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[[caption-width-right:320:Blazing dragons, we will save the day!]]

->Gather 'round ye brave young knights to hear this famous story\\
Adventures of the Square Table and of dragon glory...

''Blazing Dragons'' is a Canadian/British/French AnimatedShow that was the brainchild of Creator/MontyPython's very own Creator/TerryJones and English screenwriter Gavin Scott, brought to life by Creator/{{Nelvana}} and Creator/EllipseAnimation in association with [[Creator/{{ITV}} Carlton Television]]. Running for 26 episodes in 2 seasons (1996-1998), it originally aired on Creator/{{CITV}} in Britain, but was also shown on Creator/{{Teletoon}} in Canada and Creator/ToonDisney in the United States.

A parody of Arthurian legends, the series centers around the dragon kingdom of Camelhot, ruled by King Allfire, his wife Queen Griddle, and his daughter (Griddle's stepdaughter) Princess Flame. Allfire leads the Knights of the Square Table, which is made up of Sir Loungelot, Sir Blaze (Griddle's son), Sir Burnevere, Sir Galahot, and Sir Hotbreath. While Allfire is a good (if foolish) king, his knights, especially Loungelot, are varying degrees of lazy, greedy, and incompetent. In fact, the only halfway competent warrior in the kingdom is Loungelot's squire Flicker, a genius inventor far more virtuous than the knights he idolizes - something that nobody besides Princess Flame (who Flicker has feelings for) seems to notice or appreciate.

In most episodes, King Allfire and the Knights of the Square Table (more often than not with the help of Squire Flicker and Princess Flame) battle their mortal enemy, Dread Count Geoffrey de Bouillon, Oppressor Par Excellence of the Poor and Weak, who rules an impoverished neighboring kingdom of humans from Castle Threadbare. With the help of his henchmen, which include Evil Knights 1, 2 and 3, the witch Merle, and his personal spy to the dragons' kingdom (a man in a ludicrously cheap dragon costume), Count Geoffrey constantly schemes to take over Camelhot and oust Allfire from power. Fortunately, for our scaly, fire-breathing heroes in Camelhot, Count Geoffrey and his minions are, if anything, just as inept as most of the dragons are.

The second season made a few changes to the show, with perhaps the most obvious being a change in animation style that gave the characters thicker outlines and episodes being change from full 22-minute adventures to a TwoShorts format. Additionally, a few of the characters were either removed or DemotedToExtra, while Count Geoffrey and Princess Flame were redesigned to fit the new art direction. However, fans of the show generally agree that despite these alterations, the writing remained as sharp and witty as before.

A LicensedGame was also released for the Platform/PlayStation and Platform/SegaSaturn, featuring entirely different character designs and American voice actors replacing the show's Canadian cast (although Terry Jones provided some voice work as well). It's a point-and-click adventure game, in which the player controls Flicker and helps him participate in a knight tournament so that he may win Princess Flame's hand in marriage. However, things are complicated by the evil Sir George (basically the game's version of Count Geoffrey) infiltrating the tournament as part of a scheme to take over Camelhot and marry Princess Flame.

