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Blackadder | Americans react for the first time 😉| Goodbyeee | S4 Ep 6 | Get Cunning (Patreon)

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Vernon Harbin

I was in the studio audience for this one. Recorded at BBC TV Centre in Shepherd’s Bush (studio TC4 I think) in the late summer of 1989 and broadcast later that year. I’d been in the audience for several BBC sitcoms by then, and looking back, I’d been spoiled. I particularly remember the final episode of Porridge, with Richard Beckinsale and the legendary Ronnie Barker. Their performance was without fault. It was all done in 40 minutes. Like watching a theatre play. Blackadder, by contrast, took between 3 and 4 hours. Retake after retake as actors stumbled with the, let’s face it, challenging dialogue. Coupled with that, we were told the opening scene was the longest ever in four seasons of Blackadder. With all the stops and restarts, and having to pretend we were hearing the jokes for the first time, it was an ordeal. We were so relieved when they finally moved on to the next scene. Off camera, the cast were pretty shy. They gave half-waves as they were introduced but none of them, except Tony Robinson, engaged with the audience. Richard Curtis (co-writer; also wrote the Dr Who Vincent and the Doctor episode) was the host and warm-up man. He’d flipped a coin with Ben Elton as to which of them should do this gig. (The other would fill in on Wogan, then a popular TV talk show.) Richard talked about the history of the show, including the evolution of Baldrick’s character since Series 1, and how they struggled with this episode to stick to the army ranks theme for the Series 4 titles. Eventually they gave up and settled on “Goodbyeee”. Baldrick recited three poems in the original recording. One was cut, presumably because of time constraints, because they were all equally hilarious. I wish I could find a copy of the original script, because I can’t remember how it went. There was no clue from the live recording as to how the iconic final scene would play out. The actors retired to another studio, and we watched a few seconds of action on monitors as they charged through the explosions. After that, nothing happened for around 15 minutes until we were finally told we could leave. Later, it emerged that the actors had had a serious argument with the production staff, claiming the pyrotechnics were unsafe, and refused to do any more takes. The inspired final scene was created in post-production by slowing down the few seconds of footage and fading into the Flanders poppy fields. I still remember being stunned when I first saw it broadcast. It’s just perfect. Rest In Peace, the 886,000 young British men who never came home. Blackadder honoured your memory beautifully.

Troy Convers

To add to what Vernon said below, there was criticism at the time when the first few episodes went out that the series was trivialising The Great War and was an insult to veterans who at that time who were still alive. Little did they know what the writers had planned. RIP to all who perished in 'The war to end all wars'. ❤️

Dryfesands

Possibly the greatest rug pull in all of television comedy. Certainly the most famous finale in British TV. The way the comedy just starts to bleed out of the whole thing from the moment Darling discovers his fate . . . You are left with something raw, and terrifying, and inevitable. And beyond all of that, real. These were the final moments of many hundreds of thousands of men (of all nations) during this war. The performances and writing rise magnificently to the challenge of doing this, and the result is an essential, and heart rending, moment of TV. There isn't a line in this whole 30 minutes that isn't perfectly written *and* perfectly delivered. Shattering.

Troy Convers

Quite frankly one of the great moments in British television history. I've been waiting patiently for you to get to this point, and you didn't disappoint. I've watched it countless times and it still kicks like a mule.

Liam

A masterpiece of an episode. The way the comedy is inside it but the horror of the situation just sits on your chest, like an enormous weight. I laughed but as the situation sunk in it was hard to really laugh along with it.

SnabbKassa

So many British women of that generation, born 1885-1900, who would have married some man who lived locally, had nobody to marry because there were no men of their age left.

Katy Robinson

I vividly remember being shown this in history class in (I think) 1999. We were all so stunned by the ending.

Phil Birkett

"Sir? I'm... scared, sir." The most prosaically simple four-word line you could come up with, but because of what's happening, because of which character it's coming from, and because of Laurie's perfect delivery, it brings a lump to the throat every time. This episode is frequently cited as one of the greatest moments in British TV history, and it totally deserves to be lauded as such. A genuine masterclass in writing.

