I actually got kicked out of my theater class in my senior year of high school for doing this. The teacher's face was priceless every time I said it - right up till she screamed at me to get out.
A friend of mine once recounted an experience one summer while part of a Shakespeare in Park production when people were jokingly saying MacBeth. It became a fiasco, several people messed up lines, missed cues, tripped, and even slightly injured -one person needed an ambulance.
While this incarnation of Blackadder came of as lazy & bitter, we can definitely see his side in this episode. Forced to constantly explain the difference between acting and real life to The Prince, George been a complete arsehole towards him and he did actually try to save George early on too but George was stupid to realise he was holding a bomb.
@@stephenbyrne3909 no, it’s as stated by O.P. All the references in it are theatre based “ hot potato” they were sold to theatre goers as they went in in those days. “ Orchestra Stalls” refers to the lower stage level seating area, “ Puck will make amends”. Referencing Shakespeare’s “ Midsomer Nights Dream”. Trust me, forty plus years working in theatre and I’m sure of this 😊
@@nickmetroid 😱 Aaargh! Hot potato. Orchestra stalls. Puck will make amends. Ow!! Will you please stop saying that, always call it the Scottish Play!!!
Macbeth is considered to be cursed by actors and there a few theory’s as to why One is that actual witches were upset by the fact that Shakespeare used real spells in the play so they cursed it Another is if you were performing a different play and you had sold no tickets but needed the money then you would put Macbeth on because it always brought a crowd, so you didn’t want to say ‘Macbeth’ because it meant what you were performing was going to fail. There could be more theories but that’s what I know off
I thought It Was “Macbeth. Aaargh! Hot Potato. Orchestrals. Pluck Will Come To Make Amends. Ow!!”? Or Was it “Hot Potatoes. Opera Stalls. Pluck Will Make Amends. Ow!!”? Or “Macbeth. Aargh! Hot Potatoes. Off His Drawers? Pluck Will Make Amends. Ow!!” I must’ve Misheard.
Ah right. I was going by some other commenter's description. It's difficult to know what they are actually saying after they've had their noses twisted so often! I've seen so many different versions including 'Hot potatoes' and 'Pluck will make amends'!
@@aleksandarvil5718 OUCH! what is all this hullabaloo about this shouting screaming and yelling blue murder? Its like this play we saw. What's it called?
If there were to be a new series, it could be about Russia invading Ukraine. I wrote a scene along those lines a few months ago. I'll paste it below in case anyone wants to read it.
This is a paste of a new version of Blackadder I wrote a few months ago, based on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Blackadder is Lord Putler (Putin) and Baldrick is General Baldrick, the head Russian Army General, in charge of the war in Ukraine. "I have a CUNNING plan my Lord!" "Oh really General Baldrick, and what, pray tell, is your cunning plan this time?" "Let's put ALL our munitions in a BIG pile next to the railroad track." "Oh I see Baldrick, in other words, your 'cunning plan' is the same as the last thirty-two and a half cunning plans that you've already had in the past six months?" "No my Lord. There's more this time!" "Oh I see. And would this brilliant addition to your plan be to put the same three sad little pine branches over the top of the WHOPPING GREAT ENORMOUS munitions pile that you're going to place next to the railway line it came on...in hopes that the Ukrainians will mistake your obvious munitions pile for a great big whopping national forest instead?" "No my Lord. My cunning plan this time is to disguise the great whopping munitions pile as a great whopping munitions pile. And put a great big electric sign next to it with the words, 'GREAT BIG WHOPPING MUNITIONS PILE!! DROP BOMBS HERE!' That way the Ukrainians will be sure to think it's a great big national forest! And we'll be SURE to win your 'not a war' in Ukraine" "General Baldrick, come here with me a moment." "Yes, my Lord?" "I want you to look out this great enormous open window on the 25th floor for a moment." 😂👌
I have the ultimate edition DVD box set, and there's a featurette in it where Tony said that it could've been in the 1960s where Baldrick is a Ringo Starr-type drummer named "Bald Rick," but Tim said he didn't think they should because of everyone's memories of the originals. Plus supposedly Blackadder Back And Forth was the final one as he was now King of England with Baldrick as the Prime Minister.
