Blackadder S3 Ep3 "Nob and Nobility" REACTION!
Added 2024-09-03 16:00:08 +0000 UTCIS THAT RIMMER?!?
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Just head west, KB, and take history from behind.
Rabid Assassin
2025-06-22 01:01:50 +0000 UTCAlso, George III wasn't the villain. The villains were the ones who set up America.
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 23:25:48 +0000 UTCBelieve it or not, YouTube is fairly notable for being on "the Internet".
Ian Richards
2024-10-02 23:06:49 +0000 UTC21 November 1620 for the Mayflower. 5 February 1811 to 29 January 1820 for the Regency period.
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 22:45:15 +0000 UTC"I done"?
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 22:24:36 +0000 UTCThere's also a thing called "the Internet".
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 22:24:03 +0000 UTCThey aren't.
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 22:22:47 +0000 UTCIt definitely wasn't. It was around during the Renaissance and likely before.
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 22:22:38 +0000 UTCIt essentially is the same hat.
Grady Parsons
2024-10-02 22:22:01 +0000 UTCAll you need to study history is a PC connected to the internet and a rudimentary understanding of Google. Knowledge of foreign languages is not needed because Google will translate everything for you.
Mr Jackpots
2024-09-21 18:10:16 +0000 UTCNot the Pilgrim outfit. Wrong hat.
Mr Jackpots
2024-09-21 17:43:00 +0000 UTCSheβs hot in that
Erica
2024-09-17 09:23:13 +0000 UTCChris Barrie starred in a very amusing show called The Brittas Empire. It was known as the Fawlty Towers of the 1990s.
KMJ
2024-09-14 18:30:59 +0000 UTCanother good episode, leave the end credits running, love the end song π
Duncan
2024-09-07 21:48:40 +0000 UTCAgreed.
Dean Carter
2024-09-07 21:01:05 +0000 UTCBoomer should definitely watch that. Underrated sitcom in my view.
Graeme Robertson
2024-09-06 18:22:44 +0000 UTCBusy
Graeme Robertson
2024-09-06 18:21:43 +0000 UTCI think he was too bust to be a regular this season
Graeme Robertson
2024-09-06 18:21:27 +0000 UTCFun fact. The reason why in those times caking yourself in whitening make up was popular amongst the well off, as diametrically opposed to looking as tanned as possible in the 20th Century through to today, was because back then the only people who worked outside (thus risked getting a tan) were the poor. Hence being as pale as possible showed you were rich, as you didn't need to work out in the fields. Since the mid-20th century, and the popularising of air travel, this was flipped on its head and being tanned proved your were rich as you could afford to holiday abroad
Steve King
2024-09-05 20:30:44 +0000 UTCI don't know if you knew, but the reason the aristocrats wore those big white wigs is because they lost all their hair through syphilis, which was new to Europe at the time, and spreading like wildfire.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2024-09-05 15:33:08 +0000 UTCI'm probably very late to the party here, but it's only just occurred to me that Blackadder is Basil Fawlty, and Baldrick is Manuel.
Steve UK
2024-09-05 05:59:57 +0000 UTCThe only Stereotype about the French that is no true, is that they wear a string of Onions around their neck... One French guy did that once and it just stuck...
Daniel Heywood
2024-09-04 22:19:57 +0000 UTCTop reaction. WRT history lessons there are some excellent podcasts out there
Waldemar
2024-09-04 18:36:08 +0000 UTCIn the context of people reacting to British things, thereβs a video about the Falkland War that people have reacted to (the Simon Whistler one, 21 minutes). Itβs interesting because a lot of non-British people (and younger British people) donβt really know what it was all about.
Julian T
2024-09-04 11:06:59 +0000 UTCI know you haven't mentioned it but after Black Books, maybe don't replace it with anything. Other wise you'll have 8 shows on your hands.
Joe Thornhill
2024-09-04 06:19:55 +0000 UTCI was just about to ask. The Guy in front of him seemed familiar but I couldn't place him as Percy at all.
Joe Thornhill
2024-09-04 05:44:25 +0000 UTCThat cat definitely sounded like a persons impression the second time around.
Joe Thornhill
2024-09-04 05:37:26 +0000 UTCReally enjoyed watching your reaction after getting home from a night shift. Glad to see you're getting better King B
Nick Hurford
2024-09-04 00:19:13 +0000 UTCSeason 2 is better imho. Season 4 is best
Kiwi Tau
2024-09-03 23:39:57 +0000 UTCAs others have said, the aristocracy wearing "paint" (as they called make-up) was very much a statement of class identity in the 18th century (though it did originate for the practical purpose of hiding blemishes, like make-up in any era), and it tends to get associated with the French for two reasons: because Versailles was where these fashions became most extreme as courtiers tried to one-up each other, and because post-Revolution it became a useful symbol of everything that had gone wrong with the ancien regime (even though it had been going out of fashion for a decade by 1789, and the aristocracies of other countries had worn exactly the same stuff). If you want to brush up on history there's no need to formally sign up for classes, there are quite a few elite and highly respected universities that film their lectures and put them up on YouTube for free, so you can dive into a course whenever you feel like it. Yale's collection is excellent (I watched Timothy Snyder's course on the Making of Modern Ukraine last winter, highly recommended) - https://www.youtube.com/@YaleCourses/playlists - and Gresham College also have some interesting modules: https://www.youtube.com/@GreshamCollege/playlists
Ian Richards
2024-09-03 22:26:18 +0000 UTCYeah, man! :) The three of them are also in a very hilarious, nutty sitcom about a talentless actor. The show is called 'Filthy, Rich and Catflap', it's from the mid-late 80s. Only one series with six eps, very funny if you like Rik and Ade. All episodes of it are currently on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCxHm6YuHBg&list=PLiZCl6XIGf-gzt3FczXr-UJneepgn2EF3&index=2
Jason Scade
2024-09-03 21:43:05 +0000 UTCThay was all in the young ones too Think that was writen by Richard Curtis and Ben elton .
