Blackadder, Way-hey! Sounds a bit rude, doesn't it?! |
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Monster Book Stacker  Posts: 393 Joined: 8:47am August 23, 2005 Location: Cambridge, England   |
Is there anyone else out there who's crazy about old Edmund B.? It's such a great series, bringing all my favourite comedians together. Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, although not necessarily in that order.
I've seen the second and fourth series all the way through. Brilliant. My favourites in the former were "Beer" (slap-slap! Wicked child!  ) and "Chains" (remember the whole charades thing with that spanish guard?  ). I thought the fourth series of blackadder ("How are you feeling, Kevin Darling?" was particularly well done, especially the last episode. Have a go at googling 'Sup's blackadder page' and listen to 'Blackadder hip hop' Dreadful, but funny! (I don't know how to post an icon here). I hope there are enough of you out there to make a decent thread. Tinkerty tonk! :wave: This post has been edited by lirene: Sep 12 2008, 09:07 AM -------------------- |
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Nov 17 2005, 03:48 PM
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Knockturn Alley Fingernail Vendor Posts: 797 Joined: 10:02am October 3, 2005 Location: Dancing with the Weasels in Ottery St Catchpole |
Totally agree!
 Beer is also a favourite of mine. Miranda Richardson was just brilliant as Queenie in series two, 'I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a concrete elephant!' And the ending to the last episode of series four is so poignant, closing on the shot of the poppy field. So rare that a program can take you from tears of laughter to tears of sadness like that; genius. 
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Nov 17 2005, 04:14 PM
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Getting Fitted for New Dress Robes Posts: 43 Joined: 3:39pm November 17, 2005 |
I think Fry and Laurie are amazing. I haven't seen any of the Blackadders though.
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Nov 17 2005, 05:09 PM
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Getting Fitted for New Dress Robes Posts: 51 Joined: 8:20pm May 28, 2005 Location: South Carolina |
I've seen all four seasons of Black Adder and think season 2 is my favorite. Any show with a character called the Baby Eating Bishop of Barton Wells has to be funny (let us all sit upon the floor and tell sad stories). And the Christmas special will leave you laughing so hard milk will shoot out of your nose (even if you haven't been drinking any milk, really bizarre how that happens). Baldrick though is my favorite character and I was pleasantly surprised to see "Bob" return in season four.
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Nov 17 2005, 05:21 PM
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Buying a Half-Kneazle Posts: 536 Joined: 2:00pm June 9, 2005 Location: London |
That last episode of Blackadder IV was incredible! So moving and so funny at the same, pure genius. That part when Darling is so flippantly sent to his death - you laugh at Melchett's ignorance whilst feeling the awfulness of Darling's situation. The last scene in which Blackadder doesn't put Baldrick down for once after he claims he has another 'cunning plan' but instead says, 'I'm sure it was better than my plan to get out by being crazy, who would notice another madman around here?' before charging to their deaths - no end credits, nothing, just a field of poppies.
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Nov 17 2005, 06:27 PM
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In Charge of Invisible Books of Invisibility Posts: 1,163 Joined: 9:01pm July 25, 2005 Location: in a little house in DeSmet, South Dakota |
I LOVE Blackadder!
(I hope Rowan Atkinson can have a part in OotP as Phineas Nigellus.)My favourite is Blackadder II. The baby-eating bishop indeed! I love them all. Oh and that episode in BIII when Blackadder accidentally burns Dr. Johnson's dictionary - oh and that he forgot to put in aardvark, hilarious! 
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Nov 17 2005, 09:34 PM
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Just Through the Brick Wall Posts: 6 Joined: 5:02pm November 17, 2005 |
OMG..This was an awesome comedy series. I liked the first part of Blackadder in the age of queen Elizabeth. its a shame Rowen Atkinson hasnt done anithyng good since then realy. His Mr. Bean Movie was terrible, i couldnt stand watching it on TV. I sometimes borrow the old Blackadder set from my brother, its such a great comedy series. Another of my old favorites would have to Faulty Towers..John Cleese is awesome!
