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((Infobox television episode
| series       = [[Blackadder]]
| image        = Sense and Senility.jpg
| image_size   = 200
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| series_no    = 3
| episode      = 4
| writer       = Ben Elton, Richard Curtis
| director     = 
| airdate      = ((Start date|1987|10|08|df=yes))
| guests       = [[Hugh Paddick]]<br />[[Kenneth Connor]]
| prev         = [[Nob and Nobility]]
| next         = [[Amy and Amiability]]
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"'''Sense and Senility'''"  is the fourth episode of the [[BBC]] sitcom ''[[Blackadder the Third]]'', the third series of ''[[Blackadder]]''. It originally aired on 8 October 1987. The title is a play on [[Jane Austen]]'s ''[[Sense and Sensibility]]''.

==Plot==
Blackadder is ruefully preparing to attend the theatre with [[George (Blackadder character)#Blackadder the Third|Prince George]], who has no grasp of the concept of fiction; for example, at a performance of ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'', the Prince shouted, "Look behind you, Mr. Caesar!" during the assassination scene. At the play, an anarchist (played by [[Ben Elton]]) makes an attempt on George's life. The Prince is shocked by Blackadder's revelation that he is unpopular and ignorant of the living conditions of the working classes: "Disease and deprivation stalk our land like two giant stalking things." Following this event, Prince George becomes anxious about anarchist attacks. Whenever the Prince encounters Baldrick cleaning, he accuses Baldrick of being an anarchist and attempts to strangle him.

Blackadder suggests that the Prince should improve his public image and writes a speech for the Prince to deliver at his [[George III|father's]] birthday celebrations. The Prince then suggests that the two actors that they saw at the theatre (David Keanrick and Enoch Mossop, played respectively by [[Hugh Paddick]] and [[Kenneth Connor]]) be hired to give him elocution lessons. Blackadder has little respect for actors in the first place, often ridiculing them for their over-the-top, flamboyant acting style, and saying, "You mean they actually rehearse? I thought they just got drunk, stuck on silly hats and trusted to luck." In response to Mossop and Keanrick's generally condescending and rude attitude towards him for his status as a butler, Blackadder torments the two by saying "Macbeth" repeatedly, causing them to perform the painful [[The Scottish Play|Macbeth ritual]] (which comically consists of them playing pattycake and chanting "Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends, OW!" <ref>https://twitter.com/Tony_Robinson/status/811620449201299460</ref> He says "Macbeth" six times in a row, making the actors continually repeat their ritual. Soon, he takes an additional dislike to the pair when they laugh at the speech he wrote, calling it "drivel", so he plans to quit being a servant and apply to become [[King of Sardinia]] (responding to an advertisement in ''[[The Times]]'' placed by [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]). However, he is distracted when, on the way out, Baldrick insults him, saying "Goodbye, you lazy, big nosed, rubber-faced bastard." Uncharacteristically, he does not touch Baldrick, but instead scathingly tells him "I wouldn't bet you a single [[groat (coin)|groat]] that you could last five minutes here without me."

Soon after this, the actors (secretly disappointed with their experiences with the Prince) rehearse their own play which they wrote themselves, ''The Bloody Murder of the Foul Prince Romero and His Enormously Bosomed Wife'', which consists mostly of long and very gory Shakespearean-style dialogue. Baldrick overhears them and thinks it is a real plot to murder Prince George and Blackadder. As Baldrick and the Prince are cowering in the sitting room, Blackadder returns, revealing that he had actually decided to take Baldrick up on his bet, saying "Four minutes, twenty-two seconds, Baldrick. You owe me a groat." He then takes advantage of George's inability to tell fact from fiction and accuses the actors of [[Conspiracy (political)|conspiracy]], claiming that ''The Murder of Prince Romero'' is in fact "their entire conspiracy printed and published in play manuscript form". Finally realising that Blackadder is manipulating the Prince, Mossop and Keanrick beg Blackadder for mercy for mistreating him, but he merely invokes the Macbeth curse again and orders the guards to take them away, presumably to be executed.

The Prince apologises to Blackadder for his behaviour. Blackadder, however, offers the Prince a lead role in a new play. The Prince agrees, but asks for the title. Blackadder replies, ''Thick Jack Clot Sits in the Stocks and Gets Pelted with Rancid Tomatoes'' as revenge for the Prince's dismissive attitude towards him when Mossop and Keanrick were present. The credits roll after the Prince obliviously says, "Excellent!".

==In contemporary culture==
Comparisons have been drawn between the "heroic stance" the actors teach Prince George and [[power posing]].<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/30/sajid-javid-tory-power-stance|title=Sajid Javid and the return of the Tory power stance|date=30 April 2018|website=The Guardian))</ref>

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* ((BBC episode|b0078wqx))
* ((IMDb episode|0526726))

((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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