The more i watch the first season the more i like it. There are at times boring scenes, however they make up for it with greating directing, acting, producing and costuming. This episode takes a satirical look on the corruption of the church during the middle ages. The funniest scene of the first season comes in this episode where Baldrick and Blackadder decide to make some money out of the position they were in. Fabrications likes the Shroud of Tourin and relics from Jesus' capentary (including a cross) are used to overwhelm people into spending money. Blackadder eventually gets ex-communicated from the Church, much to his enjoyment and has to relinquish the role of Archbishop.
The first season might not be the best written it still is the most adventerous.moreless
Episode Summary
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Edmund is appointed to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury after the king has the last one killed.
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Bill WallisSir Justin de Boinod
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Joyce GrantMother Superior
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Carolyn ColquohounSister Sara
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Rowan Atkinson
Prince Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh
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Elspet Gray
the Queen [ 1 ]
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Brian Blessed
Richard IV [ 1 ]
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Tony Robinson
Baldrick
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Patrick Allen
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Tim McInnerny
Percy [ 1 & 2 ] /Captain Kevin Darling [ 4 ]
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Prince Harry: I don't know how I'm going to break it to his catamite. For those who weren't previously aware, a catamite was often a young boy used for a priest's sexual gratification.
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Historical error: Harry and Edmund discuss the mass "accidental deaths" of past archbishops of Cantebury. Apart from Thomas Beckett's famous 1170 murder, most archbishops (even between 1485 to 1498) led prosperous lives.
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Prince Edmund: Yes, almost as tragic as Archbishop Bertum being struck by a falling gargoyle while swimming off Beachy Head. Harry: Quite, quite. And nearly as tragic as poor old Archbishop Wilfred slipping and falling backward onto the spire of Norwich Castle. Oh, Lord, you do work in mysterious ways.
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Prince Edmund: Tell me, Brother Baldrick, what exactly did God do to the Sodomites? Baldrick: I dunno, my lord. But it can't have been worse than what they used to do to each other.
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Prince Edmund: Selling the sexual favours of nuns? Some people actually pay for them? Baldrick: Foreign business men, other nuns, yes.
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Richard IV: Edmund I've always despised you, so now that I've finally found a use for you don't try to get out of it.
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Edmund: (reviewing the list of available curses) May something slighly unpleasant happen to you, like an onion falling on your head.
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ALLUSIONS (1)
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Baldrick: discussing the selling of curses, pardons, and "artifacts"
Well before and throughout the middle ages, the church actually practised the selling of these objects, and profited steadily. It was not uncommon to be able to purchase one of Jesus' fingers. Makes you wonder whose fingers they actually were though.
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