It's Garry Shandling's Show: Mr. Smith Goes to Nam

It's Garry Shandling's Show: Mr. Smith Goes to Nam
Showtime
March 18, 1988
Sitcom
VHS
B-

This Season-Two closer was the last TV appearance of Gilda Radner, who'd die in May of the next year.  The title thread has to do with Leonard recognizing Gilda's nurse, Blake Cumbers (Blake Clark, who was 2nd MP on M*A*S*H and had actually played a couple earlier roles on IGSS).  Leonard feels guilty for not defending Blake and the rest of the squad against the Viet Cong twenty years earlier.  As Garry notices early on, the episode is meandering, and we never do find out what happens with his Sea Monkeys.

David Greenlee, who plays Young Leonard Smith, would be a Checkout Clerk on Roseanne.  This is the second of two IGSS stories written by Richard Day, who would do seven for Ellen.