Connor, don't hesitate to be critical of us Brits, we live by the adage of 'if you can't take it, don't dish it out'..we're fully aware of how the rest of the World percieves us, and in true British manner we don't give a ...........😁
The reason he has pencils up his nose is he is trying to get discharged. Putting underpants on you head, sticking pencils up your nose and uttering the words "cluck, cluck, jibber, jibber, my old mans a mushroom" was, according to Blackadder a good enough act to be rendered mad, and thus discharged. Its does not go to plan, of course. :)
The plan was to be discharged for being mad, but, of course, general Melchett knows this old trick, forcing Blackadder to drop the act. He ends up getting desperate, and calls in a favor from Field Marshal Haig, who... advises him to put underpants on his head, stick a pair of pencils up his nose, and pretend to be mad...
@@johnpowell5433 M.A.S.H. and Blackadder season 4 are some of the best series on the pointlessness of war. And both have gut-wrenching finales (though M.A.S.H. had quite a few such moments).
"We will be slaughtered the minute we mince up the hill" - When I first heard that I nearly black out from all the laughing I did. It still makes me laugh now.
The actor who played Baldrick, Sir Tony Robinson, was the only one of the regular cast who didn't attend university. The others were graduates of Cambridge and Oxford universities. After he presented Time Team he received an honorary degree.
He also was anti monarchy and very pro working man, anti establishment. I don't agree with his sentiment on that. So why did he accept a Knighthood, even more so when used in any post Knighthood. So much for his previous sentiments.
The German guy talking about toilets at the end is Ade Edmondson. He is from the generation of comic actors a year or two after Rowan Atkinson. He was in The Young Ones, Comic Strip Presents ..., and Bottom. All of which you should check out.
I'm sure you've been told time and time again, but when you think you've got the hang of the Blackadder series, watch the last scenes of the very last Blackadder - the WW1 over the top one. A friend of mine's husband was involved in the production, and her father, who'd been there as a young soldier, was furious that it was to be made fun of. So they gave him a pre-production video and he watched it alone. They came back in and he was in tears, got his blessing.
Well that SMEGHEADED TRANS-AM nostriled Hammond orchestra loving cowardly excuse of a holographic lifeform was hung like that 🤣 now ACE RIMMER (what a guy ) could use it
Man, I love your reactions 😁 glad you’re enjoying Blackadder…..I’m always impressed that you nearly always understand the references and make it clear when you don’t👍 Thanks for sharing the fun ✨🤗
I remember a Monty Python sketch which was based on the observation that the British had no demeaning epithet for Belgians. So they held a competition for one and the runners were 'Let's ignore them', 'Little Fat Horrible Belgian B@st@rds', 'Sprouts' and the Winner 'the Phlegms'.
I saw Blackadder before House came on the air. It took until about the middle of the 3rd season before I stopped crack up every time Hugh Laurie showed up on the screen all serious with his American accent. All I could see was his Blackadder characters, especially the Prince Regent 🤣
Just remember that Captain Blackadder was anti war and would do all he could to avoid fighting and you cant go wrong.The pencils up his nose and pants on his head was his idea of appearing mad which would make him unsuitable for fighting.
Between your love of history and Baldrick.. I think you’d really like the tv show Time Team. Archeology, history, lots of Roman digs and Tony Robinson a.k.a. Baldrick 😁
I think you're missing something there.... that's Sir Tony Robinson.... the great socialist agitator was Knighted for services to historical and social education.
I'm just about to start season 6 (of 20) yet again and then there are almost 60 Time Team Specials. I don't know how Tony managed it: as the host he frequently had to pretend ignorance just so that new viewers could get an explanation of "geophys", for example. But I loved it when he called the archeologists "anally retentive" to their faces. [Note: the real first episode was S01E03, followed by 1, 2, 4]
He was trying to get out of the trenches by trying to prove he had gone mad by sticking pencils up his nose and putting pants on his head. 😂😂😂 hilarious
You cannot beat Rik Mayall in these series. A classic example being his role of "Flash Heart", a comedy genius, sadly missed. Doubt the French appreciate the portrayal of Napoleon and his general staff! Recommend the series "Allo Allo" if you appreciate this type of comedy.
