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Flash by name...Flash by nature!

posted 11 years ago by Mercader79
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Brilliant performance.
Terrible news about Rik Mayall...

‘Flash by name. Flash by nature!’ Rik Mayall’s appearance as the swashbuckling Lord Flashheart in the closing minutes of the Bells episode of Blackadder II must rank as the most energetic, hilarious and bawdiest small screen comedy cameo in living memory. And while Blackadder is now long gone, Flashheart is now back on our screens. Sort of.
Bursting into the Royal chambers, Edmund’s old chum and prospective best man Flashheart makes a huge impact, flirting obscenely with almost the entire wedding party before stealing the prospective bride Kate (aka ‘Bob’) from under Blackadder’s nose.
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http://www.chortle.co.uk/correspondents/2011/06/10/13453/the_unforgett able_flashheart

[–] John_Dee_007 11 years ago

I think he was even more memorable and virile in the Blackadder Goes Forth episode, 'Private Plane'. Also he had much more screen time and his lines from that episode are legendary.

Lord Flashheart: Mind if I use your phone? If word gets out I'm missing, five hundred girls will kill themselves. And I wouldn't want them on my conscience, not when they ought to be on my *FACE*!
Hello? Cancel the state funeral, tell the king to stop blubbing, Flash is not dead! I simply ran out of juice! And before five hundred girls all go "Oh, what's the point in living any more?" I'm talking about petrol! WOOF!! Send someone along to pick me up. General Melchett's driver will do, she hangs round with a big knob so she'll be used to a fellow like me. WOOF!!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0526714/trivia?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu

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