History Recap / BlackadderS2E4Money

** Also the Bishop of Bath and Wells, who switches seamlessly from castigating Blackadder for sleeping with a prostitute to reminding her of his own appointment with her.

-->'''Blackadder:''' What would you do if I said "I'm very going friends with the Queen, and I think she'd be ''very'' interested to hear about Molly and the wimple, so why don't we just call the whole thing off, eh fatso?"

* ShoutOut: The noise made by the squirrels featured in Blackadder's story to the sailor sounds curiously reminiscent of the knights from Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail.

* ShoutOut: The noise made by the squirrels featured in Blackadder's story to the sailor sounds curiously reminiscent of the knights from MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail.

It's four o'clock in the morning, and Edmund is in bed with an inexpensive prostitute, Mollie. But he is awoken by a priest at his door; more specifically the Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath & Wells. Apparently, it's one year to the day that Edmund borrowed a thousand pounds from the Bank of the Black Monks, and he has 24 hours to pay up — or else. Edmund tries a variety of ways to make the money, including doing favours for sailors on the docks, selling his house, and borrowing from anyone he can. Meanwhile, Percy tries to help by inventing gold, but only winds up inventing green, and Queenie and Melchett keep taking whatever money they make. Edmund almost resigns himself to his death, when Baldrick mentions that most of England hates him. Taking heart from this, Edmund gets an idea for a cunning plan. He drugs the bishop and puts him in a...compromising position, and gets it all painted up by the best portrait painter in England.

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-->'''Bishop:''' You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church?
-->'''Edmund:''' No, I could never get used to the underwear.

* BlatantLies: When the Bishop comes in his bedroom, Edmund tells him that Mollie is his mother, even though she looks younger than him.

-->'''Percy:''' Oh no! ''(Runs out of the room)''
-->'''Edmund:''' ''(To Baldrick)'' You see? I'm terrific at it.
-->'''Percy:''' ''(Coming back, embarrassed)'' [[BlatantLies It seems to have gone, now]].
* ContinuityNod: When the Bishop offers Edmund a job with the church, he replies that he could never get used to the requisite undergarments. Back in "[[Recap/BlackadderS1E3TheArchbishop The Archbishop]]", Prince!Edmund became Archbishop and when confronted about why he'd dressed up as a nun, claimed that he only did it because he couldn't resist the Hessian undergarments.

* FeetFirstIntroduction: Before Mollie introduces herself, all the audience sees of her is her bare feet on Blackadder's pillow.

-->"And it's so beautifully framed. Which is ironic, really, because that's exactly what's happened to you."
* FriendshipMoment: Subverted: Percy loyally offers his life savings to get Blackadder out of debt, only to have Blackadder casually reveal that he has long since stolen and spent the savings in question. Even ''Baldrick'' was in on it.

* RuleOfThree: Queenie plays three pranks on Blackadder, each one beginning with a messenger arriving and telling Edmund to rush to the palace "on pain of death." By the third time, he's barely had a chance to say two words before Blackadder cuts him off and heads out.

* {{Troll}}: Queenie, Nursie and Melchett repeatedly play pranks at Blackadder's expense, which inevitably involve him having to give them money. Then, after the third time, Queenie pretends she's going to kill Melchett for laughing too hard at Blackadder's misfortune.

* BigBad: The Bishop gave the Queenie a run for her money as an individual threat with authority, or more accurately he gave Edmund a run for ''his'' money that almost ended with Edmund despairing and even giving a dejected goodbye to the Queenie and Melchett.

* FetishesAreWeird: Percy is revealed at the end to be wearing crimson tights bound in straps and chains, a huge codpiece, black hoops with copper bells around his waist, a black ruff in place of his white one, and a black, fur-lined red leather hood with an extraordinarily phallic tip. What exactly he did while wearing it is left up to the audience's imagination, but the perverse nature of the painting astounds even the Bishop.

* ActorAllusion: The Bishop menaces Edmund with a poker, much as his actor Ronald Lacey did as Toht to Marion in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.

* RuleOfThree: Queenie plays three pranks on Blackadder, each one beginning with a messenger arriving and tell Edmund to rush to the palace "on pain of death." By the third time, he's barely had a chance to say two words before Blackadder cuts him off and heads out.

* AdmiringTheAbomination: The Bishop, after learning the sordid details of Edmund's frame-up job.
-->'''Bishop:''' You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! [[TakeThat Have you ever considered a career in the Church?]]

* ActorAllusion: The Bishop menaces Edmund with a red hot poker, much as his actor, Ronald Lacey, did as Toht to Marion in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.

It's four o'clock in the morning, and Edmund is in bed with an inexpensive prostitute, Mollie. But he is awoken by a priest at his door; more specifically the Baby Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells. Apparently, it's one year to the day that Edmund borrowed a thousand pounds from the Black Monks, and he has 24 hours to pay up--or else. Edmund tries a variety of ways to make the money, including doing favours for sailors on the docks, selling his house, and borrowing from anyone he can. Meanwhile, Percy tries to help by inventing gold, but only winds up inventing green, and Queenie and Melchett keep taking whatever money they make. Edmund almost resigns himself to his death, when Baldrick mentions that most of England hates him. Taking heart from this, Edmund gets an idea for a cunning plan. He drugs the bishop and puts him in a...compromising position, and gets it all painted up by the best portrait painter in England.

** The Bishop, viewed by the public at large as having no greater vice than a penchant for alcohol, is in fact a colossal and depraved pervert. This allows Blackadder to frame him as being in a very compromising position (involving Percy and a very suggestively shaped hat) which Blackadder uses as blackmail to restore his finances.

* BullyingADragon: Despite knowing full-well the Bishop is a baby-eating murderer, when Blackadder tries to invoke the Queen's name to get him to back off, he calls the Bishop fatso.

* ContinuityNod: When the Bishop offers Edmund a job with the church, he replies that he could never get used to the requisite undergarments. Back in "[[Recap/BlackadderS1E3TheArchbishop The Archbishop]]", Prince!Edmund became Archbishop and claimed that he only did it because he couldn't resist Hessian undergarments.

* CorruptChurch: The Black Bank and the Bishop.
* DepravedBisexual: The Baby Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells.

* EatsBabies: The Baby Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells, unsurprisingly.

* ImAHumanitarian: The Baby Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells.

* IncomingHam: The bishop announces his presence by throwing Baldrick through Blackadder's bedroom door and shouting that he IS The Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath & Wells.

-->'''Bishop:''' You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church?

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* SinisterMinister: The Bishop visits prostitutes, eats babies, and kills people who don't pay their debts by shoving red-hot pokers up their backsides. And this is all PlayedForLaughs.

Make sure your banker's not a bender.''\\