History Recap / BlackadderSS2BlackaddersChristmasCarol

* AnnoyingLaugh: Millicent has an extremely high-pitched and annoying laugh. (As we find out at the end, her crying is just as annoying).

* FakeDisability: Off-screen, Tiny Tom Scratchitt, who occasionally says "ooh, me leg hurts" when he remembers. Blackadder claims this "wouldn't fool Baldrick", but he's wrong.

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: An inversion and parody.

* ExtremeDoormat

The special centers around yet another member of the Blackadder linage; in this case shopkeeper Ebenezer Blackadder, who lives in London during the Victorian times and is known as "kindest and loveliest man in all England", but unfortunately this reputation leads to many of his acquittances and costumers constantly taking advantage of his kindness, leaving him in dire financial straits during Christmas.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: If you think the DVD version is safe, think again. The ''Blackadder Ultimate Edition'' DVD set has it cut. The good news is that Netflix (United States feed), the Region 1 (American) DVD version that's not the ''Blackadder Ultimate Edition'' DVD set, and the UK channel Gold have aired the original version.

** Though given how easily everyone conned him back when he was nice, its unlikely he would've kept the money for long.

Blackadder, in contrast to the previous Blackadders ''and'' Ebenezer Scrooge, is an infinitely kindly man who often lets people take advantage of him because of this.

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: An inversion and parody.

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: An inversion and parody.

* SmarterThanYouLook: Subverted with Baldrick. He can't read, write or count, but he's smart enough to question Ebenezer's StupidGood behavior and points out that the freeloaders (especially the obese orphans) don't need what he gives them. He's also GenreSavvy enough to hide the turkey when they get visitors.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: Most versions of this special edit Baldrick's line about a dog being used as Jesus for the Nativity play to remove an additional line where Baldrick mentions the dog will be nailed to a cross for the Easter play. The earliest known case of this edit was on its first rerun in December 1989. The edited version has aired on UK terrestrial broadcasts on Christmas in the years 1998, 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2012.

* DeadpanSnarker: Unlike his ancestors, this Blackadder is generally a nice person, but still retains this trait.

Flat broke, he decides to just go to bed, since there's nothing left for him to stay up for. In the middle of the night, he is awoken by the Spirit of Christmas (Robbie Coltrane) who was asking for a drink, but decides to show Blackadder how horrible his ancestors were by means of visions (which, in terms of getting people to renounce their wrongful ways, are much more effective than line drawings.)

** KeepCirculatingTheTapes: If you think the DVD version is safe, think again. The ''Blackadder Ultimate Edition'' DVD set has it cut. The good news is that Netflix (United States feed), the Region 1 (American) DVD version that's not the ''Blackadder Ultimate Edition'' DVD set, and the UK channel Gold have aired the original version.

--> '''Ebenezer''': "Baldrick, it couldn't have been the Queen, because, when she visits people, she leaves them her Royal Seal."
-->'''Baldrick''': "What, like this one?"
--> '''Ebenezer''': "Yes, just like [[OhCrap tha...]]"

* SmarterThanYouLook: Subverted with Baldrick. He can't read, write or count, but he's smart enough to question Ebenezer's StupidGood behavior and points out that the freeloaders (especially the obese orphans) don't need what he gives them.

* AnnoyingLaugh: Millicent.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Ghost, who convinces Blackadder that EvilIsCool.

* HeyItsThatGuy!: DoctorWho companion Peri is Millicent.