My favourite period in French history is the period where they spoke English in very funny French accents.

@mrmickmida7035

7 жыл бұрын

I believe he means that time when almost half of France was a Brit field... you know before they got bored and raged quit in front of Jeanne d'Arc

@alecstirner2412

7 жыл бұрын

just after hastings, right?

@kevinbyrne4538

7 жыл бұрын

According to "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", the French were speaking like that as early as the reign of King Arthur.

@karenotoole9751

7 жыл бұрын

bike crashes

@dickon728

6 жыл бұрын

Alex Stirner Yeah. That was a real laugh.

I am not completely convinced about the historical accuracy of this documentary

@tiagodumont4422

Жыл бұрын

That's because the governament brainwashed you with 5G.

@000EC

Жыл бұрын

Any variation from established history is probably the result of time travellers messing about

@DalleDC

Жыл бұрын

My grandmother told me it is real.

@pmurnion

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I was laughing when they talked about the need for a miracle to beat the British - the French led by a military genius and soldiers that had conquered all of Europe in the previous 20 years.

@marianng3950

Жыл бұрын

@@pmurnion Takes an army to rule Europe. Takes a navy to rule the world.

when your one-off comedy sketch has a bigger budget then Sharpe's Waterloo

@cymruisrael

Жыл бұрын

That's soldiering...

@fhlostonparaphrase

Жыл бұрын

Yes! My thought's too!

@greysson2933

Жыл бұрын

@@cymruisraelthat’s budgeting

@paddypup1836

Жыл бұрын

Love sharpe but they really had to cut corners

@gm2407

Жыл бұрын

'Bite, poor, spit, tap, aim fire.' Right that will cover 1/3 of the series.

"We will be slaughtered the minute we mince up the hill" 😂😂

@ddc2957

Жыл бұрын

Outrageously offensive & makes me even madder that it made me laugh.

@richard6440

Жыл бұрын

@@ddc2957 The slaughtering or the mincing ? :)

@ddc2957

Жыл бұрын

Although Australian I’m firmly on the French side of yhe Napoleonic wars, so the mincing 😂

@hb1338

Жыл бұрын

@@ddc2957 You sure know how to pick a winner.

@johnhenshaw7655

Жыл бұрын

Utter brilliance,

Love the touch of him keeping all the time travel souvenirs in a bag from Harrod's.

@elijahgrimm8052

Жыл бұрын

Because no matter what era Edmund Blackadder is in... he's always a cheapskate.

@obiwanfisher537

6 ай бұрын

British as it comes

The closest we ever got to Blackadder meeting Richard Sharpe.

@jjproductions7299

Жыл бұрын

By god, the crossover of the century!!!!

@Marshal_Windsor

Жыл бұрын

If only it were true

@Whalewraith

Жыл бұрын

Sean Bean aka Mr Bean hmmm....

@Ginea25

Жыл бұрын

@@jjproductions7299Yes, the 19th. 😎

@playerone9824

Жыл бұрын

​@@Ginea25 HA!

An excellent series all the way through, great supporting casts and writing. The unassuming wisdom of Baldrick cannot be denied.

@craigkdillon

11 ай бұрын

In reality, Tony Robinson is very smart.

@WTH1812

11 ай бұрын

@@craigkdillon ... Good point. It takes a lot of smart to realistically play dumb.

@pressureworks

6 ай бұрын

It was explained by the creators of Black Adder, that whilst being uneducated, Baldrick is the most intelligent one.

Still more accurate than Ridley's Napoleon

The sequence where the shell goes off and all react is a real favourite of mine.

@amg863

10 ай бұрын

It's funny because just this morning I was listening to a guy on KZread reading diaries of soldiers during the Napoleonic wars and it was brutal. They said things like "a cannonball flew by my head and too the head off the guy next to me clean off his shoulders" or "the poor French lad took a cannonball straight through his chest causing the coins in his pocket to melt with his armour". A bunch of guys losing arms and legs to cannonball hits but you just have to ignore that and keep marching forward. Some russian soldier wrote that the French soldiers they captured were laughing and them saying they would soon become prisoners too because there was nothing that could stop Napoleon marching on Moscow and even the Russians said they believed he was invincible.

@Qu_2_wil_lmjk

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing. Our generations are so desensitised by television, we fail to grasp just how bloody & horrific any war really is.@@amg863

@saintniccage2818

8 ай бұрын

Laughed at it everytime for 20 years

“We will be slaughtered the minute we mince up the hill”…. 😂 Good to see that the Brits still hold a proper view of the French.

