So. When searching the dark corners of YouTube I found a very ... interesting thing.
A 1940s The Adventures of The Scarlet Pimpernel TV series starring ...
On YouTube
here
Marius Goring
... I've decided he looks like a puppy in need of home and a mother ...
... mostly because the series DOSE'NT EVEN HAVE MARGUERITE.
WHAT.
NO.
But, for the sake of the fact that it WAS the pimpernel, I suffered through the first episode ...
*loud intro that is actually really catchy*
Our first look at Percy has him obviously in bed gear looking out into a mob while he calming recites that infamous piece of prose ...
"They seek 'em ..."
Ok, I'm done.
I let out a rather pathetic screech and stopped the video for a full minute in my surprise, I admit, BUT ...
THIS HAD TO BE INVESTIGATED.
... second look ... Sir Percy Blakeney, everyone!
*cue gigantic yawn*
*WIG ALERT* WHAT IS THAT ON YER HEAD, PERCY? PERCY???? PERCY??!?!
The cast, however, was'nt bad, considering the rather different choice of Percy...
Chauvelin
(he's AMAZING ... I have to say, this guy nails him ... he's got a voice that sounds like he's been gargling with rocks so that's makes it cool)
the adorable Prince of Wales
Ffoukles
Hastings ... Oh help
I was hooked. I COULDNT NOT BE, IT WAS SO BAD IT BECAME GOOD.
Thankfully, that odious wig from the first episode got exchanged for a fluffy one that resembles a baby lamb ...
*wild sheep bleating in background*
He's rather adorable ... ain't he? In a sad, puppy-dog sorta way ...
"Seriously, Hasting? Are you an idiot? You didn't even pack a hat like mine? Idiot. You'll be thrown out of Paris for looking badly dressed, not being part of the league..."
dat hat tho
... playing like their drunk ... he's actually teaching Hastings to sing at this point after he was talking to a horse and got offended that it wouldn't talk back
"'m not speaking to this horse anymore. He's not talking, Blakeney..."
"Well, of course, he's a horse."
"Who me?"
"Yes, you."
*encore ENCORE!!*
Here's a disgruntled Percy with his head in a towel explaining to Chah Chah he can't be the pimpernel and yelling at Ffoukle's to share the blankets
more complaining ...
Then he ends up kicking poor Hastings off of the bed
(...who freaking wrote these scripts? they deserve a prize)
Percy disguised as a Chinese official ... Chauevelin seriously rethinking his career choice
Chances ambassador Percy and Ffoukles fighting over stuff
... while Ffoukles keeps the REAl Chinses dude happy with a card game he's loosing
Percy doesn't wanna go to the guillotine...
There's this episode where he saves this sweet peasant girl and treats her like a literal princess and she can't repay him in any way but IT'S THE CUTEST THING EVER
But then when she's back safe at English court he get's his lace stuck in her bracelet and she knows it's him ...
Can he just talk about how pathetically adorable his face is, HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE HIM??!?!?
... plus that outlandish boast of having 1,329 cravats! ehehe!
helping Princey-pooh with his cravat
judging Ffoukles's outfit
a very sad little puppy and his fat friend who thinks everything is hilarious
wait. nope. not sad anymore ...
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| ... oh gah, that's when the wig was'nt sheep wool .... ack |
The funniest thing about these is the fact Percy always is visiting Chauevelin and never is suspected ... EVER. While the people he saves get sent back to English court and ALWAYS figure out it's him ...
and he tends to go in half shadow when speaking to people
example
ahahahahahahhahaha ... i don't know why it's so funny but it is
... then that wild episode where John Adams makes an appearance and I'm all "WHAT THE??!??!!" and the other chap's sister (also american) is playing like she's the pimpernel so Percy goes and saves her because she gets captured then they all have Thanksgiving dinner ... gah.
Way to get American audiences interested, Britain, ha ha ha
teaching Chauvelin how to sweep a chimney ... don't even ask, don't. even.
... then he starts playing with the gear *eh eh eh*
Monsieur Grumpy Guillotine
The Christmas special had me in glee ... the cutest one, besides The Princess
Percy goes off to save four of French nobility, nothing to it, boring, boring, *yawn* ... but what he didn't know they were all little children
... honest, these are some of the cutest kid actors EVER.
So he proceeds to paint there faces like they got the plague ...
*adorable AWWWWWs*
Then he takes them all back to Blakeney manor and surprises his housekeeper with them ... hahah!
(yes, that's a donkey)
the prince of wales as Santa to surprise Blakeney
Percy's singing a solo of The 12 Days of Christmas ... he can sing, the guy's got good pipes, not laughing at the fact he does full actions for it like some VBS program ...
judging on people's outfits
He's an idiot
Percy's doing the thing. Ffoukles doesn't want him doing the thing.
HAH. Percy? PERCY? What are you doing? YOU'RE THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL, Percy ...
... basically, he goes around making faces at French guards
HIS. HAIR.
Did they put it up in curlers? HEHEHEH! BECAUSE LOOK AT IT.
Percy schmoozing the ladies ... while Ffoukles chokes on his scones
"I told you you shouldn't have had three in one sitting, Ffoukles..."
stealing drugs ... gosh, Percy
singing big bad Chauvelin to sleep
THIS
Percy's foot
sleepy little babies
ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz ...
*sharpens knife to use on Chauevelin while pretending to be peasant*
BE OUURRR GUEST, BE OUR GUEST, GET GUOLLINTINED AND REST...
Sorry.
He's serving chicken, by the way ...
"There are some people, sir, you prefer a noble shadow to a useless substance."
Sassy girl is sassy.
Percy is all "Zounds, I think she out sasses m' self!"
"An then he tricked me with a disguise that a child could've figured out ... again ..."
"Oh, dats too bad, citizen."
Percy contemplates heroic and deemed elusive stuffs...
Hastings ain't going for it ...
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| LOOK AT HIM. He's grumpy cat ... |
Grumpy Guillotine again
