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| Klinger is darker than he is! |
November 10, 1973
Dramedy
DVD
D+
Larry Gelbart and Laurence Marks wrote this script that just simply doesn't work. Not only that, there are some icky things about it. As the title suggests, Hawkeye writes another omniscient letter to his dad. Among the threads:
- Henry watches a couple home movies his wife sent, feeling sentimental about her and their daughter Molly (he says he's Molly's "boyfriend," which is a bit icky even allowing for the era this is set in), but then later he hits on a nurse and implies that she can be promoted if she goes to his tent (big ick)
- Blake and Pierce remove a grenade from an eighteen-year-old's butt, which is of course disgusting but I'll let it slide since it shows the ugliness of war
- Frank and Margaret argue and slap each other, which turns them on
- A bigoted soldier sees Ginger (Odessa Cleveland) and worries about getting the "wrong color blood." Hawkeye and Trapper decide to paint his skin brown to teach him a lesson. The problem is, he barely looks tan!
The lesson about Dr. Charles Drew is admittedly interesting, and since he died the year before (1950), this should be '51, except that Hawkeye somehow knows that Eisenhower has decided to run for President, an announcement that wasn't made till January of '52. He really is omniscient!
Arthur Abelson, who plays Milt Jaffe, was Harry on That Girl. This time Bobbie Mitchell plays Nurse Gilbert, and Kellye Nakahara is again uncredited as Yamato.
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