+NivMizzet89 The pre-revolutionary French flag was white, I think. The revolutionaries adopted the tri-color to symbolize the Enlightenment principles of 'egalite', 'fraternite' and 'liberte' as a contrast to the 'acien regime'.
+NivMizzet89 not that many at that point in history, and certainly not the French! The Dutch were the only ones I can think of! Michael Johns is spot on!
+Konrad Wallenrod How about the british? But I get your point, I'm not too too knowledgeable about ancient flags. Though if the revolutionaries were indeed the first French to adopt those colors, it's not that surprising that Blackadder wouldn't recognize them. He doesn't really seem the type to pay too much attention to the latest fashions amongst foreign peasantry.
+Konrad Wallenrod the Dutch had indeed thoes coulours in that time, only different shade of blue. And before that the red band was Orange not Red. That flag is called "de Prinsenvlag". It is still used in the flag of New York, and couple of nations in Africa.
Maybe it’s because they make jokes about the time periods they’re set, not the one they were made in which allows it to be funny no matter when you are watching it
***** Maxamilien's brother, Augustin was a great supporter of Napoleon and helped him rise to power as Napoleon was pro-Jacobin. Napoleon's success gained him promotions from most of the various goverments of France following the revolution such as the Directory, National Convention and even the Comittee of Public Safety where Robespierre was at the helm. Robespierre himself during the reign of terror can't be said to have embodied the guiding ideals of the revolution and it was his deviation from which that promted his downfall. Napoleon was instrumental in cementing the revolution, quelling royalist rebellions at Toulon and Paris, not to mention exporting the revolution across Europe. The Napoleonic Reforms and Napoleonic Code stood true to the ideals of the French Revolution and it's implementation across Europe was hugely influencial on it's progression to it's modern state. It's no wonder he is still heralded as France's Greatest hero and a huge source of their national pride, more so even than Robespierre. Robespierre was an Idealist whereas Napoleon was able to realise those ideals. the tattered remnants of the Jacobin club did in fact support Napoleon in his coup from the Directory which they despised, and Napoleon had overwhelming support from the French people and so while he did become a king in all but name, he was a popular sovereign - more legitimate in rule than Robespierre in the terror - and he carried his popularity right to his grave and even beyond, as his nephew Napoleon III, was the first president of france to be voted in by popular vote, with no small debt to his uncle's legacy.
They aren't in the France. This scene takes place in the French Embassy in London! That is the whole point. Blackadder was attempting to pull a fast one and came unstuck.
@Han Lockhart I won't be boring but I will be pedantic because embassies are not sovereign territories of the countries making use of them but rather are under that country's extraterritorial jurisdiction under the sovereignty of the the host country. The host country has the legal right to revoke this extraterritorial jurisdiction and retake control of the embassy at any time. An interesting example of this is the Sovereign Military order of Malta which operates from two buildings in Rome exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction over them, but does not hold any actual sovereign territory, dedpite nevertheless being a sovereign entity.
@@incognito9292 It's not meant to be realistic. It's a comedy. Best not to overthink it. The supposed embassy is a clearly a dungeon and the whole series "makes no sense". The Prince of Wales has a staff of two people and there are numerous historical inaccuracies but many are deliberate.
"In a moment, we will hear the sound of music and happy laughter!" Cue ominous music and bone-chillingly evil laugh. Oh, comedy doesn't get much better than this.
They're not in revolutionary France - they're at the French embassy. It was all part of Blackadder's plan to pretend that he rescued an aristocrat to win a bet, but his plan backfires when the French embassy has also been taken over by revolutionaries.
@@rodracer4567 That's technically a bit of an iffy area, as its mostly that the hosting country lets the owner of an embassy enforce its own laws within the building. And it would be up to British whether to even recognise the revolutionary government and let it remain as an active Embassy. Also highly doubt they would ever let an embassy building keep a guillotine on site and carry out its own executions...
This was filmed in 1987 so Chris Barrie was already performing in Spitting Image since 1984 and the following year he would appear as Rimmer in Red Dwarf which started in 1988.
