First broadcast on 17 September 1987.
Pitt the Younger has just been elected Prime Minister. His priorities are: war with France, tougher sentences for geography teachers and a right royal kick up the Prince's backside.
But he hasn't counted on the Prince's wily butler, E. Blackadder Esq.
If you want something done properly, kill Baldrick before you start.
Blackadder
To stop Parliament from voting away all George's money, Blackadder hatches a fiendish plan. Baldrick is elected to Parliament but is too stupid to vote for the Prince.
In a desperate last throw of the dice, Baldrick is sent to the House of Lords and Blackadder is left with nothing but a catskin windcheater and a broken turnip.
Hail Prince George
Blackadder: Sir Talbot represented the constituency of Dunny-on-the-Wold, and, by an extraordinary stroke of luck, it is a rotten borough.
George: Really! Is it! Well, lucky-lucky us. Yippee. Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky. Lucky, lucky. Lucky. Luck-a-doodle-dandy-dingle. Luck luck. Luck. Cluck, cluck, cluck. Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck.
Blackadder: You don't know what a rotten borough is, do you, sir?
George: No.
Insult of the Episode
Blackadder: Give the likes of Baldrick the vote and we'll be back to cavorting druids, death by stoning and dung for dinner.
