Episode Recorded: September 12th, 2026 (09/12/2026)
00:00:38 - Episode starts and what is September Stinker about?
00:01:55 - What is Quest for Camelot about?
00:07:08 - Pros/Cons of Quest for Camelot (and comparing the 1990s’ Disney audiences pandering to the 2010s’ “We want the Call of Duty audience”).
00:43:07 - What went wrong?
00:54:37 - Ad starts
00:56:14 - What is the original novel The King’s Damosel about, and what Quest for Camelot has completely missed and actually improved from the novel? (And Jay poorly recapping Vera Chapman’s novel).
01:15:38 - Jay’s recommendation of three movies that dealt with similar themes from The King’s Damosel.
01:19:12 - Suggestions for improving Quest for Camelot (or re-adapting The King’s Damosel with some nods to Quest for Camelot).
01:25:54 - What animation style of the hypothetical improved version would be like? (Mentioning Sébastien Laudenbach’s La Jeune Fille sans mains and Isao Takahata’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya)
01:34:46 - Muppet adaptation of Quest for Camelot?
01:38:10 - Inn, Dust, Throw when it comes to Quest for Camelot.
It’s September, and from this month, we are discussing one bad or mediocre animated movie and how to improve it. For this year, we are going to talk about Warner Brothers’ maligned Quest for Camelot, their attempted Disneyfication of Vera Chapman’s Arthurian legend retelling The King’s Damosel. Leslie of The Hunchcast, who previously appeared in the pilot of our Bonus Episode series, liked the movie when she watched it when she was a kid, came onto the show and shared her defense of the movie. We discussed the movie’s overlooked strength, blatant weaknesses, the behind-the-scenes problems, the (accidental) improvements from the novel, and ignoring some good ideas from the novel.
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Shout outs (mentioned and not mentioned in the podcast)
Bad Princess Movies Podcast: https://bsky.app/profile/badprincessmovies.bsky.social
Kristi O (Bad Princess Movies Podcast producer and the artist behind Princess Bride Muppets crossover): https://bsky.app/profile/komakesthings.bsky.social
This Film is Lit Podcast: https://bsky.app/profile/thisfilmislit.bsky.social
Intro music: WANDERLUST (Celest3 mix) by Celest3 - https://celest3.bandcamp.com/track/wanderlust-celest3-mix (CC BY-SA 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
Ad break music: Early Riser by Kevin MacLeod - https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Best_of_2014_1461/Early_Riser (licensed under a Attribution 3.0 International License)
Ending music: Arizona Green Tea by Stuffy Doll - https://stuffydollband.bandcamp.com/track/arizona-green-tea (used it with a permission)
Media we have mostly discussed during the episode (spoilers ahead):
- Quest for Camelot (1998), directed by Frederik Du Chau
- The King’s Damosel (1976), written by Vera Chapman
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), directed by Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam
- Excalibur (1981), directed by John Boorman
- Shrek the Third (2007), directed by Chris Miller
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), written by Thomas Hardy
- Sorry, Baby (2025), directed by Eva Victor
- The Chronology of Water (2025), directed by Kristen Stewart
- The Nightingale (2018), directed by Jennifer Kent
- The Girl Without Hands (La Jeune Fille sans mains) (2016), directed by Sébastien Laudenbach
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (かぐや姫の物語) (2013), directed by Isao Takahata
