I remember being truly astrounded by the ending. Although I haven't seen it again for more than 20 years, I have never forgotten how the battle scene shifted into the landscape of today, and that was it. The end of it all. All the bickering and quarrelling throughout the series, when the final moment came, they all realized they were in it together. A comedy series never had such a startingly, beautiful, thought-provoking and sad ending. Never.
This was a great comedy, but a moment like this makes it great drama. Even with the laughs it's so powerful. I was so moved and it truly did tribute to those who fought and died during WWI.
Who would notice another mad man around here....so many brave lives lost needlessly.
One of the best things ever on television. Profoundly perceptive choice of World War One, probably humanity's worst & most pointless tragedy and turning point, as the setting for the end of the series, the character, and presumably the character's family.
theres actually a unreleased scene at the end where you can see them getting shot down except for captain blackadder who pretens to be dead and then tries to get away
Oh yes. The truth is, cruel, but the point is always the same! Die that I live forever? Military purpose of life? The good purpose of living for what ? execution ohh yes
And now, not even one. Everything becomes history. One day, people will be laughing about how we made a big deal of the towers falling and the terrorism having the world in it's grip.
Hugh Laurie's character seems to represent the innocence at the beginning of the war, '... this is brave, splendid and noble ... ' with Rowan Atkinson representing the cynicism at the end of it. I also like the way Atkinson's character continues to be so efficient in leading the charge in the midst of that cynicism, great comic/tragic moment.
Hugh Laurie's character seems to represent the innocence at the beginning of the war, '... this is brave, splendid and noble ... ' with Rowan Atkinson representing the cynicism at the end of it. I also like the way Atkinson's character continues to be so efficient in leading the charge in the midst of that cynicism, great comedy moment.
It's shows like this that make me very proud to be British, we're not afraid to add drama and sadness to our comedy, in fact it often makes them better, it good to see these powerful scenes continued in things such as the final Sherlock Holmes sketch in that Mitchell and Webb look, David Brent begging not to be fired in The Office and Andy Millman's public addressing on Big Brother in Extras, I'm sure there's many more, but I'm only 17 and haven't seen much.
by: Nesta Webster Prefatory comments by Jackie P. THIS is the little book that opened my eyes about the mass of massive lies we've all been told about Germany
You can tell the uploader is a student... ''It is a key moment that shows Britains faults'' RIP to all those that died so there would be a Britain today, shame it had to be spoilt by the knobhead communist students like the uploader.
@PrestonNorthEndFan Neither the clip nor the uploader is downplaying the sacrifice made by the soldiers. Too many young men lost their lives on both sides due to the vanity of their leaders. That was main point made in this classic series. I remember my gran telling me she saw a german plane being shot down close to her house, while all the men standing in the street cheered, she cried because she understood that a mother had just lost her son. She was no communist, just human.
@raithrover1976 I wasnt talking about the clip, the clip shows the sacrifice many men had to make, it was the uploader that pissed me off with his anti-British (typical student) remark of ''It is a key moment that shows Britains faults'' Its showing no ones faults, all this clip shows us is the sacrifice these men made and many others in both wars (so students could piss on war memorials and churchills statue today)
The billions made from this Genocidal war on Western peoples was used to make sure there would be a second round of the total annihilation of Western homelands and with completion of Anti Western folks laws to finalized our genocide.
Monsters from hell who learned long ago how to corrupt and control our leaders.
@VashDraven for me that is Blackadder finally accepting death. For three series he never gave up squirming and never stopped trying to get out of he mad situation he ended up in. Finally he just says "it will have to wait" knowing full well what is about to happen, powerful stuff.
This is one of the most extrodinary peices of television ever made. It's not just the fact that so many innocent people lost their lives this way over such a stupid war, but the fact that this was actually a COMEDY series. What an ending... absolutely chilling
@TDaViEzZ1994 It is chilling and brilliant at the same time. The ending is always a tearjerker for me; this war differed from all others in having no noble cause whatever to fight for. Certainly no cause that was worth 20 million lives for 20 miles of ground over 4 miserable years. Yet Curtis and Elton succeeded in building a terrific comedy using this depressing war as a background!
Excellent series of episodes from the very start. My father watched their very first sketch at Uni, and he still does remember seeing Rowan in the hallways mostly. This is true British acting at its best, though a slight poignancy.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
@watthehell1023 do you mean hats or helmets? if helmets, do you mean the early helmets with that ridiculous pin on them or the later trench helmets which looked very similar to their WWII counterparts used by the wehrmacht?
