I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

Connolly’s line is a characteristically deadpan bit of observational comedy built on incongruity. Switzerland is stereotyped as orderly, neutral, and militarily prepared, while the “wee red knives” evoke the iconic Swiss Army knife—small, neat, and domesticated compared with real weapons. By pretending to take the product name literally (“what the army does with” them), he punctures the marketing myth and highlights the absurdity of imagining a modern army equipped with tiny multi-tools. The humor also plays on Scottish vernacular (“wee”) to make the image more intimate and ridiculous, turning geopolitics into a toy-sized curiosity.