History Trivia / RobinHoodMenInTights

* TropeNamer:
** BadNewsInAGoodWay
** JustYouAndMeAndMyGUARDS

* CreatorChosenCasting: Mel Brooks cast Cary Elwes after meeting him at the premiere of ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. (Brooks was there as Rob Reiner's guest, Brooks and Rob's father Carl are longtime friends.) In fact, when Mel Brooks called Cary Elwes to offer him the part, Cary thought he was joking and hung up the first time. Fortunately, he took a second call.

* NamesTheSame:
-->'''Random voice:''' Heeeey Abboooooot!
-->'''Abbot:''' I hate that guy!

* WhatMightHaveBeen:

* CreatorChosenCasting: Mel Brooks cast Cary Elwes after meeting him at the premiere of ''ThePrincessBride''. (Brooks was there as Rob Reiner's guest, Brooks and Rob's father Carl are longtime friends.) In fact, when Mel Brooks called Cary Elwes to offer him the part, Cary thought he was joking and hung up the first time. Fortunately, he took a second call.

* FakeBrit:
** Averted, because unlike [[Creator/KevinCostner some other Robin Hoods]], this one ''[[LampshadeHanging can]]'' [[LampshadeHanging speak with an English accent.]]
** Creator/AmyYasbeck, Mark Blankfield, Creator/EricAllanKramer, and Creator/MatthewPorretta, however, play this trope straight; Creator/DaveChappelle and Richard Lewis [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent don't even bother with the accent]], but [[RuleOfFunny that's the joke]].

* ImageSource:
** ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask
** SimpleStaff
** AWildRapperAppears

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Quite a few contemporary references circa 1993.
** For starters, the film owes its whole existence to the pop culture behemoth that was 1990's ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves''; if you're not familiar with that film, a fair bit of the humour in this film loses its punch.
** Maid Marion uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny8-G8EoWOw The Clapper]] to turn on the lights in one scene. This was an invention in the late 80s / early 90s where you could turn lights on and off with a clap. Except ''any'' noise would set it off, leading to a lot of consternation on consumers' parts.
** Ahchoo pauses to pump his shoes up. Reebok Pump Basketball shoes came out in 1989 and were the first inflatable sneakers.
** During the training montage, pantyhose are passed out in plastic eggs. L'eggs, a prominent stocking company, used packages exactly like this during that era.
** Robin's Patriot Arrow is a reference to Patriot Missiles, used in the first Gulf War (To be fair, they are still in use in the 2010s, thought the technology has been updated since then and their visiblity as a weapons system has gone down since then because they were a high-profile piece of tech in the Gulf War and not regularly talked about in the press afterwards).
** Need to reach the villagers in a hurry? Fox them! A reference to fax machines, which were cutting-edge technology at the time.

** Creator/AmyYasbeck, Mark Blankfield, Creator/EricAllanKramer, and Matthew Porretta, however, play this trope straight; Creator/DaveChappelle and Richard Lewis [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent don't even bother with the accent]], but [[RuleOfFunny that's the joke]].

** For starters, the film owes its whole existence to the pop culture behemoth that was 1990's ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves''; if you're not familiar with that film, a fair bit of the humour in this film loses its' punch.

** For starters, the film owes its whole existence to the pop culture behemoth that was 1990's ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves''.

** Amy Yasbeck, Mark Blankfield, Eric Allan Kramer, and Matthew Porretta, however, play this trope straight; Creator/DaveChappelle and Richard Lewis [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent don't even bother with the accent]], but [[RuleOfFunny that's the joke]].

* ActorAllusion:
** [[Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI "It's good to be the king!"]]
** Dick Van Patten (apart from being part of Creator/MelBrooks' ProductionPosse) was likely cast as the Abbot as a ShoutOut to his role as Friar Tuck in ''When Things Were Rotten'', Mel's first Robin Hood parody.
* BigNameFan: {{Nerdcore}} rapper Music/DanBull cited this movie's GreekChorus of rapping merry men as not only his introduction to comedy rap but to the genre of rap in general.

* HeAlsoDid: Co-writer J. David Shapiro later did the screenplay for ''Film/BattlefieldEARTH''.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Brazil, the movie received the name ''A Louca! Louca História de Robin Hood'' (The Crazy! Crazy Story of Robin Hood)

** The part where Ahchoo pumps up his sneakers during a fight came about because Creator/DaveChappelle happened to be wearing the shoes on set along with his costume. At first, Creator/MelBrooks pointed out that they were '''somewhat''' anachronistic, but decided to make a joke about it.

** For starters, the film owes it's whole existence to the pop culture behemoth that was 1990's ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves''.

* RetroactiveRecognition:
** Creator/DaveChappelle appears in his first role.
** Fans of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' will recognize the Young Lad as Tee from ''Film/QuestOfTheDeltaKnights''.
** A rather unusual example is present with a member of the film's staff: the film was the only writing credit for Evan Chandler, who would go on to be best known as the man who accused Music/MichaelJackson of child molestation in 1993.

** A rather unusual example is present with a member of the film's staff: one of the film's writers was an Evan Chandler, who would go on to be best known as the man who accused Music/MichaelJackson of child molestation in 1993.

* ImageSource: AWildRapperAppears

** The scene where the Sheriff falls through the roof of Latrine and she tries to get him to have sex with her was completely improvised by Roger Rees and Creator/TraceyUllman.

* FakeBrit: Averted, because unlike [[Creator/KevinCostner some other Robin Hoods]], this one ''[[LampshadeHanging can]]'' [[LampshadeHanging speak with an English accent.]]

** ProfessionalWrestling/HulkHogan was offered the role of Little John.

** The scene where the Sheriff falls through the roof of Latrine and she tries to get him to have sex with her was completely improvised by Roger Rees and Tracey Ullman.