The first series, The Black Adder, which is set in the Middle Ages, isn't great, but Blackadder II (Elizabethan period), Blackadder the Third (Regency/Napoleonic), and Blackadder Goes Forth (WWI, which you just watched) are all classic of British comedy. And I won't spoil it for you, but the series finale of Blackadder Goes Forth is now legendary and a milestone in British television.
@@dominusetdeus060644 Hey, if you enjoyed it, fair play to you - so did I, to a degree. It's not awful. But it's definitely been received and viewed as the weakest of the three - possibly because they made Edmund the idiot and Baldrick the smart one, and it was more effective when they switched it round.
It was changing Blackadder and Baldrick roles, In the The Blackadder, Blackadder was the idiot and Baldrick was the brains when Blackadder II rolled around and they swapped it changed the dynamic
The clip ends about 10 seconds before the pencils up his nose and underpants on his head get explained. As with Only Fools and Horses, the writing for Blackadder is so well woven together each episode that is a must watch but really needs full episodes from start to finish to get elevate them from "really good" to "great".
This is from the last episode of Blackadder goes forth , it's conclusion is both horrifying , funny and poignant , and brings home the total futility of the war . Rowan is trying to feign madness , hence the pencils . The colourless calculator did four series , the first set in medieval times , the second Elizabethan , the third Georgian and the last ww1. The casts for the series are great including Stephen Fry , Hugh Laurie , Miranda Richardson and several others . The premise holding it together is that like a bad penny the Blackadder genes keep turning up through history . It's only half an hour per episode so shouldn't be to difficult to get some context .
Another insight to Brit humour......An English guy was painting his house on the outskirts of London, when a Yank drives by in his Lincoln....he stops and says to the guy '' Cant understand how you Brits manage to live in these little tiny places, why.... I get in my car back home and it takes me 2 days to get off my property, the Brit says '' Know how it is mate I had car like that once''
Those are his undercrackers on his head. PS: you should try the episode with Edmund visited by his ultra-religious aunt, or anything with Flasheart in it.
Love the word play in this sketch so clever. In German Austria is called Österreich, which in English sounds like ostrich. Genius stuff I'm a nerd I know I know lol 😂
The final scenes of blackadder goes forth are some of the most well-executed series ending scenes in history. From the cynical comedy and one-up manship between blackadder and Captain DArling to the end where they acknowledge each other as equals in the futility of conflict and the final scene which is poignant to the Nth degree.
@@Wagoo only trouble is watching a whole episode could bring up a strike so i would say watch the episode but film the reaction only for the last 5 minutes or so.
They're in that bunker waiting for the order to 'go over the top', Blackadder stuffed things up his nose and wore underpants on his head to fake being insane so he could be discharged and sent home. The final scene of this episode is possibly the most poignant and thought-provoking bit of tv that's ever been made, I can't get through it without crying my eyes out!
To answer your question: - something he picked up in Sudan to get out of battle - act insane by sticking pencils up your nose Watch the Lord Flashearts Flying Aces episode. Best one in the series
The final scene of Blackadder Goes Forth is both funny and soul destroying. I watch it every remembrance day and I cry every time. One of the best endings of any programme, let alone a comedy show.
Good Reaction, as usual. Blackadder was not being a Muppet:) He thought by pretending to be mad before the visit of The Big Chief later that day, then he would be excused having to fight and,thus,face, almost, certain death... BlackAdder Goes Forth( Series 4) is usually considered the best.
The best series is the final one, set in WW1. If you only want to do one episode, do the final episode of that. Funny and weirdly moving. Every kid in the UK has watched it in history class.
Just an insight to British humour,.....A truck driver pulls into a Rest stop on the I 30, sits at a table opposite a German truck driver, they start talking about their vehicles, the German waffles on about his Mercedes and how good and efficient it was boring the trucker to death, he said ''I can drive from New York to Florida in 8 hours drop my load and be back home by supper. ''Wow'' says the other driver thats good, ''but I can beat that'' How come'' says the German.....He says years back I went from London, England to Dresden,dropped my load and was back in London in 2½ hrs, ''Jeez'' says the German that was good were you driving a Mack? Driver says ''No a B17''
Yes you should definatley do more Blackadder the second season is my favorite, each season is a different period of history and the first season was a good foundation but never really found it's legs till the second.
It was almost cancelled after 1st series until Ben Elton was brought on board as a writer then the show really hit it's stride. Blackadder is a high point of 80s BBC output
He had his underpants on his head and a pencil up each nostril as it was supposedly the time honoured way to convince the officers you had gone mad and should be taken off active duty, you also had to answer "wibble" to any questions they might ask you, he was waiting for them to turn up.
