The best Blackadder quotes
The top 3 according to 36 votes from people: I have a cunning plan. · As cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University? · I think you'll find he left «sausage» out of his dictionary, Baldrick. Oh, and «aardvark».. (Updated Sep 5, 2023.)
The sharpest insults, Baldrick's cunning plans and the most quoted lines of Blackadder II (1986), Blackadder the Third (1987) and Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), with the series each one comes from.
Top 12
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1
I have a cunning plan.
Baldrick's catchphrase, always followed by the stupidest plan imaginable.
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2
As cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?
Blackadder Goes Forth (1989).
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3
I think you'll find he left «sausage» out of his dictionary, Baldrick. Oh, and «aardvark».
After Baldrick burns Dr Johnson's dictionary, «Ink and Incapability» (1987).
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4
Captain Darling is not the spy.
Blackadder to General Melchett «to my lasting regret», Blackadder Goes Forth, «General Hospital» (1989).
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5
Am I jumping the gun, Baldrick, or are the words «I have a cunning plan» marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation?
Blackadder the Third (1987).
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6
So, in other words, the Turnip Surprise would be a turnip?
Blackadder II, episode «Beer» (1986).
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7
Baldrick, do you have any ambitions in life apart from the acquisition of turnips?
Blackadder the Third (1987).
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8
I thought that if I owned the bullet with my name on it, I'll never get hit by it!
Baldrick in Blackadder Goes Forth (1989).
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9
It's so cunning you could brush your teeth with it!
Blackadder about his own plan, Blackadder II (1986).
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10
Baldrick, I'd bump into cleverer people at a lodge meeting of the Guild of Village Idiots.
Blackadder the Third, episode «Ink and Incapability» (1987).
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11
Your brain is so minute, Baldrick, that if a hungry cannibal cracked your head open, there wouldn't be enough to cover a small water biscuit.
Blackadder Goes Forth (1989).
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12
Good luck, everyone.
Blackadder's last words before going over the top in «Goodbyeee», the final episode (1989).
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Comments (9)
Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson were a perfect double act.
Series 2 with Miranda Richardson as Queenie, best season.
Nice to see the series noted for each line.
Curtis and Elton wrote some of the best British comedy ever.
Blackadder Goes Forth's final scene still gives me chills.
The turnip running gag across all four series is genius.
Hugh Laurie as Prince George, before House, so funny.
Baldrick's cunning plans never get old.
Stephen Fry as Melchett, «Baaah!»