Sense and Senility

This Episode: Season 3, Episode 4
Black Adder Overall: Episode 16
Airdate: 8 Oct 1987
Written by Ben Elton & Richard Curtis
Directed by Mandie Fletcher

“Ahh! Hot potato, orchestra stalls, pluck will make amends! Ow!”

Notes

• Pitt the Younger (from the first episode of the series) is mentioned again here, but not seen.
• The writer Ben Elton appears in the episode as an anarchist at the start of the episode that throws a bomb at the Prince.
• Baldrick shows a rare moment of standing up to Black Adder by saying “Goodbye, you lazy, big nosed, rubber faced bastard”.
• The routine that had to be performed whenever Black Adder said “Macbeth” was apparently something made up by the two actors in question – Hugh Paddick (Keanrick) and Kenneth Connor (Mosop).

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