DWIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR REFERENCE

Reference Page for Dwight in Shining Armor managed by @louwhose

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Dwight in Shining Armor Reference

Fan page for keeping track of information in the show since we don't have a wiki an I don't know how to make one. Will primarily focus on notes for episodes detailing what happens in each episode but the scope may grow once that is done.

Asks and submissions are open, if you have something you would like to contribute or specifically request. If you are looking for something in particular, the more information (which episode, what's going on, etc.) you can provide the better I will be able to find it. Requests can be for photos for artistic reference or for written details/quotes/etc.

Episode posts will be tagged with #episode ref, the episode name, which season they are (#season 0) and which episode within each season (#s0 e0). They will also be tagged with all named characters in the episode, and any other prominent things within the episode (i.e. The Swine and Slosh Tavern will be tagged).

Episode Masterpost

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Peanut

Season 1, Episode 3

Summary: Dwight fosters a dog named Peanut, but Gretta and Baldric swear the puppy is a demon in disguise.

Misty nighttime scene, with a man coming out to take out the trash. Hears something snarl and goes to investigate it

Finds rustling trash cans

A cute fluffy white puppy comes out

Intro

Dwight brings Gretta to the animal shelter he volunteers at

She is looking for something that she can put in the moat

She says “hello” to a parrot and is freaked out when it repeats it back to her

Dwight gushing over the animals

Hands Gretta a cat

She looks uncertain what to make of it

Shelter director comes up to see them

Dwight says she’s looking for “the perfect animal to fill that hole in her heart”

Gretta adds “Something ferocious and terrifying.”

It makes things awkward, and Dwight laughs nervously before pulling Gretta away

She explains once again that she wants things to live in the moat

Dwight tries to explain the purpose of an animal shelter, but Gretta doesn’t really get it

“To get animals off the street, for one.”

“That is a feat that could easily be accomplished by making a very large stew.”

He takes the cat she’s holding away from her

Dwight refers to the animal shelter as “his happy place”

Shelter director brings out the white puppy seen in the earlier scene

Dwight and shelter staff look at him and go “aww.”

Gretta looks at him and starts screaming, backing up and running out of the emergency exit

Switches to Baldric and Gretta’s house, where they are keeping watch

Gretta bemoans that she left Dwight behind

Dwight shows up and they’re surprised he isn’t dead

Notice the puppy right behind him and freak out

Dwight picks up the puppy and introduces him as “Peanut”

Baldric tries to cast a spell (presumably to get rid of Peanut) but due to his staff breaking earlier on it doesn’t work

Baldric and Gretta inform him “That is no peanut, Sir Dwight. ‘Tis a varger.”

They accompany Dwight to the pet store with a bow and spear pointed at Peanut

A varger devoured Gretta’s great uncle Grimbald and developed a lust for human flesh that caused it to hunt her family for three generations.

Baldric once saw a varger devour four men in one day

Takes the shape of a cute puppy to lure fools to their deaths

Dwight still isn’t convinced

At the pet store—“Pet Spawt”

Baldric: “Hail, gamekeeper! We require creatures of—” *flicks gold coin onto counter* “—defense.”

Dwight clarifies it’s for a water feature

As he goes to search for puppy supplies, Gretta follows and continues to try to convince him about the threat of a varger

Pet store worker helps baldric decide to get koi. He is very pleased with the purchase

Gretta goes with Dwight to the dog park to keep an eye on Peanut in case he tries to devour Dwight

While there she starts talking with a woman who clearly thinks she’s talking about the dog but she’s referring to Dwight the whole time.

“I’m with the pig-headed one.”

“He has no idea what he’s playing with.”

“Indeed we do not (love them for their brains).”

“Is he a rescue?” *snorts* “Hardly the rescue I imagined, but fate has a wicked sense of humor.”

Baldric is trying to feed raw meet to his koi

Baldric and Gretta watch as Dwight keeps Peanut in a cage in his front yard

A potential family comes by to see about adopting Peanut and Gretta freaks out because “Not the Child!”

Cuts to that night, Gretta practicing fighting a dog-shaped dummy

Dwight comes up asking if she’s seen Peanut

Gretta immediately goes into battle mode

Lights go out

Peanut managed to get in. Comes down the stairs in puppy form.

“It… got past the koi.”

Dwight tries to approach it, and is stopped by Gretta.

Peanut transforms into its varger form

All scream and run outside

Baldric stays behind to “keep it at bay” and ends up falling backward into a pile of leaves

Dwight and Gretta escape to the woods and the varger follows them

Dwight apologizes for not believing Gretta

Encounter Peanut. Dwight realizes with how easy he had been to train that he could use that.

