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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: A&E
EAN: 0733961145540
Format: Box set, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: A&E HOME VIDEO
Manufacturer: A&E HOME VIDEO
Number Of Items: 21
Publisher: A&E HOME VIDEO
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Running Time: 1869 minutes
Sales Rank: 1084
Studio: A&E HOME VIDEO
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Product Description:
Very possibly the most tragic waste of Oxbridge educations ever broadcast. The programme that made all of America sit up and say: what? That put Spam back in the national pantry, launched crossdressing as a national craze, and made Rene Descartes a household name. That dramatically streamlined the high-school geek identification process.
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Rating:  - Come on A&E!!! The five stars is for the Python stuff,not the set!!!
Enough is enough A&E,here we go again with another Monty Python Megaset,add a some personal best DVD's + the 16 ton set DVD's and few more small extras and there you go,another Monty Megaset(w/high price tag!),this IS the 3rd to date!!! For the $,the 16 ton megaset IS the way to go,and much chaeper to boot!!! Love Monty Python,sick of A&E,such a nice thing to do to us in these economic times!
Rating: - Dead Parrot, Silly Walks, Cheese Shop and More...
"Monty Python's Flying Circus" was created in 1969 by the BBC as Britain's response to "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," the NBC show that was enjoying huge ratings at the time. The Monty Python troupe consisted of Cambridge and Oxford graduates John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. American-born Terry Gilliam provided the show's surreal animated sequences, which were interspersed among the skits.
"The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus Collector's Edition" is a massive, 21-disc box set containing every episode of the show's four-season run. The series is uneven and has its share of misfires, but when the comedy lands, the skits are hilarious. The "Ministry of Silly Walks" hangs on the long-legged Cleese's unbridled lunacy in high-stepping around the office, making methodical turns with precisely looney leg contortions and never skipping a beat delivering the dialogue. The skit is slapstick performed magnificently, and it's hard not to break up watching it.
"The Cheese Shop" also features Cleese, this time as a customer trying to order a bit of cheese from proprietor Jones only to be told, after requesting by name every type of cheese on the face of the earth, that it is either sold out, no longer available, not carried, or on order. Watching Cleese go from mild annoyance to apoplexy is a riot. Other highlights include the "Dead Parrot," the lumberjack song, and "The Spanish Inquisition."
The set also contains "Monty Python Live," ... Read More
Rating: - This parrot is no more!
Six comic delights -- five British guys, and one American. Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.
These six guys created "Monty Python's Flying Circus," a groundbreaking comedy series made of skits. They were sometimes gross, naughty, and always bizarre, and their bizarre humour has influenced everything from "Saturday Night Live" to Jasper Fforde. "The Complete Monty Pythons Flying Circus - Collectors Edition Megaset" brings together the entire series plus some extra performances, but pads it out substantially.
For dozens of episodes, these guys served up skits on every insane subject you can think of: defense against fresh fruit, the Ministry of Funny Walks, sitcoms based on the family life of Attila the Hun, spam, lupin bandit Dennis Moore, obscene children's books, semaphores, racing twits, spam, village idiots, goats, psychotic barbers who moonlight as sexually addled lumberjacks, spam, Vikings, "ALBATROSS!", killer sheep, lobotomies, pantomime horses, Tudor pornography, spamspamspamspam, Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things, the dirty vicar, and giant alien blancmanges who are turning people into Scotsmen.
Certain sketches have reached the point of immortality, especially John Cleese's "dead parrot" sketch, in which he plays an increasingly peeved guy who is trying to return a parrot that was "nailed to its perch" to disguise the fact that it was dead. Also Eric Idle playing the obnoxious ... Read More
Rating: - Superb collection
I received two of the "Personal Best" series as gifts, so I won't mind that small bit of duplication to get the entire Python collection. I have some of the shows on VHS, so this set is perfect for us. Really looking forward to getting the collection!
Rating:  - Give us a break A&E!
Here we have yet *another* retread of the Monty Python set!
From the studio description of this set:
"Python is back and heavier than ever! This very special, limited-edition release features ultra-collectible packaging, and is jam-packed with the most side-splitting British comedy ever to cross the pond!
Included are 21 discs filled with THE COMPLETE MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS, and packed with every madcap moment from the program's four year run, the Personal Best DVDs featuring the Pythons' personal best sketch picks, plus 2 live DVDs and 2 can't miss, brand new Monty Documentaries, Before the Flying Circus and Monty Python Conquers America, detailing the Pythons' rise to the pinnacle of comedic greatness.
So, this holiday season, don't miss out on a must-have certain to thrill any comedy lover with this brand-new packaging of Britcom's finest!"
So... we get "The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus", the "personal best" DVDs.. (are these really needed if you have the full set?) and a couple of "new" documentaries for almost double the cost of the 16 ton megaset.
Hmmm... I recommend that you save your money and get this instead:
The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset
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