For me the Pythons defined abstract comedy. As goofy as they often were, the sketches maintained an internal consistency of logic. Their characters were continually true to themselves and the focus of whatever skit they appeared in. This total dedication to twisted logic made the skiots "believable" in an absurd manner. John Cleese showed his comic genius in Falwty Towers, which he did with the same type of madcap aplomb after Python. Also, I think the show lost some of its edginess afyer his departure. Monty Python's Flying Circus should go down in the annals of television as one of the most inventive and envelope-pushing comedy creations of all time. For it to have ben rated as only the 77th best showm as was done by Entertainment Weekly, is as absurd as any skit the troupe ever did.

--GoldenLancer

My senior year of high school (1974-1975), Iowa Public Broadcasting ran Monty Python's Flying Circus at 10:30 Saturday nights. No matter what my friends and I were doing on Saturday night, we'd always stop at someone's house to watch the half hour of hulariously different, yet interconnected series of skits. Moving on to college in another state in the fall of 1975, MPFC was edged out in this time slot by a new show- Saturday Night Live.

--Jack P