Worms - Monty Python similarities [Archive]

MC_Joe

6 Jun 2006, 23:09

Has anyone else noticed the fact that the worms series has many similarities and jokes more or less taken directly from Monty Python, the british comedy group from 70's.
For example, the Holy Hand Grenade and exploding sheeps are both jokes from the series resp. "The Holy Grail" Movie. And another metaphor for The Holy Grail also appears in "Mayhem", where they tell "Everybody to clap their coconuts" during the Middle Age single player missions. Of course, all of these jokes are really funny and am a big fan of The Pythons..but still, isn't this almost too much?
The jokes don't seem original anymore if they take to much from Cleese & Co.

thomasp

6 Jun 2006, 23:14

It is a widely acknowledged fact that some ideas were "borrowed" from The Pythons - after all, Team17 is based in the UK :)

bonz

6 Jun 2006, 23:19

Check this thread for more:
http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=24544

pilot62

7 Jun 2006, 16:06

Has anyone else noticed the fact that the worms series has many similarities and jokes more or less taken directly from Monty Python, the british comedy group from 70's.
For example, the Holy Hand Grenade and exploding sheeps are both jokes from the series resp. "The Holy Grail" Movie. And another metaphor for The Holy Grail also appears in "Mayhem", where they tell "Everybody to clap their coconuts" during the Middle Age single player missions. Of course, all of these jokes are really funny and am a big fan of The Pythons..but still, isn't this almost too much?
The jokes don't seem original anymore if they take to much from Cleese & Co.
Most of the references are subtle, admitedly the holy hand grenade isn't but its funny so I don't think anyone really minds. Almost all of their jokes are their own anyway, so I don't see a problem.

SuperBlob

7 Jun 2006, 16:43

Monty Python and exploding sheep? I fail to see the link

pilot62

7 Jun 2006, 17:24

Exploding sheep were to do with the radioactive sheep after chynoble abyway weren't they.

bonz

7 Jun 2006, 17:46

Exploding sheep were to do with the radioactive sheep after chynoble abyway weren't they.
According to Andrew T., yes.

AndrewTaylor

7 Jun 2006, 18:47

Exploding sheep were to do with the radioactive sheep after chynoble abyway weren't they.
And the coconuts thing is a firly common way to simulate hoofbeats. I don't know if it's taken from Python or if they just used a similar joke. Stealing everything from Python is annoying, but simply being similar to Python is no bad thing.

According to Andrew T., yes.
Therefore it's true!

quartzlcc

9 Jun 2006, 18:40

Yep, one day, I was at Macworld, not too long ago, and saw "Worms 3D". I had heard of the game, and I knew that it was a game where a bunch of worms were trying to kill eachother just because.
That was all I knew.
That, and, I recalled, that it was licensed by Sega... That was what encouraged me to get it, mostly. (Sega freak here, eep. XD)
On the back of the box, it said something about Holy Handgrenade... Oh, that encouraged me the rest of the way to get it!
It confused me for awhile, I had a hard time figuring out to play properly, but once I did, it stuck.

Yeah, Holy Handgrenade, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, complete with "counting to three, no more, no less!" XD

Muzer

10 Jun 2006, 11:38

Bonz, I think you should change your sig back to that HHG one.

bonz

10 Jun 2006, 13:14

Bonz, I think you should change your sig back to that HHG one.
I never had a HHG avatar.

FutureWorm

10 Jun 2006, 18:21

Yep, one day, I was at Macworld, not too long ago...
You lucky bast.

Muzer

11 Jun 2006, 13:23

Bonz, I think you should change your sig back to that HHG one.
I never had a HHG avatar.
I SAID SIG!

Xinos

12 Jun 2006, 10:59

I SAID SIG!

Speaking of which, why the hell is it called sig-worm?

AndrewTaylor

12 Jun 2006, 12:11

Speaking of which, why the hell is it called sig-worm?
I assumed it's short for "signature worm".

Xinos

12 Jun 2006, 22:42

I assumed it's short for "signature worm".

Well obviously, but I was asking because the personalized worm is in the avatar and not the signature.

Paul.Power

14 Jun 2006, 13:34

Well obviously, but I was asking because the personalized worm is in the avatar and not the signature.Mostly because the Worms Community is quite a bit older than the Team 17 Forum. "Sig-worm" hails from those days. It was your unique, personalised worm: your signature worm.

AndrewTaylor

14 Jun 2006, 18:35

Well obviously, but I was asking because the personalized worm is in the avatar and not the signature.
The word "signature" is used as an adjective, like pianists have a "signature chord", and fighters might have a "signature move" and chefs have a "signature dish".