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''None for none
''Slightly less for people we don't like
''And a little bit more for me
|"All For One"}}
A 2005 [[The Musical|musical]] "lovingly ripped off" from ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'', thus sharing many of the same tropes. Nominated for fourteen [[Tony
A 2023 revival came to Broadway, with James Monroe Iglehart as King Arthur, and Taran Killam as Lancelot.
The 'plot' is introduced by [[Interactive Narrator|the historian]], who gives an overview of the setting: medieval England. Naturally, the cast goes on to sing a song about Finland (also using the opportunity to perform the famous Fish-Slapping Dance). After this misunderstanding is cleared up, [[King Arthur]] and his servant Patsy arrive on the scene in search of knights for the round table. They promptly get into an argument about swallows with some French guards.
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* [[Adaptational Badass]]:
** King Arthur gets to do a ''little'' bit more as the King. When Dennis the peasant refuses to believe that the Lady of the Lake is real and says that women tossing swords don't make for a stable form of government, King Arthur doesn't attack him. He instead asks Dennis to join his round table if Arthur can prove the lady is real. When Dennis agrees, King Arthur asks the Lady of the Lake to reveal herself, and she does.
* [[Affirmative Action Girl]]: The Lady of the Lake. The female characters in the movie are at most [[One-Scene Wonder|OneSceneWonders]] and the Lady of the Lake (though mentioned) didn't appear at all. Which makes her singing about her lack of stage time in the musical even funnier.▼
** Sir Robin in the film ''almost'' stood up to the fierce Chicken of Bristol. In the musical, he actually slayed it. The 2023 revival goes further by showing he's the only knight that fares well against the French, by trapping the mime girl in a mime box.
▲* [[Affirmative Action Girl]]: The Lady of the Lake. The female characters in the movie are at most [[One-Scene Wonder
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Patsy has a much larger role in the musical than he did in the movie, essentially replacing Bedevere as Arthur's constant companion.
* [[Audience Participation]]: The knights discover that the Grail's location is {{spoiler|underneath a seat in the audience (
* [[Award Bait Song]]: Parodied in "The Song That Goes Like This"; played straight in "Find Your Grail
* [[Berserk Button]]: Are you an uncaring, unloving, and/or just plain abusive father? Stay the hell away from
* [[Composite Character]]: Galahad, Lancelot and Robin are all combined with [[One-Scene Wonder]] characters played by their respective actors in the movie -- hence, Galahad is now the same person as Dennis the anarcho-syndicalist peasant (both of whom were played by Michael Palin in the movie), Robin and Lancelot are the plague victim collector and his quarrelsome customer (Eric Idle and John Cleese, respectively).
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: The Lady of the Lake is also
* [[Crowd Song]]: "Fisch Schlapping
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: In
* [[Everyone Hates Mimes]]: The 2023 revival features a mime among the French, who gives a silent interpretation of what she thinks the rabbit is. She also joins the French taunters on the fart trumpets before entering the fracas. Sir Robin has to stop her by trapping her within an invisible box.
* [[Evolving Music]]: The lyrics of "The Diva's Lament" -- in which the female lead mentions not having won any awards -- after the show did quite well at the Tony awards.
** The UK tour changes "You Won't Succeed on Broadway" to a song about needing stars, since [[You Have to Have Jews]] is a predominantly American trope, whereas in Britain most touring musical productions tend to have at least one soap opera actor/reality TV star/broadcast comedian in the cast.
**
* [[Grail Quest]]: Being an adaptation of ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'', ''Spamalot'' naturally features this. After Arthur spends the first act recruiting Knights for the Round Table and introducing them to Camelot, God intervenes and asks them to go on a quest to find the grail. Arthur determines that in addition to God's "missing mug," the grail is a symbol (cue cymbal crashing) of something they should pursue to make their life more fulfilling. In Arthur's case, he realizes that he wants the Lady of the Lake, who wants him as well. Sir Robin finds his calling is "musical theater" where he can sing and dance as he likes without soiling himself in fear. Lancelot gets the happiest ending, where he uncharacteristically is convinced to put down his weapons {{spoiler|to come out of the closet. He and Prince Herbert find each other, getting married}}. Act Two has Arthur and the Knights find a shrubbery and host a musical on Broadway for the Knights Who Say Ni, destroy the Killer Rabbit with a Holy Hand Grenade, and search the audience for the grail. They then award the audience member whose seat has the Grail under it with the title "Most Useful Peasant."
