Black Adder for a 10yo?

[Mrsemcgregor]

It’s been a while since I’ve watched it and I can’t remember it being particularly unsuitable?

My 10yo DS loves Horrible Histories and Black Adder feels like a good natural progression. What do people think?

I watched the WW1 version with my 11 year old last year. It has rude jokes which he might not get, but nothing too child unfriendly.

DD1 was a Blackadder fan at three. Most of the jokes went over her head but she's loved it ever since.

I've been watching it recently with my 11 year old and she loves it. There are a few "shits" and "bastards" but she knows she's not to use any of these words (and she already knew them, they all do at that age). Most of the adult themed humour goes over her head so I'm not too worried about that.

From what i can recall most of the risque jokes are delivered in such a deadpan way that he probably wouldn't notice.

I watched it from younger I think with my parents. Loved it but a lot of jokes went over my head until I was much older! I'm sure they'll love it

Awesome thank you, you’ve all confirmed what I thought! Can’t wait to watch it again

I watched it from 8 or 9 myself and 'inappropriate' jokes ('He should be caught and damn well hung' 'He looks damn well hung to me!') went right over my head at the time!

It depends - I can think of a couple of episodes in series 2 that are a tad too much (episode called 'Beer' springs to mind in particular) for 10yo. You might want to watch them again yourself first. You may decide it will go straight over his head.

My kids loved Blackadder around this age, the most child friendly series are the war one and the one with Prince Regent, the one with the queen can get a bit rude at times especially one where they set up the Bishop by having Percy pretend to be a lady even though I'm sure most of that would go over a child head anyway.

Series 3 and 4 are on Netflix so I think we will start with Prince Reagent. Hugh Laurie at his best!

Mine are aged 9,11 and 13 and loved the ww2 one, hated the first series and quite liked the second. As said above there is quite a lot of rude jokes but mostly goes over the kids' heads.

I watched it from 8/9ish (Blackadder and HIGNFY on a Friday night - always looked forward to it!). Also Smack the Pony, Goodness Gracious Me - most comedy shows, to be honest.

It's fun growing up and finding new adult jokes that were there all along.

Thing is, is kids know about the joke content, that cat's already out of the bag. If they don't, then they just won't get it. I've never heard anyone claim that a child developed perverse behaviours from smutty jokes in a sitcom!

I was allowed to watch Blackadder when it was on the TV originally. I would have been under 10 for the majority of it. I just remember a lot of jokes about bottoms and dung, which obviously as a kid I thought was hilarious, and I loved how silly Baldrick was. It's only on rewatching it as an adult that I picked up on any of the more adult themes.

I have just remembered though - there's an episode in the Elizabethan series where Edmund is trying to raise money to pay off a debt, and he and Baldrick go down to the docks to prostitute themselves to sailors . At one point, a sailor asks "How much for a good hard shag?" I can distinctly remember asking my mum what that meant, and her telling me that shag is another word for pipe tobacco, which of course is true. I didn't question it and happily accepted the idea that the sailor would want to have a smoke after his lovely bedtime story about Squirry the Squirrel.

I was watching reruns of series 2 on BBC4 a few weeks back and DS1 was watching with me and I really didn't think it was very suitable. However, he thought it was hilarious (the bits he understood), and so I struggled to switch it off! There is a HUGE amount of sexual innuendo and bawdy jokes. I can't remember whether the other series were as bad, but the Elizabethan one is not very suitable viewing IMHO.

Should say that DS1 is almost 12. At 10 he would have understood even less (and it would've been even less appropriate!).

One of my favourite series. Now you’ve mentioned it I’m going to stick an episode on to watch with my daughter

The DVDs are rated 15. TBH most comedy series that I want to watch are, mainly for the sexual references.

My DDs are 11 and 10 and so I looked for 12 rated comedies, unless you go for very old fashioned sexist stuff then there aren't many. The only comedies that are rated 12 that I could bear to watch are Ghosts (made by the original Horrible Histories team, I'd highly recommend it), Outnumbered (still a lot of adult stuff TBH especially in later series), Red Dwarf, Dinnerladies, Yes Minister and even some of those aren't very good on female representation. We're watching Glee at the moment, less comedy, more song and dance.

I would watch it with a 10 year old, I look forward to introducing DD to it.

Update, we watched the first episode of series 3. There was nothing overly risqué about it, my DS laughed once or twice but on the whole wasn’t that fussed and hasn’t wanted to watch another episode. I guess I’ll just enjoy it on my own!!

My 10 year old loves it!