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'''''Disenchantment''''' is the creation of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' and ''[[Futurama]]'' creator [[Matt Groening]] and Josh Weinstein, and was released on [[Netflix]] on August 17th, 2018. It is a fantasy fiction adventure cartoon set in a mythical Middle Ages time period and features a variety of well-known creatures of folk lore including elves, ogres, giants and mermaids, as well as it's own novel species such as Dankmirians and Maruvians, and of course, humans. It follows the twin tales of disenchantment of the alcoholic [[protagonist]] Princess Tiabeannie of Dreamland ("Bean" for short) - who rebels against her father King Zog and step-mother Queen Oona in search of happiness - and her newfound elf buddy Elfo who has exiled himself from Elfwood in search of misery. She finds herself cursed by a personal demon (daemon) Luci for reasons unknown to her (but known to the audience). As the trio embark on a quest to find the Elixir of Life, Bean and Elfo's paths are entwined in the discovery of their true identities.
As of August 2022, [[Netflix]] has announced plans for a third season.
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'''Laughing Horse''': "Hahahahahaha!"
'''Malfus''': You know, I'm profoundly lonely but I think you should leave."}}
* [[Accidental Kidnapping]]: Poor Tess is assaulted, locked in shackles, and dragged to Dreamland, all because, by sheer coincidence, she looks like the [[Girlfriend in Canada]] Elfo described, and [[Could Have Avoided This Plot|Elfo simply can't admit he was lying about it]].
* [[Accidental Murder]]: Bean tends to kill a lot of folks by accident, the first being her fiance, Prince Guysbert
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of the [[High Fantasy]] genre.
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Bean is driven to drink by her father.
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]:
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunkard%27s_cloak A drunkard's cloak] (which Bean is subjected to in one episode) was indeed a medieval torture device used to punish miscreants via public humiliation.
** Gout was indeed once considered a "rich man's disease", as you'd have to be pretty rich to afford to eat the fatty organ meats and enough alcohol on a daily basis to be at risk of it. (In other words, you get gout by eating like a pig, and back then, doing so was expensive.) Ironically, commoners tended to eat fish, grains, and garden vegetables, their diet being a lot healthier as a result.
* [[Ambiguously Human]]: Prime Minister Odval. He has pointed ears and a third eye on his forehead (usually hidden under his hat) which has never been explained. He claims to have had a fourth eye once, but [[You Do NOT Want to Know]] what happened to it.
* [[Anvilicious]]: In S01E08, "The Limits of Immortality"
{{quote|'''Malfus''': [Of immortality] The monotony, the repetition, the monotony, the repetition... [[beat]] ...''the monotony, the repetition.''}}
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{{quote|'''Elf King''': "How can the world's greatest race be racist?"
'''Bean''': [Stares directly to the viewer while this line is delivered after she goaded the Elf king].}}
* [[Brick Joke]]: In season 3, Bean is killed many times in her dreams in her attempts to slay her [[Evil Twin]], in one attempt being impaled through the head on the bladed throne, the same way she (accidentally) killed Guysbert. Not truly karma, seeing as she simply wakes up as a result, but it is pretty funny to see how ''she'' likes it.
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: the rulers of Bentwood, King Lorenzo and Queen Bunny, are both spouses and siblings, and make no attempt to deny it; they see nothing wrong with this. This is far from the only reason Bentwood's nobility is [[Royally Screwed-Up]].
* [[By Wall That Is Holey]]: a [[homage|nod]] is given to this classic piece of cinema when an ogre falls on Elfo, only for his tiny body to fit exactly through the hole in the ogre's chest.
* [[The Caligula]]: Zog is a cruel, tyrannical, and incompetent ruler. He often orders subjects beheaded just for annoying him, or some other trivial matter. He over-taxes the elves when they move in simply because they have more money than everyone else (though in his defense, he changes his mind later and gives if back), and confiscates their harvests after "inspecting" it. In one episode where he falls ill, he regrets having all the doctors beheaded.
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** The land of the elves - "Elfwood" - appears from another dimension and is an example of a dreamworld within a dreamworld.
