Last time, we joked that Dini had to assure himself that he hadn’t watched some kind of fever dream, but in fact he sort of had watched a fever dream. It was a fantasy sequence: In the main part of the show, characters were reading a story to their kid, and then we faded into this fantasy in which we see the show’s characters reimagined as medieval folk. It was a take on The Princess Bride.
As with every medieval spoof, they make jokes by slapping references to modernity together with old-timey language—“I performed at the Knights of the Round Table Grill, just a fortnight ago,” says jester Calliope. Sorkin hadn’t created her Harley voice yet, but you’ll hear traces of Brooklyn accent there (jump to 1:26) as well as some Harley-style innuendo (“is it true what they say about men with large crossbows?”).
The people at D.C. haven’t forgotten where Harley came from. In the Birds of Prey movie (the one that has “Harley Quinn” in the full title), this Days of Our Lives scene plays for a few seconds on a TV in the background.
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