When Writer and Actor Terry Gilliam asked British animation legend Bob Godfrey if he could use his camera to re-create his animated sequences for this movie, Godfrey didn't know who Gilliam was and told him to "bugger off". Later, Godfrey found out that Gilliam was a member of the Monty Python team and helped him complete the sequences for this movie.
Monty Python's first theatrical movie. It was intended to introduce American audiences to Monty Python's comedy, but it made much more money in the U.K., where viewers had already seen most of the sketches on Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
The sets were built in an abandoned dairy, rather than on a more costly soundstage.
This movie was filmed between the first and second seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969). It contains several sketches that had been written for the second season, but not yet performed, including the "Hungarian Phrasebook" sketch.
According to Writer and Actor Terry Gilliam, Executive Producer Victor Lownes, who primarily represented Playboy Magazine (which funded the movie), insisted on getting an animated credit equal in size to those of the group members.