It was a wacky show. One thing in particular I remember was a scene (could have been in episode 1, the archery competition) where people were standing around by a field. In the field was a sign that read... "The W.C.Fields." Knowing Mel Brooks humor, very predictable...but also stupidly funny.

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To this day, whenever the subject of people needing to have roots comes up, I picture people picking up their feet and having roots all over them. I was just a kid when WTWR aired, but I found it to be hysterical. I still sing the theme song once in awhile.

--Paige

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It was my absolute favorite in those short 13 weeks it was on TV... I was 14 at the time and really into archery and all that Robin Hood stuff. I also remember that I thought the show was funhy, but mainly that Maid Marian was really *hot*!

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This show was laugh out loud funny. The sight gags and one-liners made you laugh if you caught them. Alot of the humor was disguised adult humor

--BostonBoy

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Memorable scene: "Be quiet.. the walls have ears." Shot of a wall with a bunch of ears on it.

Was sad when it left the air - it paved the way for pun-centric humor of Police Squad & Airplane!

--hoffm3

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I always remember what I think was the last episode: Friar Tuck and some abbot talking about Br. Who's on first or something like that. It was fun. I enjoyed the show and the bad puns and all.

--Bobby B.

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I remember Sid Caesar saying something like "You want to sign a treaty with a country that starts with "F" go to Foland (I think he was playing an ambassador from France). I was still in elementary school when Rotten was on but I thought it was hilarious.

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A Mel Brooks version of the Robin Hood legend, When Things Were Rotten was heavy on puns and silly skits, with Dick Gautier as the Hero, Misty Rowe as Marion, and various other tv standards filling in the cast. Shows were funny if you wer 14 (which I was) but seem tired now, especially with that relentless laugh track (although I see no difference between that and today's laugh-on-demand "studio audience". Mainly it was watchable because it was inspired and driven by Mel Brooks, who can make the yellow pages funny.

--BillKim

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I remember the typical irreverent Mel Brooks type humor and especially his style of background sight gags. Loved it. Once, the Sheriff of Nottingham (or maybe Prince John) and an evil cohort had made a pact of some sort and upon agreement proposed a toast, the screen opens up and two pieces of toast pop up from a toaster. They grab and start eating. Hilarious! Dick Gautier was superb in his role as was a very appealing Misty Rowe and Dick Van Patten's "Friar Tuck".

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Way too funny for network TV. Like Police Squad, only it had a stupid laugh track. Mel Brook's created it, I remember, right in his Young Frankenstien/Silent Movie/High Anxiety heyday. I used to prop a microphone up to the TV speaker and tell my siblings to be quiet so I could tape it on my cassette recorder using CERTRON 60 tapes, 3-pack for a dollar, so needless to say, my tapes didn't last too long. Maybe six listenings. Enough to memorize the theme song: They robbed the rich/gave to the poor/except what they kept for expenses! So when other legends are forgotten, we'll remember back When Things Were Rotten!" Remember how riled the Merry Men would make the Sheriff of Nottingham? S: "Why those no good wreckum wrockem sod em rap em murgle merny moermen murkle. . . " And Bertrum would have to interrupt him, B: "Your majesty?" S: "Whrr?" B: "You're not talking, Sire. . . " S: "Whrr Whtt?" B: "No, sir. " S: "Whew. Thank you, Bertrum. You may go now. . . "

--WallaceWimple

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