top favors, one of which was picking up Major  Burns and swinging him around Col. Blakes office after Burns  mouthed off to Hawkeye one too many times. After this incident,  Hawkeye chastises Wesson, to which Wesson replies, "Lyle bad. Do bad  things." This references the part he played in Mel Brooks  _Blazing Saddles (1974)_ (qv), which opened in theaters the same  year this episode aired.