Catching Ducks

From "Nob and Nobility" (episode 3.3):


[Blackadder and Baldrick are facing execution.]

Blackadder: Am I jumping the gun, Baldrick, or are the words "I have a cunning plan" marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation?

Baldrick: They certainly are, sir!

Blackadder: Well, forgive me if I don't do a cartwheel of joy. Your record in this department is hardly 100%. So what is it?

Baldrick: We do nothing.

Blackadder: Yup. It's another world-beater!

Baldrick: No, wait. We do nothing... until our heads have actually been cut off.

Blackadder: And then we... spring into action?

Baldrick: Exactly! You know how when you cut a chicken's head off, it runs round and round the farmyard and then out the gate?

Blackadder: [haltingly] Yyyyyyyeah...?

Baldrick: Well, we wait until our heads have been cut off, then we run round and round, out the gate, and escape! What do you think?

Blackadder: My opinions are rather difficult to express in words, Baldrick. So perhaps I can put it this way... [tweaks Baldrick's nose]

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