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{{Use British English|date=September 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
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| series = [[Blackadder]]
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| series_no = 2
| episode = 4
| writer = [[Ben Elton]] [[Richard Curtis]]
| director = Mandie Fletcher
| airdate = {{Start date|1986|02|06|df=yes}}
| guests = [[Ronald Lacey]] - The Bishop of Bath and Wells Cassie Stuart - Molly [[Lesley Nicol (actor)|Lesley Nicol]] - Mrs. Pants John Pierce Jones - Arthur the Sailor [[Tony Aitken]] - Poor Tom{{Discuss|section=Tom|text=Disputed - Discuss}} [[Philip Pope]]- Leonardo Acropolis Piers Ibbotson - Messenger Barry Craine - Mr. Pants
| next = [[Beer (Blackadder)|Beer]]
| prev = [[Potato (Blackadder)|Potato]]
}}

"'''Money'''" is the fourth episode of the [[BBC]] sitcom ''[[Blackadder II]]'', the second series of ''[[Blackadder]]'', which was set in [[Elizabethan era|Elizabethan England]] from 1558 to 1603.

==Plot==
[[Edmund Blackadder, Lord Blackadder|Blackadder]] is visited by the baby-eating [[Bishop of Bath and Wells]], who reminds him that he owes £1,000 to the Bank of the Black Monks. The Bishop threatens to sodomise Blackadder with a hot poker if he does not repay the money.

[[Lord Percy Percy|Lord Percy]] offers his savings to Blackadder, but Blackadder has already long since found Percy's hiding place and spent his money. Blackadder has only £85 to his name, which he loses to the Queen following a bet she had about him with Melchett.

Blackadder tries selling [[Baldrick]] into prostitution, but makes only a sixpence from a sailor named Arthur, which the Queen also takes. Percy then tries to produce gold using [[alchemy]], but only manages to produce a mysterious green substance.

Deciding to sell his house, Blackadder bullies a couple into paying him £1,100, but is again tricked out of this by the Queen.

Blackadder is then visited again by the Bishop, who prepares to carry out his threat for Blackadder not paying his debts. Before he does so, the Bishop drinks some wine offered to him by Baldrick, which Blackadder has drugged, and falls unconscious.

The Bishop is later woken up by Blackadder, who reveals a painting made of the Bishop in a highly-compromising position with another figure. He uses this to successfully blackmail the Bishop into writing off the debt and giving Blackadder enough money to buy back his house. The Bishop is impressed by the treachery and asks Blackadder who the other figure is, at which point Blackadder reveals Lord Percy.

== Cast ==
* [[Rowan Atkinson]] as [[Edmund Blackadder, Lord Blackadder|Lord Edmund Blackadder]]
* [[Tim McInnerny]] as [[Lord Percy Percy]]
* [[Tony Robinson]] as [[Baldrick]]
* [[Miranda Richardson]] as [[Queenie (Blackadder)|Queen Elizabeth I]]
* [[Stephen Fry]] as [[List of Blackadder characters#Melchett|Lord Melchett]]
* [[Patsy Byrne]] as [[Nursie]]
* [[Ronald Lacey]] as the Bishop of Bath and Wells
* Cassie Stuart as Molly
* [[Lesley Nicol (actress)|Lesley Nicol]] as Mrs. Pants
* [[John Pierce Jones]] as Arthur the Sailor
* [[Tony Aitken]] as the Mad Beggar
* [[Philip Pope]] as Leonardo Acropolis
* Piers Ibbotson as the Messenger
* Barry Craine as Mr. Pants

==Legacy==
* [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/3660275/Bishop-of-Bath-and-Wells-Lingering-torment-of-Blackadder.html ''Bishop of Bath and Wells' Lingering torment of Blackadder''], from the Telegraph (7 Dec 2008)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Wikiquote|Blackadder#Money|Money}}
* {{BBC episode|b0078vyl|Money}}
* {{IMDb episode|0526719}}

{{Blackadder}}

[[Category:Blackadder episodes]]
[[Category:1986 British television episodes]]
[[Category:Television shows written by Ben Elton]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Elizabeth I]]
[[Category:Television shows written by Richard Curtis]]