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  1. 12-19-2005, 17:40 #1
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    Hey...

    I'm a huge Blackadder fan,more seasons 2,3 & 4 since in season one they had different writers, Baldrick was SMARTER than Blackadder and I just dont really like S1. However I do own all seasons on video and think they are great. I think they just get better and better as they go on.

    The Black Adder - Pretty mediocre
    Blackadder II - Very funny
    Blackadder the third - Hilarious
    Blackadder goes forth - Genius

    So any other BA fans out there?

    (Sorry if theres a similar topic, im still pretty new around these parts.)
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    Yes Blackadder is possibly the best comedy.

    My favourite is the one with the fifteen minuters.

    "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 mudwrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a stack of French porn."
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    I am a big fan and series three in my view is the most funny and witty. Its not as funny as Bottom but it is definetly second in my fav comedies
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    Genius, absolute genius...I need to get around to getting a boxed set but they aren't cheap...

    eyes christmas money...
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    Yes, that is my plan too!
    "Put 'em in blue coats, put 'em in red coats, the bastards will run all the same!"

    "The English are a strange people....They came here in the morning, looked at the wall, walked over it, killed the garrison and returned to breakfast. What can withstand them?"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Slyspy
    Yes, that is my plan too!
    I do hope for both your sakes that it's a cunning plan!!!!!!!!
    There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.

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    its very funny yes

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    Quote Originally Posted by InsaneApache
    I do hope for both your sakes that it's a cunning plan!!!!!!!!
    You could tie a tail on it and call it a weasel.
    "Put 'em in blue coats, put 'em in red coats, the bastards will run all the same!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slyspy
    You could tie a tail on it and call it a weasel.
    Indeed.
    There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.

    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”

    To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.

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    Blackadder is just too funny.
    I didn't like series 1 at all (too much shouting and well... just not *that* funny), but the quality drastically improves from series 2 on.
    Series 3 are the funniest in my opinion...

    the prince: "What I can't understand is why anyone would want to kill you, Blackadder"
    Blackadder: "I rather think that it was you they were after, your Highness"
    the prince: "What makes you say that?"
    Blackadder: "Well, the words 'Death to the stupid prince' first brought it to my attention"


    (quote found over here)
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    Always enjoyed blackadder, from when I was a wee nipper and stuff of baby eating bishops went over my head, to nowadays, with my finely developed sense of humour "I say, duck, sounds a bit like "bum!"!"

    *falls around laughing*

    not seen much of Bottom or the young Ones, what I have seen was excellent, though...
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    I particularly enjoyed the fourth series (that is the one in the trenches, right?) and wasn't quite as keen on the third series.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tricky Lady
    Blackadder is just too funny.
    I didn't like series 1 at all (too much shouting and well... just not *that* funny), but the quality drastically improves from series 2 on.
    Series 3 are the funniest in my opinion...

    the prince: "What I can't understand is why anyone would want to kill you, Blackadder"
    Blackadder: "I rather think that it was you they were after, your Highness"
    the prince: "What makes you say that?"
    Blackadder: "Well, the words 'Death to the stupid prince' first brought it to my attention"


    (quote found over here)
    lol yeah great quote.

    I think a particularly great aspect of the series is its still great today. I am fifteen and so i wasnt even born when the series finished in 89 but it is one of my fave shows today.

    The DVDs are currently £45 on play.com and amazon by the way, but with that you do get the two christmas specials.

    (I got the standard box set with just the 4 seasons on and that was £40 a few months back.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sovereign
    Hey...

    I'm a huge Blackadder fan,more seasons 2,3 & 4 since in season one they had different writers, Baldrick was SMARTER than Blackadder and I just dont really like S1. However I do own all seasons on video and think they are great. I think they just get better and better as they go on.

    The Black Adder - Pretty mediocre
    Blackadder II - Very funny
    Blackadder the third - Hilarious
    Blackadder goes forth - Genius

    So any other BA fans out there?

    (Sorry if theres a similar topic, im still pretty new around these parts.)
    I completely agree. What annoid me was the BBC releasing a DVD set with all the extra programmes soon after I had bought the standard edition. Grrrr.
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    Isn't the new set about 50 quid, though? The old one was substantially cheaper.

    The Royal Flying Corps episode in Series Four truly is a classic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax
    The Royal Flying Corps episode in Series Four truly is a classic.
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    Funny what sticks with you. To this day I can't see a squirrel without thinking how much I hate them with their long tails and their stupid twitchy noses. Or the wind making a sound that sounds like phwooooar...crikeeeeey...
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    That is true. I can't look at a turnip nowadays without thinking of Baldrick and mistress Ploppy.
    There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.

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    Black adder is a great series.

    Season 1= not funny at all, the best episode would probably be the one with the witch hunter, other then that it was horrible.
    Season 2= Great, I love the episode "potato" and the last episode
    Season 3= Just as good as the second season
    Season 4= The best season.
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    The first Blackadder was just Mr Bean in tights, pretty much stupid slapstick with Rowan Atkinson sounding as though his balls were in a permanent wrench.
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    Yep, I think we all agree that series one was a bit sub-standard.
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    im a blackadder fan here as well, season 3 is the best by far, fllowed by 4 then 2 then 1. I got the first DVD boxed set without all the specials :(
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    Bought the box set ages ago! No specials on it, unfortunately...but I agree...very, very funny indeed.

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    Blackadder: Hello Darling.

    Darling: *breaks pencil, twitches* Thats captain darling to you blackadder!!

    Pure genius!
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    Brilliant, nothing more to it.

    I love the speech he makes to Baldrick on the question “How did the war start?”.


    And how about this one: 1st series (when they want to kill the Scottish weasel).

    I have a cunning plan my lord.
    You ask hem to go outside get a big cannon, stick he’s head in it and blow it off.
    Baldrick, that’s a brilliant plan.
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    Blackadder: A man may fight for many things. His country, his friends, his principles, the glistening ear 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.

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    It's such a good speech its on the back of the box set!

    "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 mudwrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a stack of French porn."
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    I'm lucky enough to have a book with all the scripts of the whole blackadder series (not orginals, the book they did for comic relief ages ago) and t has a list of funny quotes at the back, my favorite being...

    Blackadder: The only decent impression he could do is a man with no talent.
    (series four, talking about baldrick's Charlie chaplain impression)
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    thats about as funny as having your piles forced into a blender.
    There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.

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    Coupling is better.
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