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I Fart In Your General Direction

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  1. Literal says:

    Love this one — Monty Python FTW!

    • Literal says:

      … although the “Hollywood Squares” caption was a nostalgic reference, as well(win/fail — not sure exactly WHAT to consider “Squares” at this stage in my life).

  2. rhorho says:

    *PFFFTTT* Amateurs!

  3. SteelSkin says:

    Fetchez la vache!

  4. Mike says:

    What- no Obamagasm ?

  5. faetal says:

    I snorted… and continue to do so

  6. Scum says:

    Funny? Really? Not my kind of humor I guess. I’ll admit that I think about 5% of Monty Python is funny. Some of the remaining 95% is creative, but not funny. The rest is boring, tedious dreck.

    Oh well.

    • Danbala says:

      I love MPFC to bits, but have gotten bored with any references to it. Just had too much of it, I guess. So I didn’t find this funny either, but for other reasons than you. :)

    • froofrou says:

      Hmmmmmm. Explains a lot.

    • Uncle Fester says:

      It was mostly pushing the boundaries of ‘comedy’… bit like the Goons did before them, and Spike Milligan did until his death… The problem with that kind of thing, the line into rubbish or self indulgence is easily crossed…

      • FaileV says:

        i always liked the smarter bits, monty python became far funnier after i studied some english literature, but i always liked it as a surreal comedy thing

        • Scum says:

          That’s actually a very good point. I’m quite sure that some of the smarter humor went right over my head since I didn’t pick up on the British influenced references.

          One of the reasons I’ve always loved The Simpsons is that they make reference to so many movies, tv shows, writers, politicians, poets etc. Sometimes they’ll beat you over the head with it, but often it’s a more subtle reference and you have to be aware to pick up on it.

          Of course another reason I love them is because nothing is sacred. They pick on everyone.

          In spite of the fact that there was a culteral barrier with Monty Python, most of my friends still love them to this day.

          • FaileV says:

            i know people that despise futurama, mostly because they just dont get the nerdy jokes in it, which make up like half the content

            • Scum says:

              I love it, and it’s coming back this year, right?

              • FaileV says:

                maybe? Comedy central picked up the show, and the crew decided to make a movie and went “well why not two” “why not three” “why not four?” so now there are four movies made or being made. I have heard that if the movies do well, they have everyone to continue the series, but i haven’t heard anything official about things after the movies.

            • telefil says:

              “I’m a tenth level Vice-President!”

            • Literal says:

              Announcer: Checking the electron microscope… And the winner is 3, in a quantum finish!
              Professor: No fair! You changed the outcome by observing it! (tears up ticket)

              Since I am an advisor in the sciences, I got the geek-factor, but had to have one of my physics graduate students help me with it.
              Now that’s geeky.

              Heh.

              As far as “Futurama” is concerned, I have four words:
              Shatner Sings Slim Shady.

              • Scum says:

                Announcer: Checking the electron microscope… And the winner is 3, in a quantum finish!
                Professor: No fair! You changed the outcome by observing it! (tears up ticket)

                A fellow geek at work gave me a really nice mock-up of that scene. He knew I’d love it. I had it on my wall at work for years. I was surprised at how few people understood it. I worked with a lot of scientists, mostly in the medical field though. On a related note, I admit that I actually had a Schrödinger’s cat screen saver at one point… :cool:

                As far as “Futurama” is concerned, I have four words:
                Shatner Sings Slim Shady.

                And Walter Koenig responds: <How can anyone do a spoken word version of a rap song?"

                • Literal says:

                  “And I’m Santa’s friend, Jesus!”
                  Priceless! LOL!

                  • Literal says:

                    Upon a blanket request for “Futurama” lines to the living room, my 12-year-old just hollered: “Those balls are making me testy,” but we can’t remember from which episode that line originated, although we do recall it was Bender who spoke them with such eloquence.

                    • FaileV says:

                      war is the h-word….i spent last semester watching futurama, every episode. My friends and I can now sing the opera in the final episode “the devil’s hands are idle play things”

                      • Literal says:

                        As an advisor, that makes me want to check your GPA :)
                        As a fellow Futuramaphile, WTG! That opera is hilarious. It’d be perfect in a talent show. My son and his buddies did “Peter Griffin — Can’t Touch Me” and it was hysterical.
                        I remember this line, I think … “deception’s the curse of my whimsical gender.”

                      • FaileV says:

                        “he gave me mechanical ears, effective though just a bit garrish, and in turn without shedding a tear, I gave him my hand” “in marraige” “what” “you gave me your hand, in marraaaige”
                        “is this really happening or just being staged” “it can’t be real, not if leela is engaged.” “That isn’t what I want, that isn’t what I signed.” “you should have checked the wording in the fine….priiint” “the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, now that IS Irony!”
                        I messed that up a bit, but yeah, as for GPA, I actually did a lot better that semester.

                      • Scum says:

                        @FaileV
                        That’s great, and scary. I admit I do better with the Simpsons references than the other two. I actually just got off the phone with an old co-worker. He and I used to practically quote entire episodes.