@Pufferfish1805

6 ай бұрын

Badajoz

"...we are whoopsies, we invented the tapestry, the soufle and the sweet lacleur " 🤣 and dat synchronized reaction after da cannon shot 🤌🤦‍♂️😂

@nhmooytis7058

Ай бұрын

Liqueur

The worst ennemies the best allies and the funniest actors .. thanks blackadder for this contribution to the "Entente Cordiale" our two people should maintain

That's twice Atkinson played a Time Lord. LOL

@neilgerace355

Жыл бұрын

He'll explain later.

That whoopsy startling of the group after the canon shot: the perfect ending of this brilliant scene.

Blackadder saves Britain and history. What a hero. What a man. What an Englishman.

@craigkdillon

11 ай бұрын

I think Blackadder, though "comedy", is closer to real history than historians would care to admit. The ruling aristocracies were dull dimwitted dunces who caused has much death and misery through stupidity and ignorance, as they did through evil intent. Of course, to the lower classes who suffered, they could not tell the difference. Not that it mattered.

@luisreyes1963

8 ай бұрын

Imagine him popping up in North America during the American Revolution...😨

@craigkdillon

8 ай бұрын

@@luisreyes1963 Blackadder would have solved our differences. Britain would still be ruling its 50 colonies here. The US would still have a king.

@falconeshield

7 ай бұрын

​@@luisreyes1963If only the machine landed on General Lee

@5:38 For those with a sharp ear: the melody of “God Save the Czar” is intoned during the final few seconds when Blackadder wishes the Duke of Wellington good luck before the Battle of Waterloo.

@hb1338

Жыл бұрын

A reminder of what happened when Napoleon visited Russia perhaps ?

@JimPaterson

11 ай бұрын

Also used in Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture with canon fire.

@xornxenophon3652

11 ай бұрын

@@hb1338 Or a subtle hint that the russian Czar will win the Crimean war in 1856 and dominate Europe...

@The_Christian_Cavalier

9 ай бұрын

​@xornxenophon3652 what?

@lindsayheyes925

Ай бұрын

What we saw there was only the overture to the Battle of Waterloo.

It’s so funny when the French generals do that camp ‘jump in fright’ when the cannon shot explodes 😂

The kidney joke is an epitome of "boys being boys"

Couple of nice touches: the way Amanda Richardson grabs her crown, and the casual "Hello, Darling"

@dubidolczektv5278

11 ай бұрын

Miranda! :)

@alphabetaxenonzzzcat

11 ай бұрын

Yeah - a throwback to her being Queen Elizabeth I in the second series.

@robinbeckford

11 ай бұрын

@@dubidolczektv5278 Oops!

@dubidolczektv5278

11 ай бұрын

I agree!

Blackadder was absolutely brilliant, especially seasons 2 and 4. A bit of trivia, Brigadier Kenneth Gault Blackader commanded the 8th Brigade 3rd Canadian Division at Juno Beach on D-Day. Too bad his first name wasn't Edmund

@johntyler6142

11 ай бұрын

Or was it . . .

@user-ur1qo4fp1f

11 ай бұрын

really... cool 🍁❤‍🩹🍁 🤠

@Codex7777

10 ай бұрын

Series 2 and 3 were my favourites. :)

@johntyler6142

10 ай бұрын

@@Codex7777 I always loved 4 best. Yeah it was a little more Gallows humor in the face of honest horror, but I think that made it a little more poignant.

@EcceJack

8 ай бұрын

Some of my friend's in-laws are Blackadders! Also no Edmund among them, afaik - more's the pity!

One of the most glorious time travel of all. Well done Mr prime Minister BLACK ADDER

@NostalgicGamerRickOShay

Жыл бұрын

Baldrick is the Prime Minister. Blackadder is the King, absolute monarchy.

@craigkdillon

Жыл бұрын

Oh no. You must Blackadder play Dr. Who.

It's always a pleasure to watch Miranda. ✌️

@thomaslienert4225

Жыл бұрын

It fits!

@Psychol-Snooper

Жыл бұрын

I was going to say I almost did not recognize her without "Nursie" by her side, but remembered Patsy Byrne had passed several years ago. :(

@petejones879

Жыл бұрын

Ain't it just

@armymutt25A

Жыл бұрын

Girl of my dreams, just born a bit too early.

@sirdigbyminge1639

Жыл бұрын

@@Eric_Cartman______ The fact that you are disappointed and made the effort to tell us all is amusing.

Amazing ! I knew my French was getting better! I understood every word Napoleon said !

It is remarkable that after the French victory at Waterloo, the English continued to speak English in the 20th century while their money is the franc. As a french I appreciate a lot english humour, especially BlackAdder.

