A wooden goat stands beside a blank ledger and coins, next to a striped-faced wooden badger and coiled green snake.

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Col. Potter

I'm a little rusty on procedures for when the payroll has been eaten by a goat. That Darn Kid

— M*A*S*H • 1972

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The speaker admits that ordinary procedures do not prepare him for a goat eating the payroll. The unexpected animal disruption turns official work into absurd comedy. The retained episode note stays unchanged.

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