Blackadder V

[Neon Ignition]

As a youth there used to be something about Blackadder III that I wasn't keen on but watching at an older age I really liked it. Blackadder II is my definitive series of the show though. Every ep was pure gold... or should I say... purest greeeen!

[bash]

For me I think the line of all the series is when prince George turns round to Blackadder and says :
“You look as happy as a man who thought a cat had done it's business on his pie but it turned out to be an extra large blueberry”.

[Brad]

Blackberry.

Quality show. All my history knowledge come from it and is hence largely inaccurate!

[JazzFunk]

Had a flashback to that bit where Baldrick gets a turnip rammed onto his head, and the sound effect that goes with it.

We don't get stuff like that nowadays. Everybody seems to wanna watch stuff like The Big Bang Theory....and I don't.

We need a bit of anarchy back. Like Rik exaggeratedly ODing on pills in The Young Ones. Like Super Hans kicking off that toilet door in Peep Show. Too much talky, anodyne 'comedy' now.

[Team Andromeda]

Can't be has bad as Blackadder one tbf

[Dogg Thang]

That was finding its feet. Had some funny jokes but really the show only got it right when they switched the dynamic in series 2. Wasn't there a special? Or even maybe two? I can't remember a thing about them except not feeling very positive about them.

[Brad]

Balckadder's xmas carol was pretty good.
Series 2 was when Ben Elton came onboard with the writing. Curtis on his own was quite a different show, though I still enjoyed it.

[Dogg Thang]

I can't remember that one all that well but, if I were to guess, I would suspect my issue with Christmas Carol was probably that it was that story and I'm bored to death with takes on that story. The last one to get away with it for me was the Muppets one and that's it for Christmas Carol. I'm out. The world needs no more versions.

[Mayhem]

Blackadder had a Christmas Carol version (where Blackadder is good and turns bad), and a short for Comic Relief whereby Blackadder is trying to save Charles I from the execution stand.

To be honest, I'm with many people in saying that it couldn't be near the magnificence of series 2-4, conversely it would probably still be better than a lot of comedy currently being shown...

[JazzFunk]

I've just Googled their ages like a saddo.

Rowan Atkinson is 60
Tony Robinson is 69
Tim McInnerny is 58
Stephen Fry is 57
Hugh Laurie is 56
Miranda Richardson is 57
Robbie Coltrane is 65
Ade Edmondson is 58
Rik Mayall is...dead, quite dead.

It's gonna be like New Tricks but even stranger. It's gonna be weird. Phweird.

[nakamura]

I quite like New Tricks.

[bash]

It's gonna be ****, just full of fan service. Unless they have a CGI rik mayall I'm not interested

[JazzFunk]

CGI Rik Mayall FTW! Voiced by Jon Culshaw. And a prosthetic, animatronic Patsy Byrne if poss.

And with New Tricks...Dennis Waterman's shark teeth always mesmerise me...I can't watch TV normally when he's on...I get nightmares of those choppers biting my nads. Scary!

[Yakumo]

To be honest I never really liked Rik Mayall in Black Adder. He seemed so out of place plus he wasn't in it that much anyway. Don't get me wrong, I love Rik Mayall in all of his shows and live performances but for some reason he never sat well in Black Adder with me.

[bash]

Are you kidding? His appearances in Blackadder are legendary