Even the lesser episodes are funnier than anything else on tv.

This could have been a character-driven movie centered on the young pilot gaining his father's approval and/or acceptance of his choice to fly fighters rather than bombers and other big craft. Meanwhile, he has to demonstrate that he isn't a pilot just because Daddy pulled strings for him.Instead, we got a movie with a worse plot than the sort of short movies shown at the recruiting center or in boot camp. No real conflict, no character development, and the obligatory crisis had all the tension of a wet sock.Whether this was caused by the military involvement, poor acting, or poor scripting, I can't even guess.No wonder the crew had trouble with it.