# Blackadder and Dr. Johnson: Contrafibularities and the Dictionary

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2110365067178840515
- Source account: [@For_Film_Fans](https://x.com/For_Film_Fans)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:20
- Published: 2026-10-15
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary) Not object if I also offer the doctor my most enthusiastic contrafibularities Contrafibularities, sir?

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=9) It is a common word down our way. Damn. Oh, I'm sorry, sir.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=15) I am anestpeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=24) What? What? What are you on about, Blackadder?

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=27) This is all beginning to sound a bit like Dago talk to me.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=30) I'm sorry, sir. I merely wished to congratulate the doctor on not having left out a single word.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=37) Shall I fetch the tea, Your Highness? Yes, yes, and, and get that damn fire up here, will you?

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=41) Certainly, sir. I shall return interphrastically.

[0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=48) So, Dr. Johnson, sit you down. Now, this book of yours.

[0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=52) Tell me, what's it all about? It is a book about the English language, sir.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=57) I see. And the hero's name is what? There is no hero, sir.

[1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=62) No hero? Well, lucky I reminded you. Better put one in, pronto.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=66) Um, call him George. George is a good name for a hero.

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=70) Uh, now, what about heroines? There is no heroine, sir, unless it is our mother tongue.

[1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=75) Ugh. The mother's the heroine? Nice twist.

[1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=78) So how far have we got then? Old Mother Tongue is in love with George, the hero.

[1:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=82) Now, what about murders? Mother Tongue doesn't get murdered, does she?

[1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=85) No, she doesn't. No one gets murdered, or married, or in a tricky situation over a pound note.

[1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=90) Well, now, look, Dr. Johnson, I may be as thick as a whale omelet- ... but even I know a book's gotta have a plot.

[1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=98) Not this one, sir. It is a book that tells you what English words mean.

[1:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=103) I know what English words mean. I speak English.

[1:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=106) You must be a bit of a thicko. Perhaps you would rather not be patron of my book if you can see no value in it whatsoever, sir.

[1:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=113) Well, perhaps so, sir, as it sounds to me as if my being patron of this complete cowpat of a book- ... will set the seal once and for all on my reputation as an utter turnip head.

[2:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=123) Well, it is a reputation well deserved, sir. Farewell.

[2:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=130) Leaving already, doctor? Not staying for your pendigestatory interludecule?

[2:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/Bh3vdTBwIZ6N/en/blackadder-and-dr-johnson-contrafibularities-and-the-dictionary?t=137) No, sir. Show me out. Certainly, sir.