As Brad kindly pointed out, Entertainment Weekly has ranked their top 20 favorite Monty Python sketches of all time. I’ve no beef with their choices, although the fact that “Dennis the Anarcho-Syndicalist” from The Holy Grail is missing is rather glaring.
Here is the list, formatted for your viewing pleasure (my comments in []’s):
20. The Argument Clinic [“Look, I came here for an argument!” “No you didn’t!” “Yes I did!”]
19. Killimanjaro Expedition [“Their mission was to build a bridge between the peaks of the two Killimanjaros… My idea, I’m afraid.”]
18. The Restaurant Sketch [“It makes…me…mmmmaaaaad!”]
17. Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion Visit Sartre
16. The Visitors
15. Every Sperm Is Sacred
14. Interesting People
13. Spam [“Lovely Spam, wonderful Spam!”]
12. Self-Defence [“Well I’ll tell you something my lad. When you’re walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of loganberries, don’t come crying to me!”]
11. Crunchy Frog
10. Stoning [“Right! Who threw that?” “She did! She did! Harrrumph {deeper} He did! He did! Him!”]
9. Eric the Half a Bee
8. Nudge Nudge [“Snap snap, grin grin, wink wink, knowwhaddimean knowwhaddimean, say no more!”]
7. The Lumberjack Song [“…And hang around in barrrs!”]
6. Fish-Slapping Dance
5. The Funniest Joke in the World
4. Dead Parrot [“This parrot wouldn’t voom if you put 4000 volts through it!”]
3. Guy de Loimbard’s Castle [“I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries!”]
2. The Ministry of Silly Walks [“It’s not particularly silly, is it? I mean, the right leg isn’t silly at all and the left leg merely does a forward aerial half turn every alternate step.”]
1. The Spanish Inquisition [“Ha! Right! Cardinal, give the rack. Oh dear… give the rack a turn.”]
Heh.
