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One thing that stands out for me is how little they used Trapper and Margaret in this episode. This is the type of episode that everyone gets in the act . Why wasn't Margaret trying to impress him ( before they find out how looney he is) . Trapper should have been in on the antics with Hawkeye but he's little more than an extra .

Clearly this was a big part of what frustrated Wayne Rogers . There is one scene where the General ( played by Morgan )wants to move the entire unit ! Even Frank shows some sense here and knows when it's safer not to be too by the book. The General nearly gets himself, Henry and Frank killed.

How off the General is finally revealed for everyone to see and it ends all his pointless changes.

Good episode but I would have preferred more of Margaret and Trapper . Hawkeye , Blake and Frank get most of the General's attention and criticism.

A joy to behold. Every cylinder fires, starting with Hawkeye, who runs afoul of a visiting general, the highly-honored, ultra-strict, and by-the-way loony Bartford Hamilton Steele (Harry Morgan, in television's greatest "can he join this cast" moment ever). Steele has Henry sterilize tongue depressors, and prepare the camp to be "mobile". Inspecting the troops, he thinks Klinger is his wife. Steele court-martials Hawkeye for pretending to be a civilian reporter, but it falls apart when he breaks into a negro work song. Lynette Mettey is drippingly good as Hawk's romance, Nurse Baker. Teddy Wilson (THAT'S MY MAMA) is spot-on as a chopper pilot. Ain't it great to beat your feet...

Teddy Wilson, who guest starred in The General Flipped at Dawn, sadly passed away at an early age. As for The General Flipped at Dawn, this was in some ways considered an audition for Harry Morgan to replace McLean Stevenson, but was it really, because had Stevenson telegraphed to the producers that he wanted out, maybe. The M*A*S*H Matters podcast, hosted by superfan Ryan Patrick and Jeff Maxwell, who started playing Igor in season two, talk about this often, and get to the heart of McLean's motivations for leaving and his subsequent regrets, because he learned that fans were drawn to Colonel Blake much more and of course once Stevenson left M*A*S*H he was no longer Colonel Blake.