Blackadder S2 Ep1 "Bells" REACTION!
Added 2024-06-20 18:00:06 +0000 UTCLORD FLASHHEART!
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This was clearly the series (season) that this show really hit it's stride
Simon Butterworth
2025-09-26 10:15:50 +0000 UTCEveryone apparently always stood back whenever Rik was on set, RIP legend!
Stuart Biegala
2025-08-06 15:17:30 +0000 UTCClassic for sure. Also rik as flasheart was the perfect casting
Justyn
2025-02-14 00:33:52 +0000 UTCI wish he would. I know he was a little underwhelmed by the TV series, but the live shows are very different.
Michael K
2024-12-24 21:28:48 +0000 UTCWe get it, you like season one. Move on with your life 😂
Adam Senior
2024-12-13 10:47:08 +0000 UTCStayed Tuned For Blackadder Goes Forth, Lord Flash Hearts Returns! And Eddie from Bottom too in the same episode.
Tone Grumbt
2024-10-26 23:04:00 +0000 UTCEarly Modern is 16th to 18th centuries, coterminous with the continental Renaissance (15th and 16th centuries), and overlapping with the later-flowering English Renaissance (late 15th to early 17th centuries).
Ash X
2024-09-29 14:25:49 +0000 UTCStupid thought.
Grady Parsons
2024-09-29 13:22:52 +0000 UTCMore like the real twat starts moaning about season 1 again.
Grady Parsons
2024-09-29 13:22:45 +0000 UTCExcept it started with season 1.
Grady Parsons
2024-09-29 13:22:13 +0000 UTC60 cm.
Grady Parsons
2024-09-29 13:22:01 +0000 UTCIt was good before this.
Grady Parsons
2024-09-29 13:21:27 +0000 UTCThere really isn't any repetition.
Grady Parsons
2024-09-29 13:20:29 +0000 UTCShut up.
Grady Parsons
2024-09-29 13:18:24 +0000 UTCIt's not the early modern period. It's the Renaissance.
Grady Parsons
2024-09-29 13:17:44 +0000 UTCWe don't need to know that yet another part of the tiny minority doesn't like it.
Grady Parsons
2024-09-29 13:17:21 +0000 UTCSkipping it is just ridiculous.
Grady Parsons
2024-09-29 13:16:35 +0000 UTCWill you react to the Bottom Live shows?
Tomious
2024-07-21 18:32:56 +0000 UTCWOOF!
Geraint Harrison
2024-07-08 23:01:37 +0000 UTCBury me in a Y-shaped coffin…😂😂😂
Dan Jaypii
2024-07-04 13:40:38 +0000 UTCMiranda Richardson is beautiful
Erica
2024-06-30 13:46:16 +0000 UTCYes you’re right maybe I typed that when I was drunk because I actually meant the third series it’s my favourite 🤩. The one with the actors when he does the roar before the speech is bloody gold
Erica
2024-06-30 13:45:10 +0000 UTCfinally the second series of Blackadder this is when the show really hits off I'm sure the first series is fine I've always just avoided it but genuinely this show just becomes legendary by now also glad to see and hear that you're a Rik Mayall fan and I think that the only kindest thing to do is to suggest the young ones yet again like Blackadder really hits it's steed by the second series but actually series of Young Ones is fantastic too.
Nunabissess
2024-06-26 11:14:39 +0000 UTCBrilliant - I admit to skipping the first season, sorry! The Lord Flashheart moments are brilliant - once you've completed all the seasons, there's a compilation on youtube of his moments that you could watch on the YT channel for a reaction.
Adi Hughes
2024-06-26 09:50:28 +0000 UTCYep, that's pretty much a whole generation that do that 🤣
Stu T
2024-06-22 21:30:54 +0000 UTCYou know Rotten Tomatoes is just how many of them thought it was worth a watch, right? Not a perfect score. Even the shittiest B movies might get a fair score because it's worth knowing what not to do.
Joe Thornhill
2024-06-22 20:37:33 +0000 UTCAccording to Alan, over on The Eclectic Beard, that's pretty much what she was actually like.
