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* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: The mad beggar in the graveyard keeps clinging to Blackadders's leg while Blackadder tries to prise him off.
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* AssShove: The Black Bank's favoured method of punishing anyone who defaults on repaying them...usually involving said defaulter's bottom and either a sharp spike or a red-hot poker.
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* CorneredRattlesnake: At the absolute end of his rope, robbed of what little money he's managed to scrounge together, Blackadder is motivated into action by Baldrick telling him people think Blackadder's a piece of shit at the moment. This so angers Blackadder he comes up with a Cunning Plan, which works.
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* CorneredRattlesnake: At the absolute end of his rope, robbed of what little money he's managed to scrounge together, Blackadder is motivated into action by Baldrick telling him people think Blackadder's a piece of shit at the moment.moment and [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing his demise is likely to be heavily celebrated]].. This so angers Blackadder he comes up with a Cunning Plan, which works.
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** What do you mean? Like darning their socks?
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** What do you mean? Like darning their socks?Delivering messages, sewing on buttons?
* 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.
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* LargeHam: The BishopBishop.
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* PlatonicProstitution: Parodied, then subverted. Blackadder tries to pimp Baldrick out to sailors on the docks. They are approached by a very large, very gruff sailor, who, it turns out, wants them to kiss him goodnight and read him a bedtime story, like his mother used to do. Blackadder and Baldrick fulfill this innocent request, which he follows by asking...
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* PlatonicProstitution: Parodied, then subverted. Blackadder tries to pimp Baldrick out to sailors on the docks. They are approached by a very large, very gruff sailor, who, it turns out, wants them to kiss him goodnight and read him a bedtime story, like his mother used to do. Blackadder and Baldrick fulfill fulfil this innocent request, which he follows by asking...
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*** Also TruthInTelevision, since what passed for indoor sanitation at the time genuinely wasn't much better.
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* InherentlyFunnyWords: Rowan Atkinson gets great mileage out of 'bottom', 'pants' and 'nibble'.
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-->'''Bishop''': You haven't any children, have you Blackadder?!
-->'''Blackadder''': No, I'm not married.
-->'''Bishop''': In that case, I'll skip breakfast and get straight down to business!
-->'''Blackadder''': No, I'm not married.
-->'''Bishop''': In that case, I'll skip breakfast and get straight down to business!
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* HeadTiltinglyKinky: The Bishop's reaction to seeing the painting of himself.
-->'''Bishop''': By the horns of Beelzebub, how did you get me in '''''THAT''''' position?!
-->'''Bishop''': By the horns of Beelzebub, how did you get me in '''''THAT''''' position?!
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-->'''Blackadder''': ''[about his father]'' By the end, he was eking out a living doing humorous impressions of Anne of Cleves.
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-->'''Blackadder:''' What would you do if I said "I'm very going friends with the Queen, so why don't we just call the whole thing off, eh fatso?"
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-->'''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?"
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* ImplausibleDeniability: Caught in bed with a prostitute, Blackadder tries to pass her off to the Bishop as his mother.
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* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: The Black Bank are not sympathetic toward the excuse that someone they're demanding money from has lost their wallet, leading to the previous example.
-->'''Blackadder:''' Where are we going?
-->'''Bishop:''' To see the ''last'' poor fool who... ''LOST HIS WALLET!''
-->'''Blackadder:''' Where are we going?
-->'''Bishop:''' To see the ''last'' poor fool who... ''LOST HIS WALLET!''
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* ConsummateLiar: Edmund considers himself one of the finest liars in England and proves it by fooling Percy. To be fair, Percy is one of the most gullible people in England to boot and by far, the most easily fooled by Edmund.
-->'''Edmund:''' My god, Percy. A giant hummingbird is about to eat your hat and cloak!
-->'''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]].
-->'''Edmund:''' My god, Percy. A giant hummingbird is about to eat your hat and cloak!
-->'''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]].
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* {{Fanservice}}: Creator/RowanAtkinson revealed in bed wearing nothing but his pants has made many a fangirl happy.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Creator/RowanAtkinson revealed in bed wearing nothing but his pants underpants has made many a fangirl happy.
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** Arguably if Blackadder had 'defaulted' on his loan he would have been too, given how Baldrick mentions that he is so unpopular that people treading in dog mess say 'Whoops I've trodden in an Edmund'.
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** Arguably if Blackadder had 'defaulted' on his loan he would have been too, given how Baldrick mentions that he is so unpopular (and we've seen plenty of reasons as to why) that people treading in dog mess say 'Whoops I've trodden in an Edmund'.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Lord Melchett eagerly joins in the pranks on Blackadder, but is visibly seething after Queenie plays one on ''him''.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Lord Melchett eagerly joins in the pranks on Blackadder, but is visibly seething after Queenie plays one on ''him''. Downplayed as threatening someone with death when he knows that you can and would easily order it, is slightly more tasteless than summoning him for nothing and have him give his money.
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* NoodleImplements: We start out only hearing what Blackadder needs for his plan to get out of debt - "Some feathers, a dress, some oil, an easel, some sleeping draught, lots of paper, a prostitute and the best portrait painter in England!". Later, though, we see exactly how they were used to execute his plan.
