Blackadder (TV Series)

Born to Be King (1983)

Rowan Atkinson: The Laird of Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles

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• Prince Edmund : [attempting to prove that Harry isn't really the King's son]  These letters are dated November and December 1460. Which, Harry, in relation to your date of birth is precisely nine months...

  Harry : AFTER I was born!

  [Edmund looks horrified] 

  McAngus : But about nine months before your birth, Edmund!

  Prince Edmund : Ohh... you bastard!

  Harry : No, I think that you're the bastard, Edmund.

• Percy : Then there's the Jumping Jews of Jerusalem!

  Prince Edmund : And what do they do?

  Percy : They jump, my lord. A lot.

• Prince Edmund : Scotsmen are barbarians! Half of them don't even speak English!

  Percy : Well, what do they speak?

  Prince Edmund : Oh, I don't know. It's all Greek to me!

  Percy : They speak Greek?

  Prince Edmund : No, I mean it SOUNDS like Greek.

  Percy : Well, if it sounds like Greek, it probably IS Greek.

  Prince Edmund : It's not Greek!

  Percy : But it sounds LIKE Greek..."What's not Greek, but sounds like Greek?" Hm, that's a good one, my lord!

  Prince Edmund : Look, it's not meant to be a BRAIN-TEASER, Percy! I'm simply trying to tell you that I cannot understand a blind word they're saying.

  Percy : Well, no wonder, my lord. You never learned Greek, of course.

• [Edmund has unwillingly given up his lands in Scotland to McAngus] 

  McAngus : Hey, I hope life doesn't become dull for you not being able to pass laws over Scotland.

  [Edmund laughs nervously and turns away from the violent Scotsman] 

  Prince Edmund : [under his breath]  I wouldn't pass water over Scotland.

• Prince Edmund : You come in here! Fresh from slaughtering a couple of choccos when their backs were turned! And you think you can upset that harmony of a whole kingdom? I challenge you to a duel!

  McAngus : TO THE DEATH!

  Prince Edmund : [meekly]  Uhm... yes, all right.

• Prince Edmund : Morris dancing is the most fatuous, tenth-rate entertainment ever devised by man. Forty effeminate blacksmiths waving bits of cloth they've just wiped their noses on. How it's still going on in this day and age I'll never know.

• Prince Edmund : Don't be absurd. Such activities are totally beyond my mother. My father only got anywhere with her because he told her it was a cure for diarrhoea.

• Prince Edmund : [sitting upon his horse and holding his sword]  Onward! I want you scum back to the castle by sundown or you'll all be slaughtered!

  [holds his sword higher] 

  Prince Edmund : Onward!

  [rides towards the sheep] 

  Prince Edmund : Come on!

• Prince Edmund : [facing a fireplace]  And then one day...

  Percy : [appears beside Edmund]  You would be king, my lord.

  [Edmund turns to him, then back to Baldrick] 

  Prince Edmund : Ah, yes! Yes I would be King.

  [turns around] 

  Prince Edmund : And THEN what?

  Percy , Baldrick : [in unison]  You rule the world, my lord!

  Prince Edmund : Precisely!

• Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh : I'm hardly a rich man.

  King Richard IV : You're hardly a man at all.