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Nov 17 2005, 11:50 PM
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Gringotts Goblin Translator Posts: 1,218 Joined: 1:06am September 20, 2005 Location: The Melbourne Magical Menagerie (Australia)  |
I saw the last season earlier this year on DVD and I thought it was great... the last episode had a kind of depressing ending, though... anyway, I was planning to go out and hire the rest of them, but I never got around to it. I think I was so busy at school (studying all the time!) that I forgot about it. Oh, thanks everyone, now you've motivated me to go and watch all the earlier seasons!
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Nov 18 2005, 05:55 AM
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Disgruntled House-Elf at The Leaky Cauldron Posts: 412 Joined: 12:10pm October 13, 2005 Location: Cambridge, UK. |
Great thread, Aberforthette! I think one of my favourite Blackadder quotes has to be at the end of Beer in the Elizabethan series:
"Luck! Whay-hay! Sounds a bit rude, doesn't it?! Oh come on...LUCK! Sounds almost exactly like f-!" I laughed for ages after it finished. Slap/slap!"Wicked child!" She actually hits him-Rowan Atkison's face must have been aching at the end of that episode. My favourite series has to be the First World War one.( I think it was the last) Just my kind of comedy-funny, idiotic gags with a bit of an underlying message. Just my two pence worth. I hope I haven't incoweenienced you.( Dear...Qveen...)My apa-logies!
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Nov 18 2005, 07:21 AM
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Skiving Snackbox Demonstrator at Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes Posts: 2,682 Joined: 8:17am January 28, 2005 Location: Tapdancing on the Leaky Cauldron bar |
Greatest Comedy Ever.
Series 4 is awesome just for the incredibly moving finale (I cry every time I watch it). And of course the pigeon-eating court-martial episode. Series 2 is brilliant, but I think series 3 just edges it as the best (am I the only Regency Blackadder fan here?). "My mother always told me to stand up to homicidal maniacs." "Yes. If this is the same mother who confidently claimed that you were a tall handsome stallion of a man, I should treat her opinions with extreme caution." "Never ask for directions in Wales, Baldrick, you'll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight." "They do say, Mrs Miggins, that verbal insults hurt more than physical pain. They are, of course, wrong as you shall find out when I stick this toasting fork in your head." -------------------- No book is really worth reading at age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty...Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a timetable. (C.S. Lewis)
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Nov 18 2005, 09:00 AM
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Just Through the Brick Wall Posts: 5 Joined: 8:28am November 17, 2005 Location: Nether Reaches of Lehigh Valley, PA |
Favorite episode is still the turnip episode (Beer) !!! ok, so the one where he has to fight a duel is a close second, but there is so much great material. The season set in World War I is a big favorite too though, especially the episode where they are inducted into the air corps, Private Plane. My favorite quotes are:
Blackadder - "I think I'll write my tombstone - Here lies Edmund Blackadder, and he's bloody annoyed." Baldric- "I want my mother." Blackadder- "Ah, yes. A maternally crazed gorilla would come in handy at this very moment." Blackadder -"Baldric, that is the worst plan since Abe Lincoln said to his wife, I'm sick of sitting around the house, let's catch a show" Bob - "I wanted to see a war run so badly." Blackadder -"Well you've come to the right place, then. There hasn't been a war run this badly since Olaf the hairy, King of all the vikings, ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside." Blackadder - "And in Genoa, it is the custom to stand with one foot in a bucket, pin a live frog to one's shoulder braid, and go 'Bibble' at passers-by." Nice Lewis quote there oj., my mother used to tell me that when I was a kid, and feeling particularly discouraged trying to read harder books (I'm dyslexic, so it was a bit of challenge). I cut my literary eye teeth on Lewis. And Brian Jaques, a somewhat underrated children's writer I've always felt. -------------------- And that's when something unexpected happened... - SubtleWiley
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Nov 18 2005, 09:37 AM
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Leaky's Official Donut Maker and Mosquito Man  Posts: 11,514 Joined: 10:51am August 25, 2005 Location: Playing kal-toh with Professor Snape |
Bladder is just awesome. It is erm well I was going to say 'its own unique brand of comedy' but maybe that doesnt describe it so well. But Rowan Atkinson is genius (I also hope to see him as Nigellus), he can be funny without talking just with his facial expressions. Possibly my favorite series is the third series altho they are all great in their own right. My favorite episode tho would have to be the last in series 4, I've seen it so many times & I still tear up. It is clever, because the rest of the series & episodes are funny, they dont even make you think too hard, but that episode is just *choke* ... Its really something.
