#source: blackadder's christmas carol

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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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An insight into Ghosts Christmas Special 2022 is here! (Spoilers underneath cut)

"...the episode will focus on a festive trip down memory lane that prompts Pat [Howick] to question his very identity, while the Ghosts come up with a surprise Christmas present for Alison [Ritchie] after her family lunch does not go to plan."

Baynton had already dismissed the idea of Ghosts pastiching Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, because Blackadder did it as far back as 1988.

"There's a different challenge as well - on top of the challenges of our own show and not repeating ourselves is that you've got all of the Christmas specials in the history of sitcom in the background of your mind" he told the Edinburgh Television Festival in August. "So there's ideas we've had before where we've said, 'You're not going to top Blackadder doing A Christmas Carol, let's not go near A Christmas Carol'. For the first Christmas special, it was the very first idea we had and dismissed. "It was like, 'Our show is called Ghosts - if anyone is ever going to do a thing with the Ghost of Christmas Past and so on...' But it's like, Blackadder nailed it, don't go near it."

Source: British Comedy Guide

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For the ask/tag game, every one of your wip titles intrigues me to no end, but I’m especially tied between ‘Bad Guys Have All The Fun’ and ‘Voices in the Library’!

I’m honestly in awe of your titling skills! Does it take you ages to come up with something you like (like it does for me lol) or do you find you have a knack for it? Also, thanks for the tag!! 💕 -@lostinthemayall

Hiiii! Aw, thank you! And no problem about the tag, I love the fics of yours I've read. ❤️

Titles are so fun and I find it far too exciting when the right one finally presents itself. There's only been one time where I've had a fic completely written and still not known what to call it - with most of these WIPs I've either been inspired by a quote from the source material, or the right title has popped into my mind when brainstorming the story. I've noticed I tend to use the word "bastard" a lot. 😂 Although, I suppose that's unsurprising considering the fandoms I write for.

Bad Guys Have All The Fun

Hehe okay, this WIP is something me and @colourshot-draws cooked up, so shout out to him for being Grate™. I'm going to go on a bit about this one, you've struck on one of my favourites. 😂

This WIP is basically an AU for Blackadder the Third... where we shove Alan B'Stard in there to cause murderous havoc. Why? Well, I think the characters of Edmund Blackadder, especially the third one, and Alan B'Stard would have a deliciously awful dynamic. As Rik already plays a character in the Blackadder universe - the noble Lord Flashheart woof woof - setting a story in S3 means I get to write about an absent from canon Regency era Flash, which is fun too! In this WIP, Alan is the younger brother of Flash and has bitter youngest child syndrome particularly considering the inheritance Flash is due and he ISN'T when their dad croaks. Blackadder doesn't like Flashheart, so Alan seeks him out to help plot big brother's demise.

It's gonna get dark - its main two characters have extremely questionable morals - and this isn't a story where good triumphs over evil... more a story about the different layers of evil and how even the most detached, calculating, sadistic people have vulnerabilities. I also just want to make Edmund and Alan play chess together. I think Baldrick is basically the moral compass knocking about in this WIP, so I want to explore the Blackadder and Baldrick relationship too. It transcends the generations, after all!

Oh, and the title comes from a line in Blackadder's Christmas Carol. 😊

None of this WIP is posted so far and not a lot is actually written yet 😂 buuuut here's a little snippet:

Of course, Baldrick didn't seem to be getting the message.

"But this second son could be a whole different person," he said, ignorant of the fact he'd just dropped a handful of stuffing on the floor.

Blackadder sighed and rolled his eyes. "Funnily enough, I suspect that he will be."

He gave Baldrick a deadpan stare.

Baldrick shook his head. "No, sir, I meant that he might have a completely different personality to Lord Flash- to the other one."

Blackadder's eyebrow quirked upwards once more at the news that Baldrick understood the concept of personalities.

Baldrick went on, "You never know, Mr B, he could be like you."

He smiled stupidly at Blackadder, misunderstanding the eyebrow entirely.

It was so obviously meant as a compliment, that comment, though coming from Baldrick a compliment was more akin to an insult. Still, Blackadder couldn't see how there was a possibility of even a sprinkling of a nugget of truth to Baldrick's inane suggestion - there was no one like Edmund Blackadder, no one at all. Frankly, he wouldn't have minded it staying that way.

Blackadder stood up, dusting off his black coat in preparation for door answering duties. What a poor, brainless cretin he had on his hands here.

"Yes, Baldrick, maybe he will be like me," he agreed with a telling smirk. "And maybe one day, man will walk upon the moon."

As he went to climb the stairs out of the kitchen, doubtless leaving Baldrick more confused than before their conversation began, Blackadder felt that viciousness gnawing at his innards again.

"Then again, maybe not."

Thanks for the ask! Apologies for the extraordinarily self indulgent answer. I've got another ask in my inbox asking about Voices in the Library, so I'll spill about that one then. 😊❤️

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Ah'm ah say ah'm afraid the only way you are likely to get a wet kiss at Christmas, or indeed at any other time, is to make a pass at a toilet.

Foghorn Leghorn to Barnyard Dawg

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Greetings of the stheason of rabbits to you, Bugs!  May the Yule log sthlip from your fire and burn your housthe down!

Daffy Duck

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Bugs: My what a jolly fellow.

Yosemite Sam: Looked like a fat son of a gun to me.

Bugs: Yes Sam, but if one peels away the layers of a 'fat son of a gun' you'll probably find a...

Sam: Thin son of a gun!