Black Adder

 

 

 

haven't watched it all yet, but I think the fourth is the best, while on the third Hugh Laurie is absolutely brilliant.

My favourite series would be 2 followed by three.

 

2-3-4 are absolutely sublime, 1 is ok but we dont see the sophisticated wit of the "real" Edmund.

The Xmas Special is very good too, but "Back& Forth" is rather disappointing.

 

Favourite characters, besides the obvious:

 

General Melchet (Goes Forth)

 

Melchett: Is this true, Blackadder? Did Captain Darling pooh-pooh you?
Edmund: Well, perhaps a little.
Melchett: Well then, damn it all, how much more evidence do you need? The pooh-poohing alone is a court-martial offence!
Edmund: I can assure you, sir, that the pooh-poohing was purely circumstantial.
Melchett: Well, I hope so, Blackadder. You know, if there's one thing I've learned from being in the army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a major. He got pooh-poohed, made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh - he pooh-poohed it. Fatal error, because it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers, who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment - morale totally destroyed - by pooh-pooh!

 

 

 

Prince George (III)

 

George: Marry? Never! I'm a gay bachelor, Blackadder. I'm a roarer, a rogerer, a gorger and a puker! I can't marry, I'm young, I'm firm buttocked, I'm...
Edmund: Broke?
George: Well, yes, I suppose so.
Edmund: And don't forget, sir, that the modern Church smiles on roaring and gorging within wedlock, and indeed rogering is keenly encouraged.
George: And the puking?
Edmund: I believe still very much down to the conscience of the individual church-goer.
George: Well yes, tally-ho then, Blackadder. Yes, you fix it up. You know the kind of girls I like, they've got to be lovers, laughers, dancers...
Edmund: And bonkers!
George: That goes without saying!