Blackadder S3 Ep2 "Ink and Incapability" REACTION!
Added 2024-08-19 16:00:04 +0000 UTCI'm surprised Baldric hasn't been killed by now.
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I'm senile.
South Coast Rich
2024-10-03 07:56:11 +0000 UTCIt's also been wrong for 47 years.
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 22:16:11 +0000 UTCNo, an "Alsatian" is a German Shepherd in the UK from the end of World War I to 1977.
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 22:15:54 +0000 UTCFirst of all, dumbass, the dog is in Hot Fuzz. Second of all, retard, the film is "Shaun of the Dead", not "Sean of the Dead". He's not fucking Irish.
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 22:15:21 +0000 UTCIt's the wrong name.
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 22:14:08 +0000 UTCIt's not "just another name". It's outdated by 47 years.
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 22:14:02 +0000 UTCIt's the long-outdated name.
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 22:13:45 +0000 UTCNo, it's the wrong name for a German Shepherd.
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 22:13:26 +0000 UTC"His".
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 22:12:37 +0000 UTC"Alsatian" is the long-gone former name of the German Shepherd.
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 22:12:25 +0000 UTCThe name was ended in 1977.
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 22:11:49 +0000 UTCAn "Alsatian" was the name of German Shepherds in the UK from the end of World War I to 1977. It is used by the same people who say "centigrade", rather than Celsius, which replaced "centigrade" in 1947 β the senile. However, the head is clearly not that of a German Shepherd; rather it is a werewolf.
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 22:10:41 +0000 UTCyes, t'was Lord Byron and Shelley (husband to Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein)
Industrialist2015ofUk
2024-09-05 10:38:29 +0000 UTCI wonder if youβll recognise te French ambassador in the next episode.
Neal Murdoch
2024-08-25 17:50:09 +0000 UTCI think calling them "Alsatians" was more of a British thing as calling anything "German" related wouldn't be looked upon favourably during the times of either war. Hardly the dogs fault though - but then I remember people still calling them Alsatians in the 80s. But then people like that were still crowing about England's win against West Germany at World Cup '66. Some idiots still are. German Shepherds, on the other hand are wonderful, loyal and rewarding companions, but you have to know how to take care of them properly and give them the life they deserve.
Phil Robinson
2024-08-21 17:53:59 +0000 UTCLove this episode - I'm still gonna say this was the strongest series for me. For similar reasons that KB has already picked up on. It just seems that everything is on fire - performance, writing and that kick-arse end theme tune with the big percussion! (Which should never be skipped) But you know, opinions and stuff. As for the Alsatian thing, well, that's been covered. German Shepherds are wonderful dogs aren't they?. You've never lived until one has made friends with you and decides they want to sit on your lap for an hour. You're not moving anywhere. Nor after they decide to leave and you wait for 10 minutes while your legs start working again. Also KB - don't forget "Blackadder's Christmas Carol" at the end of this series before you move on to S4!
Phil Robinson
2024-08-21 17:38:46 +0000 UTCOh fair enough, I didn't know they were the same dog
R Lawrence
2024-08-21 01:32:39 +0000 UTCI'm sure they have German Shepherds over there, they just don't call them Alsatians
Relyx
2024-08-21 01:31:31 +0000 UTCFunny you should mention Rimmer now, can't wait for next episode
Jessica Dalton-Morgan
2024-08-21 00:15:08 +0000 UTCSo fits perfectly in a series set in the mid-1700s then :D (to be fair the term 'German Sheppard' wasn't coined til 1899 either)
Steve King
2024-08-20 19:29:28 +0000 UTCAs other have said an Alsatian is a German Sheppard...though neither term or the breed existed in the 1700s
Steve King
2024-08-20 19:27:31 +0000 UTCI was going to say the same thing. We used some of Blackadders words especially if making the tea.
Graham Rodgers
2024-08-20 16:21:57 +0000 UTCI can't believe you don't have Alsatians in America, it's a breed of dog, I guess originally from Alsace. I think Hitler primarily had Alsatians in those old home movies, kind of lupine but not.
R Lawrence
2024-08-20 15:54:50 +0000 UTCI know I'm in the minority but I still prefer S2 to S3.
BigChanChan
2024-08-20 13:10:21 +0000 UTCItβs an old Saxon name. And Saxon is also the name of the Alsatian in Sean of the Dead. Which I hate.
Dan the man
2024-08-20 12:01:27 +0000 UTCContrafibularities was always a fave.
Dan the man
2024-08-20 05:15:16 +0000 UTCMe, my parents and 2 siblings use the word 'Interfrastically' in day-to-day life that roughly correlates to 'I might be gone some time'.... we know the scripts to series 2, 3, 4, Cavalier Years and Christmas carol by heart and adapt quotes for situations we find ourselves in. A 'Dream Turnip' is anything we've been looking for for ages, or a new gadget that we simply must have. I'll say something like "Mother, there is a new Dream Turnip in my life - this new brooch that's just come out!". When I'm frustrated by modern life or worried about something, I'll make a reference to checking what the current welfare standards for Nepalese Goats are!
