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.
It's funny because just this morning I was listening to a guy on TH-cam 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.
The worst ennemies the best allies and the funniest actors .. thanks blackadder for this contribution to the "Entente Cordiale" our two people should maintain
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.
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
@@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.
@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.
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.
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"
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
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.
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. 😅
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.
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 😂
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
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.
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.
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.
So... I'm not a native speaker, so I'm unsure if the joke is so obvious that nobody mentions it or if the joke is so obscure that nobody clocked it... but anyways: One of the items they made the bet on were ... the wellies of Wellington?!?
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.
Why not ? The French abolished 10 forms of government from 1814 to 1958 : empire 1814, monarchy 1815, empire 1815, monarchy 1830, parliamentary monarchy 1848, republic 1852, empire 1871, republic 1940, nationalist state 1944, parliamentary republic 1958 It's rater calming down, now it's just leftist plus rightist holding half of the Assembly.
@@jshadowhunter I don't think so. The main discovery of revolution was that individuals were citizens, able to take part in the collective political decisions. Even Napoleon, who put in place an authoritarian regime due to the inefficiency of republican regime, had to cope with this and trade personal power against equal opportunity. All successive changes in political regime were due to this struggle between government by the elite - whoever it was - and government by the citizens. Napoleon was both a decisive factor to resist monarchies, and one actor amongst others in an evolution to representative democracy without nobility, predating him by one century (Enlightment philosophers).
My favourite period in French history is the period where they spoke English in very funny French accents.
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
just after hastings, right?
According to "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", the French were speaking like that as early as the reign of King Arthur.
bike crashes
Alex Stirner Yeah. That was a real laugh.
I am not completely convinced about the historical accuracy of this documentary
That's because the governament brainwashed you with 5G.
Any variation from established history is probably the result of time travellers messing about
My grandmother told me it is real.
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.
@@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
That's soldiering...
Yes! My thought's too!
@@cymruisraelthat’s budgeting
Love sharpe but they really had to cut corners
'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" 😂😂
Outrageously offensive & makes me even madder that it made me laugh.
@@ddc2957 The slaughtering or the mincing ? :)
Although Australian I’m firmly on the French side of yhe Napoleonic wars, so the mincing 😂
@@ddc2957 You sure know how to pick a winner.
Utter brilliance,
That's twice Atkinson played a Time Lord. LOL
He'll explain later.
Love the touch of him keeping all the time travel souvenirs in a bag from Harrod's.
Because no matter what era Edmund Blackadder is in... he's always a cheapskate.
British as it comes
The closest we ever got to Blackadder meeting Richard Sharpe.
By god, the crossover of the century!!!!
If only it were true
Sean Bean aka Mr Bean hmmm....
@@jjproductions7299Yes, the 19th. 😎
@@Ginea25 HA!
The sequence where the shell goes off and all react is a real favourite of mine.
It's funny because just this morning I was listening to a guy on TH-cam 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.
Thanks for sharing. Our generations are so desensitised by television, we fail to grasp just how bloody & horrific any war really is.@@amg863
Laughed at it everytime for 20 years
An excellent series all the way through, great supporting casts and writing. The unassuming wisdom of Baldrick cannot be denied.
In reality, Tony Robinson is very smart.
@@craigkdillon ... Good point. It takes a lot of smart to realistically play dumb.
It was explained by the creators of Black Adder, that whilst being uneducated, Baldrick is the most intelligent one.
"...we are whoopsies, we invented the tapestry, the soufle and the sweet lacleur " 🤣 and dat synchronized reaction after da cannon shot 🤌🤦♂️😂
Still more accurate than Ridley's Napoleon
“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.
Badajoz
The worst ennemies the best allies and the funniest actors .. thanks blackadder for this contribution to the "Entente Cordiale" our two people should maintain
Blackadder saves Britain and history.
What a hero. What a man. What an Englishman.
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.
Imagine him popping up in North America during the American Revolution...😨
@@luisreyes1963 Blackadder would have solved our differences.
Britain would still be ruling its 50 colonies here.
The US would still have a king.
@@luisreyes1963If only the machine landed on General Lee
That whoopsy startling of the group after the canon shot: the perfect ending of this brilliant scene.
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
Or was it . . .
really... cool 🍁❤🩹🍁 🤠
Series 2 and 3 were my favourites. :)
@@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.
Some of my friend's in-laws are Blackadders! Also no Edmund among them, afaik - more's the pity!
@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.
A reminder of what happened when Napoleon visited Russia perhaps ?
Also used in Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture with canon fire.
@@hb1338 Or a subtle hint that the russian Czar will win the Crimean war in 1856 and dominate Europe...
@xornxenophon3652 what?
It's always a pleasure to watch Miranda. ✌️
It fits!
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. :(
Ain't it just
Girl of my dreams, just born a bit too early.
@@Eric_Cartman______ The fact that you are disappointed and made the effort to tell us all is amusing.
