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 The Black Seal
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Blackadder decides that he can wait no longer to seize his destiny. He sets out to recruit the six most evil men in the Kingdom - The Black Seal - to help him take control of the country.
His plans are thwarted by the arrival of his oldest enemy: the Hawk. This implacable foe throws Edmund into a dungeon and goes off to take over the kingdom himself. Edmund escapes and summons the Black Seal, but they betray him and help the Hawk to imprison Edmund in a hideous torture device. Percy and Baldrick kill the villains with poisoned wine, but unfortunately they manage to murder the entire royal family - Edmund included - with the same batch. Whoops.
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Blackadder (to Percy): You ride a horse rather less well than another horse would. Your brain would make a grain of sand look large and ungainly and the part of you that can't be mentioned, I am reliably informed by women around the Court, wouldn't be worth mentioning even if it could be.
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Blackadder: Dear Lord, who made the birds and the bees... and the snails, presumably, erm, please help me, a little animal too, in my despair. I have bee a sinner, but now I intend to follow the path of the saints: particularly the very religious ones.
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King: St Juniper once said; 'By his loins shall ye know him, and by the length of his rod shall he be measured.'
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Blackadder calls the Black Seal, "we few, we happy few, we band of ruthless bastards" - an echo of Henry V's speech before the Battle of Agincourt.
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Baldrick's father was called Robin the Dung Gatherer. In turn, Baldrick waited for years before himself becoming a dung-shoveller. It's an enviable career, apparently, with more applicants than vacancies.
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It's one long rollercoaster of evil from start to finish in this episode. A highlight is the Hawk's "amusing" torture device:
"In precisely one minute, the spike will go up your nethers, the shears will cut off your ears... the axes will chop off your hands. I don't think we need to go into the attributes of the coddling grinder."
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