Blackadder is a British historical sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson as Edmund Blackadder, a cunning but often unlucky schemer whose plans rarely survive contact with reality. The series ran across four series in the 1980s, each set in a different historical period, and its dry, literate humour gave it a lasting cult following. Short lines like this one later spread through soundboards and reaction videos, where Blackadder's resigned tone fits modern fail and frustration edits far beyond the original television audience.