Line #58 Recap/BlackadderS2E6Chains


1	->''What on Earth was I drinking last night? My head feels like there's a Frenchman living in it. Where am I?''
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3	Blackadder and Melchett are kidnapped and held for ransom by the German mastermind Prince Ludwig the Indestructible. Queenie must decide which of them should go free.
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5	!!Tropes
6	* AnachronismStew: The Swedish krona wasn't instituted until 1873.
7	* AndThatsTerrible: Played for laughs:
8	-->'''Queenie''': You've killed Nursie! That's horrid!
9	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign:
10	-->'''Blackadder''': [[ElSpanishO No speako dago.]]
11	* BaitAndSwitch:
12	** Ludwig had previously known Blackadder, Melchett and Queenie in various disguises. While explaining this to them, he briefly implies that he was disguised as someone (a smuggler, a shepherd and [[ItMakesSenseInContext Queenie's horse]], respectively) before revealing he was disguised as something else entirely (a waitress, Flossie the sheep and "the handsome German stable boy" respectively)
13	** Also done with his third disguise. Since the first two have Ludwig turn out to be someone (or some''thing'') Blackadder or Melchett slept with, Queenie's story initially appears to be the same ... except he wasn't the horse that Queenie liked to kiss, but the stableboy instead.
14	** The episode opens with Edmund yelling at the Queen and Lord Melchett. After he is finished the Queen replies "And what did you say to him?"
15	* BestialityIsDepraved: Melchett's relationship with Flossie the sheep. Queenie was also no stranger to kissing and fondling horses.
16	* BigShutUp: When Blackadder correctly attributes Ludwig's megalomania to a miserable childhood.
17	-->'''Ludwig:''' SHUT UP! SHUT UP! When I am King of England, no-one will every dare call me 'Shorty Greasy Spot-Spot' again!
18	* BreakingTheFourthWall: 'Queenie' addresses the audience directly in the final scene.
19	* BrickJoke: Turns out Queenie knew the "handsome German stableboy" as "Shorty Greasy Spot-Spot."
20	* DirtyCoward: Blackadder and Melchett pretend to be this by apparently selling out their Queen to Ludwig, only to reveal after their escape their oddly heroic intentions to save the Queen.
21	* DisguisedInDrag: Ludwig first met Blackadder while he was disguised as a waitress.
22	* DisneyDeath: Ludwig is stabbed, seemingly fatally, twice, only to return at the end of the episode without explanation. Maybe he ''is'' [[MeaningfulName indestructible]] after all.
23	* DownerEnding: The entire cast is murdered by Prince Ludwig, who goes on to rule as Queen Elizabeth I.
24	* EmbarrassingNickname: Ludwig was apparently known as "Shorty Greasy Spot-Spot" when he was younger.
25	* EverybodyDiesEnding: The entire cast is killed by Prince Ludwig after the credits. Even the balladeer dies, as Blackadder drowns him in a fountain.
26	* EvilGloating: Blackadder gets sick of this, telling Ludwig it's a sign of insecurity.
27	* FreudianExcuse: Ludwig wants to TakeOverTheWorld because he was bullied at school.
28	* FunetikAksent: Ludwig's ransom note is written like this, judging by how Percy reads it out.
29	* GermanicDepressives: Ludwig, again.
30	* GermanicEfficiency: Exploited by Blackadder, who notes that Germans "are sticklers for efficiency." Without Ludwig himself around, his guards follow the same routine every day, allowing Blackadder to pinpoint when they're most vulnerable.
31	* GilliganCut: Well, Gilligan's Doorway, at least. Edmund remarks to the Queen how only an idiot would allow himself to get distracted by a foreigner asking a question, be knocked on the head, and abducted for ransom. Naturally, this exact sequence of events occurs when Edmund leaves her throne room.
32	* GroinAttack: Blackadder and Melchett escape from German captors by carefully memorizing their daily routine, then striking at the moment where they're at their weakest -- when they taunt the prisoners with pelvic thrusts. Afterwards Blackadder remarks, "Trust me to get the hard one!"
33	* HypocriticalHumour: Blackadder scoffs at a kidnapping victim, saying anyone who is stupid enough to be tricked by someone saying "excuse me, mister" in a weird accent and hitting them over the head deserves to be kidnapped. Naturally, this exact thing happens to Blackadder about two seconds later.
