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* LysistrataGambit: Lurkalot and Sir Coward [[DisguisedInDrag disguise themselves as women]] and persuade Saladin's {{Bedlah Babes}}s to withhold sex from the crusaders, so that King Richard will becomes despondent, ball off the Crusade, and return to England.

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* LysistrataGambit: Lurkalot and Sir Coward [[DisguisedInDrag disguise themselves as women]] and persuade Saladin's {{Bedlah Babes}}s Babe}}s to withhold sex from the crusaders, so that King Richard will becomes despondent, ball off the Crusade, and return to England.
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* LysistrataGambit: Lurkalot and Sir Coward [[DisguisedInDrag disguise themselves as women]] and persuade Saladin's {{Bedlah Babes}}s to withhold sex from the crusaders, so that King Richard will becomes despondent, ball off the Crusade, and return to England.
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* DisguisedInDrag: Lurkalot and Sir Coward disguise themselves as women in order to unionise the BedlahBabes and encourage them to stage a LysistrataGambit.

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* AnachronismStew: From the comparatively minor (e.g. Lurkalot's horseshoe magnet) to the downright ludicrous) (e.g. Saladin running a go-g0 club for crusading knights). All PlayedForLaughs, of course.

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* AnachronismStew: From the comparatively minor (e.g. Lurkalot's horseshoe magnet) to the downright ludicrous) (e.g. Saladin running a go-g0 go-go club for crusading knights). All PlayedForLaughs, of course.


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* BedlahBabe: The Crusaders Club is filled with them, although many are wearing outfits more suited to a 70s go-go club.
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* AnachronismStew: From the comparatively minor (e.g. Lurkalot's horseshoe magnet) to the downright ludicrous) (e.g. Saladin running a go-g0 club for crusading knights). All PlayedForLaughs, of course.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: It is doubtful anyone was expecting historical accuracy from this film, but suffice it to say that UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionheart did not have a twin brother named Lurkalot, not did he ever marry a woman named Lobelia.
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* TheUnintelligible: On the way to the Holy Land, Lurkalot stops to as a yokel directions. The yokel speaks with an incomprehensible Mummerset accent, which results in Lurkalot making several false starts.

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* TheUnintelligible: On the way to the Holy Land, Lurkalot stops to as a yokel directions. The yokel speaks with an incomprehensible Mummerset accent, which results in Lurkalot making several false starts.starts.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: MachoCamp outlaw Will Scarlet is shirtless in every scene, and usually posing.

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* ClothingCombat: Will Scarlet uses his cloak like a matador's cape to cause Braggart's men to charge past him and collide with an anvil.
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* PlotBasedVoiceCancellation: Lurkalot asks the Voice who he really is, only for her reply to be drowned out by the dramatic thunder happening outside.
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* BindleStick: Lurkalot carries a bindle stick when he sets off to walk (and swim) from England to the Holy Land.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Lurkalot is constantly turning to the camera to make asides directly to the audience.



* TakeOffYourClothes: While getting Lady Lobelia away from Sir Braggart, Lurkalot takes her into his workshop and tells her to take off her clothes. She starts to obey and then says "But we haven't got time!". However, he actually wants to fit her with a chastity belt.

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* TakeOffYourClothes: While getting Lady Lobelia away from Sir Braggart, Lurkalot takes her into his workshop and tells her to take off her clothes. She starts to obey and then says "But we haven't got time!". However, he actually wants to fit her with a chastity belt.belt.
* TheUnintelligible: On the way to the Holy Land, Lurkalot stops to as a yokel directions. The yokel speaks with an incomprehensible Mummerset accent, which results in Lurkalot making several false starts.
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* KavorkaMan: King Richard is drowning in attractive women despite being played by Creator/FrankieHowerd in a bad blond wig. Being king must count for a lot, because his twin brother Lurkalot (Frankie Howerd without the wig) has much less luck with the ladies.
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* BatteringRam: Sir Braggart's men use a battering in an attempt to break into Lukalot's workshop, but he defeats them with DoorJudo.
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''Up the Chastity Belt'' (also released as ''Naughty Knights'' and ''The Chastity Belt'' in the United States) is a 1971 British film directed by Bob Kellett and starring Frankie Howerd. It was a spin-off from the TV series ''Series/UpPompeii''.

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''Up the Chastity Belt'' (also released as ''Naughty Knights'' and ''The Chastity Belt'' in the United States) is a 1971 British film directed by Bob Kellett and starring Frankie Howerd.Creator/FrankieHowerd. It was a spin-off from the TV series ''Series/UpPompeii''.
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* CannotTellAJoke: Lurkalot during his brief turn as jester. He tells an extremely unfunny joke then, when it fails to garner any laughs, he kills it entirely by overexplaining it.
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* TheKeyIsBehindTheLock: Nick the Pick is called in to unlock Lobelia's chastity belt. However, all of his tools are in his toolbox, which is locked. And he can't find the key. The rest of film shows his increasingly desperate attempts to open the toolbox.
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* SmolderingShoes: Happens to Nick the Pick when the bomb he is using to open his toolbox goes off.
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* RaisedByWolves: Lurkalot was raised by pigs.
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* EmergencyImpersonation: King Richard decides to stay behind in Germany with his latest piece of fluff, Lurkalot adopts Richard's identity and returns to England in an attempt to sort out the mess there. This does not go in any way according to plan.
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* CoitusInterruptus: Richard and Winnie continue having sex despite Lurkalot and Braggart having a running sword fight through the room.



