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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: A fatal example of this occurs when [[spoiler:Prince George]] screws up Blackadder's plan to save his life by blabbing about the whole thing in front of the Duke of Wellington, who intended to kill him. Wellington doesn't actually believe him, but gets so pissed off at the fact that [[spoiler:the Prince, who is disguised as Blackadder and vice-versa]] is acting disrespectfully to his "master" that he whips out his pistol and shoots him dead.
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* MajoredInWesternHypocrisy: The Great Khan of Mongolia and the Duke of Wellington were at Eton together (much to the chagrin of the Prince Regent, who had intended to attempt to escape the Duke's wrath there. Mongolia, not Eton.)
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* DopeSlap: Wellington does this incessantly to George (having switched roles with Blackadder to escape the Duke's wrath).


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* GenderBlenderName: [=MacAdder=] named his daughter Angus.


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* IdenticalGrandson: Blackadder's Scottish cousin [[ViolentGlaswegian MacAdder]], played by Atkinson in a [[WigDressAccent curly red wig, a kilt and a deliberately bad accent]].
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--> '''Edmund''': He's mad. Mad! He's even madder than the mad Jack [=MacMad=]. The winner of last year's Mister Madman Competition.
* TheBadGuyWins: An odd, yet awesome example of the trope. Blackadder may be the protagonist, but he's certainly a bad guy. And he gets to live out the rest of his life as the Prince Regent, and eventually the king, while George dies. However....it's awesome.

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--> '''Edmund''': He's mad. Mad! He's even mad! He's madder than the mad Jack [=MacMad=]. The [=MacMad=], the winner of last year's Mister Madman Competition.
* TheBadGuyWins: An odd, yet awesome example of the trope. Blackadder may be the protagonist, but he's certainly a bad guy. And he gets to live out the rest of his life as the Prince Regent, and eventually the king, while George dies. However....However, it's awesome.



-->'''Blackadder:''' We're about as similar as two completely dis-similar things in a pod.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Prince George, who has had no luck with the girls throughout the series, finally gets laid. And is killed for it.

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-->'''Blackadder:''' We're about as similar as two completely dis-similar dissimilar things in a pod.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Prince George, who has had no luck with the girls throughout the series, finally gets laid. Twice. And is killed for it.



* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Prince George claims to have had a dream of an Eagle that flew around the room 3 times and got into bed with him, before turning into a [[{{Foreshadowing}} large black snake and stealing all the covers]].

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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Prince George claims to have had a dream of an Eagle eagle that flew around the room 3 times and got into bed with him, before turning into a [[{{Foreshadowing}} large black snake and stealing all the covers]].



--> '''Blackadder''': Well, your cousin Bert obviously has a larger vocabulary than you, Baldrick.

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--> '''Blackadder''': Well, your ''(grudgingly impressed)'' Your cousin Bert obviously has a larger vocabulary than you, Baldrick.
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** Or, Blackadder was trying to drag it out just to be a JerkAss to George.
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* AnachronismStew: Prince George references the story ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'', whose author, Mark Twain, wasn't even born until 1835.

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* AnachronismStew: Prince George references the story ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'', whose author, Mark Twain, Creator/MarkTwain, wasn't even born until 1835.
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* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: After MacAdder bails on him, Blackadder flatly refuses to partake in the duel and gives George a ''serious'' piece of his mind.

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* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: After MacAdder [=MacAdder=] bails on him, Blackadder flatly refuses to partake in the duel and gives George a ''serious'' piece of his mind.
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* AnachronismStew: Prince George references the story ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'', whose author, Mark Twain, wasn’t even born until 1835.

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* AnachronismStew: Prince George references the story ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'', whose author, Mark Twain, wasn’t wasn't even born until 1835.
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* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: Blackadder threatens to kill Baldrick by cutting him into thin strips and telling Prince George that he walked over an unusually sharp cattle grid while wearing an extremely heavy hat.
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* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: After MacAdder bails on him, Blackadder flatly refuses to partake in the duel and gives George a ''serious'' piece of his mind.
-->'''Blackadder''': I'm afraid that the duel is off.
-->'''George''': Off?
-->'''Blackadder''': As in 'sod'. I'm not doing it!
-->'''George''': By thunder, here's a pretty game! You shall stay sir, and do duty by your prince, or I shall-
-->'''Blackadder''': Or ''WHAT'', [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob you port-brained twerp]]?! [[CloudCuckoolandersMinder I've looked after you all my life!]] Even when we were babies, I had to show you which bit of your mother ''was serving the drinks''!
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* HonorBeforeReason: When Blackadder as the Prince proves to be quite intelligent, Wellington expresses regret that he needs to die. Once the duel is concluded and Blackadder survives, the Duke declares that honor is satisfied.
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* SmartBall: The three main characters are trying to come up with a plan to get the Prince Regent out of a duel he's sure to lose, when the plan comes up of Blackadder and the Prince switching places so that Blackadder can fight instead. When the Prince notes that it will never work, because "my portrait hangs on every wall", Baldrick - who thought to solve the problem of his mother's low roof by cutting off her head - offers up this gem:
--> '''Baldrick:''' Well, my cousin Bert Baldrick, Mr. Gainsborough's butler's dogsbody, says that all portraits look the same nowadays since they're painted to a romantic ideal rather than as a true depiction of the idiosyncratic facial qualities of the person in question.
--> '''Blackadder''': Well, your cousin Bert obviously has a larger vocabulary than you, Baldrick.