Recently introduced my German girlfriend to 'Allo 'Allo. Let's just say that there was some cross-cultural translation involved ;-) But she particularly liked Herr Flick's penchant for extravagant lingerie...
The thing he's doing with the underpants and pencils is trying to be invalided (medically) sent home for supposedly being insane. However it doesn't work 😂
In that episode with the pants on his head and pencils up the nose was the last one of series 4,when Blackadder was attempting to get out of The Big Push,by being mad.
8:45 He has pencils up his nose, trying to feign insanity, thus excuse himself from active duty, so he isn't get led like a lamb to the slaughter, when they were ordered to 'go over the top'...
Brilliant Connor nice one👍 Blackadders plan with underpants on his head and pencils up his nose was a bid to act mad so he would be sent back to blighty, thanks again that was fun✌️
heres a interesting little fact for you(uk oxford viewer)back in his day when rowan atkinson was educated at oxford uni at queens col(one of the more elite collages of oxford)the very rich students could afford valets to tend for them(keeping fires going cleaning shoes ironing etc etc)rowan,s valet had the name of mr blackadder
Nose thingies at 8:44 -- are most likely for removing nosehairs. They are covered in something sticky that "sets", are shoved up the nose to do the setting, which will stick to the nosehairs which will then be pulled out when the thingies are removed.
Just do a video on reaction to the last Blackadder episode GOODBYEE it will explain the pencils and the shear futility of war. The last 5 minutes is probably the greatest ending of a series ever.
I think in terms of overall public opinion, Blackadder Goes Fourth is the favourite but I rate Blackadder II as the best. A lot of that is the setting but I do think the jokes landed better
He’s trying to get home on the grounds of insanity. It was a thing in the trenches. It was that miserable that some actively tried to get a disease or infection so they got sent home.
A shot in the foot being so unlikely, it resulted in court marshal and execution. Bit difficult to ram a lump of red hot shrapnel through your guts though.
Actually we in Britain think of America as you think of us. We have terrible food, weather etc which has sharpened our wit and made us tough. We think all your comforts have made you soft. Although we do envy your ambition and get it done philosophy. Btw blackadder had the sheet on his head and chopsticks in his nose to appear mad. He knew they were going over soon so he wanted to be transferred out due to madness to avoid the massacre at the Somme.
Not sure that 'get it done' philosophy has seen the light of day in the last 20 something years, they're so utterly culturally and politically polarised they can't seem to make any decisions what so ever
Not sure that 'get it done' philosophy has seen the light of day in the last 20 something years, they're so utterly culturally and politically polarised they can't seem to make any decisions what so ever
Well, as a German I do feel the need to educate a little: we actually do have a word for fluffy. It's flauschig. So, uh... Just in case anyone was wondering. It's more along the lines of the cliche of us being so tough we don't know fluffy. Or... So... I also do have a semi random fun fact about Germans and toilet culture. Did you know, that we're the only society on the planet in which the majority NEATLY folds the toilet paper for wiping instead of crumbling it up to a ball-ish object? There's actually a scientific study about that. Don't ask me why anyone would do a study about how people wipe their arse but... hmkay... Good to know. 🤷♀️
I love the choice of charactor names in Blackadder, Blackadder as a surname is a Scottish Border name and Percy is an aristocratic Northumberland name (English Borders) and likely to have faught each other in the Border skirmishes called the Border Reivers. The historical person of Hotspur (his nickname) was actually Sir Henry Percy and fought James the 2nd Earl Douglas (Scottish Border family) in the Battle of Chevy Chase (Otterburn) in Northumberland in 1388. Blackadder Clan name comes from the lands around the Blackadder Water in Berwickshire (now East Lothian) and were prominant in the Border skirmishes in the 15th C. Cornelius Crane Chase, an American comedy actor also became known as "Chevy" Chase, probably because of the above battle.