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* AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks: The Black Bank.
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* AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks: The Black Bank.Bank ("Banking with a Smile and a Stab"), who operate by the motto "repayment or ''revenge''".
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* AssholeVictim: 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.
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** 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.
** 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.
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* BaitAndSwitch: When Blackadder describes the nature of his house's privies, Mrs. Pants' expression darkens, and she angrily asks if he means that he craps out of the window. When Blackadder confirms that this is the case, she declares that in that case... they'll definitely take the house.
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* 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.
-->'''Blackadder:''' What would you do if I said "I'm very going friends with the Queen, so why don't we just call the whole thing off, eh fatso?"
-->'''Baby-Eating Bishop:''' Firstly, I would say the Queen would not believe you, and secondly, you'll ''regret'' calling me fatso, later today!
-->'''Blackadder:''' What would you do if I said "I'm very going friends with the Queen, so why don't we just call the whole thing off, eh fatso?"
-->'''Baby-Eating Bishop:''' Firstly, I would say the Queen would not believe you, and secondly, you'll ''regret'' calling me fatso, later today!
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* CorneredRattlesnake: At the absolute end of his rope, robbed of what little money he's managed to scrounge together, Blackadder is motivated into action by Baldrick telling him people think Blackadder's a piece of shit at the moment. This so angers Blackadder he comes up with a Cunning Plan, which works.
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* MakeAnExampleOfThem: Anyone stupid enough to take money from the Black Bank and not repay them is buried with a gravestone describing how they died in horrible, bottom-related agony.
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* ShoutOut: The crazy person hanging around the grave of the last poor bugger killed by the monks starts quoting ''Theatre/KingLear'', specifically Edgar's Poor Tom persona.
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* TemptingFate: Just as Blackadder sits down to get some serious thinking done about getting some cash, a messenger comes from Queenie, demanding to see him. Cue Blackadder getting swindled of what little money he had left anyway.
* {{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.
* {{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.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early in the episode, Blackadder threatens to blackmail the Bishop with the knowledge that he was sleeping with a prostitute, and the Bishop points out he doesn't have proof. This ends up being the solution to his debt situation.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Lord Melchett eagerly joins in the pranks on Blackadder, but is visibly seething after Queenie plays on on ''him''.
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--.'''Bishop''': You fiend! Never before have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! [[BaitAndSwitch Have you ever considered a career in the Church?!]]
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* VillainRespect: The Bishop is quite impressed by the lengths Edmund went to in order to get leverage over him.
--.'''Bishop''': You fiend! Never before have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! [[BaitAndSwitch Have you ever considered a career in the Church?!]]
--.'''Bishop''': You fiend! Never before have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! [[BaitAndSwitch Have you ever considered a career in the Church?!]]
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* {{Fanservice}}: Rowan Atkinson revealed in bed wearing nothing but his pants has made many a fangirl happy.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Rowan Atkinson Creator/RowanAtkinson revealed in bed wearing nothing but his pants has made many a fangirl happy.
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** And finally the sailor: "I really miss my mother. I mean, she was like a mother to me."
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* FeetFirstIntroduction: Before Mollie introduces herself, all the audience sees of her is her bare feet on Blackadder's pillow.
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** Arguably if Blackadder had 'defaulted' on his loan he would have been too, given how Baldrick mentions that he is so unpopular that people treading in dog mess say 'Whoops I've trodden in an Edmund'.
** Arguably if Blackadder had 'defaulted' on his loan he would have been too, given how Baldrick mentions that he is so unpopular that people treading in dog mess say 'Whoops I've trodden in an Edmund'.
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** Giving a sailor a bedtime story and a peck on the cheek to remind him of his mother. And then a nice hard shg.
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** Giving a sailor a bedtime story and a peck on the cheek to remind him of his mother. And then a nice hard shg.See PlatonicProstitution.
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** Giving a sailor a bedtime story and a peck on the cheek to remind him of his mother. And then a nice hard shg.
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** What do you mean? Like darning their socks?
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* AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks: The Black Bank.
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* BuffySpeak: Edmund, usually a [[TalksLikeASimile master of similies]], here says: "The grave opens up before me like a... big hole in the ground."
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* DepravedBisexual: The Baby Eating Bishop of Bath andWells Wells.
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* ResetButton: At the end, Blackadder makes sure to demand enough money to get his house back.
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* ResetButton: At the end, Blackadder makes sure to demand enough money to get his house back.back and then some.
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* BrokeEpisode: Edmund has no money for the entire episode and the Queen cons him out of anything he does get hold of.
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*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 Season One, Prince!Edmund became Archbishop and claimed that he only did it because he couldn't resist Hessian undergarments.
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* NoodleImplements: Edmund rattles off a long list of the things he'll need to frame the Bishop. We eventually see what he was intending, but what the items were actually for...
* PlatonicProstitution: Parodied, then subverted. Blackadder tries to pimp Baldrick out to sailors on the docks. They are approached by a very large, very gruff sailor, who, it turns out, wants them to kiss him goodnight and read him a bedtime story, because he's missing his mother. Blackadder and Baldrick fulfill this innocent request, which he follows by asking...
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