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Ear Worm: Even hearing the name "Robin Hood" will make most people start humming this show's theme tune.
Expy: In The Mark of Zorro, made two years after this film, Eugene Pallette would play another militant churchman, Fray Felipe, a character obviously based on Friar Tuck. Moreover, Marian's lady-in-waiting, Bess (Una O'Connor) who has "had the bans up five times," is clearly modeled on the Wife of Bath in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
What an Idiot!: Marian's attempts to hide the fact that she is trying to warn the King are ... less than convincing.
- She writes a letter to King Richard, telling him of the assassination plot and then hears a knock on her bedroom door. Despite the fact that there is a) a lady's maid next to her who successfully hides and b) a fire burning on the hearth right behind her, she neither gives the letter to the maid nor throws it in the fire. Instead she puts it in a conspicuous box on a table that she claps shut and still has her hands on when Sir Guy bursts through the door, and that she stares at while he toys with it.
  - "You're a very charming woman, Marian, but not exactly clever."

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 * [[Ear Worm]]: Even hearing the '''''name''''' "Robin Hood" will make most people start humming this show's theme tune.
+* [[Expy]]: In ''The Mark of Zorro'', made two years after this film, Eugene Pallette would play another [[Church Militant|militant churchman]], Fray Felipe, a character obviously based on Friar Tuck. Moreover, Marian's lady-in-waiting, Bess (Una O'Connor) who has "had the bans up five times," is clearly modeled on the Wife of Bath in Geoffrey Chaucer's ''[[The Canterbury Tales|Canterbury Tales]]''.
+* [[What an Idiot!]]: Marian's attempts to hide the fact that she is trying to warn the King are ... less than convincing.
+** She writes a letter to King Richard, telling him of the assassination plot and then hears a knock on her bedroom door. Despite the fact that there is a) a lady's maid next to her who ''successfully hides'' and b) a fire burning on the hearth ''right behind her'', she neither gives the letter to the maid nor throws it in the fire. Instead she puts it in a conspicuous box on a table that she claps shut and still has her hands on when Sir Guy bursts through the door, and that she ''stares at'' while he toys with it.
+*** "[["The Reason You Suck" Speech|You're a very charming woman, Marian, but not exactly clever.]]"
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