Monty Python's Flying Circus
Monty Python's Flying Circus Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 8.5 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 8.6 | 8.3 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 8.3 | 7.9 | |
| S2 | 8.1 | 8.5 | 8.9 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 8.1 | |
| S3 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 7.6 | |
| S4 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 7.3 |
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"Comedy that mocks its own structure gleefully"
A sketch show with no interest in behaving like one: bits collapse mid-scene, animated segues by Terry Gilliam swallow punchlines whole, and a stuffy announcer keeps insisting nothing unusual is happening. There's no plot, no recurring premise, just a troupe of British comics (Cleese, Palin, Idle, Jones, Chapman, Gilliam) demolishing the very idea of a well-made sketch. It's silly, cerebral, and deliberately anticlimactic, often funniest when it refuses to land a joke at all. Watching it feels like eavesdropping on smart people gleefully bored with convention, decades before that became a comedy cliché itself.
the sheer novelty of sketches that refuse to resolve, tie off, or make sense on purpose.
you need jokes to have punchlines or sketches to actually end.
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