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Posted: 9/27/05 at 8:39pm

in our New York Hotel room we got BBC America (swank channel i might ad) and since i was sick for the most of the trip i got to know my Hotel TV very intametly! Especially the Blackadder marathon!

i am now OBSESSED WITH THIS SHOW!

Rowan Atkinson is so funny! am i alone? has anyone else ever heard of this show!?

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Posted: 9/27/05 at 8:44pm

Love it! For some reason I don't have the box set of all 4 seasons (though gave it to a friend as a present).

Seasons (or don't they call them series in the UK?) 2 and 3 are my favorites. The supporting players are great, too...Stephen Fry, Miranda Richardson, Hugh Laurie...

Enjoy!

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Posted: 9/27/05 at 8:46pm

I love this show!

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Posted: 9/27/05 at 8:59pm

HAHA

the simple,

"yes Darling?" gets me all the time... Atkinson's delivery and style is PERFECTO!

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Posted: 9/27/05 at 10:22pm

i love this show! I'm british (though live in america) and everyone I have talked to ( at least, almost everyone) have not heard of the show. I love Hugh Laurie! And Stephen Fry. I love Hugh Laurie in House now.

I have the 2nd dvd of it. Elizabethian time. The one with the turnip is my favorite!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted: 9/27/05 at 11:12pm

Great show. Miranda Richardson is my favorite.

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Posted: 9/27/05 at 11:14pm

Mine too. Her Queenie in Series Two is masterful.

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Posted: 9/28/05 at 7:46am

I love Blackadder! I'd have to second the vote for series 2 & 3 as the best. The first one is probably my least favorite, because I like the smart, sarcastic Edmund better, although the Spanish Infanta episode with Miriam Margolyes is classic. I might have to vote for "Head" from Blackadder II as the funniest single episode (Edmund is the new executioner), but I love series 3 so much because of Hugh Laurie as the Prince Regent. Anyway, yes, Blackadder is great!

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Posted: 9/28/05 at 7:53am

Have loved this show FOREVER! You should checkout Black Adder's Christmas Carol!
Another vote for Season two. Miranda Richardson is just too funny.

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Posted: 9/28/05 at 10:53am

A classic, believe it or not the fianl episode of Blackadder goes forth (the WW1 series, sorry not sure of the number) is often shown in UK schools as part of history lessons :)

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Posted: 9/28/05 at 2:34pm

It was the 4th series, hence the name. And I quite believe it is shown in schools. The last shot is astonishingly poignant.

Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

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Posted: 9/28/05 at 3:10pm

Love Blackadder as well -- especially Blackadder Goes Forth. The whole Darling thing cracks me up every time.

Jeeves and Wooster is another favorite although I don't think they should it on BBCA.

I'm a bit of a Hugh Laurie fan in case you couldn't tell...

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Posted: 9/28/05 at 3:13pm

love the christmas carol. Only have it on cassette tape though. I think i have seen it though. Love the Blackadder Back and Forth. when they go back in time? and Colin Firth as Shakespeare? that is cool!

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