The Cinema is History Podcast takes Holy Orders at the bar as Friar Tuck enters the wacky world of Sherwood Forest utterly soaked in booze. The good friar roasts Medieval Raab impersonator Guy of Gisborne, boots Kevin Costner in the face and goes all Peter Pettigrew as he transfigures into a maniacal rat. Robin Hood assumes weirdly that because he's poor and wearing a cassock that he's a good man, a conclusion for which evidence is pretty thin on the ground.
Later that day at Nottingham Castle the Sheriff commits a murder that is basically understandable, although not with a spoon. Marian and Sarah more than hold their own against dimwitted Lovejoy and his gormless mate. After a small amount of what we all came here to see (hardcore nudity) its a party at the Ewok camp as Robin shows off to his fancy woman. Wetherspoon's patron of the month Friar Tuck does a bit of 12th century racism, and Azeem delivers a human baby despite only knowing equine medicine. Marian sends her lady-butler Sarah on a dangerous mission at which she immediately fails. For her treachery, Marian is abducted and poor blind Duncan leads the baddies right to the groovy gang's doorstep.
Expect mad churchmen, daggers drawn and near misses on the archery range in this week's episode.
Music by Trabant 33 on licence via Epidemic Sound.
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