This week: The Monty Python in WoW.
Today we are going to delve a little into the Monty Python group and its references in the game, which have sometimes been discussed in different articles on this website. We will know all those references and a little more about them and their work.
This Week The Monty Python they bring us their humor Guias WoW.
Monty Python was a British group of comedians, with a surreal and absurd sense of humor. They achieved fame thanks to their series for English television Monty Python's Flying Circus (El Circo Ambulante de los Monty Python), based on brief sketches that on many occasions included a significant load of social criticism. The first episode was broadcast on October 5, 1969 by the BBC and the series continued on the air until 1974.
In these they used to interview prominent figures and approach the current news, always with a casual tone and humorous. Likewise, they made parodies of events and public figures. Very well received, this program had different variants throughout the 1970s.
In 1974, his second feature film, The knights of the square table and their crazy followers, obtained the unconditional applause of the public and critics. This film was followed, in 1979, Life of Brian, considered one of the summits of humor cinema, and, in 1983, The meaning of life, which did not enjoy the same success as its predecessors and after which the group disbanded.
Its members:
Some of its members have also achieved solo fame, such as Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam as directors and John Cleese as an actor.
References in World of Warcraft
- In Elwynn Forest, in the Vega del Este sawmill, we find Terry Palin, in English the Lumberjack, in Spanish the woodcutter. It is taken as a reference to Terry Jones and Michael Palin, members of Monty Python and authors of the song «lumberjack song"And his famous phrase" I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK. I sleep all night and I work all day ». It was a pity that as of patch 3.0.8 the Simple wood it is no longer needed to light cooking fires, so its only merchandise is totally unnecessary.
- In the Ruins of Enkaat, in Netherstorm, we find the robot specialist Alley, a goblin who created her little robots: Max A. Million Mk I, II y V. Reference to The Knights of the Square Table, when King Arthur uses the Holy Hand Grenade and yells "One, two, FIVE!"
- The Black Knight of the Argent Tournament is the clearest and most prominent icon of all the Monty Python references, or at least that is how many players understand it. This character (we believe) is based on the Black Knight from the famous movie The Knights of the Square Table pleasantly surprises us when at the end of the chain of missions based on him he rewards us with the achievement of It's just a superficial woundGreat phrase that the Knight says when he is totally massacred in a duel. Here you have a link to the Wikipedia with the movie reference.
When I started this article I had a couple more references to your movies that, sadly, get lost in the English to Spanish translation.
And if you like the video and you like its humor, you can also see, in addition to the Knights of the Square Table movie, the Life of Brian, a satire on Christianity.