I have a great photo of RA as Black Adder, if I can ever figure out how to instal the scanner on my new computer I will scan the pic. --------------------   I'm 1 of the 99.99% W.L.Y.J.  When I sleep I dream, and when I dream I can rise above the walls Remember Cameron Duncan Thanks Jeff! |
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Nov 18 2005, 03:08 PM
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Monster Book Stacker Posts: 393 Joined: 8:47am August 23, 2005 Location: Cambridge, England |
Well, hurrah! There seems to be quite a lot of you out there after all .
This thread has helped me decide which 'Bladder' DvDs I'll be renting next- 'A Christmas Carol' and Blackadder III, I think. :ponder: Lord Flashheart has kind of grown on me- I thought he was a bit vulgar at first but in Blackadder IV he's just fantastic. Here's a quote (the sensitive should skip the following "I may be packing the sort of tackle you'd expect to find swinging about between the legs of a grand national winner, but that doesn't mean I don't hate this war - the blood, the death- the endless POETRY!" Hope it's not too rude! Is there anyone else who thinks he's kind of great? When he just shoots the Baron von Ricthofen after that lengthy and dramatic speech and goes "WHAT a POOF!"- that's just classic! "Woof! Right men- Let's doo-oo-oo-oo IT!" -------------------- |
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Nov 18 2005, 04:14 PM
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Knight Bus Driver in Training Posts: 547 Joined: 2:52pm July 25, 2005 Location: Arizona, USA |
Apart from everything already mentioned, I like Series I, because Lear is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. I also like that the intro to Series II is a parody of the intro to I, Claudius, my favorite BBC mini.
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Nov 19 2005, 02:33 PM
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Knockturn Alley Fingernail Vendor Posts: 797 Joined: 10:02am October 3, 2005 Location: Dancing with the Weasels in Ottery St Catchpole |
QUOTE Here lies Edmund Blackadder, and he's bloody annoyed RE: post #11 (by SubtleWiley on Nov. 18 2005,2:00 pm ) in this thread That is just such a brilliant epitaph! Btw there are a few HP connections; Lady Whiteadder from Beer, 'Wicked Child!!! Chairs are an invention of Satan! In our house, Nathaniel sits on a spike!' was played by the excellent Miriam Margolyes who was Professor Sprout in CoS. Stephen Fry, Lord Melchett, reads the British HP audio books, Robbie Coltrane, Hagrid, appeared as Dr Johnson in Series 3 & Queenie in Series 2, Miranda Richardson, is now Rita Skeeta in GoF -------------------- 'Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!'
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Nov 20 2005, 11:26 AM
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Gringotts Dragon Tamer Posts: 1,906 Joined: 7:52pm June 12, 2005 Location: Ballycastle Bats changing room |
Aww blackadder is great - i think the series got better as they went along with the last series being my favourite! I remember watching the last ever episode the first time it was aired when I was quite young and just crying for ages! So sad!
