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I just realized...

posted 20 years ago by OrionCA
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"Jester:
I've got it! I've got it!
The pellet with the poison's
in the vessel with the pestle.
The chalice from the palace
has the brew that is true. Right?

Greselda:
Right! But there's been a change...
They broke the chalice from the palace.

Jester:
They broke the chalice from the palace?

Greselda:
They've replaced it with a flagon.
With a figure of a dragon.

Jester:
A flagon with a dragon?

Greselda:
Right!

Jester:
Did you put the pellet with the poison
in the vessel with the pestle?

Greselda:
No! The pellet with the poison's
in the flagon with the dragon.
The vessel with the pestle
has the brew that is true."

Unless they emptied (and washed) the vessel with the pestle after they broke the chalice from the palace, BOTH CUPS WERE POISONED!!!

I've seen this movie many times and until just now, when I read the script lines, did I realize this.

[–] KitMagic 20 years ago

Um...I always thought that they meant that they broke the chalice from the palace
BEFORE they put any poison in either cup.

(But maybe that's just my version, or my way of making sense of it. ^_~ Who
knows by now anyway, the people who wrote the script probably either died or
got so old that they forgot what they wrote by now. ^_~)

Anyway, your version (of what could have happened) is also a logical possibility
(that I don't think I'd really thought of much before either! ^_~). HMMMM. ^_~

Kit =^__^= (the magic=^__^= furry=^__^= purry=^__^= one=^__^=)
=^___^=

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[–] twm-2 20 years ago

If they had left the poison in the pestle with the nesstle, I mean, if they'd kept the pellet with the poisely in with the vessel in the chalssel--or, ah, the poisoned chassel, no, I mean if they had stuck with the original plan and left the pestle in the vessel and put the poison . . . put the poison . . . Oh! put the pellet of the vassel in the poison's possole, and left the true that is brew in the dragon's flagon, well, you can see that there wouldn't be much point in even being told that they'd broken the chalice with the vessel, er, the passel with the palace, ah, chalice with the passel, nesstle, uh, wagon's dragon. See what I mean? And what would be the fun in that?

Cheerio!

"Nothing in this world is more surprising than the attack without mercy!"--Little Big Man

[–] boxerrebellion 12 years ago

BEST ANSWER ON IMDB EVER!!!!!

[–] twm-2 12 years ago

LL! Thanks!

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[–] Shopnowandsave 20 years ago

is, the tray holding both vessels was dropped, breaking the chalice and spilling both drinks. Griselda then drops a second pellet into the flagon with the dragon. At least that's what I presumed when this thought ocurred to me.

"The King wore enough clothes for both of us." Mohandes Ghandi

[–] shandy8 13 years ago

Good answer!

"What do you want me to do, draw a picture? Spell it out!"

[–] p_pizor 12 years ago

My assumption was that Griselda hadn't actually poisoned the vessel with the pestle yet. The drinks probably weren't even poured yet.

Or else that the tray was dropped when the chalice was broken, so the vessel with the pestle also fell in the dirt. I've dropped things at Renaissance Faires, the dirt is EVERYWHERE and anything you drop *has* to be washed before you can use it again. So it works. :)