Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: A&E
EAN: 9780767085519
Format: Box set
ISBN: 0767085515
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 16
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-09-27
Running Time: 1749
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1982-06-25

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Summary: Great Collection
Comment: For those that appreciate Monty Python's Flying Circus this is a great collection to have. Fourteen DVDs each with three episodes of the BBC tv show, which make for a total of fourty-two episodes of the Monty Python's Flying Circus tv show and two DVDs with the groups specials, makes for a truly great collection that is well worth having and well worth the money.

This collection has all of the great sketchs that I wanted the most, like the Pet Shop sketch, the lumberjack sketch, too silly and The Spanish Inquisition and many others.

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Summary: Best Birtday Gift Ever!
Comment: My husband was thrilled with his new 16 Tons of Monty Python! He's always been a big fan and has been watching the episodes in order for the first time and just loves it!

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Summary: excellent
Comment: The Monty Python troupe has something for everyone, thier humor spans the spectrum from slapstick to wordplay. This set includes all 45 episodes of their classic "Monty Python's Flying Circus" series plus 2 live shows and the special episodes done for German television. A must have for fans of the greatest comedy team of all time.

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Summary: The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset
Comment: I love Monty Python and I have seen the Flying Circus videos before and I have wanted to own them so I could watch them whenever I wanted too. The more you watch the more you get the jokes and find new ones that you have missed. So I can't wait to keep going through them. And to be able to see Monty Python live too.

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Summary: GLUED TO IT
Comment: I got this set for my husband for CMAS and I've rarely seen him since. I have purchased many DVD sets for him of British-based shows (like Benny Hill) but he could take them or leave them. This set can even get him to walk away from his Miata!

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New for 2005, The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset packs together the original 14-DVD megaset with the two-disc Monty Python Live in space-saving Thinpaks. While more cautious fans may want to pick and choose among the previously released individual volumes of Monty Python for their collection, true Pythonites will want to own this definitive megaset that contains all 45 episodes (in chronological order) of Monty Python's Flying Circus. This "persistently silly" collection encompasses three-and-a-half seasons of dead parrots, cross-dressing lumberjacks, loonies, upper class twits, and spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, and spam. Click past the occasional clunker and go directly to such signature sketches as the Ministry of Silly Walks, the Spanish Inquisition, the Fish-Slapping Dance, the Dead Parrot Sketch, the Lumberjack Song, the Cheese Shop, the Argument Clinic, and Nudge, Nudge. Taken as a whole, one marvels at how Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam thoroughly subverted television convention with "something completely different," like sketches with no punch lines ("Your average TV viewer isn't going to understand this"). A warning to the uninitiated: there is much "material that some may find offensive, but which is really smashing." Violations of something called the "Strange Sketch Act" are the least of the troupe's offenses, as witness the Oscar Wilde Sketch, the Dirty Vicar Sketch, and the Most Awful Family in Britain Sketch, all of which achieve "the really gross awfulness" all Python fans are looking for. Say no more.

Monty Python TV shows, movies, records, and books are a time capsule of their anarchic lunacy. But more precious is an audience with Python, and as close as we can get is Live at the Hollywood Bowl, the long-sought-after 1982 concert film in which the Fab Six perform their greatest hits before a wildly enthusiastic crowd. Robert Klein moderates Live at Aspen, the irreverent 1998 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival tribute that reunited John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, and Terry Jones onstage for the first time in 18 years on the occasion of the troupe's 30th anniversary. Highlights include a shockingly funny moment involving Graham Chapman's ashes, and a joyous "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" sing-along. Less essential is 1989's clip show Parrot Sketch Not Included: 20 Years of Python, which also does not include "The Oscar Wilde Sketch," "Cheese Shop," "Nudge-Nudge," and many other signature sketches. --Donald Liebenson