History Recap / BlackadderS2E3Potato

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-->'''Percy''': Oh, yes. I even touched her once.
-->'''Blackadder''': Touched her what?
-->'''Percy''': Her... once. In a corridor.
-->'''Blackadder''': I've never heard it called that before. Still, when you get home, you'll be a hero! She might even let you get your hands on her twice!

-->'''Percy''': ''[talking to Nursie about Rum]'' Do not despair, good woman. He died a hero's death, giving his life so that his friends might live.
-->'''Blackadder''': And that his enemies might have something to go with their potatoes!
-->'''Nursie''': ''[sobbing]'' You mean they put him in the pot?!
-->'''Blackadder''': Yes, your fiance was only a third-rate sailor, but a first-rate second course!
* CastingGag: World explorer Sir Walter Raleigh is played by Simon Jones, who played galactic hitch-hiker Arthur Dent in both the radio and TV series of ''Series/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. Raleigh here is a complete inversion of Arthur: confident where Arthur is diffident and smug where Arthur is humble.
* CloudCuckooLander: Captain Redbeard Rum has little truck with anything unrelated to his outlandish seafaring misadventures. Despite having no legs, he believes that such luxuries as ''a crew'' are completely unnecessary.
-->'''Blackadder:''' I was under the impression that it was common maritime practise for a ship to have a crew.
-->'''Captain Rum:''' Opinion is divided on the subject. ''[Beat]'' All the other captains say 'tis, I say 'tisn't.

-->'''Blackadder:''' I mean look at this! ''[picks up a potato]'' What is it?
-->'''Baldrick:''' Oh, I'm surprised you've forgotten, my lord.
-->'''Blackadder:''' I haven't forgotten; it's a rhetorical question.
-->'''Baldrick:''' No, it's a potato.

-->'''Melchett:''' Started talking to yourself, Blackadder?
-->'''Blackadder:''' Yes, it's the only way I can be sure of intelligent conversation.

-->'''Queenie''': Splice me timbers, Sir Walter! It's bucko to see you, old matey!
-->'''Sir Walter''': I'm sorry?
-->'''Blackadder''': ''[drily]'' She says 'hello'.

-->'''Baldrick''': Don't look much like Southampton to me, my lord.
-->'''Blackadder''': What?
-->'''Baldrick''': Well, those streams of molten lava and that steamy mangrove swamp. ''[Blackadder and Percy join Baldrick at the window as JungleDrums are heard]'' And that crowd of beckoning natives rubbing their tummies and pointing to a large pot.
-->'''Blackadder''': ''[rolling eyes]'' [[OhCrap Oh, God]].
* ToiletHumor: The urine drinking scene.