You mention heights... Stephen Fry is 6'6", Hugh Laurie is 6'5", Rowan Atkinson is actually 6'3"... Tim McInerney (aka Darling or Percy) is 5'11", and (Sir) Tony Robinson is 5'6".... the other collaborators in Blackadder were Pattsy Byrne (Nursie / Bernard), Miranda Richardson (Queen Elizabeth / Bob).... then there's the bit parts from Rik Mayall (Flashhart), Ade Edmonson, Tom Baker, Robbie Coltrane, Nigel Planer, BRIAN BLESSED (he never talks, just bellows)... and many others.
Blackadder is pretending to be mad with the yfronts on his head and two pencils up his nose, he rings Field Marshal Douglas Haig (Geoffrey Palmer) and that’s what tells him to do.
regarding underpants on his head and pencils up his nose , he was told if you did this you would be declared insane and sent home if you only said WIBBLE !
the fact is,we like fighting with the french so much,we made one war last a hundred years.and as Mad Jack Churchill said,,,,if it wasn't for the yanks,we could of made world war two last another ten years.Nobody beats the shit out the French but us English...
The first video was with Hugh Laurie. See Americans he was on British tv first, ie A Bit of Fry and Laurie and BlackAdder. Not bloody house as a lot of Americans believe.
"Unlucky you English to find the toilet so amusing! For us it is a mundane and functional item. For you it's a basis of an entire culture." Aww..this was perfection. You can laugh at the German obsession of practicality and the whole British culture at the same time.
Hi if you like the WW1 settings might I suggest you watch (Lord of the Rings Director) Peter Jackson's 2018 They Shall Not Grow Old Documentary. As a grown Man, it's the only film I've ever shed tear for. The saddest film I've ever watched!
My old sat nav had Stephen Fry’s voice. He would apologise for interrupting me whilst driving, and would I mind awfully moving over to the right hand lane darling? 😊 I do miss it.
I played Herr Flick in a stage production of Allo Allo. It was the most fun you could have with your trousers on. You get to go maximum Nazii for three hours and five hundred people laugh at you for four nights a week. My partner came one night and said she didn't want me to sleep in the same bed as I was a horrible person..Best compliment I ever had. I think she meant my character. We're not together now... Bugger It's acting darling!!!
The Pencils up Rowan Atkinson's nose and the cloth wrapped around his head, was that he was pleading insanity so he wouldnt go over the top in final, which didnt work... :)
You almost said it...the irony being that the rest of the world think of the British in the same way that we see the French in our comedies. As posh, sexually depraved "whoopsies". Of course this is all dated, and the Blackadder series changes its insults based on the timeline it's set in. The truth is that the British and the French are the closest allies Europe has ever had. And we hate that! :D God bless the French.
The French are playboy soliders. Conceited dandies, lazy soap avoiding snail farmers. Surrender experts , Rubbish film makers, dreadful musicians and insular to the point of it being a national fetish. But us English wouldn't be with out them.
@@richardwest6358 Absolutely, The Treaty of Windsor 1386 is the oldest and still in force alliance. But the friendship goes back to 1147 were we aided the Portuguese during the Siege of Lisbon.
I remember watching the Blackadder back and forth at the millennium dome ,new years eve 1999,when Tim McInnerny said "We will be slaughtered as soon as we start mincing up the hill",I was buckled and my face hurt from laughing so much,it still makes me laugh to this day.As an Englishman it's my duty to not like the French anyway😁.For me that line is up there with other great quotes and lines from TV and film history,up there with the very best.
08:27 He's trying to get invalided out of the army on the grounds of insanity. Like Corporal Klinger in MASH. You'd know this if you'd seen the episode, as one of the officers owed him a favour told him to do it. {:o:O:}
You should watch the whole WW1 series only 6 episodes you will enjoy and it puts all those clips into context including the pencils up his nose and underpants on his head.....
Sticking pencils up your nose, your underpants on your head and saying 'wibble' is how you claim insanity according to Blackadder and those in the know. Nudge nudge wink wink.
