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''None for none
''None for none
''Slightly less for people we don't like
''Slightly less for people we don't like
''And a little bit more for me|"All For One"}}
''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 Awards, of which it won three, including Best Musical. The original cast included [[Tim Curry]], [[Frasier|David Hyde Pierce]], [[Hank Azaria]], [[Grey's Anatomy|Sara Ramirez]], and Christopher Sieber.
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 Awards, of which it won three, including Best Musical. The original cast included [[Tim Curry]], [[Frasier|David Hyde Pierce]], [[Hank Azaria]], [[Grey's Anatomy|Sara Ramirez]], and [[Christopher Sieber]].


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.
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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** Well, half-Jewish.
** 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 cast proceeds to cut themselves with their swords and kill themselves by a Webber tune}}.
* [[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 cast proceeds to cut themselves with their swords and kill themselves by a Webber tune}}.
* [[The Trope Formerly Known as X]]{{context}}
* [[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 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.
* [[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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