History Theatre / Spamalot

** This joke is continued when King Arther tells him to 'knell'. Galahad angrily replies with: "Dennis!"

* OneSceneWonder: John Cleese, despite appearing only as a vocal recording, does a very amusing performance as God.
** One scene near the end has ''two'': Tim the Enchanter and Brother Maynard.

** Prince Herbert's father threatens the folks in the orchestra pit when they start playing for Herbert.

* AffirmativeActionGirl: The Lady of the Lake. The female characters in the movie are at most {{One Scene Wonder}}s and the Lady of the Lake (though mentioned) didn't appear at all. Which makes her singing about her lack of stage time in the musical even funnier.

* AffirmativeActionGirl: The Lady of the Lake. The female characters in the movie are at most {{OneSceneWonder}}s and the Lady of the Lake (though mentioned) didn't appear at all. Which makes her singing about her lack of stage time in the musical even funnier.

** The traveling show also acknowledges their current city in some form when the Knights-Who-Say-Ni no longer say "Ni."

* MythologyGag: The musical includes a NonSequitur segue into material involving a Scandinavian country and the song [[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life"]].

A 2005 [[TheMusical musical]] "lovingly ripped off" from ''MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', thus sharing many of the same tropes. Nominated for fourteen Tony Awards, of which it won three, including Best Musical. The original cast included TimCurry, [[{{Frasier}} David Hyde Pierce]], HankAzaria, [[Series/GreysAnatomy Sara Ramirez]], and Christopher Sieber.

Meanwhile, Sir Robin is being annoyed by his minstrels when he happens upon the Black Knight. Robin is terrified, but Arthur bursts on the scene and defeats the Black Knight [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail more or less how one would expect]]. The KWSN want their shrubbery to be in a Broadway musical. Robin tells Arthur he cannot have a good musical without Jews, so he and Patsy go off to look for some.

* MythologyGag: The musical includes a NonSequitur segue into material involving a Scandinavian country and the song [[MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life"]].

* VisualInnuendo: ** 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.

* ShoutOut: "Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Show" is DonQuixote. Even funnier is that a revival of ''ManOfLaMancha'' was going on right down the street when ''Spamalot'' premiered.
** And in an off-broadway traveling version of the show, DonQuixote was one of the former roles of the actor who plays King Arthur.

** Prince Hubert's father threatens the folks in the orchestra pit when they start playing for Hubert.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The Lady of the Lake is also [[spoiler: Guinevere.]] This combined with purposeful AdaptationDecay of the myth gets lampshaded by one of the knights sweasring loudly about how ridiculous this is.

* VisualPun: When Brother Maynard is [[OverlyLongList 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.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Hey, it's [[RockyHorrorPictureShow Dr. Frank N Furter]], [[ABugsLife Slim]], [[{{Godzilla}} "Animal"]], and JohnCleese.
** One touring production featured John O'Hurley(''FamilyFeud'', ''Dancing With the Stars'', Mr. Peterman on ''{{Seinfeld}}'') as King Arthur. He also headed up the Vegas cast.
** Some who went to the West End production got a chance to witness a singing, dancing [[PeterDavison Fifth]] [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor]].
** The current touring production has Eric Idle as the voice of God.
** [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer The Mayor]] spent some time playing King Arthur in the Broadway production.
** [[VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}} Alyx Vance]] was The Lady in the Lake
** In the British touring production King Arthur is usually played by a well-known comedian; recent examples include Sanjeev Bhaskar, Marcus Brigstocke and Phill Jupitus. There is a new Arthur roughly every six months, while the rest of the cast remains largely the same.

* BerserkButton: Are you an uncaring, unloving, and/or just plain abusive father? Stay the hell away from [[spoiler: Lancelot. Although even if you're not, he'll probably [[HeroicSociopath find some reason to]] [[TheBerserker kill you.]]]]

** [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer The Mayor]] spent some time playing King Arthur in the Broadway production.
** [[HalfLife2 Alyx Vance]] was The Lady in the Lake

** The UK tour changes "You Won't Succeed on Broadway" to a song about needing stars, since YouHaveToHaveJews is a predominantly American trope.

* A tap dance sequence was added for Harry Groener during his Broadway run as King Arthur.

After arriving in a LasVegas inspired Camelot, the knights are contacted by the voice of God (a recording of John Cleese) who wants them to search for the Holy Grail. They set out immediately, but are defeated by the incessant taunting of their French enemies. The knights become separated and Arthur ends up in a "dark and very expensive forest", where he is "All Alone" (sort of). He then meets the Knights Who Say Ni, for which he and Patsy go off to find a shrubbery.

** The UK tour changes "You Won't Succeed on Broadway" to a song about needing stars, since YouHaveToHaveJews is aa predominantly American trope.

A 2005 [[TheMusical musical]] "lovingly ripped off" from ''MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', thus sharing many of the same tropes. Nominated for fourteen Tony Awards, of which it won three, including Best Musical. The original cast included TimCurry, [[{{Frasier}} David Hyde Pierce]], HankAzaria, [[{{ptitlespennt48}} Sara Ramirez]], and Christopher Sieber.

** 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 ''[[{{Theatre/ptitlenjisnv3p}} Les Misérables]]''.