Gets him to sit

Uses fire extinguisher (the weapon Dwight brought) to make it fetch

Fire extinguisher explodes and they race back to the house

Now Dwight is ready to go full-on battle mode

A pack of vargers comes and brings the one varger home

Baldric emerges from the pile of leaves

Next morning, hear banging from the shed

Chlodwig emerges from the bike shed. Gretta is letting him live there because he is her cousin.

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Flip

Season 1, Episode 2

Summary: Jacopo the Troubadour entrances citizens of Woodside to aid in his quest to steal Gretta’s throne.

Previously on Dwight in Shining Armor:

How Dwight became Champion

Explaining what’s going on

Show the monsters and villains that have been dealt with

Dwight saving Gretta from Chlodwig

“It’s not going to get much worse than that, right? Right?”

Gretta getting enrolled at Woodside High

When there’s confusion over parents and previous school, Gretta and Baldric assumed to be actors

Cast in the “Lord of the Rings Reboot”

Royal seal to sign enrollment papers

“Blood or Ink?”

Say goodbye to Baldric

“School is a safe space.”

“So… no weapons?”

Proceeds to remove: sword, dagger from boot, dagger from gauntlet

Hands all weapons to Baldric

Head to science class

Intro

Gretta introducing herself

From the lineage of King Alsric the grim

Last heir to the house of Moon Dragon

Worst day of Gretta’s life: “spent buried alive next to the corpse of my aunt Hilda”

Two girls come up and take a selfie with Gretta

“What is a ‘self-me’?”

Gretta puts on a literal helmet for Dwight to give her a ride back home on his bike

Scene changes to show a man pulling a cart pulling up in front of school.

Police officer tells him he can’t part here

Pulls back hood to reveal face (for simplicity’s sake referred to as Jacopo from here on)

Shows his lute, strings glowing red and tugging itself up into his arms

Strokes lute lovelingly and says “Cara mia.” (Italian for “My beloved.”)

Strums ominously

Makes everyone who can here begin to walk towards him

Lute jerks, and upon seeing Dwight and Gretta riding off, proceeds to follow them

Dwight and Gretta ride up to find Baldric beginning to build a moat

Dwight informs Gretta and Baldric that school is every day

Nana comes with some flaxseed kale and bran muffins to welcome Gretta and Baldric into the neighborhood

They immediately insult her but at least she seems to like them

Establishes the degree to which Nana is into health and fitness

Plant-based diet

Daily exercise

Teaches group fitness at the senior center

Gretta takes a muffin and quickly spits it out

“You’re never too young to care for your colon, dear.”

Baldric uses telescope to spy Jacopo and followers approaching

Has everyone put beans into ears and go inside

“I’m all about new experiences.”

Jacopo the Troubadour

Lute draws the house to his attention by yanking towards it

Says “Bello.” (Bella? Uncertain. Italian for “beautiful.”)

Kisses lute and approaches house

Dwight and Nana getting excited from the people they recognize under Jacopo’s spell

Jacopo’s followers pick up rocks and throw them towards house

Dwight and Nana duck for cover as window shatters

Baldric explains those who hear the lute fall under an enchantment like mind-control

Proceeds to barricade house

“What does this Yaka-poo guy want?”

Jacopo sold his own soul to get the spell on the lute

And now the lute has a mind of its own

“Nana now’s as good of a time as any to tell you—”

“That our new neighbors are not really actors?”

“Yup.”

“Okay.”

“Yeah, but it’s not their fault! Look at them, they’re like innocent… zombies.”

They break into house

Baldric begins to chant a spell

Dwight tackles his staff and breaks it

Baldric screams in horror

Dwight awkwardly picks up the pieces and hands them to Baldric

Jacopo approaches Gretta and has his followers start attacking her

Gets her at his mercy and asks to discuss terms

“There will be no terms, and there will be no discussion.”

“But honor demands it. None may say Jacopo does not know the rules of chivalry.”

Struggles with lute, and notes that his plan will be properly done

Tries to show Baldric his terms instead, but Baldric is still in shock

Jacopo hits Baldric on head with terms

Baldric reads the terms

Threatens Gretta more

Gretta tells Jacopo that he needs to defeat her champion in order to obey the rules of chivalry

“Where is this champion, hmm?”

Dwight: politely makes his way up to them

Insults: baby-faced monkey, jiggly little bowl of jelly

Gretta goes along with the insults, Nana stops them

“I like this tiny, wrinkly woman.”

