No logical need for Charles

[Best Man]

In the ep I watched this morning here on KFox here in El Paso Margaret has laryngitis and has to talk to a doctor on the phone. Klinger broadcasted over the intercom for Margaret to come and speak on the phone to the doctor. Margaret has Charles read a note (she wrote) to the doctor on the phone while she stands nearby and listens. What gives? Couldn't the writers have had Margaret merely have Klinger read the note to the doctor on the phone? In this ep Margaret bugs Charles constantly to help her so its possible for the viewers to speculate Charles was somehow (in spite of his usually cold exterior/interior) giving her emotional support by reading the note instead of Klinger. But it stinks as an explanation when they could have showed Margaret going into the office to answer the phone and Klinger walking right out to go tend to Potter's needs thus establishing in a sensible way why Klinger was unavailable to be of assistance and why she needed Charles for this menial task.

[TJL]

Well, Charles is a little more eloquent than Klinger, and can put his words together better than Klinger could have.

Plus Margaret has bad handwriting, and we all know that only Doctors can read bad handwriting.

[Best Man]

Originally Posted by TJL

Well, Charles is a little more eloquent than Klinger, and can put his words together better than Klinger could have.

Plus Margaret has bad handwriting, and we all know that only Doctors can read bad handwriting.

Well, the way the writers write for him Klinger swindles deals real well and he may have been good on the phone for that reason. Besides Charles was ticked at having to do it. What ep ever was it where it was established Margaret's handwriting is bad?

[TJL]

I think it was in "the Abduction of Margaret Houlihan" (season 5) where COl. Potter hads trouble reading what Margaret wrote on a chart.

[Best Man]

Originally Posted by TJL

I think it was in "the Abduction of Margaret Houlihan" (season 5) where COl. Potter hads trouble reading what Margaret wrote on a chart.

Probably forgotten by season 11. Contrived way to get Margaret to pester Charles when saying Klinger had to tend to Col. Potter was a better way.

[Mikado]

Well, the man Margaret wanted to meet was supposed to be a Top man in the medical feild, I expect that Margaret would have thought it wrong to have her mesage conveyed by a lowly corporal ( or was he sargeant by then? ), After all, while Margaret was no longer the total "regular army clown" she had been earlier in the series, Im sure she still would have followed "protocol", even at that date, for something this important to her.

[Best Man]

Originally Posted by Mikado

Well, the man Margaret wanted to meet was supposed to be a Top man in the medical feild, I expect that Margaret would have thought it wrong to have her mesage conveyed by a lowly corporal ( or was he sargeant by then? ), After all, while Margaret was no longer the total "regular army clown" she had been earlier in the series, Im sure she still would have followed "protocol", even at that date, for something this important to her.

Charles appeared to be doing nothing more than reading the paper Margaret gave to him. Klinger could have all too easily done that! Charles is even written to state he feels like a Western Union boy doing this for Margaret. The ep is weak in this subplot. Hawk's subplot about a wounded general's son (featuring excellent actor John Anderson as the general along with excellent too Alda) is brilliant!