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.
You can't win 'em all.
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"
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....
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
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.
It’s so funny when the French generals do that camp ‘jump in fright’ when the cannon shot explodes 😂
Couple of nice touches: the way Amanda Richardson grabs her crown, and the casual "Hello, Darling"
Miranda! :)
Yeah - a throwback to her being Queen Elizabeth I in the second series.
@@dubidolczektv5278 Oops!
I agree!
Blackadder....The Unintentional Timelord
he played one in comic relief one year didnt he?
@@robyncampbell-br5cl Yep, Comic Relief 1999.
One of the most glorious time travel of all. Well done Mr prime Minister BLACK ADDER
Baldrick is the Prime Minister. Blackadder is the King, absolute monarchy.
Oh no.
You must Blackadder play Dr. Who.
Hello Darling always gets me!
What an incredible supporting cast!
Now that was a series, long live Baldrick, he always has a cunning plan.
The kidney joke is an epitome of "boys being boys"
I was today years old when I learned this was even made!
It’s pretty good if memory serves, can recommend
@@BK-ku1zt it's utter dross
Blackadder goes Back and Forth! It was a feature length special made for the turn of the millennium.
Me too, I want to see it all. Seen everything else I think.
It was made to be shown in the millennium dome
Rodney Tricycle was a great inventor
Yes, but it's not funny is it? Just lazy writing.
@@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. 😜😁
But not as great as George Stephenson who invented a moving kettle.
@@ArchibaldBagge Maybe, but it still gets laughs. Mr Atkinson may of course contribute to that effect.
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. 😅
Thanks for the heads-up....I thought it was part of a series I must have somehow missed at the time. (Sydney, Aust.)
@@Silkz0jet It's called Blackadder Back and Forth - a half hour special shown on New Year's Eve 1999.
We didn't get this in Australia. Ironic, that this was a little like time travel for me. ☺@@simonsimon325
Everyone knows a Time Machine looks like a 1960’s police box
He had one in 'curse of fatal death '.
Pity he never got the chance to play the Doctor in real life.
@@timothylyons5686 While I know what you meant to say, Doctor Who ain't a documentary 😉
And there was me thinking a time machine was a Delorean.
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).
@@timothylyons5686are you…possibly not aware of this absolute gem:
th-cam.com/video/Do-wDPoC6GM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=mA_IHwlX0mCHbTzD
Another brilliant comedy moment by Blackadder and crew - so funny !
Absolutely loved this show all of them so funny 😂
Tried to communicate with another Blackadder. Love this program 😍
"delicious garlic pudding" 😆
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.
Same here, Bean irritated me beyond belief.
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What's with the posh folk in this comment section?
@@chimpazoo1143 gone ape
Some comedy just glances past the less intelligent.
Stephen Fry as myself. I'd never thought I'd see the day
Damn... if only u could say the plan
Thank you for your service😄
.......and in the end we had to throw my kidney away 😞😞..... priceless!!
i spat my coffee. the way he said it, poor lad. 😂
And the laughing afterwards, especially Stephen Fry,was masterful comedy !!
I absolutely love it when the cannon fires and Napoleon et al jump at the sound! He was an artillerist!
best cast ever, will never be topped
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.
"With respect, my Emperor, we are whoopsies."
Great final line, Hullo Darling
IMO, Tim McInnerny is the best actor of the lot - simply outstanding :)
Amazing ! I knew my French was getting better! I understood every word Napoleon said !
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 😂
1:30 - that is the best writing and acting I've ever seen. Never ceases to make me laugh.
Napoleon was an artillery officer originally ... and he's startled by gunfire 😁
English vision of french people ...
Shell shock.
Charged the bridge at the Arcole with himself at the front against the Austrians. He was anything but a pussy.
A French victory at Waterloo and ABBA would have never won the Eurovision Song Contest.
Still more historically accurate than the Ridley Scott film.
Dr. Who had nothing on Lord Edmund Blackadder.
I prefer the final scenes when he realizes he can tweak things just a little more to his advantage lol
Bloody good show!
blackadder and red dwarf were my favourites
Very funny, why have I never heard of this before! 🎉❤😂
You have had a deprived life.
It was a special commissioned for SkyScape Cinema (called Blackadder back & forth in case ya didn’t know😊).
@@Goth7illa I didnt thanks, its still funny! 🤣🤣🤣🤩💯👊
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
I rate Alexander over Napoleon.
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.
2:30 Oooh. Just love the mincing response.
I am French, and Mr Bean is hilarious and crazy! The French won Waterloo!
non ce n'est qu'un anglais. Jean Dujardin est bien plus drole. mais il est vrai que nous avons gagné waterloo
Ha ha, so Napoleon went to Elba for a Holiday ?
Mr Bean is nothing short of a terrible attempt to re-create Monsieur Hulot.