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Nov 26 2005, 06:16 AM
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Disgruntled House-Elf at The Leaky Cauldron Posts: 412 Joined: 12:10pm October 13, 2005 Location: Cambridge, UK. |
Yeah the last episode was so moving... "My lord, I have a...plan"
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May 7 2006, 07:18 PM
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Knockturn Alley Fingernail Vendor Posts: 797 Joined: 10:02am October 3, 2005 Location: Dancing with the Weasels in Ottery St Catchpole |
I've just re-watched series 4 & that final episode...
 I don't know how many times I've seen it now, but it still gets me every time, just brilliant I love the opening credits too, especially the bit where Baldrick is kind of skipping along trying to get into the right position in the band. Makes me laugh even before the show starts
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May 7 2006, 07:34 PM
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Flesh-Eating-Slug Catcher Posts: 172 Joined: 8:50pm April 12, 2006 Location: Bibliotheca Alexandrina |
I have the whole series and love the whole thing. It's hard to pick which of the episodes is my favourite, but I do love the "Beer!" episode.
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May 7 2006, 10:50 PM
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Fudge-Maker at Florean Fortescue's Posts: 2,219 Joined: 6:22pm March 7, 2005 Location: nowhere exciting |
I really need to see this show! I looooove Hugh Laurie
and am a Rowan Atkinson fan too. I'll have to go rent season 1 and check it out!
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May 8 2006, 07:56 AM
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Flesh-Eating-Slug Catcher Posts: 169 Joined: 2:18pm April 19, 2006 |
I think I watched only two episodes and absolutely loved them. That's just my luck, I find something cool on TV and the next day the season ends. I hope they'll show it again some time.
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May 8 2006, 01:54 PM
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Buying a Half-Kneazle Posts: 537 Joined: 10:53am April 15, 2006 Location: attempting to prepare for the emotional trauma July is bringing |
I was just thinking, "Hey! I wonder if there's a Blackadder thread?" when I spotted this on the front page.
I was introducted to BA by an ex-boyfriend, who also showed me Fawlty Towers. Yay for British humor! Anyway, he loved BA seasons II and IV best, so I think those are the only ones I ever saw. Oh, I did see the reunion show. Absolutely brilliant. Though I'd heard the name Rowan Atkinson before, I wasn't a fan until BA. I'd caught a few snippets of his Mr. Bean act, but wasn't too impressed. Now I think he's fantastic and would love to see him as Nigellus. As for the rest of the Blackadder cast, I don't think I'd ever heard of any of them until I saw the show. (Yeah, yeah...I need to watch more BBC). They were all really good and Miranda Richarson was the perfect Rita Skeeter. Too bad she's not back in OotP. --------------------  SS - Room 21; CoS - The Game Room; PoA - Suite 13; GoF - Room 18; OotP - Chamber 29 W.O.M.B.A.T. Level 1 - Exceeds Expectations; W.O.M.B.A.T. Level 2 - Outstanding; W.O.M.B.A.T. Level 3 - Outstanding Thanks to KimmyBlair and Madam Penna for my avatar and sig pic!! |
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May 8 2006, 04:35 PM
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Eeylops Owl Cage Cleaner Posts: 240 Joined: 10:38am October 1, 2005 Location: The Ricoh Arena |
It's been ages since I watched Blackadder, but it was always hilariously funny. But the final episode in the trenches was a defining moment of TV
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May 8 2006, 05:27 PM
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Flesh-Eating-Slug Catcher Posts: 195 Joined: 3:33pm April 18, 2006 Location: Nottingham, UK |
I absolutely love Blackadder, & potlucknoodle, I agree with you, the last episode of series 4 was beautiful. I love that episode so much, it was so sad but yet so uplifting, how there were still jokes in there even though even George at the end realised he was in danger & would probably die. & the very end, with the battlefield turning into a field of poppies, such beautiful imagery.
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Oct 4 2007, 02:43 PM
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Cauldron Bottom Measurer Posts: 128 Joined: 7:53pm January 28, 2005 Location: One After 909 Abbey Road, Strawberry Fields, Pepperland |
Having a bit of a Blackadder phase at the moment, watched all the fourth series yesterday, shall watch some more later. I agree about the final episode "Goodbyeee" - deeply moving, along with some classic funny lines, brilliant stuff.
