Blackadder the Third (TV Series)

Nob and Nobility (1987)

Helen Atkinson Wood: Mrs. Miggins - a Coffee Shoppekeeper

Quotes 

• Mrs. Miggins : Bonjour, Monsieur

  Blackadder : Excuse me.

  Mrs. Miggins : It's French.

  Blackadder : So is eating frogs, cruelty to geese and urinating on the streets.

• Edmund Blackadder, Esq, Butler to the Prince : I'll have a cup of coffee, and some shepherd's pie.

  Mrs. Miggins : Ooh, we don't serve *pies* anymore! My French clientèle consider pies uncouth.

  Edmund Blackadder, Esq, Butler to the Prince : I hardly think that a nation that eats snails, and would go to bed with the kitchen sink if it put on a tutu, is in any position to preach couthness.

• Mrs. Miggins : The Scarlet Pimpernel, Mr. Blackadder! He's so exciting, don't you think?

  Blackadder : Actually, I think he's the most over-rated human being since Judas Iscariot won the AD31 Best Disciple Competition.

• Edmund Blackadder, Esq, Butler to the Prince : I'm looking for a specific type of Frenchman. One that is obviously of noble blood but short on cash.

  Mrs. Miggins : Ah, I have just the fellow for you. Over there. The Compte du Frou Frou. He's pretty down on his luck. He's made that horse's willy last all morning.

• Edmund Blackadder, Esq, Butler to the Prince : What is on the menu today?

  Mrs. Miggins : Well, we have scarlet chicken in a pimpernel sauce, pimpernel chicken in a scarlet sauce, or huge suspicious looking sausages in a scarlet pimpernel sauce.

  Edmund Blackadder, Esq, Butler to the Prince : What exactly is scarlet pimpernel sauce?

  Mrs. Miggins : You take a large, ripe frog. You squeeze it... ..

  Edmund Blackadder, Esq, Butler to the Prince : Yes, yes, yes.