War 2:
http://sadsack.org/SSyanktop3.htm
The Wikipedia staff has too much Philistine pig ignorance to acknowledge it, though. WAY too much -- they're RIFE with it. Good idiots, too!
But to add (slightly) to the topic, there was the man who held up a sign regarding the political unrest in Spain of the past few years, reading: "Nobody expects the Spanish revolution"!
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"Yes! We're all individuals!!" the crowd shouted in unison!
There's a band called Toad the Wet Sprocket (formed in 1986), which was spoken in the Rock Notes bit within Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (recorded in 1980).
shareThe song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" was used in the movie, "As Good as it Gets" sung by Jack Nicholson.
"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley
In the 1980s, British video game studio Design Design peppered a lot of their games with Python references and quotes, particularly in the high-score tables.
And they weren't the only ones: the "Game Over" screens of seminal platform games 'Manic Miner' and 'Jet Set Willy', both created by Matthew Smith, depicted the main character being squashed by a giant foot...
There was also 'Brian Bloodaxe', which had Python influences peppered throughout its art design and gameplay, including Sousa's "The Liberty Bell" playing throughout the game.
Make tea, not war. π
My brother has T-shirts referencing the dead parrot Sketch, The Lumberjack Song and the Black Knight from Holy Grail.
I've heard this quote in real life and other media: If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? Was MPFC the originator of that?
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The sun is shining... but the ice is slippery.
Yes, I was just thinking of Manic Miner, Noddy-Comet.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus was itself not a bolt out of the blue but more a meld of part of the (Oxbridge parts of the) team from Do Not Adjust Your Set (Idle, Jones, Palin- which also featured David Jason who has gone on to Only Fools and Horses, Portherhouse Blue, A Touch of Frost and much more) with part of the team from At Last The 1948 Show (Chapman, Cleese, where the Four Yorkshireman sketch originated- with Tim Brooke Taylor, later of The Goodies, in the original) and The Frost Report (which had the class sketch, not reappropriated for Monty Python, featuring The Two Ronnies and John Cleese). It is sometimes said that Spike Milligan's Q was an inspiration on Monty Python, at least according to the most populist Pythons Cleese and Palin (I'm sure Chapman, Gilliam, Idle and Jones will have had their own different inspirations, including themselves).
the python programming language, many programs are written in python
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