The writers were getting worn down and hard pressed for good ideas. They came up with a familiar bratty kid storyline. At first the story is playing surprisingly well. After all given that Binghamton and Carpenter are so incompetent why couldn't a smart alecky child of an admiral turn those two knuckleheads' world upside down? But when Bighamton dumps the monster on McHale--the PT 73 skipper also cannot (and in his case very suprisingly) handle the kid at all either. How much better it would have been if McHale had learned the kid was coming, learned the boy was a first class smarty, and out-masterminded the bad lad all along.
Mr. Parker looked like he would for sure be the smarty kid's easiest prey but surprisingly Parker is no more so than McHale's other men!
Mr. Parker looked like he would for sure be the smarty kid's easiest prey but surprisingly Parker is no more so than McHale's other men!