The funny thing is that a few episodes before they were talking with Samuel Johnson about his new Dictionary (1755), went through an election under Prim Minister Pitt the Elder (1766-68) they are now dealing with Aristocrat-killing French Revolutionaries (1792) while serving Prince George as the Prince-Reagent (1811) and in another episode they are talking with the Duke of Wellington about confronting Napoleon at Trafalgar (1805). So Blackadder the Third takes place across a span of about 70 years without anyone changing. The one thing that actually does make temporal sense is that their Pitt the Younger character *is* about the right age for his father to be PM.
You know that BlackAdder is in trouble when Baldrick has the right answer to a question asked by a murderous dude or about a manuscript written by a guy with VERY murderous companions.
It's a bit ironic that Blackadder puts emphasis and gesticulated etc on certain words for the Frenchman to understand him, but all those words are either loanwords from french or the same in french- aristocrat, revolutionary, ambassador. It's the words in between that a Frenchman wouldn't understand
How has it taken me this long to realise that is Chris Barrie? Being in my first decade when I first saw the show and seeing Red Dwarf/Brittas might account for it? Maybe?
At first, I couldn’t fully appreciate the casting in this episode. You got the usual actors, along with the guys who played Arnold from Red Dwarf and Neil from The Young Ones.
1:05 Welcome to French Revolutionary Debates! Our esteemed guest, le Comte de Frou Frou, will be facing off against one of our glorious Revolutionary soldiers. The loser is to be hanged; who will emerge victorious?! (Hint: It's the soldier.)
I have a cunning plan, let's watch more Blackadder here : th-cam.com/play/PLZwyeleffqk5r8Ze_qSF9nKi_9hfjH0qO.html
"Your little gnome is correct" omg gets me every time xD
mxgirl918 you forgot to add an extra g- in then front😅
@@hikikomorihachiman7491 What extra "g"?
Xerxes2005 I think I was trying to make a joke with the way he says gnome around 1:54 but I forgot 😅. A little old comment.
The irony of a Frenchman pronouncing a silent letter is hilarious
Did you mean the g in gnome? That is actually the proper pronunciation in french
@@nerddujugement8334 Exactly
I'm learning french now as dear god if they actually bothered to pronounce the letters they wouldn't need so my stupid contrivances as aujourd'hui
@@nerddujugement8334 It could also be a Monty Python ref too.
@@TheMajorpickle01 what? there is literally 1 silent letter in "aujourd'hui"
"Nuh, I wuhnt! I AM an evil revolutionaree, and have MERR-DERRED the ambassaderr and have turned him into... PATÉ!"
That delivery was amazing.
@TheSmithersy He's ever so handsome noone slimmer
The way the Frenchman mocks blackadder’s hand signals while simultaneously implying how much he hates the English is the icing on the cake there.
@@xepic665 He isn't bald, and his head doesn't glimmer.
@@ClarinoI If there's one thing I know, it's that he definitely will never need a zimmer
@@ejayman We hope you know someone quite similair
Dependable Baldrick. Always comes up with the correct answer when it really counts!
He is really cunning!
'Not so fast, English.'
Rowan: Hold on, I haven't created that character yet...
If he'd been an Englishman, he could've called Blackadder 'Old Bean.'
@@alexanderjones9572Hindsight’s 20/20.
You would have thought the tri-color on his shoulder might have been a little clue.
+Michael Johns
Oh come on, lots of nations have those three colors!
+NivMizzet89 The pre-revolutionary French flag was white, I think. The revolutionaries adopted the tri-color to symbolize the Enlightenment principles of 'egalite', 'fraternite' and 'liberte' as a contrast to the 'acien regime'.
+NivMizzet89
not that many at that point in history, and certainly not the French! The Dutch were the only ones I can think of! Michael Johns is spot on!
+Konrad Wallenrod
How about the british? But I get your point, I'm not too too knowledgeable about ancient flags.
Though if the revolutionaries were indeed the first French to adopt those colors, it's not that surprising that Blackadder wouldn't recognize them. He doesn't really seem the type to pay too much attention to the latest fashions amongst foreign peasantry.
+Konrad Wallenrod the Dutch had indeed thoes coulours in that time, only different shade of blue. And before that the red band was Orange not Red. That flag is called "de Prinsenvlag". It is still used in the flag of New York, and couple of nations in Africa.
