The Order Of The Stick: January

[McMouse]

Our local library has a bunch of episodes, thats where I watch mine. Often video stores have em for rent. *shrugs* Anyway, that's where the joke is from.

[Invariel]

Glaive-dy glaive-dy glaive... Glaive-de glaive, wonderful glaive-glaive...

As for the Cheese Shop, it's something you should check out, at the very least. I'm sure you can check online and find out which of their various compilations to find it on, and then rent it at your local movie rentie place thing. (Unl;ess they're completely out of movies, which would be ironic, wouldn't it?)

In faaaaact, you can find a fraction of the sketch, animated, and using the audio track from the record, here: http://www.daminator.com/older.htm

[Arian]

And googling on "Monty Python cheese shop" will instantly provide you with links to about a zillion transcriptions.

As will "Monty Python Spam", "Monty Python dead parrot" and "Monty Python Lumberjack Song", should you not be acquainted with any of those.

[Duskrider_Moogle]

Glaive-dy glaive-dy glaive... Glaive-de glaive, wonderful glaive-glaive...

As for the Cheese Shop, it's something you should check out, at the very least. I'm sure you can check online and find out which of their various compilations to find it on, and then rent it at your local movie rentie place thing. (Unl;ess they're completely out of movies, which would be ironic, wouldn't it?)

hahaha

[Caledonian]

The Kamikaze Highlands! I loved that skit!

And the one where the extraterrestrial blancmanges invaded Wimbleton and took over the whole of the Northlands. (The OOTS so needs to face an advanced blancmange.)

[Knight13]

what the heck's a blancmage?

[Circon]

Some sort of white pudding.

[Shatteredtower]

Ah, Monty Python -- there's nothing better for when you need a quick substitute for humour... ::)

[Arian]

Ha! Python IS funny!

The Goon Show, now that's just plain weird. Talk about humour only the British could appreciate...

[Paragon_Kobold]

Hello everybody! I just joined right now because I, too, had to tell Keith
how much I enjoy the comic...

In addition to the Python reference I seem to detect some references to
Steve Jacksons old 'Random Pole-arm Generation Table'. Am I right, or are they just both parodying Gary Gygax strange fascination with pole-arms?

[SeanHeavyfoot]

In the immortal words of the Giant himself...

"Who the hell is Keith"

<psst.... his name is Rich Burlew>

[Paragon_Kobold]

<psst.... his name is Rich Burlew>

No... I'm pretty sure it's Keith... :)

[SeanHeavyfoot]

We are talking about Order of the Stick, are we not?

Order of the Stick = Rich Burlew


Perhaps you are thinking of Keith Baker, the maker of Ebberon.

[Paragon_Kobold]

And why should we not tell Keith Baker how much we enjoy Order of the Stick?

Are you trying to keep it a secret or something?
>:(

[Arian]

Sean, either you're giving the pot another stir or you haven't read pp. 4-5 of this thread. :-)

- The former, I see. Right, carry on... :D

[pumpkinetics]

And Banjo's back!!!

So Thor's really Thor Junior?

"Awww... but I like puppets"

[Knight13]

YES, Banjo returns! Elan did the right thing, the Asgardean pantheon are a bunch of pansies! Not even in the same league as almighty Banjo.

Uh, Rich? When you say Church of Freya, do you mean the rat lady from Final Fantasy 9?

So Thor's really Thor Junior?

Actually Thor's dad is Odin, ruler of the Norse gods. That's who the old guy with the eyepatch is.

[Arian]

So Thor's really Thor Junior?

Not if that makes the other guy "Thor Senior". That's Odin.

- Snap, Knight13 :-)

[SeanHeavyfoot]

Sean, either you're giving the pot another stir or you haven't read pp. 4-5 of this thread.

- The former, I see. Right, carry on...

Right.. uhh, i was just reading it wrong. I see what he meant now.. oh and I haven't read pg 4 or 5... i don't I have anyways.

[Vik]

Tee hee ...
Just when my coworkers began to think I'm serious, the apperance of the Puppt Civil Liberties Union have me ROFL :-[

I guess all this OotS stuff is only here to discredit me, isn't it ? 8)

[Meagen]

Uh, Rich? When you say Church of Freya, do you mean the rat lady from Final Fantasy 9?

No, I think he means Freya. The God of Light, from the Norse pantheon.

Either that or the little gray guy who was a bit stubborn about fixing that one sun, but I doubt that's the case.