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!! Tropes used in the cartoon:
* AbnormalAmmo: Geoffrey uses peasants for catapult ammo, among many other things.
* ActionGirl: Princess Flame. Among other instances of badassery, she enters a jousting tournament for her hand in marriage because she wants to be able to choose for herself, and she duels Count Geoffrey with her father's sword, which happens to be the show's equivalent of ''{{Excalibur}}''.
* AcrophobicBird: The dragons have wings that are shown in the opening to be more than usable, yet whenever they face a situation where the power of flight would be handy, they completely forget about it.
* AnachronismStew: PlayedForLaughs. Merle is stated to be the sponsor of the "1096 Olympics", Flame refers to Griddle as "No Joan of Arc", etc.
* AncientGrome: An episode set in Greece features Zeus, Poseidon, Atlas and Hercules.
* AndThenWhat: When they spend an entire episode finding the Holy Quail (CueTheSun, the Holy Quail and the sacred music - ItMakesSenseInContext), then don't know what to do with it when they find it. [[spoiler:They eat it]].
* ArtEvolution: The second season has a very different look to it. Not to mention the use of ThickLineAnimation.
* BlackKnight:
** One serves as a mentor to a washed-up villain.
** Parodied in "[[TheTourney Tournament Day]]". Flicker is concerned when an unknown BlackKnight enters a tournament to win Princess Flame's hand in marriage, as he thinks it could be Count Geoffrey's Evil Knights. To defeat them, he enters the tournament as the White Knight. [[spoiler:Then he finds out ''Flame'' is the Black Knight; she hates the idea of the tournament and entered to win her own hand. Geoffrey's Evil Knights then actually enter the tournament as the Brown Knight.]]
* BoxingEpisode: The Reign in Spain
* BreakingTheFourthWall
-->'''Loungelot:''' "Have you seen the Wandering Minstrel?"
-->'''Flicker:''' "No. I thought he was just a side character meant to be a bridge between scenes?"
** From the same episode as the above:"Try wearing a dress for an entire episode"
* CatchPhrase: "[[TitleDrop Blazing Dragons!]]" is an exclamation used by the Dragons.
** And "I Have A [[EvilPlan Plan]]" For Count Geoffrey.
** Sir Burnevere has "Hoot Mcgregor!"
* TheChewToy: Nearly the entire the cast becomes this from time to time; mostly Cinder and Clinker, Count Geoffrey, and the Evil Knights.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: There's five knights in Season 1: Loungelot, Blaze, Burnevere, Galahot and Hotbreath. Galahot and Hotbreath vanish in Season 2 with no further mention.
** Which kind of makes sense, since they're one-joke dragons. In Galahot's case, that one joke happens during the opening theme.
* DemotedToExtra: Princess Flame in the later episodes of Season 2
* DisappearedDad: Blaze's biological father, Sir Herman the Nearsighted, was lost at sea years ago.
* DisneyVillainDeath: POSSIBLY [[spoiler:Count Geoffrey, in the second last episode when Sir Loungelot knocks him out of the highest tower of Camelhot.]] Highly debatable, of course, as he has survived quite a bit of punishment throughout the series, but he exits the series with this fall all the same.
* DragonsVersusKnights: Only in this case, the dragons are the heroes, and the knights are the villains.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Count Geoffrey never succeeded in taking over Camelhot.
* FalseReassurance: Geoffrey assures Princess Flame he doesn't make a habit of fighting unarmed women. It just so happens Flame is holding her father's sword: "En Garde!"
* FracturedFairytale: Several characters from famous fairy tales are featured. One example is that of Sleeping Beauty, who in the series is portrayed as a loud mouth who eats the denizens of Camelhot out of house and home. Things go to the point that several of the dragons wanted to Beauty to go back to sleep. The series overall can be considered this to Myth/ArthurianLegend.
* GadgeteerGenius: Flicker.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Count Geoffrey, disguised as King Allfire, is water skiing and crashes into the drawbridge. For most of the crash, a CENSORED bar blocks most of him from view, including the impact, which seems to depict blood flying in all directions (the one time we see blood in the show).
* HenpeckedHusband: King Allfire.
* InsistentTerminology: "Dread Count Geoffrey de Bouillon, Oppressor Par Excellence of the Poor and Weak."
-->'''Flicker:''' (''finds nail clipper'') So that explains it! I didn't lose the sword Flame, Count Geoffrey stole it.
-->'''Flame:''' How do you know that nail clippers is his?
-->'''Flicker:''' It has D.C.G.O.P.E.P.W. monogrammed on it.
-->'''Flame:''' Dread Count Geoffrey Oppressor Par excellence of the Poor and Weak!...Can we be certain it's him?
-->'''Flicker:''' We'll have to chance it.
* MeaningfulName: Most of the cast.
* MissingMom: Griddle is Flame's ''step''mother - the fate of her biological mother (Allfire's first wife) is never revealed.
* MultipleHeadCase: Cinder and Clinker, the two-headed dragon servant. One head is sullen and gloomy, while the other is chipper and upbeat.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Loungelot treats Flicker pretty badly.
* NoodleIncident: Geoffrey's threat to his Evil Knights to make them suffer the same fate as "Evil Knight #4."
* OnlySaneMan: Flicker is usually the one who figures out the solutions to problems, as the other Dragons have too much in the way of ego and not enough in the way of common sense.
** And when that fails (usually due to Flicker trying too hard to follow the code), Princess Flame must act the voice of reason.
* PerspectiveFlip: Heroic dragons acting like Arthurian knights, while the knights are evil antagonists.
* ProductPlacement: Used as the basis for a joke revolving around the "Oil of Ole[[note]]Ole´![[/note]]."
* PunnyName: A lot of the names in the series are dragon-themed takes on names from Arthurian legend (King Allfire, Camelhot, Sir Burnevere). Loungealot isn't dragon-themed, but still counts.
* PutOnABus: the Wandering Minstrel closed and opened episodes in the first season with his songs. In the second season he vanished, but turned up in a single episode, now called "The Unemployed Wandering Minstrel", and made reference to Camelhot firing him from his job.
* RememberedICouldFly: While sneaking out of her tower bedroom, Princess Flame's BedsheetLadder unravels and she abruptly falls out of frame. The camera then pans down to her flapping her wings, hovering in place and smirking "Oh, dash it, I forgot I could fly."
* SaveTheVillain: [[spoiler:Flicker, who is bound to be Count Geoffrey's servant when Geoffrey accidentally [[VillainousRescue saved his life]], saves him from being burned by his pancake machine, which makes them even.]]
* ShoutOut: Sir Burnevere the Overly-Educated is a ShoutOut to Jones' character in Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail, Sir Bedivere the Wise.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''.
* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: In the theme tune. Immediately followed by: "That doesn't rhyme / That's OK / We're gonna sing it anyway!"
* ToBeAMaster: Flicker's ambition to become a knight.
* TrickingTheShapeshifter: An inversion occurs in "Newt For a Day" when the Hag of Gist transforms Flame into a toad. She comments that toad transformations are a tad cliched, and it would be more impressive for the hag to turn her into a "gigantic two-headed eagle with bat wings and the claws of a tiger". The hag, driven by ego, does just that...and is promptly carried away by Eagle-Flame.
* TwoShorts: Beginning in season 2. The first season was all half-hour stories.
* VillainousRescue: Accidentally done by Count Geoffrey to Flicker. This sets up the episode plot in which Flicker is indebted to become Geoffrey's servant until [[spoiler:[[SaveTheVillain Flicker saves Geoffrey]] and makes them even.]]

