Blackadder IV - Never trust men with beards

It's the germans we should be licking :-)

[@andreikovacs3476]

The reason Baldrick gets stupider over the series is that his brain suffers so much shock from punches.

[@Kartik-yi5ki]

Over generations

[@philiposborne982]

Repetitive inbreeding with his sister who is so ugly they had to edit her out of every series. Having said that she can make a single turnip last for a fortnight in a stew...

[@4ndyr0g3r50n]

Like Richard Hammond with crashes then?

[@ollieb9875]

As Blackadder gains more status and standing, knowledge etc throughout the series, Baldrick loses the same

[@pagghr51]

flashheart did the most damage

[@nature_boy44]

"I wouldn't lick a german if he was glazed in honey!" Classic.

[@NeidalRuekk]

Of course Mr Fry, you wouldn't lick any man ;)

[@eleSDSU]

I have been licked many times and never had any complaints, no honey involved.

[@takashiari1598]

I wouldn't lick myself either

[@xon2415]

Pretty sure that the general was talking about women 😂😂😂.

[@fulcrum2951]

@@eleSDSU wait

[@evrbody]

Stephen Fry just loves punching people.

[@shanewright2772]

+evrbody Fry is also famously bad at pulling his punches, hence the rather obvious use of a stand in for this clip. Hugh Laurie claims Fry as beaten him black and blue over the years with mistimed and badly aimed punches

[@Shannmeister]

Shane Wright The sketch from A Little Fry & Laurie about F1 drivers is belter of an example.

[@alexkrycek21]

And Blackadder the Third as Wellington and the Prince.

[@avinotion]

That, and Baldrick's face is a punch magnet

[@WeaselKing1000]

Bet Hugh Laurie was just glad that - for once - it wasn't him.

[@Mati_Panzer]

man, what a punch line

[@mcfetronion3979]

Excellent native cockney wit. *PUNCH*

[@censorduck]

It was a hit wasn't it?

[@Titan-fk2fi]

See what you did there

[@marvinhamilton6637]

The visual affect was striking.

[@philipandrews9938]

Why he hardly touched the man

[@fazbaral-falah1486]

Plot twist: Baldrick didn't die during the last push. Because he didn't get shot by the bullet with his name on it.

[@estebanrey]

Baldrick should have known not to pooh pooh the King, Melchett refuses to pooh pooh a pooh pooh

[@Kyle_Hubbard]

Get outta here, Tucker.

[@Deadmentellnotales-vf3gg]

EnlightenedThinker1 Yes it does lol, "poo" means feces and to "poo poo" something means to dismiss it, often unfairly. English is a strange language lol!

[@johnnyboy3949]

Baldrick got very lucky there, the Pooh Poohing alone is a Court martial offence

[@RabbiHerschel]

@Rick O'Shay if you're actually a non-native speaker who doesn't know, to pooh-pooh a superior officer would be to act dismissively and disobedient towards one's commander.

[@RabbiHerschel]

@Rick O'Shay I think that's right. I actually haven't watched that bit in a while.

[@The_gaming_archaeologist]

I just love that reaction "Don't be revolting, Darling! I wouldn't lick a German if he was glazed in honey."

[@grahamlive]

Although he’d be perfectly happy to lick a “Frenchie” it seems. 😂😂😂😂

[@The_gaming_archaeologist]

@@grahamlive Well considering the opinion of the French at the time...

[@thejannerofplymouth3654]

I've watched this 100s of times .. the passion that Steven puts into the lines are very believable and funny at the same time 😄

[@bones182x]

Aw poor baldrick. I just want to buy him a nice big Turnip out in the country so he can finally be happy

[@user-njyzcip]

He already have a 1000 quid turnip

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

You could really make his day if the turnip looks like...a...thingy 😂

[@ejl1000]

Don't be revolting Darling!

[@TheArcher101]

The slight pause beforehand as well 😂

[@ShahPhilLeotardo]

I WOULDN’T LICK A GERMAN IF HE WAS GLAZED IN HONEY!

[@iamalongusername]

I think what makes these seasons so good is the constant underlying threat of death.

[@Vizzini_]

Right? Blackadder faces death in every episode of most seasons

[@thedoomslayer4327]

God I love how Tony Robinson keeps a straight face in every time i just adore him 😄

[@Henu_K]

I haven't seen courage like this from a soldier since Private Joker told the drill sergeant he doesn't believe in Virgin Mary.

[@rurikau]

It is interesting what you can say to a General and get away with when you are an OR or even a junior Officer. See Generals spend their days with people who are not as honest with them as they should be. Generals are fighting men who can get a job done, when the time is right they like a frankness. I once saw a Lt say to a Gen “Sir you need todo what I say when I say it or you will die and that will fuck up my Career!” The General laughed and said “I am yours to command, now let’s go smash some shit.”

