Get the Machine That Goes “Ping!”
Posted by Rachel on December 2, 2007
The Business of Being Born, which I reviewed yesterday, includes a bit of this Monty Python sketch on birth. It’s a funny take on a not-so-funny topic – actively managed hospital birth.
Mama Bear said
OMG. That was brilliant. What year was it made?
Rachel said
Mama Bear, I believe it’s from The Meaning of Life, from 1983. Could have been made yesterday, no?
Mama Bear said
Totally.
Argh. They took it down already!!!
Mama Bear said
Never mind. It said “This video is no longer available” the first time I clicked today (I wanted to show it to my husband), but now it’s working.
Rachel said
Oh, good, it drives me crazy when I link to things and then they go away.
Emily said
My parents were fans of Monty Pythons from when I was a baby. I’ve known that scene for as long as I can remember. I had lots of mishaps landing me in hosiptal as a kid (accident prone) and one of the things my parents would ask to cheer me up when hooked up to machines was: “But where’s the one that goes “ping”?” I’d tell them that they just put that one away. Cheered me up everytime. After having a bunch of nurses and a doctor talking over me, this scene expressed what I was feeling. “Oi! I’m over here!” My parents really didn’t understand the concept of age appropriate tv, but this scene made the hospitals more human for me and less scary as a kid.
Rachel said
Emily, I regret that my parents did not introduce me to Monty Python nearly early enough. Had to catch up in college.
SOG knives said
SOG knives…
Interesting ideas… I wonder how the Hollywood media would portray this?…