Nightmare of the Magic Castle
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Guest Stars 
Christopher Lee [Olwyn],Paul Shearer[ The Engineer ],Mirabelle Kirkland [ Lysette],
Shannon Finnegan [ Theresa ], Arunas Zebrauskas [ Magician ], Elvyra Zebertaviciute 
[Granny McCulloch ], Algis Dainavicius [ Farmer ], Michael Jevdokimovas [ Old man ], Henry Celencevicius [ Guard #1 ]
Aired: Apr 07-97 Episode:07 Written by:Sandra Weintraub & Larry Felix, Jr 
Director: Dimitri Logothetis

 
  

Laydee Laura's Misguided Tour
Nightmare of The Magic Castle
(or Sherwood Under Quarantine)


I feel the need to spray the entire forest with Lysol.  Olwyn has a cold, everyone else is getting the plague, Little John is running around in his nightgown, Lysette is running around in her underwear, then you get to see the abomination that Robin had to kill:  a man in a yellow wet suit covered
in mucus.  No wonder Robin is sick and feverish at the end.  I think I'm going to order a round of penicillin for the house while I shower in anti-bacterial soap.
  FOLLOW UP:
Opening chase scene is from Miracle at Avalon, but there's a new twist.  They show Robin flipping up onto the branch, but here you get to see him upright, when in Avalon you only get the butt shot.

 RAISE YOUR HANDS IF YOU'RE SURE:
 Robin has his arms raised in the air just before he wakes.  Maybe he was thinking he was still holding his horse's reins?  What ever the reason, it looks strange.

 TREASURED CHEST:
 Here it comes, brace yourselves...  Robin wakes from his nightmare and he sits up all wet, sweaty, and disheveled.  Whassamatter?  Have a bad dream Robbie?  I'll tuck you back in. heh heh heh...

 BARK AT THE MOON:
 Okay, I've said it before and I'll say it again,  they have to be more careful about 
letting the darned dogs out!

 FUNGUS AMONGUS:
 Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that truffles came from France. 
I know you can't just find them anywhere.

 NOBODY KNOWS THE TRUFFLES I'VE SEEN:
 Don't worry Little John, the only truffles I like come wrapped in gold foil from Godiva's. 
I'll gladly share mine with you.

 SLASH AND BURN:
 Someone can confirm that in Mexico a volcano appeared in a farmer's field one day out of nowhere.  However, this volcano gives birth to an entire castle?  I think someone's artistic liscence has expired.

 DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU HEAR:
 Robin must be hearing things if he mistook the wizard's deep voice for Marian's.  Either that or he needs to clean his ears.

 CLICHE DISASTER:
 Ever notice that in any TV or Movie disaster scene there is always someone running around in their underwear or nightclothes?  In this first earthquake sequence Little John is running around in his blue nightgown (and I don't want to know why!)

 ANIMAL DISTRACTION:
 All the animals in the forest are flipping out.  Bats, and wolves, and deer...  wait a minute... LIONS?  Since when are lions native to England?  Since when are they native to Lithuania???

 SCRAPPLE:
 This must be the "use-up-all-the-extra-footage"  episode.  All
the nightmare sequences seem to be made up of scenes from other episodes.

 GOTTA HAND IT TO HIM:
 Robin finally learned to ride with both hands!!!  I guess he finally got tired of falling off.

 OUT TO LUNCH:
 Robin-  "What, no dragon?"  Olwyn's dragon was out of town
during this ep, visiting his cousin Webby in Chicago.  (He lives on Virginia's site.)

 HOW DO I GET IT OFF MY HAND WITHOUT BETRAYING MY COOL EXTERIOR:
 Olwyn is sneezing, and Robin touches his germy nose?  GROSS!  I hope he's washing
with anti-bacterial soap or at least using a waterless hand sanitizer.

 WALLFLOWER:
 Olwyn-  "Only evil can touch those walls.  If you were to touch those walls you would be burned to death."  Darn, guess that means no wall walks this episode.

 GOOD ŒN PLENTY, GOOD ŒN PLENTY:
 Olwyn-  "There is however a human who can help you:  The Engineer."  His name wouldn't happen to be Casey Jones, would it?  (I hope I'm not the only one here who remembers that commercial.)

 X-PHIAL:
 Olwyn-  "Here, take this with you."  Robin looks at the phial like there's something disgusting in it.  Robin-  "What is it?"  Olwyn-  "Tears of Bran the Blessed."  Ewwwwww!!!  And you kept it?  No wonder you're sick!

 HOPALONG LOCKSLEY:
 While Robin and his horse are bouncing along the trail it looks like he's trying to say something.  Looks like,  "Ow!  Ouch!  Yikes!  Ouch! Ow!"

