EBENEZER BLACKADDER: HA! Got him with my subtle plan!
BALDRICK: I can’t see any subtle plan!
EBENEZER BLACKADDER: Baldrick, you wouldn’t see a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord, singing “Subtle plans are here again!”

Richard Curtis (b. 1956) English screenwriter

Blackadder’s Christmas Carol (1988)

(with Ben Elton)