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cressida-jayoungr · 2 years
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One Dress a Day Challenge
The Men of September
Blackadder II / Rowan Atkinson as Edmund, Lord Blackadder
Even though this is "just" a very funny comedy show, costume designer Annie Hardinge really gave it her all. The costumes are better and more authentic-looking than some seen in serious costume dramas. Lord Blackadder dresses all in black with touches of silver and red, which not only fits his personality but was very fashionable at the time. The snake-and-dagger design on his sleeves is really beautiful and intricate, as is the ornamentation on the cape. And he's got a proper ruff!
Note: The picture with Baldrick is actually from Blackadder's Christmas Carol, but it seems to be either the same costume or an identical one.
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rosalie-starfall · 5 months
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Miranda Richardson Throughout Blackadder History:
Blackadder II - 1986 Blackadder The Third - 1987 Blackadder's Christmas Carol - 1988 Blackadder Goes Forth - 1989 Blackadder Back & Forth - 1999
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fishyfiles · 3 months
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Take note, mortals:
Bad guys have all the fun.
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h-worksrambles · 1 year
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Blackaddder’s Christmas Carol is the best holiday special and I will take no objection.
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weedle-testaburger · 3 months
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tbh I'm open to suggestions for christmas specials to watch
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european-love-hotel · 4 months
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If i don’t see HIM this Christmas…I’m once and for all turning evil
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azazel-dreams · 1 year
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Blackadder's A Christmas Carol
Rating: ❤️❤️ ❤️❤️ ❤
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The Crusher: In fact, there is something in your stocking, duck, something I made for you.
Daffy: Ah, well that's the best kind of gift, Crusher. What is it?
Crusher: It's a fist. It's for hitting people with. (Punches Daffy) And the great thing is, you can use it again and again! (hits Daffy again)
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eleanor-bradstreet · 4 months
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What other regency shows/books do you like?
Hello Nonny!
What a fun question 😊 If we're talking strictly regency era, I'm boring and/or am not aware of enough options, because the only thing I can think of that I know is definitively regency is Pride and Prejudice. I love the book, 1995 series and 2005 film. Matthew Macfadyen is my definitive Darcy 🤤
But if we skew wider to general period/costume dramas and 1800s authors, I have more. I think my tastes are probably more Victorian than regency when it comes to fashion and vibes 😜
The Empress (show) scratched the Bridgerton itch for me while we've been in the drought.
Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre (books) by the Bronte sisters. Haven't seen adaptations I've loved.
I'm a big Dickens fan, books and adaptations - especially A Christmas Carol and anything about Dickens' own life.
Little Women - I adore the 1994 and 2019 films, and live close to the setting/where the Alcotts lived so it's local history for me.
Honorable mention to the first 3 seasons of Downton Abbey before sharks were jumped. I used to be obsessed.
Also to Amadeus (1984 film) which is beautiful and bananas.
Lastly, Blackadder because it totally counts as a costume drama.
Perhaps not the list you were looking for, but if I think of things I love with people wearing historical garb - this is it 😅 Thank you for the ask!
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briarpatch-kids · 11 months
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Blackadder is homestuck for old people, you have to skip the first season for it to be enjoyable. The whole plot reboots every season because it follows a family line through history so its fine though, you dont miss anything important. There's a parody of A Christmas Carol where someone learns to be an asshole, it was voted for the best ending to a comedy series because the finale isn't funny at all, it stars Mr Bean and Dr House. There's a turnip that looks like a thingy...
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scumbag-monthly · 1 year
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Happy Birthday to Adrian Edmondson!
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Born: 24th January 1957, in Bradford
TV: Boom Boom, Out Go The Lights; Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind The Green Door; The Young Ones; The Comic Strip Presents...; Happy Families; Saturday Live; Filthy, Rich & Catflap; Hardwicke House; French and Saunders; Snakes and Ladders; Blackadder; Bottom; Absolutely Fabulous; If You See God, Tell Him; Jonathan Creek; Holby City; Teenage Kicks; Ade in Britain; War and Peace; EastEnders
Theatre: The Rocky Horror Show; Waiting for Godot; Bottom Live: The Stage Show; Bottom Live: The Big Number 2 Tour; Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island: Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity; Bottom Live 2003: The Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour; Vulcan 7; Once Upon A Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia; A Christmas Carol
Books: How To Be A Complete Bastard; The Complete Bastard's Book Of The Worst; The Gobbler; Tilly and the Time Machine; Junkyard Jack and the Horse That Talked
Film: Guest House Paradiso; Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Alma mater: University of Manchester
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s-mackattack · 1 year
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Sticking this on here in the hope that someone might somehow see it and be able to answer. I’m trying to find a kind of fantasy film I saw a bit of when I was a kid in the 90’s. I tried sticking this on Reddit’s Tip Of My Tongue, but everyone’s is just suggesting the most obvious fantasy movies ever.
This was sparked by Tumblr’s suggestion showing me a clip of The Perils of Gwendolyn in the Land of the Yik-Yak.
It was lateish on a week night, UK Channel 4. I think I was getting ready for bed. This film has, I believe, just started. The feel of it is something like Terry Gilliam’s Baron Munchausen. Every time I try and search for this film, I end up pointed at Terry Jones’ Erik the Viking. So, what I’m getting at, is it’s tonally odd. Like, a little tongue in cheek.
The vague memories I have are of an elaborate court. Maybe carved out of a cave. The main character is possibly blonde, and maybe wearing something like a tunic, giving him a kind of Greco-Roman mythology feel. He has a sidekick. Part of me wants to say they are a little person, part of me thinks I’m completely off to say that.