[@ScotishChristian]

0:23 To me the look on Melchett's face says "Think of your answer carefully soldier."

[@Darkstar263]

I imagine being in the military, you would have to be careful about what you say. Especially back in those days during the war. You could probably get court martialed or shot for saying the wrong thing.

[@ScotishChristian]

Darkstar263 True though we are talking about Melchett who, and I believe I am remembering this right, had a platoon of men executed for pretending to be insane.

[@Darkstar263]

ScottishChristian Yes that's correct.

[@dwaugh2215]

The way he goes on with his order makes you think He might be a little loony

[@sirshauniv511]

I love that you can see Rowan chuckling in the background at the men with beards line.

[@issabeganovic8822]

It's remarkable because he's a self-described hard stoic. You get him to laugh at anything, you'll trade in your chances at winning a lottery.

[@jesscroft3595]

Do you love your country? Certainly do sir! Do you love your king? Certainly don’t sir! 0.0 ...and why not?! Love that moment of rage in melchett but still willing to hear him out!

[@jekubfimbulwing5370]

That's a powerful punch Melchitt's got there, It was barely in the same post code as Baldric but it still knocked him out!

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Yeah Stephen Fry wasn't used to slapstick violence. Not like Rowan or even Adrian & Rick, they were masters of comedy violence !

[@JamesCLetts]

haha poor old Baldrick, he always got smacked/ punched/ abused.

[@RKBock]

well, at least he can't get any brain damage...

[@giovanniacuto2688]

@@RKBock Damaged brain or not he was the only member of the cast to receive a knighthood in real life

[@RKBock]

@@giovanniacuto2688 I was talking about baldrick, not the actor playing him.

[@seansands424]

That,s is kind off actually how they treated the working class ordinary privet soldier in ww1 with content, watch the program the monocle mutineer and the film the hill with Sean Connery in they are an eye openers, and that what black adder go,s forth is trying to portray with Boldrick getting slapped and punch and abused by General Melchett and black adder, they really treat the ordinary soldier with content, the one,s who was badly disfigured or shell shock or brain damaged from ww1 was shot away in special homes or institutions, not homes fit for heroes but heroes fit for homes

[@benniemoe1621]

It took me this long to realize how rowan actually cracks up, barely visible in the scene.

[@Killjoy45]

I say, that was a jolly good punch, sir!

[@seansands424]

Boldrick thank you

[@perplexed_potato3714]

Hit him square in the face, sir!

[@danielquinn6934]

DON'T BE REVOLTING DARLING

[@billcipher5976]

0:06 had me laughing for hours

[@paulmcgovern6660]

Oh, look, a year has gone by since the last comment. How fickle is man? How wonderful remains this obscure yet superior comedy. Always a joy.

[@blackbird5634]

"Never trust a woman or a government." -Yellowbeard. (Monty Python)🤣 "You'll never kill anyone if you go around reading books all the time!''🤣

[@johnconley4955]

Stephen Fry was awesome, this was my highlight on a Thursday night, 9.30pm BBC2 all those years ago

[@newswithdcruz4277]

imagine being a private and getting punched in the face by a general

[@Lattidude]

George V had a pretty damn good beard though

[@Britonbear]

Bloody hipster that he was.

[@Shadowdoc26]

@@Britonbear his dad Edward VII and his cousin tsar Nicholas II also had beards. It’s a whole family of hipsters

[@LuizAlexPhoenix]

@@Shadowdoc26 Shame they didn't all go out the same way as old Nicky, preferably circa 1913, would have saved several million lives all over the world if they solved their family squabbles in a beard contest to the death. Hell, old Willy only had a mustache so he would have started on the backfoot!

[@Shadowdoc26]

@@LuizAlexPhoenix That would've saved countless more lives by preventing the holocaust too since ww1 helped fuel ww2.

[@malcolmabram2957]

I was heavily influenced by this. I have, as a result, always kept myself clean shaven.

[@FreeKentHovind]

Sorry, Stephen Fry but that moustache makes you look like Josef Stalin

[@slappop7082]

Lord Kitchener was more the intention and they got it spot on.

[@mrkeogh]

@@slappop7082 I always thought it was meant to be Haig, but Kitchener makes sense too (though he'd have been dead just before the Somme began). Regardless, Fry's portrayal is memorable but most historians nowadays would disagree with the idea that the generals were _that_ callous. They were adapting to a new kind of warfare on a scale that nobody had experienced before in history. Politicians and historians at the time judged them incredibly harshly for their mistakes with little evidence that other strategies would have fared much better.

[@reichtangle7734]

@@slappop7082 Ah yes, he was based on me. What great chaps that worked on blackadder!

