Blackadder (TV Series)
The Foretelling (1983)
Rowan Atkinson: Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh
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Quotes
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Prince Edmund : And what is your name?
Baldrick : Baldrick, my Lord.
Prince Edmund : Then I will call you... Baldrick, Baldrick.
Baldrick : And I will call you my Lord, my Lord.
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Richard III : Who's that?
King Richard IV : I know not, my lord. I'll ask my son. Harry! Who is that?
Harry : It is your other son, my lord.
[to the king Richard III]
King Richard IV : It is my other son, my lord.
Richard III : Fights he with us tomorrow?
[to Harry]
King Richard IV : What's his name?
Harry : Edmund.
King Richard IV : Edna! Fight you with us on the morrow?
Prince Edmund : Oh, goodness, no. I thought I'd fight with the enemy.
[Silence. Blackadder giggles nervously and sits down]
Richard III : You are not putting him anywhere near me, are you?
King Richard IV : No, no, my lord. He'll be somewhere amongst the rabble.
Richard III : Oh, arrow fodder.
King Richard IV : Precisely.
[Richard III waves at Edmund]
Richard III : What a little turd.
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Percy : It will be a great day tomorrow for we nobles.
Prince Edmund : Well, not if we lose, Percy. If we lose, I'll be chopped to pieces. My arms will end up at Essex, my torso in Norfolk, and my genitalia stuck up in a tree somewhere in Rutland.
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Prince Edmund : They're coming! Run for the hills!
Baldrick : No, my lord! They're coming from the hills!
Prince Edmund : Run away from the hills! Run away from the hills! If you see the hills, go the other way!
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[Edmund has just cut off the head of King Richard III]
Baldrick : What have you done?
Prince Edmund : Look!
Baldrick : Oh, dear. Richard the Third.
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Prince Edmund : Well, frankly, everyone thought you were dead.
Richard III : Well, frankly, I am.
[head floats away]
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Prince Edmund : Let all men who go to don armour tomorrow remember to go before they don armour tomorrow.
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Prince Edmund : [after surveying the battle of Bosworth Field] Why, some people over there aren't fighting, they're just lying down!
Baldrick : They're dead, my lord.
Prince Edmund : Ah!
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Prince Edmund : I shall be known from now on, as the Black Vegetable.
Baldrick : My lord, wouldn't something like the Black Adder sound better?
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Prince Edmund : [lifting visor of severed head] Oh my God, it's Uncle Richard!
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Prince Edmund : [to Percy] You brainless son of a prostitute!
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Prince Edmund : History, here I come!
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[Edmund uncovers a home-made crown, puts it on and looks at himself in the mirror]
Richard III : [as a ghost] Oh yes, very fetching.
[Edmund turns and screams for about six seconds]
Richard III : ...and hello to *you.*
Prince Edmund : Uh, uh, er, hello... hello... er... goodness me... I hadn't... expected... to see you... like this.
Richard III : Sitting down, you mean?
Prince Edmund : Er, yes, yes, that's right: sitting down. Goodness, look! Look! You're sitting down.
Richard III : Yes.
Prince Edmund : Why, I haven't seen you sitting down since, er...
Richard III : Yesterday?
Prince Edmund : Was it only yesterday? Good lord! Erm, errr... well... How was your battle?
Richard III : Fine. Somebody cut my head off at one point, but otherwise everything went swimmingly. And how are you, Edna?
Prince Edmund : Erm, Edmund...
Richard III : Your father told me Edna.
Prince Edmund : No...
Richard III : So, Edna, you loathsome little fairy maggot, how are you?
Prince Edmund : Er, how... how very very kind of you to ask, erm, Your Majesty... I'm very well, and, er, and it's very good to see you, because, frankly...
Richard III : Yes?
Prince Edmund : Well, well, frankly, er... Gosh, you look well.
Richard III : Frankly what? Spit it out, you horrid little scabby reptile!
Prince Edmund : Er, well, frankly, everyone thought you were dead.
Richard III : Well, frankly...
[Richard's head rises from his body to be level with Edmund]
Richard III : ...I am.