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((Infobox television episode
| series       = [[Blackadder]]
| image        = Nob and Nobility.jpg
| image_size   = 200
| caption      = Title card, illustrating the French Revolution theme of the episode
| series_no    = 3
| episode      = 3
| writer       = [[Richard Curtis]] and [[Ben Elton]]
| director     = 
| airdate      = ((Start date|1987|10|01|df=yes))
| guests       = [[Tim McInnerny]]<br/>[[Nigel Planer]]<br/>[[Chris Barrie]]
| prev         = [[Ink and Incapability]]
| next         = [[Sense and Senility]]
))

"'''Nob and Nobility'''" is the third episode of the [[BBC]] sitcom ''[[Blackadder the Third]]'', the third series of ''[[Blackadder]]''.

==Plot==
[[Mr. E. Blackadder|Edmund]] is disgusted with the English obsession over [[the Scarlet Pimpernel]], the masked [[vigilante]] who has saved so many [[French people|French]] aristocrats from the [[French Revolution|Revolution]]. After Edmund disparages the Pimpernel, two effete noblemen, Topper ([[Tim McInnerny]]) and Smedley ([[Nigel Planer]]), bet him a thousand [[Guinea (coin)|guineas]] that he cannot go to France, rescue an aristocrat and present him at the French Embassy Ball. He accepts, but instead of actually going to France, he takes the far safer course of going to [[Mrs. Miggins]]' coffee house to find a French aristocrat willing to pretend he has been rescued. He convinces a French [[dandy]], Le Comte de Frou Frou (also Tim McInnerny), to pose as his "rescued" aristocrat, in exchange for fifty guineas and an invitation to the Ball. de Frou Frou agrees, but laments "If only I had brought my mongoose costume!"

When they arrive at the embassy, however, they are arrested by a revolutionary ([[Chris Barrie]]) who has assassinated the ambassador. Blackadder, Frou Frou, and Baldrick are put in a cell. Frou Frou offers each of them a suicide pill, before he is taken away to be tortured. Later, "Madam [[Guillotine]]," a mad Frenchwoman, comes to torture Blackadder and Baldrick. Blackadder tricks her into drinking wine spiked with the suicide pill, before she dramatically reveals that she was Smedley, the true identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel, come to rescue them. After a sequence of absurd side effects from the pill, Smedley dies. Seeing that he left the cell door open, Blackadder and Baldrick escape, bumping into Frou Frou on the way out.

Blackadder returns to the Prince with Frou Frou, offering a spectacular account of the rescue, including being shipwrecked, tortured, and breaking into [[Maximilien Robespierre]]'s bedroom to leave him "[[Milk Tray|a small tray]] of [[milk chocolate]]s and an insulting note." After the story, Frou Frou reveals himself to be Topper in disguise, and that he and the "mysteriously missing" Smedley are together the Scarlet Pimpernel. Moments away from exposing Blackadder's treachery, Topper accepts Blackadder's offer of a glass of wine, spiked with the other suicide pill, and also dies. Blackadder convinces the [[George (Blackadder)|Prince]] that ''he'' is the Scarlet Pimpernel, and collects an "enormous [[postal order]]" intended for the hero.

==External links==
* ((BBC episode|b0078wn4))
* ((IMDb episode|0526725))

((Blackadder))

[[Category:Blackadder episodes]]
[[Category:1987 British television episodes]]
[[Category:Television shows written by Ben Elton]]
[[Category:Television shows written by Richard Curtis]]

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