[1] Guest cast is Dennis Fimple as Sergeant "Sparky" Pryor, Mary-Robin Redd as Sister Theresa, Herb Voland as Brigadier General Crandell Clayton, and James Sikking as a finance officer.
With Radar's help, the doctors add more layers to their creation (such as a fake personnel file), and the deception slowly grows until nearly everyone at the 4077th believes Tuttle is a real person.
Hawkeye ends the problem by faking Tuttle's death, stating that he had heroically jumped into a combat zone without his parachute, and claiming that the orphanage is the sole beneficiary of the fictional doctor's GI insurance.
As the episode ends, the Swampmen joke with each other about where they got a pair of dog tags they used to authenticate Tuttle's death—from the equally fictional Major Murdock.
Captain Tuttle is a parody of Lieutenant Kijé[citation needed], the subject of a novella by Soviet author Yury Tynyanov.