I believe he means that time when almost half of France was a Brit field... you know before they got bored and raged quit in front of Jeanne d'Arc

just after hastings, right?

According to "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", the French were speaking like that as early as the reign of King Arthur.

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Alex Stirner Yeah. That was a real laugh.

That's because the governament brainwashed you with 5G.

Any variation from established history is probably the result of time travellers messing about

My grandmother told me it is real.

Yes, I was laughing when they talked about the need for a miracle to beat the British - the French led by a military genius and soldiers that had conquered all of Europe in the previous 20 years.

@@pmurnion Takes an army to rule Europe. Takes a navy to rule the world.

That's soldiering...

Yes! My thought's too!

@@cymruisraelthat’s budgeting

Love sharpe but they really had to cut corners

'Bite, poor, spit, tap, aim fire.' Right that will cover 1/3 of the series.

Outrageously offensive & makes me even madder that it made me laugh.

@@ddc2957 The slaughtering or the mincing ? :)

Although Australian I’m firmly on the French side of yhe Napoleonic wars, so the mincing 😂

@@ddc2957 You sure know how to pick a winner.

Utter brilliance,

Because no matter what era Edmund Blackadder is in... he's always a cheapskate.

British as it comes

He'll explain later.

In reality, Tony Robinson is very smart.

@@craigkdillon ... Good point. It takes a lot of smart to realistically play dumb.

It was explained by the creators of Black Adder, that whilst being uneducated, Baldrick is the most intelligent one.

By god, the crossover of the century!!!!

If only it were true

Sean Bean aka Mr Bean hmmm....

@@jjproductions7299Yes, the 19th. 😎

​@@Ginea25 HA!

It's funny because just this morning I was listening to a guy on KZfaq reading diaries of soldiers during the Napoleonic wars and it was brutal. They said things like "a cannonball flew by my head and too the head off the guy next to me clean off his shoulders" or "the poor French lad took a cannonball straight through his chest causing the coins in his pocket to melt with his armour". A bunch of guys losing arms and legs to cannonball hits but you just have to ignore that and keep marching forward. Some russian soldier wrote that the French soldiers they captured were laughing and them saying they would soon become prisoners too because there was nothing that could stop Napoleon marching on Moscow and even the Russians said they believed he was invincible.

Thanks for sharing. Our generations are so desensitised by television, we fail to grasp just how bloody & horrific any war really is.@@amg863

Laughed at it everytime for 20 years

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I think Blackadder, though "comedy", is closer to real history than historians would care to admit. The ruling aristocracies were dull dimwitted dunces who caused has much death and misery through stupidity and ignorance, as they did through evil intent. Of course, to the lower classes who suffered, they could not tell the difference. Not that it mattered.

Imagine him popping up in North America during the American Revolution...😨

@@luisreyes1963 Blackadder would have solved our differences. Britain would still be ruling its 50 colonies here. The US would still have a king.

​@@luisreyes1963If only the machine landed on General Lee

A reminder of what happened when Napoleon visited Russia perhaps ?

Also used in Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture with canon fire.

@@hb1338 Or a subtle hint that the russian Czar will win the Crimean war in 1856 and dominate Europe...

​@xornxenophon3652 what?

Or was it . . .

really... cool 🍁❤‍🩹🍁 🤠

Series 2 and 3 were my favourites. :)

@@Codex7777 I always loved 4 best. Yeah it was a little more Gallows humor in the face of honest horror, but I think that made it a little more poignant.

Some of my friend's in-laws are Blackadders! Also no Edmund among them, afaik - more's the pity!

It fits!

I was going to say I almost did not recognize her without "Nursie" by her side, but remembered Patsy Byrne had passed several years ago. :(

Ain't it just

Girl of my dreams, just born a bit too early.

@@Eric_Cartman______ The fact that you are disappointed and made the effort to tell us all is amusing.

Miranda! :)

Yeah - a throwback to her being Queen Elizabeth I in the second series.

@@dubidolczektv5278 Oops!

I agree!

Baldrick is the Prime Minister. Blackadder is the King, absolute monarchy.

Oh no. You must Blackadder play Dr. Who.

he played one in comic relief one year didnt he?

@@robyncampbell-br5cl Yep, Comic Relief 1999.

You can't win 'em all.

Imagine an entire Series 'Allo, Allons-y' Where the only accent worse than the deliberately bad "French" spoken by the locals, was the French attempted by any British airmen - and the gendarme, unsubtly "undercover"

It's an alternative history where the french finally admitted that the English langauge was better:) Whats the Dr Strange? one out of 10 billion....

