Quentin Tarantino is famous for his shockingly violent movies, but there was one film that was too disgusting even for him. Many of Tarantino’s best movies have jaw-dropping eruptions of gore, like Mr. Orange slowly bleeding out throughout the entirety of Reservoir Dogs, the bone-crunching Mandingo fights in Django Unchained or the Bride’s brutal execution of O-Ren Ishii in Kill Bill. Although Tarantino has been making audiences squirm for over 30 years, even he has some scenes where he has to draw the line.

Tarantino is often eager to profess his love of cinema and talk about the movies that have inspired and moved him throughout his life. He famously worked in a video store before embarking on a career as a director, and his movies are filled with sly references to old classics and underrated gems alike. As a keen student of film, Tarantino has openly admired many different genres, particularly horror, action movies and Westerns. However, the most disgusting scene he has ever witness came from a 1980s comedy movie.

Quentin Tarantino Almost Threw Up While Watching Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life

The Absurd Comedy Has One Notoriously Disgusting Scene

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life is the one movie that disgusted Quentin Tarantino more than any other. Talking about his experience when first watching the famous Mr. Creosote sketch, Tarantino revealed, “I felt really nauseous – it was just too much. I was looking around and I thought, ‘If anyone here is sick and I have to smell vomit, I’m going to hurl’” (via Irish Examiner) Tarantino won’t be the only person who struggled to endure the Mr. Creosote scene, in which a morbidly obese man orders everything on the menu in a high-class restaurant and proceeds to projectile vomit all over the floor.

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life is a comedy anthology movie, combining some of the British sketch troupe’s greatest hits from their cult classic sketch show Monty Python’s Flying Circus with new and original material. Although the most popular Monty Python movies have always been The Holy Grail and The Life of Brian, The Meaning of Life is still a must-watch for fans of absurd comedy. It sees the group applying their biting satire to the entire path of life from cradle to grave, with some surreal barbs pointed at religion, class, education and British social foibles in the process.

Monty Python’s comedy can often seem like a barrage of random and surreal noise, especially in the rapid-fire sketch format of The Meaning of Life, but everything the group did was intended to question social norms. Monty Python’s heightened absurdity turns mundane situations into bizarre charades. In the Mr. Creosote sketch, the egregious gross-out comedy casts a new light on the strange rigmarole of fine dining. It also underlines the ludicrous excesses of the uber-wealthy, gorging themselves until they are physically ill for no discernible reason.

Even By Today’s Standards, Monty Python’s Mr. Creosote Sketch Is Seriously Gross

The Meaning Of Life Is Just As Powerful Over 40 Years Later

It’s no surprise that Tarantino struggled to avoid throwing up while watching the Mr. Creosote sketch, since it’s still one of the grossest scenes in any comedy movie. Although Monty Python weren’t necessarily famous for gross-out humor, they proved that they could do it just as well as anybody else in The Meaning of Life, because the vomiting serves a deeper satirical purpose. It’s easier to ignore these hidden layers while watching the sketch for the first time, however, because it’s so outrageously disgusting that audiences might be focused on simply trying to get through it.

There are several hilarious touches that make the Mr. Creosote sketch even more memorable, starting with the fact that Terry Jones’ character starts throwing up long before he even eats. The waiters treat him just like any other guest, dutifully fetching buckets and wiping his vomit off of the menu so that he can see, while the other diners stare on in disbelief, but they don’t all leave until Mr. Creosote explodes and showers them in vomit. Some of the extras can be seen genuinely throwing up at this point, which sums up the outrageous nature of the sketch. Tarantino isn’t alone in his ᴀssessment of Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.

Source: Irish Examiner