"I heard that it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an Ostrich cause he was Hungry". That is the only reason I will ever accept why WW1 started.

@rheinhartsilvento2576

Жыл бұрын

Same here. Obviously.

@GuinessOriginal

Жыл бұрын

The truth is even stranger

@sartainja

Жыл бұрын

I only wished that I could write that as an answer to the question on a high school history exam on what started WWI. It would be worth missing the question just for the laugh.

@howardcroft3748

Жыл бұрын

Is there another reason 🤔

@Milamberinx

Жыл бұрын

Blackadder's explanation is really the most accurate "it was just too much effort not to have a war".

"My father was a nun" is one of the most underrated jokes ever.

@nunyanunya4147

Жыл бұрын

i dont know 'ive coveted my Father's adultery' is right up there

Baldrick has been with Blackadder's family for generations, 'like syphilis' as Blackadder said.

@pingoopenguin4383

Жыл бұрын

"So has syphilis, now get out"

@7MatthewJames

4 ай бұрын

Since 1532

Blackadder: and your definition of dog is? Baldrick: uhh... not a cat! Epic humour

@armygrunt13

3 жыл бұрын

"Big blue wobbly thing, that mermaids live in." 😆

@UnpredictableXY

2 жыл бұрын

Cunning definitions here

@7MatthewJames

2 жыл бұрын

I love you Dr Johnson, and I want to have your babies

@andre26071955

Ай бұрын

@@armygrunt13 c.....

Playing character like Boldrick requires immense understanding of the character and keeping poker face in all the scenes and doing all this in front of Rowan Atkinson must have been very difficult

@dickJohnsonpeter

2 ай бұрын

Sit Tony Robinson waa always perfect. In all his documentaries and don't forget he created and wrote Maid Marian and her Merry Men before Blackadder ended!

“I heard it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich ‘cause he was hungry.” Best history joke I’be ever heard; thanks Baldrick for your comical relief

The fact that the Baldrick lineage is around in all these eras means that they all must’ve reproduced

@ethanguest3438

3 жыл бұрын

Even Baldrick?

@100AngelBoy

3 жыл бұрын

@@ethanguest3438 yeah they're even in the distant future so they must have survived WW1

@spartan2451

2 жыл бұрын

The real question is what with? 😂

@oliverpohlproductions8291

2 жыл бұрын

@@spartan2451 Not who but, what? Is his standards that low? Edit: Yeah probably.

@NickanM

2 жыл бұрын

@@spartan2451 Baldricka..? 😳

Black Adder was brilliant. Fascinating to see how the wobbly first series, where Black Adder was a loser, was transformed into Black Adder being a cynical schemer.

@bogus7678

2 жыл бұрын

I love him in the 2nd one.

@jontyarnold8522

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, bringing in Ben Elton as a writer for series 2 was a master stroke……..

@hanktheblesseddeejay

2 жыл бұрын

1st series is the best, Blackadder was perfect in that.

@user-rr6jj5mr6f

Жыл бұрын

I think as his family drops in status there forced to become more cunning

@sartainja

Жыл бұрын

He is one of the best TV side kicks of all time; in the same league as Barney Fife.

"By a thousand to one chance my willy got in the way." I'm laughing so much I'm properly crying 🤣

Greatest group of actors in a single sit-com ever.

@zapkvr0101

Жыл бұрын

They were helped by the amazing writing

@Leon-bc8hm

8 ай бұрын

@@zapkvr0101 Still had to deliver it. And they are indeed the Best.

@zapkvr

8 ай бұрын

​@@Leon-bc8hmhad some idiot the other day try to tell me Fawlty towers was funny

@johncmitchell4941

10 күн бұрын

@@zapkvr That's a common reaction in the southern US, where a language barrier is quite apparent.

"In you go. Little boy with big job to do!" 😂 I always found it interesting that in Series One (which doesn't get nearly enough love), Baldrick was the smart one!

@mjrdainbramage

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. As Blackadder got smarter, Baldrick became dumber.

@armygrunt13

3 жыл бұрын

@Greg Elchert I saw it once (it might have been on KZread at the time). It wasn't bad, though having different actors for King Richard and Baldrick was a bit jarring. I always found it a shame that Brian Blessed never returned to any of the later series, even in a cameo.

@amonwerner4346

3 жыл бұрын

The incest started after that I'm afraid

@theworld7773

2 жыл бұрын

@@armygrunt13 Brian Blessed, oh my! That incredible voice and presence. When I need to see lots of Brian Blessed, I watch, “I, Claudius”. “Quinctilius Varus, where are my legions?” Or Eagles - it depends on which source. He has the best developed chest resonator. I could only dream of using my chest resonator like that. (Sorry, retired Shakespearian actor).

@suspirodelmoro1430

Жыл бұрын

The first series was utterly forgettable; what saved it is removing Rowan Atkinson as a writer and replacing him with Ben Elton.

