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Nob and Nobility: Directed by Mandie Fletcher. With Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Helen Atkinson Wood. Blackadder seeks to prove he's just as capable of rescuing people from France as The Scarlet Pimpernel.
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- Comedy
- Mandie Fletcher
- 1987-10-01
"Nob and Nobility" is the third episode of the BBC sitcom Blackadder the Third, the third series of Blackadder. Plot. Edmund is disgusted with the English obsession over the Scarlet Pimpernel, the masked vigilante who has saved so many French aristocrats from the Revolution.
- Series 3, Episode 3
- 1 October 1987
- Overview
- Plot
- Trivia
- Anachronisms
"Nob and Nobility" is the third episode of the Blackadder the Third series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder.
Edmund is disgusted with the English obsession with the Scarlet Pimpernel, the masked vigilante who has saved so many French aristocrats from the French Revolution. After Edmund disparages the Pimpernel, two effete noblemen, Lord Topper (Tim McInnerny) and Lord Smedley (Nigel Planer), bet him a thousand guineas that he can't go to France, rescue an aristocrat and present him at the French Embassy Ball. He accepts, but instead of actually going to France takes the far safer course of going to Mrs. Miggins' coffee house to find a French aristocrat willing to pretend he's been rescued. Le Comte de Frou Frou (also Tim McInnerny) agrees to pretend he was rescued.
When they arrive at the embassy, however, they are arrested by a revolutionary (Chris Barrie) who has assassinated the ambassador. Blackadder, Frou Frou and Baldrick are put in a dungeon, but Frou Frou is later taken away by the revolutionary to be tortured. They are rescued by Smedley, claiming to be the real Scarlet Pimpernel, whom Blackadder accidentally poisons with a glass of wine and suicide pills that Frou Frou had given them earlier. Frou Frou also manages to escape, and they all manage to make it home. Frou Frou then reveals himself to be Topper in disguise, and that he and the "mysteriously missing" Smedley are together the Scarlet Pimpernel. Moments away from exposing Edmund's treachery, he accept Edmund's offer of a glass of wine — and, of course, dies, Blackadder having slipped another suicide pill into the glass. Edmund convinces the Prince that he is The Scarlet Pimpernel, and collects an "enormous postal order" intended for the hero.
•This episode was not aired in the U.S. due to a dispute over the rights to the use of the "Scarlet Pimpernel" title, though it is available on the video and DVD versions.
•The Scarlet Pimpernel was not a term used in reality until the novel of that title by Baroness Emma Orczy, set during the French Revolution, was published in 1905. The novel was also where the poem here recited by Baldrick and parodied by Blackadder originated.
•Tim McInnerny had played the part of Lord Percy Percy in the two previous series of Blackadder but refused to do it again because he did not want to be typecast as a buffoon. This episode was the only time in the series that he made an appearance other than as a regular character, and it was as a fop who turns out to be a lot braver than Blackadder ever suspected.
•In the novels, the Pimpernel's real name is Sir Percy Blakeney.
•There is a line cut from the initial video and DVD releases, and often from television repeats, apparently over "contractual issues". Baldrick talks about the Scarlet Pimpernel, saying
"They seek him here,
•The French Revolution had already taken place at this point, but is here shown to be still taking place (including the appearance of the Scarlet Pimpernel).
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Lord Topper : [posing as the Comte de Frou Frou] Have no fear! Ze Scarlet Pimpernel will save us! Edmund Blackadder, Esq, Butler to the Prince : Ha! Some hope. The Pimpernel is the most overrated human being since Judas Iscariot won the A.D. 31 Best Disciple Competition.
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