blackadder and world war one

The popular series 'Blackadder' has caused a row with the Minister of Education over how the First World War should be perceived:
BBC News - Blackadder star Sir Tony Robinson in Michael Gove WW1 row
Michael Gove blasts 'Blackadder myths' about the First World War spread by television sit-coms and left-wing academics | Mail Online

Here's a piece suggesting how the war started:
LiveLeak.com - Blackadder Goes Forth - 'How Did The War Start?'

And here's another piece where the general visits the troops on the front:



General Melchett visits the troops - Blackadder - BBC - YouTube

Although a favourite for the English teacher/student has to be where there are one or two problems around word-stress and phonemes - from a different series where Blackadder is an Elizabethan aristocrat in some 'foreign' prison:



Inconweeeenienced - Imprisoned in a Comode - Blackadder - BBC - YouTube
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