Plot A: Charles falls for a bar girl and attempts to change her into something she's not.
Plot B: Klinger falls for a nurse who enjoys his bizarre clothes, but who is not ready for a commitment.
Plot C: Hawkeye and B.J. start getting irritated at each other's little habits, which leads to Hawkeye moving into Radar's office while Radar is on R and R.
Sooni did have a point when she said that other "customers" would throw her out on her butt if she started spouting poetry, etc, but, all in all, she wasn't a very good businesswoman. She obviously hasn't heard the phrase, "The customer is always right." As long as Charles was a customer, it would behoove her to at least pretend to be interested in his interests.
Well, obviously she needed money rather badly, else she'd not be a hooker, but him and his incessant snobery would make me think twice about tolerating it long. Of course, I guess I'm not a Korean hooker in the middle of a war, but I do understand that she'd rather lose his money than put up with his BS.
My opinion of Klinger shot up a lot after watching this episode; he's becoming one of my favorite characters. And though Charles is a snob, since I see that we have similar tastes in music and poetry I can't think completely badly of him.
Upon meeting Klinger for the time, Lt. Debbie Clark notes that Max is wearing a dress. Her right hand is raised in one shot. In the next, it's on the table.
Just how close is the 8063rd that members of that unit can go to Rosie's so easily?
Charles enters Rosie's and sits at a table. In the first shot his hands are at his side. In the next, they're in front of him. Also, the waitress appears to be wiping down the edge of the table in the first shot, the other side of the table in the next shot.
I don't know about anyone else, but I think it's strange that Charles knows who Wimpy of the Popeye comic strip and cartoons is. It's what he calls Sooni after she asks him to buy her a burger.
Just after Sooni calls Charles a "fuddy duddy", Winchester's left arm is apparently motionless. In the next he's in the process of pulling a dollar out of his shirt pocket.
While listening to Charles and Hawkeye talk about Sooni, Klinger arms go from being at his side to being folded over his chest and back again in different camera shots.
After Charles asks if he seems to be the type to be with a "common trollop", he holds money in his right hand, hand by his shoulder. In the next shot, the arm has moved to in front of him. In the shot after that, we see Charles buttoning the breast pocket of his shirt.
Charles asks Klinger about browsing through the Corporal's dress collection. Hawkeye stops flossing his teeth. In the next shot, he's back to flossing them.
B.J. complains about Hawkeye's habit of sniffing his food. Pierce complains of Hunnicutt's habit of combing his mustache. Um, well, we've seen Pierce sniff his food two or three in the series already. We've only seen B.J. comb his mustache once. That was in "The Billfold Syndrome" and it was done to annoy Charles. So, how much of a habit was this mustache combing? Strictly off camera?
Is there a reason Father Mulcahy is holding his bingo game in the Officers Club? (Other than TPTB were by this point tired of all the more established sets of the series?) The last time the Padre held a bingo game, it was in the Mess Tent, which holds more people. Why the smaller venue?
When Hawkeye asks if "N-45" was close enough to what Mulcahy called out, in the background we see Margaret looking over the cards in front of her. In the next shot, she's looking at the ones to her left.
Father Mulcahy tells the players that anyone getting their numbers in the sign of the cross we get a cash bonanza. He has a bingo ball in his hand. In the next shot, he's just picking one up.
If Hawkeye's trying to check the blood pressure of that soldier, trust me, he's going about it the wrong way. After putting the sphygmomanometer (the thing you pump air into) around a patient's bicep, you put the bell of your stethoscope to the crotch of the elbow. You then pump up the sphymomanometer to about 180. Then you listen for the sound of the pulse. The number at which you first hear the pulse is the systolic, the heart at work. You listen until the thumping ends. When it does, that's the diastolic, the heart at rest. What we see Hawkeye doing in this ep is completely wrong. It's either that or that soldier has an incredibly (and fatally) high blood pressure. 'Cos Pierce pumped the sphygmomanometer way up, then he put on the stethoscope and takes only a couple of seconds to listen. That indicates a very high reading to me. My guess is we're talking about a reading of about 210 over 190. Hardly a "fine" reading.
(Hey, I work as a CNA [Certified Nurse Aide]. Part of my job is to take blood pressure of the residents at the nursing home where I work. So I know that what I'm seeing Pierce do is completely wrong.)
For the record, according to this episode, Klinger was raised on 1215 Michigan Street in Toledo.
I really shouldn't be surprised. But quite obviously, the dart board is Hawkeye's. It's one of the things he took out of the Swamp when he moved out. (You can see it on the door by Radar's bed.)
This marks the second of three times that Hawkeye moved out of the Swamp in the series. The first time was in "Sticky Wicket".
"All that good whiskey shot to hell."
In this episode, as in the previous one, they were pretty subtle with the syndication cuts. Only one that I clearly noticed was a scene with Charles and Sooni, after he had given her one of Klinger's dresses. The scene in the mess tent is extended a bit, with Sooni commenting on how great the food is, and using some of her tapioca pudding as a sauce for her meat loaf. Charles is rather taken aback, but actually, putting something sweet on meat is not unheard of.
Sooni keeps complaining that she wants some "action". Are we to infer that Charles' libido is rather low? Does he need a lot of poetry and music to get him in the mood?
Yeah, I kinda thought Charles was a bit "feminine" in his approach to romance/love/sex. Needing poetry read, soft music, etc. It might also be that his background is such that he thinks all women respond to that sort of courting. Which is more likely, as it's hard to believe that Charles would have ever experienced the whore type of woman that Sooni was before. Unlike, say, Hawkeye or Klinger, Winchester would not be equipped to know how to deal with such a woman.
"All that good whiskey shot to hell."