Beckenbauer Obviously a Bit of a Surprise There

By Sean Carroll | September 26, 2006 9:56 am

I’ve been looking for this for years online — Monty Python’s classic International Philosophy football match, Greeks vs. the Germans.

“This is Nietzsche’s third booking in four games.”

CATEGORIZED UNDER: Humor, Philosophy, Sports
  • http://www.amara.com/ Amara

    Hilarious! Thanks for this.

  • spyder

    Where is the 21st century MPFC when we truly, really need them?

  • feynman

    Do you do actual work, Sean….

  • Nicholas

    Awesome! I love this one…

    my favorite line is when he says, “and Marx says he was offsides.”

    NM

  • Henry Holland

    That’s one of my favorite Python sketches, especially the line “Beckenbauer, he’s a bit of a surprise”. Karl Marx also figures in another one, where he, Mao, Che and Lenin answer questions about English football to have a chance to win the non-materialistic lounge suite. “Coventry City have *never* won the FA Cup!”.

    Ah, the Hollywood Bowl gigs! I was in the boxes with my dad and two friends and we were very happy when John Cleese stopped nearby in the middle of hawking albatross for sale and said to someone “You shouldn’t smoke that stuff, it’ll give you brain damage”. A brilliant night.

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About Sean Carroll

Sean Carroll is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include theoretical aspects of cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. His most recent book is The Particle at the End of the Universe, about the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson. Here are some of his favorite blog posts, home page, and email: carroll [at] cosmicvariance.com .

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