Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: They called themselves the Snivelling Little Rat Faced Gits ( a reference to a Monty Python skit , episode 21 ) , but soon shortened the moniker to just `` The Gits . ''
Simplified: The band 's original name was `` Snivelling Little Rat Faced Gits '' which was named after a Monty Python skit but they later shortened it to The Gits .