Talk:List of recurring Monty Python's Flying Circus characters

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Mr Luxury Yacht

Mr Raymond Luxury Yacht (Graham Chapman with an enormous false nose) appears in Episodes 19 and 22. Don't know if that's noteworthy. -- megA (talk) 19:49, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not a very good article

This article is mostly inaccurate or WP:FANCRUFT or both.

"Reverend Arthur Belling" is two slightly similar characters, but really they've just re-used the name.
"The Shopkeeper" from the Parrot Sketch is a completely different character to "Mr Wensleydale" from the Cheese Shop sketch.
"Eric Praline" is a completely different character to the policeman from the Crunchy Frog sketch.
"Spiny Norman", "Mr Nudge", "Ken Shabby" and "Mr Badger" are all essentially one-off characters.
Specific "Pepperpots" and "Gumbys" usually don't recur, so it might be more accurate to call these types "running jokes" rather than recurring characters. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thecorinthian85 (talk • contribs) 06:53, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

With such a loose definition of "recurring" and indeed "character", this article cannot be comprehensive. It's scarcely notable that the Pythons briefly re-used a particular costume or name in the background of a later sketch.

I will edit the article a bit, but tbh total deletion may be the only cure! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thecorinthian85 (talk • contribs) 06:42, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

WP:CITEVAR

I set up the bibliography, so that we could transiction to WP:SFN. Does anybody disagree? 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:46, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. SpinningSpark 14:52, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

User:Spinningspark You did not improve the article, and removed links by reverting my edit. You really think that is an improvement? How? WP:Own? But be my guest. Some battles are not worth fighting. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:14, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've restored the publisher links. I don't think they are especially useful, but I don't want to make an issue out of that aspect. SpinningSpark 15:28, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. You can exercise your liberum veto. I've disengaged from this tempest, and this article, too. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:47, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Non sequitur?

The Gumbys were part of the Pythons' satirical view of 1970s television condescendingly encouraging more involvement from the "man on the street". Gumbys were frequently cast as intellectuals, but invariably exposed their own stupidity while trying to voice an intelligent opinion. The Pythons did not always have ordinary people as dimwitted as the Gumbys. "Stadium of Light, Jarrow" seems to support the new television philosophy.

The last sentence doesn't make any sense. Is it trying to say that the "Literary Football Discussion" sketch in episode 11 is also inspired by the same style of television as the Gumby characters?Matuko (talk) 01:00, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I wrote that sentence and yes, that is what I meant, but looking again, I don't think I can justify it. The character Jimmy Buzzard gives unarguably unintelligent answers, and the source I cited doesn't really support the claim either. I think I might have got this sketch confused with the Ripping Yarns episode "Golden Gordon", but this was three years ago and I can't really remember. SpinningSpark 11:03, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Ooh, you know, it's a far cry from small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Isn't it? Mmmmm. Marvellous!!" [1] Ron Manager 123 (talk) 11:15, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sweater-vest?!?

The garment under scrutiny is a tank top; to call it anything else is as insulting to Americans as it is to native speakers of the insular idiom Nuttyskin (talk) 13:12, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]