And another: When Harry Morgan made his first appearance, playing Major General Steele, what was the song he sang at the court martial when he finally went completely insane?
(Trivia about that episode: Gary Burghoff and Alan Alda have both said that Morgan’s comic timing in that episode necessitated several takes because nobody could keep a straight face around him; they were used to him from Dragnet and other character roles but had never seen him do comedy and it cracked everybody up.)
He was dreaming about riding horses on his childhood home (though it was in Korea in the dream) and heard his mother calling him. When he woke up he made a comment similar to “I thought I was finally going to have one of her biscuits again.”
Klinger is outside a diner in Toledo and looks in the window to see Potter and nurses operating on somebody. The patient being operated turns his head and it’s Klinger.
I remember watching that episode when it first came out. I was surprised that there weren’t more accusations of “blasphemy” for Mulcahy’s dream (the Crucifix). My mother made a comment about Margaret’s dream that I thought was good but I’m not sure if it was intentional on the part of the writers: she was in a wedding gown tending soldiers, getting it progressively bloodier. When the camera pulled away her wedding gown was soaked in blood at the abdomen. My mother made the comment “It’s like she’s sympathizing with the mothers of the soldiers who felt like the war had ripped their babies from their stomach.” A bit crude and heavy handed, but still interesting.
Klinger had to wear a rubber reducing suit for a specified period of time, I think it was 48 hours. He missed it by one hour and got in the tub with Hot Lips.
Dad was dead and the money he left went toward drying out Mom and her legal fees (she was a klepto when sober). Later on, Dad alive but divorced and the two got back together for the big party for the 4077[sup]th[/sup]'s relatives.
The overweight sergeant won (name?) because Penobscott backed into a camouflage net.