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Blackadder

Lockstep · 2008-01-02 23:36:55

I just invested in the complete Collection of Blackadder. Possibly one of my finest investments since I hit 18. I honestly find it one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. I know a lotta people like Blackadder goes Forth but I love The Blackadder (the first one) King Richard IV: EDNA! Fight you with us on the…

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#32 10-01-2008 5:27pm
Havermeyer

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II, III, IV, I. My preference in that order. One of the best comedies of all time. I still think Ben Elton is a bit of a tit, but he and Curtis struck gold with this.

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#33 11-01-2008 12:02pm
K_P

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I find it bizarre that Ben Elton and Richard Curtis wrote this considering they've gone on to write some of the most awful cringeworthy stuff in subsequent years. Still, Blackadder is an absolulte classic. Series 2 and 3 are my favourites. Very difficult to decide between them. I avoid series 4 a bit just because I find the final episode so sad. The rest of that series is fabulous though. Nothing much wrong with series 1 either. It's just so different from the rest of them that I can never quite get into it.

Fave bit. Series 3. (I don't remember this word for word so forgive me.)
Blackadder: I shall be back before you can say "anti-disestablishmentarianism".
George: Well I wouldn't be too sure about that. Antidiscntn... Antisnictinin...
[2 days later]
George: Anti-distinctly-minty...

Has me cracking up every time.

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#34 21-10-2008 5:06pm
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"Madam, without you, life was like a broken pencil...pointless."

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#35 21-10-2008 7:24pm
Arthur Daley

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Bought the box set a few years back and watched series II, III and IV loads, but the series I DVD has never seen use. On account of me catching an episode ten years ago on rte2 and being really really disapointed in it.

Wasn't it due for the chop after series I? Just as well they kept going with it. It's brilliant, top of the tree with Fawlty Towers.

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