"Ink And Incapability" is THE Blackadder episode to show to someone new to the show. And no, I'm not overselling it.
The premise is about Dr Samuel Johnson lending the prince his newly completed dictionary to be its patron only for Baldrick to burn it when he leaves. This forces Blackadder, Baldrick and George to rewrite the entire dictionary, which originally took ten years, in a single night.
The episode also informs us about Edmund's magnum opus: A Butler's Tale (filled with sizzling gypsies). We also get Baldrick's semi-autobiographical work about a little sausage named Baldrick.
Struggling to come up with definitions is a really clever idea for Curtis and Elton to play with as our hero must define 'A' and 'Aardvark' whilst his servant defines 'Dog' (not a cat) and for the letter C 'a big blue wobbly thing with fish'.
Suffice to say that the randomly hilarious dream-sequence is a deserving fan-favourite moment as Baldrick becomes an Alsatian and Blackadder falls in love with Dr Johnson before his aunt drops by... It's deliciously ludicrous.
By far the best 'main series' episode of them all, except possibly "Goodbyeee". 10/10
The premise is about Dr Samuel Johnson lending the prince his newly completed dictionary to be its patron only for Baldrick to burn it when he leaves. This forces Blackadder, Baldrick and George to rewrite the entire dictionary, which originally took ten years, in a single night.
The episode also informs us about Edmund's magnum opus: A Butler's Tale (filled with sizzling gypsies). We also get Baldrick's semi-autobiographical work about a little sausage named Baldrick.
Struggling to come up with definitions is a really clever idea for Curtis and Elton to play with as our hero must define 'A' and 'Aardvark' whilst his servant defines 'Dog' (not a cat) and for the letter C 'a big blue wobbly thing with fish'.
Suffice to say that the randomly hilarious dream-sequence is a deserving fan-favourite moment as Baldrick becomes an Alsatian and Blackadder falls in love with Dr Johnson before his aunt drops by... It's deliciously ludicrous.
By far the best 'main series' episode of them all, except possibly "Goodbyeee". 10/10