Blackadder (TV Series)

Born to Be King (1983)

Tim McInnerny: Percy, Duke of Northumberland

Quotes 

• Percy : Then there's the Jumping Jews of Jerusalem!

  Prince Edmund : And what do they do?

  Percy : They jump, my lord. A lot.

• Prince Edmund : Scotsmen are barbarians! Half of them don't even speak English!

  Percy : Well, what do they speak?

  Prince Edmund : Oh, I don't know. It's all Greek to me!

  Percy : They speak Greek?

  Prince Edmund : No, I mean it SOUNDS like Greek.

  Percy : Well, if it sounds like Greek, it probably IS Greek.

  Prince Edmund : It's not Greek!

  Percy : But it sounds LIKE Greek..."What's not Greek, but sounds like Greek?" Hm, that's a good one, my lord!

  Prince Edmund : Look, it's not meant to be a BRAIN-TEASER, Percy! I'm simply trying to tell you that I cannot understand a blind word they're saying.

  Percy : Well, no wonder, my lord. You never learned Greek, of course.

• Prince Edmund : [facing a fireplace]  And then one day...

  Percy : [appears beside Edmund]  You would be king, my lord.

  [Edmund turns to him, then back to Baldrick] 

  Prince Edmund : Ah, yes! Yes I would be King.

  [turns around] 

  Prince Edmund : And THEN what?

  Percy , Baldrick : [in unison]  You rule the world, my lord!

  Prince Edmund : Precisely!