History Series / Galavant

-->'''Madalena''': No one wheels and double deals in killer heels like me!

-->'''Madalena''': Ooh! Queeny likey! [...] And that hooky thing is mine!

-->'''Chef''': We would have a dozen kids.\\
'''Gwynne''': And maybe one won't die!

---> '''Isabella:''' [[spoiler:I've been locked in a dungeon and a jewelry box. I've been engaged to my 11-year-old cousin. I spent the better part of two years in the same outfit.]] I am getting my happy ending.

--->'''Galavant''': Have these been open the whole time? No one thought to check? Really?

-->'''Galavant''': What happened, I just ran out of friends?

---> '''King Richard''': I want to skewer him with swords and slowly twist 'em / All around his reproductive system. / Wooon't thaaat beee diiiviiine?

-->'''Madalena''': Can't you feel the frantic beat of our hearts as our various parts rub with such delicious friction.

** A lesser one, but you must admit "Dicky" quite fits Richard. Perhaps also ironic given the better known [[RobinHood King Richard]].

-->Gosh, so much to dump upon your doormat / in a half-hour sitcom format.

-->'''Richard''': Dear God, we have an [[LampshadeHanging odd relationship]].

--> Isabella: What are you still doing here?
--> Chef: You never gave me the fucking amulet!

* ShownTheirWork: The episode where we reach Sidney's hometown. In Sid's childhood room is a poster signed with well-wishes and signatures from various people presumably from the village. There are legible words and names, but several people signed with simple crosses as actual, illiterate peasants would have in ancient times.

* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: In the season 2 finale [[spoiler: Sid is able to gather allies from everywhere the heroes had been in months of hard traveling in less than a day.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Madalena in the first episode. Her constant belittling and degrading remarks of Richard, not even realizing he now has the jewel she had him invade Valencia for ''in his hands'', leads him to not tell her about the jewel and set up the BatmanGambit to kill Galavant. This will lead to, by the end of season 2, [[spoiler:Galavant being back in top heroic form, King Richard now a good guy with the Excalibur-expy on his way to unite the kingdoms under harmony with his pet dragon, Garath on a somewhat HeelFaceTurn as he now quests to save Madalena from her own corruption, and Madalena fleeing the battle, and Valencia's true king and queen back on their thrones]].

** Chef and Gwynne nonchalantly sing about being dead by their 30s.
** Galavant is genuinely surprised that Richard hasn't ''forced'' Maladena to sleep with him, which Richard finds horrifying.

** Chef is praised by Gwynne for being into women's rights, noting examples such letting her keep their first (unborn) daughter instead of throwing her to white walkers.
** The Kingdom [[spoiler: that Richard left behind and forgot to contact]] proudly explain that their new rules mean everyone can vote... except for women, poor people, [[LongList the disabled, non-whites, gay men, gingers, people they just don't like...]]

** King Richard seems to honestly consider Gareth a friend, and to Gareth's credit, he seems to be utterly loyal to Richard despite being much more competent.
** We also see Gareth give the king a hug after Madalena says some crushing things to him in Episode 2. This is after Gareth made a point of saying that he absolutely does not hug people.

** "Do the D'Dew" is a duet between Chester Wormwood and Madalena.

* BiggerBad: It becomes pretty obvious early on that [[spoiler: Madalena]] is far more evil and ruthless than Richard ever could be. She is callous and disloyal, but cannot yet claim the death toll of thousands that Richard can.

** [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Xanax]] ([[Creator/RickyGervais a "spiritual guide"]]--he's not allowed to call himself a magician [[NoodleIncident anymore)]] gives one in annoyance when King Richard decides to take the group [[ItMakesSenseInContext to see his childhood bedroom]].

---> '''Narrator:''' ''Yes! He [[DoubleEntendre loved her]] to excess! [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Thrice daily, more or less!]]''

