WI no Monty Python

Either the troupe never meets or the BBC doesn't broadcast the shows. What is the impact?
No one realizes the evil that rabbits are capable of and the human race is ill-prepared when rabbits start eating us all; much like the PoD for The Walking Dead is that Romero never made his films and therefore zombies arent a part of pop culture and no one is prepared when they really do show up.
 
Dr. Manhattan seems to have been inspired from Mr. Neutron, so Watchmen might be butterflied away.

If Douglas Adams doesn't get to work as a Python scriptwriter, and has to work normal jobs, perhaps HHTG is also butterflied away.

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Dr. Manhattan seems to have been inspired from Mr. Neutron, so Watchmen might be butterflied away.

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Nah. The Charlton Heroes that they were all based on all predated MP

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The elements were already there in British comedy. Cleese and company did not come from a void, and they had professional lives which included their comedy style prior to Python. However, it coalesced into the glorious Monty Python. In this universe, those elements would not coalesce.

The worst thing would not be the effect on British comedy. It would be the impact on American comedy. 'Monty Python' on PBS was groundbreaking in the American market, and highly influential on future American comedy writers and artists, and American comedy in general. It's that glorious surrealism, dry British humor, absurdism, and that factor of nothing being sacred and everything being up for grabs, in terms of what comedy can do and what can be made into comedy. It was the Beatles of comedy; rock n' roll rebellion and showing where people thought the line was, which they had never even noticed, that things could go beyond that limitation. You're taking that away from Americans. And many people who went into comedy because of it, whether in writing or stand up, would not go into it here. Just as the Beatles inspired so many to go into music for the better, and therefore music being wanting without them. I think most people would rather you asked what if their grandparents were hit by a bus.
 
I mean, Monty Python is very important in teenage development. It makes you a better person, and preps you for those teen years when you see it because it plays into that fresh, deconstructivist world view teenagers have and need to hone. Life is about being less of an assh*le over time, and Monty Python helps.
 
"And now on BBC2 the zany comedy of Spike Milligan in Q!"

IIRC Milligan thought Python were copying him because the first series of Q was broadcast about 6 months before the first episode of Python. IIRC he also seemed to be rather bitter about it in TV interviews that I saw.

Tim Brooke-Taylor has said that he and the other Goodies wanted to do what Python did, but because the Pythons got there first they made the Goodies as we know it instead. We would not also have had the John Cleese saying, "Oh no! Children's programme!" in Goodies and the Beanstalk, if it was made ITTL.

If there is no Python, does that also prevent Fawlty Towers, Ripping Yarns, Rutland Weekend Television, The Ruttles, The Time Bandits, Private Function and Michael Palin's travel documentaries? Then there are the TV series Cleese did with Les Dawson on ITV and the Sherlock Homes he did with Arthur Lowe.

We also don't have this.
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The Goodies early career was intertwined with the Monty Python team - for example, At Last the 1948 Show and I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again. Anything that prevented the Python team from forming, would probably butterfly away the Goodies as well.

Other impacts of no Pythons? Well in IT the phenomenon of Spam and the programming language Python would have different names.
 
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