With the horses growing tired, the gang sets up shop in Sid's hometown and find that he's a much bigger deal than they knew. King Richard tries to win over the people of Valencia in spite of his tyranny.
Tropes featured in this episode:
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Sid's parents are overly affectionate to an embarrassing degree.Sid: Get ready. My parents are a lot.
Galavant: Of what?
Sid: Everything. - Anachronism Stew: In-Universe and Played for Laughs. When Sid references the "raise a village" saying, Galavant mutters that the old saying hasn't been invented yet.
- Artistic License – History: Squires are treated and used as little more than personal servants and given the ages of some we meet all they ever will be, when in reality a Squire was a knight in training similar to being an apprentice. While some of their duties would seem servant-like, this was in return for being trained.
- "Balls" Gag: Everyone laughs when the eunuch mentions that "we used to have balls", meaning dances.
- A Hero to His Hometown: Everyone in Sidneyland loves Sid, all of them thinking he's a heroic knight instead of the squire he is, even erecting a bronze statue of him post-dragon-slaying.
- Humble Pie: Galavant learns over the course of the episode that he takes Sid for granted and tries to do better.
- Improv Comedy Is Inane: It's revealed that hours of public, unscripted theatre around the elder-tree was a national pastime in the Kingdom of Valencia, something both Galavant and King Richard remark as sounding like a miserable time.
- Kick the Dog:
- King Richard had the eldertree — which Valencia did improv theatre around as a national pastime — cut down into toothpicks because their carrots (which he pillaged) kept getting stuck in his teeth.
- Enamoured that the Eunuch is immune to Groin Attacks, Richard has everyone in the castle line up to give him a swift kick.
- Not Quite the Right Thing: In an attempt at doing something charitable, he has all the crops he took from the Valencian people and burns them so that he can't have them either. Even he realizes he Didn't Think This Through after the fact.
- Secretly Selfish: Isabella calls out Galavant for being so self-centered and that he should play along with Sid's ruse for all the good he has done for him. When he points out that he has agreed to save Valencia, Isabella retorts that he's only doing it to get back Madalena.
- Shout-Out: Sid's hometown is named "Sidneyland", an anagram of Disneyland.
- Take That!: When Isabella mentions improv theatre as a national pastime in Valencia, Galavant questions if she really wants her kingdom back.
- Working Class Anthem: "Jackass in a Can" is sung by all the squires in Sidneyland, singing about how dirty a job they have for ungrateful Upper-Class Twits that call themselves heroes.Squire #1: And who does all the planning?
Galavant: Yeah
Squire #2: Who does all the work?
Galavant: True
Squire #3: Who gets no vacation?
Squire #4: Not one pay raise, not one perk?
Galavant: Good point
Squire #2: Whose third-rate insurance
Goes without a dental plan?
Galavant: Your average humble squire?
All squires: Not the meathead in a can!
