Money (Blackadder)

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"Money"
Blackadder episode
Episode no.Series 2
Episode 4
Directed byMandie Fletcher
Written by
Original air date6 February 1986 (1986-02-06)
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"Money" is the fourth episode of the BBC sitcom Blackadder II , the second series of Blackadder , which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603. [1]

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Plot

Blackadder is visited by the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells, who reminds him that he owes £1,000 to the Bank of the Black Monks. The Bishop threatens to sodomise Blackadder with a hot poker if he does not repay the money.

Lord Percy offers his savings to Blackadder, but Blackadder has already long since found Percy's hiding place and spent his money, as well as Baldrick's. Blackadder has only £85 to his name, which he loses to the Queen following a bet she had about him with Melchett.

Blackadder tries selling Baldrick into prostitution, but makes only a sixpence from a sailor named Arthur, which the Queen also takes. Percy then tries to produce gold using alchemy, but only manages to produce a mysterious green substance.

Deciding to sell his house, Blackadder bullies a couple into paying him £1,100, but is again tricked out of this by the Queen.

Blackadder attempts run away to avoid the black monks after losing the money for the Queen's trickary. But Baldrick points out that the black banks got branches everywhere and informs his master that not only people will not remember Blackadder when he die, but also be slapping each other in their shoulders, laughing and calling him old privy-breath. Even tend use his name for when people slip in what dogs have left their droppings in the street, as they say “Whoops, I’ve trod on an Edmund.”

Outraged that he is a laughing stock to the people who likes him, Blackadder comes up with a cunning plan, and sends Baldrick out to obtain a number of items including a sleeping draught and the finest portrait painter in England. Baldrick returns with the painter.

The Bishop visits Blackadder again and prepares to carry out his threat to Blackadder not paying his debts. Before he does so, the Bishop drinks some wine offered to him by Baldrick, which he has drugged, and falls unconscious.

The Bishop is later woken up by Blackadder, who reveals a painting made of the Bishop in a highly compromising position with another figure. He uses this to successfully blackmail the Bishop into writing off the debt and giving Blackadder enough money to buy back his house. The Bishop is impressed by the treachery and asks Blackadder who the other figure is, at which point Blackadder reveals Lord Percy.

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