Blackadder had underpants on his head and 2 pencils up his nose as it’s an old trick from the Sudan where they done that and were sent home because they were mad and Blackadder is trying to avoid going over the top of the trenches to certain death. Only problem is the General (Stephen Fry) knows the trick and says before seeing Blackadder “has he really gone mad or has he just stuck a pair of pants on his head and a couple of pencils up his nose? I had to shoot a whole platoon in the Sudan for doing that”
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Connor, don't hesitate to be critical of us Brits, we live by the adage of 'if you can't take it, don't dish it out'..we're fully aware of how the rest of the World percieves us, and in true British manner we don't give a ...........😁
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Even with Bojo and Truss at the helm?! Because I speak daily to Brits, and they are incredibly ashamed, they actually do give a...!😅
@@CHALETARCADE ..well when given the alternative, yes!
Very true !!!😀😀😀
@@CHALETARCADE I can see that pleases you a lot. 🍌
The reason he has pencils up his nose is he is trying to get discharged. Putting underpants on you head, sticking pencils up your nose and uttering the words "cluck, cluck, jibber, jibber, my old mans a mushroom" was, according to Blackadder a good enough act to be rendered mad, and thus discharged. Its does not go to plan, of course. :)
Wibble
I'm just off to Hartlepool to buy some exploding trousers
The plan was to be discharged for being mad, but, of course, general Melchett knows this old trick, forcing Blackadder to drop the act.
He ends up getting desperate, and calls in a favor from Field Marshal Haig, who... advises him to put underpants on his head, stick a pair of pencils up his nose, and pretend to be mad...
He's doing a Klinger!
@@johnpowell5433 M.A.S.H. and Blackadder season 4 are some of the best series on the pointlessness of war. And both have gut-wrenching finales (though M.A.S.H. had quite a few such moments).
"We will be slaughtered the minute we mince up the hill" - When I first heard that I nearly black out from all the laughing I did. It still makes me laugh now.
my favourite Blackadder line!
The actor who played Baldrick, Sir Tony Robinson, was the only one of the regular cast who didn't attend university. The others were graduates of Cambridge and Oxford universities. After he presented Time Team he received an honorary degree.
He also was anti monarchy and very pro working man, anti establishment. I don't agree with his sentiment on that. So why did he accept a Knighthood, even more so when used in any post Knighthood. So much for his previous sentiments.
How cunning.
Cambridge University not Oxford
Rowan Atkinson was at Newcastle not Cambridge or Oxford.
The German guy talking about toilets at the end is Ade Edmondson. He is from the generation of comic actors a year or two after Rowan Atkinson. He was in The Young Ones, Comic Strip Presents ..., and Bottom. All of which you should check out.
His comic partner, the late Rik Mayall, appeared in Blackadder as Flasheart.
I didn't know the German bloke was Eddie from bottom
@@ChefYT150 Very Metal!
He's playing the Red Baron, and the marks on his face are dueling scars (from swords).
@@andrewgarrett7100 Alan Beresford B'Stard MP!!
I'm sure you've been told time and time again, but when you think you've got the hang of the Blackadder series, watch the last scenes of the very last Blackadder - the WW1 over the top one. A friend of mine's husband was involved in the production, and her father, who'd been there as a young soldier, was furious that it was to be made fun of. So they gave him a pre-production video and he watched it alone. They came back in and he was in tears, got his blessing.
That was the one that had us all in tears..brilliant
Remember watching it first time round. Brought a tear to our eyes. Especially as it was shown over Remembrance week end.
I've seen some reactions to that scene, that ended just before the final fade - so the full impact was missed.
The Director wanted to do a retake and all the cast refused stating it was too upsetting and what was shown was the one take.
It was excellent, unforgettable ..
as a Welshman, I can confirm that random Close-Harmony Singing can indeed, be intimidating.....
And try pronouncing the place names on Saturday night after a few .......
The only thing more dangerous is bagpipes!
Four part singing. Beautiful.
And the the names of Welsh town and villages.
In the six nations, sure.
The Frenchman who claimed to be hung like a baby carrot was Arnold Judas Rimmer.
