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- Monty Python's Flying Circus was loosely structured as a sketch show, but its innovative stream-of-consciousness approach and Gilliam's animation skills pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable in style and content. A self-contained comedy unit, the Pythons had creative control that allowed them to experiment with form and content, discarding rules of television comedy.
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The Philosophers' Football Match. "International Philosophy", commonly referred to as the Philosophers' Football Match, is a Monty Python sketch depicting a football match in the Munich Olympiastadion between philosophers representing Greece and Germany.
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"International Philosophy", commonly referred to as the Philosophers' Football Match, is a Monty Python sketch depicting a football match in the Munich Olympiastadion between philosophers representing Greece and Germany.
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The soccer match, that is, or, if you must, football—played between German and Greek philosophers in 1972 and staged by Monty Python.
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The Philosophers' Football Match was a sketch on Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus and later a part of Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
The sketch depicted a Football (soccer) match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics, between philosophers representing Greece and Germany, including Plato, Socrates and Aristotle on the Greek team, and Heidegger, Marx and Nietzsche on the German team. Instead of playing, the philosophers competed by thinking while walking on the pitch in circles. This left Franz Beckenbauer, the sole genuine footballer on the pitch (and a "surprise inclusion" in the German team, according to the commentary), more than a little confused. Confucius was the referee and Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine (sporting haloes) were the linesmen. The German manager was Martin Luther.
The sketch is split into the first half and second half.
•The narrator mentions that Germany had beaten "England's famous midfield trio, Bentham, Locke and Hobbes" in the semi final.
•In the sketch, Archimedes is played by John Cleese, Socrates by Eric Idle, Hegel by Graham Chapman, Nietzsche by Michael Palin, Marx by Terry Jones and Kant by Terry Gilliam.
•Brazil's World cup team of 1982 and 1986 featured a player called Sócrates.
•The replay proves that, according to the offside rule, Socrates' goal was indeed offside.
Today, we're revisiting a classic Monty Python skit. The scene is the 1972 Munich Olympics. The event is a football/soccer match, pitting German philosophers against Greek philosophers.
Monty Python (also collectively known as the Pythons) [2][3] were a British comedy troupe formed in 1969 consisting of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. The group came to prominence for the sketch comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus, which aired on the BBC from 1969 to 1974.
