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Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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  • Coconuts

    Guard: Halt! Who goes there?

    King Arthur: It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeater of the Saxons, Sovereign of all England!

    Guard: Pull the other one!

    King…

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  • Bring out your dead

    Dead Collector: Bring out jer dead!

    Large Man: Here's one.

    Dead Collector: Nine pence.

    "Dead" Man: I'm not dead.…

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  • Must be a king

    Large Man: Who's that then?

    Dead Collector: I dunno. Must be a king.

    Large Man: Why?

    Dead Collector: He hasn't got shit all over him.

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  • A self-perpetuating autocracy

    King Arthur: Old woman!

    Dennis: Man.

    King Arthur: Man, sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there?

    Dennis: I'm 37.…

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  • The Black Knight

    King Arthur: You fight with the strength of many men, sir Knight. [The Black Knight looks at him in Silence] I am Arthur, King of the Britons. [The Black Knight doesn't respond as Arthur looks at Patsy and back at the…

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  • Turned me into a newt

    Bedevere: How do you know she is a witch?

    Peasant: She looks like one.

    Bedevere: Bring her forward!

    Girl: I'm not a witch.…

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  • The quest for the holy grail!

    God: Arthur! Arthur! King of the Britons!

    God: [In an annoyed tone] Oh, don't grovel! If there's one thing I can't stand, it's people groveling.

    King Arthur: Sorry.

    God: And don't apologize! Every time I try to talk to…

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  • French taunts

    Frenchman: You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called Ah-thoor Keeng, you and all your silly English K-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-niggets! [makes…

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  • Knights who say Ni

    Head Knight: The Knights Who Say Ni demand a sacrifice!

    King Arthur: Knights of Ni, we are but simple travelers who seek the enchanter who lives beyond these woods--

    Knights who say Ni: Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni!

    King Arthur: Oh…

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  • It's a silly place

    Sir Lancelot: Look, my liege! [trumpets blare to a shot of a castle]

    King Arthur: [awed] Camelot!

    Sir Galahad: Camelot!

    Sir Lancelot: Camelot!…

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  • Holy hand grenade

    King Arthur: [Holding the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch] How does it... um... how does it work?

    Sir Lancelot: I know not, my liege.

    King Arthur: Consult the Book of Armaments.

    Brother Maynard: Armaments, chapter two…

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