Troy Convers

Darling's redemption at the end is everything. He's an object of ridicule right up to the point that he's sent to the front line and gives us a small glimpse into the fact that he's just trying to get through this thing unscathed and then live a normal life, and short of a miracle he's not going home alive. The 1914-1917 line is one of the darkest pieces of humour I've ever heard.

Jonathan

If anyone ever doubts comedy is art. Masterful performances from all, and brave from the writers. Not just for the ending, but like you say for absolutely hammering home that there was NOTHING heroic or essential about any of these deaths. Men being thrown into a meat-grinder.

Nolan

Did y'all think Blackadder of all things would end up more depressing than Battlestar Galactica?

Karl Ward

Thank you Gals, just thank you for your reactions and empathy. I remember watching this when it was broadcast and the poignant and tragic ending that left me, As it did you, almost bereft of speech. The senseless waste summed up in a 30 minute sitcom. Were it not for that terrible slaughter we wouldn't have The Lord of the Rings, the poetry of the great war poets such as, amongst many, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke and Isaac Rosenberg to name but a few. It strikes me as such an ironic and awful fact that as human beings we are capable of such vile and terrible acts and yet in the face of unimaginable trauma we manifest such beauty and wonder. What it is to be human and why can't we just love and live together please? Thank you. X

Mark Ten

Besides bck & Forth there is also a "Baldrick's Diary" and "Blackadder Rides Again"... hmm? hmm?

Absent With Concept

I love how this one really is doom and gloom from the start. That opening scene, in the rain, just sets the tone completely. There's never really an attempt to make you think they're going to get out of it, the whole thing is melancholic and harrowing from the start. From the moment Darling gets sent to the front line it's really one of the most difficult things to watch. I really love Blackadder's "good luck, everyone" - it won't make a difference, but he believes it, because despite all their differences, they're all equal in that moment and he doesn't want any of them to die. I'm yet to watch it without crying, probably never will.

Nolan

This episode: well, if we can't get em to vomit, we'll get em to cry.

Mab7373822

This was really interesting to read, thanks for sharing your experience in the audience!

Mab7373822

This episode is shown to children in UK secondary schools as an accessible microcosm of the war. We get so many layers - the class of the UK of the time (with Melchett and George being upper class enough to have ways out of the slaughter, though of course George declines), the lower class of Baldrick having zero agency, and the middle class of Blackadder and Darling in the middle. We get a brief origin story of the war, the context of the British Empire, we get the poetry that characterised much of the war, we get images of the Field Marshall brushing up his toy men with a dustpan and binning them, showing the ruling class' absolute heartlessness to the disposable soliders. We get observations on the appalling conditions of the trenches, from splintering ladders to vermin (Baldrick is shining his shoes with a dead rat) to no food (mud coffees). We get Melchett - the true and absolute sickening villain of Blackadder IV - describing his men being slaughtered by machine gun as comparable to trying to take a wicket in cricket. And we get the end. When Darling announces "The Great War - 1914 to 1917", all the school children get it. They know the date is wrong. They are ahead of the characters. It affirms their history lessons that led to watching the episode. This is a remarkable, dense and powerful study of the war. It is literally an educational resource in the UK.

Mab7373822

The bit where the emotion truly turns, is Hugh Laurie's perfect and unexpected delivery of "Sir.. I'm scared, sir."

Winterkin

I just thought of another great recommendation, if no-one else has mentioned it yet... Do the Gallifrey Pals know that Rowan Atkinson once played the Doctor in a Comic Relief special episode of Doctor Who??

George Baxter

This iteration of Blackadder being so weary just gets to me. Each generation he's a lower class, he's gone from conniving to desperate. Surrounded by idiots, no way out. And in the end he doesn't choose the cunning plan

pbaker

I watched this go out in 1989 and before I finished school in 1996 it was already being shown in history class. Incredible episode and I cried for the hundredth time.

