Series 3 and 4 will ensure you never take the main character in the TV series 'House' too seriously as you'll keep remembering Hugh Laurie as he appears in them.
For historical accuracy... Elizabeth 1 died in 1603. Most of her reign was in the 2nd half of the 1500s, (16th century), not 1600s. So Blackadder, with young Queenie, would be set in 1560s 😊
Series 1 is definitely worth going back to after finishing this, if nothing else but to see how different it is from the subsequent series. And also to see how much the show improved from series 2 onwards. And who knows, you might like it...I mean, it does have its moments.
There is a good "making off" of Blackadder here on RU-vid. It is called "The Whole Rotten Saga ..." or something similar. It also tells the story how they restarted after series 1, with the total turnaround of the main character's personality.
Brilliant as always guys! Loved this on tv back in the day, loved it again on DVD, loved it more recently watching through on P, and now the same and edited down a little for YT but here I am still still still loving it. Cheers!
You guys are so lucky experiencing these for the first time. I wish I could forget every detail just to watch them again. The next series is just as awesome but the 4th will blow your minds
Just one mistake: there was no British Ambassador in the 1500s because England was a separate Kingdom and only became Britain in the 1700s when the Act of Union happened in 1707 when the Parliaments England and Scotland joined together
how calm Blackadder is in dire situations. .... it's because he's the only one that knows he's in a Sitcom. This is a lesson we should all learn. We're all the stars in our own personal crazy Sitcom.
I've been saying wreap my rewegie for the last 35 years and now I know that should I go to the US there are at least two people who will not think I've lost the plot.
Well Gentlemen ! Glad you have been enjoying Black Adder , and Monty Python !! If you want to have a look at the chap who started this type of humour IMO Check out the late Great Spike Milligan , a Legend from world war 2 , he invented the Radio prog , the Goons , and later a proper Mental TV thing called "Q 1 " and up to "Q7 " give it a whirl you wont be dissapointed ! cheers
Now you need to watch "Black books" with the "Dillan MORAN crew" . For me ,as a french , one of the best comedie show ever along with "Married with childrens"
Every time I watch this episode I feel like Hagrid is in the audience because Robbie Coltrain was there and we can hear him laughing loudly! He's amazing in series 3.
@psyraven76 Stephen Fry brought it up in either the blackadder documentary or the dvd commentary. He was also in the audience for a few episodes of the young ones too. You can clearly hear his distinctive laugh in the boring episode as I recall
Had it pointed out that Ferris Bueller was one of the first post credit scenes when he says you’re still here? I loved series 2 and 3 of Blackadder best.
I like how Spenser and Daniel pause to justify their British comedy reference points such as MP and then continue and it is The Spanish Inquisition anyway.
The biggest difference with Monty Python and most other comedic endeavours is that they wrote and performed all their own stuff, whereas things like Blackadder are actors performing scripts written by talented writers; different vibe altogether.
Sort of, except that one reason Curtis and Elton often give for not doing more series is that the cast made so many changes to the script during the rehearsal process.
Let's remember where the fabled Monty Python got their inspiration and style from.... Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennet and Jonathan Miller's excellent 'Beyond the Fringe' shows. Cleese has been trying to be Peter Cook his entire career and hasn't ever come close to his genius.
I'd say Spike Milligan was a more direct influence on them... and to say Cleese hasn't come close to Cook is crazy, even if (as I do) you hold Cook in very high regard... where's Cook's Fish Called Wanda? Where's his Fawlty Towers? Where's his Centurion in Life of Brian? Where's his Monty Python show? @@rnw2739
Glad you like this classic show! The ending was dark but remember how George Costanza’s wife went out in Seinfeld…. In the right hands I think American TV could pull off something similar, especially now.👍
For me blackadder is the greatest comedy of all I grew up on it. That and young ones and bottom. And faulty Towers, and only fools and Horses. There are loads to be fare but black adder for me is the best 💫
Dear all: I'm glad you have concluded series 2. Now it will be series 3, which I think is the best of the Blackadder series. I am very curious to watch you react to it!
Don’t let anyone tell you that series 1 isn’t worth watching. It’s great in its own way. I think it’s the fact that Blackadder is played in a very different, non-wisecracking way to what came after. Equally as good, but different. Series 1 puts the whole show and evolution into context.
Despite loving this series I've always hated that stinger at the end - It absolutely infuriated me the first time I saw it and that episode is probably my least watched of all Blackadder episodes because I forgot that it happened after the credits and thought it actually was part of the episode proper.
It is so boring to note how many dull people discard Series 1. The main differences are a) Rowan Atkinson co-wrote the first series so a lot of the humour is more subtle, and b) it had a much larger budget with a lot of outside filming. Plus Baldrick is the most intelligent of the 3 main characters.
I remember watching House fro the first time and I could not compute how this was the same guy who played the Prince Regent in series 3 of blackadder Hugh Laurie's character prince ludwig reminds me of a character from World War 2 sitcom "Allo Allo" it was sent in occupied france and followed members of the french resistance and the germans. One Character was called Officer Crabtree . A British spy posing as a French police officer. Unfortunately, his French is weak and he is invariably unable to use the correct vowel sounds, which means that sometimes he is quite incomprehensible, most famously in his usual greeting "Good moaning!"