Isabella, on the brink of escaping, resides back in her cage, convinced Galavant doesn’t love her anymore. She hears the exact opposite of what he means to say. Words get cut off, which makes everything Galavant says come through to her in the worst way possible. There’s just one problem: the reception’s as bad as in the 21st century. Now they can communicate with Isabella’s big purple jewel, which turns out to be a wifi hotspot as well. Quite an accurate fortune teller, in fact, with a kind of cell phone device inside his staff. He’s going to get it fixed in the nearest village, where they meet a fortune teller. Galavant and Richard walk, walk and walk some more, until Richard walks the soles of his boots.
In ‘World’s Best Kiss’, Gareth and Madalena settle their differences with… a song. Meanwhile, Isabella has gotten the key through the creepy chef couple, to get out of her barbie doll cage, and Gareth (Vinnie Jones) has finally persuaded Madalena (Mallory Jansen) to call him King. They’re rescued by Richard’s uncle, who shows them the secret passage of the bar: through the ladies room – which would never be used anyway and therefor was never finished (does this mean Kylie is a Drag Queen?). Galavant has been bringing in too many tips to leave. Then the Queen of the gays appears: Kylie Minogue, doing a great song and dance number, while Galavant gets stripped and put behind the tap. They walk in and there are only guys (including Jean Hamm, a second-or-so cameo by John Stamos) – but Richard’s completely oblivious – like always – and doesn’t realize it’s a gay bar. But they quickly discover ‘The Enchanted Forest’ isn’t the forest itself, but a forest bar. Richard’s uncle had once set foot in it and he never returned. However, they walk right into the ‘enchanted forest’. The pirates run off, probably to build another boat, so it’s just Galavant and Richard, on their way to rescue Isabella (Karen David), who’s about to be wed to her 11-year old nephew. I understand if most of the humor isn’t your cup of tea, but lines like these must bring a smile to your face.
The next shot shows them all shipwrecked, stumbling out of the water onto the shore, with Richard dry-wittedly saying to himself ‘I do not know what I was talking about’.
After the song (and, by the way, all the songs on this show are highly infectious and funny) they spot land, and Richard knows the perfect place to go for anchor. That’s the kind of logic Galavant is made of. The only way to cheer him up is by… singing a song. In the premiere, we check in on our hero Galavant (Joshua Sasse), on a pirate ship, who’s trying to find land while his ‘BFF’ King Richard (Timothy Omundson) is sea sick. Like last year, the episodes air in pairs, starting with ‘A New Season AKA Suck It Cancellation Bear’ (it doesn’t get any more tongue-in-cheek than this, folks) and ‘World’s Best Kiss’. The dark horse of ABC programming didn’t exactly became a hit, but got enough traction to justify a second season. It embraced all the cliches and tore them down one by one, scene by scene, song by song.
GALAVANT GAY BAR SONG SERIES
Galavant mashed up Blackadder with Glee and out came a delightful, silly, medieval school play-ish comedy series that was actually very funny and well made. It’s the musical comedy no one expected much of, last year, but sometimes it’s hard looking away from quality.