Common patterns in each season of The Black Adder?

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All the four seasons of The Black Adder have six episodes. I have noticed that in the second episode of every season, the Black Adder almost dies or it is at least said that he is going to die - and then - he somehow just manages to live.

Is there some kind of pattern here? Do all the first, third, fourth, fifth and sixth episodes also have something in common?

Or something along those lines?

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Best Answer

I'm not aware of any major common patterns that run throughout the series. There are a few similarities, but I wouldn't call them patterns. TVTropes has a page of similarities across the series. Using my own knowledge and that page, the similarities include:

  1. Same actors, obviously, in different roles/time periods.

  2. Same melody in the theme tune, though changed to suit the "style" of the period being portrayed.

  3. Poor rewriting of history, with large amounts of artistic license

  4. Each of the series ends with the "bad guy" winning

  5. Baldrick's catchphrase

  6. Idiosyncratic Episode Naming (e.g. titles of season 2 episodes are one word long, season 3 uses the style of The Noun and the Noun), etc.

  7. Oddly small organisations (the Queen's staff, Captain Blackadder's men) etc.

Those are just some of the common patterns, but the link has more. I fully admit some of them are quite a stretch, but they're certainly all that I'm aware of.



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As of 2008, a "Best of BBC" edition box set is available containing all four major series together with Blackadder's Christmas Carol and Back & Forth. All four series and the Christmas special are also available for download on iTunes.

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Answer 2

  1. Blackadder is always the schemer
  2. Baldric is always his dumber counterpart
  3. Blackadder is always subservient to another character - The King, The Prince, The Queen, The General, etc.
  4. The authority character always has a counterpart who more or less hates BlackAdder (Melchett, Darling, etc)

And almost always:

Blackadder dies in the end

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