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This response is great! Suitably formatted for citation, can someone include this in the main article? [[Special:Contributions/87.113.94.119|87.113.94.119]] ([[User talk:87.113.94.119|talk]]) 21:21, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
::Well, thanks for such a positive response to my above anecdotes. In any case, they were incomplete: The Pythons didn't get big in Germany over here up until the large international controversy surrounding ''Life of Brian'' around 1979/'80. So yes, the two ''fliegender Zirkus'' episodes did bomb back in the day and went just as unnoticed at the time as did the contemporary dub and release of ''Holy Grail''. Having broken the German market with ''Brian'', both ''And now for something completely different'' and ''The Meaning of Life'' were dubbed pretty much back-to-back (as in, within the same courses of dubbing sessions) in 1983 and released simultaneously that year to great success. It's only since then that the (subtitled!) ''Flying Circus'' has also become a TV phenomenon over here.
::It's also the reason why ''And now for something completely different'' and ''The Meaning of Life'' are their first two films where every Python has his established voice actor in the German dub that they get in movies ever since. In ''Holy Grail'', only Cleese was dubbed by his standard voice, Thomas Danneberg, already. In ''Brian'', Danneberg dubbed Cleese again and in some of his roles in ''Brian'', Eric Idle was already dubbed by Arne Elsholtz. (Fun fact: In both ''Holy Grail'' and ''Brian'', they mostly used a different dubbing voice for every single role, even if the roles were done by the same Python! Especially in ''Holy Grail'', it looks like the dubbing studio was not even aware those were the same actors on the screen due to the convincing make-up and lighting...and Terry's famous smoke! :P) In ''Time Bandits'', only Cleese had his "right" dubbing actor. So it took until the 1983 dubs for ''And now for something completely different'' and ''The Meaning of Life'' for all the Pythons to get their "right" voices we Germans are used to ever since. --[[Special:Contributions/2.241.42.163|2.241.42.163]] ([[User talk:2.241.42.163|talk]]) 08:15, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
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