Blackadder

In an attempt to win his cash bet, Blackadder steals the Duke of Wellington's boots, which he finds sticking out from under the time machine after Wellington is crushed by it. However, when the time machine first falls on Wellington, his entire body is obscured and his boots are not sticking out.

In the 1300s Robin Hood calls Edmund Lord Blackadder. The first Edmund to call himself Blackadder was in the 1480s and the first Blackadder to have the title of Lord was the Edmund, the second series followed in the late 1500s.

Of the above, Blackadder was simply trying to placate Shakespeare. N.B. William Shakespeare's real name is Edward De Vere.

When Blackadder returns to fix his mistake with William Shakespeare, he points to the piece of paper that Shakespeare has just signed and says "King Lear, very funny." However, he when he shows the others his signed title page, it is for Macbeth.

When Blackadder firsts enter the Time Machine, one of the filming crew can be seen lifting the door behind him.

Blackadder can't die without an heir, else how would one manage to go on an adventure through time in "Back & Forth". The show never explicitly shows an heir, but it is always plausible. In this series he has sex with the nurse in the hospital, who is later shot due to her being a German spy. Even if George was a leak, she failed the subtle traps Blackadder left for her, and would still be tried and executed.

There is another interesting timeline error in this episode featuring Captain Blackadder's military career. As pointed out below, he mentions Umboto Gorge (1892) and knowing having met Field Marshal Haig twenty years ago (which would be 1897). When talking about his career to George he says that had "fifteen years military service" before the horror of World War I. Assuming he meant the start of the war in 1914, that would mean his career started in 1899.

Captain Blackadder says he only met Field Marshall Haig once. "It was twenty years ago." When he calls Haig, he talks about the Battle of Umboto Gorge in 1892. That would make it Blackadder and Haig's first conversation in 25 years, since all episodes of Blackadder Goes Forth were set in 1917.

When Nurse Mary is sent out to get shot, Melchett never actually call the firing squad, but still George is seeing the nurse led out to the squad.

Private Baldrick's failure to grasp the concept of I-Spy is a little similar to a scene in Season 3's 'Ink and Incapability,' where his Regency ancestor attempts to define words for Blackadder's attempt to rewrite the English dictionary.

This episode ends on April 7, 1917; the day after the United States entered the war.

Blackadder says "Schnell! Schnell! Kartoffelkopf." to Captain Darling. This is German for "Quickly! Quickly! Potatohead."

Answer to the cooking accusation: Blackadder says that Baldrick is the worst cooker ever and then descibes his exemplary dish as tasting like 'dog turds' while Baldrick replies: 'That's because they are'. Perhaps it was not the lack of cooking talents that Baldrick suffered from but the lack of proper ingredients. Given the lovely, speckled pidgeon, he was able to make a tasty dish. Or maybe, after months of eating dog turds Edward would eat anything even remotely smelling of meat.

It is surprising that Private Baldrick cooked a pigeon to Blackadder's liking. As we found out in the previous show, Baldrick's culinary talents were nonexistent.

Blackadder: Field Marshal Haig is about to make yet another gargantuan effort to move his drinks cabinet six inches closer to Berlin. General Haig is considered "The Butcher" by many historians, due to his old warfare strategies, using cavalry in muddy conditions and ordering men to "walk" across No Mans Land to the enemy trenches believing that artillery barrages had killed them all. In fact, it only worsened the situation for the British soldiers, by tangling barbed wire and creating more muddy and difficult conditions to fight in.

LOOK CLOSE: When Capt. Blackadder throws Lt. George's helmet up in the air, we hear machine gun fire and a helmet full of bullet holes comes flying down. Later, when Lt. George comes into the room, his helmet is hole-less, and now is covered in barbed wire. Either Lt. George has more than one helmet (which is very unlikely because in the army you were only allowed one helmet), or they goofed up.

Capt. Darling claimed he spoke on the phone with Pope Gregory IX (a name Capt. Blackadder conjured up in discussing a phone call he had with Gen. Melchett). Actually, the Pope during World War I was Benedict XV.

Response to First goof : General Melchett is quite mad and insane, it is not unlikely that he simply forgot.

Throughout this episode, Melchett seems to not know who Blackadder is; however, in "Goodbyeee" it is revealed that they were stationed together eariler and knew each other pretty well.

Song lyrics: He's kind and generous to the sick, He'd never spread a nasty rumour, He never gets on people's wick, And doesn 't laugh at toilet humour. Blackadder, Blackadder, He's sickeningly good. Blackadder, Blackadder, As nice as Christmas pud.