"Corporal Punishment"' is the second episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, the fourth season 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 via the telephone system, presumably 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 message however, it turns out that shooting pigeons is now punishable by court-martial, and Blackadder decides to eat the evidence, telling Baldrick and George that if anyone asks any questions, he should tell them that Blackadder didn't...
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