The second and third series are my favourites, and series four is excellent too. I like the first series, but not quite as much as the others. Bells and Beer are two of my favourite episodes. Bells is the one with the Spanish torturer "I'm a b**t*rd son of a b**ch!" and Blackadder and Melchett get captured by Prince Ludwig the Indestructable (formerly known as Shorty Greasy Spot Spot!) And Beer - love everything about it! (The episode that is, though I like the drink too!) The banter between Blackadder and Melchett, the drunken party, the puritanical Whiteadders, etc. In Deathly Hallows, Rowling twice refers to Griphook as "the little goblin" - I immediately thought of that episode, and Blackadder drunkenly singing "see the little goblin..." Hmmm, I wonder if there's a story in Tales of Beedle the Bard called Merlin The Happy Pig? I love Rowan Atkinson, and the way he plays Blackadder, especially when he's insulting someone, you can hear the contempt in every syllable, just loe the way he does that. Love Tony Robinson and his character Baldrick too. I gotta say there is something rather sexy about the way Mirandah Richardson plays the Queen... although there is something rather sexy about Mirandah Richardson in general *g* (still think she is rather hot, even though she's nearly 50) Anything Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are in is automatically awesome, of course. Has anyone heard the British Deathly Hallows Audiobook? Stephen Fry's Aberforth voice sounds alot like his Melchett voice, I have to say I pictured Aberforth sounding alot less posh, more a rough cockney... but I rather like him sounding like Melchett! -------------------- NEVER - INSULT - THE - BEATLES - IN - FRONT - OF - ME!
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Oct 5 2007, 02:46 AM
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Having hand bitten off by the Monster Books Posts: 7,051 Joined: 2:09am August 2, 2007 Location: stalking emma watson... i dont want to talk about it. |
wahey, blackadder is great.
whenever anyone mention blackadder i automaticaly think... QUOTE I'd get a great big turnip in the country. -------------------- Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more |
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Oct 5 2007, 10:22 AM
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Resident Tonks Expert Posts: 1,862 Joined: 9:46pm February 3, 2006 Location: In the clouds  |
I've seen the first few episodes of season three, cuz Hugh Laurie = WATCH!
 Its a hilarious show, I couldn't stop laughing at some of the stuff they do.
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Oct 5 2007, 11:12 AM
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Selling Illegal Items at Borgin and Burkes Posts: 2,819 Joined: 12:53pm July 7, 2006 Location: In front of the computer, of course! |
I saw a replay of 'Blackadder goes forth' last week. It was the one in which Hugh Laurie does his 'Glorious Georgina' female impersonator act in Blackadder's show and ends up Engaged to Stephen Fry! and Baldric does a Chaplin impersonation with a slug as a mustache. Hillarious as ever.