I actually got kicked out of my theater class in my senior year of high school for doing this. The teacher's face was priceless every time I said it - right up till she screamed at me to get out.
You legend
Did you do it on purpose?
@@domonicredmond1894 After the first time? Hell yeah. Most theater people take themselves way too fucking seriously.
It’s one thing to play at an old superstition for tradition’s sake, but to actually throw out a high school student over it is just pathetic.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 wish I did theatre in school now
Hot potatoes, off his drawers,
Pluck to make amends! (Tweaked nose) OW!
AHHHHHH
This was one of the best episodes in the whole Blackadder series!
Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends!
Because he kept saying Macbeth?
2:33 "That what they were *bound* to say, sir."
Visually punny
A friend of mine once recounted an experience one summer while part of a Shakespeare in Park production when people were jokingly saying MacBeth. It became a fiasco, several people messed up lines, missed cues, tripped, and even slightly injured -one person needed an ambulance.
Funnier than anything pulled out of Neil Simon's ass. 😆
Well, what can I say - MacBeth!
@@ArchonLicht AAAAAAH! HOT POTATO! ORCHESTRA STALLS! PUCK WILL MAKE AMENDS
Should have added,
"You may start by not calling me Bladders, sir. *(shouts in hallway)* MACBETH!"
Agreed!
This never gets old. rofl XD
Yes of course, Julius Caesar.....
not Macbeth
@@jasonmarin8187 ouch!!
@@jenniferwills9752 AHHH Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends
AAHH!!!! HOT POTATO! ORCHESTRA HALLS! PUCK WILL MAKE AMENDS! OUCH!!!!
While this incarnation of Blackadder came of as lazy & bitter, we can definitely see his side in this episode. Forced to constantly explain the difference between acting and real life to The Prince, George been a complete arsehole towards him and he did actually try to save George early on too but George was stupid to realise he was holding a bomb.
Edmund Blackadder, the master at trolling.
@TheCanadianDude Well, Blackadder *_IS_* A Troll, You Know
For what? Saying Macbeth?
@@joshsavage007 AHH! HOT POTATO, ORCHESTRA STALLS, PUCK WILL MAKE AMENDS!
My brother and I do this when ever one of us says 'Macbeth.'
Oh crud
HOT POTATO!
OFF HIS DOORS!
PUCK WILL MAKE AMENDS!
AGH!
This might seem cruel, but they didn't exactly give him much incentive to stop saying it, did they?
They were being jerks anyways.
@@knightofarkronia8652 so the Prince and Boldwick didn't understand the difference between reality and Fiction but Black adder did?
@@eliotreader8220Of course, they are idiots in this season
Saying what? Macbeth?
@@jlh4jc AHH! HOT POTATO, ORCHESTRA STALLS, PUCK WILL MAKE AMENDS!
Their exorcism looks like some sort of elaborate reality check.
MACBETH!! 😫
@@luisreyes1963 GAH HOT POTATOES OFFICE DRAWS PUCK WILL MAKE AMENDS
Blackadder: Are you sure you want to see these people?
Me: Very much so! *rewatches the video*
Aaargh! Hot potato. Orchestra stalls. Puck will make amends. Ow!!
Ah yes! The correct answer was here all along!
How DID they say all that so fast? Actually it's prenounced, "Hot Potato. Off his drawers. Pluck will make amends.
Macbeth.
@@stephenbyrne3909 no, it’s as stated by O.P. All the references in it are theatre based “ hot potato” they were sold to theatre goers as they went in in those days. “ Orchestra Stalls” refers to the lower stage level seating area, “ Puck will make amends”. Referencing Shakespeare’s “ Midsomer Nights Dream”. Trust me, forty plus years working in theatre and I’m sure of this 😊
@@simonmordish1013 never knew the history behind it. Thanks!
