A family in Michigan wanted to put some smiles on their neighbor’s faces during COVID lockdown so they asked them to help recreate a sketch from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.”
Liz Koto and her family declared a few feet of sidewalk in front of their home as the official “Jurisdiction of Silly Walks” and demanded that those who walk by comply.
The family put up a sign that read:
“You have now entered the jurisdiction of silly walks. Commence silly walking immediately.” Finer print reads: “Follow @Yorkshire_Silly_Walks for highlights. Your walk may be posted! We’re all in this together so let’s have some fun while we can!”
“The Ministry of Silly Walks” is a sketch from the iconic TV show’s second season which originally aired in 1970. The sketch is a satire of bureaucratic inefficiency and stars John Cleese as a bowler-hatted civil servant in a fictitious British government ministry responsible for developing silly walks through grants.
“My neighbors seem to love it. Some of them walk by more than once a day and make sure to silly walk,” she told Bored Panda.
He highs-steps. She lunges. The dog just trots on by.
This family chose to walk like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
This guy is clearly a Python fan.
This guy combines the Python walk with a hint of the “Keep on truckin’” guy from the ’70s.
Flapping bird and whirling dervish.
The girl in the video has the gait of a drunken chimp.
Moonwalker.
