#blackadders christmas carol

[rosalie-starfall]

Miranda Richardson Throughout Blackadder History:

Blackadder II - 1986 Blackadder The Third - 1987 Blackadder's Christmas Carol - 1988 Blackadder Goes Forth - 1989 Blackadder Back & Forth - 1999

[h-worksrambles]

Blackaddder’s Christmas Carol is the best holiday special and I will take no objection.

[weedle-testaburger]

tbh I'm open to suggestions for christmas specials to watch

[incorrectlooneytunesquotes]

Bugs: HEH! Got him with my subtle plan! Bigfoot: I can't see any subtle plan! Bugs: Bigfoot, you wouldn't see a subtle plan if it painted itself poiple and danced on top of a harpsichord, singing "Subtle plans are here again!"

[fishyfiles]

Take note, mortals:

Bad guys have all the fun.

[azazel-dreams]

Blackadder's A Christmas Carol

Rating: ❤️❤️ ❤️❤️ ❤

[dduane]

Just a note in passing (Young Wizards meta dep't)

The formal name for the phrase below—which maybe understandably appears fairly frequently in the Young Wizards series—is the Provocodictory; and in casual use, it often seems to get misspelled a little bit. So I thought I'd put in a correction.

The correct phrasing is:

"Fairest and Fallen, greeting and defiance."

Greeting is, in this admittedly slightly archaic usage, singular. The archaism sometimes sort of includes other greetings, in an implied plural: but not in this case. Here the singular is intentional, and precise.

This is because the Lone Power doesn't rate more than one greeting* per run-in. It gets this greeting only because there's no need to be rude to It right out of the box. Then It gets formally defied (as in definition 3 here, where "defiance" is a formal challenge to combat). And then It immediately gets hit upside the head with whatever the wizard in question has brought to the fight.

The Provocodictory is not to be confused with the monitory declaration, which routinely precedes the use of deadly force.

Anyway: hope this helps!

*If you like, you can imagine Stephen Fry in Blackadder's Christmas Carol saying "...This much greeting," with that handwavy gesture. The usage is similar. ...And would probably piss the Lone One off something fierce, but that's neither here nor there. :)

[missielynne]

I am really attached to CBS Ghosts doing a Christmas Carol episode similar to Blackadder's Christmas Carol, of course, where Pete starts out being his nice self but through learning about his relatives in the past (maybe via Hetty cause I would love the idea of him having some shifty as hell gilded age ancestors who were rich and scheming) he sees the value of just like, having what he wants instead of letting people who genuinely want nothing from him but to take advantage, just walk all over him. It wouldn't go as far as Blackadder's Christmas Carol goes with Ebenezer Blackadder, but close.

[firthbetterorfirthworse]

Colin Firth

My first unhinged project involved watching all of Colin Firth's IMDB acting credits, to see how often he got wet.

Figured I'd make a master list of the posts I made. I didn't make a post on everything, so if there's one without a link you can always request to hear my thoughts hahaha

I also made a post about his hair choices, because he does a lot of period pieces and oh boy do I often have Thoughts

And here's a post about how his trend of getting wet changed our perception of Darcy forever

1917 (2019)

1919 (1984)

The Accidental Husband (2008)

The Advocate/Hour of the Pig (1993)

And When Did You Last See Your Father (2007)

Another Country (1984)

Apartment Zero (1988)

Arthur Newman (2012)

Before I Go To Sleep (2014)

Blackadder Back and Forth (1999)

Born Equal (2006)

Bridget Jones Diary (2001)

Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason (2004)

Bridget Jones' Baby (2016)

Camille (1984)

Celebration (2007)

A Christmas Carol (2009) Intro, Movie

Circle of Friends (1995)

Command (2018)

Conspiracy (2001)

Crown Court episode (1984)

Deep Blue Sea (1994)

Devil's Knot (2013)

Donovan Quick (2000)

Dorian Gray (2009)

Dutch Girls (1985)

Easy Virtue (2008)

Empire of Light (2022)

The English Patient (1996)

Femme Fatale (1991)

Fever Pitch (1997)

Fourplay/Londinium (2001)

Gambit (2012)

Genius (2016)

Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003)

The Happy Prince (2018)

Hope Springs (2003)

Hostages (1992)

Hour of the Pig/The Advocate (1993)

The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)

The King's Speech (2010)

Kingsman: Secret Service (2014)

Kingsman: Golden Circle (2017)

Last Legion (2007)

Londinium/Fourplay (2001)

Lost Empires (1986) Intro, Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3, Pt 4, Pt 5, Pt 6, Pt 7

Love Actually (2003)

Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

Main Street (2010)