What is your name? Wibble! What is two plus two? Uhh...wibble wibble! Where do you live? London. Eh?? A small village on Mars, just outside the chief city...Wibble!
Spark Notes of Blackadder: there are Four Seasons of six episodes, and some specials... The Black Adder was set in a fictional period between Richard III's death and Henry Tudor, so medieval period. Returning for Blackadder II - in the Elizabethan period, Blackadder the Third - in the house of Prince Regent (George IV), and Blackadder goes Forth - in WWI in the trenches. The Specials: Blackadder's Christmas Carol - a retelling with Robbie Coltrane... Blackadder The Cavalier Years - an insertion into a Royal Variety Performance, with Hugh Laurie as Charles I and Warren Clarke as Oliver Cromwell... Blackadder Back and Forth - a time travelling special for the millennium, set in current time.... Blackadder The Army Years - a monologue as part of another Royal Variety Performance (maybe a Jubilee year?), about how Britain used to be no.1, so the best way out of everything is to invade France.
You need to watch that episode in full. There's a reason why he stick 2 pencils up his nose and wears his underpants on his head. "bells", "potato" and "beer" from season 2 "Sense and senility", "ink and incapability" and "duel and Duality" from season 3 "corporal punishment", "private plane" and "general hospital" from 4 Though that is half of all the good episodes. Thanks for the videos!
The second series is with Elizabeth I, who just get a character, there a character called Nursie, who is the former nanny of Elizabeth, who comes out with the most extraordinary lines.
Really glad to see your channel growing and you enjoying some great comedy vids. I did get that mic BTW. But life is pretty crazy at mo so not in position to start my own channel. But I still plan to.
The final scene where they go over the top has to be one of the best anti war scenes ever made. All the characters you have come to love dash off to the sound of German machine gun fire. It almost made me cry.
There are lot's of great Blackadder sketches but one of the best is Blackadder third where Stephen Fry plays the Duke of wellington which is absolutely hilarious
Honestly all of Blackadder (minus season 1 maybe) is fantastic, but I cant reccomend watching season 4 (goes forth) enough, even if you dont record it it is truly one of the greatest series ever written in my opinion, certainly with the best ending.
Season one is worth it just for the opening, although IMO it does go a little downhill after that... My favourites are, in order: Season 2, 4, 3, 1. Not that 1 is bad, it's just not as good as the others. 2 is pretty much genius all the way through, and 4 has one of the most poignant endings of any piece of filmed entertainment I've ever seen, from what is, up to that point, a comedy
I love Blackadder Goes Forth (WW1). When Captain Blackadder is on trial for shooting and eating Speckled Jim (The General’s pigeon) is one of my favourite parts 🤣 also the German Spy in the hospital. So many funny episodes. All the best from the United Kingdom 🇬🇧👍🏻👍🏻
My favourite scen from the Spy at the Hospital episode is Lt George asking a top British spy who has been in Germany for several years: - Have you seen any spies here? Spy: Nein! ("no" in german) Lt George: Nine, that's a lot!
@@johanrunfeldt7174 George is one of the best. So innocently stupid but so funny. Like when he dressed up in drag to take part in the show and Melchett fell in love with him. George accepted his marriage proposal etc. Brilliant comedy at its best 👍🏻
It was actually caused by disputes over oil in Africa. The whole Franz Ferdinand Arch-Duke of Prussia is a deliberate common misunderstanding. For more detail watch The History of Oil by the comedian Robert Newman.
Look at Blackadder 2 & 3... Superb performances from the regular cast and cameos from Lord Flasheart of course! Blackadder 4 is excellent but I watch through teary eyes while laughing all the way.
I know the clips are available to watch, but it is really better to watch the full episodes to get the full effect. Even if you don't react to them, I'm sure you'd enjoy them 😁
You will hear lots of people telling you to watch the last scene of the last episode. Don't until you've watched more, particularly from this last series. You need to get 'in' to the whole atmosphere of the last series before you see that scene.
Many considered Black Adder Goes Forth to be uncomfortably close to reality. The closing scenes were sheer brilliance at the same time as being harrowing
There's a lot more to the sketch, and indeed the whole episode of the programme. WW1 was essentially fought about 'honour'. Damn good thing to get ferocious about in those days, especially if you could conduct it by sending many good men to certain death and injury. My great grandmother received about £25 in compensation for the loss of my great uncle whose body lay in mud for 6 months. Officers who survived would get about £5000 for winning it. No, it is brilliant comedy, not least because it shows up the arses for what they were. It's brilliant.
