Shout Out / Galavant

• There are multiple Game of Thrones or A Song of Ice and Fire references:
  • The group comes across a road sign pointing towards Valencia, their destination, as well as Winterfell in the opposite direction.
  • In "Comedy Gold" Sid comments they had quite a great battle, to which the likes of Castle Black can't compare.
  • In the "Completely Mad...alena," characters often reference their world as "the Seven Realms," which is again strikingly close to The Seven Kingdoms.
  • In Season 2 Gwynne comments that her fiance Chef is so modern he'll let her keep her first daughter instead of giving them all to the White Walkers.
  • In Season 2's intro song:
    Winter's not just coming, it came and then it went.
  • Isabella's mother laughs off "It's a good day to die" trying to convince the audience the show might actually end with the heroes all dead, as "This isn't Game of Thrones."
  • The second season has the group passing a sign with one direction pointing to King's Landing, the capital city of the Seven Kingdoms. (And another direction points to Portlandia.)
• Galavant's jousting rival is named Jean Hamm.
• During "She'll Be Mine", a bunch of knights jump on a table and dance briefly, like in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
• Another Holy Grail reference in Episode 4 is the pirates shouting "Run away!" as they move their ship back to water.
• The episode title "Dungeon and Dragon Lady" is a Shout-Out to Dungeons & Dragons.
• The monks of the Order of Our Father of Perpetual Refrain sing "Hey, hey, we're the monks!"
• In "It's All In The Executions," Sid tells Galavant to just "kiss dee girl," and a bit of said song plays in the background. Bonus points because the songs for the series are written by Alan Menken, The Little Mermaid's composer. In the second season, Galavant calls for different instrument sections before launching into a song with the same match-making intentions as "Kiss the Girl," just as Sebastian does in the original.
• One of Xanax's magic words is "Petrificus Totalus."
• The title song of "Giants vs. Dwarves" spoofs West Side Story.
• "Today We Rise," the opening number of "About Last Knight," spoofs Les Misérables.
• In "Love and Death," Sid hopes that Galavant might be "only mostly dead—because 'mostly dead' is still slightly alive," quoting The Princess Bride, only to be told, "that's not a thing." Minutes later, the healer quotes The Last Unicorn.
• In "Do the D'Dew," "Finally" is clearly inspired by "Summer Nights" from Grease. The title song of the episode also contains a reference to Titanic when Madalena does Rose's flying pose and tells Wormwood not to let go.
• As the Jester suggests ending the season on a cliffhanger at the end of "Battle of Three Armies," the episode ends with a cut to black, a reference to the series finale of The Sopranos.
• In the Season 2 finale, the Head Monk mentions dolphins with lasers.
• At the end of "World's Best Kiss," when Galavant asks Richard if he's gonna name the sword, Richard suggests "Dawnbreaker" and "Mr. Stabby," which are swords usable by the playable characters in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fable III respectively.
• In the flashback that opens the second season finale, the court composer is named Menken, a nod to Alan Menken, the series' composer.