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That's probably true for some of their works, but I think Holy Grail works without that background knowledge. I first saw it when I was 13 (so, very much not educated yet), and I didn't feel like anything went over my head.
Do you still feel that way? I would honestly be surprised if anyone catches all of the things on a single viewing.
You just know that every theater audience will be shouting all the lines along with the movie. That alone will make it worth going.
They had been doing it for a while, and had rocky-horror picture show levels of audience participation and costumes (Yes, including a cadre of knights in armor that brought their own shrubbery).
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Bigger, longer, and uncut can all refer to a human penis, or to a movie release.
No way! How could I have not ... got that. All these years ...
I, on the other hand, seem to still be 13 years old, decades later :)
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It's just DNRed version.
DNR?
What a good idea oh Lord!
(One of my favorite bits.)
Wonderful! My wife and I just showed this movie to our kids last month, and they loved it. I'd always assumed "Your mother was a hamster and your father stank of elderberries" was just a meaningless bit of Monty Python absurdity. When my wife explained to the kids that meant your mom is a slut and your dad is a drunk I was flabbergasted. I had never reevaluated that iconic insult from my initial ignorant teenage assu…
As a teen I got in trouble once because I said that as a not at all serious insult to someone. I also didn't know it meant anything. The trouble was he *did* know what it meant but did *not* know it was a movie quote. So he went to the teacher and complained, and such is life.