Plot: Frank tries to arrange the dishonorable discharge of a soldier rumored to be homosexual.

Is it just me or does the actor who plays George look a lot like Mark Hamill in Star Wars? There's something about his face that reminded me of Luke Skywalker.

A bit, yes.

Exactly what were Hawkeye and Trapper hoping to gain by that little fight? They couldn't possibly have guessed that Frank had bought exam answers, or that he would admit it out loud. Were they just assuming that Frank would have a skeleton in his closet and that he would blurt it out?

When George was talking with Hawkeye, he asked if he could be sent back to the front even if he wasn't really fit. Hawkeye said something about him perhaps needing a saliva test. What, exactly, would be the purpose of such a test? The implication was that George was crazy, but how would your spit tell that?

I think the purpose of the saliva test would be to tell if George was rabid or under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Thanks.

De nada.

When George speaks to Hawkeye, he says that he is doing so because Hawkeye seems to be a right guy, one that will keep this conversation confidential. Hawkeye agrees to do so, then promptly goes and tells Trapper about it.

Exactly what were Hawkeye and Trapper hoping to gain by that little fight?

That's something I've always wondered, too. the best I could come up with is that rumours re: Frank and his methods of becoming a doctor were already circulating. Or possibly he told Margaret about it and she let it slip somehow?

Okay, I went back and checked, and 'Hot Lips and Empty Arms' - the ep where Margaret decides Frank's a doofus, gets drunk and confesses all to Hawkeye and Trapper - predates this one....lending considerable support to theory 2 above.

Actually, Kerriem, I'd always assumed that Hawkeye and Trapper were fishing. Frank was such a hypocrite, there had to be a skeleton lurking in his closet somehwere. However, if any previous episode hints that there was something less than kosher about Burns graduating med school, it'd be in the ep, "The Sniper". Remember when Frank went outside to "prove his manhood" and get the sniper? Pierce met him out there. Burns mentioned that it took him twice as long to pass the exam. That might've given Hawkeye a hint that something wasn't right.

Syndication cut: Henry and Frank arguing over whether a wounded patient should be sent to Tokyo or put on active duty. Henry sends the kid (Ross) to Tokyo. This takes place before Burns and Houlihan speak to Private Weston.

Another syndication cut: when Weston walks up to Hawkeye, there’s a nurse in a pink sweater to the right of the screen. Hawkeye was just painting her toenails. Radar came by to watch.

You know, for the longest time I thought Father Mulcahy was a one-man football team. (I’m referring to the game that’s being played while Pierce and Weston talk.) You watch the game carefully and you will see the Padre in a huddle with two others.

The board Hawkeye and Trapper are playing checkers on was last seen in the episode “Henry in Love”. It was in Colonel Blake’s tent.

Frank informs Radar that the Mess Tent is for officers only. So? There’s a sign over the doors to the tent saying “Enlisted Men Welcome.”

Hawkeye jokingly offers to make Radar an officer. Radar responds, “Would you?” Yep. In “Lt. Radar O’Reilly.” The corporal will find he doesn’t like being an officer.

Once again we see Radar acting as a doctor. He’s giving Henry a physical. Previously he acted as a doctor in “Carry On, Hawkeye”. BTW, why doesn’t Hawkeye, Trapper or Major Burns give Henry a physical? Do regulations not require that a qualified physician make the examinations? Radar would hardly qualify.

I love it. Radar’s checking Henry’s ear. Radar gasps. “Wow!” Blake asks, “What is it?” “I’m not sure.” “How it’s look?” “It’s like a little nativity scene.” Classic.

That’s a quick shower Hawkeye takes. All he seemed to do was wash his chest, rinse and he’s done.

If the book Hawkeye gives Trapper is indeed Tolstoy’s War and Peace, it must be an abridged version. The novel is often published in two books because of how long it is.

This episode must take place before “Crisis”. How else do you explain the fact that Henry still has all the pictures on his office walls that were presumably burned in that ep?