Skyrous

Hugh Laurie was just so good this entire series.

GillyBean

yeah i remember watching this in school when i was maybe 13? doing my history GCSE, i had already seen it at that point though as my family had raised me on this and red dwarf

Peter Harrison

That ending - every single time it gets me. It makes me (now) think of a Doctor Who quote: Me (Ashildr): It was beautiful. The Doctor: No, it was sad. Me (Ashildr): No. It was both.

Robert Carson

You expect it from. Blackadder and Baldrick butcher always upbeat George hits you

Tipper

Thirding it!

pbaker

Just found a review from 1989

Jonathan

It's impressive because this Blackadder is still by no means a good person. He enjoyed being a soldier when the enemy wasn't a major threat, which should make him pretty unlikable. But there's just something in his voice when he talks about never imagining anything as horrible as this that makes you feel for him. It really was the age of mechanised warfare that changed everything.

Travis Boyle

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

Gray

I knew it would be difficult but wow this hit you both hard, what a show it's been and i've really enjoyed rewatching along. I think you'll like the last ep. Looking forward to whats next hope you keep the British theme as there a still lots of great shows to choose from.

Sebastian Bodine

I found that Blackadder's statement of "It was much effort not to have a war" is something that really speaks for the modern age. World powers too used to preying on technologically less advanced regions that they can't help but tempt war for their own gains.

Juzzie

As I understand it their initial instinct was to try and make it funny, but they quickly found that that would not work. Everything about the last episode was sort of thrown together at the last moment. The ending was initially played at full speed with the actors doing bad "I am dying" acting. No one was happy with it and they were running out of time. Then one of the producers suggested slowing the shot down and putting music over the top of it, and it works. Its amazing what can come out of adversity.

Ashtara Levin

It was funny before Doctor Who became a bit of a joke of itself..

Ashtara Levin

I can pretty much watch any episode of Blackadder any hour of the day on any given day.. except this one. I think in all of my rewatches, I've only had the strength to watch it fully a couple of times. That ending.. the "The Great War! 1914-1917" line just before they go over the ledge and the picture slows down, is so heartbreaking to me, I cry every time. I can't begin to tell you how grateful I am for this episode, for it was mainly because of it that I learned about the first world war (being Jewish, I was mostly taught about the second..) It is a sign of great art that can comment on life and spark a conversation without throwing blame or making you feel ashamaed for your part in it.

David Shadwell

Nothing much to add that hasn't been said.... Just 30 minutes of tension being wound up until it breaks. They are all pitch perfect in this; Fry's slightly sinister Melchett when addressing Captain Darling. McInnery's reaction to being told he is going to the front (the haunted eyes and rubbing of his forehead are such simple but believable touches). A figure of fun, re-deemed at the end when we realise he is just a normal man, living a normal life who just doesn't want to die. Robinson's burning anger as Baldrick at the stupidity of it all and his quiet pathos as he recalls those he has lost. Laurie's simple but poignant realisation and fear of what is about to happen. And Atkinson's increasing desperation. There is pure venom in his response to Baldrick's desire to go on all night - "Not with a bayonet through your neck you couldn't!". The mask has slipped for a moment as we see he is at breaking point, his fate, and the fate of his men, sealed. Head in hands and drained.... a bit like those watching. And onto acceptance... with the one line Rowan Atkinson delivered in his normal delivery - Good luck everybody.

Chris K

I usually hold it together until that line

Chris K

It's amazing that this episode is essentially identical to the first episode, Captain Cook. But while that episode was hilarious throughout, from the first SECOND this finale (literally) has darkness hanging over it. It feels purely satirical. Even the funniest parts have a darkness to them. The disgusting coffee scene is really funny, but also serves as a reminder - these soldiers were sat in a muddy hole waiting to get slaughtered, and they didn't even have proper supplies.