Blackadder S3 Ep4 "Sense and Senility" REACTION!
Added 2024-09-14 16:00:08 +0000 UTCMacbeth!
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Two great old British comedy actors in this episode, Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Connor, the latter was a stalwart of the Carry On films!
Andrew Downey
2025-08-23 11:53:22 +0000 UTCThe anarchist in the theatre at the beginning is played by Ben Elton, one of the writers..
Dan the man
2025-03-21 13:17:38 +0000 UTCThis is why I could never watch 'House'. I just couldn't buy him in a dramatic role. All I could ever see was the idiot Prince plus the character he plays in Blackadder season 4.
Mr Jackpots
2024-09-21 18:41:25 +0000 UTCOh my god. I'm a steam engine nut, and never made that connection, I can't believe it! Thank you
FPG
2024-09-17 21:11:33 +0000 UTCFor me the weakest of this series....but each to their own....still some good laffs
Paul Liversage
2024-09-17 19:05:30 +0000 UTCπ€£ππ€£ππ€£ π
Jason Scade
2024-09-15 21:09:47 +0000 UTCGreat suggestion Jason. But you didn't need to write it in so many words. I don't have time for reading all these fancy pansy, up your nancy, hoity toity, oh look at me sir, spammer grammar, boasting posting, flim flam, no thank you ma'am, style of posts.
Ryan Lynch
2024-09-15 19:05:30 +0000 UTCBig special guest next episode!
Neal Murdoch
2024-09-15 18:25:23 +0000 UTCYou tart! π
Jason Scade
2024-09-15 12:11:32 +0000 UTCShut up you slag!
JΓ‘ra Zimmerman
2024-09-15 11:13:54 +0000 UTC"There's a fella called George Stephenson who's invented a moving kettle and wants help marketing it" That would be the steam locomotive.
Caine
2024-09-14 22:38:36 +0000 UTCHahaha, that roar is ridiculous and hilarious. And then he abruptly goes to very calmly speaking. π Cool re Man vs. Bee viewing. Thank you. That's fab re the dog's quality of life. :) Well it shows how much you love him. Cleaning my cat's litter tray is a job I'm not a fan of, as my gf knows. The other week, I was cleaning a pretty messy tray and copied that joke from The IT Crowd when Roy is seeing a date home and is unaware he has a smear of choc dessert on his forehead. His date thinks it is something else. After cleaning the tray in the bathroom, I said loudly before entering the room she was in.. "Omg, that was disgusting but at least it's done now." The look of absolute shock and horror on her face for a second was priceless. Then she realized, as we had just watched that IT Crowd ep the previous night. π
Jason Scade
2024-09-14 21:44:00 +0000 UTCI'm thinking the same... I used to watch the show as a kid with my dad and remember it being a big part of our family life but it's nowhere near as good as I remember it.
BigChanChan
2024-09-14 21:12:36 +0000 UTCYeah, I agree that's the more likely option for the first half, and some have suggested *up* his drawers too, which makes sense in conjunction with the hot potato. But some people are apparently convinced it's "orchestra stalls" on the basis that it's rhyming slang for balls.
Ian Richards
2024-09-14 21:07:26 +0000 UTCHad no clue there was ever a debate about the first part. I definitely hear βhot potato off his/its drawersβ.
Mark Fraser
2024-09-14 21:02:01 +0000 UTCAn all-time top 5 episode for me, and the source of one of the great Blackadder debates: namely, whether the "Macbeth" ritual of the actors goes "hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends!" or "hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends!" Neither Richard Curtis or Ben Elton have ever clarified it, and it's rumoured that the original script just left it to the two venerable comedy actors playing those roles - Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Connor - to come up with something of their own, in which case the secret died with them. Whatever the words were, it's a great touch that the rhythm of those lines matches the witches' chant at the beginning of Macbeth ("eye of newt and toe of frog!"). The whole idea of the Curse of Macbeth was actually invented out of thin air by the theatre critic Max Beerbohm at the end of the 19th century, purely because he hated the play, so its use here is another cheeky Blackadder anachronism, but it works so well as a vehicle to spoof both Regency theatre and thespian pretensions through the ages that you can't blame them for running with it. Absolutely top-tier comedy.
