Corrected entry: When the men (and lady) are crucified, you can see throughout the whole scene a small-sized platform of which the actors are standing on.
Corrected entry: The centurion and the soldiers assisting with the crucifixion stress they are in a hurry because they have one hundred and forty people to crucify. They leave, and there are no more people waiting to be crucified, but there are less than twenty people crucified in the final scene.
Correction: They could well have other people to crucify in another area of the city limits. Just because they did not crucify them there does not mean they did not have more to do elsewhere.
Corrected entry: At the End when Brian is on the cross, After talking to him, the People's Front of Judea walk away but then stop and turn back. After singing "For he's a jolly good fellow" they clap, watch it in slow mo. For a split second, they are still clapping when the Romans approach. You see the actors that have replaced Cleese and Co.
Correction: You can only see this if you use slow motion and freeze frame, invalidating it per the rules of this site.
Corrected entry: When Brian sells the 2 bags of "Otters noses" to the guys from the PFJ in the arena, notice that the PFJ don't actually PAY for them.
Correction: That's because Brian gets so excited when they start talking about revolution, that he forgets the payment. And when he is allowed to join the Resistance... well, if he remembered, he probably would consider it a favour to his leaders.
Corrected entry: When the yellow space ship crashes, the man with the turban turns to his right to see it. When the camera zooms out, the crashed ship is on his left.
Correction: You do not see what direction he is first facing, but when the ship crashes he is facing it, so he would have had to look to the right to see it coming if he was in the same spot.
Corrected entry: When Michael Palin is threatening the guards who are laughing at his friend Biggus, he walks up to one and gets right in his face. The guard pulls some very funny faces and if you look closely at the side of Michael's face, you can see he is trying hard not to laugh. To his credit, when he turns around, he has managed to pull himself together admirably.
Correction: In various shots Palin changes voice tones and dialogue delievery to try to make the guards laugh (although he is upset by their laughing). Although it appears like he starts to break into laughter himself, he gets serious again when he hears the two guards behind him laugh, so naturally his smile stops quickly. Palin's character's actions are realistic.
Corrected entry: When Brian is taken to see Pontius Pilate, the centurian says "Only one survivor sir". Well, that's not true seeing as Loretta and Francis were down in the sewer when everyone except Brian were killed. And in the next scene involving the PFJ, Loretta and Francis are alive. (00:38:26)
Correction: The centurian could not know about Loretta and Francis if they were still in the sewer. By the time the soldiers searched it, they would have been long gone. Therefore, from his point of view, what he says is correct.
Corrected entry: As I'm sure many of you have noticed, Graham Chapman was absurdly miscast as a man named Brian Cohen who appears frontally nude.
Correction: Presumably you're referring to the fact that Graham Chapman is uncircumcised and is playing a Jewish man. Brian Cohen was the illegitimate son of an anonymous Roman legionnaire and a prostitute. As his parents did not marry in the faith they would hold no kettubah - a certificate signed by a Rabbi solemnizing the Jewish marriage. Technically Brian is not Jewish, despite his claims to be a 'Red Sea pedestrian'. Besides, as the son of a prostitute with a non-Jewish father he would be an apostate, denied Jewish religious ritual such as a bar mitzvah and - more relevant to this issue - the bris, or ritual circumcision.
Corrected entry: The song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" once had a real-life application. On May 4, 1982, during the Falklands War, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Sheffield was fatally struck by an anti-ship missile launched from an Argentine Air Force jet. As the crew gathered on deck for rescue, they struck up an impromptu chorus and started singing this song.
Correction: Some one singing a well known song at another time or in other circumstances can hardly be considered a piece of movie trivia.
Correction: Of course you can. Roman executioners were very, very good at putting people to death in extremely painful and long, drawn out ways. One of their favourites was to supply small platform for the crucifixion victim to stand on (or a small seat to sit on) while they were nailed to the cross. This prevented them dying from asphyxiation as their arms became to exhausted to bear their weight, and as a result they could take a couple of days to die in agony. Bundle of laughs, those Romans.