When Blackadder, Baldrick and George went over the top on “Blackadder Goes Forth.”
“Blackadder” was well known for placing the (more or less) same main characters in a whole new time period for each season. In its fourth and final year, this tradition took a turn for the gallows, setting the comedy in World War I, during which the characters spend the entire season as British soldiers literally in the trenches. In the series’ iconic final scene, it’s time for the men to go “over the top,” despite many failed attempts to escape their bleak situation. Facing certain death with stiff upper lips and a simple “Good luck, everyone,” the men charge forth as the chaos of cannonfire and images of no-man’s land fade into a final, silent shot of a poppy field.