Monty Python’s Flying Circus Restored for Blu Ray (1 Viewer)

[AndyMcKinney]

According to the Digital Bits not all the extras will be carried over from the 16 Ton Megaset to the new release. I might have to keep both sets?

if you want those particular extras, yes (if the extras you wanted to keep were all on the 2-disc Monty Python Live!, you could get rid of the remaining 14 discs that comprised the original, pre-16 Ton set, or get rid of the whole thing and pick up a separate 2-disc Live set).

Apart from some of the stuff on the Live set, I would have assumed most of what on the original 14-disc set look to be pretty non-essential/disposable.

Also, I think it is planned for Network to do a separate cleaned-up release of the two German episodes (Fliegender Zirkus), so the A&E version of that might eventually be a redundancy.

 

[Philip Verdieck]

Review from The Digital Bits:
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And here’s a great little touch: If you start playing episodes from the disc menu, each begins just as you remember them. But when you do, you might notice that the episodes start at Chapter 2—if you skip back from there, Network has actually included the original BBC studio VT clock leaders at the front of each episode! Studio portions of the show were actually recorded in front of a live audience, and you can hear the stage manager counting down to the start of the recording. Occasionally, one of the Pythons can even be heard joking with the audience as well

This is awesome!!!!

 

[The Obsolete Man]

Reports of damaged boxes are coming loud and clear from across the pond.

That damn thing did look impossible to stay in one piece.

But on the plus side, mine is shipping and supposed to be here on Friday.

 

[B-ROLL]

Reports of damaged boxes are coming loud and clear from across the pond.

That damn thing did look impossible to stay in one piece.

But on the plus side, mine is shipping and supposed to be here on Friday.

I have a few suspects in mind...

 

[The Obsolete Man]

I have a few suspects in mind...

I would've preferred my set be packed in a comfy chair.

 

[Malcolm R]

Or perhaps in the feathers of a dead parrot.

 

[darkrock17]

Spam does not make good packing material

 

[Malcolm R]

That's fine because I don't like SPAM!!

 

[David Weicker]

I wonder if they restored the firing squad ‘missing scene’ from The Cycling Tour

 

[darkrock17]

That's fine because I don't like SPAM!!

Don't make a fuss, I'll have your spam edition. I love it. I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam baked beans, spam, spam, spam

 

[Ronald Epstein]

I have a few suspects in mind...

You know, one of the funniest things I have ever seen -- and this may actually be the funniest -- is the episode where The Spanish Inquisition finds themselves in the absolute wrong place when they are suddenly needed. We watch as they have to painfully wait for a bus to get to their destination as the show's credits roll. Trying to race to beat the end of the credit roll, they finally reach their destination and are about ready to deliver their famous line when...

It's just true fucking genius whomever came up with that shit.

 

[darkrock17]

You know, one of the funniest things I have ever seen -- and this may actually be the funniest -- is the episode where The Spanish Inquisition finds themselves in the absolute wrong place when they are suddenly needed. We watch as they have to painfully wait for a bus to get to their destination as the show's credits roll. Trying to race to beat the end of the credit roll, they finally reach their destination and are about ready to deliver their famous line when...

It's just true fucking genius whomever came up with that shit.

An expert from the UK TV station, Channel 4. This was a 2005 special called Britain's 50 Best Comedy Sketches. The Spanish Inquisition came in at #12.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

I wonder if they restored the firing squad ‘missing scene’ from The Cycling Tour

It's hard to pick one episode to be my favorite but The Cycling Tour would be in the top five.

 

[mBen989]

I'll assume the reason the German episodes aren't here is the

I would've preferred my set be packed in a comfy chair.

The comfy chair?

 

[darkrock17]

I'll assume the reason the German episodes aren't here is the


The comfy chair?

 

[texboil]

In regards to the extras, you have to get The Life of Python set if you want “everything.” Those two discs are not included in the 16-ton megaset. They include the material created for the 30th anniversary and one of the German shows.

 

[MatthewA]

I wonder if they restored the firing squad ‘missing scene’ from The Cycling Tour

I'm still trying to understand the mindset behind the censorship of the All-England Summarize Marcel Proust Competition, mainly

Spoiler: NSFW

why "masturbating" is more offensive than "strangling animals."

 

[TJPC]

Reports of damaged boxes are coming loud and clear from across the pond.

That damn thing did look impossible to stay in one piece.

But on the plus side, mine is shipping and supposed to be here on Friday.

It's hard to pick one episode to be my favorite but The Cycling Tour would be in the top five.

“Its funny how you can go through life hating bananas and being indifferent to cheese but still enjoy a delicious banana and cheese sandwich”.

 

[darkrock17]

I'm still trying to understand the mindset behind the censorship of the All-England Summarize Marcel Proust Competition, mainly

Spoiler: NSFW

why "masturbating" is more offensive than "strangling animals."

Strangling is not an offensive word, but the other word though and during that time period of the 70's through the 90's when MPFC was in syndication, that was a big no no word that couldn't be said on TV programs here in the US and probably in other countries as well. The UK have more relaxed views of saying "shocking words" as it's part of their culture. They can say a lot things in their shows that still today the US can't unless their on either cable stations or streaming services.

 

[MatthewA]

US TV was already becoming more permissive partly because of All in the Family. The hypocrisy is that a sexual reference got censored but not a violent one. I guess some taboos are more taboo than others.