C is for Contrafibularity | Blackadder The Third | BBC Comedy Greats

[@BBCComedyGreats]

I have a cunning plan, let's watch more Blackadder here : kzbin.info/aero/PLZwyeleffqk5r8Ze_qSF9nKi_9hfjH0qO

[@APAstronaut333]

Let’s do it!!

[@obviously1871]

Am I jumping the gun, Baldrick, or are the words 'I have a cunning plan' marching with well-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation?"

[@pavelmedbery3055]

I was honestly expecting a rick roll

[@peterhotton635]

I think the pandemic has a better plan than boldricks

[@adjoho1]

HUZZAH!

[@sanghoonlee5171]

Robbie Coltrane--Dr. Johnson--passed on today at 72. I first saw him in this Blackadder episode. His comedic talent was obvious, prodigious, bounteous, and meritorious. Rest in peace, sir.

[@souvra]

GNU Robbie Coltrane

[@Tilion462]

I am pericombobulated, anaspeptic, frasmotic, and even compunctuous to hear of his passing. RIP Robbie.

[@Satellite_Of_Love]

@@Tilion462 Finding an actor with his talent is like finding a dog who speaks Norwegian (very rare!).

[@Tilion462]

@@Satellite_Of_Love Have you by any chance been activated?

[@Satellite_Of_Love]

@@Tilion462 AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!

[@abigailloach8152]

"It's apparently taken him ten years." "Yes, well I'm a slow reader myself."

[@Torthrodhel]

Best line.

[@tvnetworks6610]

He stole blackadder work though.

[@The-Rose-and-the-Cross]

Honesty is everything.

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

ROASTED

[@jmalmsten]

As a slow reader of fiction as well, I feel that frustration wholeheartedly. The widespread popularity of audio-books in recent years have been a huge boon to my consumption of written stories of both yarn and merry fancy.

[@jimmy2k4o]

The Earliest recorded instance of trolling.

[@Iamawesomenorly]

The first motion capture of it would be Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The first recorded instance would probably be Diogenes of Synope and his antics revolving Pluto.

[@NoXion100]

"Behold, I have brought you a man!"

[@JackT13]

Nah god trolled the fuck out of the Jews

[@MrWeedWacky]

@@JackT13 God trolled Adam and Eve, told them not to eat the fruit of knowledge of good and evil - if you don't possess the knowledge of good and evil /right or wrong, then you can't know that he means it for real... Epic trolling right there page 1

[@heidikarinen563]

@@MrWeedWacky Man you are talented, even with weed... Human has not made good decisions even human acquired the knowledge of what is right and wrong or good or evil. Maybe bayby it is all about just trolling along.

[@jonathanl1276]

RIP Robbie Coltrane. His passing has caused the world such pericombobulation. He will be greatly missed and his roles greatly cherished.

[@fastertrackcreative]

I had no idea Johnson was played by Robbie Coltrane. Rest in peace.

[@megq3713]

"...to have caused you such pericombobulation!..." my favorite blackadder episode!!!

[@manygate10]

Mine too!

[@richardlloyd2589]

Best scene in S3. Glorious then, still is, and always will be.

[@aigulru11]

Something in my mind tells me that it is not recommended for upper intermediate level learners 🙄🙄🙄🙄 such a pity 😒😒😒😅i feel like a treasury flies away from me. Just wander if some of those words were fake... 🙄🙄🙄🤔🤔🤔😉😅😅They're out of common vocabulary..

[@LaurenceVonThomas]

dream sequence is genius too:))

[@barquerojuancarlos7253]

@Aero01 yes, what an idiot!

[@groovygower]

Blackadder... such a classic. British classics like this and Red Dwarf are still just as brilliant to watch today.

[@grendelum]

groovygower - and now there’s *_NEW_** Red Dwarf !!* My life is complete...

[@mylovemachine]

Love Red Dwarf but the quality took a nose dive in later seasons

[@zapkvr]

I've never seen RD ever and I've seen a lot of Brit comedy. What's it aboot?