Mamma Mia! (2008)

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

Master of the Moor (1994) Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3, Pt 3 Finale

The Mercy (2017)

A Month in the Country (1987)

Mothering Sunday (2021)

My Life So Far (1999)

Nanny McPhee (2005)

Nostromo (1996)

Operation Mincemeat (2021)

Out of the Blue (1991)

Pat Hobby Teamed With Genius (1987)

Playmaker (1994)

Pride and Prejudice (1995) (I didn't make a single post, it got a bit away from me so you can find the collection of links on my Pride and Prejudice masterlist)

The Railway Man (2013)

Relative Values (2000)

The Secret Garden (1987)

The Secret Garden (2020)

The Secret Laughter of Women (1999)

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

A Single Man (2009)

St Trinians (2007)

St Trinians 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009)

The Staircase (2022)

Stars in Shorts (2012)

A Summer in Genoa (2008)

Supernova (2020)

Then She Found Me (2007)

A Thousand Acres (1997)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

Trauma (2004)

Tumbledown (1988)

Turn of the Screw (1999)

Valmont (1989)

What A Girl Wants (2003)

Where the Truth Lies (2005)

The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd (1995)

Wings of Fame (1990)

[eleanor-bradstreet]

What other regency shows/books do you like?

Hello Nonny!

What a fun question 😊 If we're talking strictly regency era, I'm boring and/or am not aware of enough options, because the only thing I can think of that I know is definitively regency is Pride and Prejudice. I love the book, 1995 series and 2005 film. Matthew Macfadyen is my definitive Darcy 🤤

But if we skew wider to general period/costume dramas and 1800s authors, I have more. I think my tastes are probably more Victorian than regency when it comes to fashion and vibes 😜

The Empress (show) scratched the Bridgerton itch for me while we've been in the drought.

Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre (books) by the Bronte sisters. Haven't seen adaptations I've loved.

I'm a big Dickens fan, books and adaptations - especially A Christmas Carol and anything about Dickens' own life.

Little Women - I adore the 1994 and 2019 films, and live close to the setting/where the Alcotts lived so it's local history for me.

Honorable mention to the first 3 seasons of Downton Abbey before sharks were jumped. I used to be obsessed.

Also to Amadeus (1984 film) which is beautiful and bananas.

Lastly, Blackadder because it totally counts as a costume drama.

Perhaps not the list you were looking for, but if I think of things I love with people wearing historical garb - this is it 😅 Thank you for the ask!

[briarpatch-kids]

Blackadder is homestuck for old people, you have to skip the first season for it to be enjoyable. The whole plot reboots every season because it follows a family line through history so its fine though, you dont miss anything important. There's a parody of A Christmas Carol where someone learns to be an asshole, it was voted for the best ending to a comedy series because the finale isn't funny at all, it stars Mr Bean and Dr House. There's a turnip that looks like a thingy...

[scumbag-monthly]

Happy Birthday to Adrian Edmondson!

Born: 24th January 1957, in Bradford

TV: Boom Boom, Out Go The Lights; Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind The Green Door; The Young Ones; The Comic Strip Presents...; Happy Families; Saturday Live; Filthy, Rich & Catflap; Hardwicke House; French and Saunders; Snakes and Ladders; Blackadder; Bottom; Absolutely Fabulous; If You See God, Tell Him; Jonathan Creek; Holby City; Teenage Kicks; Ade in Britain; War and Peace; EastEnders

Theatre: The Rocky Horror Show; Waiting for Godot; Bottom Live: The Stage Show; Bottom Live: The Big Number 2 Tour; Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island: Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity; Bottom Live 2003: The Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour; Vulcan 7; Once Upon A Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia; A Christmas Carol

Books: How To Be A Complete Bastard; The Complete Bastard's Book Of The Worst; The Gobbler; Tilly and the Time Machine; Junkyard Jack and the Horse That Talked

Film: Guest House Paradiso; Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Alma mater: University of Manchester

[s-mackattack]

Sticking this on here in the hope that someone might somehow see it and be able to answer. I’m trying to find a kind of fantasy film I saw a bit of when I was a kid in the 90’s. I tried sticking this on Reddit’s Tip Of My Tongue, but everyone’s is just suggesting the most obvious fantasy movies ever.

This was sparked by Tumblr’s suggestion showing me a clip of The Perils of Gwendolyn in the Land of the Yik-Yak.

It was lateish on a week night, UK Channel 4. I think I was getting ready for bed. This film has, I believe, just started. The feel of it is something like Terry Gilliam’s Baron Munchausen. Every time I try and search for this film, I end up pointed at Terry Jones’ Erik the Viking. So, what I’m getting at, is it’s tonally odd. Like, a little tongue in cheek.

