Subj : Bizarre Python-War of the Worlds cross-overs
To   : All
From : Mike Combs
Date : Thu Jun 23 2005 02:19 pm

From: "Mike Combs" <mikecombs@nospam.com_chg_nospam_2_ti>

Oh, I just had to share this...

Over on rec.arts.sf.movies somebody brought up the Pendragon version of "War of 
the Worlds" which was just released on DVD.  While insulting the special 
effect, I said:

"What I found amusing is that their CGI was not only chintzy-looking, but 
apparently cheaper than a horse rental.  When some of the characters in those 
supposedly horse-drawn wagons were pretending to drive their horses onward, it 
made me want to go, "You can't fool me!  You've got a lackey up there banging 
coconut halves together!""

That prompted James Gassaway to remark:

"I wish you hadn't said that.  Now my brain is trying to process the idea of 
Monty Python's War of the Worlds."

So I offered up:

A Martian goes into a pet shop to complain about the human he just bought:

Shop owner: Yes, the Norwegian white.  What's wrong with it?

Martian: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad; 'e's dead that's what's 
wrong.

Shop owner: He's probably pining for the Earth fjords.


So Kevin Reilly gave us:

Final scene from 'Monty Python's Life Of Gzynoryyxx': several smashed war 
machines lie in the ruins of London, and from out of each slithers a dying 
Martian. All are sick, decrepit-looking specimens, except for one disturbingly 
happy alien who suddenly smiles and begins to sing to the accompaniment of 
whistles from the Martian chorus:

        "Always look on the bright side of Earth.
        Even though it's not the world of your birth.
        If your invasion's gone awry,
        Don't break down and cry,
        Even though the humans laugh and mock us.
        Though we thought our plans were smart
        We were buggered from the start
        'Cos we forgot to take our jabs for streptococcus.
        And always look..."

etc.


By this point James was threatening to send us both the bills for his next 
twenty years of psychoanalysis.

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Regards,
Mike Combs
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