![]() ![]() “Goodnight My Friend” Musically similar to the superior “Goodbye”, this is your standard slow number that drags the end of the first act down. But hey, at least we get to hear Anthony Head sing.Ĥ3. Which is kind of a meh gag, considering how getting interrupted while singing is kind of Sid the squire’s thing. “My Moment In The Sun” parts 1, 2, 3, 4 The running joke here is that the hero can never get to the last line of the song. ![]() Because you can’t have a comedy song sung by Jewish characters without mentioning the removal of foreskin, right?Ĥ4. “Oy! What a Knight” Sung by Sid’s entire village, this is a standard Mel Brooks pastiche, complete with a tired joke about circumcision. “Stand Up” Musical criticism of action movie training sequence montages and their bombastic rock songs was funnier when Trey Parker and Matt Stone did it.Ĥ5. It’s basically a more murdery version of “Funny/The Duck Joke” from My Favorite Year.Ĥ6. ![]() “Comedy Gold” You’d think a song about teaching an unfunny person how to be funny would be, well, funnier. Guest star “Weird” Al tries to sell it, but I’m not buying.Ĥ7. Unless they were going for a Monkees joke that just didn’t translate due to not sounding anything like the Monkees at all. “Hey, Hey, We’re the Monks” (and its reprise) You’re going to write a song about monks who take a vow of singing and who are basically a boy band, but not write that number like a boy band song? Missed opportunity, Menken. Plus, who puts in a line about unshaven armpits if the show isn’t willing to put an unshaven armpit on screen? It’s all or nothing, Galavant.Ĥ8. “Different Kind of Princess” A rock-and-roll princess who sings about not liking pink? This is a boring anthem for the Not-Like-Other-Girls girls out there. If you haven’t watched the show yet, put it on your to-watch list.Ĥ9. Let it be known, however, that even though this list includes criticisms of the songs, in context they all work together to make pure, snarky, delightful magic. ![]() So here, ranked low to high (from Madalena’s earrings to the Jewel of Valencia), is every musical number in Galavant. The songs are written by legendary Disney composer Alan Menken and Tangled lyricist Glenn Slater (whom I guess I now have to forgive for Love Never Dies), and while every single one of them is an irreplaceable gem, some are a little bit gemmy-er than others. The condensed, snappy numbers are fully acknowledged in-universe Galavant is set in a world where people sing their problems, arguments, and even passionate recaps of stuff that happened last week, and no one thinks it’s out of place. Each episode is only a half-hour long, but they manage to pack them with enough story, silliness, and self-awareness for a full-length feature film.īut the best part of the show is the music. Galavant is what would have happened if Mel Brooks had directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It’s packed to the brim with favorite medieval spoof conventions peasants sing about coughing up blood, an evil king fantasizes about all the ways he’ll murder his sworn enemy, and a valiant hero who thinks way, way too much of himself sets off on a quest to save a damsel who isn’t all that interested in being saved, after all. But their most recent egregious sin is the cancellation of its medieval musical sitcom epic. They cancelled Covington Cross, a medieval version of Bonanza that could have been great if they’d given it more of a shot and not sold its time slot to Ross Perrot (this is a true story). They let Steve Urkel become the focus of Family Matters and ruined the whole damn show (which was supposed to be about Harriet Winslow. Sure, they’ve got hits, but it’s their misses that define them in my pessimistic little heart. Now, let it be known from the start that I have never trusted ABC to make a good decision since I started watching television. When people say, “2016 sucked!” and I say, “Yeah, fuck 2016, I hated it, too,” I am of course referring to hating how many people died and how shittily my country fucked its election into the poisoned, crumbling ground, but I’m also talking about the cancellation of ABC’s Galavant. ![]()
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