Beer

Name: Beer
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1986-02-13
Duration: 30 min
Rating: 8.6
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson

Episode aired Feb 13, 1986
TV-PGTV-PG
30min

S1.E5

Blackadder finds himself hosting a drinking competition on the same night he is entertaining his puritanical relatives.Blackadder finds himself hosting a drinking competition on the same night he is entertaining his puritanical relatives.Blackadder finds himself hosting a drinking competition on the same night he is entertaining his puritanical relatives.

8.6/10

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Director
- Mandie Fletcher
Writers
- Richard Curtis(by)
- Ben Elton(by)
Stars

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Edmund Blackadder is thrilled when his wealthy but puritanical relatives announce their desire to meet and discuss his inheritance. While planning a ingratiatingly spartan and fundamentalist dinner for them, he is summoned to court where he accidentally agrees to host a riotous drinking competition at his house on the same night. —Murray Chapman

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Trivia
The episode marks Hugh Laurie's first ever Blackadder appearance, and Miriam Margolyes' second. Laurie would go on to appear in every subsequent episode of the show.

Goofs
When Edmund is given the red wine, he opens the cupboard door and throws it in, spilling it all over the floor. Elizabeth knocks at the door and it cuts to a shot of Percy knocking in reply to the knock at the door. When it cuts back, the drink on the floor has gone.

Quotes
Blackadder: Which reminds me, Auntie...
Lady Whiteadder: Don't call me "Auntie." Aunt is a relative and relatives are evidence of sex. Which is hardly a fitting conversation for the dinner table.
Blackadder: Or indeed, any table.
Lord Percy: Except perhaps a table in a brothel.

Crazy credits
In the closing credits, the theme is sung as though the singer were drunk, with a swift decline in vocal quality, and at one point, a hiccup.

Connections
Featured in Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga (2008)

Top review

10/10

Beer

I was once told to get the door and it fell off the hinges.

So I used Baldrick's punchline from this very episode.

Beer is another cracker. Blackadder ends up hosting a wild party after he mocks Melchett for getting drunk the night before.

The joke being that it is Blackadder who cannot hold his drink.

Unfortunately at the same time. Blackadder's relatives have come to stay. The Whiteadders are a strict puritanical lot but they are rich and Blackadder hopes to inherit from them.

Blackadder ends up having dinner with the Whiteadders and holding a party with Melchett and his friends in the next room. He just needs to make sure his relatives do not catch him drunk.

Fake breasts, an explanation to the meaning of 'a great booze up.' Turnips shaped like a penis which was likely to be a pot shot at That's Life with its penchant for rude vegetables.

Miriam Margolyes is formidable as the scary Lady Whiteadder.

Hugh Laurie makes his first appearance on the show. William Hootkins is a drunken monk. Top men.

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