Goodbyeee

Episode aired Nov 2, 1989
TV-PGTV-PG
30min

9.4/10

S1.E6

Blackadder pretends that he's insane to avoid certain death carrying out the General's order for the "big push".Blackadder pretends that he's insane to avoid certain death carrying out the General's order for the "big push".Blackadder pretends that he's insane to avoid certain death carrying out the General's order for the "big push".

9.4/10

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Director
- Richard Boden(uncredited)
Writers
- Richard Curtis(by)
- Ben Elton(by)
Stars

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Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie in Blackadder Goes Forth (1989)

Tim McInnerny in Blackadder Goes Forth (1989)

Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson in Blackadder Goes Forth (1989)

Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder Goes Forth (1989)

Stephen Fry and Tim McInnerny in Blackadder Goes Forth (1989)

After years of futile trench warfare, General Melchett gives the order for the "big push": a suicidal charge across the battlefield towards hundreds of German machine guns. Desperate to avoid participating, Captain Blackadder hatches a plan to convince his superiors that he has gone insane and therefore cannot go into combat. —Murray Chapman

punched in the face faked insanity poncho rain

Trivia
Hugh Laurie said that filming was sad because "even for comic effect, we were representing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people".

Goofs
When Darling gives his "bugger" line toward the end, he's still wearing an overcoat. After a two-second cut to Blackadder's response, we see Darling again, now without the overcoat.

Quotes
Private Baldrick: I have a plan, sir.
Captain Blackadder: Really, Baldrick? A cunning and subtle one?
Private Baldrick: Yes, sir.
Captain Blackadder: As cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?
Private Baldrick: Yes, sir.
Captain Blackadder: Well, I'm afraid it'll have to wait. Whatever it was, I'm sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would have noticed another madman round here?
Captain Blackadder: [whistle blows] Good luck, everyone.

Crazy credits
This episode has no closing credits, save for the title "Blackadder" (not "Blackadder Goes Forth" and the copyright date, over a field of poppies.

Connections
Featured in Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga (2008)

Top review

10/10

Genius

Just Wow.. wouldn't change a second of this episode. If you really watch and I mean really watch around the comedy aspect of it. It says it all about the mindset and general moral of the various type of ranked men from lower class to upper class that fought in the worst war of the 'modern era'. Never again please.

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