Best Black Adder series

Feel free to post the episode that warms yer heart the most. Or just slap up some fave quotes.


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wish i could've seen the others.
never was into Mr. Bean much though. i preferred the verbal barbs.

it's number 2 and number 4 that are tied for first place.

I will admit to crying when they died at the end of the series.

Have not gotten as into the extra videos they did, like the Victorian Christmas one.

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Our local PBS affiliate took Blackadder IV off the air during the first Gulf War, because they were afraid the portrayal of insane, out-of-touch generals living the high life while sending hordes of men to die meaninglessly might offend someone. Fucking cowards.

"Goodbyeeee" was the most powerful anti-war statement on semi-commercial television.

It's way funnier than Mr. Bean.
My favorite episodes of Blackadder (from most to least favorite):
1. Blackadder II
2. Blackadder IV
3. Blackadder III
4. Blackadder I

Basically, I liked them all expect for the first one.
I love the Queenie character in the second installment. Baldrick is one of my favorites for all episodes.

baldrick rules

:hippie: THe Incorrigible Democrat

"Leave me alone Baldrick. If I'd wanted to talk to a vegetable I'd have bought one at the market."

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Amy-Wamy rules. Second favorite is the Elizabethan series, because Mad Queen Bess also rules.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

was officially off. *g*

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so much? I didn't find that one very funny in comparison to the rest of them.

hes more of a sniviling character, rather than the sarcastic, vaguely evil character he his in the other seasons

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if so, i correct myself.

which is the one where "Wooster" (god, i only remember him from eeves and Wooster) gets forensics lessons and looks like a jackass reading a decree? he stands legs spread and roars before reading, gawd i was rolling with laughter.

also loved that hero dude from WWI, "treat your plane like your woman, take her to heaven and back 5 times a day! woohoo!" such a hilarious stereotype!

Hugh Laurie (now House MD on Fox :) ) plays the prince recieving speaking lessons from the to actors.

The hero dude is Lord Flasheart,played by Rik Mayall of the Young Ones fame.

"Mind if I use your phone? If word gets out that I'm missing, five hundred girls will kill themselves. I wouldn't want them on my conscience, not when they ought to be on my face!"

"Well, all right, you fellows. Let's sit us down and yarn about how amazingly attractive I am."

"Fresh horses!!"

:P

The last episode,The Black Seal, is the single funniest thing I've ever seen.He is plenty sarcastic in the series....really :)

BA to Percy on why BA is dismissing him;

"....far from being a fit consort for a Prince of the Realm, you would bore the leggings off a village idiot. You ride a horse rather less well than another horse would, your brain would make a grain of
sand look large and ungainly in comparison,and the part of you that can't be mentioned,I am reliably informed by women around the court, wouldn't be worth mentioning even if it could be."

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But first a motto for our enterprise. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall be slaughtered"

"Wait you've forgotten the plan."

" thought that was the plan."

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"Oh no, you're not mad are you ?"

Mad Gerald (played by Rik Mayall): Yes I'm very mad thank you. Maaad. Thats a word I know. I say that every day. I say, "Good morning Mad Gerald, how are you today ?", and then I say, "I'm completely mad today thank you", and then I say, "Oh so there's not much change there then is there Gerald?", and I say, "No, well you'd be mad to expect any wouldn't you?", then I say, "But I am mad. I'm
Mad Gerald....".
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I love all the series.The episode is series 2 with Sir Walter "Bloody" Raleigh,where Blackadder and crew hire the legless Captain (Tom Baker of Dr Who fame)kills me ("But you're legless" "Rubbish,I haven't touched a drop all day!").The episode is Series 3 with Robbie Coltrane and his dictionary also stands out (Sausage...SAUSAGE!!! Blast yer eyes...").

The only shows that measure up to Blackadder are Red Dwarf,Fry and Laurie and The Young Ones.I watch them all very often (Blackadder 2 is in my vcr as we speak!) The DVD comes complete with all 4 series and a fifth "series" (really just one episode) that's pretty damn funny.And the Blackadder Christmas Special is great too.Scrooge in reverse...he goes from being too nice to being the Blackadder we all know and love :)

"¡Más por favor!"

"More please!"

Can anyone name the episode? :D

I can't remember the name of the episode though.

Yeah- I think Blackadder I edges out the others thanks to Brian Blessed and perfect Prince Harry. I wish he'd come back in the other episodes.

Other highlights: "the Black Russian" and "Quick, the nunnery's on fire!"

I like IV for it's anti-war message. The last episode kicks it up considerable.

Brian Blessed is great and there's so much to like in the other series. Rick Mayall as the Brit Ace Lord Flasheart, Adrian Edmondson as Baron von Richtoven, Stephen Fry as Gen. Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett... and Baldrick!

I haven't seen the newer episodes after "Black Adder Goes Forth" (IV)

They did a modern Christmas special one with a time machine but you just got the sense that they were all over the hill or mailing in their performances.

So I'm not sure I want to see another series.

"Oh, by the way...MacBeth."

...another, and Series II, did not let me down.

For the love of all things holy......

P.

With Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) as the ghost of Christmas future (I think)? And Queen Victoria?

"And I see she's brought the fish course with her!"

"Oh Sir Walter, really.........."

"AAaaarrghh! You have a WOMAN'S purse, my lord!"

etc. etc. etc.

Having said that, any episode from any series which contains Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie gets my vote.....Very much like any woman who wants to chain herself to my railings and suffer a jet movement.

You Yanks wouldn't know quality comedy if it jumped up and bit ye on the bollocks.

but unless your comments are amusingly ironic, I have to conclude that you are a horse's arse.

:evilgrin:

What with Blackadder being one of the most, intelligent, critically acclaimed and popular British comedy shows of all time, and Johnny English being roundly panned by critics and audiences alike for its unsubtle, formulaic gags.

But then, I suspect you're being amusingly ironic.

:evilgrin:

It's been disappointing to see Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis's adventures in film post Blackadder. These were incredibly funny people. What the cor-and-blimey happened?

The episode where they are eating the Pigeons sent with vital info to save them :)

It's required viewing at my house every holiday season!

I like my Christmas stories to be all tied up with a neat and happy little bow. THIS one messes with my head too much. *lol*

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it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing 'Cunning plans are here again'.

that episode with the Georgian prince of Wales where he says...
""shin up the drainpipe and ask her if she'll take a consignment of German sausage.""

it was good but the Elizabethan episodes were better all the way around..

My favorite episode involved the Scottish play.

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Blackadder I: "The Witchslayer Pursuviant" with the hokey witchcraft trial

Blackadder II: "BEER" nearly killed me. The false boobies, Queenie in the closet..the horror! (The turnip that looks like a thingie)

Blackadder III: "The Scottish Play"

Blackadder IV ..not sure, but probably the pigeons.