The funniest Blackadder is the one you are watching. You should really watch them in chronicological order. Starts in the medieval era, moves into Elizabethan period, then onto the Regency period of George III,and then finally into the 1st, World War. All have a very rough adherence to genuine English history, but should also be taken with a pinch of salt, and some absolutely superb acting. (4 series and 4 episodes per series I think, you really have to watch them all in full to get full impact of the genius of the whole genre. Good luck,
For me the best series was the Elizabethan era. The best of those was the one with Flash-heart and Bob. The finale of series 4 (which was the one you partly watched) was classic Blackadder gold.
Watching Blackadder in full episodes would be AMAZING! The issue you'll have is that you will get copyright blocked across the board. So you'd have to do highly edited down & shortened reactions. But it is one of the greatest sitcoms of all time & is most definatly a must see
@@miff227 agreed. But I'd rather cover bases & give him a heads up (cause Blackadder can be a nightmare to get up). Cause I would love to see his reactions to them. As I'm sure you do. Have a great day 😁👍🏻
Brilliant as always Sir! And yes please either do more Black Adder reactions, I don't have any clips to share, but please at least watch Blackadder in your own time, it's worth watching as a show, a pure delight delightful! Goes Forth was the best series for me, but the whole thing has a cult following now and even back then!
Loved your acknowledgement that WW1 was a " clusterfuck " ( a word I first heard in a film called Heartbreak Ridge with Clint Eastwood ) !! If I may be permitted to add to you observation and say - ALL wars are clusterfucks and from time immemorial have been fought to profit a very few people regardless of the loss of life and carnage inflicted upon humanity. Hoping all that is on its way to being remedied. Keep laughing - because laughter is indeed the best medicine.
The thing about the nose, as you put it, he was trying to appear crazy so he would be discharged. Sort of like Cpl Klinger in MASH, if you're aware of 70s American sitcoms....and then there was Henry the 8th and his six knives, always passes people by, including our friend here ...
One of the Top Generals owed Blackadder saving his life or something back in the late 1890s early 1900s in a war in Africa where Blackadder said the native were dangerous armed with bananas and other sharp fruit's. So Blackadder called him up before having to go Over the Top and attack German Lines, so the General said ok but to be clear we are even after this, ok Blackadder he said to get out of it and to be sent home as being mad, stick a pair of underpants on your head and 2 pencils up your nose ( that might have been the thing in late 1800s early 1900s but not in 1917 where this episode is set.
The pencils and underwear were his attempt to get out of the army. The writers were using Catch 22 - which specified that concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Any soldier requesting mental evaluation for insanity demonstrates his sanity in creating the request, and thus cannot be declared insane.
I will be very, very happy if you do reactions to the Blackadder series. I like the first series more than most, but it's Blackadder 2-4 where the show becomes one of the greatest comedies of all time (oh, and the excellent Blackadder's Christmas Carol too).
You’ve got to watch it all buddy! Black adder is one of the best written comedies ever! The second series onwards anyway. The first season is……well…..a feet finding mission!
IMO Blackadder is the best ever British comedy series. The first series was probably not up to the standard of the other three but 2, 3 and 4 are top class. Have a look at the scene in series 2 where Blackadder tries to teach Baldrick some simple Maths using beans. Brilliant.
Just to take issue with something you said. It's important to understand, that World War II happened because of World War I not in spite of it. Were it not for the economic collapse of Germany caused by reparations, Nationaler Sozialismus would never have taken power.
Basically if you don’t laugh at Blackadder you must be dead. It’s hilarious. It doesn’t date because it’s historic anyway. Making a cup of tea in Blackadder Goes Forth is very funny.
You have to watch the series (start at series 2,the first was not so good) there's some brilliant historical references and the cast absolutely chewed the scenery off it. Brilliant stuff! 😎👌
Your reactions to British comedy is priceless, even though I've seen this sketch so many times, watching you guys watch it is like me watching it for the first time. I just finished watching an episode of Fawlty Towers (John Cleese) this episode is called "The Germans" you got to give it a watch and let's see your reaction, I guarantee you will leave your seat!!
I think you would find Blackadder Goes Forth (which this clip is from) to be very funny, informative and an unforgettable watch, featuring some of the best British comic actors.
The underpants on the head and pencils in the nose were a tried but not so true methode of getting a section 8 and being declared bonkers. When he faced summary execution, he backed out of it and went over the top to get killed anyway.