[Corvus]

No, Frey was the god of light in the Norse pantheon. Freya was his sister and was godess of love and fertility.

Actually, she was a bit more than that, but they tend to tone down that side of things nowdays.

[Muisje]

"But I like puppets."

Me too! Especially Banjo.
I had such a good laugh.

[Shatteredtower]

Ha! Python IS funny!

See, this is the circular logic I see every time Python comes up.

"Python's hilarious!"

"When?"

"Dead Parrot Sketch!"

"And why's that funny?"

"Because it's Python!"

"So when have they been funny?"

"Spam sketch!"

"And what makes that funny?"

"Because it's Python?"

"And what makes you find them so funny?"

"The Sargeant-Major sketch!"

"And it's funny because--?"

Seriously, that's usually as far as most people can explain it. It's like Pavlovian conditioning.

Don't get me wrong. There were a group of intelligent, clever gentlemen with more than a few good insights, but most of their collective work within the ensemble was dreck. Even SNL couldn't beat a joke to death as well as these folks.

Then again, SNL has never had a collection of fans willing to keep beating the joke to death for them more than twenty years later, either. ::)

The Goon Show, now that's just plain weird. Talk about humour only the British could appreciate...

Some of it's quite regional, I grant you, but it hardly takes British Citizenship to appreciate most of it. I once kept a room in stitches with a recitation of "The Treasure of Loch Lomond," back when I could still remember the words.

I've seen people laugh at the Dead Parrot sketch too, but it's always seemed mechanical to me.

"Ha-ha, it-is-the-Dead-Parrot-Sketch. How-it-never-fails-to-leave-me-rolling-in-the-aisle-even-after-the-hundredth-time-I-heard-it-ha-ha-ha."

I don't think I've ever known anyone to even chuckle at the Spam sketch. But since Python plays to most of Mr. Burlew's audience and it was a strip posted on his normal day off, I can't really grumble all that much about it, can I?

[arche]

I wanted to see a puppet lawsuit :).

Very funny Giant!

[Ashlock]

Odin the All-Father never looked so cool. And so approachable!

Good one, Rich. Well, they're all good ones. But they don't all get me to post. ;)

[Meagen]

Monty Python is quite amusing if you view it by itself. The humor is mostly based on surrealism: taking a normal situation and adding a bizzare twist to it. The distortion is augmented, most often by establishing a sort of internal logic in the scene and then applying further twists to it.

This surreal humor, however, is rooted in very accurate observation of human nature, and in particular the various foibles of the Brisitsh middle-class in the early-to-mid 20th century.

I do agree that Monty Python references are a tad overused. It's like the "pants" thing (where you take any written work and replace various nouns with the word "pants"): Side-splittingly hilarious the first twenty times or so, but really *really* dull afterwards.

It doesn't help that the bulk of Monty Python re-writes is based on only four or five sketches from the entire run of Flying Circus (and selected fragments of Holy Grail). There is no reasonable explanation for this other than a particular sort of herding instinct.

The tendency to "flog the dead parrot" is unfortunately quite prevalent in Internet culture, which by and large tends to be unable to just let a joke die. (See also: All Your Base, MY HED IZ PASTED ON YAY!, or any other meme/running joke of your choice.)

[Fire_Wolf]

Don't get me wrong. There were a group of intelligent, clever gentlemen with more than a few good insights, but most of their collective work within the ensemble was dreck. Even SNL couldn't beat a joke to death as well as these folks.

You have a point -- sometimes Python sketches are just plain over the top, or so bizzaire that they entirely miss the point of being funny and go strait into being disturbing. When The Meaning of Life wasn't making me feel sick, it was just plain irritating me.

On the other hand, when Python humour hits it's the funniest thing since sliced bread. The reason it's funny is because it takes real world scenarios and takes them out of any real world sensibility. The discord between expectation and the result are what makes it funny (like the Spainish Inquisition poking people with soft cushins), with a few clever lines and comical stupidity (like the range of descriptions of the Dead Parrot being dead, combined with the shopkeeper's insistance that it's not).

Mind you, my mum doesn't find Monty Python funny, and I can see why. Sometimes it's just TOO much. But it's not all UNfunny. :p

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Oh, and all hail BANJO!

[Invariel]

Could I interest you in some string? O: )

[GlordFunkelhand]

I'm just wondering why Thor is blonde? Despite what Marvel wants to tell you... Thor is a Readhead :)