* [[Hard Gay]]:
** ...[[All There in the Manual|unless you buy the more expensive playbook]], in which case his dream is explicitly stated to be to open an fabric store.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]:
{{quote|'''Arthur:''' "It's a symbol!" '''*cymbal crash* [Arthur glares at orchestra pit]'''}}
* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: Tim yells out "BLOW ME!" He means "Below me
* [[Interactive Narrator]]: The Historian.
* [[King Arthur]]: Well, yeah...
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: "Come
* [[Medium Awareness]]: Several characters, leading them to [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|break the fourth wall]] at times.
** Prince Herbert's father threatens the folks in the orchestra pit when they start playing for Herbert.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: The musical includes a [[Non Sequitur]] segue into material involving a Scandinavian country and the song [[Monty Python's Life of Brian|"Always Look
** "Beautiful bird, the African swallow. Lovely
** The playbill has a hilarious fake bio page for "DIK TRIAANENEN FOL", supposedly a show that features the East Finland Moose Ballet "45 magnificent creatures in high-stepping harmony."
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: 'Not-Dead-Fred', among others.▼
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: John Cleese, despite appearing only as a vocal recording, does a very amusing performance as God.
** One scene near the end has ''two'': Tim the Enchanter and Brother Maynard.
▲* [[Not Quite Dead]]: 'Not-Dead-Fred', among others.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: For the show, John Cleese re-recorded his dialogue as God. Part of it was an ad-libbed ''"Of course it's a good idea, I'm '''fucking''' God!"
▲* [[Patter Song]]: "You Won't Succeed on Broadway."
▲* [[Precision F-Strike]]: For the show, John Cleese re-recorded his dialogue as God. Part of it was an ad-libbed ''"Of course it's a good idea, I'm '''fucking''' God!" ''
* [[Scooby Stack]]: Done by the French Knights when they come upon the wooden rabbit.
* [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]]
* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: "The Song That Goes Like This".
* [[Shout-Out]]: "Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Show" is [[Don Quixote]]. Even funnier is that a revival of ''[[Man of La Mancha]]'' was going on right down the street when ''Spamalot'' premiered.
** And in an off-
** And in one scene, the knights are attacked by an army of French stereotypes. One of which was a woman dressed up like Eponine from ''[[Les Misérables (theatre)|Les Misérables]]''.
** The bottle dance from ''[[Fiddler
** The traveling show also acknowledges their current city in some form when the Knights-Who-Say-Ni no longer say "Ni
** Or one time in a New
** Can crop up in improvised segments, such as the French insults
** The boat in "The Song That Goes Like This" is very similar to that from
** In early April, the KWSN's new thing to say ended with "oh, don't feel bad, Santorum, it's not like you had a chance in any case," which got a rousing cheer from the San Francisco audience.
* [[Sight Gag]]: "Hay!" from "You Won't Succeed
** Lancelot's banana.
** "Skip a little".
* [[Silly Love Songs]]: "The Song That Goes Like This" is a parody, specifically of ones in Andrew Lloyd Webber productions.
* [[Spared by the Adaptation]]: Most of the characters who were killed off in the movie, survive in the musical.
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: When the [[Holy Hand Grenade]] kills the [[Killer Rabbit]], the set piece that's in front of it falls over [[Crowning Moment of Funny|revealing the rabbit's puppeteer]]. This is clearly intentional, because the puppeteer and the knights stare at each other for a moment, before he [[Look a Distraction|points behind them]] and runs offstage as the knights turn around.
* [[Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion]]: Double subverted. Near the end of Act I, King Arthur sings "Have a drink and a pee/We'll be back for Act III", but there are only two acts. Patsy corrects him and he sings the correct word. The actual playbill actually labels the acts as Act
* [[Suddenly Ethnicity]]:
** Well, half-Jewish.
* [[Take That]]: The Quest turns out to be {{spoiler|to put on a musical in [insert city location] "as long as it isn't an [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] musical
* [[The Trope Formerly Known as X]]: "the artists formerly known as the Knights Who Say Ni".
* [[Visual Innuendo]]: Herbert's fruit hat during "His Name is Lancelot" in the final pose where the hat's banana is sticking up right in front of Lancelot's crotch.
* [[Visual Pun]]: When Brother Maynard is taking too long on the foods to be feasted upon, King Arthur tells Maynard to "skip a little". So he... skips in place. For some reason, this is possibly the funniest sight gag in the show, perhaps because the audience is familiar with the scene from the film and this modifies it.
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** [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: The play had a run at the Wynn casino resort in Vegas.
* [[Wandering Minstrel]]: As in the movie, Brave, brave Sir Robin has a group of them follow wherever he goes.
▲* [[You Have to Have Jews]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
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