I'm really into military history, going back to the ancient Greeks, Persians, right through to today...and yet, and yet, there is something about WW1 that pisses me off so much that I can't get too into it because it will seriously ruin my mood. No other war does this to me. I think it has to be the sheer idiotic way it started, the way it was fought, the industrial scale of the slaughter and, perhaps worst of all, the way it set the conditions for the rise of Hitler, Mussolini and Imperial Japan and WW2.
Yep, Blackadder is classic British wordplay at its best. These clips really don't do it justice because you're missing the context of the storyline. In series 4 (goes forth) Blackadder is constantly trying to find ways to avoid "going over the top". He knows it Means certain death. George thinks it's heroic and exciting, and Baldric is great at being Baldric. You really need to watch the whole lot from series 2 onwards. ✌❤🇬🇧
Every episode Blackadder was trying to get out of fighting, in this final episode he is pretending to be mad so he can be discharged, hence wearing his underpants on his head and the pencils up his nose!
The "Pants on the head and pencils up the nose" attempt to be certified as crazy and therefore exempt from going over the top... "But then who's going to notice another madman around here"
blackadder season 2. From here until the end the whole lot is pretty good. Season 1's humour is more subtle and not so obvious. Watch the lot starting from season 2
Love all the Black Adder shows. With regards to which one you should watch-its Black Adder goes Forth-set within WW1. The show is seen as a tribute, with the ending of the final show. The other Black Adder shows cover past segments of English history. Thr final show BA4, shows many English comedians, such as the late Rick Mayall and his sidekick Ade Edmundson. Have to admit us English do have a good sense of humour.
Rowan Atkinson is a brilliant comedy actor - known best in the USA as Mr Bean - and you will doubtless enjoy all four Blackadder series. The first one is considered a little weak, but gained a lot of weight from the second series onwards. Have you spotted Hugh Lawrie in an early role before he produced House ?
The first series, The Black Adder, which is set in the Middle Ages, isn't great, but Blackadder II (Elizabethan period), Blackadder the Third (Regency/Napoleonic), and Blackadder Goes Forth (WWI, which you just watched) are all classic of British comedy. And I won't spoil it for you, but the series finale of Blackadder Goes Forth is now legendary and a milestone in British television.
Funny,i liked the first one best. Dunno why
@@dominusetdeus060644 Hey, if you enjoyed it, fair play to you - so did I, to a degree. It's not awful. But it's definitely been received and viewed as the weakest of the three - possibly because they made Edmund the idiot and Baldrick the smart one, and it was more effective when they switched it round.
Yes. The first series was finding it's way, they it hit its stride with the second.
i agree, all great but 1st was finding it's feet, it wasn't that good compared to 2,3,4 :)
It was changing Blackadder and Baldrick roles, In the The Blackadder, Blackadder was the idiot and Baldrick was the brains when Blackadder II rolled around and they swapped it changed the dynamic
The clip ends about 10 seconds before the pencils up his nose and underpants on his head get explained.
As with Only Fools and Horses, the writing for Blackadder is so well woven together each episode that is a must watch but really needs full episodes from start to finish to get elevate them from "really good" to "great".
Try not to cry at the finale of Black Adder Gores Forth - it truly special piece of television - powerful and thought provoking.
*Goes Forth
This is from the last episode of Blackadder goes forth , it's conclusion is both horrifying , funny and poignant , and brings home the total futility of the war . Rowan is trying to feign madness , hence the pencils .
The colourless calculator did four series , the first set in medieval times , the second Elizabethan , the third Georgian and the last ww1. The casts for the series are great including Stephen Fry , Hugh Laurie , Miranda Richardson and several others . The premise holding it together is that like a bad penny the Blackadder genes keep turning up through history . It's only half an hour per episode so shouldn't be to difficult to get some context .
The reason Blackadder had pants on his head and pencils up his nose was in order to appear crazy and be sent home from the horror of the trenches.
He had a theory that if he could convince the authorities he was mad they might send him home for treatment
"I mean, who would notice a madman around here?"
Another insight to Brit humour......An English guy was painting his house on the outskirts of London, when a Yank drives by in his Lincoln....he stops and says to the guy '' Cant understand how you Brits manage to live in these little tiny places, why.... I get in my car back home and it takes me 2 days to get off my property, the Brit says '' Know how it is mate I had car like that once''
We have that story in Sweden too, but here it's about an emigrant who visits the family back in "the old country".
You been watching too much Only fools and horses mate...stop stealing their jokes.
Yes Blackadder please . Series 4 Speckled Jim , he’s melchets pet pigeon , don’t wanna spoil it but it’s Melchetts finest hour
"Deny Everything Baldrick"
"You are Private Baldrick?"
"No!"
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@@anthonyholroyd5359 yes , yes, and yes 👍👍🏴
Those are his undercrackers on his head.