@georgenorris2657

Жыл бұрын

You can't win 'em all.

@garryb5378

Жыл бұрын

Imagine an entire Series 'Allo, Allons-y' Where the only accent worse than the deliberately bad "French" spoken by the locals, was the French attempted by any British airmen - and the gendarme, unsubtly "undercover"

@matthewbooth9265

Жыл бұрын

It's an alternative history where the french finally admitted that the English langauge was better:) Whats the Dr Strange? one out of 10 billion....

@umachan9286

Жыл бұрын

As we all know everybody in Europe only speaks English but with an accent. So those in France speak it with a French accent, in Germany with a German accent and so on. I know this because I saw it in a historical documentary called "Allo Allo". So it only makes sense that they'd continue to speak English with English accents while in England. I mean DUH! /s

@koenigvonbayern

11 ай бұрын

Changing the money is much easier than changing the language and culture of an entire nation. Without some sort of autonomy the English would have propably rebelled a lot. Though I'd like to imagine if Napoleon won the battle of Waterloo he would have rather tried to split up the UK into smaller chunks like England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland and have control over them as vassal states. He basically did the same with his other conquests.

Hello Darling always gets me!

Now that was a series, long live Baldrick, he always has a cunning plan.

What an incredible supporting cast!

Absolutely loved this show all of them so funny 😂

I was today years old when I learned this was even made!

@BK-ku1zt

Жыл бұрын

It’s pretty good if memory serves, can recommend

@TerryWaitesRadiator

Жыл бұрын

​@@BK-ku1zt it's utter dross

@Three-Headed-Monkey

Жыл бұрын

Blackadder goes Back and Forth! It was a feature length special made for the turn of the millennium.

@nerfherder4284

Жыл бұрын

Me too, I want to see it all. Seen everything else I think.

@markstamp3937

Жыл бұрын

It was made to be shown in the millennium dome

"delicious garlic pudding" 😆

The full extent of my historical understanding has been drawn from Blackadder, Python, Mel Brooks and the like. My kids have no idea about the past.

Black Adder S2 & S4 were the best. I still love watching it. I think this is from a short film made for the Millennium Dome 10 years after the series finished. I remember not being so impressed with it at the time, compared to the actual TV series, but it's nice to see it again. There was talk of them bringing it back but Baldrick is 76, so they'd better hurry up with that. 😅

@Qu_2_wil_lmjk

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the heads-up....I thought it was part of a series I must have somehow missed at the time. (Sydney, Aust.)

@simonsimon325

8 ай бұрын

@@Qu_2_wil_lmjk It's called Blackadder Back and Forth - a half hour special shown on New Year's Eve 1999.

@Qu_2_wil_lmjk

8 ай бұрын

We didn't get this in Australia. Ironic, that this was a little like time travel for me. ☺@@simonsimon325

"With respect, my Emperor, we are whoopsies."

Stephen Fry as myself. I'd never thought I'd see the day

@berthamcdurtha8554

11 ай бұрын

Damn... if only u could say the plan

@dixonpinfold2582

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service😄

I absolutely love it when the cannon fires and Napoleon et al jump at the sound! He was an artillerist!

Another brilliant comedy moment by Blackadder and crew - so funny !

Tried to communicate with another Blackadder. Love this program 😍

best cast ever, will never be topped

Blackadder....The Unintentional Timelord

@robyncampbell-br5cl

Жыл бұрын

he played one in comic relief one year didnt he?

@impulse255dj

Жыл бұрын

@@robyncampbell-br5cl Yep, Comic Relief 1999.

.......and in the end we had to throw my kidney away 😞😞..... priceless!!

@CodepageNet

6 ай бұрын

i spat my coffee. the way he said it, poor lad. 😂

@maieldmik5233

6 ай бұрын

And the laughing afterwards, especially Stephen Fry,was masterful comedy !!

Rodney Tricycle was a great inventor

@ArchibaldBagge

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but it's not funny is it? Just lazy writing.

@theoztreecrasher2647

Жыл бұрын

@@ArchibaldBagge You should show them how it ought to be done! A big chance in the offing now that all the usual hack writers are on strike. 😜😁

@GummoNZ

Жыл бұрын

But not as great as George Stephenson who invented a moving kettle.

@hb1338

Жыл бұрын

@@ArchibaldBagge Maybe, but it still gets laughs. Mr Atkinson may of course contribute to that effect.

awww i watched this clip and now im gonna have to watch the whole thing! Time to get the DVD boxset out! xD

1:30 - that is the best writing and acting I've ever seen. Never ceases to make me laugh.

