Revealing mistake: When Baldrick is on the metal spit rotating by the fire, the fire is just a light up board.
Revealing mistake: When Blackadder lifts the huge turnip it looks really light. A turnip that size would weight a fair bit.
Blackadder (1986)
2 revealing mistakes in Dish and Dishonesty - chronological order
Continuity mistake: In Back and Forth, the 'modern' Edmund makes off with the helmet we saw Georgius put on the wall. But in the next shot of the Roman Blackadder and Georgius, the helmet is still where Georgius left it.
Blackadder: We are reprieved. It is a triumph for stupidity over common sense.
Baldrick: Thank you very much.
Blackadder: As a special reward, Baldrick, take a short holiday. [Pauses for a second.] Did you enjoy it?
Trivia: BlackAdder was recently voted the second best British comedy, losing to Only Fools and Horses.
Question: Many times during the series, Lieutenant is pronounced as 'Left-tenant'. Why?
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Answer: That's the standard British pronounciation.
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