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Monty Python's Flying Circus - Season 2 (1970)

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Show title: Monty Python's Flying Circus

IMDb score: 8,8 (86.679)

Episodes: 13

Playing time: 6 hour and 30 minutes

Developed by: Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin

Stars: Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin

Origin: United Kingdom

Releasedate: Tuesday 15 September 1970

First aired on: BBC One (Verenigd Koninkrijk)

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Monty Python's Flying Circus plot

Monty Python is an experimental and unconventional sketch show where short fragments are often knitted together by very short animations. The punch line is often missing during the skits and there is no story. Returning characters include the Gumbys, an announcer, a knight who beats people with a rubber chicken, a naked organist, the Pepperpots, and Biggles.

Episodes Season 2 (1970)

  1. 1. Dinsdale!

    15 September 1970 (30 minutes)

  2. 2. The Spanish Inquisition

    22 September 1970 (30 minutes)

  3. 3. Déjà Vu

    29 September 1970 (30 minutes)

  4. 4. The Buzz Aldrin Show

    20 October 1970 (30 minutes)

  5. 5. Live from the Grill-O-Mat

    27 October 1970 (30 minutes)

  6. 6. It's a Living

    3 November 1970 (30 minutes)

  7. 7. The Attila the Hun Show

    10 November 1970 (30 minutes)

  8. 8. Archaeology Today

    17 November 1970 (30 minutes)

  9. 9. How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body

    24 November 1970 (30 minutes)

  10. 10. Scott of the Antarctic

    1 December 1970 (30 minutes)

  11. 11. How Not to Be Seen

    8 December 1970 (30 minutes)

  12. 12. Spam

    15 December 1970 (30 minutes)

  13. 13. Royal Episode 13

    22 December 1970 (30 minutes)

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The second season is off to a great start. The first episode features the legendary sketch The Ministry of Silly Walks, a nonsense combination of physical comedy, verbal humor and political satire. That someone is applying for subsidies for something completely nonsensical, must be a stab underwater. The second episode The Spanish Inquisition is conceived more as a whole with a common thread. Ironically that towards the end everyone expects the Spanish Inquisition - who invades with great ostentation but then goes bumbling.

Politics, religion, television, literature and the indignant vox populi are laughed at. Remarkably, Margaret Thatcher was already mocked in 1970. They deliberately deviate from traditional comedy by not using a punchline, or by concealing it. Typical of their British humor is that the actors maintain an unruffled facial expression while all kinds of disasters take place around them. There's also some metafiction in it, for example when they break through the fourth wall to explain that it was all staged, or read the credits .

Still, from the third episode, things get a bit hit and miss. The cross-dressing air and the sexist jokes are bland, but right after that comes another brilliant find. Beethoven is composing his fifth symphony in a laughable way, but is interrupted by a vacuum cleaner - a whopper of an anachronism. Another great episode is How Not to Be Seen. This series pushed the boundaries of what kind of humor could be on TV.

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