This episode was sort of a spoof of the hit movie It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Except Mr. Parker was too stupid in this show, greatly weakening the plot.
While Chuck is minding the boat alone in New Caledonia, with the crew given four hours leave by McHale (against Binghamton's orders) while McHale attends a conference, he gets a radio call from the Captain directing him and the men to pick up the base pay of $62,000.
Not knowing Binghamton plans on the crew stealing the money, as his latest plan to get rid of McHale and crew, Chuck picks up the money by himself, but panics when soldiers in town fire off the town cannon. He knocks himself out, and when he comes to, the money is gone.
All he can tell the crew is that the girl he saw when waking up has a heart-shaped birthmark on her ankle. The rest of the episode features the crew, in groups, running all around town looking for that birthmark. Binghamton and Carpy fly to New Caledonia to nab our heroes. They wind up chasing the boys, who find the girl and her male accomplice and chase them, with the guy finally hiding the money in that same cannon.
During an air raid, Chuck lights the fuse in the cannon, not knowing what is inside the barrel, and after the Japanese plane leaves, the cannon goes off and all the money floats back to the crew, just as Binghamton has arrested them all for grand theft.
This episode, to me, is ruined by Parker's blundering. I love Tim Conway, even liked some of his later, short-lived series that nobody else liked. Most of his blundering on this series was a big part of what made the show so hilarious. But in this episode, he was too dumb, at least for me.
Panicking on hearing the cannon, the way he knocked himself out was ridiculous, leaping over a park bench when he could easily have run around it. On coming to, there were several people around, one holding an overcoat over his arms. Of course, the bag of money was right under the coat and any normal person would have insisted on looking there.
During the chase, Chuck stumbles into the man, not only failing to recognize him, but he stoops to pick up the very bag of money he is seeking, and gives it back to the crook, never realizing what he is doing.
Right at the start, I thought he should have either waited, or gone to round up some of the crew to go with him to pick up the money. It didn't make sense to carry that much money around by himself.
McHale's Navy is one of the best series ever, but this episode relied too much on stupidity of one person to be one of the good episodes.
While Chuck is minding the boat alone in New Caledonia, with the crew given four hours leave by McHale (against Binghamton's orders) while McHale attends a conference, he gets a radio call from the Captain directing him and the men to pick up the base pay of $62,000.
Not knowing Binghamton plans on the crew stealing the money, as his latest plan to get rid of McHale and crew, Chuck picks up the money by himself, but panics when soldiers in town fire off the town cannon. He knocks himself out, and when he comes to, the money is gone.
All he can tell the crew is that the girl he saw when waking up has a heart-shaped birthmark on her ankle. The rest of the episode features the crew, in groups, running all around town looking for that birthmark. Binghamton and Carpy fly to New Caledonia to nab our heroes. They wind up chasing the boys, who find the girl and her male accomplice and chase them, with the guy finally hiding the money in that same cannon.
During an air raid, Chuck lights the fuse in the cannon, not knowing what is inside the barrel, and after the Japanese plane leaves, the cannon goes off and all the money floats back to the crew, just as Binghamton has arrested them all for grand theft.
This episode, to me, is ruined by Parker's blundering. I love Tim Conway, even liked some of his later, short-lived series that nobody else liked. Most of his blundering on this series was a big part of what made the show so hilarious. But in this episode, he was too dumb, at least for me.
Panicking on hearing the cannon, the way he knocked himself out was ridiculous, leaping over a park bench when he could easily have run around it. On coming to, there were several people around, one holding an overcoat over his arms. Of course, the bag of money was right under the coat and any normal person would have insisted on looking there.
During the chase, Chuck stumbles into the man, not only failing to recognize him, but he stoops to pick up the very bag of money he is seeking, and gives it back to the crook, never realizing what he is doing.
Right at the start, I thought he should have either waited, or gone to round up some of the crew to go with him to pick up the money. It didn't make sense to carry that much money around by himself.
McHale's Navy is one of the best series ever, but this episode relied too much on stupidity of one person to be one of the good episodes.