Well that SMEGHEADED TRANS-AM nostriled Hammond orchestra loving cowardly excuse of a holographic lifeform was hung like that 🤣 now ACE RIMMER (what a guy ) could use it
Smeg head
@David Young you mean Brittas as in the Brittas empire the actor's name is Chris barrie 🤔 he was Hillery in tomb raider alongside Angelina Jolie 😁
Another great reaction video! I loved every series but my favourite is Blackadder 3 - great stuff!
Man, I love your reactions 😁 glad you’re enjoying Blackadder…..I’m always impressed that you nearly always understand the references and make it clear when you don’t👍 Thanks for sharing the fun ✨🤗
I remember a Monty Python sketch which was based on the observation that the British had no demeaning epithet for Belgians. So they held a competition for one and the runners were 'Let's ignore them', 'Little Fat Horrible Belgian B@st@rds', 'Sprouts' and the Winner 'the Phlegms'.
Douglas Adams also did his bit, by making the worst swearword in the galaxy, 'Belgium'.
"We use the British ad Bad guys, you use Germans"
Being Half British and half German I could have a career as a B-Movie villain here...
I saw Blackadder before House came on the air. It took until about the middle of the 3rd season before I stopped crack up every time Hugh Laurie showed up on the screen all serious with his American accent. All I could see was his Blackadder characters, especially the Prince Regent 🤣
Came back to watch your reaction to the french 😂😂😂
Absolutely fantastic seen them all before but this was classic British comedy at its best!
I don't live in Britain but I love their comedies & dramas. British humor is known globally as one of the funniest.
Connor, thanks for this among all the others. If you can find the Blackadder's Christmas Special you will need to wear Depends before you watch.
The Blackadder Series are a Masterpiece and has never been surpassed 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟10/10
Love to y’all from Denmark
Just remember that Captain Blackadder was anti war and would do all he could to avoid fighting and you cant go wrong.The pencils up his nose and pants on his head was his idea of appearing mad which would make him unsuitable for fighting.
He wasn't anti-war he was anti-dying. He had no problem killing pygmies who were only armed with a sharpened mango.
Between your love of history and Baldrick.. I think you’d really like the tv show Time Team. Archeology, history, lots of Roman digs and Tony Robinson a.k.a. Baldrick 😁
Time team is my guilty pleasure!! Love it!!
@@CEP73 Same! Every sunday night when i was a kid....
i doubly recommend it , baldrick is one of the great brits among us , tony robinson , i think we all love him here
I think you're missing something there.... that's Sir Tony Robinson.... the great socialist agitator was Knighted for services to historical and social education.
I'm just about to start season 6 (of 20) yet again and then there are almost 60 Time Team Specials. I don't know how Tony managed it: as the host he frequently had to pretend ignorance just so that new viewers could get an explanation of "geophys", for example. But I loved it when he called the archeologists "anally retentive" to their faces. [Note: the real first episode was S01E03, followed by 1, 2, 4]
He was trying to get out of the trenches by trying to prove he had gone mad by sticking pencils up his nose and putting pants on his head. 😂😂😂 hilarious
You cannot beat Rik Mayall in these series. A classic example being his role of "Flash Heart", a comedy genius, sadly missed. Doubt the French appreciate the portrayal of Napoleon and his general staff! Recommend the series "Allo Allo" if you appreciate this type of comedy.
Recently introduced my German girlfriend to 'Allo 'Allo. Let's just say that there was some cross-cultural translation involved ;-) But she particularly liked Herr Flick's penchant for extravagant lingerie...
I will only say this once
The thing he's doing with the underpants and pencils is trying to be invalided (medically) sent home for supposedly being insane.
However it doesn't work 😂
Tele Savalas in Catch 22? Same idea.
@@marklimbrick Yossarian/Alan Arkin
Man, I love your reactions😁… so relaxed and informal…like we are there with you as mates🤗…never change…but DO keep doing these reactions…Please 😆✨
Adore Blackadder. Best humour ever. Classic.
In that episode with the pants on his head and pencils up the nose was the last one of series 4,when Blackadder was attempting to get out of The Big Push,by being mad.
