The episode is as undemandingly amusing as the series ever was; this is a personal issue, but as a European history buff the glaring historical errors had me gritting my teeth. You don't go to a fantasy sitcom for an accurate history lesson, but I'm glad the "Goofs" section caught most of them. One oddity that isn't just historically wrong but contrary to common sense is the scene where Josephine tries to verify Tony's story that Napoleon will divorce her and marry the Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria, and in the next scene we see the Archduchess as a baby (inaccurately, as Goofs points out) in a bassinet. France was a very powerful country, but I find it hard to believe their leader's wife could get the infant princess of a foreign power transported to Paris in a few hours' time just to rebut the claim of some guy in prison.
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Another history tour
kevinolzak26 October 2016
"My Master, Napoleon's Buddy" opens with Tony preparing a lecture on military strategy based on the Napoleonic Wars, so Jeannie naturally blinks him back in time to meet the little corporal (Aram Katcher, who actually played the role once before, in the 1952 feature "Scaramouche"). A formal introduction is met with an order for Tony's execution by General Pichegru (Booth Colman), the man who tried to murder Napoleon, but the little corporal is amused by Major Nelson's stories. It's tough to hear Tony going over future events with the uncomprehending Napoleon, who then believes that Nelson is a Russian spy. Danielle De Metz is well cast as Josephine.
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