PS: you should try the episode with Edmund visited by his ultra-religious aunt, or anything with Flasheart in it.
Love the word play in this sketch so clever. In German Austria is called Österreich, which in English sounds like ostrich. Genius stuff
I'm a nerd I know I know lol 😂
The final scenes of blackadder goes forth are some of the most well-executed series ending scenes in history. From the cynical comedy and one-up manship between blackadder and Captain DArling to the end where they acknowledge each other as equals in the futility of conflict and the final scene which is poignant to the Nth degree.
Yes, but no watching it before the rest of Blackadder Goes Forth
@@Wagoo only trouble is watching a whole episode could bring up a strike so i would say watch the episode but film the reaction only for the last 5 minutes or so.
They're in that bunker waiting for the order to 'go over the top', Blackadder stuffed things up his nose and wore underpants on his head to fake being insane so he could be discharged and sent home. The final scene of this episode is possibly the most poignant and thought-provoking bit of tv that's ever been made, I can't get through it without crying my eyes out!
aw i cry everytime
To answer your question:
- something he picked up in Sudan to get out of battle
- act insane by sticking pencils up your nose
Watch the Lord Flashearts Flying Aces episode. Best one in the series
The final scene of Blackadder Goes Forth is both funny and soul destroying. I watch it every remembrance day and I cry every time. One of the best endings of any programme, let alone a comedy show.
but you must watch the other episodes first, to bond with the characters
@@stuartcollins82 I'd agree with that. The whole series is just brilliant.
Yes, but it would be meaningless for him to watch that in isolation - you earn it after watching series 4
Baldrick (Tony Robinson) was pushed into the Thames by John Wayne in Brannigan
...not many people know that...😉
Good Reaction, as usual.
Blackadder was not being a Muppet:)
He thought by pretending to be mad before the visit of The Big Chief later that day, then he would be excused having to fight and,thus,face, almost, certain death...
BlackAdder Goes Forth( Series 4) is usually considered the best.
The best series is the final one, set in WW1. If you only want to do one episode, do the final episode of that. Funny and weirdly moving. Every kid in the UK has watched it in history class.
Just an insight to British humour,.....A truck driver pulls into a Rest stop on the I 30, sits at a table opposite a German truck driver, they start talking about their vehicles, the German waffles on about his Mercedes and how good and efficient it was boring the trucker to death, he said ''I can drive from New York to Florida in 8 hours drop my load and be back home by supper. ''Wow'' says the other driver thats good, ''but I can beat that'' How come'' says the German.....He says years back I went from London, England to Dresden,dropped my load and was back in London in 2½ hrs, ''Jeez'' says the German that was good were you driving a Mack? Driver says ''No a B17''
@@Zebred2001 Yep you're right , I'll change it mate thanks
Blackadder Goes forth, last episode, whistle blows, then the Poppies....😥.
Remember watching it as a young teenage, never forgotten, RIP lads.
Yes you should definatley do more Blackadder the second season is my favorite, each season is a different period of history and the first season was a good foundation but never really found it's legs till the second.
It was almost cancelled after 1st series until Ben Elton was brought on board as a writer then the show really hit it's stride. Blackadder is a high point of 80s BBC output
A great series. It's probably already been said but he's pretending to be mad so he can get out of the war. Wibble.
Blackadder II is perhaps the most celebrated one but both series after then (ignore the first series) are hilarious.
He had his underpants on his head and a pencil up each nostril as it was supposedly the time honoured way to convince the officers you had gone mad and should be taken off active duty, you also had to answer "wibble" to any questions they might ask you, he was waiting for them to turn up.
What is your name?
Wibble!
What is two plus two?
Uhh...wibble wibble!
Where do you live?
London.
Eh??
A small village on Mars, just outside the chief city...Wibble!
Spark Notes of Blackadder: there are Four Seasons of six episodes, and some specials... The Black Adder was set in a fictional period between Richard III's death and Henry Tudor, so medieval period. Returning for Blackadder II - in the Elizabethan period, Blackadder the Third - in the house of Prince Regent (George IV), and Blackadder goes Forth - in WWI in the trenches.
The Specials: Blackadder's Christmas Carol - a retelling with Robbie Coltrane... Blackadder The Cavalier Years - an insertion into a Royal Variety Performance, with Hugh Laurie as Charles I and Warren Clarke as Oliver Cromwell... Blackadder Back and Forth - a time travelling special for the millennium, set in current time.... Blackadder The Army Years - a monologue as part of another Royal Variety Performance (maybe a Jubilee year?), about how Britain used to be no.1, so the best way out of everything is to invade France.