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The last episode of season three starts with the impossible: George has gotten laid. Unfortunately, his amorous conquests are the nieces of the duke of Wellington, who has personally sworn to kill anyone who defiles one of his relatives. George is terrified of fighting the duel so Baldrick suggests he should get someone else to fight it for him, and suggests Blackadder, who of course, is not pleased. However, when he remembers his identical Scottish cousin, who just happens to be a homicidal maniac, [=MacAdder=], is in town he changes his mind. Of course, [=MacAdder=] refuses to fight and Blackadder must pretend to be the prince and fight the duel himself. Wellington turns out to be a blustering idiot, and the duel turns out to be fought with cannons, and Blackadder is shot. But all is well! The cannon ball hit his cigarillo case, and everything is fine! George, pretending to be the butler, Blackadder, steps out of the shadows to reveal he is the prince, but Wellington shoots him in his anger. At that moment, the mad king appears, looking for his son, and Edmund, still in the prince's clothes, goes off with him, presumably to live the rest of his life as the Prince Regent.

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The last episode of season three starts with the impossible: George has gotten laid. Unfortunately, his amorous conquests are the nieces of the duke Duke of Wellington, who has personally sworn to kill anyone who defiles one of his relatives. George is terrified of fighting the duel so Baldrick suggests he should get someone else to fight it for him, and suggests Blackadder, who of course, is not pleased. However, when he remembers his identical Scottish cousin, who just happens to be a homicidal maniac, [=MacAdder=], is in town he changes his mind. Of course, [=MacAdder=] refuses to fight and Blackadder must pretend to be the prince and fight the duel himself. Wellington turns out to be a blustering idiot, and the duel turns out to be fought with cannons, and Blackadder is shot. But all is well! The cannon ball hit his cigarillo case, and everything is fine! George, pretending to be the butler, Blackadder, steps out of the shadows to reveal he is the prince, but Wellington shoots him in his anger. At that moment, the mad king appears, looking for his son, and Edmund, still in the prince's clothes, goes off with him, presumably to live the rest of his life as the Prince Regent.


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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: When Prince George talks about a large eagle circling the room and Duncan's horses turning and eating each other, it is a reference to ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}''.
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* AnachronismStew: Prince George references the story ''Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper'', whose author, Mark Twain, wasn’t even born until 1835.

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* HumiliationConga: Having already offended Wellington when first meeting him, George manages to make things ten times worse by trying to sit down and discuss military strategy with him and Blackadder when he's just supposed to be serving them tea, causing Wellington to punch him to the ground. Then he gets smacked around another few times as Blackadder and Wellington discuss whether or not the latter hit George too hard. And then, as if it were possible, things go FromBadToWorse when it turns out that George has unwittingly served Wellington with coffee instead of tea...



* HumiliationConga: Having already offended Wellington when first meeting him, George manages to make things ten times worse by trying to sit down and discuss military strategy with him and Blackadder when he's just supposed to be serving them tea, causing Wellington to punch him to the ground. Then he gets smacked around another few times as Blackadder and Wellington discuss whether or not the latter hit George too hard. And then, as if it were possible, things go FromBadToWorse when it turns out that George has unwittingly served Wellington with coffee instead of tea...



-->'''George''': This is just like that story, 'the Prince and the Porpoise'.\\

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-->'''George''': This is just like that story, 'the ''The Prince and the Porpoise'.Porpoise''.\\



'''George''': Of course. 'The Prince and [[ComicallyMissingThePoint the Porpoise]] and the Pauper.'

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'''George''': Of course. 'The ''The Prince and [[ComicallyMissingThePoint the Porpoise]] and the Pauper.'Pauper''.
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* HumiliationConga: Having already offended Wellington when first meeting him, George manages to make things ten times worse by trying to sit down and discuss military strategy with him and Blackadder when he's just supposed to be serving them tea, causing Wellington to punch him to the ground. Then he gets smacked around another few times as Blackadder and Wellington discuss whether or not the latter hit George too hard. And then, as if it were possible, things go FromBadToWorse when it turns out that George has unwittingly served Wellington with coffee instead of tea...
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* ChekhovsGun: The cigarillo case.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Done for comedic effect, but historically the person who was challenged (and not the challenger) was able to select the weapons used in the duel, unless the challenger was of higher social status. As Prince George was of higher social status than Lord Wellington he would have got to choose the weaponry instead of Wellington, whether challenged or challenger - and would likely not have chosen a cannon.



