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[[File:Monty Python Live 02-07-14 13 04 42 (14598710791).jpg|thumb|Menu from the "[[Spam (Monty Python)|Spam]]" sketch, from where the [[Spamming|junk term]] is derived. Spam is included in almost every dish, much to the consternation of a customer.]]

* The term "[[Spamming|spam]]" in reference to bulk, unsolicited email is derived from the show's 1970 "[[Spam (Monty Python)|Spam]]" sketch.{{ref RFC|2635}} As the waitress recites the Spam-filled menu, a chorus of [[Viking]] patrons drown out all conversations with a song, repeating "Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam… Spammity Spam! Wonderful Spam!"<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.thegoodword.co.uk/2010/09/20/the-origin-of-the-word-spam/| title = The Origin of the word 'Spam'| website = The Good Word| access-date = 23 August 2019| archive-date = 16 December 2019| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191216040211/http://www.thegoodword.co.uk/2010/09/20/the-origin-of-the-word-spam/| url-status = dead}}</ref>

* The [[Python (programming language)|Python programming language]] by [[Guido van Rossum]] is named after the troupe, and Monty Python references are often found in sample code created for that language. The default [[integrated development environment]] of the programming language is named [[IDLE (Python)|IDLE]], an alternative one is named [[Eric (software)|eric]], both in honour of Eric Idle. Additionally, a 2001 [[April Fool's Day]] joke by van Rossum and [[Larry Wall]] involving the merger of Python with [[Perl]] was dubbed "Parrot" after the [[Dead Parrot sketch]]. The name "Parrot" was later used for [[Parrot virtual machine|a project]] to develop a virtual machine for running [[bytecode]] for interpreted languages such as Perl and Python. Its package index is also known as the "Cheese Shop"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/|title=Python For Beginners|publisher=Python.org|access-date=3 March 2013}}</ref> after the [[Cheese Shop sketch|sketch of the same name]]. There is also a python refactoring tool called bicyclerepair named after [[Bicycle Repair Man]] sketch.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bicycle Repair Man, a Refactoring Tool for Python|url=httphttps://bicyclerepair.sourceforge.net/|publisher=SourceForge.net|access-date=12 January 2013}}</ref>

* In 1985, a fossil of a previously unknown species of gigantic prehistoric snake from the [[Miocene]] was discovered in [[Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh)|Riversleigh]], Queensland, Australia. The Australian [[palaeontologist]] who discovered the fossil snake was a Monty Python fan, and he gave the snake the [[taxonomy (biology)|taxonomic]] name of ''[[Montypythonoides]] riversleighensis'' in honour of the Monty Python team.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A687945 Monty Python – a Brief History], [[BBC]], 29 January 2002</ref>

* In 2006, [[Ben & Jerry's]], known for their "celebrity flavours", introduced to the line-up "Vermonty Python", a coffee liqueur ice cream with a chocolate cookie crumb swirl and fudge cows. The name "Minty Python" had been suggested before in 1996 in a contest to select the quintessential British ice cream flavour.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://leemichaelwithers.tripod.com/sfh7_16_96.htm|title=STAN FREBERG HERE – British Ice Cream Flavors|access-date=1 October 2010|quote=Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream has just finished a contest to select the quintessential British ice cream flavor.&nbsp;... They wanted a kind of "pun" flavor along the lines of their successful American flavor, "Cherry Garcia"--hmm, my favorite. Anyhow, the winner was "Cool Brittania."&nbsp;... But some of the 7500 losers might have been better. How about this, for British flavors: "Minty Python"? "Jack the Ripple"? Or how about "The Rolling Scones"?}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=4 July 1996 |title=American Scoops Up Prize For Name of Brit Ben & Jerry's |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1996/07/04/american-scoops-up-prize-for-name-of-brit-ben-jerrys/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529173139/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1996-07-04/business/9607030986_1_ben-jerry-ice-cream-flavor |archive-date=29 May 2013 |access-date=1 October 2010 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |via=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |quote=If Britain were an ice cream, what flavor would it be? Jack the Ripple? Charles and Diana Split? Those names were floated in a contest run by Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc. to create the quintessential British ice cream flavor, along the lines of its world-famous American flavor, Cherry Garcia.}}</ref>