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Is there someone else up there we could talk to?
— Monty Python and the Holy Grail · 1975
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Galahad, the most polite of the knights, asks what anyone stuck with an unhelpful voice at the other end wants to ask: is there anybody else we can speak to? Fans reuse it for helpdesks, bureaucrats and online arguments, whenever the only fix is to go over someone's head. It is the beat before the Trojan Rabbit plan.
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In context
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At a castle held by French soldiers, Arthur and his knights are met by a taunt from the battlements: the Frenchman, played by John Cleese, insults them in a thick accent, says the knights' mothers were hamsters and their fathers smelled of elderberries, and refuses to speak to Arthur. Arthur's attempt to open talks ("Now, look here, my good man...") gets nowhere. It is Sir Galahad, not Arthur, who then asks the question, and the Frenchman answers no and promises to taunt them a second time.
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- Wikiquote: Monty Python and the Holy Grailsection "French taunts"Reference checked
- Wikipedia: Monty Python and the Holy GrailPlot and CastReference checked
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