!!Tropes used in the game:
* AbnormalAmmo: A cat wearing a crash helmet serves this purpose.
* [[strike:AmbiguouslyJewish]] [[AmbiguouslyJewish So Jewish It Hurts]]: The guardian of the Cave of Dilemma.
* AlternateContinuity: The game seems to be a different take of the cartoon due to a many differences:
** Some characters from the cartoon are not present and has some new characters that never appear in the cartoon.
** The art style is more realistic.
** The dragons in the game are more centaur-dragons in the game.
** The voice cast is done in the United States.
* BearTrap: Flicker encounters an ant who is stuck on a trap planted by a hunter.
* BodyHorror: A brief sequence before Sir George kidnaps Princess Flame sees him transformed into various monstrous forms by Mervin before ultimately (and thankfully) regaining his normal form.
* BuffySpeak - Spoofed:
--> '''Flicker:''' "Do you have one of those, you know..?"
--> '''Information Lady:''' "Oh, you mean one of those... thingamabobs?"
--> '''Flicker:''' "Exactly. But without the doo-hickey on the end."
--> '''Information Lady:''' "Either you need a new drawstring for your crossbow, or I should slap your face! Either way, I can't help you."
* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end of the game the characters realize they are walking on an endlessly repeated loop and complain about lazy programmers.
* CassandraTruth: Nobody ever believes Flicker when he says that the Black Dragon is a machine.
* ChekhovsGun: Flicker's clicker.
* DragonHoard: All the dragons eat gems which annoys King George no end. However, they're not fixated on them, living lives just like a normal person.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: As is the result of predating the revelation that Loungelot is the son of the Lady of the Lake, the former is a dragon while the latter is a human-looking nymph.
* EatDirtCheap: Dragons eat gemstones.
* EvilChancellor: He's in league with Sir George to get King Allfire off the throne.
* FireBreathingDiner: Flicker needs to eat a special type of coal in order to breathe fire.
* FracturedFairyTale: Given a dedicated location with the Home for the Grimly Insane, where Flicker meets Rapunzel, the Pied Piper, and a man tranformed from a frog.
* FusionDance: By accident. [[spoiler:Mervin uses King Allfire's scepter to attempt a harmful spell on Sir George, but only succeeds in merging him with the Black Dragon.]]
* HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight: Trivet.
* HypnoFool: Trivet demonstrates hypnosis on Flicker, making him think he's Princess Flame briefly. Flicker later [[HypnotismReversal reflects the hypnotism]] back on Trivet, and the effect lasts for ''much'' longer.
* JustWhistle: [[spoiler:When Flicker uses the whistle he received from saving the ant, a herd of ants arrived to help Flicker lift a huge rock.]]
* KissingUnderTheInfluence - Trivet-as-Flame begs Sir Loungealot for "some ''action''", which he happily obliges... causing his hypnosis to wear off.
--> '''Trivet:''' "Lounge-butt?! I didn't know you cared."
--> '''Loungealot:''' "[[TheScream AAAUUUUGGGGGGH!]]"
* MundaneMadeAwesome - Several times. The juice bar run by a ''very'' enthusiastic human, the Test of Hand/Eye Coordination that has the player look into Flicker's eyes and clear them of nerve-induced tears as he [[spoiler:has to pick which hat a healthy rabbit is under]], the Test of [[strike:Unspeakable Terror]] Something a Wee Bit Scary where [[spoiler:Flicker washes his dirty laundry]], and the tournament for Flame's hand in marriage consists of [[spoiler:a log rolling event followed by thumb wrestling.]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: In contrast to the more traditional appearance of the western dragon used in the animated series, the dragons in the game look more like dragon-centaurs.
* PaperThinDisguise: Flicker disguised as Sir George.
* RedHerring: Flicker lampshades about it when examining the eagle poststamp.
* RobeAndWizardHat: Mervin.
* RuleOfThree: Flicker takes out the Black Dragon three times. [[spoiler:Four if you count when it's merged with Sir George.]]
* SchmuckBait: The weird Stonehenge-looking device Sir George's men are building in a field; they even frequently consult Flicker's height for measurements. Naturally, [[TooDumbToLive all of King Allfire's knights get caught in it.]]
* TheTourney: It drives the main plot of the game, with marriage to Princess Flame going to the victor. Flicker needs to become a knight if he wants to compete.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: None of the dragons look like their television counterparts. Somehow the character designers forgot that two of those six limbs a western dragon is supposed to have is a pair of wings! Not two arms and four legs!
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