The Court Jester/Funny

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  • In particular, the "vessel with the pestle" tongue twister.
    • "The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!"
      • Shortly afterwards: "The pellet with the poison is in the vessel with the plasle...the plasle with the plessle, er..."
    • And then they break the chalice from the palace, and bring out the flagon with the dragon...
      • The fact that both Griswold and Hawkings fail to remember the rhyme until the chalices are presented -- and then Hawkings remembers it, holding the flagon with the dragon aloft triumphantly. Griswold, at that point, just takes the other glass.
  • "Yea verily yea!" Especially when they do the whole ceremony in every detail in double time!
  • Or possibly the final sword-battle with its Implausible Fencing Powers, especially the Excuse Me While I Multitask moment.
  • The scene where Hawkings seduces Gwendolyn. His impossibly smooth seduction (which occassionally glitches -- "I live for a sigh, I die for a kiss!"), his complete theatrical showiness, and the fact that he switches from brave and brazen to cowardly and timid with a snap just make a hilarious scene.
  • "And a jester unemployed... is nobody's fool!"