Plot: When the 'flu bug hits, Hawkeye is the only doctor left on his feet.

In one scene in the OR, Father Mulcahy leaves a table, saying that he doesn't feel well. He sits down a few feet away, looking very wan. A couple scenes later he is bustling about and assisting in the OR again. That seemed to be the quickest recovery at the 4077th. It could be suggested that he was made queasy by the operating, but he had worked in OR before. I wonder if the writers just forgot that they had made him sick.

Frank does tend to make some interesting confessions when he's sick, doesn't he?

At one point while Radar is trying to track down substitute doctors, he inquires about a particular doctor, only to be told that said doctor had switched to psychiatry. It seemed to be a given that the doctor was therefore unavailable. Excuse me, but psychiatrists (as opposed to psychologists) have MD training. Considering that this would only have been temporary, and considering that the man must have made the switch recently or it would have been on record, there should have been no problem for him to fill in at the 4077th.

Great line from Trapper: "...I'm better. There's two of you there. There used to be three."

A inscribed roll of toilet paper was all very nice, but why wasn't Hawkeye put in for a citation? Not to mention Father Mulcahy, Margaret and all the nurses?

Once again the 4077th has a new nurse for Hawkeye to fall in love with. That’s about the fourth this season.

The scrub sinks in this ep is like it is in “Radar’s Report”: two barrels cut in half facing each other. Normally the sinks sit side by side.

When Frank passes out in the OR, he has Margaret take over for the unconscious Major. Specifically, he orders her to close up the patient. This means that Hawkeye is going to have reopen the patient when he’s done with the one he’s on or Pierce somehow knows that Frank was finished operating on the patient. To be honest, it looks to me like Frank was stll in the process of removing shell fragments. But then I’m no doctor.

Is Hawkeye chief surgeon or not? For about the third time this season a comment is made about who’s the “ranking surgeon” at the 4077th. Usually the reference is to Major Burns (“For the Good of the Outfit”), But if Pierce is the 4077th’s chief surgeon, then whether he’s a captain or not, wouldn’t that make him the “ranking surgeon”?

It is in this episode that Nurse Kellye gets a name - “Kelly”. She’s apparently in charge of putting gloves on gowns on everyone in OR.

The book Radar goes through to find replacement surgeons is incredibly full of errors. One chest cutter turns out to be a pediatrician; another surgeon has switched to psychiatry. Whoever put that book together did not know what they were doing.

This is a comment that’s been a long time in coming. Margaret has always been a stickler for military correctness. She has repeatedly complained about Pierce and McIntyre being out of uniform. In this ep, when you’d think she’d be at her most GI (she is, after all, “administration”), we see her wearing her black sweater. I don’t think that top is regulation folks.

We know Hawkeye and Margaret got flu shots, but by any chance did anyone else in camp get one? I mean of those who did not get sick like Radar? Or was this a privilege reserved only for the two officers?

Hawkeye says he’s lousy with needles. Surely there have been instances in the series (“The Pilot” perhaps?) that proves otherwise?

Um, by the way, when administering injections, aren’t you supposed to swab the area to be injected with alcohol? Neither Margaret nor Hawkeye follow this procedure.

In this episode, Hawkeye tells Radar to get blood from the “Korean personnel”. While it is historically true that MASH units utilized South Koreans as cooks and orderlies and other such laborers, it’s something we never really witness in the series. This ep may be the only reference to such help.

Apparently in this ep, General Clayton is still the man in charge of the 4077th. There’s only a passing reference to him, though. Clayton may have been the general in charge of the 4077th the longest.

Wow! A reference to Toledo. And Klinger doesn’t make it. (Max isn’t even in this ep.) Hawkeye makes the reference.

Okay, handling most of the surgeries are Hawkeye, Margaret and Sheila. However, in the final OR scene there appears to a fourth table with a patient on it. Who’s handling that one?

The voice making the PA announcements during the final OR scene seems to change. It loses it echo effect almost midway through.

No wonder Radar looks embarrassed when he’s checking Hawkeye’s pulse. He’s not wearing a watch. (Actually, I suspect Trapper put him up to it as a joke.)