As we all know everybody in Europe only speaks English but with an accent. So those in France speak it with a French accent, in Germany with a German accent and so on. I know this because I saw it in a historical documentary called "Allo Allo". So it only makes sense that they'd continue to speak English with English accents while in England. I mean DUH! /s

Changing the money is much easier than changing the language and culture of an entire nation. Without some sort of autonomy the English would have propably rebelled a lot. Though I'd like to imagine if Napoleon won the battle of Waterloo he would have rather tried to split up the UK into smaller chunks like England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland and have control over them as vassal states. He basically did the same with his other conquests.

It’s pretty good if memory serves, can recommend

​@@BK-ku1zt it's utter dross

Blackadder goes Back and Forth! It was a feature length special made for the turn of the millennium.

Me too, I want to see it all. Seen everything else I think.

It was made to be shown in the millennium dome

i spat my coffee. the way he said it, poor lad. 😂

And the laughing afterwards, especially Stephen Fry,was masterful comedy !!

He had one in 'curse of fatal death '. Pity he never got the chance to play the Doctor in real life.

@@timothylyons5686 While I know what you meant to say, Doctor Who ain't a documentary 😉

And there was me thinking a time machine was a Delorean.

I suppose they were riffing on the box theme a bit. On a related note, Bill and Ted's was a phone box(albeit a modern one - non police).

⁠@@timothylyons5686are you…possibly not aware of this absolute gem: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/etVdqqeB1Kmad4E.htmlsi=mA_IHwlX0mCHbTzD

Yes, but it's not funny is it? Just lazy writing.

@@ArchibaldBagge You should show them how it ought to be done! A big chance in the offing now that all the usual hack writers are on strike. 😜😁

But not as great as George Stephenson who invented a moving kettle.

@@ArchibaldBagge Maybe, but it still gets laughs. Mr Atkinson may of course contribute to that effect.

Damn... if only u could say the plan

Thank you for your service😄

Same here, Bean irritated me beyond belief.

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What's with the posh folk in this comment section?

@@chimpazoo1143 gone ape

Some comedy just glances past the less intelligent.

Thanks for the heads-up....I thought it was part of a series I must have somehow missed at the time. (Sydney, Aust.)

@@Silkz0jet It's called Blackadder Back and Forth - a half hour special shown on New Year's Eve 1999.

We didn't get this in Australia. Ironic, that this was a little like time travel for me. ☺@@simonsimon325

You have had a deprived life.

It was a special commissioned for SkyScape Cinema (called Blackadder back & forth in case ya didn’t know😊).

@@Goth7illa I didnt thanks, its still funny! 🤣🤣🤣🤩💯👊

Definitely one to use on the checkout girls in Waitrose.

English vision of french people ...

Shell shock.

Charged the bridge at the Arcole with himself at the front against the Austrians. He was anything but a pussy.

Badum tss

@@bobs_toys Google won't translate that. Is it Swahili?

@@kennethraymondmoore it's drums followed by a cymbal marking the punchline of a joke. Two beats of the drum, followed by tss

@@bobs_toys What's a drums?

@@kennethraymondmoore a musical instrument that shows you can use all parts of your enemy.

non ce n'est qu'un anglais. Jean Dujardin est bien plus drole. mais il est vrai que nous avons gagné waterloo

Ha ha, so Napoleon went to Elba for a Holiday ?

Mr Bean is nothing short of a terrible attempt to re-create Monsieur Hulot.

Don't tell that to the brits, they would be offended.

​​@@marshalLannes1769why would it offend the Brits?

Not many people got that :) What did she say just before that? Was it what i think it was ?

@@richard6440 I heard "Fun!" which validates the joke.

@@dannyarcher6370 I heard F*ck :) which is typical Miranda.:) She would have said that even if it wasnt in the script :)

maybe she did say fun. Shame , f*ck would have been miles better , knowing Miranda's sense of cheek :)

@@richard6440 It's "Fun". Which is leading me to believe you didn't get the joke.

I rate Alexander over Napoleon.

I don’t know what you mean here. Without the French Revolution, there would be no ‘Napoleonic’ Wars. The First Coalition was organized against Revolutionary France, because they threatened the established monarchies in Europe. Whether or not France would have succeeded without Napoleon is impossible to predict, but he wasn’t the sole origin of everything. No ruler is. And France’s status as a powerful imperial force was already cemented with Louis XIV, who Napoleon admired.

my thoughts exactly, I thought I'd seen "Back and forth"

Probably because it's really really bad

You mean the Great Vanity Project and self-styled and initiated homage to Tony Bliar? 🤮😡

Rowan mentions Star Trek, playing Inspector Fowler, in the brilliant series, The Thin Blue Line.

Oh yes...that would have worked so well!