[@ColeJ_23]

@@zapkvr It's about the world's last human, a hologram, a creature evolved from cats and a mechanoid adrift in space 3 million years in the future, after Lister (the human) was released from statis on the mining ship Red Dwarf to discover everyone else has died - and the adventures of himself, Rimmer, Cat, and Kryten in space!

[@SexandtheCityGirl]

Oh, absolutely.

[@williamturner7580]

Robbie Coltrane's facial expressions when Blackadder is 'getting it right up him' are comedy gold. Acting at its ultimate best.

[@kaymuldoon3575]

For those Americans (and others) who were born after the 1980s, this is Dr. House, Hagrid, and Mr. Bean in their earlier careers.

[@oldfart4751]

High Laurie is also an accomplished Jazz Pianist!

[@lordprotector3367]

Soapy twist.

[@grendelum]

I think Hugh Laurie’s best work was in *A bit of Fry and Laurie,* but that’s just me...

[@DieFlabbergast]

I am British, and was born in 1949, but I have watched a grand total of two episodes of "House," which I found to be tedious and juvenile, only a few Mr. Bean sketches (good though they are), and absolutely no films based on books for children by that Rowling woman. Rowan Atkinson is the powerhouse of Not the Nine O'Clock News, the star of Blackadder and The Thin Blue Line, and a notable one-man-show comedian: anything else is superfluous.

[@Isleofskye]

Rowan is also an insufferable xxxxxxx I am afraid. I know one of the cast of Oliver when he played Fagin in The West End and she said he hadno time for the kids at all who wanted to him something. He was very arrogant but his replacement was the opposite ( forget who that was ). Very Clever.Great Actor but up his own ass...

[@ransherman1611]

"yes, well, i'm a slow reader myself"

[@raid.leader]

@littlesmew yes, well, he's a slow writer himself

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

roasted..

[@CDMVIDZ]

RIP Robbie Coltrane. One of the GOATs, always brilliant everywhere he went.

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

"He has finished his book. It has apparently taken him, 10 years..." "Well yes I'm a bit of a slow reader myself." *One of the earliest recordings of a roast*

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

In the same way I would accidentally roast someone with my autism.

[@Satellite_Of_Love]

Rest in peace, Robbie Coltrane. You helped make this episode of Blackadder one of my favorites. 😊

[@thedominion6643]

RIP Robbie, re-watching all the videos now

[@gingered3311]

Someone make a note of the word "Gobbledygook". I like it. And I want to use it more often in conversation.

[@MrEAus]

Just be careful not to use a dirty word like "crevice" or a positively disgusting word like "leak" "Security" is okay though - it isn't dirty

[@gurbindersekhon8240]

Okay walrus face

[@englishdprmapping1613]

@@gurbindersekhon8240 Isn't it about time you changed your shirts.

[@kylenetherwood8734]

That one is a relatively common word, compared to the others in the video.

[@piggypiggypig1746]

@@MrEAus don't forget the word, 'job'

[@lindamanas6735]

RIP Robbie. This is the best ever episode of Blackadder! I had to watch it again yesterday

[@jpc2528]

God rest Robbie. This was brilliant! The expression on his face 🤣

[@petergreen2552]

Hugh Laurie is brilliant in this. Played that role to a tee. 😂😂😂

[@anirbanbhattacharya9185]

He also played it to a tea. Or not. Considering the Duke of Wellington was downright furious about his suspiciously coffee-tasting tea

[@Rat_Queen86]

@@anirbanbhattacharya9185 it was coffee!!! He wanted tea!!!

[@lukeet331]

@@Rat_Queen86 TEEEEEAAAAAAAAA 👋

[@WeaselKing1000]

@@lukeet331 YES, IMMEDIATELY -

[@skippykaufman4436]

And his menacing German with his apple-OH-gees. How about his bit as lovely Georgina?

[@redsquirrel1086]

This is very, very clever writing. In fact it's genius.