* FallingChandelierOfDoom: Sir Braggart cuts down the chandelier so it falls on Sir Coward as he charges back into the geat hall during the final battle.

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* FallingChandelierOfDoom: Sir Braggart cuts down the chandelier so it falls on Sir Coward as he charges back into the geat great hall during the final battle.
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* ChandelierSwing: Lurkalot attempts to escape from Sir Braggart by leaping on to the chandelier and swinging away. However, he immediately loses control of the swing and winds up falling off.
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* FallingChandelierOfDoom: Sir Braggart cuts down the chandelier so it falls on Sir Coward as he charges back into the geat hall during the final battle.
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* BadHabits: Lurkalot disguises himself as a friar in order to to smuggle Sir Coward into the castle.
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* BurnTheWitch: Lurkalot is accused of being a witch after having been seen flying (ItMakesSenseInContext). First he is dunked in the well till he confesses to being a witch, and then is placed on a pyre to be burned. The villagers have trouble lighting him because he is so waterlogged.
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* StockPunishment: There is a man in stocks in village square being pelted with vegetables. Sir Coward later sneaks around collecting the vegetables for dinner.

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* StockPunishment: There is a man in stocks in village square being pelted with vegetables. Sir Coward later sneaks around collecting the vegetables for dinner.dinner.
* TakeOffYourClothes: While getting Lady Lobelia away from Sir Braggart, Lurkalot takes her into his workshop and tells her to take off her clothes. She starts to obey and then says "But we haven't got time!". However, he actually wants to fit her with a chastity belt.

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-->''Lady Ashfodel:'' And now I suppose you're going to embark on pillaging and rape of helpless women.\\

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-->''Lady Ashfodel:'' -->'''Lady Ashfodel:''' And now I suppose you're going to embark on pillaging and rape of helpless women.\\



* HollywoodMagnetism: Lurkalot uses a giant horseshoe magnet to strip Sir Grumbel of his weapons and armour during their trial by combat

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* HollywoodMagnetism: Lurkalot uses a giant horseshoe magnet to strip Sir Grumbel of his weapons and armour during their trial by combatcombat.
* StockPunishment: There is a man in stocks in village square being pelted with vegetables. Sir Coward later sneaks around collecting the vegetables for dinner.
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* HeadTiltinglyKinky: Scheherazade is looking at an illustration in the ''Kama Sutra'':
-->'''Scheherazade:''' "That's impossible!" ''(tilts head)'' Or is it?"
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* AllClothUnravels: Lurkalot gets the threads of Lady Ashfodel's tapestry hooked on his belt, and unravels it when he storms out of the room.

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* AllClothUnravels: Lurkalot gets the threads of Lady Ashfodel's tapestry hooked on his belt, and unravels it when he storms out of the room.room.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: When Sir Braggart lays claim to Sir Coward's castle:
-->''Lady Ashfodel:'' And now I suppose you're going to embark on pillaging and rape of helpless women.\\
'''Sir Braggart:''' I hadn't planned on it.\\
'''Lady Ashfodel:''' What a pity.
* DoorJudo: When Sir Sir Braggart de Bombast's men attempt to break down the door of Lurkalot's workshop with a battering ram, he opens the door so they crash into the wall opposite. Before doing so Creator/FrankieHowerd [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] to say there is no way such an old joke can work.
* HollywoodMagnetism: Lurkalot uses a giant horseshoe magnet to strip Sir Grumbel of his weapons and armour during their trial by combat
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''Up the Chastity Belt'' (also released as ''Naughty Knights'' and ''The Chastity Belt'' in the United States) is a 1971 British film directed by Bob Kellett and starring Frankie Howerd. It was a spin-off from the TV series ''Series/UpPompeii''.

The Queen of England gives birth to twins. In order to protect the blood line one is kept and the other hidden in a pig sty and is raised to think it's mother is the pig. Lurkalot is the one raised by pigs who doesn't know his past. He makes a good living as a servant, selling chastity belts on the side. When his master's castle is lost to Sir Braggart de Bombast, Lurkalot must fight to protect his daughter, eventually travelling to the missions to bring back his master. On the mission he uncovers that his twin is Richard the Lionheart and he is of Royal stock and must bring them both back.

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* AllClothUnravels: Lurkalot gets the threads of Lady Ashfodel's tapestry hooked on his belt, and unravels it when he storms out of the room.

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