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Blackadder, Season 1, Episode 3 - Uncut Version (Patreon)

Published:
2026-03-18 20:00:10
Imported:
2026-08

Content

The Archbishop

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Roland

"I just don't know how I'll break it to his catamite". Dayum. 🤣

Roland

The best clergyman is yet to come, you'll enjoy the Bishop of Bath and Wells. 🤩

Clare Manion

And just when I thought the hats were the most ridiculous garments of this period…

Roland

Those of us of a certain age first remember Rowan Atkinson from the anarch sketch show Not The Nine O'Clock News, which you'll be shocked to learn was on the nation's second channel opposite the main evening newscast. 🤩 Atkinson went off to have a stellar solo career. I'll link two of his best sketches. Mel Smith and Griff Rhys-Jones went onto to form a blockbuster comedy duo (including the sketch series Alas Smith and Jones). Pamela Stephenson went off in a completely different direction and became a world-class clinical therapist (and married Billy Connolly, who voiced King Fergus in Pixar's Brave as the cherry on top of a very tall comedy sundae).

Actuarial Lurker

The "Enclosure of the Monasteries" was a real thing where Henry VIII in the 1520s after the break with Rome attempted to force nobles to sign over their lands to him at death AND where he would also seize the considerable landholdings of large Catholic Monasteries, since Bishops had essentially become minor local lords under Feudalism. Henry VIII declared these Royal Land and that anyone hunting on them would be a poacher stealing from the King and subject to death ala Robin Hood roaming Sherwood Forest. The Church would allow peasants to hunt rabbits and small game fowl on their lands as a sort of alms for the poor- before the Crown took them over and "enclosed them"- so this screwed over BOTH the clergy by making then non-landholders and thus not nobles AND hurt the lowest classes who relied on the meat in famine growing years. So this episode just moved that into the 1480s rather than 1520s-1540s- although it HAD been going on since the 1200s to some extent

Actuarial Lurker

The selling of Indulgences was of course one of the precipitants of Martin Luther's 95 theses nailed to the his Church door starting the Reformation on Oct 31, 1517... The reference to Indulgences being signed by two if not three Popes was because of a real pre-Reformation schism from 1378-1417- so predating this shows setting- the Conclave of Cardinals could not agree on a new Pope (more than once) and at first there were 2 "rival" Popes and then eventually Three elected with one in Rome and a "fake Pope"- according to the Church- who resided in Avignon, France. Not sure where the third one was. So you do need to be a history geek or Church geek to get many of these jokes

Roland

The two knights going to kill the Archbishop is of course a direct reference to the murder of Thomas Beckett (canonised by St Thomas of Canterbury a couple of years after his death). "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?!" is the famous cry from the King associated with this incident.