Blackadder

Ink and Incapability

Season 3, Episode 2, Aired 9/24/87

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Blackadder has one weekend to rewrite a dictionary the Prince Reagent is sponsoring after Baldrick burns the only copy. '

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Rowan Atkinson

Prince Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh
Tony Robinson

Baldrick
Hugh Laurie

as The Prince Regent George IV [ Christmas Special, series 3 ]/ Lieutenant the Honorable George Colthurst St. Banleigh [ series

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Pure brilliance

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By sitcom_d0rk, Jan 06, 2006 Report Abuse

This episode was hilarious. Dr. Johnson attempts to write the first ever dictionary and is sure that he has not missed a word - until Blackadder starts to throw about some slightl less heard of words. This episode was brilliant - so funny. And Prince George was, of course, as hilarious as ever.

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Trivia
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- When Samuel Johnson is looking at George's favourite words, we see "b" words on one pages, and merely one page-flip later, he is miraculously in the "f" section. Edit
- "Aardvark" was inadvertently omitted from the first printing of the dictionary. Edit
- Sir Thomas More was beheaded, not burned. Edit
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- Interestingly, the words - anaspeptic, phrasmotic, compunctious, pericumbobulation, interphrastically, pendigistatory interludicule, and velocitious extramuralisation - are non-real words, but are fictitious derivatives of a predecessory. Edit
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- Blackadder: We are going to go to Mrs. Miggins, we're going to find out where Dr. Johnson keeps a copy of that Dictionary, and then you are going to steal it! Baldrick: Me? Blackadder: Yes you. Baldrick: Why me? Blackadder: Because you burnt it, Baldrick. Baldrick: But then I'll go to Hell forever for stealing! Blackadder: Baldrick, believe me, eternity in the company of Beelzebub and all his hellish instruments of death will be a picnic compared to five minutes with me and this pencil if we can't replace this dictionary. Edit
- Dr. Johnson: Where is my dictionary? Blackadder: (Innocently) And what dictionary would this be? Dr. Johnson: (Advancing on Blackadder) The one that has taken eighteen hours of every day for the last ten years! My mother died, I hardly noticed! May father cut off his head and fried it in garlic in hope of attracting my attention, I scarcely looked up from my work! My wife brought armies of lovers to the house, who worked in throngs so that she may bring up a huge family of bastards! I cared not! Blackadder: Am I to presume that my elaborate bluff has not worked? Edit
- Prince George: Perhaps you'd like me to lend a hand Blackadder, I'm not as stupid as I look! Baldrick: I am stupid as I look sir, but if I can help, I will. Blackadder: Well, it's very kind of you both, but I fear your services might be as useful as a barber's shop on the steps of the guillotine. Edit
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