Mr. E. Blackadder Quotes — Blackadder

A furious Blackadder brandishes an ordinary pencil over blank manuscript sheets as a guilty Baldrick faces the task of replacing Johnson's dictionary. — Original artwork

Baldrick, believe me: eternity in the company of Beelzebub and all his hellish instruments of death will be a picnic compared to five minutes with me... and this pencil... if we can't replace this dictionary.

Mr. E. Blackadder

Blackadder raises a weary stopping hand as Baldrick begins to announce another idea in the Regency kitchen. — Original artwork

Am I jumping the gun, Baldrick, or are the words "I have a cunning plan" marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation?

Mr. E. Blackadder

Blackadder watches sceptically as two flamboyant Georgian actors rehearse beside a feathered stage hat in the Prince's drawing room. — Original artwork

You mean they actually rehearse? I thought they just got drunk, stuck on a silly hat and trusted to luck.

Mr. E. Blackadder

Blackadder collapses in despair at the kitchen table as his Highland cousin departs, leaving the duel problem behind. — Original artwork

Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.

Mr. E. Blackadder

Blackadder bows with exaggerated politeness as an increasingly distressed Doctor Johnson clutches a notebook and the Prince watches. — Original artwork

I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.

Mr. E. Blackadder

In a Regency kitchen, Blackadder raises a triumphant finger over his next political scheme while an uncertain Baldrick waits beside the table. — Original artwork

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel.

Mr. E. Blackadder

Blackadder offers a deceptively gracious congratulation while Johnson freezes over his dictionary and the Prince looks on. — Original artwork

Well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafribblarities.

Mr. E. Blackadder

Blackadder gestures through an increasingly elaborate explanation while Baldrick listens blankly in the kitchen beneath the Prince's hanging coat. — Original artwork

Baldrick, does it have to be this way - our valued friendship ending with me cutting you into long strips and telling the prince that you walked over a very sharp cattle grid in an extremely heavy hat?

Mr. E. Blackadder