Amy and Amiability
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| Blackadder Episode | |
| Amy and Amiability | |
 Amy Hardwood, "wetter than a haddock's bathing costume" |
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| Air date | 15/10/1987 |
| Writer(s) | Ben Elton Richard Curtis |
| Director | Mandie Fletcher |
| Guest star(s) | Miranda Richardson Warren Clarke |
| ← Prev Sense and Senility |
Next → Duel and Duality |
Amy and Amiability is an episode of the BBC sitcom Blackadder.
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[edit] Plot
Having lost vast amounts of money playing cards, the Prince Regent is forced to search for a rich wife. Amy Hardwood (played by Miranda Richardson), daughter of a powerful industrialist, seems the only option despite the fact that she says things like, "what about George's lovey-wovey poems that won my hearty-warty?". The Prince, whose idea of a love letter includes the line "You'll be staring at my bedroom ceiling from now til Christmas, you lucky tart!" doesn't seem likely to succeed on his own, so Blackadder writes his lines for him.
All goes well until Blackadder discovers that Amy's father is broke, upon which he breaks the engagement, though too late to prevent the Prince spending several thousand pounds on wedding gifts. Blackadder puts on a mask and cloak and saddles up Baldrick and turns to the life of a highwayman. He soon discovers that Amy Hardwood is in fact herself the notorious highwayman, The Shadow. She pretends to be in love with Blackadder to steal the Prince's money and the wedding gifts, but Blackadder turns her in for a £10,000 reward. He stows the reward in the biscuit tin where the prince finds it. However, Black Adder convinces the twit to a game of cards...
[edit] Significance
Once again, Blackadder's plots come to nothing and he is thwarted in his get-rich-quick plans. However, it is implied at the end of the episode that he might manage to gain some of his money back by playing cards with the Prince.
[edit] Trivia
- This episode also contains a reference to the Prince's eventual real-life bride, Caroline of Brunswick, who is dismissed as a candidate for having a horrible personality. The real George did in fact marry Caroline of Brunswick and the marriage was an unmitigated disaster.
- The balcony scene is adapted from a scene in the play Cyrano de Bergerac, in which Christian de Neuvillette uses Cyrano's words to court the beautiful Roxanne.