[@zapkvr]

Ben Elton's finest hour and indeed some of the finest British literature in a hundred years. It's utterly delightful

[@redsquirrel1086]

@@zapkvr Not forgetting Richard Curtis.

[@skippykaufman4436]

Thank you.

[@skippykaufman4436]

@@zapkvrthank you

[@cbak12sg]

I shall return ... interphrastically.

[@brianlorne4263]

Not staying for your pendigestatery interludicule ?

[@lordprotector3367]

No, Sir, because a word with you can mean seven million syllables.

[@DieFlabbergast]

*pendigestatory interludicle

[@wisteela]

The classic

[@ronaldfrost5586]

cbak12sg joan rivers

[@ArilenaStardream]

I, randomly, felt like looking up the catchy ending song of the first season, ended up seeing this scene and then rewatching all of the series! Thirty years later and BlackAdder is still pure, timeless comedy gold, and one of my favourite shows of all time. Thank you, BBC

[@zapkvr]

Forty years

[@paulheap1982]

@@zapkvr no he was right.

[@skippykaufman4436]

“Socks are like sex… Tons of it about & I don’t get any.”

[@skippykaufman4436]

Defining C = big blue wobbly thing that mermaids live in. And define Dog = Not a cat!

[@johnmooney9403]

An hilarious and brilliant performance from Robbie Coltrane. Such a sad passsing of a talented and brilliant actor. R.I.P Robbie.

[@garybten]

Robbie Coltrane. Legend. RIP big man

[@davidstevens7018]

They all deserved an Oscar for this one - Brilliant!

[@undertaker3134]

Not a film sadly.

[@76juno33]

British humor. Brilliant.

[@47571660]

I find the calumnious animadversions of supposed lexiphanicism (or simple sesquipedalian altiloquence) to be an invidious assailment against us logomaniacs.

[@RedSkyHorizon]

+Fume Of Sighs Nope, didn't catch any of that.

[@Sommer57]

+Tom Mulligan But it sounds damn saucy!

[@quattro610]

+Fume Of Sighs Indeed sir !!!!! That is easy for you to say!!!

[@FJB_USA_1ST]

Fume Of Sighs ....I have no idea what you'd written but it sounds damn saucy you lucky thing!

[@frankydostal4758]

OMG these words actualy exist!

[@iybjs5308]

Never have I been so truly devastated than to have heard of Robbie Coltranes passing, a huge man, and an even bigger figure in our time

[@TenBear]

The original troll hard at work

[@Happydancer9]

Press 2 over and over, then if you have time, press 3 over and over. >:3

[@anujchaudhary1119]

This obequinal episode of Blackadder is a best kilhanker of British clarmortation. With gollarax and stulem joy.

[@AthelstanEngland]

The camera framing at 0:46 when it catches Blackadder just watching from a distance... a servant out of sight, but noticing everything and ready to pounce!! Brilliant

[@NickWestgate]

Dr Johnson: This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved language. Blackadder: [Slowly taking two steps forward] Every single one, sir? 😂

[@domotormate]

Except for sausage and aardvark. 🤣

[@skippykaufman4436]

Love when Blackie retorts - Why it’s a common word, “down our way.” Brit music hall parlance suddenly appears in The Regency.

[@stuartlawsonbeattie1411]

God bless the talented, the real and the Great Robbie Coltraine ❤ Heattbroken, gutted, speechless to imagine a theatre, a movie or a play shall never again emulate poetic genius and fluent prose or humour, only this Great Scot could produce at ease with brilliance and stature ❤

[@jimfish1595]

Best Dr Johnson ever

[@Raz.C]

Gods, Hugh Laurie was PERFECT for this role, wasn't he??

[@shmookins]

All of them were. Across the ages, too! :)

[@wolfganghendery8298]

Far more handsome than the real George IV (whether or not you believe the incredibly flattering portraits of the man).

[@Raz.C]

@@wolfganghendery8298 I do understand that the inbred, blue-blood degeneration was portrayed bu Hugh Laurie as mental vacuity, whereas the real George IV portrayed it with his physical disfigurements.