"We didn't receive any messages and Captain Blackadder definitely did not shoot this delicious plump-breasted pigeon Sir!"

@deantheperfect

3 жыл бұрын

"What?!"

@scsutton1

3 жыл бұрын

"Do you want to be cremated, Baldrick, or buried at sea?"

@robertmoulton2656

Ай бұрын

Speckled Jim 😢

“I have not honored my neighbor’s ass” is such an underrated line.

Capt darling and I are right behind you . " About 35 miles right behind you " ...

"everything goes over your head doesn't it! You should go to Jamaica and become a limbo dancer!"🤣🤣🤣

"Belts off trousers down isn't life a scream ugh" 😂😂

"Bury me in a Y-shaped coffin" - Jane

There was once a lovely little sausage called Baldrick, and he lived happily ever after.

I liked series 4 Baldrick best, he was still a bumbling idiot, but he was a more thoughtful, philosophical and inquiring iteration, which makes sense for the time it's set in, when people were beginning to question why the system had to be the way it was

Aw... I was looking forward to the conclusion of the legends told about Archie Duke and the poor old ostrich

@WolfieRich1

3 жыл бұрын

It was bollocks.

@willhay6148

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the war started because a bloke called Archie Duke shot an Ostrich because he was hungry.

What is really impressive here is the job done on upconverting the original PAL video. Kudos to the engineering team!

I love that song 'Whoops Mrs Miggins you're sitting on my artichokes'! I know all 37 verses! 😁

The rise and fall of Baldrick through the centuries

@wojak-sensei6424

2 жыл бұрын

I have a theory that, to repent for being complicit to poisoning his master, him and all his descendants' neurons go to the nearest Blackadder for all eternity. That or they thought he was funnier this way.

Love Tony Robinson 💙 . All the cast have all been wonderfully successful ✨️.

in heaven, the mechanics are german, the chefs italian, the lovers french, the comedians british and the government swiss. in hell the mechanics are french, the chefs british, the lovers swiss, the comedians german and the government italian.

In the early 90s, I saw the episode, for the first time, where Baldrick (mis)defines "C" as "Big, blue wobbly thing that mermaids live in!" I've always remembered that line. Other quotes from other shows kinda fade over time, some get mixed up with others and some just disappear from memory altogether! However, the 'Big, blue wobbly thing that mermaids live in,' has always remained a perfectly clear and wonderfully funny memory for me.

RIP Robbie Coltrane (Dr Johnson)

Àn excellently written character in am excellent series, deliver by a brilliant actor surrounded by brilliant actors. His large splinter idea breaks me everytime.

I really hope Blackadder will return - maybe for that one set in the ‘60s they were thinking of but never went ahead with.

@Ade-qs1ws

3 жыл бұрын

With "Bald Rick" the drummer! Yes, it would be fantastic if they did, but unfortunately it's probably wishful thinking on our part. You never know though...

@luisreyes1963

2 жыл бұрын

Probably takes place during the Profumo sex scandal of that time.

@alicelucy1333

11 ай бұрын

That would be amazing!

Jane 'bury me in a Y shaped coffin' Harrington. 😂

@willmfrank

3 жыл бұрын

"You'll get over her... I did. ...So did Baldrick, actually."

@jonathansteadman7935

3 жыл бұрын

@@willmfrank 🤣😂 quality 👍

@driplerthadripper

2 жыл бұрын

I still use that burn to this day

The only decent impression Baldrick can do is of man with no talent. British humor at its peak.

@willmfrank

3 жыл бұрын

My personal favorite is Edmund to Percy: "You ride a horse rather less well than another horse would."

@distantcoff7391

2 жыл бұрын

@rajan lad Your impression is much better.

It’s ironic how in the first series Baldrick is the smart one and Blackadder is the pillock

i learned the best insults from blackadder

Rowan Atkinson's barber was top tier.

For all Americans who don't know who WG Grace is, he is known as the father of modern cricket, which is a sport quite unlike baseball

@lyokianhitchhiker

9 ай бұрын

He’s also the guy who served as God's image in Monty Python

Edmund Plantagenet AKA the Black Adder. Most influential dynasty in human history.

I ❤ Baldrick 😝

Daft? Baldrick made the cunningest of plans!

@CheapBastard1988

3 жыл бұрын

"I've written my name on this bullet. They say there's a bullet with your name on it so I figured if I owned that bullet I wouldn't be shot by it. The chance of there being two bullets with my name them is very small indeed."

@willmfrank

3 жыл бұрын

As cunning as a fox who's been made Professor of Cunning at Oxford University.

@dusanradin5868

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheapBastard1988 "That's not hte only thing small around here".

Fun piece of trivia: in season four only The coffee is hot mud was in The script rest of it came from The actor who played captain darling who just kept telling what sugar and milk are 😄

Love a brilliant bit of Blackadder!

"35 miles behind of you"

"Permission to speak... Answer the General, Baldrick." "I can't answer him, Sir, I dunno what he's talking about."

