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  Bob (Blackadder character) at AllExperts
Bob is a pseudonym used by two characters in the sitcom Blackadder, both female and played by Gabrielle Glaister.
Upon arrival in London, she is hired by Lord Blackadder as his manservant, (Baldrick is casually kicked out onto the streets.) However, when Blackadder questions why this boy is called "Kate", she quickly covers claiming it is short for "Bob".
Blackadder pays Kate's father £10 to go away, much to her dismay.
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 Blackadder
Blackadder is not the title of any specific series, but is the general term for the programmes - four series and several one-off episodes - taken as a whole.
Blackadder II is set in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (reigned 1558 - 1603).
Blackadder The Third is set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a period known as the Regency period.
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 Blackadder
Blackadder falls in love with his new servant, "Bob", who he thinks is a man, but who is in fact a disguised woman named Kate, who has come to seek her fortune to help her ailing father.
Blackadder and Melchett are captured by the Spaniards, and end up in the dungeons of a weird interrogator, Prince Ludwig the Indestructible (played by Hugh Laurie), a German Supervillain who aims to kill the Queen.
Blackadder The Third is set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a period known as the Regency.
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  News | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, Fla.
Bob is a pseudonym used by two characters in the sitcom Blackadder, both female and played by Gabrielle Glaister.
Blackadder II Bob (or rather, Kate Ditchburn) is one of the first characters to appear in Blackadder II.
While Blackadder isn't fooled, Lieutenant George is, failing to spot the truth even when she emerges from the shower wearing only a towel.
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 George (Blackadder character) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George is the name of two characters appearing in the historical BBC sitcom Blackadder.
The butler, Blackadder, was subsequently mistaken for the prince by his mad father and presumably went on to live what history records as the rest of George IV's life.
In Blackadder's Christmas Carol Prince George appears while Blackadder is being shown his past, in the distant future a Lord Pigmot is shown, being that he also played by Hugh Laurie one could assume he is a distant descendant.
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 Blackadder Hall - Library - The Richard Curtis interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Recently, Blackadder Hall was given the chance to pop a few questions to writer, producer and all-round nice bloke that does a lot of work for charity, Richard Curtis, one of the men responsible for bringing the Blackadder family to life.
I think the interesting thing about the Bean film is how, in the end, the funniest bits were still the simple, rehearsable, physical jokes that we actually did rehearse like stage pieces before we wrote the film.
One article claimed that your characters "are all damaged people in a little world." Are their reservoir of pain and sense of incompetence something you have intentionally placed in them, or would you say the quoted characterisation is an exaggeration?
www.blackadderhall.com /library/richard_interview.shtml   (1191 words)

  
 British Sitcom Guide - Blackadder - Characters
In the first series Blackadder is the son of a rather loud king whilst in the second series he is transformed into a Lord who spends most of his day trying to avoid being beheaded by the mad Queen.
Blackadder's sidekick and general slave hasn't had a wash ever by the looks of it.
Blackadder, as his butler, considers it his duty to keep the prince out of trouble and relieve him of all his money.
www.sitcom.co.uk /blackadder/characters.shtml   (756 words)