[@Rat_Queen86]

He is amazing

[@amany247]

No god but Allah Islam way for peace and real monotheist Search about the truth with honest heart

[@Fcutdlady]

I love Hugh Laurie's stupid look

[@grendelum]

Fcutdlady - he plays the “upper-class twit” exceptionally well... I wonder how he’d have done in the _Upper-class Twit of the Year_ competition...

[@Fcutdlady]

@@grendelum indeed He would have done well in the upper-class twit of the year. Thankfully, though, he's not a twit in real life!

[@AfridiZindabad]

Fcutdlady he makes every scene really fun

[@Fcutdlady]

@@AfridiZindabad most certainly he does. He is an amazing and versatile actor. He has since played house, chance and roper in the night manager to. Name but a couple of things he's done, all very different from this.

[@Berzstiflag]

HL would be an excellent lord Peter Wimsey, the gentleman-detective of Dorothy Sayers who has a rather silly face, conveniently disguising his intelligence.

[@samuelbyrnand3600]

"I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation."

[@douglassun8456]

I first saw this episode on A&E when I was in grad school and had just taken a seminar on Samuel Johnson. Casting Robbie Coltrane was so chef's kiss, I can't even begin to say. Johnson was a big guy for his time, and even in middle age he was strong enough to beat up with his walking stick a couple of thugs who tried to rob him in Hyde Park one night. From the promos, I seem to remember that there was a bit where Blackadder is trying to suck up to him and Edmund grits his teeth and says, "I love you, Dr. Johnson and I want to have your baby;" but it seems to have been cut from the broadcast version. Oh well, I suppose I'll activate a BritBox subscription someday and watch the whole thing.

[@GreyNimbus41]

A prime example to why classics are so good.

[@CarlChristensen64]

It's so heartwarming when Dr. Johnson meets Dr. House!

[@jonathanfunnell4167]

I LOVE HUGH LAURIE WITH ALL MY HEART AND ALWAYS WILL SUCH A WONDERFUL WONDERFUL WONDERFUL MAN

[@veletlenanasztazia749]

Blackadder is a professional troll! I love it!

[@bonnyathome]

What an amazing episode. I loved this season and the last one the most.

[@zapkvr]

Black Adder goes forth was the best imho. And the final episode was utterly charming and impossibly sad. Some of the best writing of all time. Especially Baldrick. Compulsory viewing here every November 11th.

[@PopeBarley]

Covfefe? It's a common word down our way

[@RAGEGamingRevolution]

only among the dumb

[@PrinceWesterburg]

That'll be in that colonnial Canado-Mexican border town, err what was it, a merry car?

[@Falcrist]

Take your thumbs up, and get the fuck out.

[@PiggyWiggyO]

A word used a lot in Parliament now since Brexit

[@PiggyWiggyO]

@Dave Sergio Why is that question asked of me as i mentioned British Parliament and not the white house? Just wondering. Anyway its all in good fun. THX

[@vincei4252]

RIP Robbie Coltrane. You will be missed.

[@thegorn68]

I could watch Laurie's smiling blank look as the Prince for an eternity and never tire of laughing. At :14 mark. LOL!

[@neilmichael2676]

Six years late...but thought this comment absolutely needed a like!! :) !!

[@zlamelie]

@@neilmichael2676 Ditto!

[@RahulKapoor9992]

this is the best scene that has taken place in front of a camera lens ever!!!!

[@knotwilg3596]

A few scenes out of BA III are in continuous competition. My favorite moment is when The Prince (disguised as butler), after having been beaten up by both Blackadder (disguised as prince) and Wellington, in a calibration of punching, asks to be dismissed, "your highness, your highness".

[@essexginge9167]

You sir have not watched bottom if you think your statement is true

[@wrosselet]

Contrafibularity is a perfectly cromulent word!

[@steveforest8385]

But only when you disconfigrate it from its extramumbulation.

[@baldrick1485]

I absolutely sifret.

[@gordonferrar7782]

Enbiggen? I never heard that word till I moved to Springfield.

