Blackadder Goes Forth Goodbyeee (1989) watch online HD

In the last three series of "Blackadder," all of the episodes of a particular series have titles that fit a pattern: all of the episodes of Blackadder - Zweiter Teil (1986) have single-word titles; all of the episodes of Blackadder - Dritter Teil (1987) have titles of the form "X and Y"; the first five episodes of "Blackadder Goes Forth" all have a military rank in their titles. "Goodbyeeee" is the only episode in the last three series that has a title that does not fit the pattern.

The title is based on the popular First World War song "Good-bye-ee!", written and composed by R.P. Weston and Bert Lee. The duo got the idea for the song while watching a group of factory girls calling out goodbyes to soldiers going to London Victorian station, and to war. The girls were using the word in an exaggerated way, which had been popularized as a catchphrase by the comedian of the time Harry Tate.

There are no closing credits. Instead, guest star Geoffrey Palmer, playing Field Marshal Earl Douglas Haig, is credited at the beginning.

During the filming of the episode, which took place before a studio audience at BBC Television Centre, Rowan Atkinson described sharing his character's dread of impending death and feeling a "knot in the pit of my stomach", something that he had never experienced.

Hugh Laurie said that filming was sad because "even for comic effect, we were representing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people".

The piano version of the theme tune was performed by Howard Goodall and recorded in a gymnasium, giving it what John Lloyd described as a "liquid, lonely sound".

Ben Elton was primarily responsible for the sequence in which Blackadder explains how the First World War started.

The running gag of Baldrick using mud and bodily fluids to make coffee throughout the episode was greatly expanded during rehearsals.

Regarding Geoffrey Palmer, the producer John Lloyd said "[We] probably could have given [him] more attention", calling him "a wonderful actor" who is "really just delivering three or four plot lines [pieces of dialogue essential to the plot]".

John Lloyd cited the episode's lack of another major character as the reason they had time to "explore the relationships of the five principal people".

Rowan Atkinson said that the scene involving Darling's "ghastly realisation" of his commission was "very sad"; John Lloyd commented "I love the fact that Captain Darling does have some compassion; he's not just a bureaucrat". They noted that "all the comedy just goes away" upon Darling's arrival in the trench, and that "there are still funny moments, but dramatically there's no comic content, it's just leading inexorably to the end."

The only episode not have closing credits.

Blackadder attempts to feign madness by wearing underpants on his head and sticking two pencils up his nose. This plan was based on Rowan Atkinson's habit of sticking pencils up his nose to entertain his castmates during read-throughs and script editing sessions.

Originally, the finale was going to end with Blackadder, Baldrick, George and Darling jumping out from the trench and then getting shot dead instantly. They thought better of it and replaced it with the fade-out ending that won a poll in the UK in 2004 as the best ever farewell of a TV series.

The ending was filmed on a polystyrene landscape with no rehearsal, and as a result the cast bounced visibly as they fell down dead, ruining the poignancy of the scene. This was rectified by slowing the film down and fading into a post-battle shot of No Man's Land littered with corpses, followed by the final fade into a shot of a poppy field. Tim McInnerny has said that he hadn't known about this change prior to airing, and so he found it particularly emotional.

The very last scene of the episode is a sunlit field of poppies, a reference to the famous poem "In Flanders Fields" ("In Flanders fields the poppies blow..."). This poem was written during World War I by Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. He, like Blackadder and Co, did not make it out of the war.

In a 2005 BBC documentary series showcasing some of Britain's favourite sitcoms, The Blackadder edition of the series, presented by John Sergeant, revealed that the original ending of this series had Baldrick, George, Darling and the troops under Blackadder's command unambiguously killed. Blackadder himself only feigned death and was the only survivor.

There are no credits. It is left ambiguous as to whether the protagonists survive, although the part of the script describing how the characters rush over the edge of the trench also states that "They will not get far."

Comparing the ending scene to those of previous series in which the main characters were also killed, Richard Curtis commented that "I think it was by chance that [previous series] ended with Blackadder being killed ... but series four, we did do it very much on purpose." He said that he and Ben Elton felt they could use the First World War as a setting if the characters died, considering "if we did do that ... it would not be too disrespectful, and would actually represent some of the tragedy of the First World War".