Which Blackadder is your favourite?

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For me it's always been Blackadder II which has just been repeated, but I wish they hadn't all been killed off at the end.

Elizabethan series for mw. The Queen played by Miranda Richardson was hilarious!

I love The Witchsmeller Pursuivant in series 1 - especially:

Edmund, Percy and Baldrick are escaping from caught. They run through a door to an almighty roar of 'SLAAAAAGS!' as Brian Blessed chases them back out.

The hair proves it!

'Do you know what this means?'

'Perhaps'

'It means that you, Lord Percy, are an utter prat'

The by election episode is far and away my favourite. The coverage of the election, including someone shouting questions through the window, is genius. :o

I watch that episode in the evening of every general election whilst waiting for the results to come in. It's a joy from the first word to the last.

Blackadder 3. Love the one when he and prince regent reverse roles and he keeps getting thumped! Brilliant.

beujolais Love that episode, when Baldrick can't tell them apart ''...but who, what, how...?'' and when the Prince Regent refers to The Prince and the Pauper and the Porpoise

Hahaha, so so funny. Love it when the duke screams TEA!! at him. Poor prince, so many thumps, and his sad little face.

your highness, your highness!

We went to the Royal Pavillion in Brighton and just walked around saying Blackadder/ Prince George quotes.

and the porpoise?

He hasn't arrived yet, we'll just have to fill in as best we can until he turns up!

Hahaha, gold! They don't make em like that anymore do they?

Nope!

Funniest thing ever :)

"That tall feller, he had a face full of manure."
"Now, that's what I call style."

"I accept nothing from a man who imprisons his guests in a commode."

"I now call upon the Leader of the Opposition to test me on my Latin vocab."

"Perhaps a little sparkly costume for the slug."

HE SHOT MY PIGEON!

Lee, I have the complete scripts of all four series, and I cant find it!

I like "Hand over the money or you will be as dead as that squirrell"

2 is my absolute favourite though,
"the latest in front wall fresh air orifices combined with a wide capacity gutter installation below."
" You mean you crap out the window?"
" Yes."

"And then Squirry the Squirrel went Neep, Neep, Neep and they went home for tea "

Damn! I might have to tweet Richard Curtis. I'm on a mission now to track down the missing words.

Lee, I know, I know!!! Sorry, didn't see this until now. It is... "perhaps he's a wet and a weed". Now that you mention it, I've always wondered what she said too - to me, it sounded like "a really tiny weed" but I knew it couldn't be that. But I looked it up in my script book and 'a wet and a weed' is what it is.

I always thought it was perhaps he's a wort and a weed...

Now i know better!

Oh Twiggy thanks so much! I'd never have guessed. I thought it was 'win' on the end. I can sleep at night now

whenever I caught radio 4 'thought for the day, with the bishop of bath & wells' dh and I would inevitably chorus 'the baby-eating bishop of bath & wells' and we would long for John Humphris to trip up and anounce him thus....

Blackadder goes forth.
Remember watching it Remembrance weekend 1989.
Sobbed.

I'm not sure I have an ultimate series-seires 2, 3 and 4 are all fab in different ways. (Series one not so much)

Agree though that the last scene of the last series was a legendary tv moment. I was watching a documentary recently about how they agonised over the making of that last scene. I think it was totally accidental that it turned out the way it did!

It's a good job I am wearing a corset or my sides would have split
You have a woman's hands!!
Bob
Mr Key!
All part of our everyday parlance

Funniest of all is just the weary resigned way Blackadder says 'Oh God....'
If I had to choose a series would be
2 followed closely by 3

tothesea yes! thinking about it we do use those blackadderisms daily in our family - has certainly enriched our lives! And the coining of ersatz blackadderisms, that he might well have said but didn't...
And as others have said, the 'going over the top' at the end still gives me goosebumps - poignant, and accessible so that I think the DC also 'get it', long before they start on the WW1 poets.

I love them all. I have the box set of all the series & the specials & the DCs love them too. I have cried with laughter so many times watching them. I think Hugh Laurie roaring in the Macbeth episode was priceless - legs wide apart, crotch thrust forward & mouth open so far, I thought his head would disappear.
Shed a tear each time I see them "going over" too in the WW1 series.

Great thread - thank you OP.