  
 Rowan Atkinson aka Mr. Bean: Animated Bean: Bob the Builder - To the Rescue!
Bob is apt to share his biggest fans with another yardful of yakking vehicles--Thomas the Tank Engine and friends.
Bob the Builder is a stop-frame model animation series, which follows the adventures of an ever-friendly and helpful builder and his crew of fun-loving machines.
When Bob gets stuck on a tall scaffolding, Lofty is too afraid to lift the ladder to him, and leaves his friend stranded for several hours.
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 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Blinkbits.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 BBC - Britain's Best Sitcom - The Case for Blackadder
Blackadder is quite timeless and artfully combines apparently childish silliness with extreme cleverness.
But Blackadder came along and changed your thinking and ideas of the school education, because the history at schools was so vague and only about the good features.
The writing is genius, the players are the best comic actors of their generation and the metamorphosis of the central character from idiotic prince to smart-witted Lord is perfect.
www.bbc.co.uk /sitcom/advocate_blackadder.shtml   (847 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Blackadder Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
With each observed generation, Blackadder's social standing is reduced, from prince, to nobleman, to royal butler, to army captain -- and by the end, in the last episode of the last series, nothing more than cannon-fodder.
The character does evolve through the series, however, and he begins showing signs of what his descendants will be like by the final episode, where he begins insulting everyone around him and making his own plans.
Blackadder Esquire is the butler to the Prince of Wales (played by Hugh Laurie as a compete fop and idiot).
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 News | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, Fla.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The lives of each Blackadder are also entwined with their servants, all called Baldrick (played by Robinson), who in each generation acts as the dogsbody/punching bag of the various Blackadders, and who decreases in intelligence (and in personal hygiene standards) just as each Blackadder's own intellect increases.
Blackadder himself describes Haig's 'master plans' as 'everyone climbing out their trenches and walking very slowly towards the enemy' which he claims is to be repeated 'until everyone is dead except for Field Marshall Haig, Lady Haig and their tortoise Alan'.
Blackadder complains that at five hours Hamlet is too long and that they need to cut out "some of the dead wood".
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 Blackadder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Blackadder is the generic name that encompasses four series of an acclaimed BBC One historical sitcom, along with several one-off installments.
The lives of the four Blackadders are also entwined with their servants, all called Baldrick (played by Tony Robinson), who in each generation acts as Blackadder's dogsbody/punching bag and who decreases in intelligence (and in personal hygiene standards) just as his master's intellect increases.
Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England (played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character very obviously based on Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales).
www.tocatch.info /en/Black_adder.htm   (5720 words)

  
 Blackadder - Review - Turnips and all!!
Bob and Blackadder enjoy each others company so much that Blackadder has decided that he must get rid of Bob before he falls head over heels in love.
Bob turns out to be a girl in disguise and the much relieved Blackadder propses straight away.
Blackadder tries his best to pretend that h e is too, but the plan backfires when he arranges a beer contest with Melchy for the same day.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /tv-programs/blackadder/224890   (856 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Black Adder: The Complete Collector's Set: DVD: Rowan Atkinson,Tony Robinson,Miranda Richardson,Tim ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Blackadder is an ex-aristocrat who has lost his family fortune and been reduced to servant-hood, and full of loathing knowing he should have a better position then serving a lunatic.
This time, Blackadder is a mere butler to the idiotic Prince Regent (Hugh Laurie in a brilliantly buffoonish performance) and is caught in various misadventures with Samuel Johnson, Shakespearean actors, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and William Pitt the younger.
Blackadder's aim in this season is to stay alive by staying in that trench until the war ends.
www.amazon.com /Black-Adder-Complete-Collectors-Set/dp/B00005A1SX   (2809 words)

