Plot A: Hawkeye has worn out his welcome among the nurses. After receiving a fancy bottle of French wine by chance, he tries to use it as a bribe to win some (any) nurse's affection.
Plot B: Charles commissions Klinger to obtain some more French wine for him. Col. Potter finds that it makes a good substitute for water in a dry radiator.

Plot C: The American medical units have been ordered not to use curare in anesthetizing patients. Col. Potter uncharacteristically bucks the system to obtain a supply.

Would wine really make a good subsitute for water in the radiator? Somehow, I wouldn't think the two would be that interchangeable.

That bottle wine Hawkeye didn't go far. I don't think very many of the nurses got anything to drink. (Hawkeye certainly didn't.)

As desperate as Hawkeye was for a nurse, you'd think he would have macked on Kellye. Obviously, he didn't. Otherwise we wouldn't have had the episode, "Hey Look Me Over". (Wonder why Kellye didn't respond to Pierce's note in the first place, given that she was apparently interested in him.)

For some reason, the episode's end gives me the impression that B.J. was in on the joke. There's nothing in the show to prove this. It's just Hunnicutt's attitude throughtout the ep. It's the one he usually adopts when he's playing a joke on someone.

BTW, the Company Clerk from the Canadian unit must be really annoying to Canadians. Practically every paragraph he says ends with, "Eh."

We ran into that a lot back when we vacationed regularly in Canada. Quite often we would follow up by saying, "B. C. D...."

I can still remember the first time my brother-in-law-to-be followed us up there one summer. He commented on running into Canadian rattlesnakes. When everyone looked at him in confusion, he added, "I could tell. They went rattle-rattle-eh, rattle-eh."

I believe that anti-freeze used to contain alcohol, before they switched to ethylene glycol in the late '60's-early '70's. So, Benn-Yes, wine would make an acceptable substitute, especially for a 1950's vehicle.
P.S. You should never use pure water in a car's cooling system. Anti-freeze lowers the freezing point, raises the boiling point (the pressurized radiator cap raises the boiling point even higher) and has chemicals to protect the cooling system from corrosion. The cooling system should be flushed every two years, as the corrosion inhibiters break down due to the intense heat of a car engine.

"We ran into that a lot back when we vacationed regularly in Canada. Quite often we would follow up by saying, 'B. C. D....'

I can still remember the first time my brother-in-law-to-be followed us up there one summer. He commented on running into Canadian rattlesnakes. When everyone looked at him in confusion, he added, 'I could tell. They went rattle-rattle-eh, rattle-eh.'" - D.K. Henderson

I wasn't sure if it was a matter of stereotyping or not, D.K. Thanks.

And thank you Adam for the anti-freeze info. I wasn't sure if wine would've made a good substitute or not. Still, I now wonder if they couldn't have gotten by with using only two, or maybe three of the bottles instead of all four.

Perhaps the "eh" is a geographical thing, like putting an "r" in "wash" down here in Ohio. The people who originally owned the vacation camp we went to never used the "eh" (then again, they may have been transplanted Americans; I wouldn't know.) After a new family took over, the "eh's" were flying everywhere.
Dick Francis wrote a book that took place in Canada, and he threw in lots of "eh's".

Canadian posters: Are the "eh's" national?

Klinger might have been able to salvage a bottle or two of the wine, if Potter hadn't wasted half the contents by smashing the bottles open.

The ban on curare must be recent. Charles nearly killed a patient when the Major accidentally administered the drug in "The Light That Failed" (Season Six). Which makes Winchester's comment that the drug in "..trained hands such as ours... poses no problem." BTW, why hadn't Mulcahy heard of the banning of curare before this OR session? So he play Father Cabbagehead?

When Colin Turnbull, the Canadian company clerk is scooping some porridge in his bowl, he starts to put the ladel back. Immediately in the next shot, he's pouring porridge into his bowl again.

47 Alert! Charles identifies the bottle of wine as a '47 Margaux. Pierce quips, "No, I have a '47 DeSoto."

B.J. says the wine is four years old. Can't be. If it's a '47 vintage, then four years would mean this ep takes place in '51. But that can't be true. Hunnicutt, Potter and Charles weren't assigned to the 4077^th until 1952.

While talking to Charles in the shower, at one point Klinger is rubbing soap on his chest. In the next shot, he's rubbing his hands together. In yet another shot, he has a hand on the partition between the shower stalls. In the next, he's once again rubbing his hands together.

For the record, Manischewitz is a Jewish, kosher wine. I believe it's used in many Jewish ceremonies. I'm sure ScottN can give more details. (Hint, hint. )

It's a miracle no one tried to steal the bottle of Margaux '47. Pierce certainly made it no secret he had a bottle of it.

It's kinda amazing Potter didn't hear the rattling sounds of the tin cans Klinger tied to the back of the jeep.

The jeep Colonel Potter and Klinger are riding in is overheating. Klinger pulls over. Note that Potter starts to get out of the jeep twice in two different shots.

When the camera angle is from the hood of the jeep, you can clearly see a rifle resting between Colonel Potter and Klinger. Yet, when the two men get out of the jeep, the rifle seems to be missing.

Have we ever seen Hawkeye's radio before? I don't recall ever seeing it in the Swamp prior to this ep. Although, it may have been used in "The Crisis".

Obviously the curare Potter picked up from the Canadian unit won't last forever. Does this mean the 4077^th continued to illegally obtain the drug? Aren't they running a risk that they'll be caught using it?

Kinda ironic that Pierce not only didn't get a nurse, he didn't get any of the wine either.

"Beaver biscuits!"

Hawkeye and B.J. got a radio from Sears & Roebuck in "A War for All Seasons".

You mean there's one bit of continuity from "A War For All Seasons"? I'm shocked. And impressed.

"Beaver biscuits!"