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Sheriff and Gisburne = Blackadder and Baldrick

posted 9 years ago by heisenberg83
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I've just got up to "Alan-a-Dale" in season 1 & it suddenly hit me who the relationship of Sheriff and Gisburne remind me of - Blackadder & Baldrick! In particular Blackadder II.

Blackadder even has the characteristic goatee beard of the Sheriff of Nottingham in that series of Blackadder.

Love the bickering in Robin of Sherwood, especially this episode. The ending with them washing eachother's backs in the bathtub really made me giggle.

[–] MrEdnablackadder 8 years ago

- Are you questioning...?
- Your honor, Gisburne? No. Just your ability to count.

I can see something Blackadderesque in the Sheriff's verbally abusive attitude towards Gisburne. However, Blackadder couldn't have been an influence on this account, since the only season to predate ROS is the first one, and the relationship between Edmund and Baldrick was rather different there, with the first being the dimwitted master and the second the clever servant.

[–] heisenberg83 8 years ago

Yes but maybe Blackadder II onwards took some influence from RoS ?

[–] MrEdnablackadder 8 years ago

Possibly. On a side note, Nickolas Grace would have been great in Blackadder.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 5 years ago

Its very possible, Blackadder II came out in 1986, Robin of Sherwood was from 84-86. I'm sure Richard Curtis, Ben Elton and Rowan Atkinson were aware of the show which was a big hit at the time.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 5 years ago

Good observation, although I see Guy as an aggressive Percy, rather than a subservient Baldrick, anywho he’s an absolute fool.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Indeed.

[–] avortac4 (3752) 2 years ago

Subservient?

The opposite of aggressive is passive.

Why not use the word 'passive'? Guy is subservient, but he's also a megalo-maniac egomonster. Passive is something he isn't, and Baldrick obviously is.

Baldrick has no ego, he's timid, passive and lives basically through his master and somewhat through his turnips.

[–] Hybrid66 (1516) 2 years ago

"Harder, Guisburne!"

Lol

[–] HarveyManFredSin (4877) 2 years ago

Funnily enough, Tony Robinson (AKA Baldrick) played the Sheriff of Nottingham in a 1980s kids comedy TV show called 'Maid Marion and Her Merry Men,' which I believe he wrote.