Blackadder Series 2, episode 2: Head
The Plot:
The Queen appoints Blackadder as the new Lord High Executioner - a job in which no-one survives more than a week. Blackadder starts badly by executing a chap called Farrow two days early, so as to give him and the rest of the team half the week off. The problem is that the widow (sorry, wife) wants to see her husband one last time, and then the Queen annoyingly decides to pardon Farrow altogether. Fortunately, Baldrick has executed the wrong bloke, so disaster is averted.
Baldrick’s words of wisdom:
Blackadder: Let’s try again. If I have two beans and then I add two more beans, what does that make?
Baldrick: Umm… a very small casserole?
Insult of the episode:
Blackadder: To you, Baldrick, the Renaissance was just something that happened to other people, wasn’t it?
Shakespeare gave me a hand with the title, but the rest is all my own work:
Lady Farrow says to the Queen, “May flights of angels sing you to your rest.” We’ve had this line before (in the first episode of the first series). It was originally spoken by Horatio to Hamlet.
Words to closing song:
His great-grandfather was a king,
Although for only thirty seconds.
When put in charge of beheading,
He felt that fame and glory beckoned.
Blackadder, Blackadder,
No such blooming luck.
Blackadder, Blackadder,
Elizabethan schmuck.
Blackadder, Blackadder,
Nothing goes as planned.
Blackadder, Blackadder,
Life deals him a bum hand.
Quotes:
Blackadder: We live in an age where illness and deformity are commonplace, and yet, Ploppy, you are, without a doubt, the most repulsive individual I have ever met. I would shake your hand, but I fear it would come off.
Nursie: Ointment. That’s what you need when your head’s been cut off. That’s what I gave your sister Mary when they done her. ‘There, there,’ I said. ‘You’ll soon grow an new one’
Baldrick: We’re not at home to Mr Cock-up.
Read the other episode guides:
Series 1:
1. The Foretelling
2. Born to Be King
3. The Archbishop
4. The Queen of Spain's Beard
5. Witchsmeller Pursuivant
6. The Black Seal
Series 2:
1. Bells
2. Head
3. Potato
4. Money
5. Beer
6. Chains
Series 3:
1. Dish and Dishonesty
2. Ink and Incapability
3. Nob and Nobility
4. Sense and Senility
5. Amy and Amiability
6. Dual and Duality
Series 4:
1. Captain Cook
2. Corporal Punishment
3. Major Star
4. Private Plane
5. General Hospital
6. Goodybyeee
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