American Reacts Blackadder Goes Forth | Episode 4
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Rik Mayall's death was the one celebrity death that really affected me. I grew up watching him in 'The young ones', 'Bottom' and 'Blackadder' and was a huge fan. The guy was a comic genius. RIP.
Every time I see a clip featuring Rik, I have to keep reminding myself that he's gone.
Rik, Bowie, Victoria Wood, and more recently Bernie Cribbins all got to me, tbh. 🤍
People overuse the term comedy genius, but in Rik's case, it was true. RIP.
Lady Godiva rode naked through the streets of Coventry to protest taxes. The grateful public decided to express their gratitude by not looking at her, except for one guy. He gave his name to the expression 'Peeping Tom'. Cigarttes used to come with a free 'collectable' card featuring footballers, famous landmarks and national heroes like Lord Flashheart. Crufts was and is the National Dog Show!
Although Lady Godiva 'Naked Ride of Protest' was sometime in the mid 10 hundreds AD/Common Era, was either not long before (or after,) the next decade or two of Coffans Tre [settlemeNt/village of Coffa's Tree], likely an Angle warrior or chieftain, who's grave, saga-stoies & perhaps his murder &/or rulership, led towards the establishment of Coventry's name (in honour/remembrance?) in 1043 being what it is; before that ñame was bastardised through the then local non-Norse local language of (Ancient/Old) Welsh and through further subsequent bastardisations of Old Anglicised Norse, Normanic Norse Latin, Old English & Middle English etc.
Cigarette cards? Yes in my schooldays, just after Rourke's drift, we all collected the cards while our dads smoked themselves to kippers. Cricketers, sailing ships of the British navy, gunfighters of the old West, risque French photos. We collected them all.
@@razor1uk610 she was 11th century. She died sometime between 1066 and 1086.
@@ayethein7681or less health injurious PG Tips tea guards 😂
Rogered: f….d
Rick Mayall and Ade Edmundson in the same episode absolute class.👌
They are Legends
Fun fact about rik mayall, the guy who plays flasheart, he was supposed to appear in the harry potter movies as peeves the poltergeist but they had to drop him entirely cus he was so funny on set the child actors couldnt stop laughing when he was around and couldnt do their scenes
I love that! What an awesome fact and bloke
I didn’t know that! That’s made me feel warm and fuzzy 🤗
*wipes bogie on shoulder
He may as well have, the amount of actors that appeared in the films that have now died is shocking!
After seeing him in Drop Dead Fred I can absolutely believe that. 🤣
only the poms could make a comedy and make us laugh out of one of man's biggest tragedy. God bless their soul
Aw, love how excited you became as soon as Flashheart turned up! This is my favourite season of Blackadder, but the second and third seasons are also fantastic.
The Rip Van Adder joke you missed was a reference to Rip Van Winkle who went to sleep for twenty years in the Washington Irving short story.
..and that Belgium is close to the Netherlands too, and if the Germans advanced, the French speaking Belgians would've retreated/been forced Southwards towards France.
Brooke Bond was a brand of tea which like cigarettes included collectable picture cards on different themes which you could stick in small collectors' albums.
They were still putting them in boxes of teabags right up until the '90s.
like baseball cards.
@@logfloggerno not in England,Baseball sucks ass.
Flashhart is hilarious but Richy from "Bottom" is not only Rik Mayals funniest character but the funniest character ever created. You need to watch the episode "gasman" from the show "Bottom".
I would say that Kevin Turvey and Rik from the Young Ones are Rik Mayall's funniest characters
Definitely Bottom next
I think Rik from the young ones has the edge on Richard Richard, but only just. And I grew up in the 80s so I'm also biased ☺️ However, what about Richy Rich from Filthy, Rich and Catflap? A single series he and Ade did in the 80s. It's often overlooked and the cultural references would only be understood by British people at least 40 years old now lol but those characters are definitely worth a watch if you've not seen it 😊
@@philippepalmer2968I definitely love Young Ones>Bottom, but Bottom might be easier to get into for an outsider.
Do you have someone who looks after you!? 🤪
In the "olden days" cigarette packets used to have collectable cards in.ranging from butterflies to cricketers & anything in between.but like stamp collecting but less healthy😀
As a kid i watched Blackadder and the young ones repeatedly. Wonderful stuff, and i always enjoy Hugh lawrie so much in Blackadder. He's also in the third series as the prince regent and is fantastic 😊
Fun fact: the actor behind Baldrick is now Sir Tony Robinson 😊 Who would have thought
I think it was his cunning plan all along.
I love the Time Team!
Anyone who knows that "Sir" and "Dame" have become nothing more but fancy terms for "popular British Actor/Actress" xP.
Red Dwarf next, start to finish!
Love Red Dwarf, especially the early ones. I’ve got every episode of series 1-8 on an external hard drive.