[@diomedes8791]

The look of sheer disgust on Stephen Fry’s face at around 0:08 is priceless! 😂😂😂

[@caulikid2762]

Baldrick gets a smack in the face again 😂😂

[@epicfreddy91]

He always get a smack on his face. :')

[@AtlasBlizzard]

Of course Melchett is so out of touch that he doesn't evem know whom they're fighting.

[@rikko338]

BAAAHHHHHH

[@nigelcarren]

Agreed!

[@Snake101Gaming]

Agreed!

[@mantistoboggan5171]

sludgebiscuit!

[@jamesbarratt593]

Fuck me that was hilarious. Im in a garage with no electricity. Its raining. Its winter. The second lockdown is about to happen covering whole UK, but still. That was hilarious

[@Angrycat-pg5iv]

hahahahaha excellent native cockney wit

[@midshipsport]

That's a Dream Team of Comedic Army men in one war Bunker.

[@rikko338]

Thanks old chap.

[@chilled99]

0:16 - 0:22 Fry is on fire.

[@DarthWill3]

Nice punch, Stephan Fry!

[@billysimms100]

Ah, tally-ho, yippety-dip and zing zang spillip! Looking forward to bullying off for the final chukka?

[@willgisby4248]

And why not? Thinking to himself choose your next words carefully

[@billiebleach7889]

“Don’t be revoooooolting, darling”

[@romeo9017]

Never trust any man with tattoos, a double barrelled name, excessive jewellery, pink clam digger shorts, an earring and a beard...

[@ge789]

Stephen Charles So if they have all of the above, but no earring, I should trust them?

[@Dayvit78]

Yes, that was probably his mom's full warning, but he just forgot part of it.

[@philiposborne982]

It's the women woth tattoos you have to watch... Mmmmm Mmmm women with tattoos and low self esteem... woop woop party time

[@BertMelert]

Stephen Charles pirates?

[@JohnSmith-zw2ym]

Single gold tooth, spikey hair, large black pick up truck with dark tinted windows.

[@tacitus6384]

"I wouldn't lick a german if he was glazed in honey!" I fully agree! Now...if *she* was glazed in honey...then my jaw muscles are in for a work-out!

[@ds1868]

Don't be reVOLTING Darling!

[@peterm1826]

I have the entire series love them. 😁

[@jordanpeterson5038]

I think Tony Robinson plays a strong roll in the shows humor

[@danielnewton5867]

I love it when he punches Balldrick!

[@chaosblastman4936]

replay punch 0:30 You're Welcome X3

[@Shay-bp7yt]

Blackadder was a masterpiece .

[@ShahPhilLeotardo]

Excellent, Native, Cockney Wit. 🤜🏻

[@Antonin1738]

I want to grow a mustache like that

[@knenda1]

Baldrick is a legend :)

[@simonhammond6585]

Good ol melchet.....everybody’s favourite captain.

[@gagatube]

Captain!😲 In the class divided society of the time, it's likely *General* Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett entered the army with at least the rank of Major. He probably regards 'Captain' as a rank suitable for the more able servants, viz. Darling.

[@richardroopnarine870]

A bit of Fry and Laurie

[@OneofInfinity.]

Never gets old 😂

[@michaellam2508]

What a hit! 😂

[@DarthWill3]

You're welcome, General!

[@jarradpuckridge8210]

You can just see Rowan laughing next to Tony.

[@randypanthegoatboy7114]

"Do you love your country?" "Certainly do, sir." "Do you love your President?" "Certainly don't, sir." "And why not?" "My mother told me never to trust coke addicts with toupees, sir."

[@austinross5199]

Powerful. So progressive. Truly a hero of our time.

[@ABW941]

I think that would be that other guy, who invaded Iraq.

[@randypanthegoatboy7114]

Jesus, two Republican presidents in a row with coke addictions. Great judgment, America...

[@ABW941]

Iam not an american but as far as i know Trump himself is not even smoking, or drinking alkohol. I dont think he does coke either.

[@randypanthegoatboy7114]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...Oh, shit, you're serious...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

[@titch27DG]

That is as true today as it was then, never trust a man with a beard

[@wilhelmvongreim3261]

So Baldrick predicted WWII

[@KingOfSciliy]

Neither Hitler, Mussolini nor Hirohito had a beard, so I don't understand where you're coming from.

[@drevenypribor6144]

Hirohito was not responsible for japanese actions during WWII it was Hideki Tojo.

[@isaacschmitt4803]

I love how Americans love the British Monarchy more than the Brits do. . .

[@shrimpflea]

It's because we don't have to deal with them. It's like a fairy tale.

[@memeconsumer773]

So why do y'all have em?