Dango247
2024-09-03 21:34:52 +0000 UTCI done a six week course on the Slave Trade at Bristol University it was a ways into history course to then study at the University. I couldn't commit to doing it for a few different reasons - health, childcare etc. Also been an admin on a few local history FB groups and Instagram. At the uni course I had to correct and point out things in class about Bristol history - I have hundreds of books on local history. BTW Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn who was from Bristol. William Pitt was an English Prime Minister.
Lz Bristol
2024-09-03 21:18:38 +0000 UTCWell spotted with Percy actor (Tim McInnerny) from Blackadder II. And Chris Barrie. Great ep and reaction. π You'd love the UK comedy show about the (fake) rock group 'Bad News'. It's the UK's Spinal Tap. Nigel Planer is a band member and also Rik and Ade. They actually toured and played as Bad News. π There are two or three one-off episodes, I think. From the mid to late 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_News_(band)
Jason Scade
2024-09-03 20:21:08 +0000 UTCIts him
Mark Jephson
2024-09-03 20:16:59 +0000 UTCQueenie, Miranda Richardson, appears in an episode of series 4 too.
Wayne Bennett
2024-09-03 19:47:11 +0000 UTCKB if you wanted to do some history reactions, Iβd be up for watching that kinda stuff
Julian T
2024-09-03 19:44:30 +0000 UTCThe Brittas Empire was great
Julian T
2024-09-03 19:41:39 +0000 UTCAs Zed has already mentioned, yes the white powder makeup was to make the upper classes look as pale as possible, at the time any hint of a suntan was seen as evidence you worked outdoors in the sun all day, only the wealthy could afford to spend all day indoors out of the sun It also served to hide the horrible scars people were left with after contracting smallpox (which was rife at the time) Funny how these fashions change, nowadays a suntan is someone who has the money for expensive holidays overseas, and people pay for spray tans to get that look
Chug
2024-09-03 19:20:22 +0000 UTC19.10 - currently preparing an object shaped like Pinochio's nose. 19.30 - Damn, he figured out it was Rimmer
Ryan Lynch
2024-09-03 18:35:38 +0000 UTCYes Tim McInnerny was Percy in Blackadder II and in I. As someone mentioned he reappears as a different, regular character in Series 4. Miranda Richardson played Queen Elizabeth I in the 2nd series.
Fordy7169
2024-09-03 18:05:26 +0000 UTCthat was my first time noticing that neil from the young ones was in this lol, seen it so many times too.
The Everything Guy
2024-09-03 18:02:35 +0000 UTCand starring Nigel Planer, Neil from The Young Ones. He was more known than Chris Barrie when this came out, young Chris suited his French officer outfit and ponytail - looked straight out of Master & Commander, he could have played the captain of the Acheron.
emu cat
2024-09-03 17:17:25 +0000 UTCit was the guy who played percy
Leo Stewart-Smith
2024-09-03 17:01:22 +0000 UTCMy dad and I quote parts of this episode almost every time we see each other. Sad or what π€£. Whenever i have success in life I say Iβve struck garlic π€£. Chris Barrie is funny he was in a very different role in the Brittas Empire in the 90s too I loved it when I was a teenager
Erica
2024-09-03 16:55:46 +0000 UTCThat makeup makes one incredibly pale, so that they cannot be mistaken for the kind of low class person who has tanned skin from working the fields in the hot sun. Also, Miranda Richardson is the other one you were thinking of. Between Queenie, Mrs. Tweedy from Chicken Run and that one from Sleepy Hollow, she's somewhat typecast as someone who separates heads from bodies.
Z is for Zed
2024-09-03 16:55:33 +0000 UTCAnd yes its Rimmer
Mike Doel
2024-09-03 16:45:42 +0000 UTCwell the aristocrats was caked white smuthered in rouge. To be fair my ancestors was still slaves in denmark not able to leave the land the where born on up untill the late 17 hundreds as most of the population was.
K Bruun Kristensen
2024-09-03 16:37:40 +0000 UTCHe is also in Blackadder 4, has a more regular role
Mike Doel
2024-09-03 16:36:28 +0000 UTCIt is him, Tim Mcinnerry
Mike Doel
2024-09-03 16:36:03 +0000 UTCYes that's Rimmer from red dwarf
Bubbles
2024-09-03 16:33:41 +0000 UTCbeing caked up with rouge was basically Europe in the entire 17 hundreds :)
K Bruun Kristensen
2024-09-03 16:33:22 +0000 UTC
