| “Potato” | |||||||
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| Blackadder II, Episode 3 | |||||||
| Written by | Richard Curtis & Ben Elton | ||||||
| Directed by | Mandie Fletcher | ||||||
| Guest stars | Tom Baker | ||||||
| Original airdate | 23rd January 1986 | ||||||
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| List of episodes | |||||||
'Potato' is the third episode of Blackadder II, the second series of Blackadder, which is set in elizabethan england.
Plot
In London, everybody is celebrating the return of Sir Walter Raleigh except for Lord Edmund Blackadder and Mrs. Miggins, who is baking an enormous pie, going to court, Edmund finds Sir Walter telling everybody that it is suicide to sail around the cape of good hope, thinking of a plan Edmund tells everybody that he going to do just that. That night, Edmund recruits Captain Redbeard Rum to be his captain, discovering in the process that he has no legs.
Edmund also recruits Lord Percy Percy and Baldrick, Percy not wanting to go because of aquaphobia, admitting that he was savaged by a turbot as a child, Rum gets engaged to Nursie just before they set sail, Edmund then reveals that his plan is to go to France and pretend that they have been around the cape, however it soon emerges that Rum does not know the way to France. Eventually, they end up in Australia where Rum is killed and eaten by cannibals, the others keeping his beard for Nursie.
When they get back, they find that Queenie has gone off explorers and demands presents, Edmund gives Nursie Rum's beard, Queenie a boomerang and Sir Walter and Melchett a bottle of Baldrick's urine.
Cast
As in credits
- Rowan Atkinson as Lord Edmund Blackadder
- Tim McInnerny as Lord Percy Percy
- Tony Robinson as Baldrick
- Miranda Richardson as Queen Elizabeth I
- Stephen Fry as Lord Melchett
- Patsy Byrne as Nursie
- Tom Baker as Captain Redbeard Rum
- Simon Jones as Sir Walter Raleigh
References
- When Baldrick asks for the day off to join the celebration for Sir Walter Raleigh's return, Blackadder replies, "Certainly not; who do you think you are, Wat Tyler?" This is a reference to one of the leaders of the Peasant's Revolt in England in 1381, which erupted over poor treatment of servants and serfs.