History Fridge / Blackadder

* The show's creators have said that they don't plan on doing another ''Blackadder'' series because nothing could top ''Blackadder Goes Forth.'' But it also makes sense from a story point of view, as Edmund, Baldrick and the rest died in the war before they had time to have a family. So there will be no Blackadder descendents to carry on the show, as the Blackadder line is now defunct.

* In the ''Blackadder the Third'' episode "[[Recap/BlackadderS3E3NobAndNobility Nob and Nobility]]", Edmund goes to the pie shop to recruit a French aristocrat to easily win his bet. The Count leaps at the opportunity to attend a party and declares, "If only I'd brought my mongoose costume." At first it just seems a random ditzy statement, but when we find out he's actually Topper/[[spoiler: The Scarlet Pimpernel]], and the fact that he wants to one up Edmund, it comes off as foreshadowing since mongoose are famous for killing snakes. Unfortunately for Topper, mongoose are only advantageous against cobras, and he's up against an Adder, [[spoiler: so he ends up dead]].

* In "[[Recap/BlackadderS2E6Chains Chains]]", Lord Melchett gets the line, "As private parts to the gods are we! [[ADateWithRosiePalms They play with us for their sport]]." The joke here is not only a play on a famous line from ''Theatre/KingLear'' ("As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport."), it also plays on a thematically similar line from ''Theatre/TheDuchessOfMalfi'' ("We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and banded which way please them.") Note that Creator/StephenFry, who plays Melchett, went on to write a retelling of ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' called ''Literature/TheStarsTennisBalls''.

* Tim [=McInnery=] didn't take a main character roll in Blackadder The Third, instead appearing in one episode as a friend of George's called "Topper". We later find out that Topper is the Scarlet Pimpernel. In the original novel, the Scarlet Pimpernel's real name is "Percy"!

* Tim McInnery didn't take a main character roll in Blackadder The Third, instead appearing in one episode as a friend of George's called "Topper". We later find out that Topper is the Scarlet Pimpernel. In the original novel, the Scarlet Pimpernel's real name is "Percy"!

* Queenie's court looks rather empty throughout the second season. When they made ''Blackadder Back and Forth'' they made it more inline with what one would expect. In universe though there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for this difference. Queenie says the modern Blackadder looks old which means he travels back to the start of her rein. By the time the series comes round her Queen of Hearts tendencies has made it so the majority of people have either lost their head already or are too terrified to even hang around and try to gain her favor.

** And for the accepted timeline to re-estsblish itself for Elizabeth I's reign in Series 2, Henry, despite his defeat at Bosworth, must still have married Elizabeth of York in 1486, for Elizabeth I to be born when she was. Being married to Richard IV's sister Elizabeth, his nearest surviving relative, would have bolstered Henry's dodgy claim to the throne.

** And for the accepted timeline to re-estsblish itself for Elizabeth I's reign in Series 2, Henry, despite his defeat at Bosworth, must still have married Elizabeth of York in 1486, for Elizabeth I to be born when she was. Being married to Richard IV's aunt Elizabeth, his nearest surviving relative, would have bolstered Henry's dodgy claim to the throne.

And for the accepted timeline to re-estsblish itself for Elizabeth I's reign in Series 2, Henry, despite his defeat at Bosworth, must still have married Elizabeth of York in 1486, for Elizabeth I to be born when she was. Being married to Richard IV's aunt Elizabeth, his nearest surviving relative, would have bolstered Henry's dodgy claim to the throne.

*** Edmund would have been pressurised to impregnate her and have an heir as soon as she reached puberty. Maybe she died in childbirth, and the baby either died or was taken prisoner by Henry Tudor after the Yorkist royal family were all poisoned.

* The British Royal Family have exchanged presents on Christmas Eve instead of Christmas Day since the time of Queen Victoria. Perhaps Albert always blew his surprise presents every Christmas Eve, as he does in "Blackadder's Christmas Carol", so then the rest of the family would all join in and exchange all their presents, and it became an established annual tradition.

* The British Royal Family have exchanged presents on Christmas Eve instead of Christmas Day since the time of Queen Victoria. Perhaps Victoria introduced this change after the events of Blackadder's Christmas Carol, to make Prince Albert feel better about revealing his surprise presents to her on Christmas Eve.

** Perhaps Amy had a child in her teenage years (as her real self, it's plausible she could be a passionate lover), and by "Amy and Amiability" she's in her mid-thirties so her child is grown up and not an encumbrance to her?

*** Or she could even pull a Prince Ludwig on Ludwig, and impersonate Elizabeth I for the rest of her life?