I love Blackadder and would kill to find a show as witty and sharp as it.
What are some of your favorite lines, whether they are putdowns or just great jokes?
I’m not sure of my favorite, but it may be:
[General Melchett:“Don’t worry my boy. If you should falter, remember that Captain Darling and I are behind you.”
A man may fight for many things: his country, his principles, his friends; 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.
“I’ve got a degree from the university of life, a diploma from the school of hard knocks, and three gold stars from the kindergarten of getting the shit kicked out of me.”
I really love the show, but am drawing a blank on quotes other than “a plan so clever you could pin a tail on it and call it a fox”. Does anyone know why they so awesomely changed the show after the first season?
Because they realized the first season sucked, and was way too expensive, and nobody watched it, so they hired Ben Elton to make it appeal to the masses and stuck with smaller, cheaper sets.
It is the complete scripts of every episode, plus the words to the songs at the end of the episodes. If you don’t own it, you can’t really call yourself a Blackadder fan.
Captain Blackadder: Do you mean “How did the war start?”
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Private Baldrick: I heard that it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cause he was hungry.
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Captain Blackadder**: You see, Baldrick, in order to prevent war two great super-armies developed. Us, the Russians and the French on one side, Germany and Austro-Hungary on the other. The idea being that each army would act as the other’s deterrent. That way, there could never be a war. Private Baldrick: Except, this is sort of a war, isn’t it? Captain Blackadder: That’s right. There was one tiny flaw in the plan. Lieutenant George: O, what was that? Captain Blackadder: It was bollocks.
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Private Baldrick**: So the poor old ostrich died for nothing then…