The main dude is mooning over a woman who is some kind of Queen/Empresses/Princess figure. She is clearly not very nice, but he comes across naive and is over romanticising her qualities. She is wearing something like the typical fantasy bikini affair that Ming’s brides might wear in the Flash Gordon movie. It’s got a lot of trailing beads. It’s like she’s draped in a beaded curtain made of pearls.
Something happens which displeases her, and she works on the blonde guy to get him to go on some kind of perilous affair for her. He’s obviously aware he is in deep shit, but his infatuation has him conflicted.
The kicker is that as she’s asking him, he’s lying on some stairs, basically at her feet. She is rhythmically sashaying her hips, causing the front curtain of beads to trail. He seems almost hypnotically fixated on her crotch. This has obviously stayed with me for a couple of decades and I still have no idea what it is.
I possibly haven’t given as good a description as I have here, so Reddit is currently suggesting every fantasy movie ever that features some kind of ridiculous chain mail bikini curtain outfit. I feel I want to emphasise, it’s obviously not Conan the Destroyer, Excalibur, anything by Harryhausen or the future bit of Blackadder’s Christmas Carol.
So, throwing this out here in the hopes that someone might have an idea what I saw, while Reddit suggests every blummin’ movie I’ve ever seen already.
Reblogs appreciated.
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missielynne · 1 year
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After that glimpse of Evil Pete, I really want to do with him what they did with Ebenezer Blackadder in Blackadder’s Christmas Carol where he start’s out the nicest guy in the world, then realizes he gets more out of life if he’s bad. (as a dream or something and with comeuppance.)
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samgphotography · 1 year
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My mate posted this. He was so much more than Hagrid.
Robbie Coltrane passed away. I’d like to take this moment to highlight his impact on British Culture.
Without argument the highlight of his career was the Ghost of Christmas in Blackadders Christmas carol. (1988)
However his impact started as early as his role of “man at airfield” in the 1980 sci Fi masterpiece Flash Gordon. And who can forget his role as the CB voice in classic British sit com “are you being served?” Although the mid 80s proved triumphant for him with a role as Rhun, in the movie Krull, arguably an equally shit movie akin to Hawk the Slayer was it not for Jack Palance. Multiple roles in The young ones, French and Saunders and other sketch shows and various movies like Absolute beginners, as putting him next to skinny David Bowie might make him look like a half Giant. What few British comedic actors can claim to have supported Lenny Henry in the brief time he was actually funny? Not many.
As a true Scotsman, he nailed the role of “Man in a Bathroom” in a little known movie and easily forgotten sequel National Lampoons European vacation.
Star Wars actor Mark Hamill and Aliens foul mouthed kick ass commando Bill Paxton starred in Slimstream (of course you haven’t heard of it) but Coltrane stole the screen with the loveable best friend role of Montclaire. Clearly this catapulted him into 2 Bond movies, one of which was not shit and had a fucking awesome Nintendo game. And again showing his comedy chops alongside mildly famous Eric Idle in Nuns on the run.
Then a stint as quirky criminally minded perverse interrogator in the long running show “Cracker” showing all the best of a quirky, criminally minded perverse Scotsman.
Then sadly, he was type cast as a fat jolly fellow for some anti gender equality authors novel film adaptations who had the audacity to reuse the exact same fucking costume from blackadders Christmas carol, because they gave all the money to Hans Gruber and the kids. And he was forced to do that like 8 times. 11 if you include the Disney shorts to watch while you’re in line.
Rip Robbie Coltrane, who was so much more than just Hagrid.
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Another Crimbo Tale From Tonka!
When our Crimbo decs go up, we get out all the Christmas/Holiday Specials we have on DVD. Some we watch every year, like Nightmare Before Christmas, (the night the decs go up) and the first two Grinch adaptations (Crimbo Eve), most are watched every second/third Xmas.
Well, last night we re-watched 'Blackadder's Christmas Carol' and during the Regency 'flashback' there was a joke where Prince George asks "What can I do to a woman that I can't do to you?" and Blackadder replies "I cannot conceive, Sir?"
Well 34 years after it's first transmission, and after watching it every two/three years over the last twenty, Bird Brain Of Britain, the Gnome Queen Tonka Toy Legs herself, @fountain-of-blue-serenity, finally got the joke. Quick, She's like lightning.
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What jo and tyrion do at Christmas
So Christmas eve morning is for last minute wrapping and sorting.
In the afternoon Gerion come round and the three of them watch Blackadder's Christmas Carol because of course they do.
Then they go to the pub, where they probably meet Bronn. There's always a band paying Christmas songs who always get Jo to sing with them. The owners now know to have a mic ready. it all ends with a rousing rendition of fairytale of new York of course.
Then they, fairly pissed, head over to tywin's. He hosts a big christmas eve party, not just for the family but for colleagues, acquaintances, generally any upper class nonces.
The family stay over that night and then they're all kept prisoner there until new year. An obscene amount of wine is consumed as you can imagine.
There will be a family viewing of lion King at some point. Not very christmassy but it's their family film, pretty much the only thing they all like. One year jaime got joanna, joffrey, tommen and myrcella all matching lion onesies for their presents.
A game of risk or monopoly will also take place at some point. Everyone but tyrion and tywin is out pretty quickly but those two can be at it for DAYS. There will without doubt be threats of violence at some point.
And then there's another big party on new year's eve, after which they are finally set free!
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