Using Monty Python to fight against splatbooks?! You can't use awesome to battle cool! That just doesn't work.
Huh?
I'm not arguing against splat books - most characters (i.e. non-casters)
need splat books just to hit level 3.
In fact, personally I don't mind an occasional bit of level 4 - all that really matters is that the PCs are balanced against one another, and sometimes a subpar character concept can be saved with some creative rules interactions.
I wanted the Python reference is all, it amused me.