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Some have written here on IMDB that this episode has no laugh track. The DVD set I have most definitely has a laugh track for this episode.

Right after outlining the latest sabotage plans to the men, Hogan receives, via Kinch, an order from London to escape to England in preparation for him to go home to the US and be treated as a war hero, going on tour to raise money for war bonds. He immediately reacts with great joy-which the Heroes are surprised to see at first, but realize they would all do the same.

It seems his "replacement" will bring the specifics on how his escape will be orchestrated. Everyone in the group is surprised, and most disappointed, to see that it is the bumbling Col. Crittendon who is sent to be the new leader. He works with the men to carry out the big sabotage they had planned-but his ineffective ways with Klink get Hogan a truck ride not to his new Stalag, but to the very train the men are about to blow up. Crittendon's blunders almost make them unable to stop the truck as planned.

The show very briefly mentions that Crittendon is now being transferred elsewhere and Hogan escaped only to voluntarily return to Stalag 13 where he is welcomed back by Klink. We are led to believe London will accept the big change in arrangements and forget about this big tour to sell war bonds.

This was a fairly funny episode, particularly Klink and Hogan's playful dialog and Crittendon's blundering. Klink takes great joy telling Hogan that he is about to be replaced as senior POW officer. Crittendon has barely entered the barracks when he goes about trying to destroy printed orders and he nearly burns his hand holding the papers, then tosses them into a wicker basket that holds the men's laundry and is oblivious to the growing fire he has caused.

The big plot hole was that this "hero's welcome" we are told Hogan is to receive would be murderous to the men back at Stalag 13. Officially, Hogan was just a flyer who was shot down and then prisoner from long before D-Day. He could only be given hero treatment if it was publicized that he led many sabotage and rescue efforts helping the Allied cause while a prisoner. Of course, the German spies in the US would report to Berlin and the men remaining in the camp would be executed.

Just the illogic of a man running an on-going effort that was most effective in helping the cause being pulled from his mission just to go back to sell war bonds makes no sense. Even military leaders as stupid as the ones usually portrayed on MASH wouldn't dream of giving up a successful operation like that just to sell bonds. The only way something like this plot MIGHT have been believable would be if London believed the Krauts were on the verge of catching our Heroes and killing them all. Then they would order them to finish their big mission and shut down the whole operation and all of them come home immediately before discovered. But that would have been a whole different episode.

Funny episode-worth an 8.

Right after outlining the latest sabotage plans to the men, Hogan receives, via Kinch, an order from London to escape to England in preparation for him to go home to the US and be treated as a war hero, going on tour to raise money for war bonds. He immediately reacts with great joy-which the Heroes are surprised to see at first, but realize they would all do the same.

It seems his "replacement" will bring the specifics on how his escape will be orchestrated. Everyone in the group is surprised, and most disappointed, to see that it is the bumbling Col. Crittendon who is sent to be the new leader. He works with the men to carry out the big sabotage they had planned-but his ineffective ways with Klink get Hogan a truck ride not to his new Stalag, but to the very train the men are about to blow up. Crittendon's blunders almost make them unable to stop the truck as planned.

The show very briefly mentions that Crittendon is now being transferred elsewhere and Hogan escaped only to voluntarily return to Stalag 13 where he is welcomed back by Klink. We are led to believe London will accept the big change in arrangements and forget about this big tour to sell war bonds.

This was a fairly funny episode, particularly Klink and Hogan's playful dialog and Crittendon's blundering. Klink takes great joy telling Hogan that he is about to be replaced as senior POW officer. Crittendon has barely entered the barracks when he goes about trying to destroy printed orders and he nearly burns his hand holding the papers, then tosses them into a wicker basket that holds the men's laundry and is oblivious to the growing fire he has caused.

The big plot hole was that this "hero's welcome" we are told Hogan is to receive would be murderous to the men back at Stalag 13. Officially, Hogan was just a flyer who was shot down and then prisoner from long before D-Day. He could only be given hero treatment if it was publicized that he led many sabotage and rescue efforts helping the Allied cause while a prisoner. Of course, the German spies in the US would report to Berlin and the men remaining in the camp would be executed.

Just the illogic of a man running an on-going effort that was most effective in helping the cause being pulled from his mission just to go back to sell war bonds makes no sense. Even military leaders as stupid as the ones usually portrayed on MASH wouldn't dream of giving up a successful operation like that just to sell bonds. The only way something like this plot MIGHT have been believable would be if London believed the Krauts were on the verge of catching our Heroes and killing them all. Then they would order them to finish their big mission and shut down the whole operation and all of them come home immediately before discovered. But that would have been a whole different episode.

Funny episode-worth an 8.