"Goodbyeee..." is the title of the final episode of the BBC One sitcom Blackadder Goes Forth and was originally the final episode of Blackadder to be produced and transmitted, until the 1999 special Blackadder: Back & Forth was appended to the series. It depicts the final hours of the main characters before a final charge on the Western Front of World War I. It has become immensely popular and well-regarded with both critical and mass audiences; ...
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"Goodbyeee..." is the title of the final episode of the BBC One sitcom Blackadder Goes Forth and was originally the final episode of Blackadder to be produced and transmitted, until the 1999 special Blackadder: Back & Forth was appended to the series. It depicts the final hours of the main characters before a final charge on the Western Front of World War I. It has become immensely popular and well-regarded with both critical and mass audiences; in a 1999 poll held by The Observer and Channel Four to determine what the public thought were the hundred most memorable television moments of all time, the final scene of this episode came ninth. It was first broadcast on 2 November 1989, shortly before Armistice Day.
Millions of civilians and soldiers have died, but the troops have advanced no further than "an asthmatic ant with some heavy shopping". However, the final 'big push' looms – the Battle of Passchendaele.
The episode's title is a reference to the popular World War I song "Good...
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