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| Potter again shows his ability to paint quickly and/or without the subject noticing. |
CBS
February 9, 1981
Dramedy
DVD
B-
Alda directed this Wilcox & Mumford script that has Klinger smart enough to con the camp into sponsoring and contributing to his newspaper (e.g. $5/month or $75/year), and yet dumb enough to say "the Wurlitzer Prize" and mix Margaret's beauty column with Charles's gourmet column. I would've gone with a C+, but I like the title plot more, with Hawkeye using some of the accidentally delivered half a million tongue depressors to build a monument as a protest, and then resisting being co-opted by the press and a recruitment drive. I particularly like Hawkeye's comparison of the 4077th's past and present staff (except Radar) to interchangeable parts, like tongue depressors, as far as the Army is concerned.
David Dozer (this time the Delivery Man), Jeff Maxwell (Straminsky, and apparently now actually the cook), and Kellye Nakahara (Yamato) return. If William "Bill" Bogert looks familiar as Capt. Maurice Allen, it may be that you saw him as Brandon Brindle on Small Wonder (the '80s preteen-girl-robot sitcom that Soap's Marla Pennington ended up on), or you saw his 1964 anti-Goldwater ad and/or 2016 anti-Trump ad, or you saw him as Roger Prescott in an earlier M*A*S*H episode. He would be Muffy's father on Square Pegs.
This is the 1400th program I've reviewed, and we've got lots more on the way.
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