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Intelligent or not, Baldrick is always one for inventing "cunning plans", which are generally ridiculed by Blackadder, who nevertheless ends up using them.
Other traits shared by all Baldricks (except possibly the first one) are sheer disgustingness and an obsession with turnips.
The character is named for the baldric.
The mediaeval Baldrick was probably the only Baldrick of the four who could really be described as clever. Baldrick, an ex- dung shoveller (a respected position, which he had worked very hard to get - earlier jobs include milking pigs and mucking out lepers), first met Prince Edmund at the feast before the Battle of Bosworth Field. The two, along with Lord Percy, toasted their new friendship, unaware that from that point onwards, their descendants' lives would be eternally entwined.
Although cleverer than the Prince, Baldrick holds him in some sort of awe. He often leads cheers in the Prince's honour (along with Lord Percy, who tries hard to join in), fills his head with illusions of grandeur, and often ends up doing his dirty work. This included carrying the decapitated body of Richard III and sleeping with the Spanish Infanta, Edmund's fiancée, so that Edmund didn't have to. The latter task resulted in several injuries, including a seriously blackened eye. When Baldrick is abandoned by Edmund in the final episode, a tear falls from his eye.
It was this Baldrick who suggested the title 'The Black Adder' for Prince Edmund, which his descendants later adopted as a surname.
The Elizabethan Baldrick is the servant and bondsman, rather than a friend, to Lord BlackadderEdmund, Lord Blackadder was the main character in the second series of the popular BBC sit-com Blackadder, entitled 'Blackadder II'. He was played by Rowan Atkinson. The second series is set in Elizabethan Britain, and Edmund is a courtier to Queen Elizab, who mistreats him, and, Baldrick claims, at first tried to killThis article is about the ending of a life. For the word of Dutch derivation, see Kill (body of water As an English language word: to deprive of life, to end, extinguish or terminate in a final manner ( verb), or the result of this action ( noun). Literal him. He has a bedroom in Blackadder's house, but has also been forced to sleep in the gutterThe word gutter refers to a long, thin trough, usually one that runs straight. One type of gutter is a rain gutter which serves to collect rain and run it down to the ground or some despository so that it doesn't drip off the edges of a roof. A similar so and on the roofA roof is the top covering of a building that prevents the ingress of weather into the building interior. Roofing comes in sloped or 'flat' form, however roofs are never really truly flat. Flat roofs are often covered with tar and gravel and provided with. He has a tendency to eat dung. Baldrick has been in Lord Edmund's service longer than either of them care to remember. Yet although his master treats him with the sort of contempt reserved for lepers, he remains intensely loyal.
This Baldrick, whilst perhaps not as dim as his descendants, is much stupiderStupidity refers to the quality or condition of being stupid . The determination of who is stupid is difficult, despite attempts to measure intelligence (and thus stupidity) such as IQ tests. As there are many types of intelligence there are also many typ than the original. A kindly soul, Baldrick's lack of formal education is compensated for by his basic streetwise cunning. Whilst his 'cunning plans' do sometimes have a strange, twisted and often perverse logic and cunning to them (one suggestion was that Blackadder repay his debts by making money as a male prostitute, another is to disguise a 'mad, wild, killer bull' as a rooster and entering it in a cock fight), he does show an entertaining display of stupidity. In one episode, Blackadder attempts to teach Baldrick how to add. Baldrick's conclusions, which include 'two beans plus two beans equals some beans', 'two beans plus two beans equals three beans... and that one' and 'two beans plus two beans equals a very small casserole', leads Blackadder to comment 'to you, Baldrick, the Renaissance was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it.'
It was also in this series that the first signs of Baldrick's love of turnips was shown, in the episode 'Beer', where he and Percy famously discover a turnip shaped like a 'thingy'. Baldrick later describes the incident as 'triffic'.
Baldrick once went on an 'all mouse diet' by hanging a piece of cheese off of the end of his nose and lying with his mouth open, hoping that mice would scurry in. He later tried the same thing, with a mouse on the end of his nose to catch a cat, for variety.
Baldrick was also bridesmaid at Lord Blackadder's wedding, Queenie kept him as a pet calling him Lassie (Baldrick didn't complain) and he stuck two pencils up his nose, so that he could attended a Royal fancy dress party as a pencil case.
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