Sir Carl the Crusader

**Sir Carl the Crusader** is an American animated religious comedy television sitcom created by Average Films. The series centers around the crusader Charleston III of Jerusalem, when he gets blown centuries into the future and ends up in LA. Now his descendant Tom must help and guide him in a new world that he is completely unfamiliar with. The series is rated TV-MA LSV due to numerous swearing, controversial topics, suggestive themes, violence, and inappropriate jokes. The show has many episodes centered around satirically mocking the modern norms of society and human culture. The series received positive to mixed reviews from critics, with many praising the jokes, character development, and execution, while others criticized it for its somewhat overdone concept and the animation.

## Plot

After Charleston III of Jerusalem accidentally acquires the mysterious Sword of the Progenitor, he is warped against his will to the year 2022, where he lands in the streets of suburban Los Angeles. Thomas "Tom" Tomlinson, one of his last living descendants, finds Charles, who he nicknames 'Carl', on the street and decides to help his ancestor around the new world he found himself in. In each episode, Tom and Carl go on adventures to discover the changes in society, culture, and the overall human experience Carl doesn't know yet, and somehow find a way to bring him back to his time. However, the owner of the sword, the dark witch Mistress Maylia, vows to destroy Carl forever for taking what is hers.

## Characters

* Rick D. Wasserman as Charleston III of Jerusalem/Carl: A disgruntled, easily angered yet ultimately good-hearted Crusader who is an extremely gifted swordsman, archer, and arsonist. During a battle, Charleston accidentally stumbled upon the hidden sanctuary of the then-absent Mistress Maylia, and ended up transporting himself to the year 2022. Even with help from Tom, one of his descendants, he is still having trouble adjusting to the modern world, due to him being millennia behind.
* William Jackson Harper as Thomas 'Tom' Tomlinson: Carl's best friend, college student, and retail worker who helps Carl accomplish his many escapades. Despite being mostly African-American, he is related through his mother's side to Carl, which is why the Sword of the Progenitor brings Carl to him.
* Amanda Lee as Mistress Maylia: A dark sorceress who was given a vision of one of her descendants sealing her soul away forever, she created the Sword of the Progenitor to travel forwards into the future and destroy them. But when Carl somehow gets his hands on it, she vows to destroy him as well.
* Richard Grieco as Scorn: An evil creation brought to life by Maylia, a dark knight’s armor infused with the agony, rage, and resentment of thousands of innocent souls murdered during the Crusades. Possessing the ability to harness other’s rage to power himself up, he looks to be an unstoppable force for Maylia, who treats him like a son.
* Laura Bailey as Annalisa Mays: Tom's go-getter girlfriend who is understanding of his situation with Carl. She is also Maylia's last living descendant, and the one destined to seal her away for all of eternity.
* Dan Southworth as Emerson Graves: A disgruntled government agent who is antagonistic towards Carl, vowing to take him in and question him due to all the chaos he causes. He also aims to possess the Sword of the Progenitor. However, after learning of the threat posed by Maylia and Scorn, he decides to put aside his differences with Carl and work to help take them down.

## Trivia

* The original name for the show was 'Sir Carl the Crude' and centered around a knight instead. But when a friend misheard PGD talking about it and questioned whether or not Carl was a crusader, PGD rethought of it and decided it would be funnier if it was a crusader due to how the old Christian beliefs at the time would be very out-of-place in a modern setting.