That useless Robin Hood costume has to be one of the funniest things in the series.

It's an almost perfect impersonation of the current Prince Charles, who may one day be Charles III.

Indeed.

Hear, hear!

Again I disagree with the grades. A&A deserves an A on the strength of the highwayman scene alone. Seriously, that one scene is entirely perfect from start to finish, one of the best single scenes in the whole series.
Also, Amy is delightful and works just as she is supposed to, completely over the top.

Agreed. The "…or I might get squished" line delivery alone is worth an A here.

Agreed on Richardson's Amy. She is superb, although not as good as Queenie. But then, very few female characters are.

Futurama reviewed as a classic - oh yes, count me in on that.

I, for one, like your writing style in these things. The only thing I don't like is that you won't be reviewing the German version and the films.

No prob. Enjoying your reviews!

It's McInnerny, not McInerny. Count the ns.

I think the analytic style is meant as a counterpoint to the plainly anarchic and often pointless episodes of this series, like he's taking it very seriously and tries to fit it into some story-telling nonsense from Literature 101. I think it's pretty funny. How else would he review this stuff?

Umm… have you listened to his Wings albums?

So Robinson was knighted and Atkinson was not? It seems so wrong… and yet, so right.

Hm. I hear that as "You surprise me, sir", which makes more sense to me.
Edit: But you're right. Just checked the scripts.

I wonder if any of the more powerful ones were as disastrous for him as Baldrick was. Many of Blackadder's plans seem to work out fine until Baldrick screws everything up in the end.

Good point. The writing in this series is off the charts.

Disagree with the grades here. Both episodes are plainly A.
D&D is possibly my favorite one of the series, because of the fantastic election coverage. Just the way Blackadder sidles into the picture (or window frame, really) when the announcer introduces the voter…

Upvoted for mentioning Fry's autobiography part 2, which is one of the funniest and best I've yet come across. His encounter with the Austrian (afaik) hypnotist is worth the price of admission on its own.

"Velocitous extramuralisation" sure seems to make sense. If the writers made that up, I'm genuinely compunctuous.