Blackadder - Dr Johnson's Dictionary is personal favourite of mine. Absolutely hilarious.
Trying to get discharged as insane so he does not get killed charging the enemy lines.
You need to watch that episode in full. There's a reason why he stick 2 pencils up his nose and wears his underpants on his head.
"bells", "potato" and "beer" from season 2
"Sense and senility", "ink and incapability" and "duel and Duality" from season 3
"corporal punishment", "private plane" and "general hospital" from 4
Though that is half of all the good episodes. Thanks for the videos!
The second series is with Elizabeth I, who just get a character, there a character called Nursie, who is the former nanny of Elizabeth, who comes out with the most extraordinary lines.
Really glad to see your channel growing and you enjoying some great comedy vids.
I did get that mic BTW. But life is pretty crazy at mo so not in position to start my own channel. But I still plan to.
The final scene where they go over the top has to be one of the best anti war scenes ever made. All the characters you have come to love dash off to the sound of German machine gun fire. It almost made me cry.
DID make me cry and I’m a hairy arsed Scottish stiff upper lip merchant 🤣
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The more you watch Black Adder the funnier it gets…. Genius writing. 👍❤️
There are lot's of great Blackadder sketches but one of the best is Blackadder third where Stephen Fry plays the Duke of wellington which is absolutely hilarious
The scene in the finale where they go over the top is definitely one you should react to.
Honestly all of Blackadder (minus season 1 maybe) is fantastic, but I cant reccomend watching season 4 (goes forth) enough, even if you dont record it it is truly one of the greatest series ever written in my opinion, certainly with the best ending.
IMO season one was the best. Smart Baldric, dumb Blackadder.
@@TheRealRedAce that's absolutely fair 😀
Season one is worth it just for the opening, although IMO it does go a little downhill after that...
My favourites are, in order: Season 2, 4, 3, 1. Not that 1 is bad, it's just not as good as the others. 2 is pretty much genius all the way through, and 4 has one of the most poignant endings of any piece of filmed entertainment I've ever seen, from what is, up to that point, a comedy
I love Blackadder Goes Forth (WW1). When Captain Blackadder is on trial for shooting and eating Speckled Jim (The General’s pigeon) is one of my favourite parts 🤣 also the German Spy in the hospital. So many funny episodes. All the best from the United Kingdom 🇬🇧👍🏻👍🏻
My favourite scen from the Spy at the Hospital episode is Lt George asking a top British spy who has been in Germany for several years:
- Have you seen any spies here?
Spy: Nein! ("no" in german)
Lt George: Nine, that's a lot!
@@johanrunfeldt7174 George is one of the best. So innocently stupid but so funny. Like when he dressed up in drag to take part in the show and Melchett fell in love with him. George accepted his marriage proposal etc. Brilliant comedy at its best 👍🏻
It was actually caused by disputes over oil in Africa. The whole Franz Ferdinand Arch-Duke of Prussia is a deliberate common misunderstanding.
For more detail watch The History of Oil by the comedian Robert Newman.
Look at Blackadder 2 & 3... Superb performances from the regular cast and cameos from Lord Flasheart of course! Blackadder 4 is excellent but I watch through teary eyes while laughing all the way.
I know the clips are available to watch, but it is really better to watch the full episodes to get the full effect. Even if you don't react to them, I'm sure you'd enjoy them 😁
You will hear lots of people telling you to watch the last scene of the last episode. Don't until you've watched more, particularly from this last series. You need to get 'in' to the whole atmosphere of the last series before you see that scene.
you must watch the whole episodes, Blackadder is perhaps one of the most exceptional British comedies series ever written
Blackadder series 2 and 4 with the episodes featuring The Lord Flasheart. Priceless!
One of the funniest clips for me is Blackadder II, episode 5 “beer” when he has breakfast with Percy.
Many considered Black Adder Goes Forth to be uncomfortably close to reality.
The closing scenes were sheer brilliance at the same time as being harrowing
Blackadder Court martial is hilarious. Firing squad is too. Blackadder meets Lord flasheart is also great.
Comedy shouldn't be that brilliant to make you genuinely reflect that deeply.
'we're your firing squad' from blackadder goes forth🤣
There's a lot more to the sketch, and indeed the whole episode of the programme. WW1 was essentially fought about 'honour'. Damn good thing to get ferocious about in those days, especially if you could conduct it by sending many good men to certain death and injury. My great grandmother received about £25 in compensation for the loss of my great uncle whose body lay in mud for 6 months. Officers who survived would get about £5000 for winning it. No, it is brilliant comedy, not least because it shows up the arses for what they were. It's brilliant.
