My friends and I used to ride our bikes to the library and get the Python albums and listen to them religiously. That was really my introduction to Python, long before I ever saw them. When I was a teenager I would rent the VHS tapes of the Flying Circus episodes and memorize the skits, including the lesser-known ones. I recorded "Live At The Hollywood Bowl" and wore out that tape! The movies were secondary to me and still are, although I do love them too of course. But then, I was only two years old when Holy Grail was released... and I wasn't old enough to see "Meaning Of Life" when it was in theaters. But once I was about thirteen or so, I do remember rewinding the "Man who chooses the manner of his own execution" scene quite a lot.
To this day, I still recite stuff like "Dennis Moore", "Salad Days" and "Mr. Neutron" to a sea of blank stares.
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