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Sep 11 2008, 03:56 PM
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Flesh-Eating-Slug Catcher Posts: 181 Joined: 8:57am August 23, 2007 |
ahhh, Good ole captain "slack-bladder"
my favourite series is blackadder goes forth but its closley followed by blackadder the third thats the amazing thing about british comedy, how quickly it can switch to tragedy. that last scene is just so poiniant. my favourite bit ever has to be when baldrick is doing his charlie chaplain thing and george is laughing his head off because he didn't realise that backadder was being sarcastic when he welcomed him as mr chaplain. or it could be the bit with the Blackadder: Sir Talbot represented the constituency of Dunny-on-the-Wold, and, by an extraordinary stroke of luck, it is a rotten borough. Prince George: Really! Is it! Well, lucky-lucky us. Lucky-lucky-luck. (as a chicken) Luck-luck-LAKK-LAKK-LAKK-LAKK-cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck-LAKK-LAKK-LAKK. Blackadder: ...You don't know what a rotten borough is, do you, sir? Prince George: No. Blackadder: So what was the chicken impression in aid of? Prince George: Well, I just didn't want to hurt your feelings. Erm, so, what is a robber button? Blackadder: *Rotten borough*. Prince George: Oh, yes, you're right. or the bit where george gets engaged to melchett or the bit in series one with the hills "if you see the hills, run the other way!" oh my, i have so many favourite bits in fact, i'd say its my favourite progamme right now i'm a fan of nearly all the actors in it. its so amazing. one more thing to say... "Oh No! what an incredibly handsome young nincompoop i have been!" off to watch series 1 & two (again) now! xxxx Edited by Moderator to merge back to back consecutive posts (Rule #5) This post has been edited by lirene: Sep 11 2008, 04:19 PM -------------------- Hear the words I sing, war's a horrid thing, but still i sing sing sing, ding-a-ling-a-ling |
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Sep 11 2008, 04:47 PM
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Grammar Posse Posts: 2,529 Joined: 3:59pm May 15, 2008 Location: Sunny Phoenix, Arizona("It's a Dry Heat!") |
I too, am a Blackadder fan!
My favorite series is year 3--The Regency period. Hugh Laurie is wonderful as the clueless Prince George! The episode about the "Rotten Borough" where he goes into the "Lucky us--Luck Luck Lark-Lark" clucking schtick--hilarious--and Rowan Atkinson has an absolutely straight face when he asks, "You don't know what a rotten borough is, do you?" And Hugh says, Not really, No." And then Rowan/BlackAdder says, "So what was the chicken impersonation in aid of?" --"I just didn't want to disappoint you." I still haven't made up my mind whether that was a bit of brilliant improvisation, or if it was in the script. Miranda Richardson makes a guest appearance in the episode where Blackadder is trying to get the Prince married off to a wealthy, but soppy woman who talks baby talk, but turns out to be THE SHADOW. Love the part where Blackadder has to resort to riding Baldrick, as all the other horses have been sold or eaten! My favorite episode in this series is the one with the actors--with Blackadder explaining to Baldrick that the Prince thinks theatre is real--tells him about when they went to see Julius Caesar and the Prince hollered out, "Look behind you, Mr. Caesar!" Of course the funniest part is seeing how many times Rowan says the dreaded name of the scottish play! And when the Prince finds Baldrick in the closet and thinks he is an anarchist, and Blackadder says, "That is Baldrick, spring cleaning." Oh well--I guess you can tell I have watched these episodes over and over, as I have most of the dialogue memorized! --------------------  __________ Phoenix avatar from ofenjen; AZ Raven siggy from Victoria Page |
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Sep 11 2008, 07:55 PM
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Wizard Artist Posts: 2,924 Joined: 1:36pm August 4, 2006 Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Europe |
I want the Brit-DVD versions of this series because the Dutch ones don't have the full complete version. I liked the episodes with Miranda Richardson.
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Sep 12 2008, 01:11 PM
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Grammar Posse Posts: 2,529 Joined: 3:59pm May 15, 2008 Location: Sunny Phoenix, Arizona("It's a Dry Heat!") |
helyx,
you might be interested to know that Miranda Richardson also appears in one of the episodes of series 3 of Blackadder. It's really fun to watch--first she is the loopy daughter of a merchant whom Blackadder wants to marry Prince George, but that falls through when he finds out that the father is actually bankrupt.It's a funny spot, because when she asks about all the poetry that the Prince had written her, BA says, "All writteny-wittenney by mee-wee, I'm afraidy-waidy." Then he gets held up by "The Shadow" who turns out to be--Miranda Richardson! She has a thing for shooting squirrels, too. Well, anyway, just about any one of the series is good. I hope you can get the episodes you are looking for--and if you haven't already, you might try BBCAmerica. They have a catalog that lists many of the BBC's previous hits in it. -------------------- __________ Phoenix avatar from ofenjen; AZ Raven siggy from Victoria Page |
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Sep 12 2008, 02:18 PM
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Visual Aids of Swoonworthiness Person Posts: 3,069 Joined: 8:49pm December 9, 2006 Location: Lost in a Good Book somewhere in Minneapolis |
I have only seen a few of the episodes many years ago. But I remember how perfect Brian Blessed was in the original Black Adder as the Falstaff-like King.
