Blackadder Goes Forth1989

General Melchett:
[explaining why they can't rescue Captain Blackadder] Now George, you remember when I came down to visit you when you were a nipper, for your sixth birthday? You used to have a lovely little rabbit, beautiful little thing, do you remember?

Lieutenant George:
Flossie.

General Melchett:
That's right, Flossie! Do you remember what happened to Flossie?

Lieutenant George:
You shot him.

General Melchett:
That's right! It was the kindest thing to do after he'd been run over by that car.

Lieutenant George:
By *your* car, sir.

General Melchett:
Yes, by my car. But that, too, was an act of mercy when you remember that that dog had been set on him.

Lieutenant George:
*Your* dog, sir.

General Melchett:
Yes, yes, my dog. But what I'm trying to say, George, is that the state young Flossie was in after we'd scraped him off my front tyre, is very much the state that young Blackadder will be in now: if not very nearly dead, then very actually dead!

Lieutenant George:
Permission for lip to wobble, sir?

General Melchett:
Permission granted.