History Recap / BlackadderS2E5Beer

God pats Edmund on the head and says "Good boy, Edmund". His aunt and uncle, Lord and Lady Whiteadder, the two most fanatical puritans in England, are coming to dinner to discuss his inheritance. But all is not well; Edmund has inadvertently bet Lord Melchett ten thousand florins that he can outdrink him, and has agreed to host the drinking party on the same night. And of course, Edmund famously can't hold his liquor. On top of all that, Queenie has decided to spy on "the boys" to see what really goes on at these drinking parties of theirs. So Edmund must host two parties in one night, convince his puritanical aunt he is a model Christian, and win his bet with Lord Melchett, without consuming a drop of alcohol. This calls for a cunning plan, and an amusingly-shaped turnip...

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Lord Whiteadder admits that he loved the turnip: "Exactly the same shape as a thingy!"
** Earlier, Percy managed to get a grin out of Lady Whiteadder by cracking a dirty joke about Catholics: "they do have natural rhythm!"
* AlcoholHic: Pretty much everyone ends up drunk - including the Balladeer, who hiccups during his song at the end.

* AmusinglyShortList: Percy's guest list is coming along very well indeed. There’s his girlfriend Gwendoline, whom Blackadder immediately vetoes ("No chicks!") and that’s as far as he’s gotten.

* BawdySong: The unheard "I'm Merlin the Happy Pig" and the unnamed [[OrphanedPunchline partly-heard]] song about a goblin.
** Edmund's goblin song. Think about it: the "nosey-wose" is a certain something found between men's legs, and the "feet" are two certain somethings on each side of it ... And, of course, "Isn't the goblin (gobbling) sweet?" - "YES!!!"

** The Balladeer mocks Blackadder for this during the end credits ... but by the end of the song [[HypocriticalHumor he's badly slurring his words due to being "well and truly plastered"]]

* CatchPhrase: Lady Whiteadder - "Wicked child!"
* CurseCutShort: "Luck! sounds almost exactly like fu-" ''(cut to credits)''

* HenpeckedHusband: Lord Whiteadder appears to be this, considering that he has to sit on a spike instead of a chair and Lady Whiteadder in turn sits on ''him'' - he seems to approve of things that his wife considers the work of Satan. One can imagine that he took his vow of silence just to give his wife fewer excuses to slap him around.

* ImplausibleDeniability: While attempting to hold a drinking party and a dinner for his ''extremely'' Puritan relatives on the same night in the same house, one of Edmund's drunken friends bursts into the same room as Lord and Lady Whiteadder and declares "Great booze-up, Edmund!" Edmund attempts to paper over this by claiming that the drunk was actually a missionary sent to deal with a narcoleptic tribesman named "the Great Boo"...
* InnocentInnuendo: Queenie says she was awakened by "a terrific banging by Lord Melchett". Edmund says "never knew he had it in him."

* KillItWithFire: ''"Cold is God's way of telling us to burn more Catholics!"'' according to Lady Whiteadder.

* LightIsNotGood: Lady Whiteadder, who due to their religiousness and piety, one would ''think'' would make them the TokenGoodTeammate of the Blackadder family. Turns out her [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalism]] and HolierThanThou attitude makes her actually a lot ''worse''. However, [[LightIsGood Lord Whiteadder]] is a decent fellow, but he has undergone a [[TheVoiceless vow of silence]], which he breaks by complimenting the visit.

* NotSoAboveItAll: After four episodes of seeming like the (relative) OnlySaneMan of the royal court, Melchett turns out to be a capable boozer.

* OhCrap: Everyone, when they realise that they're dealing with ''the Queen''.
** Before that, this is Percy's reaction to Edmund walking back into dinner with the Whiteadders wearing a pair of false breasts.

-->'''Edmund''': My friend is a missionary, and on his last visit abroad he brought back with him the chief of a famous tribe. His name is Great Boo. He's been suffering from sleeping sickness, and he's obviously just woken, because as you've heard, "Great Boo's up".

* ICanExplain: The first time, although it takes a minute of rapt thought to explain a drunken monk shouting "Great booze up, Edmund!" The second time ... "I can't. Not just like that."

** This is a relatively ''tame'' verse of another one:

* FakeBoobs: Apparently it's traditional to wear a pair of fake, comedy breasts while out drinking. Blackadder chides Melchett for not wearing any only for Melchett to reveal an enormous golden pair under his coat. The trope image is a photograph of Stephen Fry modelling the prop in a retrospective documentary.

* GagBoobs: The wearing of comedy breasts is encouraged as part of the drinking party. Lord Melchett sports an enormous, golden pair; Lady Whiteadder refers to Edmund's as 'Devil's Dumplings', which he then attempts to pretend are, in fact, earmuffs which have slipped down.

* HangoverSensitivity: Melchett may be better at handling his booze than Blackadder but he ends up with a ''nasty'' hangover the next day

-->'''Edmund''': My friend is a missionary, and on his last visit abroad he brought back with him the chief of a famous tribe. His name is Great Boo. He's been suffering from sleeping sickness, and he's obviously just been cured, because as you've heard, "Great Boo's up".