Ian Richards
2024-09-14 20:43:47 +0000 UTCGood ep / reaction. π I think you'd really enjoy a sitcom Rowan Atkinson / Ben Elton did called 'The Thin Blue Line', it's from the mid-90s and has 2 series. It's set in a police station and Rowan plays a by-the-books, straight-laced Inspector. He's very behind the times; over-conservative but is likeable. Another funny character in it is Inspector Grim, who is a bumbling, seething idiot. He's doesn't like people "fanny-ing about!". π
Jason Scade
2024-09-14 19:49:44 +0000 UTCAh thankfully I sorted it out! Only cost me an hour π
Stuart Gunpowder
2024-09-14 19:26:26 +0000 UTCOoohβ¦ what a wonderful way to βchristenβ your new tv
Kevin Hussey
2024-09-14 19:22:45 +0000 UTCThis is pretty good but the more I rewatch Blackadder the more I think that S4 is the only truly classic season.
Julian T
2024-09-14 19:22:42 +0000 UTCOf course there was a slight historical mistake in this episodeβ¦. The poor didnβt used to have excess children as a cheap alternative to turkey at Christmas - Goose was the bird of the masses if they had anything more extravagant than child
Kevin Hussey
2024-09-14 19:21:47 +0000 UTCIt was the Princeβs roar that really got him. I watched this programme from very young and the best thing was that you donβt get all the jokes and as you watch it more you slowly start getting them as you get older so itβs gift that keeps giving. Yes we watched that Man v Bee it was very clever. There was one part that nearly made me vomit though haha . Thanks Jason Iβll give him a hug and a treat now! His quality of life is still pretty good but I do spend a lot of time cleaning up after him, if you see what I mean π₯΄π
Erica
2024-09-14 18:53:31 +0000 UTC"Baah!" --General Melchett (Stephen Fry) π
Jason Scade
2024-09-14 18:38:39 +0000 UTCThat's heart-warming. He may like Rowan in 'Man vs. Bee', which I thought was good - the eps are very short, less than 10 mins each mostly. Rowan plays a house-sitter who goes to war with a single bee. π Aww, poor pooch. :( I didn't know dogs could suffer from that. Give him a hug and a treat for me, please.
Jason Scade
2024-09-14 18:35:54 +0000 UTCActors still have that superstition about Macbeth, so they do generally say "the Scottish play" instead of the true title! I always love watching Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Connor as the camp and pretentious stage actors in this episode! The anarchist was played by co-writer of the show, Ben Elton, who at this point in the 1980s, when the episode was made, often did standup comedy criticising the Thatcher government, so it was appropriate he went on stage to criticise the prince and the establishment!
Ash X
2024-09-14 18:15:03 +0000 UTCI think this is my favourite of all of series 3. I have never seen my 11 year old son laugh as hard as he did when he watched this π. My dog also has dementia he is 14 now , heβs deaf as a post too π₯΄ππΌ
Erica
2024-09-14 18:05:18 +0000 UTCseen these so many times and as great as they are im holding on til Goes Forth to watch your reactions as its beyond legendary
J
2024-09-14 17:52:37 +0000 UTCYes King Boomer! You are RIGHT to think this is the best Blackadder series so far...but just you wait for Blackadder Goes Forth!! One of the greatest seasons of comedy writing Britain has ever produced (in my opinion) and so far above seasons 1 & 2 that they are effectively completely different shows. You are going to love it mate!
Tom
2024-09-14 17:18:06 +0000 UTCI thought you'd passed away at the "here are my genitals....." bit.
Richard M
2024-09-14 16:41:55 +0000 UTCYESSSSSS! HERE IT IS! Right, I have to mow the lawn, which sucks but sucks less knowing this is waiting for me as a reward for completion! I love you KB.
Geoffrey Searby
2024-09-14 16:38:39 +0000 UTCOne of the episodes I was particularly looking forward to and my TV picks this moment to suddenly stop working π€π€
Stuart Gunpowder
2024-09-14 16:24:53 +0000 UTC
