# Galavant (TV miniseries) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053 "2015-01-05T19:23:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/1 "2015-01-05T19:23:18Z")
ABC is running this Sunday nights. It’s certainly a goofy concept: **Spamalot** as miniseries. And, yes, it’s a musical, with music by Alan Mencken. The songs are a hoot: the title song is great and you can’t not like a love song called “Maybe You’re Not the Worst Thing Ever.” ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/2 "2015-01-05T20:04:48Z")
I don’t watch much TV these days, and had not heard of this, but was accidentally at a friend’s last night who had us sit down and watch it. So much fun!!! It’s very funny and tongue-in-cheek without being cheesy/campy. And, the actors are all good actors, which is nice. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/3 "2015-01-05T20:10:36Z")
It’s just fun. Silly, goofy, (a bit risque in a few lines for the 8 o’clock “family” hour) musical fun. I laughed my ass off at the joust. I’ll tune in next week. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/4 "2015-01-05T20:32:54Z")
I laughed the whole way through, but I straight up lost it at that joust. I’m actually cackling helplessly just _remembering_ the scene right now. Definitely on board. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/5 "2015-01-05T20:34:40Z")
It was fun enough, but I found the commercials for other ABC series that were sung in a similar manner tiresome. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/6 "2015-01-05T20:55:39Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > It was fun enough, but I found the commercials for other ABC series that were sung in a similar manner tiresome. OMG yes. I don’t watch much broadcast TV, but I feel like this is . . . typical? Stupid promotional tie-in with whatever is being broadcast. Which is a bit ridiculous, since I’m already watching the show. And these are just awful lyrics set to the music that don’t even scan properly. Ugh. After the first set of commercials, we paused the TV for 10 or so minutes so we could just skip the rest of them. God bless the 21st century! And yes, the joust. When he showed up on his horse saying, “I can’t move, I trained too hard and can’t move,” I knew it was going to be an awesome moment. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/7 "2015-01-05T21:06:49Z")
Also, as a musical theater person, and someone who hears this stuff all the time, it was funny to hear Alan Menken totally recycle his Act 1 Finale from Beauty and the Beast: [If I Can’t Love Her](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2cMImllXkM) as the main Galavant theme. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/8 "2015-01-05T21:12:18Z")
> [@Eonwe](#): > > And yes, the joust. When he showed up on his horse saying, “I can’t move, I trained too hard and can’t move,” I knew it was going to be an awesome moment. Oddly I had just said to my SO- “Training like that in one day wont work, you’ll just be tired and stiff the next day!”😃 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/9 "2015-01-05T21:15:00Z")
I did hate the singing promos; cute the first time, annoying after that. I was reminded of the recent version of **Peter Pan** , though this had better actors and the ability to cut away to keep things interesting. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/10 "2015-01-05T21:46:27Z")
I thought it was fantastic. The songs were good and hilarious! And they had a little bit of skewering of the medieval fantasy genre as well as just silly humor dealing with more modern stuff. And Timothy Omundson as King Richard was absolutely a riot! ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/11 "2015-01-05T21:50:05Z")
I thought it was a hoot. Great to see Timothy Omundson again. Good thing this is a minseries, though. It reminds me of two older series that I loved but that never had a chance of finding a long-term audience: _When Things Were Rotten_, and _Jack Of All Trades_. Not that those were musicals, but were still period spoofs and quite funny. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/12 "2015-01-05T23:29:25Z")
I thought it was terrible. Other people really thought it was funny?? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/13 "2015-01-06T00:02:57Z")
Will last night be rebroadcast? I was unable to watch it. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/14 "2015-01-06T00:04:23Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I thought it was terrible. Other people really thought it was funny?? No, we’re all engaged in an elaborate conspiracy to confuse you. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/15 "2015-01-06T00:27:59Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Will last night be rebroadcast? I was unable to watch it. You can watch it now [on ABC’s website](http://abc.go.com/shows/galavant/episode-guide/season-01/102-joust-friends) if you have a TV provider that’s on their list. If not, you can watch episodes one week after they air without signing in. I enjoyed it quite a bit, and as others have said the joust was hilarious. Edit: Oops, that’s a link to episode 2. [Here’s a link to episode 1](http://abc.go.com/shows/galavant/episode-guide/season-01/101-season-1-premiere-pilot). ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/16 "2015-01-06T00:53:07Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Will last night be rebroadcast? I was unable to watch it. Saturday the 10th at 8 PM: [Listings | TheFutonCritic.com - The Web's Best Television Resource](http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings/20141222abc12/) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/17 "2015-01-06T01:49:19Z")
His squire is Magnitude! Pop-POP! ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/18 "2015-01-06T01:58:45Z")
like many things, this gets better with repeat viewings - catching some of the words is difficult first watch. Truth be told - its growing on me just like mold! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/19 "2015-01-06T02:20:23Z")
Sure, a couple jokes were recycled, like the mold joke from the 3 Stooges (who probably stole it) and the beard joke from Doctor Who (also probably stolen), but they were fun. ---
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053/20 "2015-01-06T03:11:50Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I thought it was terrible. Other people really thought it was funny?? Count me in on the terrible side. I’ll probably stick it out to see if Weird Al can save it for me at all. I generally like cheesy stupid stuff, but this was just bad on almost every level. Why, on a network created show intended for network prime-time, are we beeping out words? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galavant-tv-miniseries/709053.md?page=2)