I prefer the final scenes when he realizes he can tweak things just a little more to his advantage lol

Everyone knows a Time Machine looks like a 1960’s police box

@timothylyons5686

Жыл бұрын

He had one in 'curse of fatal death '. Pity he never got the chance to play the Doctor in real life.

@jameswillan6635

Жыл бұрын

@@timothylyons5686 While I know what you meant to say, Doctor Who ain't a documentary 😉

@roberthill6216

Жыл бұрын

And there was me thinking a time machine was a Delorean.

@alphabetaxenonzzzcat

11 ай бұрын

I suppose they were riffing on the box theme a bit. On a related note, Bill and Ted's was a phone box(albeit a modern one - non police).

@zjjohnson3827

11 ай бұрын

⁠@@timothylyons5686are you…possibly not aware of this absolute gem: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dqNh2aaJn6acd7A.htmlsi=mA_IHwlX0mCHbTzD

Those French hairstyles…..that’s what we need more of today! 😂

Great final line, Hullo Darling

Still more historically accurate than the Ridley Scott film.

It shows Rowan's talent. His character of Mr. Bean annoyed me no end. But loved him as Blackadder. So funny and evil at the same time. The supporting cast was also great.

@christineirving4491pluviophile

Жыл бұрын

Same here, Bean irritated me beyond belief.

@uttaradit2

Жыл бұрын

bell end

@chimpazoo1143

Жыл бұрын

What's with the posh folk in this comment section?

@uttaradit2

Жыл бұрын

@@chimpazoo1143 gone ape

@Brahlam

Жыл бұрын

Some comedy just glances past the less intelligent.

Always loved these lines from Blackadder, From Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie: - Glaze my nipples and call me Rita - Spank me hard and call me Carla - Cover me with eggs and flour and bake me for forty minutes 😂

Bloody good show!

"Well glaze my nipples and call me Rita" Well I'm stealing that line

@VickersDoorter

11 ай бұрын

Definitely one to use on the checkout girls in Waitrose.

Very funny, why have I never heard of this before! 🎉❤😂

@robinharwood5044

Жыл бұрын

You have had a deprived life.

@Goth7illa

7 ай бұрын

It was a special commissioned for SkyScape Cinema (called Blackadder back & forth in case ya didn’t know😊).

@joshhoffman1975

7 ай бұрын

@@Goth7illa I didnt thanks, its still funny! 🤣🤣🤣🤩💯👊

this was brilliant

Love this.

Brilliant! Just brilliant.

blackadder and red dwarf were my favourites

More accurate than what crazy old man ridley showed us

A French victory at Waterloo and ABBA would have never won the Eurovision Song Contest.

Napoleon was an artillery officer originally ... and he's startled by gunfire 😁

@anatoleondulet4881

Жыл бұрын

English vision of french people ...

@hb1338

Жыл бұрын

Shell shock.

@skymaster4743

Жыл бұрын

Charged the bridge at the Arcole with himself at the front against the Austrians. He was anything but a pussy.

2:30 Oooh. Just love the mincing response.

Oh God; I hadn't seen this one before! 😅🤣😂

"Hello Darling.." 😂😂

Rodney Tricycle lol reminds me of Thomas Ladder from The Eric Andre Show

This is way better than the new woke Dr Who.

Thank God Blackadder referred to his better judgement and saved the world from the eternal condemnation that would have been French hegemony.

IMO, Tim McInnerny is the best actor of the lot - simply outstanding :)

Actually winning at Waterloo would have at max saved Napoleon 1 more month before being defeated in a battle similar to Leipzig, fighting over 500k of russians and austrians with incredible numerical advantage.

@marshalLannes1769

8 ай бұрын

Don't tell that to the brits, they would be offended.

@GeeeEmmm

8 ай бұрын

​​@@marshalLannes1769why would it offend the Brits?

still more character development and historical accuracy than 2023 Napoleon

24 years later and I’ve only just realised it’s the fantastic Simon Russell Beale playing Napoleon!

Simply brilliant.

The greatest show I’ve ever seen.

I am French, and Mr Bean is hilarious and crazy! The French won Waterloo!

@cmolodiets

10 ай бұрын

non ce n'est qu'un anglais. Jean Dujardin est bien plus drole. mais il est vrai que nous avons gagné waterloo

@markcrane9661

8 ай бұрын

Ha ha, so Napoleon went to Elba for a Holiday ?

@ashleyhoward8926

3 ай бұрын

Mr Bean is nothing short of a terrible attempt to re-create Monsieur Hulot.