I don't recall the final episode of the fourth series which several posters mentioned as their favorite. I will have to see if I can find it on the web somewhere. Sounds beautifully sad. --------------------  siggy & avatar by theonlysong |
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Sep 21 2008, 07:33 AM
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Disgruntled House-Elf at The Leaky Cauldron Posts: 413 Joined: 5:18am May 6, 2005 Location: not sure sat nav got me lost!! |
Too me this is the second greatest Brit comedy ever.
The final episode of Blackadder goes Forth was so sad that I actually cried, it goes to show that the great comedy writers of Richard Curtis et al can do moving drama as well. -------------------- 'House rules, Sammy. Driver picks the music. Shotgun shuts his cakehole.' Dean Winchester
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Sep 21 2008, 03:14 PM
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Flesh-Eating-Slug Catcher Posts: 181 Joined: 8:57am August 23, 2007 |
One Last thing
"well one dosn't like to blow ones own trumpet sir" "well you could at least have let us know you had a trumpet" -------------------- Hear the words I sing, war's a horrid thing, but still i sing sing sing, ding-a-ling-a-ling |
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Sep 22 2008, 04:09 AM
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Cauldron Bottom Measurer Posts: 138 Joined: 2:10am July 2, 2008 Location: Las Vegas |
last episode of Blackadder goes forth is on goooogle video, I watched it today at work.
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Sep 22 2008, 05:46 PM
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Fudge-Maker at Florean Fortescue's Posts: 2,234 Joined: 5:21am January 28, 2005 Location: Cardiff, UK |
QUOTE(Miss Dobby @ Sep 21 2008, 01:33 PM)  Too me this is the second greatest Brit comedy ever. The final episode of Blackadder goes Forth was so sad that I actually cried, it goes to show that the great comedy writers of Richard Curtis et al can do moving drama as well. The final episode of the fourth season was heartbreaking. My history teacher actually let us watch it in class (I think I was 12 at the time) & everyone was in tears by the end of the lesson. It's a perfect & very difficult blend of comedy with the tragically sad that is very rare & hard to do. I think the 2nd & 3rd series are my favourite. I often dip into the odd episode every now & again. Baldric is one of the best comedy characters ever created & the put-downs & one liners are too funny -------------------- The Email of the species is more deadly than the mail- Stephen Fry
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Sep 25 2008, 01:15 PM
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Grammar Posse Posts: 2,529 Joined: 3:59pm May 15, 2008 Location: Sunny Phoenix, Arizona("It's a Dry Heat!") |
I agree, mikey, about Baldric. Tony Robinson is simply brilliant in that part. I also think Tim McInnerny is great as Sir Percy-Percy in the first two Black Adder series. He wasn't in the third, except for one episode where he played The Scarlet Pimpernel, and then in the 4th series, they changed his name to "Darling". Of course, Hugh Laurie was great as Prince George in the 3rd series, too. What a bunch of great comedic actors--and the writing was excellent, too, of course. By the way, for all of the BA fans, that is Richard Curtis who is interviewing the acting trio of Daniel, Rupert, and Emma on the DVD of GOF.
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Oct 13 2008, 01:22 PM
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Disgruntled House-Elf at The Leaky Cauldron Posts: 413 Joined: 5:18am May 6, 2005 Location: not sure sat nav got me lost!! |
Did anyone see the Blackadder special last night on G.O.L.D? I only managed to watch half of it, it had interviews with some of the cast, writers, etc. After watching some of the clips now it seems that the show never seems to lose the gags after all this time. Pity I didn't see an interview with Rowan A that's if there was one.
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