Die Ritter der Schwafelrunde

I never heard of this series until now and I could not believe how much I love this show and If you like Monty Python I think you'll enjoy this show. I hope it gets a dvd release in the United States

It's a pity that this film series isn't available on video or DVD - in the UK its been aired once on terrestrial TV (1996), and I doubt given the fashion in cartoons now whether they will ever air it again. The second series was cruder in animation than the first,and even the first lacked attention to some details, but the gags were excellent and the characterizations - particularly the Loungealot/Flicker dialogues - superb.

Monty Python alumni Terry Jones created this witty cartoon series, and his talent shows. The writing is clever and filled with all sorts of puns and comic historical references, often with surreal tweaks. In one episode, the minstrel, who appears at the beginning and end of the shows singing a short song about the story, is referred to by one of the Square Table Knights. Another knight responds, "You mean he's real? I thought he was a continuation device created by the writers!"

The second season's animation quality suffered, but the writing talent remained strong.

In the USA, this is currently shown during the overnight hours (12:30 AM Pacific!) on Toon Disney. Why it isn't on Comedy Central goes beyond me. The humor will even keep even the most jaded adult viewers amused. Highly recommended for your friends in the Society for Creative Anachronism.

I, too, discovered this on Toon Disney at 1:30 in the morning. (I make it a habit to watch late-night cartoons). This show is absolutely fabulous. I love cartoons, and this one just takes the cake. Everything about it is so creative and funny--even the theme song is uniquely hilarious! Anyone who thinks cartoons are just for kids needs to check out this series: the adult humor is wonderful.

This show is not the best I have seen in the 1990s. The characters, both protagonists and antagonists, are quite mean spirited and there is very little sympathy for others. There may have been other issues with the cartoon, but the characters are what I had been annoyed by the most when I watched the show.

One of the main protagonists, Sir Loungelot, was dislikeable for the most part and was considered to be the most mean-spirited protagonist of the cartoon. I found Sir Loungelot to be mean spirited because of how greedy he is with food and the way he treats the other characters of the show, mostly particularly Squire Flicker. As for everyone else that Loungelot encounters, he treats them just as bad as Flicker sometimes. It seems if Loungelot only cares about himself rather than be a knight. This is what bothered me the most about the show and its characters. This is the worst main character I ever seen in a 1990s cartoon.