@darkawakening01 , yeh it came out wrong i meant Helmets, they were pretty awesome but i wouldn't like to get charged by an Angry WW1 german Soldier head first! :O
@guywithtights Oh yes more than likely. This recreated the Final Push near the end of WW1 where more men died in that one last battle than in the entirety of the war...or close to it in any case. It makes it the perfect end to a long saga spanning centuries of cunning plans and gobbledygook.
I remember watching this the first time it was broadcast in the late 1980's. I kept waiting for a comedic twist, some kind of weeze for them to escape.
When the poppy field appeared at the end I still expected the camera to pan down and reveal a triumphant post-war Blackadder.
When it struck me that he was died it was very powerful.
You would not have heard that in the trenches, or so we would like to think. Prehaps you heard it a whole lot back then, but the scenes ended up, just as our favorite bunch here played them out.
@StrawberryCosplayer Sorry, I don't know who Stephen Fry is. I'm an ignorant American. :P I looked him up and it says he's the main character, yes? Well, sorry don't know him from anywhere else.
@tuktukskagal This ending broke my heart when I first saw it as a young lad. I never knew what the first world war was about until I saw this.
I salute Mr Curtis and Mr Elton for creating a truly poignant ending. It taught me that even nice people, people we like, people we laugh with, can, and do die all the time.
I think of those millions of men and boys cut to pieces by machine gun fire and I wonder how the Earth must have groaned at so much death, so much pain.
@TheMachinegunkelly whats the special scene and where can you find it ????
demoniod121 2 months ago
"Sir?"
"Yes Lieutenant"
"im...scared sir..."
That bit is so chilling and sad because you can imagine a moment like that taking place in the real thing.
darthkahn45 3 months ago 4
I remember being truly astrounded by the ending. Although I haven't seen it again for more than 20 years, I have never forgotten how the battle scene shifted into the landscape of today, and that was it. The end of it all. All the bickering and quarrelling throughout the series, when the final moment came, they all realized they were in it together. A comedy series never had such a startingly, beautiful, thought-provoking and sad ending. Never.
lifeisaok 3 months ago
I cry evertime
ccyster 3 months ago
I don't know how people found this offence. It is a really amazing piece of filming.
st3phstar1 3 months ago
This was a great comedy, but a moment like this makes it great drama. Even with the laughs it's so powerful. I was so moved and it truly did tribute to those who fought and died during WWI.
Who would notice another mad man around here....so many brave lives lost needlessly.
WhiteTrashBarbarian 3 months ago 3
i hire chewbacca to show how sad this i. :(
MrCharcol13 4 months ago
simply says 'bugger'. sums the entire thing up if you ask me. excellently done scene
TheHiddenFear 4 months ago
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One of the best things ever on television. Profoundly perceptive choice of World War One, probably humanity's worst & most pointless tragedy and turning point, as the setting for the end of the series, the character, and presumably the character's family.
What's the basis of comedy?
ProNorden 5 months ago
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ProNorden 5 months ago
theres actually a unreleased scene at the end where you can see them getting shot down except for captain blackadder who pretens to be dead and then tries to get away
you can see it in the documentry
TheMachinegunkelly 6 months ago
HA! who needs a machinegun when you can have a stick :) ha ha ha :D
TheIcelandicPatriot 6 months ago
Amazing show!
It was very sad for it too end :( The ending was so sad :(
losaface4 6 months ago
This season was genius. They took the greatest tragedy in modern history and achieved the near impossible task of making it funny.
'Don't forget your stick Lietenant'
'Wouldn't want to face a machine gun without that'
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
Avradizimir 7 months ago 9
How could George and Baldrick have been at the front for three years without having attacked before?
Trench raiding, if not big set-piece battles, was constant during WWI.
UdallIn72 7 months ago
one of the greatest momnts in tv history
dougie275 7 months ago 2
ha! " a nasty splinter on that ladder " and they all gona die.... classic!!
fairhillnorrie 7 months ago
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Lest we forget
ilikefishish 8 months ago
Oh yes. The truth is, cruel, but the point is always the same! Die that I live forever? Military purpose of life? The good purpose of living for what ? execution ohh yes
lastingcenturies 9 months ago
the best and most moving ending to any series, ever.
okukok 9 months ago
one of the best ways to end a show.
goldzim 10 months ago
How can something be so funny one minute and so heartbreaking the next?