                        One of my favorite songs from that series (and there are so many) was when Troy McClure did the musical version of Planet Of The Apes.

                        I hate every ape I see. from chimpan-a to chimpan-z.
                        No, you’ll never make a monkey out of me.

                        Oh my God, I was wrong, it was Earth all along.
                        Yes you finally made a monkey,
                        (ape chorus Yes we finally made a monkey),
                        Yes, you finally… made… a… monkey.. out of me!

                        Mr. Burns singing ‘See my Vest’ is also a classic.

                      • FaileV says:

                        to be honest it sounds scarier than it is. there’s only 4 seasons and it always happens to be on while i’m doing homework. Devil’s hands is our absolute favorite episode as a group so…that one I’ve seen far too many times.
                        ~
                        I love the see my vest ep

                      • Literal says:

                        LOL @ “See My Vest” … I remember snatches from that song!

                        “See this hat, ’twas my cat …”

                        “Feel this sweater, there’s no better,
                        Than authentic Irish setter”

                        “So let’s prepare these dogs”
                        “Kill two for matching clogs!”

                      • froofrou says:

                        Burns:Some men hunt for sport,
                        Others hunt for food,
                        The only thing I’m hunting for,
                        Is an outfit that looks good…

                        See my vest, see my vest,
                        Made from real gorilla chest,
                        Feel this sweater, there’s no better,
                        Than authentic Irish setter.

                        See this hat, ’twas my cat,
                        My evening wear – vampire bat,
                        These white slippers are albino
                        African endangered rhino.

                        Grizzly bear underwear,
                        Turtles’ necks, I’ve got my share,
                        Beret of poodle, on my noodle
                        It shall rest,

                        Try my red robin suit,
                        It comes one breast or two,
                        See my vest, see my vest,
                        See my vest.

                        Like my loafers? Former gophers -
                        It was that or skin my chauffeurs,
                        But a greyhound fur tuxedo
                        Would be best,

                        So let’s prepare these dogs,

                        Mrs. Potts: Kill two for matching clogs,

                        Burns: See my vest, see my vest,
                        Oh please, won’t you see my vest.

                      • Scum says:

                        @froofrou

                        That’s funny. I was just going to go look for the words. Thanks
                        Of course now I’m singing it…, thanks….

                    • Scum says:

                      That line of course reminds me of the Simpsons line, spoken
                      by Principal Skinner (aka Armand Tamzarian):
                      Nibbles, chew through my ball sack!

                • Literal says:

                  Oops, I forgot to mention, I had a long chat with Jenne about the possible existence and personality of Schrodinger’s other cat, as well …
                  Meh. Physics leaves me phlummoxed.

                  • Scum says:

                    Oooo, I had that same conversation with a friend years ago.

                    We set it up like it was the manifestation of Quantum entanglement, but with the cats.

                    If you did observe Schrödinger’s cat and it was dead, that
                    meant of course the ‘paired’ cat would also have to be dead.

                    The conversation got really interesting when we were discussing what could be the potential states of existence of the paired cat, as long as no one observed Schrödinger’s cat.

                    • Literal says:

                      8-O
                      *head splodes*

                      Wanna see? I can tie my own shooz!

                      • Scum says:

                        Haha, yeah I know.
                        Quantum Mechanics humor gets a little, esoteric. But I do miss those days.

                      • slan agat says:

                        Schrodinger’s lolcat?

                        IM IN UR BOX – MAYBE

                        O hai. Ur quantum theory – i upgraded it.

                      • Scum says:

                        @Literal
                        It actually got a lot worse. Since they were an entangled pair, did observing the paired cat influence the cat in the box, and how would we know without observing the cat in the box. We decided to introduce our own version of ‘quantum spin’ by combining the two old axioms:
                        Buttered toast always lands butter side down. and
                        A dropped cat always lands on its feet.

                        So if we attached buttered toast (butter side up) to the back of the paired cat and dropped it, you would get a perpetual motion machine in that cat, but what would happen to the cat in the box since it didn’t have buttered toast on its back and could conceivably land on its feet. How would that influence the paired cat?

                        Now do you understand why I love the humor in Futurama?

                      • Literal says:

                        HOLY F**K I understand that!
                        And what’s worse, I can VISUALIZE it!
                        *blinks. checks acid reducer pill for the presence of actual acid*
                        You and your friend (together or seperately, although together would likely result in a synergistic division-by-zero effect) should have many babies and populate the universe with your seed. Immediately.
                        Or slow down on the extra special mushrooms on your Chicago-style.
                        And I totally understand the Futurama/Simpsons fixation. All the humor of real-life, none of the quirky weirdness that comes with real-life actors.
                        Although I must admit that as an adult-parent-type who is supposed to feign indifference of such societly-defined juvenile past-times, I feel pressured to use my children to get my geek-on. And I unapologetically do: it’s a win for all.

                      • Scum says:

                        Well if you can visualize that, welcome to my brain, and I’m really sorry about that. Please remember, it is BYOS (Bring your own ‘shrooms).

                        Speaking of Chicago Style – Uno’s Spinocoli, one of the best creations known to mankind at least in pizza pie form.