Jacopo give Dwight the choice of weapon

Test of skills. Gretta tells him to choose something he’s good at. Something he’s spent years mastering.

“I choose… the water bottle.”

Cue Jacopo becoming increasingly vexed at the difficulty of flipping a water bottle

He nearly pulls out knives in frustration until Dwight calms him down

It doesn’t land again, but they decide to count that one anyhow

“So now all I have to do is beat… 211.”

Gets it the first try

“He did it, ancient one!”

“Well, yeah! You know he was the Woodside Middle School bottle-flipping champion a few years ago.”

Lute starts struggling with Jacopo and he ends up smashing it

Mourns it

Dwight acts like it was just a housewarming party

“Halt. We should make a self-me. To capture this special moment.”

Jacopo leaves with his broken lute

Nana tells Dwight his parents would be proud of what he did today

Gretta thanks Dwight for saving her life

Asks what happened to his parents since he’s lived with Nana since he was a baby

They were wildlife photographers. They died in a plane crash in a small plane in Alaska.

Gretta mentions her parents are also gone

Father: devoured by fairies

Mother: turned into an oak tree

[Next Day]

Baldric trying to put his staff back together when Dwight comes to get Gretta for school

Requirements to fix Baldric’s staff:

bough of an ash tree fed by a fairy spring

agate stone spewed forth in fire from the bowels of the earth

tempered with tears of a newborn Griffin and its mother’s milk

resurrect the mage that gave his life crafting this scepter over two thousand years ago

Dwight gives him duct tape

Baldric licks it and once he unwinds it looks pleased

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Dwight in Shining Armor Title Sequence

This is a bit more detailed than most things will be for this blog. But it's also considerably shorter than your average episode, so I was fine with doing a bit of a transcription for it.

[Tapestry-like quality to animation.]

Dwight: Okay, so about a thousand years ago, there was this princess, Gretta.

[Gretta frowns and zooms out to show enemies and monsters outside her castle.]

Dwight: And she was in big trouble because she had lots of enemies and not a lot of friends. So her court magician Baldric cast the Champion Spell.

[Gretta is with Baldric who lifts his staff as he casts the spell. Lots of colorful light as it zooms out to show all the enemies falling over, asleep with vines growing over the screen.]

Dwight: It put everyone in the woods to sleep until a Champion would come, break the spell with his kiss, and deal with Gretta’s big, scary enemies. But that guy… never showed up.

[Shows silhouette of Dwight falling, switches to live action to show accidental kiss.]

Dwight: Instead, they got me.

[Shows Gretta sitting up, Dwight screaming.

The Champion Spell: By waking this Princess with your kiss you agree to perform the office and function of her Champion until her hordes of enemies are defeated.

Troll, Dwight being dubbed a knight “Ow!”, Chlodwig throwing the doors open in the first episode and Gretta, Dwight and Baldric all staring at him.

Dwight riding his bike with Baldric in front and Gretta behind him. Animated enemies and monsters chase them.

End card: Dwight in Shining Armor]

*One variation exists in Season 4, Episode 1: Another Slice of Pilot. Chlodwig narrates instead of Dwight. That narration will be included with that episode.

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Pilot

Season 1, Episode 1

Summary: Dwight accidentally awakens an entire medieval kingdom hidden outside his suburban town.

Dwight riding bike past farmer’s market on his way to school

Begins to talk with Jules (Juliet) in hallway

He verifies that a strawberry she offers is organic before taking it

She asks him to take a picture of an endangered bellybutton owl for her newspaper article

He agrees eventually despite being busy with other things, including a bingo night fundraiser

Fast forward through school day

Crosses several items off of to-do list until he arrives at “Owl Pic for Jules”

Rides his bike to Woodside Woods

Sets bike down as he looks for owl to take picture of

As he spots it and is taking a picture, the ground gives way beneath his feet

Screaming as he falls into a dark chamber directly onto Princess Gretta

As he moves to get up, there is a kissing noise as he accidentally kisses her

He coughs from the dust immediately afterwards

Gretta opens her eyes

Dwight screams, rapidly pushes himself away and falls backward, growing increasingly terrified as she rises

Gretta rises to her feet and pulls out her sword, raising it towards him

Gretta: “Mortal enemy, or harmless peasant?”

