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October 4, 2005

#16: Monty Python -- Enough explain

Monty Python -- Enough

[The comic is drawn on blue-ruled graph paper.]

[A Cueball with raised hands talks to two other Cueball-like characters and one Megan.]

Cueball: We are the Knights who say… Ni!!

Cueballs and Megan: hahaha

[There is only text in the second panel]

Does anyone else find it funny that decades later, people are still quoting –word-for-word– a group loved for their mastery of shock, the unexpected, and defiance of convention?

[Two Cueballs are looking at a hairy guy.]

Hairy guy: We are the Knights who… oh, God, I’m so sorry

[Close up of hairy guy.]

Hairy guy: So sorry, the car just came too fast and

[Words crumpled inside the panel, there’s barely enough space for the hairy guy to the right and below the text. The last two words need to be to the right of him.]

Hairy guy: She was right there and I saw her and then it was a blur and so much I ran to help didn’t know what she wasn’t moving I’m so sorry

Hairy guy: so sorry

[The two Cueballs are looking again at the hairy guy.]

Hairy guy: Anyway, yeah, Knights who say “Ni.”

[The last panel is also almost only text. The text is centered. Below is a drawing that looks a flat infinity sign with two small lines at the center.]

Honor

Monty Python:

promote surreal humor.