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Nursie is a caricature of the doting nursery maid or nanny, who at the drop of a hat launches into long disquisitions on her charge's brilliance and wit, and intended as a parody of Juliet's Nurse in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, as the nurse also admits to being something of a fool, proclaiming, " were not I thine only nurse, I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat.
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* Bernard, a character from Blackadder II, who is usually only called by her title: Nursie
* In Blackadder II, Nursie, the Queen's childhood nurse, is commonly perceived as being a perpetual wet nurse: “ In the old days, it was all difficult choices.
Nursie ( real name " Bernard ") is a fictional character in the second series of the popular BBC sitcom Blackadder II.
Once Queenie's childhood nurse, by the time of her appearances in Blackadder II, Nursie is either senile or otherwise irreversibly stupid, but remains at court at the side of the Queen.
Nursie is apparently unmarried, as in the episode " Potato " she accepts a proposal of marriage from Captain Redbeard Rum ( played by Tom Baker ), though he is killed before the marriage can take place.
Nursie demonstrates her medical training by explaining that when one's head has been cut off, the best treatment is " ointment ".
Rum is later eaten by cannibals while on a voyage, and while Nursie is initially upset at the news, the recovery of his beard cheers her greatly.
Nursie is killed, along with the rest of the cast, at the end of the episode.
Nursie is present at the meeting of the late-twentieth century incarnation of Blackadder when he time-travels back to her era and introduces the humble polo mint to the court.
However, once he makes his extravagant last-minute entrance to Blackadder's wedding and throws Percy through the door, he flirts outrageously with The Queen, Nursie and even Baldrick, who is dressed as a bridesmaid (" Thanks bridesmaid.
Probably the most famous of these is Nursie in the popular BBC sitcom Blackadder II.
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During the series, he often comes into contact with the Queen, her obsequious Lord Chamberlain Lord Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) with whom he has a rivalry, and the Queen's demented former nanny Nursie ( Patsy Byrne ).
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" Nursie finds out that her bottom might be big enough to be " forced ' twixt two splintered planks, to plug a leak and save a ship " and gets engaged to the man who said it, Captain Redbeard Rum, despite his having " no legs and a beard you could lose a badger in ".
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The Ghost of Christmas Past gives Ebenezer Blackadder a glimpse of his ancestor Lord Blackadder at the Court of Queen Elizabeth, and Nursie also makes an appearance.
Blackadder and Baldrick land at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, with Nursie ( Patsy Byrne ) and Lord Melchett at her side.
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In a bout of absurdism quite typical of Nursie, on hearing of his death she takes his beard, attaches it to her own face and swears to " wear it always " as an act of remembrance.
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The Queen always holds court in the company of her deranged former nurse, Nursie ( Patsy Byrne ) and the obsequious Lord Melchett ( Stephen Fry ).
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Queenie later admits that it was " very naughty ", to which Nursie responds:
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Actors, Patsy Byrne ( Nursie in the sitcom Blackadder II ), Mark Rylance and Alex Arnold from Skins were born in the area, with other personalities from the town including satirist John Wells from That Was The Week That Was and Bob Holness, a television presenter.
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Opper drew influential political cartoons supporting Hearst's campaign against the " trusts " with characters " Willie and Teddy ", depicting William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, " Willie and his Papa ", satirizing McKinley and " Papa Trusts ", and " Nursie ", a depiction of Cleveland industrialist Mark Hanna.
In the millennium special Blackadder: Back & Forth ( 1999 ), a time traveling Blackadder and Baldrick arrive in the Elizabethan Age and are confronted by Queenie ( Richardson ), Melchet, and Nursie.
Nursie frequently embarrasses herself by openly recounting tales of the Queen's childhood, prompting Queenie's standard reply of " Shut up, Nursie.
Nursie announces that she intends to come to the Queen's fancy-dress party as either " a bit of wood " or a pencil.
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