OFFICIAL MICHAEL PALIN APPRECIATION THREAD!

[elshiva]

(He's sitting down)




sitting down again in front




Please share your favorite Michael Palin momemts. Thank you.

buffy

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. Well, tonight we're going to talk about

...well, that is, I'm going to talk about... well, actually, I'm talking about it now. Well, I'm not talking about it now, but I am talking. I know I'm pausing occasionally, and not talking during the pauses, but the pauses are part of the whole process of talking; when one talks, one has to pause... uh, like then! I paused, but I was still talking... and again there! No, the real point of what I'm saying is that when I appear not to be talking, don't go nipping out to the kitchen, putting the kettle on, buttering scones or getting crumbs and bits of food out of those round, brown straw mats that the teapot goes on, because in all probability I'm still talking and what you heard was a pause... uh, like there again! Look, to make it absolutely easier, so there's no problem at all, what I'll do, I'll give you some kind of sign, like this (gestures) while I'm still talking, and only pausing in between words, and when I've finished altogether I'll do this. (folds arms) All right?





THE END



No, no! No, sorry - just demonstrating. Haven't finished. Haven't started yet. Oh, dear!(gestures) Nearly forgot the gesture! Hope none of you are nipping out into the kitchen, getting bits of food out of those round, brown mats which the teapot... Good evening (gestures) Tonight I want to talk about...



We interrupt this programme to annoy you and to make things generally irritating for you.



...with a large piece of wet paper. (gestures) Turn the paper over... turn the paper over, keeping your eye on the camel, and paste down the edge of the sailor's uniform until the word 'Maudling' is almost totally obscured. (gestures) Well, that's one way of doing it. (gesture)

[edbermac]

3. I loved his Gumby character. The Lumberjack. Ken Shabby.

And what job do you do, Mr Shabby?

I clean out public lavatories.

Is there a promotion involved?

Oh, yeah. After five years they give me a brush.

:rofl:

[realisticphish]

5. My head is stuck in the cupboard!

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Cor, blimey!

Sorry, Squire. I gobbed on yer carpet.









I use Rancid Polecat No. 2. It keeps my skin nice and scaly.

[elshiva]

8. Oh right away, squire, I haven't had any for weeks.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. JUST a MOment!

Zis man ees not Louis XIV! I've been looking eet up een my bath! Louis XIV died in 1717; eet's now 1783! Answer me zat!

[elshiva]

17. HAHA, but that's Terry Jones.

:rofl: I loved the Golden Age of Ballooning.


buffy

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. Dammit

Y'know, sometimes when they're in costume, I get 'em mixed up. :blush:

[pokerfan]

16. Argument sketch

M= Man looking for an argument (Palin)
A= Arguer (Cleese)

(Walk down the corridor)
M: (Knock)
A: Come in.
M: Ah, Is this the right room for an argument?
A: I told you once.
M: No you haven't.
A: Yes I have.
M: When?
A: Just now.
M: No you didn't.
A: Yes I did.
M: You didn't
A: I did!
M: You didn't!
A: I'm telling you I did!
M: You did not!!
A: Oh, I'm sorry, just one moment. Is this a five minute argument or the full half hour?
M: Oh, just the five minutes.
A: Ah, thank you. Anyway, I did.
M: You most certainly did not.
A: Look, let's get this thing clear; I quite definitely told you.
M: No you did not.
A: Yes I did.
M: No you didn't.
A: Yes I did.
M: No you didn't.
A: Yes I did.
M: No you didn't.
A: Yes I did.
M: You didn't.
A: Did.
M: Oh look, this isn't an argument.
A: Yes it is.
M: No it isn't. It's just contradiction.
A: No it isn't.
M: It is!
A: It is not.
M: Look, you just contradicted me.
A: I did not.
M: Oh you did!!
A: No, no, no.
M: You did just then.
A: Nonsense!
M: Oh, this is futile!
A: No it isn't.
M: I came here for a good argument.
A: No you didn't; no, you came here for an argument.
M: An argument isn't just contradiction.
A: It can be.
M: No it can't. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
A: No it isn't.
M: Yes it is! It's not just contradiction.
A: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.
M: Yes, but that's not just saying 'No it isn't.'
A: Yes it is!
M: No it isn't!
A: Yes it is!
M: Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes.
(short pause)
A: No it isn't.
M: It is.
A: Not at all.
M: Now look.
A: (Rings bell) Good Morning.
M: What?
A: That's it. Good morning.
M: I was just getting interested.
A: Sorry, the five minutes is up.
M: That was never five minutes!
A: I'm afraid it was.
M: It wasn't.
Pause
A: I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to argue anymore.
M: What?!
A: If you want me to go on arguing, you'll have to pay for another five minutes.
M: Yes, but that was never five minutes, just now. Oh come on!
A: (Hums)
M: Look, this is ridiculous.
A: I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to argue unless you've paid!
M: Oh, all right.
(pays money)
A: Thank you.
short pause
M: Well?
A: Well what?
M: That wasn't really five minutes, just now.
A: I told you, I'm not allowed to argue unless you've paid.
M: I just paid!
A: No you didn't.

[elshiva]

6. Mr. Orbitor-Five, correct?

Also, the time he was talking frantically asking questions to the camera...

