Plot: After saving a general's son, the general gives them a trip to Tokyo and an officers' club--for officers only.

Henry agrees to open the club for enlisted personnel if Trapper and Hawkeye can get enough names on a petition. Trapper and Hawkeye approach Margaret and Frank in the club, are rebuffed, and give up. Excuse me? There were a whole bunch of officers in the club at the time. Every (female) nurse is an officer. Why didn't they ask anyone else? This would seem to indicate that Trapper and Hawkeye were the ONLY officers who cared about the enlisted men, meaning that everyone else was just as snobby as Margaret and Frank.

Presumably a lot of enlisted men were on duty that night, because Hawkeye didn't actually have that many "relatives".

If this is the same Gen. Mitchell from "The Incubator" you'd think he would have recognized Hawkeye and Trapper as the doctors who wrecked his press conference.

Just why is the tradition "Officers only"? Do they assume that until you get Lieutenant's bars, you can't hold your liquor? Or, conversely, that once you get your bars, you can? That's an obvious fallacy. Before Gen. Mitchell even arrived for the grand opening, there was an officer slumped over at the bar.

Because it gives the officers a place to relax where the enlisted men can't see them.

Not a nit, just something annoying: I hate where FX stuck the last commercial break of this episode. The Officer's Club is open, all of them are at the bar, and then Frank comes over saying "General? General!"

...cut to commercial...

And then we find out Frank was trying to get the General to look over at the entrance so he could see his son.

I don't know if anything was cut, per se, but it just seems so awkward to cut it right there.

I think what was cut was the originally tag (ending) of this ep. IIRC, the episode did not end with Hawkeye intducting his "family" into the Officer's Club. I don't off-hand remember the original ending, though. (Talk to me in May when Season Two is released on DVD.)

Basically, the point of the edit, I think, is to recreate the original structure of each episode. So, since each ep ended with a commercial break-tag-end credits, and since the original tag was cut, the commercial break now comes when Burns says, "General? General!" And I agree, Muas, it is awkward. I hate syndication cuts.

It seems I’ve been a bit premature in announcing Ginger’s absence from the series. She appears at the beginning of this ep. And she dances with Klinger in the end at the Officer’s Club.

I see a little unusual OR arrangement here. At the foot of the table Pierce and McIntyre are working on is another table. Normally in the series the operating tables sit side by side.

Henry is not operating. Frank enters surgery only after Pierce and McIntyre have started. Yet there are about four tables total in OR. Here it is again, the eternal question folks, “Who are the other doctors?” Why don’t we ever see them or meet them?

Trapper is assisting Hawkeye? I thought Trapper sent for Hawkeye to help McIntyre operate on General Mitchell’s son. When did the roles get switched?

Okay, what? Are there three different General Mitchells or what? In “The Trial of Henry Blake”, General Mitchell learns of the 4077th’s resident transvestite, Klinger. In this ep, Mitchell acts very surprised to see a man wearing a dress at the 4077th. If this is supposed to the same General Mitchell in “The Trial of Henry Blake” and “The Incubator”, he has a very bad memory.

Maybe I’m not seeing this right, but it looks to me like Private Mitchell’s bed is set in a very different position from what is normal for the series. It lies with the foot of the bed aimed at the door to Post-Op. You can see the door to the Radar’s office is to the right of the screen. Later the bed will be set in the normal position.

In the movie M*A*S*H, we see a model of a helicopter in Henry’s office. For the only time I know of in the series, a helicopter model can be seen in Henry’s office. It’s on the left-hand side of the screen when Henry first gets a call from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, telling him of Hawkeye and Trapper’s antics.

The book Henry was reading when he went to sleep is Special Nurse. Ten to one it’s a soft core porno book.

The jeep Pierce and McIntyre are driving upon their return to the 4077th is marked “HQ”.

The General MacArthur picture in the Office’s Club will later be replaced with a 4077th sign.

Radar is the senior NCO at the 4077th? Does this mean that he outranks all other NCOs or has been stationed at the unit longer?

The Officer’s Club arrived during the three days Hawkeye and Trapper were in Tokyo. Why does it take so long for Frank to put up the “Officers Only” sign?

Henry says the Officer’s Club can be used as a church on Sundays. It’s actually the Mess Tent that serves that function.

In the scrub room, Henry was mackin’ on a nurse. She ends up going out with a captain. Was he one of the other OR doctors?

Despite the fact that Margaret puts some distance between her and Hawkeye while they’re dancing, in the next shot they’re back to dancing close.

If General Mitchell is going to be throwing out the first drunk, he won’t have far to go. The guy sitting at the edge of the bar is ready to pass out.

NANJAO: the name of General Mitchell’s son is Gary – Gary Mitchell. Sound familiar to any Trekkies out there?

So Henry got together with the nurse he was mackin’ on after all, huh? And Kellye, who was staring longingly at Radar in an earlier ep, can be seen dancing with O’Reilly in the O Club.

The original tag to this ep shows various MASH members drinking and dancing in the Officer's Club.

I believe Radar says that he was the senior Non-com present. This means he was the senior non-com in the room at the time. This does not mean that he was senior non-com in the camp (I mean he's only a corporal)

That is exactly what he says, Richie. I'm just finding it hard to believe he actually outranks all those other non-coms. I suppose it is possible.