-->'''Women:''' So in the weeks to come ignore the pageants that they'll hold
-->'''Gareth:''' Skip the football matches...
-->'''Jester:''' ...and the globes made out of gold
-->'''Pirates:''' Screw all those apprentices...
-->'''Women:''' ...and every bachelorette
-->'''Valencian Group:''' Give into the miracle that no one thought we'd get!

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Isabella lampshades this when she refers to herself as "ethnically hard to pin down".

* BadassGay: Or possibly bisexual as [[spoiler:Jean Hamm, Galavant's rival as a knight]] is seen in the Enchanted Forest at the start of season 2. It's never confirmed if he is gay and uses women as beards (which he jokingly accuses Galavant of doing), or just likes both. Either way, he'd rather you not tell his wife.

'''Madalena:''' ''I'd absoutely say, more like middling to fair.''\\

* FreezeFrameBonus: When Isabella returns to Hortensia to banish Wormwood and asks where he is, the AnswerCut is a close-up of his twin to-do lists, the Evil Plan and the Wedding Plan, which quickly pulls back before the lists can be read. They include such gems as "Snub Music/AlanMenken re. Emmy" and "NO CHILDREN INVITED (except the groom)."

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kxIbo2aEOQ "Maybe You Won't Die Alone"]] takes its inspiration from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aobVs-HfsCI "Kiss the Girl"]] from ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', albeit executed as a mariachi number rather than as a calypso.

** Even the jester thinks Richard's bit [[TooSoon mocking Valencia]] is inappropriate.

* BiTheWay: Princess Jubilee. Seriously, go back and listen to her song.

* FairForItsDay: A satirical InUniverse case. In the second season, Galavant and Richard find that while Richard has been away from his home kingdom the people have reinvented it as a democracy, demolishing Richard's castle to build a new, better village and distributing his wealth among the people to better their lives. Of course, it's hardly what could be called a fair democracy, since [[EverythingExceptMostThings tons of people get excluded from voting]], (women, gays, the poor, lepers, people of color, redheads, anyone accused of being a witch, etc.) but Galavant winkingly points how it's still very progressive for the Middle Ages. It's both a barb towards the tendency to whitewash the past with this trope (particularly, the democracy practiced by the American Founding Fathers) and how shades of the same practices are still reflected in more enlightened times.

* AffablyEvil: King Richard. Not every day you meet a genocidal warlord who's so {{Adorkable}} and trying his best to please his loved ones.

** The pirates are decked out in all the trappings of TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy, Jolly Roger and all.

* Foreshadowing: In "Do The D'Dew", Galavant is having difficulty, trying to get his Zombie Army to focus. However, [[spoiler: during Richard & Roberta's LoveConfession Song]], they all seem to be paying attention and act as the Chorus. This Foreshadow's the fact that [[spoiler: the Zombie Army responds to Love]].

* TheBroCode: Sid invokes this by name with Gareth. Gareth, despite being the human embodiment of testosterone, had never heard of it and asks if it's "a black thin."

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When King Richard tries to organize something to have a bit of fun in Valencia, he finds it hard due to the consequences of his actions during the war (such as burning all of their crops and reducing their most beloved tree to toothpicks), actions he forgot until they are reminded to him.

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: In the first season finale. [[spoiler: Gwynne wants Chef to poison everyone, but he can only bring himself to serve each guest what they're allergic to. Not only are their reactions not characteristic of food allergies (Richard sneezes, which happens when you ''inhale'' an allergen, and Madalena acts like she has a food ''intolerance'' instead of an allergy), but this is portrayed as a merciful alternative, when, without modern medicine like Epi-Pens or Benedryl, everyone in that room is doomed to dying of anaphylaxis.]]
** Actually, not really. [[spoiler: One of the symptoms of food allergies *is* sneezing, per [[https://www.webmd.com/allergies/food-triggers WebMD]]. Food allergies often act exactly like food intolerance, also per WebMD. Even if they weren't, how would Chef know the difference in the 14th century? And lastly, most food allergies, while *potentially* serious or even life threatening, do not kill.]]