Idiotic line: 'This will not look good on a resume!'

During his confrontation with his Vietnamese friend (who turned out to be a Vietcong terrorist), Cronauer angrily berates him for exploiting Cronauer's friendship to carry out violence on civilians.

His VC friend retorts that US soldiers killed his family members and didn't care who they were killing. It was a pretty dramatic scene that drew in the audience.

At the end of the confrontation, Cronauer shouts, "this will not look good on a resume!"

I thought this was a very stupid line that diminished the drama between Cronauer and his VC friend. I think it was put in the script as a signal to the audience that Robin Williams is this funny comedian, so we should all expect him to say something funny and laugh at it. That joke wasn't appropriate and really didn't belong in the scene at all.

It further strengthened the argument IMO that Robin Williams is not very funny, although he may not have had a hand in coming up with that line.