An Appreciation thread for Black Adder. Any fans out there, what are your favorite moments and which was your favorite season, or episode?
Favorite Monment the end of the last episode of Black Adder Goes Forth
The whole thing, even the Pencils. Great quotes:
“As cunning as a fox who’s just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?”
Melchett: “Now then, soldier, are you looking forward to giving those Frenchies a damn good licking?”
Darling: Er, no, sir – it’s the Germans we shall be licking, sir.
Melchett: Don’t be revolting, Darling! I wouldn’t lick a German if he was glazed in honey!
“…I’d had fifteen years of military experience, perfecting the art of ordering a pink gin and saying “Do you do it doggy-doggy?” in Swahili, and then suddenly four-and-a-half million heavily armed Germans hove into view. That was a shock, I can tell you.”
Definitely the Macbeth bit. Edmond would say “Macbeth” to two foppish actors and they would go into a bizarre ritual to ward off bad luck.
Of course, there’s always the touching moment at the end of Series 1 & 4.
Get the DVD box set!!!
“I’ve got a plan so cunning you could brush your teeth with it!”
Jane “Bury-Me-In-A-Y-Shaped-Coffin” Harrington?
“Oh, it’s a scythe!”
That whole episode is my favourite.
King: I thank God that in my lifetime never again shall I have to say, “Who will rid me of this (turbulent?) priest?”
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Queen: What?
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King: I said, “WHO WILL RID ME OF THIS TURBULENT PRIEST?”
When was it that Edmund got involved in a duel with tiny cannons?
Melchett: “We are but private parts of the gods; they play with us for their sport.” (from the same episode that Usram is talking about.)
My favorite season is the second, although I have never seen the entire third season (they have started playing it on our local PBS station this week.) The fourth season is quite good, too, especially the ending.
Back in the days when we were only allowed 8 letters for our online names, I was known as Slckbldr.
Lord Flasheart is my favorite:
“Like the beard, bridesmaid. Gives me something to hang onto!”
“You have to treat your plane whap! the way you treat your woman whap!” “You mean take it home to meet mother?” “No, I mean get in her 5 times a day and take her to heaven and back! Woof!!”
“Do you know what it’s like to feel the wind flying through your hair?” “No, sir.” Fffffffftttttt! “He does.”
“I’ve got a plan so cunning, you could stick a tail on it and call it a weasel.”
“We’re in the stickiest situation since Sticky the Stick Insect got stuck on a sticky bun.”
You know what’s sticky? Trying to explain Black Adder to someone who’s never seen it.
‘Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream,
belts off, trousers down,
Isn’t life a scream!’
The fact that Nursey’s Christian name was Bernard always used to tickle me.
[explaining War to Baldrick in Series 4]…
Edmund: You see, Baldrick, in order to prevent war in Europe, two superblocs developed: us, the French and the Russians on one side, and the Germans and Austro-Hungary on the other. The idea was to have two vast opposing armies, each acting as the other’s deterrent. That way there could never be a war.
Baldrick: But, this is a sort of a war, isn’t it, sir?
Edmund: Yes, that’s right. You see, there was a tiny flaw in the plan.
George: What was that, sir?
Edmund: It was bollocks.
Kate’s (Bob) father - “But why go all the way to London when you can make a fortune lying on your back?”
Black Adder (talking about his cousin MacAdder): He’s madder than “Mad” Jack McMad, winner of last year’s "All England Maddest Madman Competition!
Visiting the Wise Woman…
“That it be, that it be…” (Hag, in answer to question)
"Yes it IS, woman. You don’t have to talk to me in that ridiculous voice, I’m not a tourist."
Blackadder (dejected, sick of Scarlet Pimpernel) “at least the Prince isn’t French…”
Greeted by Prince…" Ah, L’adder noire"
The Prince (meeting possible wife on blind date)
"Shall I just climb up and see if she is interested in taking a consigment of German sausage…"
Prince on meeting Dr Johnston, after being told his new dictionary has taken 10 years to finish…
"Yes, well, I’m a slow reader myself…"
And my favourite line, which I have used often…
Blackadder (as Executioner, meeting staff with same name, but not related)
The staff - “How we laughed when we found out…”(our names were the same)
"Yes, the long winter nights must just fly by…"
That was with Wellington, when the Prince slept with Wellingtons two neices and Blackadder had to pretend to be the Prince to fight the duel for him. Blackadders cousin MacAdder was in this one too. I think it was the last episode of the third series.
Baldrick, you wouldn’t know a cunning plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on a harpsichord singing “Cunning Plans are here again.”
I always liked Tom Baker’s turn as a lascivious old sea-captain, 2nd series IIRC. Can’t remember any exact quotes, though I believe he did respond to mentions of any body part with “You have a woman’s [hand/leg/etc], m’lord”.
And of course, the final scene in series 4 should have an entry in Dr Johnston’s (and every other) dictionary, under “pathos”. 
working from memory here, but:
“Yes, Nanny, your fiance’ was a third rate sea captain, but a first rate second course.”