Dwight is panicking, when Baldric comes in and stops her

Baldric explains that Dwight is Champion of the Champion Spell

Gretta begins to insult him in incredulity that he is her Champion

Dwight asking why this is necessary

Comprehensive list of insults Dwight is called in this episode: little wiggling worm, mucus-y little toad, little rabbit pellet, spineless tadpole, snivelling little weakling, grotesque little pustule

Dwight tries to stop it and smooth it over with diplomacy

Gretta demands a new champion, and the Champion Spell is explained why that is impossible

Contract of the Champion Spell: By waking this Princess with your kiss/ you agree to perform the office and/ function of her Champion until her/ hordes of enemies are defeated.

Dwight doesn’t believe this

He also does not want to have more obligations than he does already

As he is explaining this, he backs away into a troll

Screams

Gretta tackles him and Baldric uses magic to restrain the troll while they escape

[End cap of the intro with the card that shows the title of the show]

Dwight collapses once the are above ground to catch his breath

Introductions are made

Gretta roughly knights him “Sir Dwight”

Well established again that Gretta has enemies everywhere and Dwight is insistent that he did not kiss Gretta because it was an accidentally

Champion spell explained while fleeing through the woods

Dwight riding bike with both of them in tow

Going back to Woodside High

Farmer’s Market

Bill (farmer’s market guy): “The Renaissance Fair is setting up right over there.”

Gretta eating all the plums and Dwight paying for it before pulling her away

Where Gretta was raised: cliffside fortress, desert fortress, swamp fortress, underground fortress, forest fortress

Determine it was over a thousand years since the Champion Spell was cast

Ominously looking at modern things, i.e. motorcycle, skateboarding, etc.

Ominous monstrous hand rising from forest floor

Ominous bushes rustling behind Jules until Baldric, Gretta, and Dwight come outright

Introductions… go poorly

Dwight: “This is my turf, now. What we are going to call Nice… Nice Turf.”

Shakespeare Improv Troupe

Dwight Gives Juliet bellybutton owl picture

Go to Bingo Night Fundraiser

Dwight tells Baldric to stop introducing Gretta everywhere they go

Dwight missing some of his obligations

Baldric and Gretta ransacking the bake sale until Dwight stops themselves

Forces Dwight to check for poison

Dwight: “No. Nobody poisoned the Rice Krispie treats.”

Gretta has been fighting since she was old enough to hold a sword at two

Glee club president comes up to be friendly and Gretta immediately starts choking him not even looking at him

“Harmless peasant” to disengage

Dwight: “Every guy you see is not trying to kill you.” [Lights flicker and doors thrown open as Chlodwig in black suit of armor enters.] “Okay that guy’s trying to kill you.”

Swordfight until Chlodwig gets the upper hand

Dwight interrupts in his own way, by talking

Namecalling again upon discovering that he is Gretta’s Champion (see above for names)

Chlodwig picks Gretta up and carries her off

Everyone thought it was a great performance

Dwight and Baldric pursue on bike as they return to the woods

Dwight: “Well, as far as I’m concerned, I’m a freakin’ hero just for giving your butt a ride, warrior princess girl is not my problem.”

Baldric explains that if Gretta dies her Champion does as well

Gretta hanging over a pit of dragon fire

Chlodwig: “Call me… sugar plum.”

It is obvious he wants to marry her, Gretta clearly isn’t happy about it

He acts out the roles of everyone at a wedding

Dwight and Baldric show up

Chlodwig dislikes being so rejected and threatens to cut her down and leave her to the dragon

Dwight realizes that he needs to deal with this with diplomacy and starts to talk to Chlodwig

Dwight: “I didn’t come here to fight.” Chlodwig: “You came to die, then?”

Dwight is trying to get him up to speed on the world

Chlodwig: “I am on a quest to win the hand of Princess Gretta by fair means or foul.”

Dwight: “She’s just not that into you, man.”

Guy Club

Rules:

Don’t feed girls to dragons.

Instead, write a sad poem, learn a few chords on the guitar, and sing that to other girls

Chlodwig: “I am in your debt, Guy Club brother.”

Dwight gets Dwetta down with swinging a bit

Dwight: “I am the king of Nice Turf.”

Gretta: “You are not the Champion I expected. But… you may be the Champion I need.”

Figure out where they will live now, as Dwight’s neighbors

Planning out fortifications for the house

Gretta tries to start teaching Dwight sword fighting

Dwight: “Your look is awesome. Don’t change a thing.”

“It’s not going to get much worse than that, right? Right?”

Pizza peasant

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Episode Masterpost

Show summary: While exploring the woods outside his suburban town, Dwight (a 21st century teen) accidentally awakens a Gothic princess, Gretta, along with her court magician Baldric, and scores of medieval villains.

Title Sequence

Season 1

1: Pilot

2: Flip

3: Peanut