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    Young RutigerGwen Ihnat
    12/08/17 1:43pm

    Medieval Times is cheesy and stupid, but its the good kind of cheesy and stupid. I’ve had fun the few times that I went.

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      Volante3192Young Rutiger
      12/08/17 1:51pm

      You simultaneously wonder “How is this place still in business?” and “How is there not one of these on every block?”

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      Bart FargoYoung Rutiger
      12/08/17 1:57pm

      I remember my junior high class took an weekend trip to Toronto and a Medieval Times restaurant that my family couldn’t afford to send me on, so from then on I’ve rationalized that Medieval Times is probably lame and not worth my time anyway.

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    Charles PeligroGwen Ihnat
    12/08/17 2:17pm

    Our company had a summer event at the Schaumburg one a few years back. Food was way better than I expected. I’m on the event committee and was in charge of the drink tickets that day. You can imagine how that went.

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      Gwen IhnatCharles Peligro
      12/08/17 3:24pm

      Oh man. Yeah, I can imagine. We took my son and his friends for his birthday last year and everybody had a blast, but I should probably go back with some grownups for some mead and ale.

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      Charles PeligroGwen Ihnat
      12/08/17 10:03pm

      I had just finished going through the A Song Of Ice And Fire series though, so the jousting was a disappointment...

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    ChicosBailBondsGwen Ihnat
    12/08/17 1:54pm

    I went to the Schaumburg location once in the early 90s and again last summer, and:

    1) It’s cheaper if you have a two-for-one coupon, and those things are EVERYWHERE

    2) The food is much better than I was expecting

    3) I found it doubtful that the storyline had changed between the first and second times, and even more doubtful that the music had

    4) I don’t feel compelled to go more frequently than once every 25 years

    5) If you go, tip your, er, wench, and tip well; my boss’s boss’s daughter worked for a summer at the Myrtle Beach location and got screwed on tips.

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      Cliffy73ChicosBailBonds
      12/08/17 2:06pm

      I also went to the Schaumburg location about 25 years ago (Maybe we sat next to each other!) and then again (this time in Maryland) last year. I had a good time on both occasions, and also I don’t feel the need to go back anytime soon.

      I drive through East/Central Tennessee fairly often, and there are a bunch of hillbilly-themed knock-offs, but I have yet to go to one.

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      ChicosBailBondsCliffy73
      12/08/17 3:36pm

      Oh, I also went to Dixie Stampede in Pigeon Forge once. It was extraordinarily jingoistic. And there’s a pirate-themed knockoff in Myrtle Beach that looks interesting.

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    GhostofGhostDadGwen Ihnat
    12/08/17 1:51pm

    Honestly it is because of Cable Guy I always wanted to eat at Medieval Times. I hope Cable Guy has started to amass a cult following like Last Action Hero because it’s secretly pretty good despite what critics and audiences thought at the time.

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      PgoodsoGhostofGhostDad
      12/08/17 3:39pm

      It’s good, but also deeply uncomfortable, even if it seems like it shouldn’t be. I sort of put it in the same category as something like, say, The Squid And The Whale. I just seems like it’ll be fun or amusing, even in artful ways, and then you just start feeling incredibly creeped out. Which is the intent in both cases, and I can respect that, but that doesn’t mean either of those films are gonna be in my Bluray case.

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    JtownGwen Ihnat
    12/09/17 4:01am

    I went to one on a class trip in Texas once. Being lofty high schoolers, we had no use for the lameness of paper crowns and cheering for a fake knight, yet before long, even the most unenthusiastic member of the group was cheering and then calling for the blood of our (literally) backstabbing enemy, having cruelly and dishonorably slain our noble knight, verily the rightful winner of the joust! :D

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    Martian LawGwen Ihnat
    12/08/17 1:51pm

    The bad news: To be authentic as possible, she must wear a chastity belt.

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      Kirk Cameron Left Me BehindMartian Law
      12/08/17 2:34pm

      And then you die of an easily preventable disease. Or get skinned alive by Mongols.

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    CalebrosGwen Ihnat
    12/08/17 2:04pm

    My wife took me to Medieval Times for my birthday one year. I was very hesitant, but ended up having an absolute blast. The show was fun (particularly the falconry) and the food was surprisingly good. I would definitely go back. 

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    BasileusGwen Ihnat
    12/09/17 12:03pm

    Never been to Medieval Times, but I did go to a Ren Fest, complete with a village. That year the big character was Queen Elizabeth I. She knighted all the kids there and my nephew was THRILLED! I think he thought it was a real Queen and not an actress. At one point we were sitting down in the town square and someone sat next to us in costume. I said hello and asked her how her day is going, and she went on about how she woke up before sunrise and had spent all day working at her Dad’s inn etc. The kids were captivated and despite a few attempts, she would not break character. It was tremendous fun for all involved.

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    DrifloonGwen Ihnat
    12/08/17 3:54pm

    I went maybe once with my family to the Orlando location when I was fairly young, but then went every year in high school with my French class. It was always surprisingly fun, and we always tried our hardest to flirt with the knights, because apparently shame goes right out the window in that setting.

    The only bad time I ever had was when I got my top braces put on the day before the trip. Trying to eat any of that food was absolute misery, and I was trying to soak everything I could in the soup as much as possible so I could eat it.

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    ArgieBargieGwen Ihnat
    12/08/17 1:40pm

    She’ll go medieval on your ass.

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