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I reckon it’s Just The Thing Says Alice:
(I considered putting this on Samizdata, then thought maybe it wasn’t quite The Thing).
This is from Blackadder Goes Forth, a quite brilliant vintage British TV series set in WWI. Lord Flashheart is instructing a class of soldiers training to fly in the Royal Air Corps. Flashheart is the ludicrously loud and oversexed character played by Rik Mayall. George is the idealistic upper-class soldier played by Hugh Laurie.
And here it is:
Lord Flashheart: Treat your machine like you treat your woman!!
George: What, you mean, invite her home at weekends to meet your parents?
Flashheart: No! I mean, get inside her five times a day and take her to heaven and back!!
What a series that was.
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Though a worshipper of Alan Partridge, Chris Morris, The Office and The Fast Show, I’ve never seen a single episode of Blackadder. This post has piqued my interest, though.
This previous Spring when I was doing work in Manhattan, I stayed with the owner of the company, an Irish-American, and her Columbian spouse. She got him a complete DVD set of that very series of Blackadder for his birthday, and we watched them constantly the whole time I was there. Some episodes you can just play over night after night and still damn near piss yourself laughing.
I have quite alot of favorites concerning british comedies:
1.) Monty Python – I’ve been a regular fan of that show ever since the mid-70’s
2.) Are you being served – Sexual innuendo’s at their most hilarious
3.) Fawlty Towers – So i’m a john cleese fan
4.) Keeping up appearances – Just thankful my wife isn’t like that
5.) Black Adder – Sadly i watched a few of the episodes, and then it stopped.
So many still, but it’s hard to choose them all!
WOOF!
BA3: “What a way to go. Shot by a transvestite on an unrealistic grassy knoll.”
The first time I saw the last episode of Goes Fourth, my roommate and myself just sat there in silence, completely stunned. What a brilliant ending to a great series.
BTW, my roommate’s father thought Fawlty Towers was one of the funniest shows ever made. He was a rather successful actor/directory, so this is no small praise – Victor French of “Little House on the Prairy” and “Highway to Heaven” fame.
“Don’t mention the war!”
Does anyone else find Flashheart extremely sexy??