User talk:ProhibitOnions/Historical anomalies in Blackadder

"Dead as a... dead dodo" is obviously a joke. Hungry Samuel (talk) 17:22, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The milk chocolate reference in Noble and nobility, Blackadder III, is obviously a joke as well, regarding a commercial ad, to wit Milk_Tray --Gianni Merryman (talk) 17:22, 9 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In a sitcom, very often the com is more important than the sit.

Elephants[edit]

Well, if Melchett is Lord Chancellor and a member of the clergy, he must have studied classics - and both the Romans and the Greeks did know about elephants (Alexander the Great, Hannibal crossing the Alps, etc.)

Mb 3r7864 (talk) 21:51, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, the elephant and the rhinoceros figure in most period bestiaries (along with more fantastical creatures like wyverns, who were said to prey on elephants). There are a lot of mistakes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.180.97.243 (talk) 00:30, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Silence is Golden[edit]

'# Lady Whiteadder tells Blackadder that "silence is golden". This is a reference to the song of that name, which was written in 1964.'

According to a quick Google search, the phrase 'silence is golden' is considerably older than the song of the same name --82.70.156.254 (talk) 00:24, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Blackadder's Christmas Carol[edit]

"Ghosts do not exist and are a common literary device." Of course they do, otherwise there would be fewer parts for actors in Macbeth, Hamlet, Ghostbusters, Ghost, Harry Potter, Casper and so on.

"People who lived in the Victorian era workhouses were not usually fat." Rubbish! See Tenniel's Tweedeldum & Tweedledee, the sleepy boy in "Pickwick Papers", the kids in the Water Babies or any member of the cast of "Oliver!". Sweep's climbing boys are thin for professional reasons.

"Before that (1950s) the meal of the feast would most likely have been a roast swan, pheasant or peacock. Rubbish! Swan was reserved to the Sovereign and the Master of Trinity until 2012 when Romanian beggars acquired the taste. Pheasant was only re-introduced into Britain in the 1830s and was still a rare delicacy in the 1860s,(some confusion with Partridges, as in pear-tree, here although they both have wings they are different things); peacocks taste disgusting hoever poor you are. the Victorian Christmas feast was Goose if you were rich, Sheep's head if you were skint.

"Queen Elizabeth orders "burn all the crackers and block all the chimneys" when she abolishes Christmas. In the 16th Century, Christmas didn't exist yet and neither did the character of Santa Claus, who is hinted as having existed at the time by the use of the words "block all the chimneys," and is referred to by Queen Elizabeth again later in the episode when she talks about times when she used to "leave out a mince pie for Father Christmas."" Doh! Victorian story--QE1??? Brain Fart here? Gaptech (talk) 14:28, 18 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Total Content[edit]

Did a foreign-type person compile this page? Black Adder is comedy.Gaptech (talk) 14:31, 18 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]