* AssPull: How does Hawkins win his duel with Griswold? A bolt of lightning randomly strikes his armor and magnetizes it.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=796bHaAtlkE Outfox the Fox]] and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9GWMbrEu_g The Maladjusted Jester]]" are both fun, catchy, and impressive songs.
* EsotericHappyEnding:The RightfulKingReturns... and he's an infant too young to even speak. Hopefully they pick a good regent?
* JerkassWoobie: Gwendolyn. She's hardly the most likeable person, considering she threatens a few times to kill Griselda for having told her numerous times she would be swept away from the castle by a lover, but she only wants to marry for love and wants nothing to do with the ArrangedMarriage Roderick is forcing her into, and it's implied she'll still have to marry Griswold at the end of the film.
* MemeticMutation: The "pellet with the poison" routine instantly took off, with many fans gamely trying to memorize the whole thing.[[note]]And keep in mind this was before the Internet ''or'' home video, meaning they had to keep going to the theater to see it again.[[/note]] Creator/DannyKaye was plagued for the rest of his life with people approaching him and asking to do the routine with him.
* MoralEventHorizon: Roderick may well have crossed it before the film started when he (or his men) murdered the entire royal family to get the English throne. If that doesn't cut it, then he crossed it when he threatened to have Gwendolyn, his own daughter, killed if she did anything to prevent her own ArrangedMarriage to Griswold, which she was adamantly against in the first place.
* OneSceneWonder: Creator/JohnCarradine as the real Giacomo. With just a couple minutes of screen time, you fully believe that this is the country's most famous entertainer.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Fergus witnesses Griselda hypnotizing Hawkins, and Jean interrupts him the one time he tries to tell her. It seems as if this is about to set up a RunningGag and perhaps some NotWhatItLooksLike moments as the hypnotized Hawkins courts Gwendolyn. However, Fergus never tries to tell Jean again, and Jean never thinks that Hawkins is cheating on her.
* VindicatedByHistory: A huge flop when released, it is now considered one of Creator/DannyKaye's best movie roles.
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