A popular Gumby catchphrase is "My brain hurts!" which was used in the Brain Surgery sketch. This is also heard in the trailer for Monty Python and the Holy Grail, when the crew is supposedly "looking" for someone to voice the trailer. Whilst playing a clip of Arthur knighting a peasant, (which, actually, never made it into the final film) a Gumby (as being voiced by Michael Palin) auditions, and after being told to "Go away!" by the casting director (voiced by Eric Idle), he comments, "What's wrong with my voice? My voice is fine, it's my brain that hurts...". Other recurring Gumby elements are a violent and oafish clumsiness, and enthusiasm for banging bricks together.
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| - A popular Gumby catchphrase is "My brain hurts!" which was used in the Brain Surgery sketch. This is also heard in the trailer for Monty Python and the Holy Grail, when the crew is supposedly "looking" for someone to voice the trailer. Whilst playing a clip of Arthur knighting a peasant, (which, actually, never made it into the final film) a Gumby (as being voiced by Michael Palin) auditions, and after being told to "Go away!" by the casting director (voiced by Eric Idle), he comments, "What's wrong with my voice? My voice is fine, it's my brain that hurts...". Other recurring Gumby elements are a violent and oafish clumsiness, and enthusiasm for banging bricks together.
- Generally gumbies are nameless recolors of existing characters who never get any lines and are drawn in to fill up the background, especially in battle scenes (you may remember them from the original cartoon). OCs whose background consists of "always just being there" are considered to be gumbies who through some special effort or good fortune were promoted and started getting lines. The term "gumby" and its derivations "gumbies" and "gumbytroopers" comes from the roughly identical, rock-stupid Yorkshiremen from Monty Python, whose last name was invariably Gumby.
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| - Generally gumbies are nameless recolors of existing characters who never get any lines and are drawn in to fill up the background, especially in battle scenes (you may remember them from the original cartoon). OCs whose background consists of "always just being there" are considered to be gumbies who through some special effort or good fortune were promoted and started getting lines. Occasionally gumbies are named in the course of roleplay and these "named gumbies" tend to start recurring, although they may not be lucky enough to eventually become OCs. Recurrent gumbies sometimes die but just as often come back again without anyone noticing or caring that they were dead for a while. The term "gumby" and its derivations "gumbies" and "gumbytroopers" comes from the roughly identical, rock-stupid Yorkshiremen from Monty Python, whose last name was invariably Gumby.
- A popular Gumby catchphrase is "My brain hurts!" which was used in the Brain Surgery sketch. This is also heard in the trailer for Monty Python and the Holy Grail, when the crew is supposedly "looking" for someone to voice the trailer. Whilst playing a clip of Arthur knighting a peasant, (which, actually, never made it into the final film) a Gumby (as being voiced by Michael Palin) auditions, and after being told to "Go away!" by the casting director (voiced by Eric Idle), he comments, "What's wrong with my voice? My voice is fine, it's my brain that hurts...". Other recurring Gumby elements are a violent and oafish clumsiness, and enthusiasm for banging bricks together. In the Pythons' 30th Anniversary Special, all the surviving Pythons (except Idle, who was filled in by Eddie Izzard) played Gumbies. Frequently, no names were given for Gumbies, but occasionally their names were listed in subtitles. Some of the names given for Gumbies were:
* Prof. R.J. Gumby (played by Graham Chapman, later Michael Palin)
* Prof. F.H. Gumby (played by Eric Idle)
* Prof. L.R. Gumby (played by Graham Chapman)
* Prof. Enid Gumby (played by John Cleese)
* D.P. Gumby (played by Michael Palin)
* Pro.R.J. Gumby's friend (played by Terry Jones)
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