Mr Creosote violence, director Quentin Tarantino said that the "Mr. Creosote" scene was the only time he had been disturbed by a graphic or gruesome film sequence. In his "2015 Movie Guide", Leonard Maltin described Mr. Creosote as having "an unforgettable scene, like it or not". Mr Creosote Mr. Creosote is a fictional character who appears in Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life". He is a monstrously obese restaurant patron who is served a vast amount of food whilst vomiting repeatedly. After being persuaded to eat an after-dinner mint, he explodes in a very graphic way. The sketch opens the film's segment
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl show were sourced from the 35mm prints, and thus suffered from poor quality due to the tape-to-film recording technology used in 1980 that increasingly became out-of-date. In 2008, the original 1,000 lines 1-inch video tapes were digitised and remastered to create a high-quality PAL DVD release. In Europe, this remastered widescreen transfer is available as a standalone Region 2 DVD. In North America, the film is available only as the older lesser-quality full-frame version taken from the 35mm prints, as part of a two-disc set titled "Monty Python Live", which includes the 1998 "Monty Python Live at Aspen" retrospective and