                        But speaking of food related science:

                        Fry: Oh, I don’t know. [Farnsworth walks past with his crate on a hover trolley.] Hey, Professor, what are you teaching this semester?

                        Farnsworth: Same thing I teach every semester: The Mathematics of Quantum Neutrino Fields. I made up the title so that no student would dare take it.

                        Fry: [writing] Mathematics of wanton burrito meals. [He points his pencil at Farnsworth.] I’ll be there!

                        synergistic division-by-zero effectWow, trying to form a mental picture around that makes me feel like my head’s going to explode.

                      • Scum says:

                        Oh, and isn’t that exactly what children are for? I always thought they were there so parents could live out their dreams (because they obviously worked sooo well for them, that it’s only right that their children be made to fail in the same way). Or to provide the excuse to still be able to do childish things.

                • Literal says:

                  How, you ask? He’s the SHAT!

      • Uncle Fester says:

        Innovators of British humour 1950-1970 101

        Spike Milligan Michael Bentine

        Barry Took Marty Feldman

        The Pythons

        The Goodies

        David Frost

        Ned Sherrin

        Far from complete and only in my opinion…

        and yes, they did use a lot of comedy standards (Laurel and Hardy, Morecambe and Wise, the Marx Brothers, Dan Leno, Tommy Handley, Arthur askey, Max Miller…), but if you look at it, everything goes back beyond Comedie del’Arte

      • Scum says:

        I just remembered that I saw them on a program once where they were all sittting on stage talking about their lives, the show etc. The one who had died recently(?) was in an urn on the stage as well. Of course they had to have a little bit of slapstick humor with the ashes (sigh).

        I remember that while they were talking, they were some of the funniest people I’d ever seen and heard. Then they’d show clips of their comedy and I’d stop laughing or even smiling. It was boring crap. (I know this is blasphemy, but one of the clips I thought was awful was the Dead Parrot).

        The show would return to them on stage talking and again, funny-as-hell.

        I mean I like Terry Gilliam. I like John Cleese and Eric Idle too.

        I just think that show/movies for the most part were playing to the lowest common denominator. I think they ‘dummed themselves down’.

        I wonder if most people love MP simply because they’re ‘supposed to’. My friends all love them too.

        Oh well.

        • Uncle Fester says:

          Graham Chapman… the dead one

          ‘He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy’ is something of a common household phrase…

        • Literal says:

          You can’t assume that people love it because they are “supposed” to. Some of us love it because we aren’t (weren’t).
          I’m from a tiny little conservative timber town in North Idaho (queue backwoods jokes and dueling banjos music here) in which humor did not extend beyond that which could be gleaned from our, I kid you not, very basic existence. Most of that came from the occasional foray to the public library and whatever the tin-foil rabbit ears could pick up on Public Access.
          I was in my pre-teen years when I first heard the “Lumberjack” song: I had missed the bus and ended up forced to spend time with a “town family.”
          Such hilarity! Such delicious blasphemy! I felt dirty and naughty, yet totally engrossed … like the best pron ever; braygasm after braygasm followed as I pictured generations of my male family members dancing about in “suspendies and a bra …”
          Hooked, I tell you, hooked. It was like crack and pron all rolled into one forbidden package.
          Now that I’m an academic advisor, degreed in Higher Education Administration, Political Science and Communication, I gotta give credit where it’s due: MP was one of the reasons I was able to step outside of myself, have a good belly laugh at my existence and see that I was destined for more-fulfilling things than sticking around North Idaho.
          Besides, I still crack up when I think about 6’8″, 330-lb Uncle Dwayne in a frickin’ tutu.

        • AC says:

          Aye, plenty of them are just hilarious. But the dead parrot? The cheese shop?
          More or less made up for by “The Spanish Inquisition” & “Biggus Dickus” tho….

        • Danbala says:

          I wonder if most people love MP simply because they’re ’supposed to’.
          To a certain extent that may be valid. Maybe not strictly because they think they should like it, but I suspect that at least in my case a lot of my MP-liking stems from being raised with them as something that’s quite ever-present. They’re referenced so often, and reference so much themselves, that they’re intertwined with just about anything in my life.
          .
          If I saw a Monty Python production today, without any connection to it and without knowing anything about it beforehand, I’d probably be mildly amused but possible not much more than that.

  7. Steve says:

    “I told them we’ve already got one!” *snickers*

  8. Ignatz says:

    Alternate Goon Show caption:

    “Hennnnnrrryyyyy! There’s someone at the door, Henry!”

    (Sorry, best I could do at short notice. I’ll go hide now.)

  9. Gr3y says:

    You sons of a silly person! Your mother was a hampster, and your father smelt of elderberries!

  10. Hell Hath No Fury says:

    I blow my nose at you, you so-called Aurthur King, you and all your silly English Kniggits! *raspberries, whacks self of helmet*

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  12. Kelsey says:

    And your mother was a hampster and your father smells of elderberries!

  13. Oh yeah?! Fart in my direction?! Well then… *sits on your lap and then farts so you feel all the fart vibrations* OWNED! Muahahaha! xDDDDD Lulz.


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