this baldrick also has cunning plans that, contrary to most of those of his descendants, mostly work. for instance, when edmund seeks to kill dougal mcangus, baldrick suggests that he gets a cannon, takes mcangus outside, makes him stick his head down the cannon and then blow it off. edmund scoffs at this, and instead tries to kill mcangus using several different "cunning plans" of his own. after having failed miserably with all of these, he resorts to using baldrick's original plan, which works.