Die meisten kennen Rowan Atkinson als Mr. Bean. Doch der englische Kultkomiker verkörperte auch einige andere Charaktere... unter anderem den egoistischen Lord Blackadder, der mit einer gehörigen Portion Mißgunst gegenüber anderen Menschen und zynische Wortgefechte für einige komische Situationen sorgt. An seiner Seite immer sein treuer Diener Baldrick.
Ganz besonders genial ist das bisher letzte Lebenszeichen Blackadders geworden: ein Special zum damals bevorstehenden Jahrtausendwechsel 1999 - es sei allen ans Herz gelegt! Zur Einstimmung hier mal die besten Sprüche - natürlich im Original auf Englisch!
Beim Angriff der Schotten auf Hadrian's Wall:
Last one in gets hacked in pieces by Rod Stewart's great-great-grandfather!
Blackadder: When was the last time, I played a practical joke?
Darling: Well, there was the time when you said, you were dying of kidney failure. So I donated one of my kidneys to you. Then you said, it was an april's fool - and we had to throw my kidney away.
Blackadder: Oooh... yes... this was this old hilarious practical joke...
Blackadder schlägt Shakespeare nieder:
Do you know, how much suffering you are going to cause? Millions of school-children spending hours at school-desks, trying to find ONE joke in 'A Midsummer Nights Dream"?
Blackadder: I have a cunning plan...
Baldrick: Is it as cunning as a fox that used to be professor of cunning at Oxford University, but has moved on, and is now working for the UN at the high commission of international cunning planning?
Blackadder: Yes, it is!
Baldrick: Oh... that's cunning...
Blackadder: Baldrick, you really are as thick as clotted cream, that's been left out by some clot, and now the clots are so clotted, you couldn't unclot them with an electric de-clotter!
Blackadder: Baldrick, where are the underpants?
Baldrick: Here you are, mylord. They are my very best pair. And - coincidentally - also my very worst one.
Blackadder: So they are - in fact - your ONLY pair of underpants!