[@danw1374]

Now that is a positively disgusting word - General Melchett

[@adriaandeleeuw8339]

its root meaning is to pull ones leg !

[@arrontrevor7086]

One of the very best episodes. Came here after hearing the sad news of Robbie Coltrane's death. RIP.

[@efnissien]

For all of his work, every single obituary for Robbie Coltraine has "Harry Potter star dead." A comedian and actor whose work spanned 'The Comic Strip' and 'Cracker' to 'Goldeneye' and yes... "Harry Potter".

[@AthelstanEngland]

Yep agreed and don't forget Tutti Frutti. A great talent.

[@grahamlive]

SAUSAGE!!!

[@u.v.s.5583]

You aardvark with a funny implement!

[@Smoshy16]

I was lucky enough to play Blackadder in a local play doing 4 episodes of this series. This was my favourite. Took a while to get it right!

[@miroslavtomic7038]

The two recurring jokes during this episode are whether sausage is in the dictionary and how to explain aardwark. Despite what is claimed throughout this episode, sausage was in the original dictionary. However, Dr Johnson misspelled it and and it ended up in the wrong spot which did make it hard to be found for original readers. On the other side, aardwark was not in Johnson's dictionary. The reason for this very simple - the word didn't exist in English language during Regency as it entered English language almost an century later. It came from Afrikaans language originating in South Africa.

[@helloyou.]

My favorite scene from Blackadder. It never gets old. :D

[@nuraqilasidek-qk7zp]

The way he pronounced it with such nuance and charismatic trolling-intent makes you believe everything after the word contrafibularities are an actual word 😂😂

[@BillyCosmosis]

"...even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulations." Lol!

[@jdane2277]

It's a perfectly cromulent word...

[@damienfuller5282]

I wish this show would return interphrastically

[@KB-im2dj]

Hagrid, House and Bean in one sketch. Hilarious.

[@carldean2260]

We are a blessed generation, to have witnessed, watched and been entertained by so many geniuses. Hazaaaaaaaaar you utter, utter bunch of barstewards!❤

[@danw1374]

TEAAAAA!!!!! 😂

[@darcyroyce]

I feel the same way. 🙏

[@aaronhurst4379]

Did not realise until I went down to the comments that Dr Johnson was being played by Robbie Coltrane.

[@JGGuitarCovers]

Robbie Coltrane! What a legend

[@mikefatah]

Absolutely brilliant!

[@ozmond2600]

46 people didn't stay for their pendigestatory interludicule.

[@lindamorris6646]

Ah Blackadder, one of my very favourite shows. Thank you for these uploads.

[@redsquirrel1086]

My God, this is cleverly written.

[@rexgoodheart3471]

So, I've now watched four seasons... and THIS was my favorite episode. The wordplay here is brilliant and hilarious.

[@johnclark3697]

PURE GENIUS CLASS

[@Will_b83]

So here in America they played this on public acsess channel 8 for a few years in the 90s. My family loved it.

[@miroslavtomic7038]

This episode is based on a real-life incident from the 19th Century, in which the philosopher and historian Thomas Carlyle sent the only copy of his monumental History of the French Revolution to fellow philosopher John Stuart Mill, only to have him return days later to tell him that one of his servants had mistakenly used the manuscript to light a fire. Undaunted, Carlyle proceeded to rewrite the entire work from scratch, and published the completed book in 1837. However, modern consensus is that Mill intentionally burned the manuscript in a fit of jealous rage, having tried and failed to produce a similar work on the Revolution for many years, and concocted the story as a cover.

[@AtheAetheling]

The only hole in the story is that Mill was the one who suggested Carlyle for the job of writing it in the first place since he was too busy, so it would be weird for him to purposefully destroy it.

[@paddyquinlan3329]

Contrafibularity is a perfectly cromulent word.

[@goffe2282]

Ohhh.... give me this over Mr Bean any day. I'm happy he scratches that itch as well, but the Black Adder series is just sublime. I wish he would also do more work like this.

