Another MP reference

Oct 5, 2001, 5:34 AM ET8 posts by 5 posters

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Kristian RongeOct 5, 2001, 5:34 AM ET

Yet another Monty Python reference in the capsules...

[Excerpts from http://www.snpp.com/episodes/9F19, concerning the clip from "Worker and Parasite"]

"Since Itchy and Scratchy have moved to Gabbo's show, Krusty is reduced to showing Eastern Europe's favorite cat-and-mouse team. Unfortunately, the struggle of class against class and the workers' ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ control of the means of production isn't quite as funny. Krusty ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ looks out to see the studio completely empty."

/ Kristian

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GarryOct 5, 2001, 8:04 AM ET↩ Kristian Ronge

That's supposed to be a Monty Python reference?

Kristian Ronge wrote:

Internet KingOct 5, 2001, 9:59 AM ET↩ Garry

Garry wrote:

buh? Sincerely, Little Girl

Kristian RongeOct 6, 2001, 4:09 PM ET↩ Garry

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Garry wrote:

Yes. It's from the MP sketch "World Forum". Check out ->

http://www.montypython.net/scripts/com-quiz.php

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Alan HamiltonOct 6, 2001, 4:34 AM ET↩ Kristian Ronge

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:34:01 +0200, Kristian Ronge wrote:

Sounds like standard communist revolutionary jargon to me, which was also parodied in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". I think the Simpsons were parodying the same source as MP, not MP itself.

Likewise the joke in "The Crepes of Wrath": Homer: Please, please, kids, stop fighting. Maybe Lisa's right about America being the land of opportunity, and maybe Adil's got a point about the machinery of capitalism being oiled with the blood of the workers.

Kristian RongeOct 6, 2001, 4:28 PM ET↩ Alan Hamilton

On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Alan Hamilton wrote:

It might, but I was startled when I frist saw it because it is written *dead on* the way they say it in the "World Forum" sketch. (http://www.montypython.net/scripts/com-quiz.php):

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Alan HamiltonOct 7, 2001, 4:27 AM ET↩ Kristian Ronge

On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 22:28:05 +0200, Kristian Ronge wrote:

That's how Marx actually talked.

KatijaikatOct 8, 2001, 1:22 AM ET↩ Alan Hamilton

I agree, sounds like a quote from the Manifesto, which could have inspired both MP and OFF.