The Mustard Inspectors select with their 3rd round pick, in the
World category:
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Somewhat surprised it's lasted this long, I have no choice but to fill what I find to be a rather thin category (or at least one I'm not as familiar with) with the greatest sketch comedy show of all time. I'm not going to, as there have been a couple threads on the Pythons before here on CPuck, but I could put up dozens of Youtube videos of stuff from this show, and it was funny then, funny now, and will be funny forever. Only 45 episodes were made, but that was more than enough to make this troupe famous the world over, and successfully transitioned them into feature films. From Time Magazine:
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If not for the efforts of five Britons (and one American animator), paid for by the BBC and imported by PBS, nerds the world over would still have to impress each other by quoting the periodic table of the elements. Python made erudition cool by tearing out the final stones in the Hadrian's wall between high and low culture, showing that Sartre references and "botty" jokes could live together in hilarious sin. The show's droll, Dadaist sketches—I won't try to list them, but your brother or nephew in college will be glad to—hold up so well decades later because they focus on the timeless: philosophy, the class system and, of course, the eternal issue of transvestitism in the lumber industry.
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It's an honor to add Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, and Terry Gilliam's
Monty Python's Flying Circus to
The Mustard Inspectors!