I DIED LAUGHING AT THIS.
My condolences.
I assume it's because someone said Macbeth.
I see you got better. 😂
Three witches bring you back??
@@MuchWhittering AHH! HOT POTATO, ORCHESTRA STALLS, PUCK WILL MAKE AMENDS!
I came here because earlier during the Oscars, Chris Rock congratulated Denzel Washington on his appearance in the Scottish Play.
Good one. 😑
You mean Macbeth?
@@ThatOneDane AAAAH! Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends!
Not Macbeth.
@@mattschneider6773 AHHHHHH!! Hotpotatooffhisdrawersplucktomakeamends!
Blackadder straight trolling those actors
By doing what? Saying Macbeth?
M A C B E T H
Now Edmund knows how Geoffrey from fresh Prince feels lol
More laughs in a few minutes than entire modern movies.
1:05 This was in Patman Post Is Diverted.
"My Ticky Ticker..."
Damn! I haven't noticed mr. Alfons! :)
And his tricky thrust.
Don't forget the small 'earse with the small 'orse
I wonder if anyone dared to say MACBETH backstage at the Tony Awards. 😅
*"Aahhhhh! Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends! Ooh!"*
It writes itself.
I've only got one thing to say to you...
Macbeth.
@Mister Nakkerhoofd AAGHH!!! _Hot Potato Off His Drawers, Pluck To Make Amends!_ OW!!!
MACBETH!!!
Macbeth
Aaargh! Hot potato. Orchestra stalls. Puck will make amends. Ow!!
@@HarryFrost-qu8th Macbeth 😛
@@nickmetroid 😱 Aaargh! Hot potato. Orchestra stalls. Puck will make amends. Ow!!
Will you please stop saying that, always call it the Scottish Play!!!
@@HarryFrost-qu8th So you want me to say the Scotish play....and not Macbeth?
@@nickmetroid Aaargh! Hot potato. Orchestra stalls. Puck will make amends. Ow my nose!!
This cracked me up!
will you please stop saying that! always call it the Scottish Play!
You want me to say the Scottish play not Macbeth!
@@paulwilliams2593 Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends!
Man, imagine Bart Simpson would say that for fun.😂
Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!
🌩⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡
"Bart, stop saying Macbeth!"
@@samalvey8168 Mom, you said Macbeth.
🌩⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
@@FantasiaProject2491 "Mr. Macbeth, I'm really sorry." (long and painful lightning strike)
@@samalvey8168 That’s quite all right. You didn’t know. Now…if you excuse me, I have a performance to give.
@@FantasiaProject2491 "Good luck!"
LOL! SO funny!
Now why do you suppose they get so upset whenever someone says ‘Macbeth?’
Superstitious folderol among actors. 🎭
Macbeth is considered to be cursed by actors and there a few theory’s as to why
One is that actual witches were upset by the fact that Shakespeare used real spells in the play so they cursed it
Another is if you were performing a different play and you had sold no tickets but needed the money then you would put Macbeth on because it always brought a crowd, so you didn’t want to say ‘Macbeth’ because it meant what you were performing was going to fail.
There could be more theories but that’s what I know off
@@Gerarrrdwaaa Actual witches - LOL
R u from the middle ages?
*_AAHHHHH! Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends! Ooh."_*
1:48, shame it was not continued for another 5 seconds. "Do you want these two thrown out your Highness?" (Or words to that effect).
The best Britisch....🤣
Dark humor at it's finest
I thought It Was “Macbeth. Aaargh! Hot Potato. Orchestrals. Pluck Will Come To Make Amends. Ow!!”? Or Was it “Hot Potatoes. Opera Stalls. Pluck Will Make Amends. Ow!!”? Or “Macbeth. Aargh! Hot Potatoes. Off His Drawers? Pluck Will Make Amends. Ow!!” I must’ve Misheard.
Nearly. It's 'Hot potato, Off his drawers, Puck will make amends.'