  
 Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Goofs: Crew or equipment visible: Just after Blackadder waves to his dinner guests and enters the time machine for the first time, you can see a blonde crew member wearing a red shirt pushing up the end of the drawbridge-like door to close it as Baldrick is climbing up through the trap door inside.
Quotes: Blackadder: May I present to you, the greatest breakthrough in travel since Sir Rodney Tricycle thought to himself, "I'm bored of walking.
The plot has Edmund Blackadder trying to con his friends (played by series regulars Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie Miranda Richardson, and Tim Mcinnery) by claiming he has built a time machine on the eve of the new century, the year 2000.
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 Bob_(blackadder_character) info here at en.alfred-hitch-covers.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bob (or rather, Kate Ditchburn) is separate of the primal characters to arise in Blackadder II.
This time Captain Blackadder recognises Bob's gender immediately, announcement "a maiden with as lots faculty for disguise as a giraffe in pitch-fl shades laboring to receive into a frozen bears only golf club".
While Blackadder isn't fooled, Lieutenant George is, failing to smidgen the plumb when she emerges from the gargle impairmenting only a towel.
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 Black Adder Slithers through the Centuries
The purpose of the dwarf might be to shed light on Edmund's character, Edmund being the type of man who would keep a dwarf in a cage for cheap amusement, however it seems to function more readily as a touch of the bizarre and carnivalesque than as a mark of character development.
Edmund's character is probably the one character within the series who falls least readily into a comic type, although that is not to say that he does not fall into such a type.
Blackadder, Butler to the Prince of Whales, manages to switch places with Prince Goerge after he had been killed in a duel; the king is portrayed as completely insane and doesn't know the difference(BA III, episode 6).
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 Rogue Cinema - Black Adder: The Complete Collectors Set - By Mike Wilson
Edmund Blackadder, descendant of the original (still played by Rowan Atkinson) is a noble in the court of Queen Elizabeth.
Bells: Blackadder, unaware that his new manservant is a woman disguised as man, fears he's becoming a "whoopsie".
Blackadder's only chance to win is to use his incredibly strong ale and a turnip shaped just like a 'thingie".
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 Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
At a New Millennium Eve party Blackadder and Baldrick test their new time machine and ping pong through history encountering famous characters and changing events rather alarmingly....
Old BBC shows are lovely, so low-budget and witty and strange.
Like the recent big-budget Doctor Who and Asterix films, this was criticized by fans who were disappointed that it wasn't 4 stars all the way...but a general audience can forgive the odd flaw and accept this for what it is, a delightful reunion of great British comics for one last episode of a great show.
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 architecture - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Architecture is also the art of designing the human built environment.
Buildings, landscaping, and street designs may be used to impart both functional as well as aesthetic character to a project.
Siding and roofing materials and colors may be used to enhance or blend buildings with the environment.
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 Rowan Atkinson Information
Atkinson was born to Eric Atkinson and Ella May, Anglican farmers in the town of Consett, north-west of the city of Durham.
The same pattern was repeated in two sequels Blackadder the Third (1987) (set in the Regency era), and Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), set in the First World War.
However, this over-articulation — somewhat ironically — evolved into one of his trademark comic devices (his pronunciation of "Bob" in Blackadder being a famous example).
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 The Black Adder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
My favorite Blackadder moment: in BA III, when Edmund muses that hundreds of years from now he wants episodes from his life to be played out weekly at half past nine by some great heroic actor of the age.
Blackadder was by far the funniest show in the history of the world, and still the pinnacle of Rowan Atkinson's success.
I watch Blackadder to laugh, not to debate the merits of involvement in World War I. I was shocked when I saw that episode and disappointed that my fav actor (Atkinson) would stoop to preaching in a comedy show.
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 Secret Scroll Digest reviews: The Black Adder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Edmund Blackadder is a noble in the court of mad Queen Elizabeth (Miranda Richardson).
Blackadder constantly tries to scheme his way out of the trenches to avoid the Big Push and certain death, only to be shut down by blowhard General Melchiot and sycophantic Captain Darling (Tim McInnery).
Blackadder's Christmas Carol: Ebenezer Blackadder is the nicest man in England until he's visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him what life would be like if he were the mean, sarcastic Blackadder we all know and love.
www.secretscrolldigest.com /reviews/blackadder.html   (769 words)

  
 Top Ten TV Characters - Review - Comedy Characters Rule!
I think that the Elizabethan Blackadder is the best, and the scene where he has been kidnapped and is trying to understand what the Spanish torturer is saying has got to be one of the best moments.
Once the romance with H ugo got underway her character changed, and I think she was not as good but in the earlier shows she is great.
He did seem to be underdeveloped as a character untill his girlfriend was killed and he had a slight breakdown type moment, and after that he was a much stronger character.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /discussion/top-ten-tv-characters/417796   (1205 words)

  
 Rowan Atkinson: Biography
Bean and for his iconic Britcom role as Blackadder in the series of the same name.
However, this over-articulation — somewhat ironically — evolved into one of his trademark comic devices (his pronunciation of " Bob " in Blackadder being a famous example).
The character Dexter is pulled over by the police for speeding just as Atkinson was in real life in the very same car.
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 Review on Blackadder by replayyy - MouthShut.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He is the type of character that he, strangely enough goes on to play in Jeeves and Wooster.
Blackadder is his servant – so a bit of a demotion for him in this one.
Wouldn’t it be great to see Blackadder ‘Out West’ – a tenderfoot riding the range and shooting it out (well hiding behind a woman’s skirt more like) at Gunfight at the OK Corral.
www.mouthshut.com /review/Blackadder-13790-1.html   (961 words)

  
 Rowan Atkinson information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Blackadder II followed the fortunes of one of the descendants of Atkinson's original character, this time in the Elizabethan era.
The Blackadder series went on to become one of the most successful BBC situation comedies of the 1980s.
In 2003, Atkinson was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy, and in a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted amongst the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.
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 Bob (Blackadder character) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bob (or rather, Kate Ditchburn) is one of the first characters to appear in Blackadder II.
She, however, is hired by a Duke with whom she falls in love.
In the Blackadder Goes Forth episode "Major Star" we meet General Melchett's driver, Bob Parkhurst.
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