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OK, we are having fun with Tintin. Now let's try another one:
Monty Python!
Personally, I know Monty Python because I lived many years in English-speaking Canada. It seemed like a household name there. I am pretty sure most English-speaking Canadians of my generation could recite bits of the famous Dead Parrot sketch...
What about Americans? Is it a household name there? Among people who grew up in the 70s and 80s?
Obviously the British know it (as do Aussies and Kiwis) but what about continental Europeans?
I never saw Monty Python until the 80's when I came back to the states I spent the 70's and part of the 80's in Spain and the show never made Spanish TV back then. I think the humor would be hard to translate.
I lived in Costa Rica for the past eight years and TinTin was on TV all the time - hence, I assume that many people are familiar with the cartoons. Not sure about the comic books, though.
Being a Belgian, I've known Tintin (or Kuifje as he's known in Dutch) for as long as I can remember. But the comic books never particularly appealed to me, don't really know why.
I've always loved Asterix though, with its fine humour and its beautiful drawings. I have all the albums and I've seen all the animation films back as a kid.
We all know Monty Python over here in Flanders, wonderful show.
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I thought everyone knew Monty Python...
I wonder how many classic British comedies Americans are familiar with...
Too many to name,
Blackadder
Fawlty Towers
Dad's Army
Are You Being Served
The Young Ones
Peep Show
The Mighty Boosh
The I.T. Crowd
Black Books
Absolutely Fabulous
The Vicar of Dibley
Blackadder
Fawlty Towers
Dad's Army Are You Being Served
The Young Ones
Peep Show
The Mighty Boosh
The I.T. Crowd
Black Books Absolutely Fabulous
The Vicar of Dibley
.
The ones in bold are the only ones I have even heard of, and Fawlty Towers is the only one I could really describe even remotely. And I'd say I am 100 times more familiar with this stuff than the average person in Quebec.
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I suppose this is one of Captain Haddock's colourful expressions in English? I am not at all familiar with Tintin in English...
I forgot the name of the sailor bloke with the black beard and blustery temper, but he always said 'blazing barnacles' or something like that lol. I don't think it was blubbering barnacles, no, lmao.
Captain Haddock - "Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles"
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Originally Posted by Trimac20
I forgot the name of the sailor bloke with the black beard and blustery temper, but he always said 'blazing barnacles' or something like that lol. I don't think it was blubbering barnacles, no, lmao.
Tintin has been very well known in Sweden, at least since the seventies, together with Lucky Luke, Spirou, Asterix, Gaston and the likes.
They also happen to be my favourite comics.
And yes, we all know of Monty Python.
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