Blackadder is brilliant, definitely watch more. Series 2 and 3 are my favourites.
The funniest Blackadder is the one you are watching. You should really watch them in chronicological order. Starts in the medieval era, moves into Elizabethan period, then onto the Regency period of George III,and then finally into the 1st, World War. All have a very rough adherence to genuine English history, but should also be taken with a pinch of salt, and some absolutely superb acting. (4 series and 4 episodes per series I think, you really have to watch them all in full to get full impact of the genius of the whole genre. Good luck,
of blacker goes forth, then the final scenes of the final episode is the one to watch - a very powerful TV moment
You really should watch the whole of Blackadder Goes Forth…..not just classic comedy but dwells on the insanity of that war……but still freakin funny!
For me the best series was the Elizabethan era. The best of those was the one with Flash-heart and Bob. The finale of series 4 (which was the one you partly watched) was classic Blackadder gold.
Blackadder goes Forth. Only comedy show to ever bring a lump to my throat
Watching Blackadder in full episodes would be AMAZING! The issue you'll have is that you will get copyright blocked across the board. So you'd have to do highly edited down & shortened reactions. But it is one of the greatest sitcoms of all time & is most definatly a must see
Neil Talks seems to have a mostly working formula for watching full episodes
@@miff227 agreed. But I'd rather cover bases & give him a heads up (cause Blackadder can be a nightmare to get up). Cause I would love to see his reactions to them. As I'm sure you do. Have a great day 😁👍🏻
Look for the Blackadder Goes Forth Episode called “Private Plane” which features Rik Mayall in one of his best roles as Lord Flashheart.
You're just getting in to some really top stuff, what with this and WILTY. I'm a wee bit jealous that you have these joys ahead of you!
Brilliant as always Sir!
And yes please either do more Black Adder reactions, I don't have any clips to share, but please at least watch Blackadder in your own time, it's worth watching as a show, a pure delight delightful! Goes Forth was the best series for me, but the whole thing has a cult following now and even back then!
Loved your acknowledgement that WW1 was a " clusterfuck " ( a word I first heard in a film called Heartbreak Ridge with Clint Eastwood ) !! If I may be permitted to add to you observation and say - ALL wars are clusterfucks and from time immemorial have been fought to profit a very few people regardless of the loss of life and carnage inflicted upon humanity. Hoping all that is on its way to being remedied. Keep laughing - because laughter is indeed the best medicine.
Excellent show, do more of these, the General Melchett compilation is really good 👍
I think the reason for the straws was to enable patients to breathe better with nasal packs in situ but they used to trim them shorter.
Yes you should do more Blackadder, it is the single best comedy series ever made especially the last two seasons
Do more blackadder…. Ones with Lord Flashheart in.
Woof!
@@tsuguminiyamoto6417 Bark !
The thing about the nose, as you put it, he was trying to appear crazy so he would be discharged. Sort of like Cpl Klinger in MASH, if you're aware of 70s American sitcoms....and then there was Henry the 8th and his six knives, always passes people by, including our friend here ...
Yes! More Blackadder! And then Black Books. Also a funny 'sit-com' from Brittain!
One of the Top Generals owed Blackadder saving his life or something back in the late 1890s early 1900s in a war in Africa where Blackadder said the native were dangerous armed with bananas and other sharp fruit's. So Blackadder called him up before having to go Over the Top and attack German Lines, so the General said ok but to be clear we are even after this, ok Blackadder he said to get out of it and to be sent home as being mad, stick a pair of underpants on your head and 2 pencils up your nose ( that might have been the thing in late 1800s early 1900s but not in 1917 where this episode is set.
It was a viciously sharp slice of Mango, sir...
The pencils and underwear were his attempt to get out of the army. The writers were using Catch 22 - which specified that concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Any soldier requesting mental evaluation for insanity demonstrates his sanity in creating the request, and thus cannot be declared insane.
Black Adder Goes Forth is the greatest comedy series….EVER!
I will be very, very happy if you do reactions to the Blackadder series. I like the first series more than most, but it's Blackadder 2-4 where the show becomes one of the greatest comedies of all time (oh, and the excellent Blackadder's Christmas Carol too).
Blackadder-lord flashhearts grand entrance ,it’s a classic clip.
You’ve got to watch it all buddy! Black adder is one of the best written comedies ever! The second series onwards anyway. The first season is……well…..a feet finding mission!
IMO Blackadder is the best ever British comedy series. The first series was probably not up to the standard of the other three but 2, 3 and 4 are top class. Have a look at the scene in series 2 where Blackadder tries to teach Baldrick some simple Maths using beans. Brilliant.
