L is for Lexi

Consider:

A bumbling fool who works for not!Robinhood accidentally ends up impersonating the new court jester for the usurping king

His partner is captured trying to sneak the true heir (a baby) to safety and ends up bringing the baby to the castle

Through a series of mistaken identities, hypnotism, and at least one scene that I'm 90% sure they played backwards, he ends up with a debonair personality that can be turned on and off when people snap

The witch convinces the princess he's her true love (The princess is played by a 19-year-old Angela Lansbury and she was a snack)

The princess refuses to marry the man her father wants, so in order to make a duel possible they knight the fool in 24 hours

A joust that involves poisoned cups, wordplay, the fool's armor getting hit by lightning and making it magnetic

A final battle in which not Robin Hood and a battalion of little people fight the evil duke who is played by Basil Rathbone

The baby, who as far as anyone knows has been in a basket in the stables the entire movie, gets to be king.

Danny Kaye and Glynis Johns are here with Ms. Lansbury for your bisexual needs

Featuring multiple songs, pratfalls, and visual gags. If you haven't seen it you're doing ti wrong.

twenty-five (!) years later I came out as a trans man.

now. the important thing to know about my ex-husband is that he loves nothing more than 1) horrible puns, preferably bilingual ones; 2) terrible dad jokes; and 3) committing to the bit until the end of time. he absolutely lives for Shenanigans and Japery. i do not know how his long-suffering wife puts up with him, but they've been married for more than 20 years so presumably she manages.

so, to break the news to my ex, i texted him. the exchange went something like this:

me: "great news, i'm a trans guy now"

him: "oh, congrats!"

me: "thank you. now for the better news: I insist you refer to me henceforth only as your ex-husband. do you accept this challenge?"

and my cis, straight-as-an-arrow, lives-in-the-midwest, married-to-a-minister ex-husband was like