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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
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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* [[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
** "Beautiful bird, the African swallow. Lovely plummage."
** 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."
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* [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]]
* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: The Song That Goes Like This
* [[Shout
** And in an off-broadway traveling version of the show, [[
** 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 (
** The bottle dance from ''[[Fiddler On the Roof]]'' is re-enacted in "You Won't Succeed On Broadway". With Grails.
** The traveling show also acknowledges their current city in some form when the Knights-Who-Say-Ni no longer say "Ni."
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** "Skip a little"
* [[Silly Love Songs]]: "The Song That Goes Like This" is a parody, specifically of ones in Andrew Lloyd Webber productions.
* [[Spared
* [[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 2 and Act 3 under where the scenes/songs are. However, during the intermission, the animated hand writes "Act III" before correcting itself and erasing one of the I's.
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** 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 procedes to cut themselves with their swords and kill themselves by a Webber tune.}}
* [[The Trope Formerly Known
* [[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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