Gotta love the British humour 🤣
8:45 He has pencils up his nose, trying to feign insanity, thus excuse himself from active duty, so he isn't get led like a lamb to the slaughter, when they were ordered to 'go over the top'...
Brilliant Connor nice one👍 Blackadders plan with underpants on his head and pencils up his nose was a bid to act mad so he would be sent back to blighty, thanks again that was fun✌️
heres a interesting little fact for you(uk oxford viewer)back in his day when rowan atkinson was educated at oxford uni at queens col(one of the more elite collages of oxford)the very rich students could afford valets to tend for them(keeping fires going cleaning shoes ironing etc etc)rowan,s valet had the name of mr blackadder
Baldrick's comment about the Germans was how bad they are to anything "of woman born". in other words, anthing born of woman. that is, anyone.
The best comedy is always "problematic".
Napoleon actually had an Italian accent as he was from Corsica which was a French possession but was ethically Italian.
Nose thingies at 8:44 -- are most likely for removing nosehairs. They are covered in something sticky that "sets", are shoved up the nose to do the setting, which will stick to the nosehairs which will then be pulled out when the thingies are removed.
That’s not a hedge it’s the Scott’s 😂😂😂
Scots
Just do a video on reaction to the last Blackadder episode GOODBYEE it will explain the pencils and the shear futility of war. The last 5 minutes is probably the greatest ending of a series ever.
I think in terms of overall public opinion, Blackadder Goes Fourth is the favourite but I rate Blackadder II as the best. A lot of that is the setting but I do think the jokes landed better
He’s trying to get home on the grounds of insanity. It was a thing in the trenches. It was that miserable that some actively tried to get a disease or infection so they got sent home.
A shot in the foot being so unlikely, it resulted in court marshal and execution. Bit difficult to ram a lump of red hot shrapnel through your guts though.
Actually we in Britain think of America as you think of us. We have terrible food, weather etc which has sharpened our wit and made us tough. We think all your comforts have made you soft. Although we do envy your ambition and get it done philosophy. Btw blackadder had the sheet on his head and chopsticks in his nose to appear mad. He knew they were going over soon so he wanted to be transferred out due to madness to avoid the massacre at the Somme.
Sorry benny it wasn't a sheet and chopsticks it was underpants and pencils.
@@eddiebirdie1545 That's quite alright.
Not sure that 'get it done' philosophy has seen the light of day in the last 20 something years, they're so utterly culturally and politically polarised they can't seem to make any decisions what so ever
Not sure that 'get it done' philosophy has seen the light of day in the last 20 something years, they're so utterly culturally and politically polarised they can't seem to make any decisions what so ever
Fry was only in his 20s when he was in this. Which is kind of crazy.
Well, as a German I do feel the need to educate a little: we actually do have a word for fluffy. It's flauschig.
So, uh... Just in case anyone was wondering. It's more along the lines of the cliche of us being so tough we don't know fluffy. Or... So...
I also do have a semi random fun fact about Germans and toilet culture.
Did you know, that we're the only society on the planet in which the majority NEATLY folds the toilet paper for wiping instead of crumbling it up to a ball-ish object?
There's actually a scientific study about that. Don't ask me why anyone would do a study about how people wipe their arse but... hmkay... Good to know. 🤷♀️
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I love the choice of charactor names in Blackadder, Blackadder as a surname is a Scottish Border name and Percy is an aristocratic Northumberland name (English Borders) and likely to have faught each other in the Border skirmishes called the Border Reivers. The historical person of Hotspur (his nickname) was actually Sir Henry Percy and fought James the 2nd Earl Douglas (Scottish Border family) in the Battle of Chevy Chase (Otterburn) in Northumberland in 1388. Blackadder Clan name comes from the lands around the Blackadder Water in Berwickshire (now East Lothian) and were prominant in the Border skirmishes in the 15th C.
Cornelius Crane Chase, an American comedy actor also became known as "Chevy" Chase, probably because of the above battle.
