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Thanks to everyone who participated in the Blackadder Millennium Survey. Below you will find the results in a tabular form (although in no particular order). Hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did. You may agree with some of the results and others you might find quite surprising. Anyway, enough of my rambling, here are the results.
Q1: What character from the Blackadder series would you most like to spend New Year's Eve with?
Flash - 9%
Baldrick - 17%
Queenie - 9%
Bob - 11%
Edmund - 25%
Melchett - 2%
Percy - 4%
George - 11%
Nurse Mary - 4%
Mad Gerald - 1%
Misc - 7%
Some of the miscellaneous include: Mr. Ploppy, Mrs. Miggins, Lady Whiteadder & Wee Jock Poo McPlop.
Q2: If you could travel in time, where and what time period would you go to?
Future - 9%
Elizabethan - 14%
Medieval - 12%
Victorian - 9%
60's (mostly 1966) - 8%
Ancient Egypt - 4%
1917 - 3%
Renaissance - 1%
1920's - 5%
1700's - 4%
1950's - 3%
Tudor - 4%
Georgian - 12%
Roman - 4%
1940's - 1%
misc - 7%
Some of the miscellaneous include: The moon 1969, I want to stay here and now, two Sundays ago, 70's & 80's.
Q3: Do you think time travel is possible?
Yes - 48%
No - 43%
Don't Know - 9%
Only in the West Country - 1 person
Q4: What is your favourite Blackadder episode?
Ink & Incapability - 4%
General Hospital - 5%
Bells - 9%
Chains - 5%
Goodbyeee - 8%
The Black Seal - 3%
Beer - 13%
Dual & Duality - 5%
Sense and Senility - 5%
Dish & Dishonesty - 5%
Money - 5%
Amy & Amiability - 2%
The Queen of Spain's Beard - 2%
Captain Cook - 3%
Head - 2%
Nob & Nobility - 3%
Major Star - 1%
Witchsmeller Pursuivant - 2%
The Foretelling - 2%
'Beer' seems to be the most popular episode. It seems that a turnip that is shaped like a thingy amuses everyone, regardless of geographical location.
Q5: If you could create a series of the Blackadder, which historic time period would you choose?
Egyptian - 5%
Future - 6%
Roman / Biblical - 18%
60's - 16%
1990's - 4%
Tudor - 4%
Victorian - 7%
1929-1930 - 2%
Edwardian - 3%
Restoration - 3%
Dark Ages - 2%
Prehistoric - 3%
Arthurian - 3%
1770's USA - 1%
WWII - 3%
500bc - 3%
Cold War Spy - 1%
1950's UK - 2%
America - 1%
misc - 12%
Some of the strangest settings include: Blackadder as a superhero, a Robin Hood setting, Australian penal colonies, and 1930's New York in a mafia setting.
Q6: What is your favourite line from the Blackadder series?
The most popular was 'I have a cunning plan!'
With 'We're in the stickiest situation since Sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun.' Coming second.
An honourable mention goes to: 'I'd rather be a lapdog to a slip of a girl than a.....git!'
Q7: What is your favourite root vegetable?
turnip - 62%
Rudabega - 1%
Parsnips - 4%
Potato - 9%
Carrot - 8%
Beetroot - 1%
Don't have one - 1%
Not a turnip - 1%
Not a cabbage - 1%
Vegetables that aren't actually root vegetables - 12%
Amazingly, people seem to think that corn, peas, mushrooms, tomatoes & Baldrick are root vegetables. Although Baldrick is excusable.
Q8: Do you think there should be another series of the Blackadder?
Yes - 95%
No - 4%
Don't know - 1%
Q9: Will you be visiting Skyscape to see Blackadder Back and Forth?
Yes - 43%
No - 45%
Don't know - 9%
What's Skyscape - 3%
Q10: Favourite series based on question 4
The Black Adder - 8%
Blackadder II - 35%
Blackadder the Third - 27%
Blackadder Goes Forth - 27%
Blackadder's Christams Carol - 3%
Like I said at the top, there are some very surprising results.
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