The vague memories I have are of an elaborate court. Maybe carved out of a cave. The main character is possibly blonde, and maybe wearing something like a tunic, giving him a kind of Greco-Roman mythology feel. He has a sidekick. Part of me wants to say they are a little person, part of me thinks I’m completely off to say that.

The main dude is mooning over a woman who is some kind of Queen/Empresses/Princess figure. She is clearly not very nice, but he comes across naive and is over romanticising her qualities. She is wearing something like the typical fantasy bikini affair that Ming’s brides might wear in the Flash Gordon movie. It’s got a lot of trailing beads. It’s like she’s draped in a beaded curtain made of pearls.

Something happens which displeases her, and she works on the blonde guy to get him to go on some kind of perilous affair for her. He’s obviously aware he is in deep shit, but his infatuation has him conflicted.

The kicker is that as she’s asking him, he’s lying on some stairs, basically at her feet. She is rhythmically sashaying her hips, causing the front curtain of beads to trail. He seems almost hypnotically fixated on her crotch. This has obviously stayed with me for a couple of decades and I still have no idea what it is.

I possibly haven’t given as good a description as I have here, so Reddit is currently suggesting every fantasy movie ever that features some kind of ridiculous chain mail bikini curtain outfit. I feel I want to emphasise, it’s obviously not Conan the Destroyer, Excalibur, anything by Harryhausen or the future bit of Blackadder’s Christmas Carol.

So, throwing this out here in the hopes that someone might have an idea what I saw, while Reddit suggests every blummin’ movie I’ve ever seen already.

Reblogs appreciated.

[samgphotography]

My mate posted this. He was so much more than Hagrid.

Robbie Coltrane passed away. I’d like to take this moment to highlight his impact on British Culture.

Without argument the highlight of his career was the Ghost of Christmas in Blackadders Christmas carol. (1988)

However his impact started as early as his role of “man at airfield” in the 1980 sci Fi masterpiece Flash Gordon. And who can forget his role as the CB voice in classic British sit com “are you being served?” Although the mid 80s proved triumphant for him with a role as Rhun, in the movie Krull, arguably an equally shit movie akin to Hawk the Slayer was it not for Jack Palance. Multiple roles in The young ones, French and Saunders and other sketch shows and various movies like Absolute beginners, as putting him next to skinny David Bowie might make him look like a half Giant. What few British comedic actors can claim to have supported Lenny Henry in the brief time he was actually funny? Not many.

As a true Scotsman, he nailed the role of “Man in a Bathroom” in a little known movie and easily forgotten sequel National Lampoons European vacation.

Star Wars actor Mark Hamill and Aliens foul mouthed kick ass commando Bill Paxton starred in Slimstream (of course you haven’t heard of it) but Coltrane stole the screen with the loveable best friend role of Montclaire. Clearly this catapulted him into 2 Bond movies, one of which was not shit and had a fucking awesome Nintendo game. And again showing his comedy chops alongside mildly famous Eric Idle in Nuns on the run.

Then a stint as quirky criminally minded perverse interrogator in the long running show “Cracker” showing all the best of a quirky, criminally minded perverse Scotsman.

Then sadly, he was type cast as a fat jolly fellow for some anti gender equality authors novel film adaptations who had the audacity to reuse the exact same fucking costume from blackadders Christmas carol, because they gave all the money to Hans Gruber and the kids. And he was forced to do that like 8 times. 11 if you include the Disney shorts to watch while you’re in line.

Rip Robbie Coltrane, who was so much more than just Hagrid.

[incorrectlooneytunesquotes]

Ah'm ah say ah'm afraid the only way you are likely to get a wet kiss at Christmas, or indeed at any other time, is to make a pass at a toilet.

Foghorn Leghorn to Barnyard Dawg

[drunkfightingllamas]

Another Crimbo Tale From Tonka!

When our Crimbo decs go up, we get out all the Christmas/Holiday Specials we have on DVD. Some we watch every year, like Nightmare Before Christmas, (the night the decs go up) and the first two Grinch adaptations (Crimbo Eve), most are watched every second/third Xmas.

Well, last night we re-watched 'Blackadder's Christmas Carol' and during the Regency 'flashback' there was a joke where Prince George asks "What can I do to a woman that I can't do to you?" and Blackadder replies "I cannot conceive, Sir?"

Well 34 years after it's first transmission, and after watching it every two/three years over the last twenty, Bird Brain Of Britain, the Gnome Queen Tonka Toy Legs herself, @fountain-of-blue-serenity, finally got the joke. Quick, She's like lightning.