More accurate than what crazy old man ridley showed us
awww i watched this clip and now im gonna have to watch the whole thing! Time to get the DVD boxset out! xD
24 years later and I’ve only just realised it’s the fantastic Simon Russell Beale playing Napoleon!
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.
Don't tell that to the brits, they would be offended.
@@marshalLannes1769why would it offend the Brits?
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?
Badum tss
@@bobs_toys Google won't translate that. Is it Swahili?
@@kennethraymondmoore it's drums followed by a cymbal marking the punchline of a joke.
Two beats of the drum, followed by tss
@@bobs_toys What's a drums?
@@kennethraymondmoore a musical instrument that shows you can use all parts of your enemy.
Those French hairstyles…..that’s what we need more of today! 😂
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.
Brilliant! Just brilliant.
Rodney Tricycle lol reminds me of Thomas Ladder from The Eric Andre Show
"Well glaze my nipples and call me Rita"
Well I'm stealing that line
Definitely one to use on the checkout girls in Waitrose.
The greatest show I’ve ever seen.
Thank God Blackadder referred to his better judgement and saved the world from the eternal condemnation that would have been French hegemony.
"Hello Darling.." 😂😂
Oh God; I hadn't seen this one before! 😅🤣😂
still more character development and historical accuracy than 2023 Napoleon
this was brilliant
"It fits!"
LOL
Not many people got that :) What did she say just before that? Was it what i think it was ?
@@richard6440 I heard "Fun!" which validates the joke.
@@dannyarcher6370 I heard F*ck :) which is typical Miranda.:) She would have said that even if it wasnt in the script :)
maybe she did say fun. Shame , f*ck would have been miles better , knowing Miranda's sense of cheek :)
@@richard6440 It's "Fun". Which is leading me to believe you didn't get the joke.
More accurate than ridley’s napoleon.
I love this show, many of those actors are in today's shows.
I'd love to have seen Flashheart's contribution to the Battle of Waterloo.
Oh yes...that would have worked so well!
The irony at Waterloo was that the French lost not because their generals were cowardly but because they were too damn brave.
Love this.
Simply brilliant.
How have I never seen this before?
my thoughts exactly, I thought I'd seen "Back and forth"
Probably because it's really really bad
greatest comedian ever
I remember this film as being the only real bright spot amid the dull, corporate garbage that filled the ‘Millennium Dome’ in Greenwich, London.
You mean the Great Vanity Project and self-styled and initiated homage to Tony Bliar? 🤮😡
I never heard that Blackadder had a futuristic episode. It looks like I have really missed something.......
Black Adder Back and Forth. It aired around Christmas/New Year of ‘99/2000. I finally saw it a few years after.
I remember seeing this at the Millennium Dome.
I remember seeing this at the Dome.
4:20 it fits ! Shades of an earlier Blackadder :)))
I think they made the French too manly and brave
Check out Napoleon's identical twin body guards.
That was from real life!
I like the Queen Elizabeth the 1st in-joke. 😄
The new doctor looks great!
So... I'm not a native speaker, so I'm unsure if the joke is so obvious that nobody mentions it or if the joke is so obscure that nobody clocked it... but anyways:
One of the items they made the bet on were ... the wellies of Wellington?!?
Stephen Fry actually went to school with a boy called Darling who was teased relentlessly, which is why they chose the name.😂
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.
Pretty much
The lower the Blackadders fall in history, the more they rise. A proper sendoff to be sure.
That's Simon Russell Beale as Napoleon, he played Lavrentiy Beria in The Death of Stalin, and Winston Churchill in Operation Mincemeat
he would be great in star trek
Rowan mentions Star Trek, playing Inspector Fowler, in the brilliant series, The Thin Blue Line.
Surely BA should have moved Wellington over a few feet as the other time machine is still going to crush him?
And what if the two time machines collided? Who would be at fault from that collision?
I'm more surprised that, despite Napoleon winning, the french still abolished the monarchy.
‘At Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender’
ABBA
Why not ? The French abolished 10 forms of government from 1814 to 1958 : empire 1814, monarchy 1815, empire 1815, monarchy 1830, parliamentary monarchy 1848, republic 1852, empire 1871, republic 1940, nationalist state 1944, parliamentary republic 1958
It's rater calming down, now it's just leftist plus rightist holding half of the Assembly.
@@gengis737 ONLY because Bony lost in the 1st place, later ones were unlikely to follow.
Well, they did that everywhere. And replaced with one of Napoleon's family or marshalls as king.
@@jshadowhunter I don't think so. The main discovery of revolution was that individuals were citizens, able to take part in the collective political decisions. Even Napoleon, who put in place an authoritarian regime due to the inefficiency of republican regime, had to cope with this and trade personal power against equal opportunity. All successive changes in political regime were due to this struggle between government by the elite - whoever it was - and government by the citizens. Napoleon was both a decisive factor to resist monarchies, and one actor amongst others in an evolution to representative democracy without nobility, predating him by one century (Enlightment philosophers).