Best Comedy Scene: Blackadder the third - Baldrick : I'd get a great big turnip in the country.

BBC holds the copyright

[@exeggcutertimur6091]

Just the very idea of an MP application form is top notch satire.

[@winsomehax]

03:11
"Now then, criminal record?"
"Absolutely not"
"Oh come on Baldrick. You're going to be an MP for god's sake. I'll just put fraud and sexual deviancy"
Stone cold classic.

[@whoknowswhocares885]

@@winsomehax
Is this something thats an inside joke for the British.
Do MPs have criminal records and everyone is completely okay with it?

[@winsomehax]

@@whoknowswhocares885 There is a long sullied history of MPs committing fraud (left wing MPs) and various perversions (right wing MPs). And no, noone is ok with it. But we do make fun of them.

[@harryfox7488]

@@whoknowswhocares885 You're better off not knowing.

[@aryastargirl5593]

"Give me the bloody money Baldrick or you're dead!"
"Give me the bloody money baldrick or you're dead, my lord."

[@robbiephillips8103]

Just do it, Baldrick! Otherwise I’ll shall further and noble you, By knighting you rather clumsily with this meat Cleaver!

[@sgt.thompson98]

I haven't got it.
What?!
I spent it.

[@kingsize127]

2:34 I love the defeated face and the way Blackadder says “What?” He’s thinking to himself, “I can’t believe I had to hear that… I can’t believe I live in a ridiculous world where I am able to hear that… I have to ask… why do I have to ask?… you can’t hear something like that and not ask… OMG I’m going to have to waste my breath to ask…”

[@smadaf]

"Window tax" sounds absurd here, but it was a real thing in Britain in centuries past. The state realized that one way to get more money was to tax glass windows, of which the rich had installed a great many in their houses, partly to show off their ability to buy so much of something as expensive as window glass. Window tax, which lasted from 1695 to 1841, is one of the main reasons why some fancy old houses in Britain have false windows painted where real windows used to exist or at least would fit the design: homeowners were reducing their tax liability.

[@butragenjo007]

No $hit? What's next, added value tax?

[@jimmoynahan9910]

That would've been parliament.

[@jediroya6810]

It’s where the phrase “daylight robbery” comes from.

[@dimitrilaureys8580]

historically correct, as with stamp duty (one of the clasically cited grievances of the American colonies).

[@smadaf]

@@jediroya6810, no, it's not.

[@gvantsasakaruli9900]

I adore how blackadder just accepted Baldrick's stupidness

[@marshalsea000]

Baldrick and Baldurs - men who know the value of turnips.

[@GodotOfficial]

3:12 Fraud and sexual deviancy are prerequisites to being an MP

[@stevenglass5583]

Sounds about right.

[@serfcityherewecome8069]

We have stricter standards here in the former US. You have to be a traitor too. 🤮

[@youtubeman2001]

@@serfcityherewecome8069same with the UK

[@meloncholy9661]

Sod off means go away in a very rude manner 2:38

[@IanMalcolm99]

Yes baldrick, we were aware of that

[@SuperBalders]

best series of them all

[@1madmaxx80]

Well, it might be sod off... LoL

[@terencej72]

You’ve got to laugh, Tony Robinson (Baldrick) plays the lowest of the low in all the series.However as some know in real life he is the only member of the cast with a Knighthood

[@quasarsphere]

30 years on I still don't know what a rubber button is...

[@NeidalRuekk]

A robber button :)

[@oscarthefunnydoggo9695]

I love this oml and I love Blackadder in general tho😂

[@paulf0703]

UK Health Minister now say everyone should eat Turnip - as lack of tomatoes/veg in UK now

[@paulf0703]

cunning PLAN!!!!!!

[@bencouvillon296]

Which episode is this from?

[@luismarquez487]

Series 3 episode 1 or 2

[@DBonaldi89]

@@luismarquez487 S03E01

[@andrewpatter1943]

Comedy gold