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Blackadder :: Dish and Dishonesty (03x01)
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| Title: | Dish and Dishonesty |
| Episode #: | 03x01 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday September 17th, 1987 |
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Episode Summary |
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There is a crisis in the palace! There is a motion in parliament to strike Prince George from the Civil List, and if successful would bankrupt him. Blackadder uses his cunning to try to save the Prince as well as line his own pockets.
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| •Rowan Atkinson | played | Prince Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh / Lord Edmund Blackadder / Edmund Blackadder, Esq. / Captain Edmund Blackadder | | •Tony Robinson | played | Baldrick, son of Robin the Dung Gatherer / Baldrick / S. Baldrick / Private S. Baldrick | | •Hugh Laurie | played | George, Prince of Wales and the Prince Regent / Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Bartleigh | | •Helen Atkinson-Wood | played | Mrs. Miggins |
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Episode Notes |
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Hugh Laurie (Prince George) and Helen Atkinson-Wood (Mrs. Miggins) join the regular cast in this episode.
| Helen Atkinson-Wood, who plays Mrs. Miggins, has no relation to Rowan Atkinson.
| Hugh Laurie is the only actor to play three different characters in three consecutive episodes: Simon Partridge in "Bells", Prince Ludwig in "Chains" and Prince George in all six episodes of Blackadder the Third.
| BBC correspondent, Vincent Hanna, essentially played himself in this episode. Like his "fictional" great-great-great-grandfather seen here, he reported on many by-elections around Britain.
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Prince George: For me, socks are like sex: tonnes of it about, but I never seem to get any.
| Blackadder: If you want something done properly, kill Baldrick before you start.
| Blackadder: Sir, might I let loose a short violent exclamation?
Prince George: Oh why, certainly.
Blackadder: DAMN!!!
| Blackadder: We are reprieved. It is a triumph for stupidity over common sense.
| Blackadder: After the chaos of a general election, we can return to normal.
Mrs. Miggins: Oh, has there been a general election then, Mr Blackadder?
Blackadder: Indeed there has, Mrs. Miggins.
Mrs. Miggins: Oh, well, I never heard about it!
Blackadder: Well, of course you didn't, you're not eligible to vote!
Mrs. Miggins: Why not?
Blackadder: Because virtually no one is. Women, peasants, (gestures to Baldrick) chimpanzees, lunatics, lords...
Baldrick: That's not true, Lord Nelson's got a vote!
Blackadder: He's got a boat, Baldrick! A marvellous thing, democracy! Look at Manchester. Population 60,000, electoral roll three.
| (Pitt the Younger addresses parliament for the first time as prime minister)
Pitt the Younger: Mr. Speaker, Members of the House, I shall be brief, as I have rather unfortunately become prime minister right in the middle of my exams.
| Blackadder: Sir Talbot represented the constituency of Dunny-on-the-Wold, and, by an extraordinary stroke of luck, it is a rotten borough.
Prince George: Really! Is it! Well, lucky-lucky us. Lucky-lucky-luck. (impersonating a chicken) Luck-luck-LAKK-LAKK-LAKK-LAKK-cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck-LAKK-LAKK-LAKK.
Blackadder: ...You don't know what a rotten borough is, do you, sir?
Prince George: No.
Blackadder: So what was the chicken impression in aid of?
Prince George: Well, I just didn't want to hurt your feelings. Erm, so, what is a rubber button?
Blackadder: Rotten borough.
Prince George: Oh, yes, you're right.
| Prince George: We paid for this seat! And I think it's a damn liberty we should have to stand for it as well.
| Pitt the Younger: I intend to put up my own brother as a candidate against you!
Blackadder: Oh, and which Pitt would this be? Pitt the Toddler? Pitt the Embryo? Pitt the Glint in the Milkman's Eye?
| Blackadder: Well, we in the Adder Party are going to fight this campaign on issues, not personalities.
Vincent Hanna: Why is that?
Blackadder: Because our candidate doesn't have a personality.
| Vincent Hanna: Master William Pitt, the Even Younger, are you disappointed?
Pitt the Even Younger: Yes, I'm horrified. I smeared my opponents, bribed the press to be on my side, and threatened to torture the electorate if we lost! I fail to see what a more decent politician could have done.
| Blackadder: I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel!
| Blackadder: Who cares about a dead cat now that I'm a fat cat?
| Prince George: (Referring to Baldrick) But he's an absolute arsehead!
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