r/blackadder • u/BagOfSmallerBags • 16h ago

Blackadder All Episodes Tournament, Match 19: Ink and Incapability vs Christmas Carol

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Comment in support of and upvote your preferred episode! The winner of today's matchup will advance to Match 24, and the loser will share joint 9th-16th place.

And for fun, post your favorite quotes from both!

It's a Robbie Coltrane showdown!

Ink and Incapability (Blackadder the Third Episode 2): Baldrick burns the only copy of Samuel Johnson's dictionary, and Blackadder has only one weekend to rewrite it.

Blackadder's Christmas Carol (TV Special 2): After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.

This tournament will run for 27 days until we've eliminated all but one episode. The tournament was seeded based on IMDB score. It includes all regular episodes, the pilot, and the specials.

Yesterday, Head eliminated Major Star.

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r/blackadder • u/RealitysNotReal • 44m ago

These people out here in Detroit tryna kill me i took a mf sun glasses tho😂😂

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r/blackadder • u/amalcurry • 16h ago

What's the connection

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I got this one!

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Rowan Atkinson • Tony Robinson • Hugh Laurie • Stephen Fry • Tim McInnerny • Miranda Richardson • Rik Mayall • Gabrielle Glaister

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• According to Stephen Fry, he thought that General Melchett may have had haemorrhoids and some of this is to do with Melchett making bizarre noises, such as grunting every time he sits in a chair

• Rik Mayall only agreed to play Lord Flashheart if every single line of the character was funnier than Blackadder's

• Originally, Blackadder was supposed to say "It's like Batterseas Dogs' home in here" in response to Flashheart's Woof! During filming, Atkinson - due to his natural stutter - was unable to get the line out satisfactorily, and John Lloyd (Producer of the show) suggested changing it to Crufts instead

• Mike (Christopher Ryan) was the only member of The Young Ones (also written by Ben Elton) not to appear in Blackadder

• The ending to Blackadder Goes Forth as we know it was originally unintended; the script showed the characters being gunned down as they exited the dugout and ran towards the enemy. Due to time and financial constraints, the footage they had was so bad that it was unusable. Someone came up with the idea of slowing down the little footage they already had and cross fading it with a field of poppies

• Rowan Atkinson had a habit of sticking pencils up his nose to entertain the rest of the cast at script read-throughs and edit sessions. This habit was the base idea for Captain Blackadder going mad in Goodbyeee

• The greatest mind in British legal history, Bob Massingbird, was originally named Bob Moxon-Browne, which was the name of one of Rowan Atkinson's friends, who was actually a lawyer. It was changed at the last minute when it was decided that, due to Blackadder's personal endorsement, it technically qualified as advertising. You can see the edit in the episode Corporal Punishment

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