Seriously hard to believe the blackadder series are 30+ years old. They don't age at all. Still so damn funny.
I dare say they’re closer to 40 now.
I'm more flabbergasted by Monty Python being over half a century old.
Maybe it’s because they make jokes about the time periods they’re set, not the one they were made in which allows it to be funny no matter when you are watching it
This is where Rimmer learns to admire Napoleon!!!
+Cameronasysound s They did in fact. He was seen as one of the greatest revolutionary heroes.
*****
Maxamilien's brother, Augustin was a great supporter of Napoleon and helped him rise to power as Napoleon was pro-Jacobin. Napoleon's success gained him promotions from most of the various goverments of France following the revolution such as the Directory, National Convention and even the Comittee of Public Safety where Robespierre was at the helm.
Robespierre himself during the reign of terror can't be said to have embodied the guiding ideals of the revolution and it was his deviation from which that promted his downfall. Napoleon was instrumental in cementing the revolution, quelling royalist rebellions at Toulon and Paris, not to mention exporting the revolution across Europe. The Napoleonic Reforms and Napoleonic Code stood true to the ideals of the French Revolution and it's implementation across Europe was hugely influencial on it's progression to it's modern state. It's no wonder he is still heralded as France's Greatest hero and a huge source of their national pride, more so even than Robespierre. Robespierre was an Idealist whereas Napoleon was able to realise those ideals.
the tattered remnants of the Jacobin club did in fact support Napoleon in his coup from the Directory which they despised, and Napoleon had overwhelming support from the French people and so while he did become a king in all but name, he was a popular sovereign - more legitimate in rule than Robespierre in the terror - and he carried his popularity right to his grave and even beyond, as his nephew Napoleon III, was the first president of france to be voted in by popular vote, with no small debt to his uncle's legacy.
don't suppose you know where Kryten learns to appreciate vacuum cleaners?
@@areyouavinalaff Upstairs Downstairs?
I always smile when the French villain says 'Not so fast, English.' as Johnny English is another character in Rowan Atkinson's repertoire.
And the villain in the first JE film was French too!
Yeah, the one looks a little bit like Mr Bean
It would be a clever nod but this was long before the Johnny English films
Revolutionary deug!
Deug?! Ha! Royalist snike!
Snike?! Ha!
I could listen to this for hours! XD
Chris Barrie is an under-utilised national treasure.
I thought it was him XD
Without him life would be much grimmer
He’s a smee hee
"Your little Gnome is correct, Monsieur."
"Your little Gah-nome is correct, Monsieur." LOL
Someone quoting a comment which was quoting a line from the video? Now I've seen everything.
Shouldn't it be
ñome?
@@terminator572 No. For once an English actor is pronouncing French correctly...
"In a moment we will ear the sound music and appy laugfter." The way he he says that, cracks me up.😂
Who knew that French Revolutionaries could be such smegheads?
I was trying to put a name to the face, and only at the end did I recognise him. Hard to forget that nose.
@@mck0027 Lol.
But he looks like a great swimmer though ;P
@@-JustHuman- Brittas?
entZEROspawn nice 😉
When the evil revolutionary said _neau aye waunt_
I felt that.
They aren't in the France. This scene takes place in the French Embassy in London! That is the whole point. Blackadder was attempting to pull a fast one and came unstuck.
I wondered how they happened to come to France so fast. Thank you for clearing that up for me.
@Han Lockhart I won't be boring but I will be pedantic because embassies are not sovereign territories of the countries making use of them but rather are under that country's extraterritorial jurisdiction under the sovereignty of the the host country. The host country has the legal right to revoke this extraterritorial jurisdiction and retake control of the embassy at any time. An interesting example of this is the Sovereign Military order of Malta which operates from two buildings in Rome exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction over them, but does not hold any actual sovereign territory, dedpite nevertheless being a sovereign entity.
@@Quintinohthree So what was all the fuss with the Iranians taking over the American embassy in Teheran?
@@AudieHolland Disorderly and undiplomatic dismissal of a foreign diplomatic mission of course.