I never realized just how many references there are to particularly British things which would make no sense to someone who didn't go to school here. You are an intrepid cultural explorer and I hope you enjoy the journey!
I think it's set in the Somme if I remember. At one point in an episode Blackadder makes reference to the Somme public baths (no piddling in the shallow end) But then Melchett called Blackadder the Flanders pigeon murderer in the last episode so, erm, maybe it's not the Somme. Glad I cleared that up for everyone!
I think the Somme too for exactly the same reason. And about Flanders, I think Blackadder like many soldiers would have been on more than one battlefield.
I wonder if Rik's line, 'The prat at the back' was ad libbed?
Lt George mentions the Great War of 1914 to 1917 in the final moments of the final episode. Obviously the Great War didn’t end in 1917. The guns stopped because it was time to attack. Anyway, the Somme was 1916. So the battles of 1917 is the period.
@@fezmancomments The cap badges on Blackadder, George and Baldrick aren't real regiments, so we can't just look that up. Although as George was at Cambridge, his local regiment would have been the Cambs, who have battle honours from the Ypres salient (Pilckem Ridge and Passchendaele) in '17.
Other than Ypres, major offensives that year would include Arras and Cambrai, the latter being the first large scale deployment of tanks in combat.
Somme offensive finished in late 1916. As comment about states, darling mentions the war ending in 1917 as they’re about to go into the big offensive which is most likely the 3rd battle of Ypres.
R.I.P Rik Mayall, literally the best comedian in British History.
Absolutely not.
You should check out the sitcom Bottom, starring Rik Mayall (Flasheart) and Adrian Edmondson (Richthoven).
Yes, Bottom is the tops.
Also The Young Ones.
I think Rip van Winkle is an American story about a guy who sleeps, possibly for a hundred years, possibly not.
only 20 years, but yes - he falls asleep and awakens to find that he has missed the American revolution
Lady Godiva was the wife of lord Leofric and famously rode through the streets of Coventry
You forgot to mention she was naked in protest of the taxes her husband Lord Leofric had imposed on the people.
Coventry city centre has a clock that at mid-day a naked Lady Godiva on her white horse comes out and above her a little window opens and Peeping Tom pervs at her!😀
Naked.
Rik Mayall (Flash heart) and Ade Edmundson (Baron Von Richtofen) alongside Nigel Planer in
"The Young Ones" changed the entire UK comedy scene in the 80's often giving out cartoon like violence usually to each other and had a twist of anarchism along with newer upcoming random bands setting up in their flat to play their new song in the middle of the episode.
Violence included frying pans, building bricks, explosives, huge cakes, trains and everyones favourite a bin liner (Trash bag), a sneezing hippy, a variety of nails, a general idea of acupuncture and a 2lb builders hammer. :)
Needless to say, our parents weren't to keen about it.
For sometime I lived on the Luxembourg/German border and still refer to Germany as Sausage Side.
Such a good series, remember watching this back in the day.
Bobby the driver played Bob in Blackadder II-leaves him for Flash
This episode has entered into the psyche of the RAF; so many lines from this are used daily in RAF parlance. During Gulf War 1, flying into enemy airspace was known as 'going sausage-side', motivating guys ended with 'let's dooooooooo it!' and ground pounders like me revelled in the phrase 'I don't care how many times they go up tiddly-up, they're all GITS' - all the while doing everything possible to minimise risk to our aircrew....
I take so much pleasure in you laughing at this, looking forward to the next Blackadder reaction x
Rik Mayall was always the man to play flashheart, nobody else could have done it better. Rip to a legend. Yeah do the Blackadder specials also think there’s 2-3 and flashheart is back for one of them 👍👍👍 Bottom, Fawlty Towers, Open All Hours and many
More great shows
Crufts (10:52) is a dog show.
If you liked lord flasheart id give "bottom" a try, great series, very slapstck and violent yet hilarious
Rik Mayall as Flashheart was a sexual awakening for me when I was a bit younger 😂😂
Rik Mayall (Lord Flasheart) was in a sitcom called Bottom, well worth a look at. It was created by Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson and focuses on Richard "Richie" Richard (Mayall) and Edward Elizabeth "Eddie" Hitler (Edmondson), two unemployed, crude, and perverted flatmates living in Hammersmith, London, who aspire to better themselves. Bottom became known for its chaotic, nihilistic humour and violent slapstick comedy
Lady Godiva rode naked through Coventry (a city in central England). There is a statue of her there. Also Lady Godiva is mentioned in the Queen song 'Don't Stop Me Now'.
Although Lady Godiva was a real person (died around 1066) the first mention of her riding naked is 200 years later, so it might well just be a myth. Howver it's a well known story in England and we get the term 'peeping Tom' from it.
Not everyone realizes that Hugh Laurie a.k.a. Lieutenant George, is Doctor House in the long running highly praised American hospital show.
