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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 07:51 PM
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What is the best Black Adder episode?
What say you, Baldric?
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 07:52 PM
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1. I have a cunning plan.
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 07:52 PM
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2. Oh, oh, that one where Baldric has a cunning plan!
Edited on Tue Jun-21-05 07:52 PM by asthmaticeog
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 07:54 PM
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4. Oh yeah - that one!
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 09:09 PM
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12. hard to pick
Edited on Tue Jun-21-05 09:10 PM by tigereye
"Beer" with the drinking contest, "Baldric bring me my draft of incredibly strong ale."

and the turnip that looks like a "thingy" ;)


husband says fave episode of The Young Ones is the one where Vivien says, "oh no, I've killed a hippie."

Not that you asked... ;)
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 11:28 PM
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13. I love the "thingy" bit!
You're the best TE!
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 11:42 PM
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19. ooh
Hey dear. How are ya? What's unhappening?
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:26 AM
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20. Not much
Just watchin some Black Adder and gettin' ready for school. Hope all's well your way!
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 09:16 AM
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21. can't complain
lighter work load, kid out of school, trekking to pool and camp. I am going to do some recording this weekend for a pal who asked me to play drums on his monthly website release. That's pretty cool, since I haven't recorded for a while!


when does school start? :)
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 11:05 AM
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26. Sept 6
Woohoo!!!
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:20 PM
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27. cool!
I am psyched for you!!! One of my neighbor's sons well be starting grad school at Johns Hopkins this fall. First time he's ever lived away from home. I am envious of folks just starting that exciting chapter in their lives....
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Kelvin Mace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 07:53 PM
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3. The Baby-eating Bishop of Bath's
loan sharking operation.
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 01:21 PM
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32. Bishop of Bath and Wells, to give him his full title.
Bishop: "Be it animal, vegetable or mineral, I'll do anything to anything."

Edmund (deadpan): "Fine words for a bishop!"
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 07:56 PM
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5. "Beer", definitely
second favorite: "WitchSmeller Pursuviant" from Blackadder I
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BlackVelvetElvis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 08:03 PM
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6. Sense and Senility from III
The one with the two actors, anarchists and a pair of great trousers.
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 08:36 PM
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10. That gets my vote, too
and perhaps Major Star in second...where BlackAdder organizes a revue and Melchett falls in love with George in drag.
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iconoclastic cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 08:06 PM
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7. The one with Webster.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 11:34 PM
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16. Emmanuel Lewis?
I must have missed that one.
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regnaD kciN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 01:34 PM
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33. Webster? Don't you mean Samuel Johnson?
That would be "Ink and Incapability."

PRINCE GEORGE: "I mean, after all, we're all English here, aren't we?" (exits)
BLACK ADDER: "You're not. You're German."

and, of course..."sausage???"
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iconoclastic cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 01:47 PM
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34. Right, right. Been a while.
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WildClarySage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 08:15 PM
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8. Sense and Senility
"Disease and famine stalk our land like... two giant stalking things."

followed closely by Amy and Amiability.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 09:38 AM
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23. "It is the way of things."
The way "Sense And Senility" skewers the theater brings tears to my eyes.

"I assumed that being actors, you're lucky to sleep with anyone."

"I assumed you just got drunk, stuck on a silly hat and trusted to luck."

"WAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!! Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking--"
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opiate69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 08:34 PM
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9. Gotta be either"Head", or the one with the "man" servant, Bob.
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kodi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 08:38 PM
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11. the very last episode. WWI, the gang go over the top
knowing british history and how many men were lost like that in WWI made it all the more poignant
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 11:36 PM
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18. It is the best... and funniest by far until that final scene.
It's everything MASH (the series) tried to be.

I also like the one where Baldrick is named to the House of Lords by Pitt the Amoeba, and the one where Baldrick accidentally burns Johnston's dictionary transcript: "Baldrick, who told you you could turn into an Alsatian?"
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 09:16 AM
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22. that one is very moving.
I think it's the only BA that ever made me cry. Not surprisingly.
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tenshi816 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 09:51 AM
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25. That one caught me completely off guard
and I promptly burst into tears. Great comedy hurts sometimes, doesn't it? I don't think I'll ever forget that episode.
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Patiod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:50 PM
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30. That would be my vote
we both cried at the end of that one, as well.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 11:29 PM
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14. Xmas special is pretty good
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Jeff In Milwaukee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:34 PM
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28. Required viewing at my house...
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 11:33 PM
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15. Honestly, hard to choose but the last of Forth had me in tears when
the boys went up the ladder shooting their way into No Man's land.. then all faded to a sweet field of Flanders Poppies and whistling birds.

Slays me every time.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 11:34 PM
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17. Ok, my fave has to be the one in II with the WhiteAdders just because I
married into a RW fundagelical family. ;)
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 09:43 AM
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24. The one where he gets captured by the bad guys, locked in a shed...
and constructs an impressive juggernaut from a broken down school bus to escape. Or wait....maybe I'm thinking of the A-Team.
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Susang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:49 PM
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29. While I like most anything from Blackadder II & III
I would probably vote for Beer, thanks to the immense talents of Miranda Richardson as Queenie.

Queenie: I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a concrete elephant.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/epguide/two_beer.shtml
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Left_Winger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 12:58 PM
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31. The ones with Lord Flasheart are a blast
Woof!
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