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Blackadder Goes Fortieth

Politics Unpacked

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The Tudor Court of Elizabeth I Proved Right for the Skull-Duggery

The Tudor Court of Elizabeth I proved right for the skull-duggery in which a more cynical and manipulative black-adder could operate. He was trying to impress her, while simultaneously having a night on the beers with Stephen Fry's, Melchod. Then the politics really kicked in in the Georgian era with black-adder acting as a butler to Hugh Laurie's Prince Regent. With Pitt the younger determined to ruin the Prince, black-adder devises a plan to beat him in a bio-election in Dunny on the World using Boldrick as the unlikely candidate.

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