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"Captain Cook" is the first episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, the fourth series of the BBC sitcom...

"Captain Cook" is the first episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, the fourth series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder. When Field Marshall Haig unveils his new strategy to advance on the German trenches (or as Blackadder puts it, to "move his drinks cabinet six inches closer to Berlin"), Blackadder volunteers to be the Official War Artist. The episode starts with Blackadder and Baldrick discussing Baldrick's latest feeble cunning plan: namely, Baldrick carving his name on a bullet to get around the fact that 'there's a bullet with his name on it'. Lt. George enters and provides Blackadder with two things: a copy of King and Country (a propaganda magazine Blackadder says is about as convincing as Doctor Crippin's defence lawyer and that he uses it as toilet paper), and a new service revolver...one Blackadder never sent off for, as well as some trench ladders that according to Baldrick were used as fuel, since they burnt the cat. Blackadder smells something fishy ("and I'm not talking about the contents of Baldrick's apple crumble."), and deduces that an advance against the Germans is imminent (as Blackadder puts it 'another gargantuan effort by Field Marshall Haig to move his drinks cabinet