The sticks up his nose is because Blackadder is trying appear mad ps he doesn't have to go over the top when ordered and can escape the war
Blackadder with the pencils and pants on his head is trying to make out he is mad so he can get out of the war and be sent home, alas it doesn't work!
Black adder is absolutely brilliant possible our best comedy, glad you liked it old boy.
You mention heights... Stephen Fry is 6'6", Hugh Laurie is 6'5", Rowan Atkinson is actually 6'3"... Tim McInerney (aka Darling or Percy) is 5'11", and (Sir) Tony Robinson is 5'6".... the other collaborators in Blackadder were Pattsy Byrne (Nursie / Bernard), Miranda Richardson (Queen Elizabeth / Bob).... then there's the bit parts from Rik Mayall (Flashhart), Ade Edmonson, Tom Baker, Robbie Coltrane, Nigel Planer, BRIAN BLESSED (he never talks, just bellows)... and many others.
Miranda Richardson didn't play Bob mate.
@@eddiebirdie1545 Gabrielle Glaister... and Tim McInnerny is taller than that... he's my uncle!
@@dannywarhurst7169 that must be wonderful darling (sorry Danny)😂.
Blackadder is pretending to be mad with the yfronts on his head and two pencils up his nose, he rings Field Marshal Douglas Haig (Geoffrey Palmer) and that’s what tells him to do.
regarding underpants on his head and pencils up his nose , he was told if you did this you would be declared insane and sent home if you only said WIBBLE !
the fact is,we like fighting with the french so much,we made one war last a hundred years.and as Mad Jack Churchill said,,,,if it wasn't for the yanks,we could of made world war two last another ten years.Nobody beats the shit out the French but us English...
The first video was with Hugh Laurie. See Americans he was on British tv first, ie A Bit of Fry and Laurie and BlackAdder. Not bloody house as a lot of Americans believe.
"Unlucky you English to find the toilet so amusing! For us it is a mundane and functional item. For you it's a basis of an entire culture."
Aww..this was perfection. You can laugh at the German obsession of practicality and the whole British culture at the same time.
Hi if you like the WW1 settings might I suggest you watch (Lord of the Rings Director) Peter Jackson's 2018 They Shall Not Grow Old Documentary.
As a grown Man, it's the only film I've ever shed tear for. The saddest film I've ever watched!
One word. Wibble.
captain black adder is trying to get sectioned as mad so he can be sent back home, hence the pencils up the nosr
He’s trying to appear insane - to get out of the army and go home.
Black adder was one of the best shows ever. Humor and sarcasm of the highest level.
My old sat nav had Stephen Fry’s voice. He would apologise for interrupting me whilst driving, and would I mind awfully moving over to the right hand lane darling? 😊 I do miss it.
I had Homer Simpson
@@aryasayne Doh!
Au contraire, Connor, we Brits have americans as the bad guys just as your side have Brits as baddies. It's traditional.
In the clip where Blackadder has his underpants on his head and the pencils up his nose, he's trying to escape the trenches by pretending to be mad.
Great stuff x.
He's trying to be insane to escape going over the top.
I played Herr Flick in a stage production of Allo Allo. It was the most fun you could have with your trousers on.
You get to go maximum Nazii for three hours and five hundred people laugh at you for four nights a week.
My partner came one night and said she didn't want me to sleep in the same bed as I was a horrible person..Best compliment I ever had.
I think she meant my character.
We're not together now... Bugger
It's acting darling!!!
The Pencils up Rowan Atkinson's nose and the cloth wrapped around his head, was that he was pleading insanity so he wouldnt go over the top in final, which didnt work... :)
You almost said it...the irony being that the rest of the world think of the British in the same way that we see the French in our comedies. As posh, sexually depraved "whoopsies". Of course this is all dated, and the Blackadder series changes its insults based on the timeline it's set in. The truth is that the British and the French are the closest allies Europe has ever had. And we hate that! :D God bless the French.
Who is friends with the French??? Frenemies, if you please.
Entirely wrong - the Portuguese are our oldest allies in Europe
The French are playboy soliders. Conceited dandies, lazy soap avoiding snail farmers.