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* EveryManHasHisPrice: George is able to convince Blackadder to go back and fight the duel with copious amounts of bribery. Blackadder's response essentially epitomises this trope (and really sums up his entire character)...
-->'''Blackadder''': A man may fight for many things: his country, his principles, his friends, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child... But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn! You're on!



-->'''Wellington:''' NO. IT'S ALL DOWN TO SHOUTING!

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-->'''Wellington:''' (Beat) NO. IT'S ALL DOWN TO SHOUTING!SHOUTING! BAAAA!
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: An odd inversion, as King George III speaks with a German accent, which there's almost no way that his real-life counterpart would have had. Then again, he ''is'' mad, so he may be affecting the accent as part of his illness.

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* ActingForTwo: Rowan Atkinson as both Blackadder and [=MacAdder=].



* GeneralFailure: Wellington, who believes war is about shouting and stations his men in Alaska to try and catch Napoleon in case he tries to sneak up on them.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Blackadder may be very much a villain protagonist, but even he thinks that Wellington's punching George around is going too far. Though considering how Blackadder himself is only too happy to punch George when he and Wellington are discussing what is or isn't a hard hit, it's likely that he's acting out of empathy for Wellington's own servants rather than George.
* GeneralFailure: Wellington, who believes war is about shouting and stations his men in Alaska to try and catch Napoleon in case he tries to sneak up on them. He actually seems competent enough the rest of the time however, unlike the generals seen in the next series.



* [[spoiler:NoSell: Wellington doesn't believe that George and Edmund switched roles]].
* [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead:]] Subverted.

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* [[spoiler:NoSell: NoSell: Wellington doesn't believe that George and Edmund switched roles]].
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* [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead:]] Subverted.NotQuiteDead: Played straight when Blackadder gets a cannonball to the chest, as his cigarillo case cushions the impact and saves his life. Subverted when Wellington shoots George, as he too claims to have been saved by a cigarillo case, only to die permanently when he realises he forgot to bring it.
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* HiddenDepths: Not only is Macadder a fish salesman rather than a real warrior, he's apparently a very ''good'' salesman.

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But wait...George isn't dead after all! The bullet hit HIS cigarillo case--oh, wait, he must have left it on the dresser. Bugger.

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But wait... [[NotQuiteDead George isn't dead after all! all!]] The bullet hit HIS cigarillo case--oh, wait, he must have left it on the dresser. Bugger.


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* [[spoiler:NoSell: Wellington doesn't believe that George and Edmund switched roles]].
* [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead:]] Subverted.

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* AxCrazy: [=MacAdder=].

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* AxCrazy: [=MacAdder=]. His plan for helping his cousin involves killing the prince.


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* '''LargeHam''': Wellington, and gloriously so.
-->'''Wellington:''' THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO WIN A CAMPAIGN! SHOUT, SHOUT AND SHOUT AGAIN!
-->'''Blackadder:''' So, you don't think inspired leadership, and sound tactical planning have anything to do with it?
-->'''Wellington:''' NO. IT'S ALL DOWN TO SHOUTING!


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* SmallNameBigEgo: [=MacAdder=] acts like the second coming of William Wallace, when he is in fact a fish salesman.


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The last episode of season three starts with the impossible: George has gotten laid. Unfortunaly, his amorous conquests are the neices of the duke of Wellington, who has personally sworn to kill anyone who defiles one of his relatives. George is terrified of fighting the duel so Baldrick suggests he should get someone else to fight it for him, and suggests Blackadder, who of course, is not pleased. However, when he remembers his identical Scottish cousin, who just happens to be a homicidal maniac, [=MacAdder=], is in town he changes his mind. Of course, [=MacAdder=] refuses to fight and Blackadder must pretend to be the prince and fight the duel himself. Wellington turns out to be a blustering idiot, and the duel turns out to be fought with cannons, and Blackadder is shot. But all is well! The cannon ball hit his cigarello case, and everything is fine! George, pretending to be the butler, Blackadder, steps out of the shadows to reveal he is the prince, but Wellington shoots him in his anger. At that moment, the mad king appears, looking for his son, and Edmund, still in the prince's clothes, goes off with him, presumably to live the rest of his life as the Prince Regent.

But wait...George isn't dead after all! The bullet hit HIS cigarello case--oh, wait, he must have left it on the dresser. Bugger.