There are also many hilarious scenes in season 1 btw. - he is just a different type from the Blackadders of seasons 2, 3 & 4 😉
Just to take issue with something you said. It's important to understand, that World War II happened because of World War I not in spite of it. Were it not for the economic collapse of Germany caused by reparations, Nationaler Sozialismus would never have taken power.
Basically if you don’t laugh at Blackadder you must be dead. It’s hilarious. It doesn’t date because it’s historic anyway. Making a cup of tea in Blackadder Goes Forth is very funny.
You have to watch the series (start at series 2,the first was not so good) there's some brilliant historical references and the cast absolutely chewed the scenery off it. Brilliant stuff! 😎👌
My favourite Blackadder episode was "The Queen of Spain's Beard" from series one.
Don’t do the final scene till you’ve worked your way through the series you’ll regret it… Blackadder is awesome!
Your reactions to British comedy is priceless, even though I've seen this sketch so many times, watching you guys watch it is like me watching it for the first time. I just finished watching an episode of Fawlty Towers (John Cleese) this episode is called "The Germans" you got to give it a watch and let's see your reaction, I guarantee you will leave your seat!!
A bullet with my name on it and the war poem to classic Blackadder scenes ( probably do them both together as short clips)
Black adder goes forth has ages the best.
I think you would find Blackadder Goes Forth (which this clip is from) to be very funny, informative and an unforgettable watch, featuring some of the best British comic actors.
Dude you need to check out "oh what a lovely war" a ww1 explained MASTERPIECE.
The underpants on the head and pencils in the nose were a tried but not so true methode of getting a section 8 and being declared bonkers. When he faced summary execution, he backed out of it and went over the top to get killed anyway.
Funny thing is that Archduke Franz Ferdinand had an ostrich feather in his hat when he got shot, so the poor old ostrich indeed died for nothing.
I'm really into military history, going back to the ancient Greeks, Persians, right through to today...and yet, and yet, there is something about WW1 that pisses me off so much that I can't get too into it because it will seriously ruin my mood. No other war does this to me. I think it has to be the sheer idiotic way it started, the way it was fought, the industrial scale of the slaughter and, perhaps worst of all, the way it set the conditions for the rise of Hitler, Mussolini and Imperial Japan and WW2.
Same
My favourite comedy of all time
Check out the episode "Dish and Dishonesty" from series 3, it's one of the more popular episodes
Yep, Blackadder is classic British wordplay at its best. These clips really don't do it justice because you're missing the context of the storyline. In series 4 (goes forth) Blackadder is constantly trying to find ways to avoid "going over the top". He knows it Means certain death. George thinks it's heroic and exciting, and Baldric is great at being Baldric. You really need to watch the whole lot from series 2 onwards. ✌❤🇬🇧
Watch series one too, it's not as great as the others, but it's better than TV today, and it has Brian Blessed.
yeah black adder is a comedy with serious social stuff thrown in
Every episode Blackadder was trying to get out of fighting, in this final episode he is pretending to be mad so he can be discharged, hence wearing his underpants on his head and the pencils up his nose!
Watch all of Blackadder Goes Forth - but watch them in order, and definitely leave the final episode to last. You'll thank us later for doing that.
"Don't Mention Macbeth" clip from Blackadder The Third is a great one. BBC Comedy Greats channel.
The Baldrick character was used to describe someone who was stupid.
Ah! The recommendation! How about 'How not to behave at a family dinner' from Blackadder II?
The "Pants on the head and pencils up the nose" attempt to be certified as crazy and therefore exempt from going over the top... "But then who's going to notice another madman around here"
blackadder season 2. From here until the end the whole lot is pretty good. Season 1's humour is more subtle and not so obvious. Watch the lot starting from season 2
Love all the Black Adder shows. With regards to which one you should watch-its Black Adder goes Forth-set within WW1. The show is seen as a tribute, with the ending of the final show. The other Black Adder shows cover past segments of English history. Thr final show BA4, shows many English comedians, such as the late Rick Mayall and his sidekick Ade Edmundson. Have to admit us English do have a good sense of humour.
Blackadder the third is by far the best...
Haven't seen you do any Only fools and horses yet???
There are so many to choose from. Watch the clip: When Blackadder is court mashalled for shooting General Melchett's pigeon -Funny.
Rowan Atkinson is a brilliant comedy actor - known best in the USA as Mr Bean - and you will doubtless enjoy all four Blackadder series. The first one is considered a little weak, but gained a lot of weight from the second series onwards. Have you spotted Hugh Lawrie in an early role before he produced House ?