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* DrunkenSong: Edmund tends to sing about goblins when he gets drunk. Melchett sings an even ruder song.

* EveryoneIsSatanInHell: The Whiteadders ''are'' this trope, in its in-universe form. They may be getting better, now that Lord Whiteadder has broken his vow of silence and they've both discovered the joys of being drunk.

* ICanExplain: The first time, although it takes a minute of rapt thought to explain a drunk monk shouting "Great booze up, Edmund!" The second time..."I can't. Not just like that."
* ImplausibleDeniability: While attempting to hold a drinking party and a dinner for his ''extremely'' Puritan relatives on the same night in the same house, one of Edmund's drunken revelers bursts into the same room as Lord and Lady Whiteadder and declares "Great booze-up, Edmund!" Edmund attempts to paper over this by claiming that the drunk was actually a missionary sent to deal with a narcoleptic tribesman named "the Great Boo"...
* InnocentInnuendo: Queenie says she was awakened by a terrific banging by Lord Melchett. Edmund says "never knew he had it in him."
** Also, Lady Whiteadder is served the thingy turnip (it being the only one that wasn't mashed, and she insists on having a raw one) and says it takes her back to her wedding night. "We ate raw turnips that night too."
* InsultBackfire: Lady Whiteadder asks Percy if anyone has ever told him he's a giggling imbecile. Percy responds "Oh, yes." It takes her a moment to recover, and all she can say is "good".

-->'''Lady Whiteadder:''' Where there are guests, there are people to ''fornicate'' with!

* PaperThinDisguise: Queenie and her cloak. It actually works. Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the fact that everyone else is blind drunk.

->''Blackadder couldn't hold his beer,\\
The art of boozing he's not mastered.\\
And I, your merry balladeer,\\
Am also well and truly plastered.''

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* CreepyCoolCrosses: The Whiteadders have a pair sticking out of the shoulders of their cloaks and another one on top of their hoods.

God pats Edmund on the head and says "Good boy, Edmund". His aunt and uncle, Lord and Lady Whiteadder, the two most fanatical puritans in England, are coming to dinner to discuss his inheritance. But all is not well; Edmund has inadvertently bet Lord Melchett ten thousand florins that he can outdrink him, and has agreed to host the drinking party on the same night. And of course, Edmund famously can't hold his liquor. On top of all that, Queenie has decided to spy on "the boys" to see what really goes on at these drinking parties of theirs. So Edmund must host two parties in one night, convince his puritanical aunt he is a model Christian, and win his bet with Lord Melchett, without consuming a drop of alcohol. This calls for a cunning plan...

* AmusinglyShortList: Percy's guest list is coming along very well indeed. There’s his girlfriend Gwendoline, whom Blackadder immediately vetoes ("No chicks") and that’s as far as he’s gotten.

** Edmund's goblin song. Think about it: the "nosey-wose" is a certain something found between men's legs, and the "feet" are two certain somethings on each side of it... And, of course, "Isn't the goblin (gobbling) sweet?" - "YES!!!"

* BrickJoke: The Thingie-shaped Turnip.

*** To be fair, the "little drinkie" was from a tankard about the size of her head.

** The Balladeer mocks Blackadder for this during the end credits...but by the end of the song [[HypocriticalHumor he's badly slurring his words due to being "well and truly plastered"]]

* ExoticEquipment: Baldrick claims his penis is shaped exactly like a turnip and uses it both as a great party trick as well as frightening children by hiding it in salad.

** Also, Lady Whiteadder eating the thingie shaped turnip and saying it takes her back to her wedding night. "We ate raw turnips that night too."

* NoodleIncident: According to Melchett, Blackadder when previously drunk was found wandering Hampton Court Palace naked, singing "I'm Merlin the Happy Pig!"...during a state visit by the King of Austria.

* TwoTimerDate: Edmund's two parties.

* TheVoiceless: Lord Whiteadder, due to his vow of silence. He does speak at the end, telling Edmund how much he enjoyed the dinner party.

* DontExplainTheJoke: One of the drinking party guests, Simon "Farters Parters" Patridge, does pretty much nothing but this. ("Wahey! Geddit? [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre Sounds a bit]] ''[[LampshadedDoubleEntendre rude!]]''")

*** To read the whole thing, go [[http://hashhymnal.webcomic.ws/comics/55/ here]]

* HenpeckedHusband: Lord Whiteadder appears to be this, considering that he has to sit on a spike instead of a chair -- and Lady Whiteadder in turn sits on ''him'' -- and seems to approve of things that his wife considers the work of Satan. One can imagine that he took his vow of silence just to give his wife fewer excuses to slap him around.

*** [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Interestingly safe]], as, unless you'd actually heard the song you [[UnusualEuphemism wouldn't know for sure what a ''dickie di-do'' was]]. It's exactly as bad as you might suspect -- the following is a relatively ''tame'' verse;

* AlcoholHic: Pretty much everyone ends up drunk -- including the Balladeer, who hiccups during his song at the end.