Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)

Colin Firth: William Shakespeare

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• Blackadder : [punches 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."

  [kicks Shakespeare] 

  Blackadder : And THAT is for Ken Branagh's endless, four-hour version of Hamlet.

  William Shakespeare : Who's Ken Branagh?

  Blackadder : I'll tell him you said that, and I think he'll be rather hurt...

• Blackadder : [Blackadder trying to be friendlier towards Shakespeare at their second encounter]  I'm a very big fan Bill.

  William Shakespeare : Thank you.

  Blackadder : Keep up the good work. King Lear... very funny!

• Blackadder : [trying to be friendlier towards Shakespeare at their second encounter]  I'm a very big fan Bill.

  William Shakespeare : Thank you.

  Blackadder : Keep up the good work. King Lear... very funny.