Black Adder:Sense and Senility


Series: 3 Episode: 4

First broadcast on 8 October 1987. Featuring Ben Elton as an anarchist, Kenneth Connor as Enoch Mossop and Hugh Paddick as David Keanrick.

The Prince is understandably worried about his popularity after an anarchist throws a bomb at him.

He agrees to recite a brilliant speech by Blackadder - "to show the oppressed masses how unusually sensitive you are" - and decides that he wants his two favourite actors, Mr David Keanrick and Mr Enoch Mossop, to coach him.

Baldrick overhears the actors rehearsing some lines from their latest play, The Bloody Murder of the Foul Prince Romero and His Enormously Bosomed Wife.

Blackadder is only too happy to let the Prince arrest the actors for treason, since they called him, "a mere butler with the intellectual capacity of a squashed apricot".