Plot: Father Mulcahy converses with a new patient who is being discharged soon. The patient, Corporal Josh Levin, claims to be orthodox Jew, but seems to know very little about orthodoxy. The boy then makes a traditional Catholic confession, stating that he is actually Gerald Mullen, who stole Corporal Levin's dog tags and discharge papers. Father Mulcahy tries to make him give up the deception, with little sucess, until he reads Mullen a letter from Levin's family.

Plot B: A young soldier has recieved a "Dear John" letter from his socially ambitious girl friend, and Hawkeye schemes to make him feel better by gathering photographs of as many girls as he can find to send to the fickle lady.
Plot C: An investment broker somehow found time to get wounded between his sales pitches, and promptly begins stalking staff and patients at the 4077th, until Charles finds a way to silence him.

Watch out for your "Latrichium"!!!!

I loved the part where Igor gave Hawkeye the picture of his girlfriend, complete with sledgehammer. They had met while both working the "stun line."

Isn't that romantic?

I wonder who's picture Colonel Potter donated? Surely not Mildred's. Even pictures of her in her youth, would be glaring anachronisms (hairstyles, clothing styles, background scenery, etc.).

Ugh. Just noticed a typo in my post. The first sentence should read: "I wonder whose picture Potter donated?" Please excuse the error.

Know prahblem. Its ez 2 myss thyngs lyke that.

In this ep., father mulcahey says, when he still thinks Josh is an orthodox Jew, that his hebrew is a little bit rusty, but that he can hold a shabbes service competently (and then wonders aloud where he put his "books" - the torah or the instructions to the service?)

Yet in another ep. where the baby of a korean mother and american jewish father was about to be circumsized, the father not only had to ask instructions over the radio, he also repeated the words as if he knew no hebrew at all.

Well, it's not likely that a Catholic priest would be called on to perform a Bris ceremony all that often.

The point is that it sounds like he doesn't know hebrew at all in the Bris episode, but in this one, he says his hebrew is rusty.

Bear in mind that with the Bris, he was trying to repeat what Radar was telling him over the radio, and Radar was probably mangling the pronunciation.

On the other hand, it's all in keeping with the constant flow of contradictions you can find if you follow the show closely.

"Corporal Levin" wants Father Mulcahy to wear his stole before the "Corporal" gives his confession. The Padre just happens to have it in the pocket of his robe. What are the odds?

During the confessional scene, when Mullen tells Father Mulcahy, "I'm not changing my mind", he's looking at the Father. However, in the next shot, he is no longer look at Mulcahy.

NANJAO: Isn't it interesting that the two Regular Army officers - Colonel Potter and Margaret - are the only ones who think Security Fidelity is a worthwhile venture?

When Charles is warning Corporal Rice about the damage to his latrickium, the Corporal says, "My vocal chords" and reaches for his throat. In the next shot, his hand is no longer at his throat.

The positions of Rice's hand does not match in the shots around the time he says, "Name it, I'll do it".

The position of Mullen's head changes as Father Mulcahy begins reading Corporal Levin's mail.

Just before Mathes says he's not writing his ex-grilfriend a letter, he has a couple of pictures in his hands. In the next shot, the pictures are gone.

The actor who played Mullen, Joe Pantoliano, has gone on to appear in such films as Risky Business, Eddie and the Cruisers, The Goonies, La Bamba, Midnight Run, The Fugitive and U.S. Marshalls (he was Deputy Marshall Cosmo Renfroe), Bad Boys and Bad Boys II (in which he played Captain Howard), The Matrix (Cypher), Daredevil (Ben Urich) and other films. He was also Ralphie Cifaretto in The Sopranos

"The undrinkable chasing the inedible."