The poppies and birdsong are beautiful, and when George says "I'm...scared, sir", I just burst into tears, without fail, every time
Schlubalybub 10 months ago 3
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.
ChocChipCookie1 10 months ago
"who would have noticed another mad man around here?"
best line ever
Lilanimalcrazy 11 months ago
complete and utter genius
mossfryer 11 months ago
This is a great comedy. But such a sad clip and very moving
demoniod121 11 months ago 2
and now, of all the people in the whole world that fought in that war, there are only two left.
beefyoso 11 months ago 4
@beefyoso I just voted this up...then I realised how sad your comment was :(
Schlubalybub 10 months ago
@beefyoso
And now, not even one. Everything becomes history. One day, people will be laughing about how we made a big deal of the towers falling and the terrorism having the world in it's grip.
Everything becomes history. Even us.
tumppu1975 9 months ago 2
Disturbing ending in a very very clever way. Excellent writing and acting. Sadness overwhelms.
normalil 11 months ago
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Hugh Laurie's character seems to represent the innocence at the beginning of the war, '... this is brave, splendid and noble ... ' with Rowan Atkinson representing the cynicism at the end of it. I also like the way Atkinson's character continues to be so efficient in leading the charge in the midst of that cynicism, great comic/tragic moment.
TheTubeMouse 11 months ago
Hugh Laurie's character seems to represent the innocence at the beginning of the war, '... this is brave, splendid and noble ... ' with Rowan Atkinson representing the cynicism at the end of it. I also like the way Atkinson's character continues to be so efficient in leading the charge in the midst of that cynicism, great comedy moment.
TheTubeMouse 11 months ago
The actors cried...
DeepSnowBand 1 year ago
What a waste of young men's lives
a0040pc 1 year ago
if you dont cry when watching this then you understand neither comedy nor tragedy
TheIkaraCult 1 year ago 3
It's shows like this that make me very proud to be British, we're not afraid to add drama and sadness to our comedy, in fact it often makes them better, it good to see these powerful scenes continued in things such as the final Sherlock Holmes sketch in that Mitchell and Webb look, David Brent begging not to be fired in The Office and Andy Millman's public addressing on Big Brother in Extras, I'm sure there's many more, but I'm only 17 and haven't seen much.
HarrisJamesBen 1 year ago 4
In Flander's Fields the poppies blow...
Shorthumor 1 year ago 2
hugh laurie saying 'im scared sir' still makes me teary eyed.
StrawberryCosplayer 1 year ago 2
Every time I watch that scene,
all the Blackadder serirs flash before my Eyes.
And when I see that Blackadder Copyright sighn at the end you relise, that the decade of Britians Greatist Tv Show is over.
MrAnthony10001 1 year ago 2
Germany and England
by: Nesta Webster Prefatory comments by Jackie P. THIS is the little book that opened my eyes about the mass of massive lies we've all been told about Germany
Nationsnotregimes 1 year ago
You can tell the uploader is a student... ''It is a key moment that shows Britains faults'' RIP to all those that died so there would be a Britain today, shame it had to be spoilt by the knobhead communist students like the uploader.
PrestonNorthEndFan 1 year ago
@PrestonNorthEndFan Neither the clip nor the uploader is downplaying the sacrifice made by the soldiers. Too many young men lost their lives on both sides due to the vanity of their leaders. That was main point made in this classic series. I remember my gran telling me she saw a german plane being shot down close to her house, while all the men standing in the street cheered, she cried because she understood that a mother had just lost her son. She was no communist, just human.
raithrover1976 1 year ago
@raithrover1976 I wasnt talking about the clip, the clip shows the sacrifice many men had to make, it was the uploader that pissed me off with his anti-British (typical student) remark of ''It is a key moment that shows Britains faults'' Its showing no ones faults, all this clip shows us is the sacrifice these men made and many others in both wars (so students could piss on war memorials and churchills statue today)
PrestonNorthEndFan 1 year ago
@PrestonNorthEndFan
Yes, your are exactly correct.
"The War To End All Wars."
The billions made from this Genocidal war on Western peoples was used to make sure there would be a second round of the total annihilation of Western homelands and with completion of Anti Western folks laws to finalized our genocide.