* [[Dumb Is Good]]: {{spoiler|Jerry is no-doubt the dumbest member of Dagmar's family, implied to have suffered brain damage when they tried to use the crown on him. He's also one of the few truly decent people in the series, and eventually helps Bean escape at the cost of his own life. Emphasized in a scene later where his soul is seen in Heaven.}}
* [[Equal Opportunity Evil]]: Bean at first admires Steamland for not having the "glass ceiling" that Dreamland does. Be that as it may, Steamland seeks to conquer and subjugate Dreamland, {{spoiler|with the Arch-Druidess being a mole working for them}}. They also use child labor, abuse the working class, and throw non-humans like Elfo and Mora into a prison that double as a circus freak show.
* [[Everyone Has Standards]]: Bean has quite a few vices, and not a lot of morals or ethics. Drinking and gambling she's okay with. Public nudity, she's fine with. Stealing from her stepmother's purse? Okay, ''that'' makes her hesitate and feel a little guilty afterwards, and likely causes a lot of regret later, seeing as the snake-root gives her even ''less'' morals, enough to approve of grave-robbing. This is lampshaded later, when Oona forgives her for everything ''except'' stealing the snake-root, sternly telling her ''never'' to do it again.
* [[Evil Cripple]]: Zog is, by his own admission, arthritic, anemic, and diabetic, and he makes his health worse in one episode where [[Too Dumb To Live|he gives himself gout on purpose]] after hearing it's a "nobleman's disease".
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** "Swamp and Circumstance"; at the Dankmire restaurant, Luci and Elfo are drinking from what looks like a small punchbowl, until a waiter comes by and asks if they'd like to order drinks, telling them the "punchbowl" is a centerpiece.
** "In Her Own Write"; when Bean tries coffee for the first time (it's a new thing at the time), she is disgusted, wondering why anyone would serve beer hot and bitter. After being told what it is, however, she quickly becomes addicted.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Ugh, where to start here.
** Bean is a [[Really Gets Around]] type but she tends to stick to her own species. however, she might have had an LGBT fling with Mora, a mermaid. Exactly how much of her meeting with Mora was real and [[Or Was It a Dream?|how much was a concussion-induced hallucination]] isn't certain.
** Elfo’s first crush was another elf, but he’s also had a lot of crushes on humans, including [[Hot Gypsy Woman|Edith]], Bean’s Mother, and Bean herself, and he seems to show jealousy when Bean crushes on someone else. He also started to have a crush on Tess, a giantess who was kidnapped by Dreamland’s militia because she matched his description of his [[Girlfriend in Canada]].
** Luci dated Kissie, (an elf, Elfo’s aforementioned first crush) once, but Kissie herself is something of an [[Anything That Moves]] type.
** Bean’s father Zog has had three consorts, and only the first was human; the second was Oola (Darkmirian, a race of swamp dwelling amphibian people). The third was the only woman he seemed to truly love, Ursula (a forest selkie), but it didn’t last because she wasn’t comfortable with civilized life.
** Zog’s son (via Oola) Derrick dated and almost married Sagatha, a fairy, an Improbable Species Compatibility pairing due to her size. Initially she was something of a [[Gold Digger]] and homewrecker, but they parted on relatively good terms.
* [[Irony]]: plenty of irony to go around:
** Verbal irony:
{{quote|'''Elf King''': How can the world's greatest race be racist?"}}
* [[Gentle Giant]]: Tess, an actual giantess, although unfortunately, she [[Does Not Know Her Own Strength]]
* [[Godiva Hair]]:
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* [[Lame Pun]]:
{{quote|'''Stan The Executioner''': We best ''be-heading'' to work. Hahahaha. It's an executioner joke. You'll 'ear all of them in the first 15 minutes. Then it's basically just ''human tragedy''.}}
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:
** In S01E01:
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[Elfo pulls a lever]
'''Superviso''': I don't know why we keep that lever there.}}
{{quote|[ [[Call Back|Elfo pulls a lever]] ]
'''Bean''': How did you know that was there?
'''Elfo''': Unlike some people, I read the [[Call Back|guide book]].}}
{{quote|'''Home owner''': Hey! You can't park on my lawn!
'''Viking''': My flaming arrow says I can.
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