Monty Python - Bicycle Repairman
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Monty Python - Bicycle Repairman
As the search engine here is still FUBAR, I don't know if this has been posted here before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01xasUtlvw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01xasUtlvw
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Posted before? Sixty Fiver is Bicycle Repairman!
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"See how he uses a spanner to tighten that nut" Cracks me up every time!
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Truly amazing how he works on a black Sports with straight bars and a dynahub, but finishes with a copper Clubman. I bet when they got to the scene where he had to actually pick it up and hand it to the guy, he couldn't lift it so they swapped in the racing bike.
12-08-09, 11:35 AM
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I was wondering about that dynohub and what exactly was going on there. But both bikes, gorgeous. I loved that Clubman.
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I guess everyone has seen it, but has it been analyzed?
Here’s my take.
In a world where every man is super-man, “bicycle repair man” is the hero!
I see on the nightly news how the mantle of "hero" is so regularly handed out to those who accomplish the common. Graduate to the third grade? The children are the heros!
Back in the day, a "hero" was someone who risked his own life and saved another person’s life. Most heros are dead from trying. To call someone a hero who does the common, degrades the title where it means nothing.
Example: It is often said of firemen “they put their life on the line every day” but they don’t really. Maybe once a year a fireman in my town goes in a blazing inferno and pulls out a person. There’s your “hero”. But “Joe-the-fireman is more likely to be burned at the BBQ pit at the fire-house, than at a house-fire.
My utmost respect and thanks go to our firemen, for doing a great job.
At an annual Veteran’s day event, all the vets in the audience were asked to stand and be hailed as “heros”. I stood, out of peer pressure mostly, but I did nothing heroic during the 4 years I served, and felt ashamed to be hailed as such, when a “real” hero might have been present.
Was Monty Python commenting on the degrading of the notion of heroism?
You’re welcome.
Here’s my take.
In a world where every man is super-man, “bicycle repair man” is the hero!
I see on the nightly news how the mantle of "hero" is so regularly handed out to those who accomplish the common. Graduate to the third grade? The children are the heros!
Back in the day, a "hero" was someone who risked his own life and saved another person’s life. Most heros are dead from trying. To call someone a hero who does the common, degrades the title where it means nothing.
Example: It is often said of firemen “they put their life on the line every day” but they don’t really. Maybe once a year a fireman in my town goes in a blazing inferno and pulls out a person. There’s your “hero”. But “Joe-the-fireman is more likely to be burned at the BBQ pit at the fire-house, than at a house-fire.
My utmost respect and thanks go to our firemen, for doing a great job.
At an annual Veteran’s day event, all the vets in the audience were asked to stand and be hailed as “heros”. I stood, out of peer pressure mostly, but I did nothing heroic during the 4 years I served, and felt ashamed to be hailed as such, when a “real” hero might have been present.
Was Monty Python commenting on the degrading of the notion of heroism?
You’re welcome.
12-08-09, 01:01 PM
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Monty Python, typical of British comedy of the era, were never that deep. It's not that you don't have a good point but the Python crew just did stuff because they thought it was funny, not to send any particular message.
David Prowse (aka Darth Vader) did a similar sketch a few years after this as the The Green Cross Code man, and it was meant to be serious which makes it even funnier.
David Prowse (aka Darth Vader) did a similar sketch a few years after this as the The Green Cross Code man, and it was meant to be serious which makes it even funnier.
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Dang, I was just trying to get a good thread going...
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Well, in that case, let's start with the low hanging fruit.
My take on the 'Nudge Nudge' sketch is that the people who are most fascinated by sex are the ones who know the least about it. How's that for deep? Now... who wants to analyze the 'Dead Parrot' sketch?
My take on the 'Nudge Nudge' sketch is that the people who are most fascinated by sex are the ones who know the least about it. How's that for deep? Now... who wants to analyze the 'Dead Parrot' sketch?
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I guess everyone has seen it, but has it been analyzed?
Here’s my take.
In a world where every man is super-man, “bicycle repair man” is the hero!
I see on the nightly news how the mantle of "hero" is so regularly handed out to those who accomplish the common. Graduate to the third grade? The children are the heros!
Back in the day, a "hero" was someone who risked his own life and saved another person’s life. Most heros are dead from trying. To call someone a hero who does the common, degrades the title where it means nothing.
Example: It is often said of firemen “they put their life on the line every day” but they don’t really. Maybe once a year a fireman in my town goes in a blazing inferno and pulls out a person. There’s your “hero”. But “Joe-the-fireman is more likely to be burned at the BBQ pit at the fire-house, than at a house-fire.
My utmost respect and thanks go to our firemen, for doing a great job.
At an annual Veteran’s day event, all the vets in the audience were asked to stand and be hailed as “heros”. I stood, out of peer pressure mostly, but I did nothing heroic during the 4 years I served, and felt ashamed to be hailed as such, when a “real” hero might have been present.
Was Monty Python commenting on the degrading of the notion of heroism?
You’re welcome.
Here’s my take.
In a world where every man is super-man, “bicycle repair man” is the hero!
I see on the nightly news how the mantle of "hero" is so regularly handed out to those who accomplish the common. Graduate to the third grade? The children are the heros!
Back in the day, a "hero" was someone who risked his own life and saved another person’s life. Most heros are dead from trying. To call someone a hero who does the common, degrades the title where it means nothing.
Example: It is often said of firemen “they put their life on the line every day” but they don’t really. Maybe once a year a fireman in my town goes in a blazing inferno and pulls out a person. There’s your “hero”. But “Joe-the-fireman is more likely to be burned at the BBQ pit at the fire-house, than at a house-fire.
My utmost respect and thanks go to our firemen, for doing a great job.
At an annual Veteran’s day event, all the vets in the audience were asked to stand and be hailed as “heros”. I stood, out of peer pressure mostly, but I did nothing heroic during the 4 years I served, and felt ashamed to be hailed as such, when a “real” hero might have been present.
Was Monty Python commenting on the degrading of the notion of heroism?
You’re welcome.
Not to derail... the skit is very funny. It's one bike related joke that even my wife thinks is funny, aside from laughing at me riding my bike.
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He's not dead, he's just pinin' for the fiords.
Now, the sport of "fish slapping" that there's deep stuff.
Now, the sport of "fish slapping" that there's deep stuff.
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Two other favorite (and on topic) skits are the Cycling Tour and the utterly brilliant Picasso on a Bicycle... "That's not Picasso, that's Kandinsky!" Actually, that entire episode was a classic, with It's the Arts, Arthur "two sheds" Jackson, the Whizzo butter commercial, etc...
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The Cheese Shop sketch comes a close second - but Bicycle Repair Man is tops!
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Not nearly as fun as the Argument Clinic
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Wish I had a bicycle repairman who could turn my Sports into a Clubman...
As an aside, it's not a sports, but a lower end model - you can tell by the wire fender stays.
As an aside, it's not a sports, but a lower end model - you can tell by the wire fender stays.
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