Joe Thornhill
2024-06-22 20:33:22 +0000 UTCI didn't know an Adder was a snake until recently. I'm not sure I ever really new if we had proper 2ft+ wild snakes. Especially a venomous one.
Joe Thornhill
2024-06-22 20:28:50 +0000 UTCI must admit, while I never knew what an Adder was until about a month ago when I stumbled on a video of a guy's lucky day, finding the only venomous snake in England, I thought you'd know a Blackadder was a snake. Very hard to find as they'll slither away pretty fast, really wanting to be left alone. Only about 14 recorded deaths in 150 years or so.
Joe Thornhill
2024-06-22 20:24:43 +0000 UTCGreat reaction! Yes, they were wearing Elizabethan clothes. Lord Blackadder in this is the great-grandson of Edmund from the first series. That series was Medieval, this one is the Early Modern age set in the 16th century. Miranda Richardson plays Queen Elizabeth I as a kind of spoiled girl, still looked after by her wet nurse who fed her as a baby! Stephen Fry is Lord Melchett, the Queen's Lord Chamberlain who manages the Royal Household. Fry appears again in Blackadder Goes Forth, the series set during the First World War, where he plays General Melchett (a descendant of Lord Melchett). Tim McInnerny plays Lord Percy, the upper-class dimwit and 'friend' of Blackadder, and a descendant of the Lord Percy who appeared in the first series.
Ash X
2024-06-22 18:41:58 +0000 UTCAbsolutely..especially Bob in goes forth
Paul Liversage
2024-06-22 16:50:09 +0000 UTCThey did get the young ones on mtv in the US but it was in the 80s i think so I guess it's possible. That would be shame if he has seen it
Richard Stokes
2024-06-22 09:50:42 +0000 UTCI had a massive crush on her in this when I was younger... I wouldn't say no to Bob either 🤪
BigChanChan
2024-06-22 08:37:33 +0000 UTCI could be wrong but I think I've seen it mentioned before that he's already watched it.
BigChanChan
2024-06-22 08:36:09 +0000 UTCI always say 'Bob' à la Blackadder now! Ahh the first proper series, bring it on 😉👍🏻
Odette Hull
2024-06-21 22:18:59 +0000 UTCTheres a short documentary about it. Cant find the full episode (but not properly searched yet). Didn't even know it existed.
Ryan Lynch
2024-06-21 19:34:45 +0000 UTCThe unaired pilot is a lot more like this style than the first series, it's on youtube I believe.
BurmaCuWin
2024-06-21 17:32:49 +0000 UTCThe more I watch the more I see the influence of the young ones on Blackadder and there was crossover in both directions - Rik Mayall as Flasheart and his general over the top knockabout violence! Ben Elton writing for both, fry and Laurie. Does make me think you would enjoy the young ones KB!
Richard Stokes
2024-06-21 11:43:52 +0000 UTCThanks for the great content as always King Boomer, never fail to put a smile on my face. Cheers!
Nick Hurford
2024-06-20 23:57:58 +0000 UTCGood reaction, looking forward to rest of the series! :) The intro to Blackadder II is inspired by / making fun of the intro to the very serious Ancient Rome historical saga 'I, Claudius'. Which is based on Caesar Claudius' personal diaries. KB, you'd love 'I, Claudius. It's award winning mid 70s UK drama, great cast includes Brian Blessed (as Augustus), Patrick Stewart (as Sejanus), Derek Jacobi (as Claudius) and many more. In the USA it was broadcast by PBS's Masterpiece Theatre series. It has a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. 12 episodes, 1 series. Eps are just under 1 hour each. It might sound like a long haul but when it's over you'll be gutted there were only 12 of them. The website's consensus reads: "Marrying a trove of terrific actors at their peak with a masterful script that draws from irresistibly juicy source material, I, Claudius transcends its paltry production values to become a gold standard for historical dramas."
Jason Scade
2024-06-20 22:25:55 +0000 UTCI think episodes 1 and 2 were aired the wrong way round, which I think may have also happened to Peep Show. Sometimes the channel just decides that unless it creates any glaring continuity errors, to put what they think is the stronger episode first.