 HIT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME :
 During the fight scene with the maurauders you hear all the hits, kicks, slaps, moans, grunts, and groans.  All of that is overdubbed and mixed with the music.  Can you imagine having to go into a
studio to record your grunts and groans?  Too weird.

 IT'S IN THE BAG:
 When Robin and Marian stop to ask for directions (?) there is a sack hanging on Rob' s horse's neck right next to the pouch his sword is in.  When he nudges his horse forward the sack falls off and no one notices.

 HAYRIDE:
 Robin, Marion, and Little John are hiding under the hay in the wagon.  I could say something tasteless and crude about Robin and hay, but I'm not going to. 
(I know one person will be glad I didn't,  :-{)> )

 SCHOOL BORED:
 Lysette-  "I'm bored!  I want to do something."  Then try sewing yourself a proper dress instead of running around in your underwear, dearie.  Her costume is flimsier than Lady Pamela Sedgwick's Slut-of-the Month outfit from Game of Death.

 DON'T TOY WITH ME:
 I feel so sorry for Robin, who looks so uncomfortable
while Lysette inspects him like he's her new plaything.

 THE LOOK OF LOVE:
 I love this shot of Robin about to put the blindfold on The Engineer's Wife.  He stares right into the camera, smiles that wicked half smile, and a dimple pops out.  I put this one on my desktop, so when I turn the computer on he's looking right at me.

 THE GRAND TOUR:
 Little John-  "Blackmsith's tent, School, Cooktent.  That's all there is."  See??  There is no sign of the chapel he said was part of camp in Rage of the Mongols.

 SLEEPDRESSER?:
 Robin is sleeping in his blue tunic on regular lace trimmed pillows in the initial shots of him sleeping (they actually came from Legend of Olwyn.)  When he wakes, not only is his tunic gone, but so are the pillows; he's sleeping on furs.

 THE BLACK-AND-YELLOW-AND-PURPLE PLAGUE:
 Maurauders-  "What's wrong with him?"  Can't you see?  He was attacked by a color blind cosmetologist!  "Don't touch him!"  Even these guys know that you don't touch someone who
has an ailment that is contagious by human contact.  Robin could take a lesson here.

 NOT BY THE HAIR OF MY CHINNY-CHIN-CHIN:
 If the wizard really wanted the maurauders to join him, he should have left the front door open instead of making them climb the walls.

 MOLDY MEATBALLS ON THE SIDE:
 One of the model machines that Tuck and The
Engineer are experimenting with is the Stealth Catapult!

 HOW MUCH WOOD WOULD A WOOD CHUCK CHUCK:
 The amount of wood in the wagon hardly seems to be enough to build the contraption they are about to build.  And I'm sorry, but there is no way the arm on that thing is long enough to
get them over the wall.

 READY FOR TAKEOFF:
 Marian, Little John, and Tuck all take off from the basket using a D-Ring pulley to slide down the rope.  When they reach the courtyard the D-Ring has been replaced with a T-Bar handle.

 THE SHIRT OFF HIS BACK:
 Little John and Robin have entered a dark room and are standing in the open doorway.  Robin asks if Little John still has the phial of Bran the Blessed's Tears.  He steps closer to see.  The shot where
he steps forward was from a different episode, because Robin's shirt is not the same.

 YOU CAN'T INCANT:
 I thought Olwyn said in the beginning that magic would not help them, yet Robin frees himself from his mystical bonds using a really strange incantation.  I prefer the one Little John intones, as it
actually sounds like a real magical incantation.

 WHADDYA WANT ON YOUR TOMBSTONE?:
 What is with the flying styrofoam tombstones?  They are moving so slow there is no excuse for Robin's not being able to get out of the way in time.

 CHOKE HOLD:
 Robin is being almost strangled by a big ball of phlegm with arms.  He asks Little John for help.  For a moment I am reminded of a very similar scene in Young Frankenstein where the monster strangles the doctor ("Give him a sed-a-give!")

 SALT LICK:
 Robin pours the phial of tears on the Phlegm Monster and then the monster finally dies.  It must be related to slugs, because slugs dissolve when you pour salt on them, and the Phlegm Monster is destroyed with salt water.  (See why your doctor tells you to gargle with salt water?)

 CARRY A TUNE:
 Little John has to carry Robin again, but this time he does
it the easy way: over the shoulder with Robin hanging upside down.

 LAST SCENE:
 Back of the wagon.  Robin says he's burning up.  No wonder, you caught Olwyn's cold, you fool!  Although the way he's smiling indicated he's not nearly as sick as he pretends to be.  Aren't men such babies when they get sick?



 FINAL SCORE:
 It's the last episode of the first season and everyone needs to go home and recover.   They have all done very well, and deserve a good rest.  Well done, one and all!


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