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Blackadder
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| Title: | Duel and Duality |
| Episode Number: | 18 |
| Season: | 3 |
| Season Episode #.: | 6 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday October 22nd, 1987 |
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After the Prince sleeps with the Duke of Wellington's Daughter, The 'Iron' Duke challenges him to a duel. Unwilling to die, he employs Blackadder, who has a cunning plan, to secretly replace him in the duel. Blackadder, of course, has no intention of duelling.
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| Mr. Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) is the only Blackadder who does not die on the end of the series.
| Helen Atkinson-Wood (Mrs. Miggins) leaves the regular cast in this episode.
| Rowan Atkinson (Blackadder), Tony Robinson (Baldrick) and Hugh Laurie (Prince George) would later reprise their roles in Blackadder's Christmas Carol.
| Stephen Fry (The Duke of Wellington) would later reprise his role in Blackadder: Back & Forth.
| Rowan Atkinson also plays McAdder, Blackadder's insane Scottish cousin.
| This is the only Blackadder series finale in which Tim McInnerny does not appear.
| This is the first Blackadder series finale in which Tony Robinson (Baldrick) plays a substantial role. In both "The Black Seal" and "Chains", he had only several brief scenes.
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| Blackadder: Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once again.
| Blackadder: I want to be remembered after I'm dead. I want books written about me. I want songs sung about me. And hundreds of years from now, I want episodes from my life to be played out weekly at half past 9:00 by some great heroic actor of the age.
Baldrick: Yeah, and I can be played by a little git with a beard.
| 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 idiosyncratic facial qualities of the person in question.
Blackadder: (impressed) Your cousin Bert obviously has a larger vocabulary than you do, Baldrick.
| Blackadder: (referring to his cousin McAdder) He's madder than Mad Jack McMad, the winner of last year's "Mr. Madman" competition.
| The Duke of Wellington: What in the name of Bonaparte's balls is this fellow doing?
| Blackadder: A man may fight for many things: his country, his principles, his friends, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn.
| Blackadder: Baldrick, does it have to be this way? Our valued friendship ending with me cutting you into long strips and telling the Prince you walked over a very sharp cattle grid in an extremely heavy hat?
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| Prince George mentions Mark Twain's 1882 novel The Prince and the Pauper. However, the series is set during the period of history known as Regency England which spanned from 1811 to 1820. In fact, Mark Twain was not born until 1835, five years after King George IV's death.
| Although Blackadder refers to himself by his true name and refers to Prince George as both "sir" and "Your Highness" in the presence of the Duke of Wellington, he does not realise the deception.
| When introducing the Duke of Wellington to King George III, Blackadder refers to him as the "Iron Duke." However, he was not called this until for the first time until 1830, fifteen years after the Battle of Waterloo and ten years after the king's death.
| King George III is portrayed with a very strong German accent. In reality, English was his first language and he never even set foot in Germany.
| When discussing Blackadder's plan to battle the French fleet at Trafalagar, the Duke of Wellington claimed he would "mention it to Nelson," suggesting that they knew each other. In reality, the two only met once. The encounter, in Lord Castlereagh's waiting room, occurred the day before Nelson left for the Battle of Trafalgar.
| At the end of the episode, Blackadder assumes the identity of Prince George while the real Prince dies. The opening credits show Blackadder as being born in 1760 and dying in 1827. However, if King George IV was really Blackadder, he must have lived to 1830.
| When Prince George mistakes Baldrick for the Duke of Wellington, he addresses him as "Your Grace," his proper manner of addresses. However later in the episode, he addresses the true duke as "my lord," and is summarily punished for it.
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