@@incognito9292 It's not meant to be realistic. It's a comedy. Best not to overthink it. The supposed embassy is a clearly a dungeon and the whole series "makes no sense". The Prince of Wales has a staff of two people and there are numerous historical inaccuracies but many are deliberate.
In hindsight it might have been a better idea to let them continue with their 'interesting conversation' and escaped then
He got the aristocrat out in the end though, but yes, you have a point.
Lol
"In a moment, we will hear the sound of music and happy laughter!"
Cue ominous music and bone-chillingly evil laugh. Oh, comedy doesn't get much better than this.
"PIG, HAH!"
"DOG, HAH!"
"SNAKE, HAH!"
"You wish you were a pig-dog-snake!"
1:21 close your eyes and imagine Pascal Sauvage saying that to his ancestor who works in MI7 😂
They're not in revolutionary France - they're at the French embassy. It was all part of Blackadder's plan to pretend that he rescued an aristocrat to win a bet, but his plan backfires when the French embassy has also been taken over by revolutionaries.
Well embassies are the territory of the country said embassy belongs to, so technically they are in France
I thought so but I was confused as to where these revolutionaries came from
@@rodracer4567 That's technically a bit of an iffy area, as its mostly that the hosting country lets the owner of an embassy enforce its own laws within the building. And it would be up to British whether to even recognise the revolutionary government and let it remain as an active Embassy. Also highly doubt they would ever let an embassy building keep a guillotine on site and carry out its own executions...
This was filmed in 1987 so Chris Barrie was already performing in Spitting Image since 1984 and the following year he would appear as Rimmer in Red Dwarf which started in 1988.
You just saved me some googling...thanks!
I thought he looked familiar.
And Gordon Brittas in the Brittas Empire series in the early 90s.
Blackadder doing the "ask for a croissant in France using a loud voice and sign language" routine...
This scene has some of the best actors in the comedy business in the history of the universe. Smeg !!
Chris Barrie is amazing
Took me a rather long time to recognise the French aristocrat... it's the former Lord Percy and the future Captain Darling.
Also the revolutionist Frenchmen is also Chris Barrie from Red Dwarf and Gordon Brittas from Brittas Empire.
Which is appropiate, given that he turns out to be the Scarlet Pimpernel, who in the books was Sir Percy
Damn! How did I not see that! Come along, Darling!
This serie is pure comedy genius 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
You cannot beat English comedy, simply brilliant.
Nobody expects the French Revolution!
Rimmer's ancestor sure was a Nasty brute.
Holy Hell, its Rimmer!
And Gordon Brittas
Never thought I'd get gnomed while watching Blackadder.
Your little gnome is correct!!!
The funny thing is that a few episodes before they were talking with Samuel Johnson about his new Dictionary (1755), went through an election under Prim Minister Pitt the Elder (1766-68) they are now dealing with Aristocrat-killing French Revolutionaries (1792) while serving Prince George as the Prince-Reagent (1811) and in another episode they are talking with the Duke of Wellington about confronting Napoleon at Trafalgar (1805). So Blackadder the Third takes place across a span of about 70 years without anyone changing. The one thing that actually does make temporal sense is that their Pitt the Younger character *is* about the right age for his father to be PM.
Looks like it was a good time for a Doctor Who crossover to straighten everything out, lol.
You know that BlackAdder is in trouble when Baldrick has the right answer to a question asked by a murderous dude or about a manuscript written by a guy with VERY murderous companions.
Chris Barrie is amazing in this.
0:59 Because the tri-colour wasn't a big enough tip-off?
I have rescued an Aristocrat (puts finger on Nose to move it up)
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
i love how blackadder always lets baldrick sink them.
Oh my god that "a" mehr-dehrd me and turned what was left into paté
Finally Baldrik where right 🤣🤣🤣
where was he?
"Gnome" haha can't stop laughing
Wait, is that Rimmer?
Yes
No, it is Chris Barrie who plays Rimmer or Mr. Brittas or moderator in Brittan's greatest machines etc etc etc....
yep...it's SMEG HEAD! :D
Chris Barrie is awesome
Probably an ancestor... named Rimmére or something
Blackadder the third will always be my favorite season of this series followed by Blackadder goes fourth.
Mr. Brittas played a French man...and he wasn't even a hologram.
