"Combat!" The Party (TV Episode 1963) Poster

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6/10
Unfunny Comedy
claudio_carvalho23 July 2017
"Combat!" is a television series that has become famous because of the dramatic episodes with flawed characters that are sample of human beings having World War II as background. "The Party" is an attempting of comedy for the wrong audiences since people are used to watch serious shows. Caje, Kirby and Billy are wasted in this terrible episode. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "A Festa" ("The Party")
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1/10
Moe, Larry, and Caje
jjsmith398 September 2018
A filler episode that plays like a rejected script for a Three Stooge movie. Almost every joke in this episode is actually punctuated by "Wah Wah Waaaaaah' music to remind you you're supposed to laugh.

Besides the failed humor, the writer also tries to cover the "tug at the heart strings" base by throwing in starving orphans, cute French girls, and Nuns.

Every great show has had at least one complete misfire. Look no further than this episode for Combat's first true flop.
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Christmas comes but once a year (thank God!)
lor_19 July 2023
An utterly stupid segment of the series, it begins with Sarge away, meaning a week off for star Vic Morrow. Kirby, Caje and Billy have all the screen time as three horny grunts on the make, out to throw a party to try and get into the pants of three French beauties (led by familiar starlet Danielle De Metz) in a small village. They're competing with several no-name Yanks, and thrown in for good measure is a prankster young French girl Andrea Darvi) adding to the comedy content.

This plays a lot like a sit-com, say "Sgt. Bilko" only with no laugh track, but the mickey-mousing musical score keeps reminding one that this is lightweight and supposed to be amusing. Punch line is that this is a Christmas show for the series, so the guys being "taken" by the ladies turns out sentimentally to be in service of St. Mary's Convent.
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