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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

I BLAME MONTY PYTHON for being a philosophy nerd & my metabolism for being a night owl.

twas 10-11pm, mid-1970s Puerto Rico. was ±10 and already an insomniac. so i turn on, my tiny hand-me-down B&W tv, to the local local PBS; which was the only station with programing at that hour.

this is what i saw: Monty Python's "International Philosophy" aka the philosophers' soccer match.

twas my first Monty Python episode and, to this day, my all time favorite one.

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"Hegel is arguing that reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically, it exists only in the imagination and Marx is claiming it was offside".

whoops, i threaded these wrong, but whatevs:

i knew my version was missing Marx and sure enough, here's the whole skit as it was projected during their Hollywood Bowl special

iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=i21OJ8S

Michael Palin's sportscasting for this skit is absolutely on point. that's why it is such a gem of a comedy skit: this is true sportscasting with actual philosophy scholarship that turns it into a parody of both pop culture and academia.

seriously, this *IS* the perfect Monty Python sketch.

OOH! OOH! OOH!

at Wikipedia, came across this article about a 2010 re-enactment by the UK's "The Philosophy Shop"

"Who's the thinker in the white? | TV comedy | The Guardian"
theguardian.com/theguardian/20

and here's the video of the match! it's not as funny but totally endearing. they're an org that train philosophy majors to teach philosophy to elementary school kids

iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=MIE7QVV

The Guardian · Who's the thinker in the white?By Julian Baggini

@steter the part of Nietzsche getting yellow carded because we have no free will always kills me, LOL

@blogdiva "Marx is claiming it was offside" is the line that cracks me up, just for its abrupt change in register

@blogdiva one of the greatest sketches of all time, absolutely brilliant

@tuckerteague right?!?!? seriously, this should be in the dictionary as the perfect example of parody. it's brilliant.

@blogdiva

OMG Liza what a moment that must have been. I never saw this skit! I love the end where he's detailing the various German philosophers' protests. My first Monty Python was MP & the Holy Grail, on mushrooms, in some high school friend's basement. I think we watched it 3 times straight through.

@blogdiva
Ooooh that's a good one.

So many great moments. Upper Class Twit of the Year is one that often comes to mind, too. My favorite line "His father was a cabinet minister and his mother won the Derby" 🏇🏼😁

Slickest yo mama joke, ever.

@blogdiva I first saw that one skit while I was minoring in philosophy as an undergrad . Had somehow missed this one sketch during repeats until I was studying the preSocratics over summer break and hurt myself laughing