[@pp-bb6jj]

Soiler alert: King of England is also German. :)))

[@bmjake]

Funny, my wife does the same thing after laughing at one of my jokes

[@jackbotman]

And this is why I dun't trust myself

[@porkfreegaming5278]

Baldrick just got fuckin decked

[@bretttempleman5373]

This was the best

[@jasperanyaya2673]

Well that's way i dont even tell a truth in front of a beard man😂😂😂

[@tla2119]

Well that’s us out then

[@takashimizutani1808]

A 10 year old video recommended to me with 6k likes. What kind of sorcery is this

[@williambenstead1925]

At the end here, I guess that's what the Americans call a 'knock-out punch'.

[@peterdavies2960]

Also the King was half-German too

[@johnfowell6887]

my favorite question to ask to my friends 0:19

[@fulcrum2951]

Do you love your country?

[@jakethesnake3593]

"My mother told me to never trust men with beards, sir." -Baldrick (Commie propaganda reader) quick, someone show comrade Baldrick a picture of Karl Marx

[@mohammedashian8094]

General melchett: hahaha Excellent native cockney wit (Punch)

[@dafoex]

Bold of you to assume Baldrick can read

[@jakethesnake3593]

Good point. But he seemed pretty excited about that one episode about the Russian revolution when he held a newspaper about it, and he was seen reading a magazine in the fifth episode. So I won't totally count him out.

[@johnelliott7850]

Brilliant!

[@IizUname]

Yeah I noticed Andrew moved a chess piece in conversation with me. He's put himself in a bad spot. I need to be better about communicating and documenting effectively

[@googoogjoobgoogoogjoob]

He's right about beards

[@shrimpflea]

Agreed. I have a beard and I am not to be trusted at all.

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

This scene greatly points out how the British Working-classes have been used as inexpensive cannon-fodder by the rest of society for hundreds of years, and the sad part is we accept it as the norm. we have been beaten into submission like grateful peasants.

[@jimtaylor294]

The series claims that... except that it isn't true. British Officers in WWI were proportionately at the front rather than behind it, and - as per army tradition - didn't duck about either (bad for morale). Look up the video *British Officers Don't Duck!* for the details.

[@bebeldan]

Can someone explain the beard joke please?

[@WeaselKing1000]

Rather out of character for Stephen. He's got Hugh just there and he chooses to punch Tony Robinson.

[@Rasvakill9]

Why does he look like Himmler?

[@william_the_conqueror_fan1564]

0:16

[@tonyblare1403]

Please someone inform me which series is this??

[@piggypooo]

Black Adder : season 4. Only 5 or so episodes

[@anniechrisbendy6000]

😅🤣😅🤣😅PERFECTION

[@ppp7277]

The best 😂😂

[@Timbo5000]

To be fair, who would lick anyone who's glazed in honey?

[@chrismcmillan8246]

Regis - You don't know what you're missing out on!

[@fulcrum2951]

The internet

[@thomaswilson3827]

If they were hot enough...

[@jimbodjango8900]

Megan fox?

[@puckinhell622]

Regis well if your up for a challenge.......Ann Widdecombe or Susan Boyle 😂😂

[@luzhengwong3264]

So it was his mother who made him stupid by giving stupid information.

[@lothairthecommiemonarch8488]

Plus the king is of German heritage,one more reason not to trust him :)

[@Kladjos]

Commie monarchist Mapper Yeah, but he spoke English and changed the name to Windsor instead of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Good enough.

[@germanvisitor2]

Windsor rolls a lot better off the tongue than of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

Lothair the Commie Monarch practically everyone in Europe has German heritage so that’s not saying much

[@bonnyathome]

...nor I... ...now with bacon grease... ...I might consider it...

[@tardwrangler]

Wait... That nose...

[@Dave_Dot_Executable]

Which German are we talkin about here?

[@The_General_Owl]

No German. He would not lick any German even If they are glazed in honey

[@TheGodParticle]

My mum told me the very same lol

[@docsaaid2939]

Excellent native cockny wit ( punch )

[@paullittle4622]

Fuckin brilliant

[@haniDopeman]

0:31 Oof 0:30

[@harrihaffi2713]

I see

[@SackFulloApplez1993]

strange and weird, beard?

[@Max-qz4tw]

Ex military here. Never trust anyone who has a mustache; or is choosing to be, or is just is, bald, that has a job of direct authority. If both, treat as highly suspect.

[@ArcturanMegadonkey]

Never trust a man with a beard or a cyclist!

[@rawpotatofella9654]

You can see Hugh Laurie smiling at 0:29

[@SpartacusColo]

I think it's in-character. It looks like his standard, good-soldier, nod in agreement with the general, grin.

[@markneedham8726]

..and certainly don't trust a man in a dress...!