Lord Topper (played by Tim McInnerny), is an extremely irritating friend of Prince George. He is offered the chance to go and rescue a French aristocrat by Blackadder, but he refuses. He then disguises himself as Le Compte de Frou Frou and is 'rescued' by Blackadder and Baldrick. After being captured by an evil revolutionary and escaping, he reveals himself to be Topper and, coincidentally, one half of the Scarlet Pimpernel, the other half being his friend, Lord Smedley, who had already been killed by a suicide pill given to him by Blackadder. When he is about to tell George the truth about his 'rescue', he is also killed the same way as Smedley, by Blackadder slipping a suicide pill into his wine.