Blackadder Goes Forth (TV Series)
Private Plane (1989)
Stephen Fry: General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
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Quotes
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General Melchett : If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.
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General Melchett : [explaining why they can't rescue Captain Blackadder] Now George, you remember when I came down to visit you when you were a nipper, for your sixth birthday? You used to have a lovely little rabbit, beautiful little thing, do you remember?
Lieutenant George : Flossie.
General Melchett : That's right, Flossie! Do you remember what happened to Flossie?
Lieutenant George : You shot him.
General Melchett : That's right! It was the kindest thing to do after he'd been run over by that car.
Lieutenant George : By *your* car, sir.
General Melchett : Yes, by my car. But that, too, was an act of mercy when you remember that that dog had been set on him.
Lieutenant George : *Your* dog, sir.
General Melchett : Yes, yes, my dog. But what I'm trying to say, George, is that the state young Flossie was in after we'd scraped him off my front tyre, is very much the state that young Blackadder will be in now: if not very nearly dead, then very actually dead!
Lieutenant George : Permission for lip to wobble, sir?
General Melchett : Permission granted.
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[last lines]
Captain Blackadder : I was wondering whether, after being tortured by the most vicious sadist in the German army, I might be allowed a week's leave to recuperate.
General Melchett : Excellent idea. Your commanding officer would have to be stark raving mad to refuse you.
Captain Blackadder : You are my commanding officer.
General Melchett : Well?
Captain Blackadder : Can I have a week's leave to recuperate, sir?
General Melchett : Certainly not!
Captain Blackadder : Thank you sir.
General Melchett : Baaa!
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Gen. Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett : Now then, then now, now then, then, then, then now.
[pause]
Gen. Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett : Now then, what's all the fuss about?