Monsters from hell who learned long ago how to corrupt and control our leaders.
Nationsnotregimes 1 year ago
Really demonstrates the pointlessness of war :( RIP to all who gave their lives during the Great War, 1914-1918.
alexamerling20 1 year ago
@alexamerling20 This war was pointless, but some war is not.
Nationsnotregimes 1 year ago
@Nationsnotregimes true....WWII was definately necessary...
alexamerling20 1 year ago
@alexamerling20
My comment that you replied must have been removed as I could not find it.
Nationsnotregimes 1 year ago
@Nationsnotregimes oh I said true...WWII was definately necessary...
alexamerling20 1 year ago
it took my breath away for a minute there, in a bad way.
Jarnaudx 1 year ago
god i love that,we are doing a perfomance in drama based on this. it makes me proud to be british
leetyson2 1 year ago
@VashDraven for me that is Blackadder finally accepting death. For three series he never gave up squirming and never stopped trying to get out of he mad situation he ended up in. Finally he just says "it will have to wait" knowing full well what is about to happen, powerful stuff.
face777 1 year ago
Another thing that touches me about it is Baldrick's final plan. They never hear him out, but maybe, just maybe it could have saved them.
VashDraven 1 year ago 2
" I made a note in my diary on the way here, it simly reads... bugger". Capatin Darling was the best.
batmanofni 1 year ago
omfg... I watched this in history, and I was crying so much... ;___;
Miss0oxo0Alice 1 year ago 4
@Miss0oxo0Alice pretty damn lucky you got to watch this in school
samauripizzacats101 1 year ago
@samauripizzacats101 ikr? ^^ I love my teacher he's so epic. XD
Miss0oxo0Alice 1 year ago
@Miss0oxo0Alice Same! half the class were!
tau000 1 year ago
A superior ending to a superior series.
kealyc 1 year ago 2
Who would have noticed another madman around here?
ind0ctr1n3 1 year ago 2
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I think this is pure genius. The best comedy ever written with amazing acting from the cast. I hope it is never forgotten.
ApurtureSci 1 year ago
i find this so upsetting
okukok 1 year ago
This is one of the most extrodinary peices of television ever made. It's not just the fact that so many innocent people lost their lives this way over such a stupid war, but the fact that this was actually a COMEDY series. What an ending... absolutely chilling
TDaViEzZ1994 1 year ago 3
@TDaViEzZ1994 It is chilling and brilliant at the same time. The ending is always a tearjerker for me; this war differed from all others in having no noble cause whatever to fight for. Certainly no cause that was worth 20 million lives for 20 miles of ground over 4 miserable years. Yet Curtis and Elton succeeded in building a terrific comedy using this depressing war as a background!
galoon 1 year ago
If you can watch that and not have a tear in youre eye youve got no soul :'(
zxpalpha 1 year ago 2
RIP Baldrick
NamelessJimmy 1 year ago 3
wished they hadn't died
rocksoliddude1 1 year ago
Its House and Mr. Bean! lol You Gotta Love it.
luiso8815 1 year ago
Excellent series of episodes from the very start. My father watched their very first sketch at Uni, and he still does remember seeing Rowan in the hallways mostly. This is true British acting at its best, though a slight poignancy.
worldwar2madman 1 year ago
A very rare moment in Blackadder where I didn't laugh.
elberto9999 1 year ago 30
the generals on the allies were pretty stupid, they let thousands of good men die for no reason
qwatsdat 1 year ago
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They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.
3tangle3 1 year ago
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They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
3tangle3 1 year ago
Sad ending. I wish more blackadder could be made :)
qwbyd 1 year ago
Hate this ending, it's too sad :(
SamTheFisherMan100 1 year ago
great ending. rowan atkinson ftw! greetings from the other side of the trenches ;) i love british humor.
darkawakening01 1 year ago 2
@darkawakening01, im sorry but the German WW1 soldiers have much cooler hats then us! :]
watthehell1023 1 year ago
@watthehell1023 do you mean hats or helmets? if helmets, do you mean the early helmets with that ridiculous pin on them or the later trench helmets which looked very similar to their WWII counterparts used by the wehrmacht?
darkawakening01 1 year ago
@darkawakening01 , yeh it came out wrong i meant Helmets, they were pretty awesome but i wouldn't like to get charged by an Angry WW1 german Soldier head first! :O
watthehell1023 1 year ago
"who'd notice another madman round here"...........has there ever been a more devastating line on british tv???
davidleigh65 1 year ago 4
beautifully ended. so perfect. in an interview rowan atkinson said he actually felt like he was going to die. lol
livstar93 1 year ago
I wonder what baldricks plan was?
