The Superest

If you follow Claudius's advice, the proper method is pouring the poison into the monarch's ear.

I love the "hot air balloon" pants, which were the style at the time.

Ah yes, pantaballoons.

With his big nose he could be "Cyanide de Bergerac"

I love the Q on the chalice. I wonder if her towels are monogrammed as well, so they, you know, don't get mixed up with her henchmen's.

Hawkins: I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?
Griselda: Right. But there's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace!
Hawkins: They *broke* the chalice from the palace?
Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon.
Hawkins: A flagon...?
Griselda: With the figure of a dragon.
Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon.
Griselda: Right.
Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?
Griselda: No! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
Hawkins: The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
Griselda: Just remember that.

He needs pants that balloony to hide that huge poison container.

@chrism: for just one moment, i was very afraid you were suggesting he would use the balloony pants to hide something else.
his huge, hot, burning desire for the throne.

Oh no! He's poisoning the queen's cherished Quadruped chalice!

you would figure he would smother the queen with his big puffy pants, or his hot burning desire of the trhone im cool with either really.