This is one episode that is often forgotten about, probably because the dictionary episode "Ink And Incapability" precedes it. That's a shame because this is a very good episode and sees the return of Tim McInnerny to the show. He'd quit for fear of typecasting but he's back for this episode and will return with a completely different character for series four.
His character is Lord Topper, who with fellow french-man Lord Smedley, challenges Edmund to go to revolutionary France, rescue an aristocrat and present them at the french embassy ball. Edmund doesn't do that. Instead he goes to the shop and collects one, Le Compte De Frou Frou, telling him to play along and he'll get a share of the cash and never have to eat horse-willy again, which I suppose is a plus.
This episode is the ones that mocks 'Le Pimpernelle Scarlette' as Edmund, Baldrick and Frou Frou get locked up by a revolutionary who has killed the ambassador and turned him into pate. Frou Frou is taken away and the next morning Madame Guillotine arrives with the intention to kill the two remaining prisoners.
The excellent reveals from here on out reveal Guillotine to be Smedley in disguise - He's the Scarlet Pimpernel! - only for him to have been got by the pill in the glass routine before the reveal and dying in a rather odd manner. Then we learn that there's a second pimpernel in the form of Topper who is in fact Le Compte De Frou Frou!
I'll end this review with my score: 8/10. Now if you don't mind I'd like to jump into this corner............... ......... .............. ......................................................
His character is Lord Topper, who with fellow french-man Lord Smedley, challenges Edmund to go to revolutionary France, rescue an aristocrat and present them at the french embassy ball. Edmund doesn't do that. Instead he goes to the shop and collects one, Le Compte De Frou Frou, telling him to play along and he'll get a share of the cash and never have to eat horse-willy again, which I suppose is a plus.
This episode is the ones that mocks 'Le Pimpernelle Scarlette' as Edmund, Baldrick and Frou Frou get locked up by a revolutionary who has killed the ambassador and turned him into pate. Frou Frou is taken away and the next morning Madame Guillotine arrives with the intention to kill the two remaining prisoners.
The excellent reveals from here on out reveal Guillotine to be Smedley in disguise - He's the Scarlet Pimpernel! - only for him to have been got by the pill in the glass routine before the reveal and dying in a rather odd manner. Then we learn that there's a second pimpernel in the form of Topper who is in fact Le Compte De Frou Frou!
I'll end this review with my score: 8/10. Now if you don't mind I'd like to jump into this corner............... ......... .............. ......................................................