"Money" is the fourth episode of the BBC sitcom Blackadder II, the second series of Blackadder, which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603.
Blackadder and a cheap prostitute named Molly are disturbed at four in the morning by the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells, who has come to collect on a loan. A year before the episode, Blackadder borrowed one thousand pounds from the Bank of the Black Monks of St. Herod (whose two mottos are ...
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"Money" is the fourth episode of the BBC sitcom Blackadder II, the second series of Blackadder, which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603.
Blackadder and a cheap prostitute named Molly are disturbed at four in the morning by the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells, who has come to collect on a loan. A year before the episode, Blackadder borrowed one thousand pounds from the Bank of the Black Monks of St. Herod (whose two mottos are "Banking with a smile and a stab" and "repayment or revenge"), and the debt is now due. When Blackadder admits that he cannot pay, the Bishop takes him to a graveyard, where they visit the grave of a previous customer: a man from Chelmsford who died painfully of having a spike up his backside. The Bishop informs Blackadder that he has until sundown to raise the money, or he will meet a similar fate.
Since Blackadder only has eighty-five pounds to his name, he has to work quickly to get some more money. Unfortunately, he is interrupted by a...
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