When we lost Rik Mayall we lost a true great actor and comedian. Long live his memory and all his work entertaining us and future generations.
You must watch the final episode. One of the best moments in world television.
If you know the nursery rhyme “Ride a cock horse” that was probably about Lady Godiva. She had bells on her fingers and bells on her toes, but that was all she wore. In the period that this rhyme comes
from cock horse probably meant a high spirited horse, other definitions such as a child’s hobby horse don’t seem to fit.
Doubtful as Ride A Cock Horse to Banbury Cross which is in Oxfordshire, nowehere near Coventry.
"Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes"
Is from the rhyme "Mary Mary" not 'ride a cock horse"
Flashy's reaction to von Richthoven is one of my favourite comedic moments of all time! What a POOF!!! You would absolutely love seeing them together in the legendary TV series "The Young Ones", McJibbin....just so long as you didn't mind getting baffled by many of the jokes! 🙂
Rogering is Flashearts favorite pastime.🇬🇧😊
The bang what a puff part had me in hysterics when I was a kid
Please please watch series 2 and 3 of Blackadder AND Fawlty Towers
Also Botton who’s played by “Flashheart” and the Baron Rick & Ade. Pure slapstick, rude comedy at its best
24:18 - "Rogered" means what you think it does, to be "loved" rather "enthusiastically". (Just so we're clear, I'm using "loved" euphemistically. How I'm using "enthusiastically" I leave up to you!)
General Anthony Cecil Hogmonay Melchet .. one of the great comedy characters..George's rabbit story is priceless...
After Blackadder it would be great to see your reactions to Only Fools and Horses, you might have a little bit of difficulty understanding the slang but with so many followers to help I think it would be a great way to learn London vernacular from the master himself, Del boy. You will get to know the meaning of being a right Rodney and how to say Luvly jubbly! 😂👍🏴
Except there are 64 episodes of Fools and Horses! I'm sure Connor doesn't want to be watching it into his forties!
@@julianbarber4708 😂 oh yeah didn't think that through! Lol
Brilliant idea! After the last episode, definitely do something!!!
There used to be Baseball Cards each with a picture and statistics of the players in America. Here they are suggesting the same thing happened with the wartime pilots. Random cards were in each pack of cigarettes they imply. :P "Rogered" means f-cked.
Classic. Recommend the very last episode as it is one of the best most poignant depictions of the trenches, but all Blackadder is brilliant
Cigarette cards were informational cards placed inside packs of cigarettes, covering a range of topics.
You used to get a small card inside a pack of cigarettes. You would collect the whole set.
I'm sure you had them in America as well, with baseball players on them.
We still used Imperial measurements in the 1st World War !
Rogered = to get shagged
Watched adrian Edmondson at the Royal Shakespeare playing Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. He was brilliant. Shows how good an actor he is.
this episode is some of the best comic writing and performances of all time.
It is (or was) often said that the German language does not lend itself to comedy because of the less flexible word order as compared to, say, English: in particular, verbs are often at the end of a sentence.
Cigarette cards were the same as your baseball cards. They also did them in packets of Brooke Bond tea.
I can't watch Rik Mayall now without a little tear. A true comedic giant. So sad we lost him. RIP you wonderful wonderful human.
One of the best bits of Rick Mayall in my opinion:
*Whoops Apocalypse (the film) - Rik Mayall's SAS*
Getting Rodgered - the thing that happened to Marcellus in the pawnshop in Pulp Fiction as Bruce Willis was looking for a weapon
Bruce looking for a weapon is my fave scene. Perfection
A suggestion for you. Ade in Britain, a series starring Ade Edminson (Who starred as the Barron in this episode.) touring around the UK. Uncovering its foods and little traditions in a jovial mannor. The second season which is available on CZcams.
Commented before this was the one I was part of the Audience license for my laugh. Good review.
It's set in WW1 which is pre-metric times so of course they're going to use square feet. Cigarette cards were not a rare thing most US brands of the time also had them.
Thin Blue Line is a good series with Rowan.
As a fan of Rik and ofc Ade (who isnt?) I'd recommend a one off called "Mr Jolly Lives Next Door" it's manic and wonderful
Cigarette cards - in the 1900’s some packets of cigarettes had cards as a marketing scheme - they are very collectible now
9:05 cigarettes came with pictured cards. Normally racing cars, cricket players or birds etc… common feature in the 40’s through to the 60’s
'Rogering' = 'sh@gging'.
Its more specific than that... Shagging via the backdoor.
You should try Red Dwarf next.
This was my all-time favorite!!!!!
Get the Box Set for the Black Adder Specials, Especially the Scrooge Christmas Special, Very Funny .
I remember The New Stateman with Rik Mayal. where Mayal plays a very dodgy member of parliament. You could try that.
