mr. baldrick is assistant in ebenezer blackadder's moustache shop. while still stupid, it seems that having to work for the exceedingly gullible mr blackadder has forced him to develop some of the savvy of his earlier ancestors. unlike his previous (and later) ancestors, he has a simile of his own to match blackadder's: "i just wish we weren't doing so well in the 'bit-short-of-pressies-and-feeling-a-gullible-prat' ledger." he remains the only person to be fooled by tiny tom scratchit's alleged lameness, however. he is also possibly the only person ever to spell "christmas" without getting "any" of the letters right (he apparently renders the word as "kwelfnuve" then "corrects" it to "kweznuz").