Serves Me Right for Giving General George S. Patton the Bathroom Key - S13-E15
Other mistake: Here, it's made into a big deal that Cotton wants to be flushed in the same bathroom Patton used. Yet in Season 4, Episode 2, "Cotton's Plot," he successfully gets a cemetery plot in a Texas military cemetery.





Answer: In addition to Brian Katcher's response: it's supposed to be a joke that Dale is always suspicious about conspiracy theories, mysteries, etc, but he is "clueless" about his own wife having an affair. Of course, as Brian wrote, many fans think that Dale is pretending to be clueless because he doesn't want Nancy to leave him.