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I work for MessageLabs [messagelabs.com] in Toronto, ON, Canada. I write spam filters, MTA software, high performance network software, string matching algorithms, and other cool stuff mostly in Perl and C.
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One of the things I gave my wife for Christmas was the complete set of Blackadder on 4 DVDs (all the episodes in all 4 series, but none of the specials). We're onto the second series now (actually I think tonight we'll see the last episode in Blackadder II), and they are so funny they make me laugh out loud (I've seen them all before - but they're not the type of thing you get sick of seeing again). I think Blackadder is possibly the funniest TV series ever made.
The first series was odd though. It's hard to put a finger on exactly why the first series wasn't funny. It has different writers: Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, whereas later series were all written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton. It focuses a lot more on different characters, whereas later episodes focus more on Blackadder himself. And Blackadder isn't as smarmy in the first series. Still worth watching though.
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
Not as annoying as I thought (Score:1)
By the end of the second season I was a convert. Very funny stuff. I thought they got better with each series.
Blackadder the First (Score:2)
The second season is the highlight for me. Queenie is a brilliant foil for Blackadder, and it was all fresh. Three and four have too many ridiculous metaphors (some brilliant ones too, to be fair: "a p