Poor Baldrick. He always was the last in God’s great chain! He never did find the earwig to victimise either.
You Are The Last In God’s Great Chain
It is the way of the world, Baldrick — the abused always kick downwards. I am annoyed, and so I kick the cat… the cat pounces on the mouse, and, finally the mouse – bites you on the behind.
This Blackadder quote is taken from Series 3. The episode is called Nob and Nobility, and Blackadder somehow finds himself caught up in the French Revolution!
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