History Recap / BlackadderS3E4SenseAndSenility

* ItAmusedMe: Blackadder is aware of the actors' superstition about not mentioning the name of "the Scottish play", so he goes out of his way to mention it several times.

* ShoutOut: The line "Puck will make amends!" from the actors' ritual is a reference to the character and final line from ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream''.

-->'''Blackadder''': All I'm saying is, he'd better watch out! ''(holds up a milk-jug)'' One more foot wrong from him, and the contract between us will be as broken as this milk-jug!\\

'''Blackadder''': [[LampshadeHanging You really do walk into these things, don't you?]] ''(smashes the jug on Baldrick's head)''

-->'''Blackadder''': I should think, being actors, you're lucky to sleep with ''anyone.''

* TemptingFate: This exchange between Blackadder and Baldrick epitomises the trope, while Edmund is raging about the Prince's treatment of him through the episode.
-->'''Blackadder''': All I'm saying is, he'd better watch out! ''(holds up a milk-jug)'' One more foot wrong from him, and the contract between us will be as broken as this milk-jug!
-->'''Baldrick''': But that milk-jug isn't broken.
-->'''Blackadder''': [[LampshadeHanging You really do walk into these things, don't you?]] ''(smashes the jug on Baldrick's head)''

* TemptingFate: This exchange between Blackadder and Baldrick epitomises the trope, while Edmund is raging about the Prince's treatment of him through the episode.
-->'''Blackadder''': All I'm saying is, he'd better watch out! ''(holds up a milk-jug)'' One more foot wrong from him, and the contract between us will be as broken as this milk-jug!
-->'''Baldrick''': But that milk-jug isn't broken.
-->'''Blackadder''': [[LampshadeHanging You really do walk into these things, don't you?]] ''(smashes the jug on Baldrick's head)''

* ReallyGetsAround: Discussed…
-->'''Mossop''': How dare you, sir! You think, being actors, we sleep with everyone!
-->'''Blackadder''': I should think, being actors, you're lucky to sleep with ''anyone''

* TemptingFate: The below example between Blackadder and Baldrick epitomises this trope, while Edmund is raging about the Prince's treatment of him through the episode.

* AskingForIt: The below example between Blackadder and Baldrick epitomises this trope, while Edmund is raging about the Prince's treatment of him through the episode.
-->'''Blackadder''': All I'm saying is, he'd better watch out! ''(holds up a milk-jug)'' One more foot wrong from him, and the contract between us will be as broken as this milk-jug!
-->'''Baldrick''': But that milk-jug isn't broken.
-->'''Blackadder''': You really do walk into these things, don't you? ''(smashes the jug on Baldrick's head)''

* TheBadGuysWin: Blackadder gets his job back with a significant pay rise, the actors are arrested (and presumably executed) on trumped up charges of treason thanks to Edmund, and the Prince Regent is convinced to take the lead role in a play Blackadder has penned, called ''"Thick Jack Clot Sits in the Stocks and Gets Pelted With Rancid Tomatoes"''. Downplayed in that the actors themselves behave like massive {{jerkass}}es throughout the episode, but at least they stop short of actually having people killed.

* RightBehindMe: Blackadder has finally had enough of the Prince's stupidity and leaves (with, of course, a parting insult for Baldrick). After he walks out Baldrick mutters "Goodbye, you lazy, big-nosed, rubber-faced bastard." He slowly looks up just as Blackadder re-enters the room, having been in earshot the whole time.

* AnythingThatMoves:
-->'''Mossop''': How dare you, sir! You think, being actors, we sleep with everyone!
-->'''Blackadder''': I should think, being actors, you're lucky to sleep with ''anyone''

* ItAmusedMe: Having picked up on the actors' superstition about not mentioning the name of "the Scottish play", Blackadder goes out of his way to mention it several times.

* ActorAllusion: Baldrick calling Blackadder a "rubber-faced bastard" was probably meant to be a [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecating]] nod to Creator/RowanAtkinson's own propensity for having a rubber face in his physical comedy, since it doesn't make much sense for Baldrick to say that about this iteration of Blackadder whose mannerisms, and especially his facial expressions, are much more reserved than his performance as Prince Edmund.

* HypocriticalHumor: Keanrick and Mossop say they pride themselves on their artistic integrity. However, they make no attempt to teach Prince George acting skills, telling him his terrible attempts at performance are perfect, content to accept their generous fees despite not delivering the service they were hired for.

* CannotTellFictionFromReality: Prince George is so dim-witted that he doesn't realize play actors are just playing pretend. According to Blackadder, he once ruined a performance of ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' by shouting "Look behind you, Mr. Caesar!" during the assassination scene, and we see another performance where he attempts to call the guards to arrest a killer.

* CreatorCameo: Creator/BenElton appears as the anarchist.

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* RunningGag: The Prince Regent constantly mistaking Baldrick's spring cleaning for attempts to assassinate him.