34	--> '''Blackadder:''' Oh, God, how incredibly embarrassing.
35	* InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike: Edmund falls prey to the English-Spanish "embarrassed is tener vergüenza but embarazada means pregnant" while under interrogation by the Spanish Inquisition torturer.
36	* ItsAllAboutMe: Faced with the threat of having to save either Blackadder (whom she's fancied) or Melchett (her sanest advisor), Queenie decides instead to throw a party, and "forget all about [them]".
37	* KarmaHoudini: Prince Ludwig gets away with at least two counts of deception, kidnapping Edmund and Melchett for ransom, killing the entire main cast and overthrowing the British throne.
38	* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Blackadder's encounters with Ludwig (disguised as Big Sally the barmaid) in the past had him suffer a case of this.
39	* TheMagnificent: Hugh Laurie's character is styled as "Prince Ludwig, The Indestructible".
40	* MasterOfDisguise: Ludwig
41	* NoDoubtTheYearsHaveChangedMe: Played with [[RuleOfThree three times]] regarding Ludwig. See BaitAndSwitch.
42	* NotQuiteDead: TheStinger reveals that Prince Ludwig survives his injuries, kills the entire cast, and goes on to reign by impersonating Elizabeth I.
43	* NotSoAboveItAll: Melchett, having previously seemed relatively sane, turns out to have had "relations" with a sheep, and is also perfectly willing to sell out his queen.
44	* PartingFromConsciousnessWords: "I said 'What is it?' — not 'Hit me hard on the head wi–'"
45	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Blackadder's speech to Prince Ludwig in the dungeon.
46	-->'''Blackadder''': Oh yes, we are proud of our comic serving-wench voice, aren't we? Just because we can say 'zer' instead of 'sir' we can assume that all social gatherings are attended by a tedious tedious little turd who keeps putting on amusing voices. What else have you got in your astoundingly inventive repertoire, I wonder? A brilliant, drunk Glaswegian, no doubt. An hilarious black man -- see you Jimmy, where am dat warty mellon? Oh fabulous! I can't wait for your side-splitting poof and that funny little croaky one who isn't anyone in particular, but is such a scream. And most of all, I like the one you do all the time - the fat-headed German chamberpot standing in front of me.
47	* RocksFallEveryoneDies: The second series ends with ''everyone'', including the Queen, getting killed offscreen.
48	* RunningGag: The credits finally have Blackadder catch the balladeer, and kill him.
49	* SadisticChoice: Prince Ludwig offers Queenie one of these, forcing her to pay a vast sum on the last ransom she'll ever make to free either Edmund or Melchett. She chooses a costume party.
50	* ShapedLikeItself: Apparently, Ludwig first met Queenie 'disguised' as 'The handsome German stable-boy'. Then again he apparently wasn't that handsome.
51	* ShoutOut: Ludwig tells Blackadder to [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} "choose your next witticism carefully, it may be your last."]]
52	* SpottingTheThread: When Prince Ludwig, something of a master of disguise, tries to infiltrate Queen Elizabeth's dress party disguised as Nursie dressed as a cow. He is found out because his costume is too good; Nursie has some... interesting interpretations of how a cow should look.
53	** To quote: "Prince Ludwig is a master of disguise, while Nursie is an insane old woman with an udder fixation."
54	* TheStinger: The ending reveals that Prince Ludwig had disguised himself as the Queen to kill everyone and usurp her place.
55	* SuddenDownerEnding: After one of the breezier episodes in an already light series, the entire cast is murdered offscreen after the credits.
56	* TapOnTheHead: How Blackadder and Melchett are kidnapped. A German guard hits them over the head with a stick while they are distracted by another German guard.
57	* TranslationByVolume:
58	-->'''Blackadder''': How - can - you - question - me - when - you - don't - speak - English?
59	* VocalDissonance: A very disturbing example in the final scene.
60	* WeMeetAgain: Parodied repeatedly - see NoDoubtTheYearsHaveChangedMe.
61	* YouTalkTooMuch: Ludwig thinks Blackadder has a case of werbal diorewea.
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63	-->''Lord Melchett, Lord Melchett, intelligent and deep.\

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