No dice on seeing Sparky on MASH, but I did see Sparky Lyle and Sparky Anderson on
the baseball field.
We never got to see the fair Juanita of Mayberry either. I always imagined Rita Moreno
in the role, she was electric as a stripper in James Garner's film "Marlowe".
That's the flick where Bruce Lee first made an impression when he destroyed Marlowe's
office using his hands and feet, a memorable scene.

6/10
Sergeant Luther Rizzo was the worst written character of the series, a total misfire.
What was so fun about an ignorant mush mouthed slob, who in the last regular half hour
episode throws a dummy grenade at an officer! Terrible scripting, if he had done that in
real life he would have been arrested on the spot and be on his way to Fort Leavenworth
for 10 years at least. The MASH crew all agree the "Fred C. Dobbs" episode was the worst,
but any episode with Rizzo - and the awful acting choices his portrayer made - degrades
the episode automatically, he almost ruined the "last" episode all by himself.
The last seasons were past their sell by date anyway, the self satisfied smugness was too
much. There were gems here and there, such as when BJ has to cut a rope at the front
leaving a wounded soldier behind instead of hauling him into a copter.
Later he turns on Hawkeye and calls him out about assuming moral superiority over
the poor misguided slobs who have to fight the war, saying with the cutting of the rope
(doing what had to be done to save the already onboard wounded) "they made me a
soldier too". I have always thought an ex-serviceman must have wrote that.

It's only 2 hours, it just seems like 4...LOL!

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I had to look up Rizzo. I couldn’t remember t he character. 🤭

No way, Fred C. Dobbs is nowhere near the worst episode. It’s way better than “Hawkeye” or Inga or Oh how we danced!

I don't claim "Fred C. Dobbs" is the worst, but the cast members are on record as saying
so. I like that many TV series sneak that name in - Dobie Gillis repeatedly - as it is
Bogie's name in Treasure of the Sierra Madre.