Certainly the best I've read in Butterworth's Mash series. Contrary to what the title says nearly all of this story takes place in Maine. So better than the last couple were he spends the whole time trying to figure out how to get his characters to some far off place like Morocco.

We are introduced to a new character, the ugliest state trooper in Maine, who is a great doctor but without the doctor training. Even being so ugly he apparently still can get the ladies, including some hookers that Don Rhotten brings with him to Maine, and the star of a new TV show that is going to be shot in Maine.

All in all a zany adventure in the deeps woods, with a few distractions of Hollywood mogul who knows how to write a contract to screw over everyone else, and Boris the opera singer gets to hide out in the woods and cook instead of singing in the great Paris opera.

Pick this one up if you can find it. ( )

A better effort in the M*A*S*H series. Compared to the disaster that was M*A*S*H Goes to Morocco, this one is practically Shakespeare! Rather than being fringe players, Hawkeye and Trapper (Spearchucker and Duke are no longer even mentioned) are smack dab in the middle of the action. No one travels to Hollywood, though. Hollywood comes to the boys in Spruce Harbor, ME. A Hollywood soap opera producer, vacationing nearby, discovers a local trooper that would be perfect for a new daytime drama, and decides to film on location. Meanwhile, everyone's favorite opera singer, Boris Alexandrovich Korsky-Rimsakov, is hiding out with said trooper after a disaster in Paris. All the boys' friends are looking for him and descend on Spruce Harbor, with everything culminating in a giant mix-up and hi-jinx galore.

Stupid fun. ( )