The Blackadder appreciation thread.

[Drunken_Master]

Blackadder; Is this the home of the wise woman?
Old crone; That it be , that it be
Blackadder; Yes it is, not that it be, I'm not a tourist
Old Crone;Two things ye should know about the wise woman, first she is wise, second she is...
Blackadder; A woman?
Old crone; So you do know her then?
Blackadder; Just a wild stab in the dark, which is what youll be getting if you dont tell me where she is...

You got it the wrong way around.

I reinterpreted the scene.

[Denster]

Anti french/ anti english classics.

- Ah bonjour monsieur

- what?

- Bonjour monsieur. It's french.

So is eating snails, cruelty to geese and urinating in the street. That is no reason to inflict it on the rest of us.



- My french clientele think pies are uncouth

- I hardly think that a nation that eats frog's legs and would go to bed with the kitchen sink if it put on a tutu is in a postion to preach couthness.


Everyone knows we hate the french, we fight wars against them. Did all those men die in vain on the fields of Agincourt? Was the man who burnt Joan of Arc simply wasting good matches?

On the contrary, I hate you English with your shiny toilet paper and your boring trousers. And your ridiculous preconception that all frenchman are great lovers. I'm french and I'm hung like a baby carrot and acouple of petit pois.

What has the pimpernel done apart from rescue a few garlic chewing toffs from the ineffectual clutches of some malnourished whinging lefties?

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Anti french/ anti english classics.

- Ah bonjour monsieur

- what?

- Bonjour monsieur. It's french.

So is eating snails, cruelty to geese and urinating in the street. That is no reason to inflict it on the rest of us.



- My french clientele think pies are uncouth

- I hardly think that a nation that eats frog's legs and would go to bed with the kitchen sink if it put on a tutu is in a postion to preach couthness.


Everyone knows we hate the french, we fight wars against them. Did all those men die in vain on the fields of Agincourt? Was the man who burnt Joan of Arc simply wasting good matches?

On the contrary, I hate you English with your shiny toilet paper and your boring trousers. And your ridiculous preconception that all frenchman are great lovers. I'm french and I'm hung like a baby carrot and acouple of petit pois.

What has the pimpernel done apart from rescue a few garlic chewing toffs from the ineffectual clutches of some malnourished whinging lefties?

That was one of my favourite episodes.

[Drunken_Master]

Anti french/ anti english classics.

- Ah bonjour monsieur

- what?

- Bonjour monsieur. It's french.

So is eating snails, cruelty to geese and urinating in the street. That is no reason to inflict it on the rest of us.



- My french clientele think pies are uncouth

- I hardly think that a nation that eats frog's legs and would go to bed with the kitchen sink if it put on a tutu is in a postion to preach couthness.


Everyone knows we hate the french, we fight wars against them. Did all those men die in vain on the fields of Agincourt? Was the man who burnt Joan of Arc simply wasting good matches?

On the contrary, I hate you English with your shiny toilet paper and your boring trousers. And your ridiculous preconception that all frenchman are great lovers. I'm french and I'm hung like a baby carrot and acouple of petit pois.

What has the pimpernel done apart from rescue a few garlic chewing toffs from the ineffectual clutches of some malnourished whinging lefties?

That was one of my favourite episodes.

Aye, Chris Barrie was in the one, if I remember correctly.

[~Earl Grey~]

Sick of UK Gold showing the "Beer" episode with the almost exactly like 'fu- line cut.

Wankers.

I always thought that was a deliberate part of the episode, as you couldn't say 'strawberry float' on the BBC in those days.

It was.The whole point of the joke is you know what she means, and it being completely out of character.

Just as I thought. So what's SOK's beef?

[Denster]

Anti french/ anti english classics.

- Ah bonjour monsieur

- what?

- Bonjour monsieur. It's french.

So is eating snails, cruelty to geese and urinating in the street. That is no reason to inflict it on the rest of us.



- My french clientele think pies are uncouth

- I hardly think that a nation that eats frog's legs and would go to bed with the kitchen sink if it put on a tutu is in a postion to preach couthness.


Everyone knows we hate the french, we fight wars against them. Did all those men die in vain on the fields of Agincourt? Was the man who burnt Joan of Arc simply wasting good matches?

On the contrary, I hate you English with your shiny toilet paper and your boring trousers. And your ridiculous preconception that all frenchman are great lovers. I'm french and I'm hung like a baby carrot and acouple of petit pois.

What has the pimpernel done apart from rescue a few garlic chewing toffs from the ineffectual clutches of some malnourished whinging lefties?

That was one of my favourite episodes.

Aye, Chris Barrie was in the one, if I remember correctly.

Yes its his speech that ive bolded.

One of my favourites too.

[Saint of Killers]

Sick of UK Gold showing the "Beer" episode with the almost exactly like 'fu- line cut.

Wankers.

I always thought that was a deliberate part of the episode, as you couldn't say 'strawberry float' on the BBC in those days.

It was.The whole point of the joke is you know what she means, and it being completely out of character.

