Over Yonder

By Stoffel

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Unquiver your arrows!  Unsheath your sword!  Take hold your stout quarterstaff and brandish it threateningly!  (Careful - you'll have someone's eye out.)      
                                                                                
Yes!  It's "The Adventures of Robin Hood" starring that saucy rascal Errol 
Flynn, giving Prince John cheek and beating his guards with the pointy end of a deer.  "I'll have him dangling within a week," sneers that impudent rogue, Guy of Guisborne.  Then the Sheriff of Nottingham lures Robin into a trap and he's captured!  Will Robin dangle?  Will the Sheriff be able to pull it off??        
                                                                              
I'm not telling because you should see this yourself.  It's a very legs akimbo, hands-on-hips, "Ha-HA!", kick over furniture, thrust-parry, "Have at you!", run up stairs, knock over candles, leap from the sofa to the coffee table and swing on the curtains if only Caro would let you sort of romp.                                                                             
Hissable baddies provided by Claude Raines and Basil Rathbone!  Technicolour provided by Crayola!  Winsome maiden provided by Olivia de Havilland!  Hats provided by Man Having A Laugh!  And a rousing score to top it all off! Huzzah for Robin Hood!  8/10.
                                                                            
p.s.  Do you remember "Rocket Robin Hood"?  It was on before "Tiswas" and the theme went like this:                                                           
                                                                            
Band of Brothers marching together!  Heads held high in all kinds of weather!   
(Something something) rockets fly!  Beyond the air, beyond the sky!
And (something) Robin takes a stand!  The noble leader of our band!
Give a joyous shout throughout the land for ROCKET ROBIN HOO-OO-OOD!!           
                                                                              
It was just the same as regular Robin Hood except they had rockets!  Isn't that BRILLIANT??  How great would "Rocket Spartacus" or "Rocket Richard III" or "Rocket The English Patient" be?!  The potential is endless!  (Except in films that already HAVE rockets, obviously.)

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