"What do we mean by sit? What do I mean by go? And what do I mean by wasting your time like this, good night."

buffy

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. I was gonna post that one

But I can't remember the name of it or which show it was in. x(









So. There.

[grasswire]

2. my favorite is from his travel show

In one season, he walked across the Sahara Desert (a good part of it) with some camels, some Bedouins, and precious little else. There were many moments of him talking and laughing with the camel drivers. They did not share any language. He was teaching them to say "bottoms up" after taking a drink. That doesn't sound particularly funny, but it was. And then they would get him to repeat some of their words, and they would howl with laughter. It showed his lovely humility and human spirit as much as humor.

[PassingFair]

4. Notlob

[Arugula Latte]

9. ...

"The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead!"

[elshiva]

11. Pining for the fjords.

[PassingFair]

13. Kips on 'is back.

[pokerfan]

21. It's not pining, it's passed on.

This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

[elshiva]

22. It's a great bird the Norweigan blue

beautiful plummage.

[pokerfan]

12. Best Actor award!

Won a BAFTA for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Fish Called Wanda).

He's a lumberjack, and he's okay...

[Danger Mouse]

15. His performance in Brazil.

A more serious role, and a very chilling one. He plays a torturer who wears a baby mask, because torture isn't bad enough, it has to be done by somebody who looks fucking creepy.
He delivers the most evil and creepy line in the whole movie 'This is our professional relationship' which you'd have to have seen the move to understand, but yeah.
Good times.

[elshiva]

18. I loved that movie. Brazil rocks.

Also, check out my sig picture and the second picture? Doesn't he look a lot like Anthony "Rupert Giles" Head in that pic?


:hug:

buffy

[Danger Mouse]

20. One of my favorite movies ever.

[Mendocino]

23. "The Wretched Birth,

Miserable Childhood, Agonizingly Painful Adolescence, and Appallingly Vile Death of Miles Copperthwaite." By Charles Dickens

SNL 5-12-79

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. Wasn't that Charles Dikkens?

The well-known Dutch author? :shrug:

[Mendocino]

26. Chapter two:

"I Am Nailed to the Hull"

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. "Like all British babies, I was sent into the coal mines at age three...

...and every night when I came home, my mother would say (falsetto voice)'Look at you, you're all dirty..."

(For some reason, I still remember that SNL appearance.)

I also enjoyed most of Michael Palin's travelogues, but he jumped the shark with the last one, New Europe, which was all about him acting silly in various parts of Eastern Europe rather than being about Eastern Europe itself.

[Supply Side Jesus]

27. "Come see the violence inherited in system.....

help help I'm being repressed....!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76WQzVJ434

[Ikonoklast]

28. "Fwends, Womans, Countwymen...,"

"Wait till Biggus Dickus hears of this!"

[underpants]

29. smartass

it's been asking for this all day

[wickerwoman]

30. Oh come on! Every sperm is sacred!

[mwooldri]

31. He's doing his bit to get public transport improved in the UK:

http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/about_us

Turns out that he was bemoaning the bad state of the trains one day whilst waiting for a number that got cancelled. A guy from this group (then known as Transport 2000) told him well if you're so fed up with public transport here, join us and work with us to help improve things. He did - and became their president for a bit. He's still involved with them.

Mark.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

33. I knew there was a reason I liked him

Good on you, Michael! There's a good lad!

[Doc_Technical]

32. The Fish Slapping Dance!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMKCLyhBBwI

[NNadir]

34. I was very moved by his travel series when he took us to Stalin's slave labor uranium mines.

It was in Kamchatka.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

35. My Brain Hurts!

Close up on a sign saying 'Harley Street'. Stirring music. Mix through to interior of a smart, plush, ever so expensive Harley Street consulting room. The music swells and fades. Knocking at door, a short pause, then T.F. Gumby enters, backwards.
T. F. Gumby Doctor! Doctor! DOCTOR! (he goes up to the antique desk and bangs the bell violently; he smashes the intercom and generally breaks the desk up) Doctor! Doctor! DOCTOR! DOCTOR! Doctor! Doctor! Where is the Doctor?

A pause. Then another door opens and another Gumby appears.

Specialist Hello!

T. F. Gumby Are you the brain specialist?

Specialist Hello!

T. F. Gumby Are you the brain specialist?

Specialist No, no, I am not the brain specialist. No, no, I am not... Yes. Yes I am.

T. F. Gumby My brain hurts!

Specialist Well let's take a look at it, Mr Gumby.

Gumby specialist starts to pull up Gumby's sweater.

T. F. Gumby No, no, no, my brain in my head. (specialist thumps him on the head)

Specialist It will have to come out.

T. F. Gumby Out? Of my head?

Specialist Yes! All the bits of it. Nurse! Nurse! (a nurse enters) NURSE! NURSE! Nurse, take Mr Gumby to a brain surgeon.

Nurse Yes doctor...

She leads Gumby out. In the background the specialist is grunting and shouting.

Specialist Where's the 'Lancet'?

Nurse (to T. F. Gumby) He's brilliant you know.

Specialist Where's the bloody 'Lancet'? My brain hurts too.