Henry is at a conference (or so they say) leaving Frank in charge once again. He makes Hawkeye the Officer of the Day which, of course, is a disaster waiting to happen. Radar fills Pierce in on his duties and he does the minimum necessary to keep things going. What happens is that Colonel Flagg, the gung ho intelligence guy, has shot a North Korean and has brought him to the 4077th. He wants him fixed up so he can take him to Seoul to be executed. Of course, this calls for some method of preventing this from happening. Flagg is his usual paranoid self, ugly and intractable. This is one time when his overzealousness isn't all that funny. Even Frank and Margaret are frightened of him. As a subplot, Klinger is really putting it all out there, wearing a nun's habit and dressing as a hooker. The episode is good, but it also brings into view the ugliness and disregard for life that is war.
5 Reviews
Flagg at it again
kellielulu17 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This is a different episode from the one one of the reviews is thinking of . The one with a North Korean woman was a later episode. Charles was in it and Mako played the one wanting her back in his custody.
This episode had Flagg in it and the prisoner isn't up and around at all.
Indeed this is Flagg at his least amusing not played in a lighter vein.
Hawkeye is officer day and Blake is away . A lot of humor in this part . Klinger making several funny wardrobe changes and there is a method to it . Also a number of Kim Lucks needing medical care. When Hawkeye as one of them if he has proof of his identity the man says " this is me " ! Lol . Hawkeye " I guess you wouldn't lie about a thing like that " . Indeed Hawkeye would never deny someone medical care.
In another hilarious moment we see what happened with Trapper's pinstripe suit! That little subplot has little point to it but it provides some laughs and shows random things going on in the camp. It also is connected to the theft of Radar's Teddy Bear .
The resolution to the prisoner involves one of the best switch a roos .
Solid episode with a mix of comedy and the more serious tone as well.
This episode had Flagg in it and the prisoner isn't up and around at all.
Indeed this is Flagg at his least amusing not played in a lighter vein.
Hawkeye is officer day and Blake is away . A lot of humor in this part . Klinger making several funny wardrobe changes and there is a method to it . Also a number of Kim Lucks needing medical care. When Hawkeye as one of them if he has proof of his identity the man says " this is me " ! Lol . Hawkeye " I guess you wouldn't lie about a thing like that " . Indeed Hawkeye would never deny someone medical care.
In another hilarious moment we see what happened with Trapper's pinstripe suit! That little subplot has little point to it but it provides some laughs and shows random things going on in the camp. It also is connected to the theft of Radar's Teddy Bear .
The resolution to the prisoner involves one of the best switch a roos .
Solid episode with a mix of comedy and the more serious tone as well.
Very serious episode
safenoe16 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Jeff Maxwell returns to reprise his famous role of Pvt. Igor Straminsky in Officer of the Day. Dennis Troy and Roy Goldman also return in key supporting roles.
Edward Winter also returns as Colonel Flagg, and it's quite serious because he wants to bump off a spy, and it's quite tense at the end, especially when Flagg gets all angry and all.
Anyway, Jeff Maxwell has, since 2018, been a co-host of the M*A*S*H Matters podcast, alongside superfan Ryan Patrick. Anyway, Officer of the Day is from season three, and at the time who would have thought that Colonel Blake and Trapper John would depart at the end of season three and thus change the trajectory of M*A*S*H.
Edward Winter also returns as Colonel Flagg, and it's quite serious because he wants to bump off a spy, and it's quite tense at the end, especially when Flagg gets all angry and all.
Anyway, Jeff Maxwell has, since 2018, been a co-host of the M*A*S*H Matters podcast, alongside superfan Ryan Patrick. Anyway, Officer of the Day is from season three, and at the time who would have thought that Colonel Blake and Trapper John would depart at the end of season three and thus change the trajectory of M*A*S*H.
One of the gutsiest twists.
David_Powell3006-130 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Colonel Flagg is usually shown on this show as a fool at best and a psychotic sadist at worst.
But....
In this episode, the writers have Flagg bringing a wounded North Korean agent to the hospital to be treated. The Doctors are upset because Flagg mainly wants the teenaged Korean alive so he can interrogate them later.
We love our main characters. We want to identify with our main characters. We emotionally connect with our main characters. So, when Flagg does this, and tells the doctors; including an "Officer of the Day" we all know and love, covering for an absent Colonel Blake, that the prisoner is dangerous and a mortal threat to others, despite said prisoner being a badly injured teenage girl, we're totally with them when they tell Flagg off and are disgusted by him.
Then, the prisoner patient does actually try to kill another patient, an American soldier. On top of this, she tells the Doctors off as she is leaving, saying she thinks they are fools and she wants to kill them and their patients and anyone else she can get a chance to, as long as they are the enemies of her side.
Flagg is often seen as a fool and a buffoon, if not a sadistic paranoid. Our heroes are often right. The writers had such titanic guts to write that twist into the story. They had so many, and for me this was one of the best and the downright gutsiest.
But....
In this episode, the writers have Flagg bringing a wounded North Korean agent to the hospital to be treated. The Doctors are upset because Flagg mainly wants the teenaged Korean alive so he can interrogate them later.
We love our main characters. We want to identify with our main characters. We emotionally connect with our main characters. So, when Flagg does this, and tells the doctors; including an "Officer of the Day" we all know and love, covering for an absent Colonel Blake, that the prisoner is dangerous and a mortal threat to others, despite said prisoner being a badly injured teenage girl, we're totally with them when they tell Flagg off and are disgusted by him.
Then, the prisoner patient does actually try to kill another patient, an American soldier. On top of this, she tells the Doctors off as she is leaving, saying she thinks they are fools and she wants to kill them and their patients and anyone else she can get a chance to, as long as they are the enemies of her side.
Flagg is often seen as a fool and a buffoon, if not a sadistic paranoid. Our heroes are often right. The writers had such titanic guts to write that twist into the story. They had so many, and for me this was one of the best and the downright gutsiest.
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