The Archbishop

In the documentary Blackadder Rides Again (2008), Richard Curtis and Tony Robinson both mention the relics scene as a particular highlight. Curtis was generally critical of the first series, stating that while comedy writers hone their craft first by writing sketches and then progress to writing situation comedy, the most successful parts of The Black Adder (1983) were in essence just sketches. He points to Baldrick's scene with the holy relics as an example of one of those sequences - entertaining, but ultimately self-contained. Robinson felt that, because he, Rowan Atkinson and Tim McInnerny had just begun to work together, this scene was the first time that the three of them truly "gelled" as an ensemble of performers.

Baldrick mentions coffee racks amongst the relics, but coffee was not introduced to England until 1652, although it had been around before 1487.

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