Mark Fraser
2024-06-20 22:19:09 +0000 UTCMaybe unpopular opinion but I think The Third was peak Blackadder. No doubt Goes Forth has one of the greatest finales in British TV history, but still, having rewatched it recently, I find a lot of the jokes and insults very over-written. There's a LOT of "Baldrick, your ___ is like a [insert very long and wordy insult]" so many times an episode. This is nitpicking, it's still a classic series, I just find it became "too" Blackaddery compared to The Third.
Mark Fraser
2024-06-20 22:16:56 +0000 UTCSorta. If you strip away Rik and his charisma, it's still obvious the whole point of Flashheart is he's an overly macho, overly sexual, stereotype of a classic fictional hero and the joke is that normally this person would be the star, but we're stuck with Blackadder. He's basically written to upstage Blackadder and that's still partly because Rik pitched that direction for the character early on. They knew going in that he was going to give this big performance and wanted it.
Mark Fraser
2024-06-20 22:10:07 +0000 UTCForgot on how much I love this series, is the weakest episode of this season but still is great.
Mackem
2024-06-20 21:39:52 +0000 UTCYay, proper Blackadders begin...
Martin N
2024-06-20 21:38:18 +0000 UTCHugh Laurie is even more bonkers and off the scale in Blackadder The Third.
Martin N
2024-06-20 21:37:40 +0000 UTCLove mirranda Richardson playing queen Elizabeth as a spoilt little girl
Paul Liversage
2024-06-20 21:34:10 +0000 UTCHaha... I thought someone would make a sarcastic comment like this. (And if they didn't, I was going to)
Ryan Lynch
2024-06-20 21:31:46 +0000 UTCNot only Stephen Fry's Blackadder debut, but also the start of his TV breakthrough! He'd previously been in that one episode of The Young Ones (along with Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson) and did a couple of ITV sketch shows in the meantime which never really got going, but this was the first time the public saw him getting his teeth into a character, and although you have to wait till Series 4 for the iconic incarnation of Melchett, Fry nailed it right from the off. Trivia: Rowan Atkinson actually has a lifelong stammer triggered by prominent B sounds, which he trained himself to avoid by pausing and articulating them carefully, so Curtis & Elton deliberately had Kate use the pseudonym "Bob" because they knew Atkinson would have to say it in that comically peculiar way all through the episode to keep himself from stuttering. If that seems a bit cruel of them, rest assured that Rik Mayall pissed them both off by tearing up the final pages of their script, rewriting it himself and then ignoring half of what he wrote in favour of ad-libbed anarchy in that final scene!
Ian Richards
2024-06-20 21:27:43 +0000 UTCI love how quick you caught on to the way he says Bob!
Laurence P-O
2024-06-20 21:12:09 +0000 UTCYes, I remember this was one of the later episodes when it first aired.
Jay
2024-06-20 21:08:29 +0000 UTCOh good grief you can tell I drank too much watching the England match that I got his name wrong. When I passed my GCSEs my dad bought me a book of the script. Very cross with myself hahaha
Erica
2024-06-20 21:02:03 +0000 UTCDo you mean Edmund? :) I probably would've had a thing for Queenie if she hadn't been so insufferable. Definitely had a thing for Bob though
irreverend
2024-06-20 20:51:46 +0000 UTCThey needed to improve viewing figures, as far as I am aware. And brought in Ben Elton to co write. You can see the different sense of humour and comedy straight away.
