Corporal Punishment

"Corporal Punishment" is the second episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, the fourth series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder. Orders for Operation Insanity arrive and Blackadder breaches regulations by eating the messenger. Can the "Flanders Pigeon Murderer" avoid the firing squad? Captain Blackadder receives numerous calls to the wrong number via the telephone system before finally having a call with orders to advance. Mocking the apparently bad line, h... more

"Corporal Punishment" is the second episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, the fourth series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder. Orders for Operation Insanity arrive and Blackadder breaches regulations by eating the messenger. Can the "Flanders Pigeon Murderer" avoid the firing squad? Captain Blackadder receives numerous calls to the wrong number via the telephone system before finally having a call with orders to advance. Mocking the apparently bad line, he manages to avoid going over the top. After receiving a telegram from HQ which he dismisses being for a man called Catpain Blackudder, he shoots a carrier pigeon, justifying his actions to a protesting Lieutenant George by saying, "Come on, George. With fifty-thousand men getting killed a week, who's going to miss a pigeon?" Upon inspection of the pigeon's message however, it turns out that shooting carrier pigeons has become a punishable offence with the result being court-martial, and Blackadder simply decides to eat the evidence for lunch,... less