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Is anyone else here a fan of this show? It originally ran in the UK during the 1980s, but I believe it's being shown now on BBC America (I don't have to worry about whether or not it is anymore; I have the box set of DVDs! X3 *Runz*)

For all you fellow fans - what's your favorite season? Favorite episodes? Favorite quotes?

Personally, I liked 'Blackadder Goes Forth' the best, though my favorite episode is 'Money' from the 2nd season (I also like 'The Queen of Spain's Beard', 'Bells', 'Ink and Incapability', 'Nob and Nobility', 'Duel and Duality', and...ok, I like almost all the episodes. XD).

Some of my favorite quotes -

Mrs Miggins: So, who are they electing when they have these elections?
Blackadder: Ah, the same old shower. Fat Tory landowners who get made MPs when they reach a certain weight...
- Dish and Dishonesty

Percy: Only this morning in the courtyard I saw a horse with two heads and two bodies.
Blackadder: Two horses standing next to each other?
- Witchsmeller Pursuviant

Ambassador: I hate you English. With your boring trousers and your shiny toilet paper and your ridiculous preconceptions that Frenchmen are great lovers. I'm French and I'm hung like a baby carrot and a couple of petits pois.
- Nob and Nobility

Blackadder: Bloody explorers, ponce off to Mumbo Jumbo land, come home with a tropical disease, a suntan and a bag of brown lumpy things, and Bob's your uncle, everyone's got a picture of them in lavatory.
- Potato

Blackadder: A man may fight for many things. His country, his friends, his principles, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn.
- Duel and Duality

Blackadder: (to Baldrick) You are last in God's great chain. Unless there's an earwig around here you'd like to victimise.
- Nob and Nobility

Flashheart: If word gets out that I'm missing, 500 girls will kill themselves and I wouldn't want them on my conscience - not when they ought to be on my face!
- Private Plane

George: I'm thick, you see. I'm as thick as the big print version of the Complete Works of Charles Dickens.
- Corporal Punishment

Bishop: You see, I am a colossal pervert. No form of sexual depravity is too low for me. Animal, vegetable or mineral, I'll do anything to anything.
Blackadder: Ah - fine words for a Bishop. Nice to hear the Church speaking out for a change on social issues.
- Money

Ludwig: You find yourself amusing, Blackadder.
Blackadder: I try not to fly in the face of public opinion.
- Chains
 
It's funny, yes. But I've only ever watched the finale of the last series. That wasn't so funny.
 
Ooh, I liked the last episode. I think it goes show how little really separates comedy and tragedy. ...It made me cry. :x
 
I liked the 3rd and 4th seasons of the series. The first episode I ever watched was "Amy & Amiability". Hugh Laurie is awesome.
 
Archaic said:
Baldrick and his posing pouch from the christmas special scarred me for life.
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LOL i remember that one.

Two more qoutes that were missed.

Mrs miggins:"but you wouldn't know that would you blackadder?being nothing but a butler.
Blackadder:They do say mrs M that verbal insults hurt more than physical pain,they are of course wrong as you will soon discover,when i stick this toasting fork in your head.

Blackadder II

Bishop:poisioned,by god!!
Blackadder:no by baldrick actually but the effect is much the same.

As you can see,blackadder rules!
 
Archaic said:
Baldrick and his posing pouch from the christmas special scarred me for life.
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I wanted to icon that for the shock value but never got around to it. X3 But yeah, scarring. Blackadder in the posing pouch, however... :lick:
 
Fellow fans at last! YES!!!!!

And when it comes to seasons, I enjoy every single one (though the one
that took place during the renaissance wasn't entirely that terrific; but it
was still fun to watch regardless). My true favorite was the entire season
that involved Queen Elizabeth (and had such memorable episodes as the
one simply called "Beer", the one where they went to sea with a pirate,
and many, many more gut-busting hilarious hijinks.....). I actually am glad
to own a few of the best of those episodes (including Beer) on VHS...
 
There was a writer on FFN named Red Witch who wrote a couple of very funny Blackadder fanfics, but I don't know if he/she is still there or has changed his/her username. I can't find the fics now, but one involved Baldrick being responsible for the great London fire of 1666.
 
I don't think they're on there anymore. :/ I was just looking at the Blackadder fic section today, and I don't recall seeing anything like that.

There was, however, a halfway decent HP crossover called Blackadder: The Pureblood Years . >D It wasn't entirely terrific, but it still got a lot of giggles out of me. It reads to me like it's written in 3rd person limited, much like the actual HP books, only with Edmund's POV as opposed to Harry's. But maybe that's just me.

Oh, and there was much 'Goes Fourth' slash as well. Why does no one write Prince George/Blackadder, though? :eek: That's what I want to read. And no one writes Baldrick/Anyone. Except for that one fic where it was Baldrick/Jack Sparrow, but that was just...o_O.
 
Ah, Blackadder. Great show. I only got into it because me and my brother were bored one day and sifted through my dad's dvd collection to find something to watch. We found the 2nd series, and loved it. We couldn't stop watching it.

Memorable quotes:

Crone: There be two things ye must know of the wise woman. First, she is...a woman!! And second, she is-
Blackadder: Wise?
Crone: You do know her then?
Blackadder: Oh just a wild stab in the dark. Which is exactly what you'll be getting if you don't start being a bit more helpful!

(From "Bells")

Nursie: You should stop having so many good idea's my popkin, or your foot wil fall off!
Queen: Is that what happens when you have too many good ideas?
Nursie: Oh yes! Why, my dear cousin had the good idea of cutting his toenails with a scythe, and his foot fell off!

(From "Beer")

Meldrick: Wel, lets at least break the tension, say, a jolly word game or something?
Blackadder: How about this. Face-Sodding-Your-Shut.

(From "Chains")

Wise woman: You have three options milord. First, kill Bob.
Blackadder: Never!
Wise woman: Try the second. Kill yourself!
Blackadder: Ehh...and the third?
Wise woman: To make sure no-one ever finds out!
Blackadder: That's sound more like it! How?
Wise woman: Kill EVERYONE in the whole WORLD!! AAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

(From "Bells")

And basically anything the Queen says. :D

- :lx157:
 
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Attention, everyone who has BBC America!

There is a Blackadder marathon tonight. :3 Check the schedule to see when it begins in your time zone.
 
TRF-chan said:
Ooh, I liked the last episode. I think it goes show how little really separates comedy and tragedy. ...It made me cry. :x
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I actually did a presentation on Blackadder in English Literature recently. The focus was on the last episode, where they end by throwing all of the comedy out of the window to show the seriousness of the war. But it is also interesting to compare it to the first episode of the first series, where battles were treated very differently.
 
Oh, that's...just awesome! :-D What a neat topic!
 
Hi, Blackadder fans :) I just registered on this boards and I was very happy to find such a thread :) I've watched all the series and I liked every last one of them. However, my most favourite is "Sense and Senility".
 
That was great. I loved "Amy and Amiability," since that's the first episode I ever watched.
 
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