May 10, 2004
It's a BOY
-"It's a BOY!"
-"But it hasn't got a willy!"
-"A miracle - a boy without a willy."
(Pause)
-"But a boy without a willy is a girl..."
-"It's a GIRL, it's a GIRL...."
Rosie is a girl, no doubt about that, but that's not to say she won't want to play football...
(bonus points for those who can spot the skit above, who said what, in what series, and any other trivia surrounding this hilarious show)
Congratulations for Rosie's 5-month birthday!
I would love to see her new pics.
Monty Python?
Posted by: Dirk at May 11, 2004 06:11 PMBlackadder II - Episode 1 - Head:
[In the court of Queen Elizabeth.]
Queenie: Nice try Melchy, but it is no use. I'm still bored!
Melchett: I'm very sorry madam. Your royal father used to be very amused by my impersonation of Columbus.
Queenie: You don't surprise me. He used to laugh at these people with the funny faces and the bells.
Melchett: Ah, jesters ma'am.
Queenie: No, lepers. Where is Edmund these days?
Melchett: Ah well, the whisper on the underground grapevine, ma'am, is that Lord Blackadder is spending all his time with a young boy in his service.
Queenie: Oh. Do you think he would spend more time with me if I was a boy?
Melchett: Surely not madam.
Nursie: You almost were a boy, my little cherry pit.
Queenie: What?
Nursie: Yeah. Out you popped, out of your mummies pumpkin and everybody shouting : "It's a boy, it's a boy!". And somebody said "but it hasn't got a winkle!". And then I said "A boy without a winkle? God be praised, it is a miracle. A boy without a winkle!" And then Sir Thomas More pointed out that a boy without a winkle is a girl. Anyway, I was really disappointed.
Melchett: Oh yes, well you see, he was a very perceptive man, Sir Thomas More.
Queenie: Oh, what *has* happened about Edmund? There is something very odd about someone who spends all his time with a servant.
It was frasmotic or even compunctuous of me not to add a couple of the greatest lines:
Baldrick: Do you remember the football match?
Edmund: Remember it? How could I forget it? I was never offside! I could not believe that decision!
Blackadder is Rowan Atkinson at his best - before he went global with Bean-san. Series one suffered at the hands of his writing skills methinks. But as soon as Ben Elton replaced him for series two the show kicked. By its swansong fourth series nothing at the time could top this show. And the final programme is as haunting a send off as one could ever hope for.
The show was so cunning that you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel. Writing so cunning you could brush your teeth with it. Acting as cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University...
Oh for the days of yore when comedy was cunning??
Posted by: Guy at May 12, 2004 08:30 PMWell done Guy. I presume you looked that up, rather than remembering all the dialogue. The second season was my favourite - 6 great shows, and the guest appearances of Bob (it's short for Kate), Tom Baker as the old seaman and of course Rik Mayall as Flash "she's got a tongue like an eel and she likes the taste of a MAN'S tonsils.
As you said, classic stuff...