Lady Whiteadder emerges from beneath Queenie's frock, and proclaims that luck sounds rude, due to its sounding "almost exactly like 'fu-..'". This line, not just fu, has been cut out of re-runs of the show on G.O.L.D. You hear her laugh as she emerges and then the credits roll.

[~Earl Grey~]

So she just says "Get it? Luck!"?

[Saint of Killers]

Not even that!

[Saint of Killers]

Yes its his speech that ive bolded.

One of my favourites too.

The baby carrot and a couple of petits pois always cracks me up.

[Mogster]

Sick of UK Gold showing the "Beer" episode with the almost exactly like 'fu- line cut.

Wankers.

I always thought that was a deliberate part of the episode, as you couldn't say 'strawberry float' on the BBC in those days.

It was.The whole point of the joke is you know what she means, and it being completely out of character.

Lady Whiteadder emerges from beneath Queenie's frock, and proclaims that luck sounds rude, due to its sounding "almost exactly like 'fu-..'". This line, not just fu, has been cut out of re-runs of the show on G.O.L.D. You hear her laugh as she emerges and then the credits roll.

I saw that last night. She gets to say "haha! Luck?" before it cuts straight to the credits.

They bleeped out "tit" earlier in the episode as well. The tits.

[Master James]

Blackadder's just pure class. From the script to the acts to the delivery, so so good. Best sitcom for me, though I also love Fools' and Horses (up to "Time on our hands") and Father Ted. My top three for sure. So many classics and it seems that we'll never get much like it in the foreseeable future, as everyone goes for the cheap laughs and shock tactics today.

[TheTurnipKing]

Blackadder; Is this the home of the wise woman?
Old crone; That it be , that it be
Blackadder; Yes it is, not that it be, I'm not a tourist
Old Crone;Two things ye should know about the wise woman, first she is wise, second she is...
Blackadder; A woman?
Old crone; So you do know her then?
Blackadder; Just a wild stab in the dark, which is what youll be getting if you dont tell me where she is...

You got it the wrong way around.

Tell me Young Crone... is this Putney?

[TheTurnipKing]

Sick of UK Gold showing the "Beer" episode with the almost exactly like 'fu- line cut.

Wankers.

I always thought that was a deliberate part of the episode, as you couldn't say 'strawberry float' on the BBC in those days.

It was.The whole point of the joke is you know what she means, and it being completely out of character.

Lady Whiteadder emerges from beneath Queenie's frock, and proclaims that luck sounds rude, due to its sounding "almost exactly like 'fu-..'". This line, not just fu, has been cut out of re-runs of the show on G.O.L.D. You hear her laugh as she emerges and then the credits roll.

I saw that last night. She gets to say "haha! Luck?" before it cuts straight to the credits.

They bleeped out "tit" earlier in the episode as well. The tits.

Dear gods. What did they do to Money?

[~Earl Grey~]

Blackadder; Is this the home of the wise woman?
Old crone; That it be , that it be
Blackadder; Yes it is, not that it be, I'm not a tourist
Old Crone;Two things ye should know about the wise woman, first she is wise, second she is...
Blackadder; A woman?
Old crone; So you do know her then?
Blackadder; Just a wild stab in the dark, which is what youll be getting if you dont tell me where she is...

You got it the wrong way around.

Tell me Young Crone... is this Putney?

That it be.

[Trelliz]

"Yes it is" not "that it be", you don't have to put on that silly accent, i'm not a tourist.

[Superking]

Here it is in video form

[Cardinal Chunder]

"Here is a purse of monies..... Which I'm not going to give to you."

[Saint of Killers]

Sick of UK Gold showing the "Beer" episode with the almost exactly like 'fu- line cut.

Wankers.

I always thought that was a deliberate part of the episode, as you couldn't say 'strawberry float' on the BBC in those days.

It was.The whole point of the joke is you know what she means, and it being completely out of character.

Lady Whiteadder emerges from beneath Queenie's frock, and proclaims that luck sounds rude, due to its sounding "almost exactly like 'fu-..'". This line, not just fu, has been cut out of re-runs of the show on G.O.L.D. You hear her laugh as she emerges and then the credits roll.

I saw that last night. She gets to say "haha! Luck?" before it cuts straight to the credits.

They bleeped out "tit" earlier in the episode as well. The tits.

Thankee for confirming GOLD's butchery of Blackadder (it's been done to other shows on GOLD too).

I've seen that version of the episode so many times and it still pisses me off / takes me by surprise when it happens.

[Mogster]

I recommend you all go and buy this...

I'm still hoping that might one day drop to about £20.

I've seen all four series countless times, thanks to my parents having taped the lot way back when. Blackadder II is just about the best, I think, followed very closely by Goes Forth and III. There's a massive gulf of quality between those and the first series, which feels like a completely different show. Almost every scene of the others is classic suff.

"Cup of coffee, Darling?"

...

"It's a barren, featureless dessert out there."
"Other side sir."

...

"Harold the horny hunter, had an enourmous horn."

...

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!