I can't help me self. .larfing 😂😂😂🌟🌟
Brilliant.
That revolutionary's pantaloons are somewhat distracting -- in a good way.
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Yeah, I was indeed distracted as well...is a good way...
Oh my! He's Lara Croft's hot butler!!
Blackadder 3 meets Red Dwarf- superb comedies
Blackadder, Baldrick, and Percy altogether again.
I wish the insult trading between the revolutionary dog and artio-pig-acrat had lasted a bit longer
Me too.
There's more of it later in the episode! (Aristo-mongrel, proletarian skunk, and something about a happy-pot-amus :D)
Holy crap. That revolutionary is Rimmer from Red Dwarf.
What does Barrie say at 1:28 - “Aboit de stinky weed” - ?!
01:21
𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉.
🇬🇧
_Foreshadowing _*_Johnny English_*
It's all in the details G-nome
Chris Barrie and those pants,not to mention the acting....!
France... France never changes.
Rimmer you Smeghead !
It's a bit ironic that Blackadder puts emphasis and gesticulated etc on certain words for the Frenchman to understand him, but all those words are either loanwords from french or the same in french- aristocrat, revolutionary, ambassador. It's the words in between that a Frenchman wouldn't understand
Basically he just assumes that talking slow, loud and making gestures will get his point across. Like he is a tourist on the Cote d'Azur...
@@stevekaczynski3793 I think you might both have failed to understand that it's comedy. These things are rather the point.
I love the Frenchman. Who is it?
I love Chris barrie
That revolutionary is a complete and total one.
A word is yet to be invented to describe how totally whatever it is he is. He is one and a total total one at that.
Actually, they are at the French Embassy in England.
you've been.. 1:54
i can imagine edmund thinking kochanksi to be "wet as a haddocks bathing costume" lol
Arnold J. Rimmer, is that you?
"It's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold J. Rimmer. Without him things would be much grimmer..."
Thats the closest Rimmer is gonna get to Napoleon
How has it taken me this long to realise that is Chris Barrie?
Being in my first decade when I first saw the show and seeing Red Dwarf/Brittas might account for it? Maybe?
Hah
Is it Rimmer???!
J'adore les pantalons serrés du soldat révolutionnaire
Watched this in Modern History in High School
Ace Rimmer, the lost years.
Ahhh! From Alexander the Great's Chief Eunuch to Evil French Revolutionary... he evolved into Arnold J. Rimmer.. BSC SSC..!!
i reckon lister and baldrick would get on i can picture lister teaching baldrick to say rimmers a smeghead lol
1:02 why they have to argue in english
'Robbie Rotten's French ancestor escapes the French Revolution 1799(colorised)
I'd completely forgotten Chris was in Blackadder III !
Two things to watch after this.
Une: French Connection Deux
Duex: Sellers, does your dog bite.
Wow! Two-minute video bits. Is that all we get?
That evil revolutionary looks like a total smeghead
At first, I couldn’t fully appreciate the casting in this episode. You got the usual actors, along with the guys who played Arnold from Red Dwarf and Neil from The Young Ones.
Hah, Albion my way!
That revolutionary is a right Smeg-Head
Dog ha!
Gordon Brittas, I had no idea it was Chris Barrie in this scene.
I'm sorry to interrupt this very interesting discussion!
Now the open source community knows the proper pronunciation of gnome is "ga-nome"
a revolutionary who is also a smeghead lol i reckon the ambassador was probably captain hollister or ace rimmer lol
1:05 Welcome to French Revolutionary Debates! Our esteemed guest, le Comte de Frou Frou, will be facing off against one of our glorious Revolutionary soldiers. The loser is to be hanged; who will emerge victorious?! (Hint: It's the soldier.)
Guillotined, sorry.
Rimmer!!!
Criss barrie is brilliant
Your little ganommme is correct
1:01 - 1:14 the woke and the anti-woke in a nutshell, especially on twitter and in youtube comments sections
Revolutionary deug!
Hang on, how come I haven't ever noticed before that the revolutionary is played by Chris Barrie?
RIMMER!!!!
Your little gnome is correct
Now I get it why we call him Johnny *English* . The French slur given for an Englishmen.
Little ger-nomes rise up!.