Surrender experts , Rubbish film makers, dreadful musicians and insular to the point of it being a national fetish.
But us English wouldn't be with out them.
@@richardwest6358 Absolutely, The Treaty of Windsor 1386 is the oldest and still in force alliance. But the friendship goes back to 1147 were we aided the Portuguese during the Siege of Lisbon.
Keep em coming✔
I think we mostly use British actors for villains as well, occasionally some others.
Probably because you fear intelligence and a very stern talking down too ( quite politely of course) 😁🤭🤭🤭
Black adder has pencils in his nose and pants on his head as a cunning plan to get out of the war! 🤣😂😎
I remember watching the Blackadder back and forth at the millennium dome ,new years eve 1999,when Tim McInnerny said "We will be slaughtered as soon as we start mincing up the hill",I was buckled and my face hurt from laughing so much,it still makes me laugh to this day.As an Englishman it's my duty to not like the French anyway😁.For me that line is up there with other great quotes and lines from TV and film history,up there with the very best.
He said 'women born'
08:27
He's trying to get invalided out of the army on the grounds of insanity. Like Corporal Klinger in MASH. You'd know this if you'd seen the episode, as one of the officers owed him a favour told him to do it.
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BlackAdder had sticks up his nose cos he tried to get out of the war by making out he was mad.
8:30 he's trying to feign insanity to get out of being sent in to battle.
He is trying to get out of the war.
hE IS PRETENDING TO BE MAD TO GET SENT HOME.
You should watch the whole WW1 series only 6 episodes you will enjoy and it puts all those clips into context including the pencils up his nose and underpants on his head.....
Sticking pencils up your nose, your underpants on your head and saying 'wibble' is how you claim insanity according to Blackadder and those in the know. Nudge nudge wink wink.
a large orange hedge lol never heard that one
which blackadder episode is the napoleon segment from?
8:33 he is pretending to be crazy - hoping to be shipped home because of it.
Blackadder had underpants on his head and 2 pencils up his nose as it’s an old trick from the Sudan where they done that and were sent home because they were mad and Blackadder is trying to avoid going over the top of the trenches to certain death. Only problem is the General (Stephen Fry) knows the trick and says before seeing Blackadder “has he really gone mad or has he just stuck a pair of pants on his head and a couple of pencils up his nose? I had to shoot a whole platoon in the Sudan for doing that”
Wonderful actors including Dr House.
Check out Blackadder “learn to trash talk your nemesis”. Brilliant
The scene with pencil in nose is his attempt to get out of going over the top
When he has those things in his nose , he's is trying to get thrown out from the front lines by pleading insanity.
I could almost swear I've seen you react to that Waterloo scene before.
Yeah, not just the Waterloo scene ,but the whole video.
Connor have you checked out Jeeves and Wooster yet? Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in their, imho, best roles. If you still haven't, please do.
Yes, I forgot about that series.
Absolutely fantastic!
Still watching black adder in 2024 and it’s the best comedy ever!!❤
Those pencils in his nose and underwear on his head is to get him declared insane and sent back home. Sadly it did not work
The female cook is in fact. Black adders wife in real life.
Black Adder is pretending to be mad so he doesn’t have to fight.
balldrick , you don't know what irony is do you ? ........ i so do mr. blackadder , it's like goldy or bronzey , but made from iron !
Pretending to be mad by wearing pants on his head pencils up his nose and saying wibble
The word you were wondering about is 'Teutonic' - it means typical of or relating to German people.
As in the Teutonic Knights.
Darling is played by the same actor who played Lord Glover in Game of Thrones. Tim McInnerny
You get a like for playing that cheeky orange hedge :p
He’s trying to pretend to be mad to get out of going to the front line lol... unsuccessfully ultimately, of course....
Who is Burnet? Do you mean Bernard, from Yes Prime Minister?
You'll have to watch it to find out about the underpants and pencils.
If i remember it right blackadder was trying to convince the army he was nuts to avoid the coming battle.
He's pretending to be mad so he can be sent home from the war.