The "Black Adder" comedic television series ran on the BBC from 1983-89. Supremely weird Rowan Atkinson plays the protagonist "Black Adder" in four different historical time frames of English history from 1485 to 1917. Each Black Adder is the doppelganger of his ancestors. He is sly, greedy and always conspiring to advance himself in life. Hugh Laurie, the now famous "House" star plays a variety of characters ranging from Black Adder's lord and ruler, to his servant and eventually a World War I subordinate soldier.
Black Adder: (Punches William Shakespeare)--That is for every schoolboy
and schoolgirl for the next 400 years. Have you any idea how much
suffering you're going to cause? Hours spent at school desks trying to
find ONE joke in "A Midsummer's Night Dream", wearing stupid tights in
school plays and saying things like, "What ho, my Lord," and, "Oh,
look, here comes Othello talking total crap as usual."
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