Why We Should Appreciate Spamalot More
there’s an entire musical number based on mishearing a word (”I said ENGLAND!”)
Christian Borle plays basically every ensemble character
“My name is Lancelot. I’m big and strong and hot” *taps butt with shovel*
“Become a knight and you’ll go bald!” “Become a knight and you’ll go bald!” “In suspenders and a bra!” “In suspenders and.... a bra..???...”
“I saw a lady in a lake-” “dead?”
EXCAILBUR!! ahhhhh AHHHHHH!!!! *music stops*
“Please reveal to this Doubting Thomas-” “Dennis.”
“The Song That Goes Like This” being a perfect parody of just about every musical ever made
The absolutely fucking ridiculous expressions on Christopher Sieber’s and Sarah Ramirez’s faces
“Now we’re into E! ... that’s awfully high for me.” “Everyone can see, we should have stayed in D.”
"For this is the song that is too loooooooong!” *yells at orchestra director* JESUS CHRIST, GOD DAMNIT
Sir Not Appearing In This Show (Don Quixote: “Oh sorry”)
“Why do they call it the middle ages when nothing yet comes after it?”
“What happens in Camelot, stays in Camelot.”
“Knights of the Round Table” keeping the silliness from the film intact
Patsy clapping the coconuts together because Arthur can’t tap dance
Lady of the Lake being a Vegas lounge singer and she pulls out a ridiculous microphone
“We’re knights of the round table, round table, round table!” (point to roulette table to make sure the audience gets its) “round table, round table, round table!”
The knights trying to spell out “Camelot” and spelling “Cameltoe” instead
The lack of a fourth wall (”These people don’t have all night!”)
“The quail!” “No, grail. The vessel used at the Last Supper.” “They had a bot at the Last Supper?”
“God the Almighty and All Knowing has misplaced a cup?”
“We must look within ourselves.” “SOMEBODY’S SWALLOWED IT!”
“No body’s swallowed it. It’s a symbol.” *symbol crash* *glares at orchestra*
“Find Your Grail” actually being a banger and a damn inspirational song all at once
The Lady of the Lake going all Mariah Carey on “Find Your Grail”
The Lady of the Lake holding a grail and standing inside a larger hand holding a grail
the two knights wrapped up in the background scenery and spinning around to make the the canvas move and change scenes
Galahad doing a clog dance when it’s the Alps
The “Scooby stack” when the French knights stick their heads out the door to investigate the giant rabbit
*French taunter speaks French* Other French taunter: ... what?
The French people including a mime and Eponine
The French taunting being much more taunting when in song form
"Feche la can can dancers!” *screaming*
The musical keeping up with the double casting from the movie and certain knights are just inexplicably gone for some scenes
“Have a drink and a pee, we’ll be back for act threeeee!” “Two sir.” “Twooooo!”
“Dark and very expensive forest” *cha-ching sound effect”
Because of course “Always Look On The Brightside” is a tap number
Patsy being King Arthur’s sidekick and wanting to cheer him up
The Knights Who Say Ni joining in for a little kick line
Robin’s Minstrel (also played by Christian Borle)
“Arms for the poor! Arms for the poor!”
The mechanics of the Black Knight suit so he can have all his limbs cut off onstage
“You must put on a musical!” Sir Robin: YES! *minstrel band jump into place*
But not an Andrew Lloyed Webber!
A 10 minute long musical number making as many Jewish jokes and references as possible
THE FUCKING BOTTLE DANCE USING HOLY GRAILS
“Hey!” *points to a bale of hay*
(honestly the use of visual puns in this deserved a Tony of its own)
The pure saltiness of “What Ever Happened to My Part”
The plot point of Lancelot being gay comes from the movie where Lancelot “rescues” Galahad from the girls in Castle Anthrax and Galahad just goes “bet you’re gay” and that’s what led to this whole plot point and a massive dance number that ends with Christian Borle in a fruit hat
(seriously tho we have all these fandoms who insist that their characters are gay (cough dear evan hansen cough) but it isn’t cannon when Lancelot is right here, there’s a whole dance number about it)
“How are we going to get to Broadway? It’s 1000 years in the future in a country that hasn’t been discovered.”
“I”m all alone. There’s no one here beside me,” Patsy walks up like wtf
“Sure, I’ve been offstage for far too long”
“Actually I’m Jewish on my mother’s side.” “Why didn’t you say?” “It’s not the sort of thing you say to a heavily armed Christian”
THE KNIGHTS USING THE COCONUTS AS FREAKING CASTANETAS AND DANCING TO “AMERICA” FROM WEST WIDE STORY
Sir Robin shitting his pants and excusing himself aka the complete lack of trying to hide the fact that Sir Robin also plays Brother Maynard
the overall hilarious “low-budget” special effects, like when the ensemble knight’s head gets cut off by the rabbit
“No, skip a bit” *Brother Maynard skips* (again the visual puns)
The rabbit puppeteer being revealed and running offstage
“Oh Lord, we’re a bit stuck with the clue things. Would you give us a hand?” (literal hand of God comes down)
Lancelot in a flower crown
“Just think Herbert, in a 1000 years time, this will still be controversial”
“And I too have found my grail!” “WHAT’S THAT?” “Musical theatre!”
Herbert’s father bursting in one more time
