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I want you to take this and go out and buy a turkey so large, you'd think its mother had been rogered by an omnibus.
— Blackadder ‧ 1983
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The familiar Christmas-morning shopping errand has acquired Blackadder's grotesque imagination. The turkey is supposed to be so enormous that ordinary breeding could not account for it. Coming after the special's reversal of Dickens, the joke turns festive abundance into a display of the confidence Ebenezer has gained by giving up his saintly behaviour.
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In context
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In Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988), the kindly Ebenezer Blackadder is changed by the visions shown to him by the Spirit of Christmas. Instead of becoming more generous, he learns that his ruthless ancestors enjoyed advantages his own goodness has denied him. On Christmas morning he gives Baldrick a startlingly extravagant instruction about buying a turkey. The order belongs to the newly selfish Ebenezer in his Victorian shop, rather than the Elizabethan or Regency figures seen in the visions.
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- Blackadder's Christmas Carol — episode subtitle transcriptBlackadder's Christmas Carol — Blackadder's Christmas Carol; quoted conversationReference checked
- Blackadder's Christmas Carol — WikiquoteBlackadder's Christmas CarolReference checked
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