Blackadder, Way-hey! Sounds a bit rude, doesn't it?! |
 Nov 17 2005, 02:59 PM
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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. 
-------------------- 'Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!'
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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.
-------------------- "Don't you understand, Tink? You mean more to me than anything in this whole world!" -Peter Pan
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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.
-------------------- Some people dance to the beat of a different drummer. The rest of us Polka!
Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend. Inside of a dog, its much to dark to read. -Groucho Marx |
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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.
I think my favourite series is has to be Blackadder III. |
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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! 
-------------------- ~~Proud member of the Ingalwings Society~~
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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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