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The last episode of season three starts with the impossible: George has gotten laid. Unfortunaly, Unfortunately, his amorous conquests are the neices nieces of the duke of Wellington, who has personally sworn to kill anyone who defiles one of his relatives. George is terrified of fighting the duel so Baldrick suggests he should get someone else to fight it for him, and suggests Blackadder, who of course, is not pleased. However, when he remembers his identical Scottish cousin, who just happens to be a homicidal maniac, [=MacAdder=], is in town he changes his mind. Of course, [=MacAdder=] refuses to fight and Blackadder must pretend to be the prince and fight the duel himself. Wellington turns out to be a blustering idiot, and the duel turns out to be fought with cannons, and Blackadder is shot. But all is well! The cannon ball hit his cigarello cigarillo case, and everything is fine! George, pretending to be the butler, Blackadder, steps out of the shadows to reveal he is the prince, but Wellington shoots him in his anger. At that moment, the mad king appears, looking for his son, and Edmund, still in the prince's clothes, goes off with him, presumably to live the rest of his life as the Prince Regent.

But wait...George isn't dead after all! The bullet hit HIS cigarello cigarillo case--oh, wait, he must have left it on the dresser. Bugger.

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--> '''Edmund''': ''He's mad. Mad! He's even madder than the mad Jack [=MacMad=]. The winner of last year's Mister Madman Competition.''

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--> '''Edmund''': ''He's He's mad. Mad! He's even madder than the mad Jack [=MacMad=]. The winner of last year's Mister Madman Competition.''



* BuffySpeak: One of the few times Blackadder is so mad he can't even think of a simalie.
--->'''Blackadder:''' "We're about as similar as two completely dis-similar things in a pod."

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* BuffySpeak: One of the few times Blackadder is so mad he can't even think of a simalie.
--->'''Blackadder:''' "We're
simile.
-->'''Blackadder:''' We're
about as similar as two completely dis-similar things in a pod."



--->'''Edmund:''' Yes, I'm afraid my ambitions stretch a little further than professional idiocy in West London. I want books written about me. I want songs sung about me. And then, hundreds of years from now, I want episodes from my life to be played out weekly at half past nine by some great heroic actor of the age.
--->'''Baldrick:''' (smiling) Yeah, and I could be played by some tiny tit in a beard.
* PocketProtector: Taken to comedic extreme.
* PrinceAndPauper: Edmund and George switch coats and wigs and pretend to be each other. Lampshaded by George
--->'''George''': This is just like that story, 'the Prince and the Porpoise'.
--->'''Edmund''': And the ''Pauper''.
--->'''George''': Of course. 'The Prince and [[CompletelyMissingThePoint the Porpoise]] and the Pauper.'
* PuffOfLogic: George doesn't notice he's dead until he realizes he forgot his cigarello case.

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--->'''Edmund:''' -->'''Edmund:''' Yes, I'm afraid my ambitions stretch a little further than professional idiocy in West London. I want books written about me. I want songs sung about me. And then, hundreds of years from now, I want episodes from my life to be played out weekly at half past nine by some great heroic actor of the age. \n--->'''Baldrick:''' (smiling) \\
'''Baldrick:''' ''(smiling)''
Yeah, and I could be played by some tiny tit in a beard.
beard.
* PocketProtector: Taken to comedic extreme.
extreme. Blackadder's cigarillo case saves him from death by ''cannon'' fire.
* PrinceAndPauper: Edmund and George switch coats and wigs and pretend to be each other. Lampshaded by George
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This is just like that story, 'the Prince and the Porpoise'.
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Porpoise'.\\
'''Edmund''':
And the ''Pauper''.
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''Pauper''.\\
'''George''':
Of course. 'The Prince and [[CompletelyMissingThePoint [[ComicallyMissingThePoint the Porpoise]] and the Pauper.'
* PuffOfLogic: George doesn't notice he's dead until he realizes he forgot his cigarello cigarillo case.



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* ViolentGlaswegian: [=MacAdder=][=MacAdder=].
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* AxCrazy: [=MacAdder=].
--> '''Edmund''': ''He's mad. Mad! He's even madder than the mad Jack [=MacMad=]. The winner of last year's Mister Madman Competition.''

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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Prince George claims to have had a dream of an Eagle that flew around the room 3 times and got into bed with him, before turning into a [[{{Foreshadowing}} large black snake and stealing all the covers]].



* GeneralFailure: Wellington, who believes war is about shouting and stations his men in Alaska to try and catch Napolean in case he tries to sneak up on them.

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* GeneralFailure: Wellington, who believes war is about shouting and stations his men in Alaska to try and catch Napolean Napoleon in case he tries to sneak up on them.
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* GeneralFailure: Wellington, who believes war is about shouting and stations his men in Alaska to try and cathch Napolean in case he tries to sneak up on them.

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* PuffOfLogic: George doesn't notice he's dead until he realizes he forgot his cigarello case.



* RuleOfPerception: George doesn't notice he's dead until he realizes he forgot his cigarello case.

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