Ryan Lynch
2024-06-20 20:50:23 +0000 UTCI had a crush on Edward so much in this series when I was a teenager . Too much info sorry
Erica
2024-06-20 20:38:15 +0000 UTCI'm convinced this wasn't episode 1 when it was first aired The way he says Bbbobb..is because he has a very slight stutter
Paul Liversage
2024-06-20 20:29:44 +0000 UTCRIP Rik - 10 years on. I love this speech he gave in 2008 to the rest of the year's graduates when he was given an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Exeter. His 5 Mantras For Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM8ZwW9pdc8&t=1s
Nidge
2024-06-20 19:57:24 +0000 UTCI always assumed it was because of the era it was set in, there's quite a few allusions to Shakespeare in this series and he was writing mostly under Queen Elizabeth I reign. I may be completely off the mark on that, but I always assumed that was the reason for it in this series. Series 3 is markedly less like that. So all the talking to the audience as if no one else in the room can hear them as inner monologue etc
irreverend
2024-06-20 19:40:19 +0000 UTCI like this obviously but it gets better blackadder goes forth is my favourite because Hugh Laurie is off the scale
Erica
2024-06-20 19:25:46 +0000 UTCAm I pleased to see you or did I just put a canoe in my pocket . Oh that’s from this episode isn’t is haha haven’t watched the reaction yet
Erica
2024-06-20 19:23:44 +0000 UTCGlad you liked the episode KB. I think the two biggest changes from the first Blackadder to this one is 1) bringing Ben Elton on board as co-writer with Richard Curtis (Curtis co-wrote the first season with Rowan Atkinson) and 2) the writers giving the Blackadder character wit, intelligence and cunning, which were severely lacking in the character’s first season! Ben Elton was probably responsible for the knob type gags and putting the characters in to stupid situations, whereas Curtis (being more the wordsmith of the two), probably wrote a lot of the witty one liners and put downs. It seemed to work well because both writers wrote Blackadder the Third and Blackadder goes Forth (the latter is usually regarded as the best of the four seasons.)
Andrew Roberts
2024-06-20 19:22:47 +0000 UTCThat is probably one of the best responses I wasn't expecting and completely understandable, it's just a shame that the over the top exaggerated theatrics is just so distracting and feels forced. I know it's a comedy sitcom and you arent expecting academy award level of performance but you know what I mean
Dave Jones
2024-06-20 19:09:21 +0000 UTCI haven't watched Blackadder in years. Weird how the opening episode of every series is always the weakest.
Colin R
2024-06-20 19:01:59 +0000 UTCI love the way flashheart comes in and completely turns the world upside down. everything goes out the window, they break the 4th wall, tear the set down. RIP Rik
The Everything Guy
2024-06-20 19:00:02 +0000 UTCprobably a mix of a couple of things. atkinson and ben elton had a particular style in the earlier days, they wrote in a theatre style and the production methods they used were much more suited to a theatre style system than a fully on set one like we have today. actors would have had to project their lines alot more to be picked up over the noise of the set, all dialogue being recorded during filming with maybe only 1 or 2 mics. where as today we have multiple boom mics and worn mics to pick up subtle dialogue. I think they probably also wanted to be able to incorporate these types of sit coms into shows that could go into theatres and tour if need be.
The Everything Guy
2024-06-20 18:54:10 +0000 UTCRik was told not to 'Upstage' Blackadder in the Pilot for the 2nd series, so he promised not to, but nobody could stop him haha
Danny Heywood
2024-06-20 18:46:02 +0000 UTCThe important part of this episode is to establish the huge change in characters too. And yes it is Elizabethan, Queenie being Queen Elizabeth I (the redhead in the crown). He's still a descendent of Blackadder the first, but only a Lord now, not a Prince. The snide wit is really what makes the last 3 series better than the first.
irreverend
2024-06-20 18:37:26 +0000 UTCJust how I like it... Firm and fruity!
Jay
2024-06-20 18:24:13 +0000 UTCMot sure if it's just me, but I really can't stand the over exaggerated acting where they are shouting out their lines like they are on stage without a microphone, something a lot of these vintage sitcoms was always guilty of
Dave Jones
2024-06-20 18:23:19 +0000 UTCHuzzah!!
Duncan Hart
2024-06-20 18:13:21 +0000 UTCtotal gold from here on out
Leo Stewart-Smith
2024-06-20 18:10:53 +0000 UTC''Ooooh It's a Snake!'' ....Yes a Black one....Some kind of Adder I think.
Danny Heywood
2024-06-20 18:10:44 +0000 UTCAt larst the series realy starts 😆 😂 😄 🤣
Dango247
2024-06-20 18:07:44 +0000 UTCYa mate, been waiting for this, 👌 enjoy
Nothinghalo
2024-06-20 18:04:45 +0000 UTCMy thoughts exactly
irreverend
2024-06-20 18:02:56 +0000 UTCHere we fucking go, the real Blackadder starts now. Bobbb
Phoenix
2024-06-20 18:02:34 +0000 UTC
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