Katherine Birkett
2024-08-20 00:59:05 +0000 UTCAn all-time favourite episode of mine! As someone else has already said, it's a great touch to have Johnson played by a Scot like Robbie Coltrane, as in real life Johnson's attitude towards Scots ("Certainly God made Scotland, but you must also remember that God made Hell") was surpassed only by his ire for Americans ("they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging"). It's true that Johnson's Dictionary didn't contain the word aardvark, but it *did* have sausage, albeit listed out of alphabetical order. The plot for this one is based on the actual events that occurred when John Stuart Mill passed on a commission to write a history of the French Revolution to his friend Thomas Carlyle in the 1830s. When Carlyle finished his first draft (after months of round-the-clock work), he sent the one and only manuscript copy to Mill, who then turned up at Carlyle's door one evening beside himself with guilt, clutching the charred remains of the book and explaining that a careless, illiterate chambermaid had used it to kindle a fire. Carlyle and his family were on the verge of bankruptcy already, and he'd destroyed his notes for the book, but Mill was so distraught that in order to spare him any further guilt, Carlyle accepted financial remuneration from him and used the money to make ends meet while he set about rewriting the whole thing from scratch. Published in 1837, the book's been in print ever since, and Carlyle kept the blackened pages of the burnt first draft in his study for the rest of his life as a memento.
Ian Richards
2024-08-19 23:05:51 +0000 UTCAn Alsatian is not a German Shepherd cat.
David Butler
2024-08-19 21:15:14 +0000 UTC"Your definition of dog?" "Not a cat" I question why this is not the accepted definition of dog in any standard English dictionary.
Colin R
2024-08-19 19:37:50 +0000 UTCNever realised that was Robbie Coltrane. A testament to their acting skills.
Brendan
2024-08-19 19:30:56 +0000 UTCI'm anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulations. My favourite episode of series 2 and 3 combined. The finale of series 4 does beat it but I do just love this ep. Series 3 is stronger overall than series 2 for me. Look forward to more. I shall return.... interfrastically. π
Ash Jeffries
2024-08-19 19:27:11 +0000 UTCπ
Jason Scade
2024-08-19 18:32:28 +0000 UTCAnd yes that was Lord Byron, the poet, aristocrat and all-round bad boy, together with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (whose wife Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein). In reality, Byron could not have been in the same room as Samuel Johnson at the coffee house: Johnson died in 1784 and Byron was only born in 1788. So this is just a bit of dramatic license! Come to think of it, Samuel Johnson and the Prince Regent couldn't have met either: this Blackadder is set around 1812, long after Johnson had died! The dating is zany but fun. I do love Mrs Miggin's Coffee Shop: coffee shops were the places to be in the 18th century, where people went to read newspapers, share gossip, give financial advice, do business deals, etc. They attracted politicians, actors, scientists, travellers, traders. They must have been incredible places to learn what was going on in the world. So, meeting at Starbucks isn't a new concept!
Ash X
2024-08-19 18:24:25 +0000 UTCAlways amuses me that Dr Samuel Johnson, one of the most intelligent men of the 18th century, and who famously disliked the Scots, is played by Robbie Coltrane! The dislike was mainly good natured as when he said that "the best view in Scotland is of the road back to England". When his biographer James Boswell, a Scottish lawyer, jokingly apologised for being Scottish, saying "I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it", Johnson replied: "That, sir, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help". They went on to become firm friends. Johnson didn't write the first English dictionary, but he did write the first to modern standards and although he had several assistants, he wrote all of it by hand himself: all 40,000 entries.
Ash X
2024-08-19 18:13:42 +0000 UTCC. A big blue wobbly thing that mermaids live in. Genius.
Dan the man
2024-08-19 18:07:06 +0000 UTCAn Alsatian is another name for a German Shepard.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2024-08-19 17:53:09 +0000 UTCAn alsatian is a german sheperd / schæferhund
K Bruun Kristensen
2024-08-19 17:29:07 +0000 UTCAlsatian is a term for them only really used in Britain, and was only introduced to make them sound less obviously German during WW1
Relyx
2024-08-19 17:10:31 +0000 UTCAn Alsation is just another name for a German Shepard breed of dog. It became popularized whenever England and Germany were at war I believe, to avoid stigma against the dogs lol
Kit Taylor
2024-08-19 17:05:53 +0000 UTCAn Alsatian is an alternative name for a German Shepherd Dog.
South Coast Rich
2024-08-19 16:55:21 +0000 UTCand an Alsatian is a german shepherd dog you muppet
tricky D77
2024-08-19 16:39:36 +0000 UTCSausage!!!!!!
tricky D77
2024-08-19 16:03:33 +0000 UTC