Ah right. I was going by some other commenter's description. It's difficult to know what they are actually saying after they've had their noses twisted so often! I've seen so many different versions including 'Hot potatoes' and 'Pluck will make amends'!
@@jasonmarin8187 And the hot potato part?
@@georgejacob3162 Actually, It's... _Hot Potato Off His Drawers, _*_PLUCK TO_*_ Make Amends_
@@bencarolan1430 Thanks!
Trust
So funny so you mean by the Scottish play you mean Macbeth lol 😂
*"Aahhhhh. Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends."*
@@aleksandarvil5718 OUCH!
what is all this hullabaloo about this shouting screaming and yelling blue murder? Its like this play we saw. What's it called?
@@jenniferwills9752 *"Macbeth?!?"*
@@aleksandarvil5718 AAAHHHH!!!!
HOT POTATO ORCHESTRA HALLS PUCK WILL MAKE AMENDS! OUCH!
No it was called Julius Ceasar
@@jenniferwills9752 Of Course Julius Caesar!
*not M A C B E T H !!!*
Peter O'Toole and Richard Harris.
its kennenth connor and hugh paddick
I was hoping it would be Leonardo DiCaprio & Daniel Day-Lewis. 😆
*#Macbeth*
Monsieur Alfonse
Episode?
Sense and Senility (ep. 4)
Good job I'm not an actor, so I can say MacBETH!
AHHH! HOT POTATO ORCHESTRA HALLS PUCK WILL MAKE AMENDS OUCH
AHHH!!!!! HOT POTATO ORCHESTRA HALLS PUCK WILL MAKE AMENDS OUCH
Macbeth
March 2021 😂😂😂
Will there be a series five because rowan has say blackadder could return in the future?Will rowan third play edmund third father or son?
I heard it would have been about Briton's music industry in the 60s.
If there were to be a new series, it could be about Russia invading Ukraine.
I wrote a scene along those lines a few months ago.
I'll paste it below in case anyone wants to read it.
This is a paste of a new version of Blackadder I wrote a few months ago, based on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Blackadder is Lord Putler (Putin) and Baldrick is General Baldrick, the head Russian Army General, in charge of the war in Ukraine.
"I have a CUNNING plan my Lord!"
"Oh really General Baldrick, and what, pray tell, is your cunning plan this time?"
"Let's put ALL our munitions in a BIG pile next to the railroad track."
"Oh I see Baldrick, in other words, your 'cunning plan' is the same as the last thirty-two and a half cunning plans that you've already had in the past six months?"
"No my Lord. There's more this time!"
"Oh I see. And would this brilliant addition to your plan be to put the same three sad little pine branches over the top of the WHOPPING GREAT ENORMOUS munitions pile that you're going to place next to the railway line it came on...in hopes that the Ukrainians will mistake your obvious munitions pile for a great big whopping national forest instead?"
"No my Lord. My cunning plan this time is to disguise the great whopping munitions pile as a great whopping munitions pile. And put a great big electric sign next to it with the words, 'GREAT BIG WHOPPING MUNITIONS PILE!! DROP BOMBS HERE!' That way the Ukrainians will be sure to think it's a great big national forest! And we'll be SURE to win your 'not a war' in Ukraine"
"General Baldrick, come here with me a moment."
"Yes, my Lord?"
"I want you to look out this great enormous open window on the 25th floor for a moment." 😂👌
I have the ultimate edition DVD box set, and there's a featurette in it where Tony said that it could've been in the 1960s where Baldrick is a Ringo Starr-type drummer named "Bald Rick," but Tim said he didn't think they should because of everyone's memories of the originals.
Plus supposedly Blackadder Back And Forth was the final one as he was now King of England with Baldrick as the Prime Minister.
There should be one during the time of Edward VIII
LoooooooooooL
Poor actors... ;)
this is Azkaban!
Bad editing
Macbeth
Hot Potato! Off his doors! Puck will make amends! AHH!!
Macbeth
Aaargh! Hot potato. Orchestra stalls. Puck will make amends. Ow!!