Fridge / Robin Hood: Men in Tights

• Broomhilde, Maid Marian's chaperone/lady-in-waiting tells Marian to get out of the tub before her chastity belt rusts. At the end of the movie, Robin's key FITS in the lock, but the mechanism won't work. Guess she was in there a little too long...
  • Rottingham's jackhammer can't have helped matters, either.
• The assassin sent by Don Giovanni perches in a "Folio Depository" — but you might not catch the reference to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of John F. Kennedy unless you know that a "folio" is a type of book.
• Fridge Horror: Some of the prisoners that escaped in the beginning must have been there for a legitimate reason, like murder.
  • The purpose of prisons before the mid-19th Century was not to confine prisoners for penitentiary terms, but until their sentence had been carried out. Sentences for heinous crimes were likely to be executed without delay - and of course, Rule of Funny applies.
• Kind of have to dig deep for this one: King Richard the Lionhearted continued his father Henry II's amiable working relationship with the Jewish people of England. While things were never great for Jews of the time, Richard at least continued the tradition of allowing them to live peacefully in their own communities, did not denounce or libel them, and allowed them practice their trades (which at the time consisted mainly of money-lending, as Christians were forbidden by Biblical mandate to charge interest on loans. This probably wasn't due to any fondness on Richard's part; he was trying to fund his Crusade and it was advantageous to keep the people who could loan him money in business). As soon as Richard departed, however, English Jews immediately lost the little immunity Richard provided and were subject to persecution and murder. The upshot is that of course Rabbi Tuckman supports Robin Hood: Robin's fighting to preserve the land for Richard's return, which to Tuckman means the return of relative safety for his people.
• The villagers that join Robin are said to be the very best men England has to offer, yet are hilariously incompetent, but that's because they aren't really the best men, those have gone with King Richard to the Crusades. The best after them are guarding the border with Scotland, maintaining the English dominion over Ireland, guarding England's possessions on the continent that are threatened by France, or have already been snagged by John in his militia. The villagers are the best that remain available - the ones unfit for combat but still capable of working.
• The singers who narrate the movie, the four black guys that rap. They're [[stealthpun|minstrels]].