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I'm going to spend the rest of my life in a small wooden room with two toilets and the stupidest man in the world.
— Blackadder · 1983
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The great promise of time travel shrinks to a terrible domestic arrangement. Blackadder is less excited by access to history than appalled by the thought of permanent confinement with Baldrick and the machine's plumbing. It is a thoroughly Blackadder response to a science-fiction premise: the impossible has happened, and he is already complaining about the accommodation.
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In context
Spoilers for BlackadderShow the scene
In Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999), the modern Lord Edmund Blackadder V intends to fool his New Year's Eve guests with a supposed time machine. Baldrick's wooden contraption unexpectedly works, leaving the pair displaced in history and struggling to return. Blackadder assesses the prospect of being trapped in its cramped interior with his servant. This is the modern aristocrat, not the Elizabethan Lord Blackadder they also encounter during the adventure.
Sources (2)
- Back & Forth — episode subtitle transcriptBlackadder: Back & Forth — Back & Forth; quoted conversationReference checked
- Blackadder: Back & Forth — WikiquoteBack & ForthReference checked
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