Customer Reviews for The Complete Monty Python’s Flying Circus: 16 Ton Megaset – DVD Set

This item may currently be in stock at your local Costco warehouse for immediate purchase at a cash and carry price. The complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16 Ton Megaset packs together the original 14-DVD megaset with the 2-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 3 1/2 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").   Features: Format: 16 DVD Set   Genre: Comedy   Language: English   Screen format: Fullscreen   Audio format: Dolby® Digital 2.0   Run time: Approximately 29 hrs. plus Model: SMA155586002