I'm still really hopeful that we'll get a revival of Blackadder. Maybe one last grand finale show?

the irony is that the British Army was actually quite well supplied during the first world war

@chocoman45

3 жыл бұрын

Problem was getting the supplies to the front. Sometimes fresh troops and supplies would be shelled to smithereens on the way there and of course there were momentary shortages as it dragged on.

@boxva1396

2 жыл бұрын

So well supplied British soldiers would commonly eat fried lice

I always enjoyed the way Baldrics intelligence seemed to decline with each passing series

Black Adder is brilliant.

There's rumors for a return, please let it be true lol

@becky2235

3 жыл бұрын

That would be amazing! We should get a petition going, we could do with a laugh in these awful times!

@MrBigbobsbeans

3 жыл бұрын

Would it be amazing though? Unless they do it online or something it will watered down, cant offend anyone god forbid.

@bbb462cid

3 жыл бұрын

Blackadder takes the Fifth?

@m.b.82

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, it wouldn't be any good. Careful what you wish for.

@FawaArtt

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrBigbobsbeans honestly that's the only thing I feel reluctance with, because as you said this offended world we live on can't take a joke.

WONDFRFULL ...THANK YOU SO MUCH ....LOVE AND HAHAS FROM MONTREAL CANADA

"in the Amazonian rainforest there are tribes of Indians as yet untouched by civilization that have developed more convincing Charlie Chaplin impressions than you" There have never been a more hilariously witty statement in sitcom.

"Wibble, wibble.."

The dream sequence was done better than some serious shows well if you can call Dallas serious

Absolutely excellent selection!

"Slugs are always a problem." How often does George deal with slugs? Lol

Blackadder: Dud you get C. Baldrick: big blue wobbly thing that mermaids live in..

In fact I've been using my dandruff,instead of sugar,sir 🤣🤣🤣

This is Timeless

Season 3 and 4 are my favourites....1 wasn't much, the charactors were wrongly played, 2 was pretty good but it really took off with 3 and peaked with 4.....great written comedy at its best.....

@steves1015

3 жыл бұрын

I always preferred season 2. Particularly the baby-eating bishop of Bath and Wells, and the first time seeing “Bob”. Even the very first conversation of the series, when Kate (Bob) is talking to her father and he wants her to go on the game, is brilliant!

@LordHoth_09

2 жыл бұрын

@@steves1015 ah yes BOB

Back when the BBC has quality TV and credibility

The Great Blackader.

I love Tony!

When ever I'm feeling down I open KZread and watch Blackadder. It always makes me feel better.

I love tony

Wonder why they included snippets of Baldrick from the first season in this? He was intelligent in that.

"But I'll die in there!"

And the poor old ostrich died for nothing.

The Vomiting Cavalier

the actor who burned to death was so good

@michellekeeling3392

8 ай бұрын

Frank Finlay, one of our greatest. He is sorely missed. ❤

RIP Robbie Coltrane.

Lucky willy🤣🤣🤣

My fave cunning plan is the plan to make money in cock-fighting by finding a bird that's a dead cert but has odds of 500 to 1 against...

@bbb462cid

3 жыл бұрын

the cunningest bit is that it's a bull

@Rtotalmagic

3 жыл бұрын

Mr. Blutarsky But it's such an odd-looking bird no-one will back it except for us... (That plan runs on pure Goon Show logic, which is why I love it so much!)

Legends

Blackadder III was particularly cunning.

Love black adder....

More baldrick yeah

"Bury me in a Y-shaped coffin"

‘Balrick in the Amazonian rainforests there are tribes of Indians as yet untouched by civilisation who have developed more convincing Charlie Chaplin impressions than yours’

Thanks youtube for enjoying these otherwise lost moments of bawdy English humour!

"I can see it now, A Nun and a Hun", truly complimentary to the bestial foe across the sea and trenches 😂

A great BIG turnip in the country.

“Not a cat” 😸

Oh yeah yeah

Classic Comedy

Nice

Baldrick in the first season was the best

Returns never ever work. They cannot recapture the original .

@sugarnads

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

Boom boom boom boom. Boom boom boom. Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom.

Deny every Bouldrick. Are you private Bouldrick? No!

Inspired😂😅🎉😮❤😢

Worlds biggest turnip , what a grate xmas treat

Too bad the scene of B. After the meeting with the infanta has both the eyes damaged walking funny, has been cutted. that is comedy genius

"Death by snusnu!"

♥️

Baldrick... Aka Keith Moon in that image.

Shot an Ostrich because he was hungry 🤣🤣🤣🤣

25:18 how to complicate a question of how the war started

Came here to see what the "Baldrick" character was about, because it's always mentioned in the comments section of Time Team videos... nd I found "Mr. Bean" and "Dr, House", all together. Impossible not to laugh with them.

The woman at 20 minutes...that's a real woman.

"Not a cat"

Hacienda

when baldrick was actually a witch