So for anyone that doesn’t remember the Christmas Special (-> link to archive), I had the cast reenact my favourite scenes from ‘The Life of Brian’ back then, or rather, from the first half of that movie. As announced, this is the other installment of that, my favourite scenes from the second half. I split it up because there are just too many great scenes in that flick, but also because it fits the chronology of events. (In case you weren’t aware, while ‘The Life of Brian’ is mostly a recounting of the events surrounding the life and death of Brian Cohen, it’s also one of the most historically accurate depictions of life in the Middle East in the days of Jesus Christ. Incidentally, some extraordinarily perceptive persons even claim to spot certain parallels between the life of that religious figure, and the events of the movie. Strange, the coincidences that happen sometimes…)

It wasn’t easy to select just 6 scenes out of 20 - in fact, I cheated a bit: panel 4 contains (memorable) quotes from two different scenes. For those of you that don’t know the movie - go watch it..uh no, I mean, here’s the context for the scenes:

Panel 1: Brian is on the run, and wants to buy a fake beard. He is in a hurry and willing to pay the full price, but the merchant, Harry the Haggler, insists on haggling. So Brian, unwillingly, ends up receiving a discount and a free gourd. Still wanting to get away quickly, he tells Harry he can keep the change - for the gourd.

Panel 2: After Brian engages in some impromptu preaching to disguise himself from the Romans (no relation to me…as far as I know, that is), he starts to attract a small following, which breaks into waring factions as soon as he is out of sight. He loses a shoe and his gourd while fleeing, and these items become relics and symbols of these factions of the new ‘movement’.

Panel 3: Later, Brian is sent to the dungeons after having been sentenced to crucifixion by Pilate. The Roman officer overseeing the procedure is exceedingly friendly and polite, which is actually quite funny in the context of the scene.

Panel 4: When Pontius Pilate and his friend from Rome, Biggus Dickus, whose name was cause for a little meltdown in the normally exemplary Roman discipline a bit earlier, proceed to address the assembled masses, their combined speech impediments cause outbursts of mirth fully inadequate to the somber occasion. The fun thing about those two is less that they have this impediments, but rather that their subordinates never dare to point it out to them.

Panel 5: Old, insane Ben is now chained to the wall feet up again, but still keeps on rambling to the crucifixion procession passing by.

Panel 6: The movie ends with a mass crucifixion and the song ‘Always look on the bright side of life.’

So HAPPY EASTER to everyone, Monday’s update will be back to normal. Votes are gladly accepted as Easter gifts. XD (And, again, should this strip offend you, complain to John Cleese.)