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Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Terry Gilliam, 1975 Via his world-building imagination, some of Gilliams finest works have come in the realm of science fiction, taking place in futuristic, dystopian landscapes affording him the opportunity to forge bizarre, fantastic and horrifying worlds that reflect our own through a warped angle

The scene also tapped into a broader internet trend of alien-encounters-mundane-human-things comedy, but the specific escalation to "500 cigarettes" gave it a punchline that worked as a standalone catchphrase outside the original context

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