DURING WORLD WAR 1 BRITAIN USED FEET AND INCHES, AND ADOPTED THE METREIC SYSTEM1965.
Cigarette cards are like baseball cards, they came in packs of cigarettes and would be e.g. a collectible set of information about people or whatever, or for some brands you got coupons for catalogue shopping a bit like green shield stamps (if you had those)
If you are enjoying this series, then obviously the other series of Blackadder is a good shout. Though you may or may not be aware that series one is a very different brand of comedy, not for everyone. Fawlty towers can't be recommended highly enough, it's iconic for good reason.
This was always my favourite episode. So, so, so damn funny.
Fun fact: Lord Richthoven wasn't meant to trip up.
Cigarette cards were like Baseball cards, included in cigarette packets
lady Godyva rode around Coventry naked.
There is a really good drama series on the royal.flying corps called wings
And the word you were looking for earlier on was "boche". It was a derisive term used by the Allies during WW1 for "the Germans".
Love watching comedy with Connor 🤣👍
I believe they were positioned in Flanders due to episode 2
Very hard to believe lt George is Gregory House MD....
In the fifties in the play ground at school,' tea cards ' had superceded ' ciggie' cards,which could be swapped 5 tea cards for one. You stuck them both in albums and collected the full set. Today the cigarette card albums could be worth a lot.
Rik Mayall was amazing.
No shit Sherlock
Guys to watch Lord Flasheart and Baron von Richtoven work together view The Young Ones, Filthy Rich and Catflap and Bottom...all seriously funny. Also Bottom Live has 3 DVD's, I got to see one of their live shows in person that wasn't recorded and was rather funny when they forgot their lines.
Did you recognise Ade Edmondson, Rik Mayals's long time comedy partner, as the Red Baron?
Favourite episode from my favourite season. Still miss Rik, so talented!
I was in the audience for that episode.
Tell us more, please. Were there many re-takes? Fid Rik and Co. interact with you?
@@Isleofskye I remember Rowan Atkinson couldn't get a certain line right, i think he was supposed to say Battersea Dogs Home, he tried it a few times but kept getting it wrong, so they changed it to Crufts. When we went we had no idea Rik and Ade were going to be in it, so that was a great surprise. Rik stole the show, he really played up to the audience, Rowan was very serious and quiet.
@@Brookspirit Thanks and that all makes perfect sense. I don't think Rowan is the friendly bloke next door..:)
I knew a Girl who was in the stage production of "Oliver" when Rowan was Fagin and he gave instructions that the kids could not disturb him whereas the next Fagin was very welcoming.
@@Brookspirityou lucky so and so.
"Rogered" something that takes place in the rear 😂😂😂
If you like Lord Flashheart's character then he is also in the 1st episode of season 2 as well.
When I was in the military, I wish I would have had instructors like this.
So sad to lose Rik so young, a talent mot to be seen again
Mate, you have to watch the movie Monty python's LIFE OF BRIAN ...it's one of the most hilarious films of all time. John Celeste is awesome in it...but yes Faulty Towers never stops being funny too. British Comedy since beginning of radio and television right up to mid 90s some if the world's best. When something keeps making you laugh out loud even when you've already seen it hundred times before, you know it's GOLD. Having said that 4 years ago I stumbled across an old series from your country from decades ago...older than me even called HOGAN'S Heros That was also in the top 20 if comedies I've seen...so far ahead of its time.. outstanding... loved it!
Cigarette Cards are the Original Baseball Cards
In the first world war my mum's father was an observer in the Royal Flying Corps. and my dad's father was in the trenches. Often wonder what they would have made of this. Hopefully the would have loved it.
Anything Rik Mayall is comedy gold, we have only one comedy legend left... Ricky Gervais. Check out the outakes of Derek & Afterlife.
Have you tried Filthy Rich and Carflap. A comedy from the early 80s with many of the same actors.
There at the Somme.
One of the worst places to be back then …
my favourite episode
Have you reacted on a bit of fry & laurie?Steven & hugh in very funny well written skits.fry discovered Paul Whitehouse, & Harry Enfield as they used to be plasterers working on his house .also Armstrong & Miller show.more intellectual comedy.try & find them playing aircraft pilots from ww1.there upper class but talk like kids nowadays -innit,blood etc😂
Yes he’s done some
You should watch BOTTOM with the actors who play Flash heart and Baron Vin Richthoven in this episode, my all time favourite, 3 series from the 90s
You could do the other series of Blackadder or Back and Forth or Blackadder’s Christmas Carol in December.
You need to watch the last episode to coincide with Remembrance Day being 11/11/2023
Just don't watch the first series of Blackadder 😂 its 'ok' but quite different and it lacked Ben Elton's writing who also wrote for the young ones. However, series 2 and 3 are wonderful and shouldn't be missed