A Slow Process

[Heikki Toivonen]

The next thread.

[Freak Boy]

Freak Boy pops in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It's a hillarious movie right from the get go.

I have traveled many miles on horseback to--

Horseback?

Yes, we--

What horses, you're banging coconuts!

What?

You've got two coconuts and you're bangin' them together.

That doesn't matter. We've come to ask your lord if he--

Where'd you get the coconuts?

.... We found them.

Coconuts? In Europe?! Coconuts grow in a tropical climate, this is a temperate zone.

The plumber may migrate to find customers elsewhere, and the swallow flys south--these are not strangers to our lands.

Are you suggestin' that Coconuts migrate?

Not at all... they could be carried.

Are you suggesting that a 5oz bird could carry a 2 pound coconut?

It could grip it by the husk.

It's not a matter of where he grips it, it's a simple matter of weight ratios. A 5oz bird cannot carry a 5lb coconut!

This kind of humor Freak Boy really enjoys. He likes it as much as slapstick or any other humor, but this really makes you pay attention to the dialogue.

[Rei "Zero" Usagi]

I can't help but smile and maybe chuckle a little. This isn't laugh out loud funny, but in a way this is better, it helps to take my mind off things since I need to think a little.

[Freak Boy]

Freak Boy laughs as the Black Knight gets hacked to pieces, all the while lobbing insults. And of course the "Witch" scene is his favorite. John Cleese was a comic genius... if only he and Mel Brooks would've done a project together--that would've been hillarious.

[Rei "Zero" Usagi]

"Some of this is just insane... She's made of wood because she weighs the same as a duck? Wow, these people are DUMB!" I say with a big grin. I do laugh out loud when the narrator reads the profiles about Sir Robin and 'The aptly named Sir Not Appearing in this Film.'

[Freak Boy]

This is not only the first time Freak Boy has spent any time at all with Zero, but the first time he's seen her laugh like this as well. It's certainly more fun than he expected.

When they try to take the French castle, Freak Boy grins.

"The French never won a war in their life... that's what I find so ironic about that scene," he says as the Trojan-Rabbit gets flung overhead.

Sir Robin's song brings out laughter from Freak Boy, as well as Sir Lancelot's wedding crashing, as does the whole Sir Lancelot "rescuing" Sir Gallahad bit. The movie is a riot.

[Rei "Zero" Usagi]

"Yeah, that's great!" I say. I like the scene with the Knights who say 'Ni' and the continuing police investigation into the murder of the historian. "These guys are geniuses. they took a good, serious story and made it funny."

[Freak Boy]

Freak Boy nodded. "And in life of Brian they managed to piss off every single religious institution from the Catholic Church to the Jews," he said with a smirk.

Ted the Enchanter has his eccentric performance, which cracks both of them up, and then comes the best part in the movie...

"The Killer Rabbit," Freak Boy whispers under his breath as they approach the cave. When he first saw this part, he laughed until he cried.

[Rei "Zero" Usagi]

When I see the small white rabbit slaughter the knights all I can manage is "What the fu..." And I just about lose it when they come to the holy hand grenade. "My god! that is insane!!" I comment.

[Freak Boy]

Tim the Enchanter's whole, "Oh no, it's just a little bunny, no need to worry" sarcasm bit cracks Freak Boy up. The Holy Hand Grenade... the passage in the bible, when listened to, is freakin' hillarious.

And the narration on the wall leading to the castle of "Aaaaaugh!" is even more hillarious.

"The Brits are insane sometimes, but that's why their humor is so high ranking," Freak Boy says, watching as the animator dies of a heart attack and saves everyone's life.

[Rei "Zero" Usagi]

"Well I guess it's just the right mixture of intillect and insanity." I say, and then laugh when they reach the Bridge of Peril. "That's great!"

[Freak Boy]

Lancelott's safe passage was anti-climactic, but Sir Robin's unexpected death was hillarious. Then comes the swallow reference from the beginning of the movie that kills the white eyed bridge guardian, who was also the old man from scene 24.

"You have to know these things when you're a king," Freak Boy says with a chuckle. Then we see why Lancelott isn't with them any more--the police investigation into the death of the historian!

[Rei "Zero" Usagi]

I think the part when the French dump shit on Arthur is rather gross, but the unexpected invasion which is brought to an equally unexpected two police cars is hilarious. "That was good. Thanks. I needed to laugh..."

[Freak Boy]

"Laughter is the spice of the soul. Buddha said that," Freak Boy says, looking at the time. "Getting late, and my shack doesn't have the best insulation for the night weather. I'll go grab the blankets... would you like a pillow, or is the couch arm going to be fine?"

[Rei "Zero" Usagi]

"Well if you have a spare pillow that'd be nice, but if not the couch arm is fine." I say. I do feel better than I did before the movies.