History Recap / BlackadderS2E2Head

* HighTurnoverRate: The post of Lord High Executioner. According to Edmund, nobody survives it for more than a week.

* SmokeyVoice: Lord Farrow was apparently this, given that the voice Edmund uses to convince the man's wife almost sounds like [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget Doctor Claw]].

* GutturalGrowler: Lord Farrow was apparently this, given that the voice Edmund uses to convince the man's wife almost sounds like [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget Doctor Claw]].

* DumbassHasAPoint: May apply to Percy when he offers Blackadder an idea about how they might get around Farrow being pardoned by claiming that he said something extremely treacherous that merited an ''immediate'' execution; Blackadder is desperate enough to consider it worth a try, and only dismisses it when he notices that the only head he can find has gone green, meaning that they can't possibly use it to claim that the victim has ''only just'' been beheaded.

* PaperThinDisguise: Edmund Blackadder with a bag on his head =/= Lord Farrow. However, Lady Farrow doesn't seem to notice, other than his voice initially being too high-pitched, and his left arm being completely missing instead of just cut off below the elbow (and even then, Blackadder quickly makes up an excuse that covers it up). Blackadder's later disguise as the one-legged Lord Ponsonby is even less convincing.

* NamesTheSame: Referenced in-universe. Mr Ploppy and Mistress Ploppy are not married or related in any way, but have the same name by pure coincidence. Baldrick then offers to change his name to Ploppy "if it'll make things easier" for Edmund. For the rest of the episode, Mr. Ploppy refers to Baldrick as "Young Ploppy". And of course, Ploppy's father was also called Ploppy.

* PlotHole: After Farrow's execution, Percy describes him as a tall man with a loud, clear voice, which we later learn is a more-or-less accurate description of Lord Farrow. However, it's later revealed that the man who was executed wasn't Farrow, but Ponsonby, who is a small man with one leg and a speech impediment. Percy couldn't possibly have seen the man he described at the execution.
** Of course, considering the intellectual standards of all involved, Percy may have confused one of the other executed men for Farrow/Ponsonby when reflecting on their final words.

* {{Dopeslap}}: Edmund to Baldrick on being told Baldrick is too short to play Farrow.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Nursie mentions how she put ointment on Queenie's sister after her head was cut off. Except that would have been Mary I of England, who was not beheaded, but died of natural causes. The one who was beheaded was her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots. However, it's very possible that Nursie just got the two mixed up, especially since Ludwig correctly says in "[[Recap/BlackadderS2E6Chains Chains]]" that it was Mary, Queen of Scots who lost her head.

-->'''Blackadder''': My God! Ponsonby! ''(kisses his lips)'' That genius Baldrick's killed the wrong bloke! We're saved.

-->'''Percy''': Hurray!

* FawltyTowersPlot: It all starts when Edmund changes around the execution schedule to give himself and his new team a day off ... and culminates in Edmund impersonating two women's husbands with a bag on his head.

* InterruptedIntimacy: Lady Farrow attempts to turn her meeting with her "husband" into a conjugal visit, only for Baldrick to walk in and say the visit is over. Edmund desperately insists "No it isn't!" but [[MomentKiller the moment is thoroughly dead]].

'''Edmund:''' Yes...and no.

-->'''Blackadder''': We have put...a bag over his head.
* NamesTheSame: Referenced in-universe. Mr Ploppy and Mistress Ploppy are not married or related in any way, but have the same name by pure coincidence. Baldrick then offers to change his name to Ploppy "if it'll make things easier" on Edmund. For the rest of the episode, Mr. Ploppy refers to Baldrick as "Young Ploppy". And of course, Ploppy's father was also called Ploppy.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It is later revealed that Baldrick has executed Ponsonby in place of Farrow, so Edmund must then impersonate Ponsonby with... [[PaperThinDisguise a bag on his head. And a lisp. Hopping]]. So, when Edmund was impersonating the actually-alive Farrow, where was he if not in his cell?

->''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.''

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* DumbassHasAPoint: May apply to Percy when he offers Blackadder an idea about how they might get around Farrow being pardoned by claiming he said something extremely treacherous that merited an immediate execution; Blackadder is desperate enough to consider it worth a try, and only dismisses it as the head has gone gangrenous (while not decayed enough for it to not be identified as someone else).

-->'''Blackadder''': And when the Queen comes back from seeing Ponsonby... OH GOD!
* FawltyTowersPlot: It all starts when Edmund changes around the execution schedule...and culminates in Edmund impersonating two women's husbands with a bag on his head.

'''Blackadder:''' We have put... ''[DramaticPause]'' ...a bag over his head!

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Lord Farrow's brother is only mentioned (and only briefly), but he spends the episode trying to get his brother (who Queenie eventually concedes is probably innocent) pardoned when he risks the displeasure of the ''very'' AxCrazy monarch who sentenced Lord Farrow to death.

* NamesTheSame: Referenced in-universe. Mr Ploppy and Mistress Ploppy are not married or related in any way, but have the same name by pure coincidence. Baldrick then offers to change his name to Ploppy "if it'll make things easier" on Edmund. For the rest of the episode, Mr. Ploppy refers to Baldrick as "Young Ploppy". And of course, Ploppy's father Daddy Ploppy, AKA "Ploppy the Slopper".

* PleaseSpareHimMyLiege: Lady Farrow and Earl Farrow beg Queenie to spare Lord Farrow's life. Once Queenie figures out what's going on, she decides to.

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-->'''Blackadder:''' "Gloaters"...you really are a prat, aren't you Percy?

'''Edmund:''' ... yes... and no.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Edmund attempts to teach Baldrick basic math, but he ends up concluding that "two beans plus two beans" equals "some beans", "three and that one", and eventually "[[SidetrackedByTheAnalogy a very small casserole]]".

* MomentKiller: Baldrick has an epic one when Lady Farrow is about to...do a wife's duty...to what she thinks is her husband. Edmund is not pleased.