Fans of the television show Monty Python's Flying Circus will recognize the fast and argumentative dialogue — over a presumably gruesome topic — as a Python trademark. More black humor occurs when Lancelot attempts to save a "maiden in distress" from a forced marriage: arriving at the reception, he kills so many of the guests in such a short amount of time that they effect is humorous instead of shocking. The violence found in Le Morte D'Arthur, The Once and Future King, and other works of Arthurian literature is exaggerated, making it more ridiculous than noble.
Throughout their film, the Python troupe obviously has no intention to offer its viewers any sort of moral instruction or debate about the rigors of knighthood. However, their enthusiasm for Arthurian legends is apparent in every scene, because only people who intensely loved the stories in the first place can know them well enough to parody them so effectively.