1:30 imagine if this was the real personality and mannerisms of Napoleon and his generals, but still defeats the Russian, Austrian, and Holy Roman Empire in a single battle lmao jokes aside Napoleon is one of very, very few examples of great men in history who's ambition alone changed the world forever. Even with Alexander the Great, the conquest of the Persian Empire was already planned by his father Phillip, but without Napoleon there is no French Empire or Napoleonic Wars.. Napoleon Bonaparte fundamentally altered the course od human history and no other person could have filled his role

@johnbooth3073

9 ай бұрын

I rate Alexander over Napoleon.

@thenablade858

8 ай бұрын

I don’t know what you mean here. Without the French Revolution, there would be no ‘Napoleonic’ Wars. The First Coalition was organized against Revolutionary France, because they threatened the established monarchies in Europe. Whether or not France would have succeeded without Napoleon is impossible to predict, but he wasn’t the sole origin of everything. No ruler is. And France’s status as a powerful imperial force was already cemented with Louis XIV, who Napoleon admired.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm glad Napoleon invented the Waterloo. Can you imagine before when people just went in a dry hole in ground?

@bobs_toys

Жыл бұрын

Badum tss

@kennethraymondmoore

Жыл бұрын

@@bobs_toys Google won't translate that. Is it Swahili?

@bobs_toys

Жыл бұрын

@@kennethraymondmoore it's drums followed by a cymbal marking the punchline of a joke. Two beats of the drum, followed by tss

@kennethraymondmoore

Жыл бұрын

@@bobs_toys What's a drums?

@bobs_toys

Жыл бұрын

@@kennethraymondmoore a musical instrument that shows you can use all parts of your enemy.

More accurate than ridley’s napoleon.

"I've come to save Britain!" 🤣

The irony at Waterloo was that the French lost not because their generals were cowardly but because they were too damn brave.

I am impressed by the historic accuracy 👌

greatest comedian ever

"It fits!" LOL

@richard6440

Жыл бұрын

Not many people got that :) What did she say just before that? Was it what i think it was ?

@dannyarcher6370

Жыл бұрын

@@richard6440 I heard "Fun!" which validates the joke.

@richard6440

Жыл бұрын

@@dannyarcher6370 I heard F*ck :) which is typical Miranda.:) She would have said that even if it wasnt in the script :)

@richard6440

Жыл бұрын

maybe she did say fun. Shame , f*ck would have been miles better , knowing Miranda's sense of cheek :)

@dannyarcher6370

Жыл бұрын

@@richard6440 It's "Fun". Which is leading me to believe you didn't get the joke.

I love this show, many of those actors are in today's shows.

I wish he'd do more stuff like this in stead of Mr. Bean lookalikes. Don't get me wrong. His physical humour is amazing, and I wouldn't want him to stop.... but some Blackadder lookalikes would be great too.

I remember seeing this at the Dome.

I think they made the French too manly and brave

How have I never seen this before?

@KairuHakubi

Жыл бұрын

my thoughts exactly, I thought I'd seen "Back and forth"

@oldnelson4298

Жыл бұрын

Probably because it's really really bad

The lower the Blackadders fall in history, the more they rise. A proper sendoff to be sure.

Stephen Fry actually went to school with a boy called Darling who was teased relentlessly, which is why they chose the name.😂

I remember seeing this at the Millennium Dome.

I'd love to have seen Flashheart's contribution to the Battle of Waterloo.

@patagualianmostly7437

6 ай бұрын

Oh yes...that would have worked so well!

Check out Napoleon's identical twin body guards. That was from real life!

he would be great in star trek

@peterrebelwithoutamenopaus6962

Жыл бұрын

Rowan mentions Star Trek, playing Inspector Fowler, in the brilliant series, The Thin Blue Line.

The new doctor looks great!

4:20 it fits ! Shades of an earlier Blackadder :)))

I remember this film as being the only real bright spot amid the dull, corporate garbage that filled the ‘Millennium Dome’ in Greenwich, London.

@concise707

Жыл бұрын

You mean the Great Vanity Project and self-styled and initiated homage to Tony Bliar? 🤮😡

Brilliant!

I never heard that Blackadder had a futuristic episode. It looks like I have really missed something.......

@mocat1

8 ай бұрын

Black Adder Back and Forth. It aired around Christmas/New Year of ‘99/2000. I finally saw it a few years after.

I like the Queen Elizabeth the 1st in-joke. 😄

Dr. Who had nothing on Lord Edmund Blackadder.

I kind of feel that the French winning the battle of Waterloo is kind of like the Germans winning the battle of the Bulge or the Oder Vistula offensive against the soviets in January 1945.

@matthiuskoenig3378

Жыл бұрын

Pretty much