[@drifting_cloud131]

Right? Rowan Atkinson as Blackaddet, Hugh Laurie as House... something really attractive about intelligent characters but they're both almost ugly as Mr Bean and thick George! A sign of great acting I suppose. And better wigs.😂

[@Truenegro-q7r]

Blackadder talks with a distant smile on his face

[@Uouttooo]

Absolutely brilliant! Comedy at its best!

[@superhamzah85]

Some of the most excitantatious, inextragenius and funny TV.

[@johnmooney9403]

Easily one of the greatest British comedy shows of all time.

[@BHuang92]

Happy 308th birthday Dr. Samuel Johnson.

[@Darkstar263]

My favourite episode of the 3rd series by far.

[@notme1048]

Big blue wobbly thing...that mermaids live in: C

[@PonmonofNuggetor]

Not Me Dog: Not a cat

[@JinzoCrash]

To this day, that word must be spoken by me in a public conversation at least once a year.

[@kristbjorg999]

“Well I am a slow reader myself”😂😂😂

[@AmyArful]

“...my most sincere contrafibularities!” “What?!?”

[@AtlasBlizzard]

"Contrafibularities, sir. It is a common word down our way."

[@smitty3624]

I love this, because if any other writers had done it then the words would have just sounded like gibberish. These sound like they could be legitimate words. Makes it so much more entertaining!

[@annikadalley7397]

+Tango Down ...they are legitimate words.

[@smitty3624]

Annika Dalley According to Urban dictionary, yes.

[@annikadalley7397]

Just realised it was pericombobulation not discombobulation. Still, many of them come from legitimate words with different prefixes, hence why they sound like official words.

[@smitty3624]

Annika Dalley Exactly my point.

[@martinmaguire-music6692]

Blind Bob Uh-oh, Wittgenstein has returned...

[@vylestyle2749]

Hugh Laurie's eye work is phenomenal

[@photodube]

Black Adder embiggens the world of comedy.

[@darcyroyce]

Embiggens!!! You, sir, are a genius! And a visionary! 😂

[@NEMZOOO]

"i shall return .. interfrastically"

[@ChristieXieWilliams]

Happy b'day Dr Johnson!

[@gorky1986]

0:13 Anglo Saxoun ☺️ the posture ...the face expression...my sincere contrafibularities

[@judgeboony2695]

".....Nope, didn't catch any of that." Lmao

[@RahulKapoor9992]

Best scene, ever been captured by a lens..... EVER!!!

[@Quebecoisegal]

Excellent choice of comedic clips.

[@bbenjoe]

RIP Doctor Johnson, aka Rubeus Hagrid! Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)

[@me4901]

C is for Contrafibularity, that's good enough for me.

[@MSJC41285]

RIP Robbie Coltrane

[@DJTechno94]

im watching it again and again x)

[@MrEAus]

Yup, it's almost as fun as penultimating girls in their solar sojourns, and being given some Norman tongue

[@phillipcollins1458]

Absolutely classic British comedy 😂👍

[@kayokk-]

hahahahahha... nothing else to say.. just fabulous!

[@rpgadventurer32]

RIP Robbie Coltrane.

[@Jchathe]

Probably my favorite scene in all the blackadder series! Thanks for the upload 🙏💖

[@reidbusby2440]

To the people who made this I offer my most enthusiastic Contrafibularities, I'm sorry if you did not catch that I am anaspeptic, frasmotic, even conpunctuos to have cased you all such pericombobulation.

[@shaamilthattayil]

Reido Buzzbee thanks, was looking this specific comment.

[@Gringooman29]

Based

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

You got all the complicated 'words' and then misspelled caused

[@simonsimon325]

What I love about Rowan in these performances is the way you can see him sizing people up whenever he's about to speak. It's like a snake checking to see if its prey is the right size to be swallowed whole.

[@ishtarg8]

Difficult to believe that Prince "thicker than a whale omelette" George will go on to become stepfather to a talking mouse, and one of the most brilliant diagnosticians in the world.

[@darcyroyce]

😂😂😂