2. Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life (1983) - Mr Creosote
The Meaning of Life is the Monty Python team's third film after The Life of Brian and The Holy Grail. Unlike its predecessors, it is not a storyline based effort - having more of a comedy sketch feel about it. It does however deal with with different stages of life. The Autumn Years gives us Mr Creosote, a patron at a posh restaurant, unbelievably obese and vomiting into a bucket as he drinks massive amounts of wine and beer and gorges himself with food. All of the vomiting is just totally gross and then to add insult to injury in the poor viewer's eyeballs, John Cleese's maitre d offers Creosote a wafer thin mint. This is going to be bad, we sense as Cleese runs for cover... And sure enough, what should happen but Mr Creosote explodes, showering the other diners with vomit and innards. A mass puke fest begins. I watched this film when I was 15 and I couldn't eat for days because it sickened me so much. Even now, I cannot watch the Mr Creosote segment of this film. It's just too much. It is a funny scene but surely the Monty Python crew created this sketch knowing it would be revolting to watch. I think they just wanted to provoke the viewer with a pile of puking craziness to deliberately disgust us all. It is a needlessly provocative assault on our stomachs.