Blackadder the Third (TV Series)

Duel and Duality (1987)

Tony Robinson: Baldrick, a dogsbody

Quotes 

• Baldrick : Well my cousin Bert Baldrick, Mr Gainsborough's butler's dogsbody, says that he's heard that all portraits look the same these days, 'cause they're painted to a romantic ideal rather than as a true depiction of the idiosycratic facial qualities of the person in question.

  Blackadder : [impressed]  Your cousin Bert obviously has a larger vocabulary than you do, Baldrick.

• Blackadder : I want to be remembered when I'm dead. I want books written about me. I want songs sung about me. And then hundreds of years from now I want episodes of my life to be played out weekly at half past nine by some great heroic actor of the age.

  Baldrick : Yeah, and I could be played by some tiny tit in a beard.

  Blackadder : Quite.

• [in reference to McAdder, Blackadder's Scottish cousin] 

  Baldrick : He's the spitting image of you.

  Blackadder : No, he's not! We're about as similar as two completely dis-similar things in a pod.