Alzerak 1 year ago 4
Crying too....."good luck everyone" I wonder how much that was said..
nathanholt75 1 year ago
The Comedy ends when Cpt. Blackadder Says"Good luck everyone''...
brunodude321 1 year ago 3
wait did they die?
guywithtights 1 year ago
@guywithtights yes
jamieallan69 1 year ago
@guywithtights historically yes the whole lot battle of the som stupid leaders go run and hope straight at them and see if it works
danesesse 1 year ago
@guywithtights Oh yes more than likely. This recreated the Final Push near the end of WW1 where more men died in that one last battle than in the entirety of the war...or close to it in any case. It makes it the perfect end to a long saga spanning centuries of cunning plans and gobbledygook.
Musemistress 1 year ago
"Cying".........
xMissNaughty4evax 1 year ago
stunning ending to one of the best shows ever. Very moving, still brings a lump to the throat
secrem 1 year ago 4
Such a good ending the best!
CB32312 1 year ago
simply says....... bugger :L
DomSCOTLANDD 1 year ago
imagine just how scared you would be, right before going over the top, just imagine the adrenaline aswell
samosayoe 2 years ago
yeah and those who refused or got scared would get shot by their own instead ;D
Bolshevikpirayan 1 year ago
this scene is so amazing.
billypony 2 years ago 11
the best end of a wonderfull show, don't get me wrong I didn't want them to die but if they didn't they would have to do this untill they die :P
duderobinv 2 years ago
.....so sad....we all cried...*snif*...T___T`'
aviate0skydom363 2 years ago
beautifuly british, sad scene. Loved every episode of blackadder, doesnt get much better tbh
Quiche118 2 years ago
oh, im crying so much, its so powerful
SillySod96 2 years ago
I remember watching this the first time it was broadcast in the late 1980's. I kept waiting for a comedic twist, some kind of weeze for them to escape.
When the poppy field appeared at the end I still expected the camera to pan down and reveal a triumphant post-war Blackadder.
When it struck me that he was died it was very powerful.
ma049 2 years ago 4
I just saw Rowan Atkinson interview in Parkinson, didn't know what the fuss about Blackadder. Saw this, and is amazed..
TMThenu 2 years ago
"Sir... I'm scared, Sir."
You would not have heard that in the trenches, or so we would like to think. Prehaps you heard it a whole lot back then, but the scenes ended up, just as our favorite bunch here played them out.
In any case, hearts we're broken in the end.
tumppu1975 2 years ago 2
manly tears ;-;
Lightningbaron69 2 years ago 16
wow.
gnumusic 2 years ago
Is that Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie?!
PodMan26 2 years ago 23
It sure is - great comedy duo :D
OLLYG2006 2 years ago 19
vry much so
maddenf 2 years ago
@PodMan26
Laurie was better as medieval prince than such dull character as House
EdTheBadass 1 year ago
@PodMan26 stephen fry is in there too
StrawberryCosplayer 1 year ago
@StrawberryCosplayer Sorry, I don't know who Stephen Fry is. I'm an ignorant American. :P I looked him up and it says he's the main character, yes? Well, sorry don't know him from anywhere else.
PodMan26 1 year ago
@PodMan26 aw dont worry then
StrawberryCosplayer 1 year ago
Here we have these fucking commercials...
tumppu1975 2 years ago 2
They deleted the other version :(
tumppu1975 2 years ago
Such a sad clip...brilliant finish to a great series.
tuktukskagal 3 years ago 51
@tuktukskagal did they die?
savage642 9 months ago
@tuktukskagal This ending broke my heart when I first saw it as a young lad. I never knew what the first world war was about until I saw this.
I salute Mr Curtis and Mr Elton for creating a truly poignant ending. It taught me that even nice people, people we like, people we laugh with, can, and do die all the time.
I think of those millions of men and boys cut to pieces by machine gun fire and I wonder how the Earth must have groaned at so much death, so much pain.
May they all R.I.P.
Englander30 7 months ago 21