Plot: When a Swedish lady doctor arrives to observe combat surgery, Hawkeye is turned on by her beauty and turned off by her competence, and is forced to reevaluate his attitudes towards women in general.
You've got to love how Margaret tells off Hawkeye!
That very thing, Sara, makes me love that episode! About bloody time somebody told him off for being sexist!
I'll agree with you guys that Margaret telling off Hawkeye at long last was great, but at the same time I would have liked it a lot better if Inga hadn't fallen for The Great Hawkeye Pierce just like every other woman he'd ever met. The first time in the Swamp, okay, but then at the end of the episode, Inga should have told him where to stick it. It's hard to take her as this strong, independent woman when she's so easily swayed by Hawkeye's charm.
On the other hand, there IS something charming about a man who so candidly admits that he's been a jerk. You'll notice that Charles is just as much of a jerk, but he refuses to admit it.
Actually, I think Charles is more of a jerk. Preparing to mutilate a patient rather than admit you may be wrong? Thinking that losing face is more important than your patient?
Yeah, I totally agree. That is unacceptable to me. Nobody should put pride above their patient.
I loved B.J's comment to Charles after Hawkeye's shower soliloquy ("...I am Life! I am APPETITE!")
B.J: "And I'm not taking my clothes off until he leaves!"
I just saw this episode again, and I just want to say again that I LOVE this episode! I all but cheered during Margaret's speech to Hawkeye. Set me little feminist heart a racin'. Am I the only one who really loves this episode because of that? I mean except for Sara and Khaja, cause they already said they did.
I haven't seen it yet, but I just betcha' I'll love that scene when I do. Heck, I love any scene where someone tells Pierce off but good ;)
Oh, it's just lovely. She tells him that he thinks the thought of sampling his wonder lips makes women go all a'flutter, but in reality, she could go into the Mess tent any time and replace those fabulous lips of his with a soggy piece of liver. It's a thing of beauty, to be sure.
I *must* hear this speech! Ah, Margaret, I like you more with each passing episode ;) Too bad TPTB continued to portray Pierce as somehow irresistable (and that Margaret became one of Pierce's conquests).
Seems like everyone in the mess tent enjoyed the speech, too....
As I recall, Alan Alda got an Emmy for writing this episode. I seem to recall reading that he got the idea after a real-life incident that forced him to look carefully at the way he treated women.
This is the second time this season someone sings the Nelson Eddy/Jennette MacDonald song, "Indian Love Call". Colonel Potter was the first in the ep, "Lil".
In the opening scene of this ep, as B.J. and Charles enter the shower, Hawkeye is putting shaving cream on his face. In one shot he has more cream on his nose than in the other.
In this ep, Klinger tells Inga he needs the signature of two doctors in order to go home with a Section Eight. I thought it was three. If it was only two he needed, I'd've thought Hawkeye and Trapper would have sent the Corporal on his merry way years ago.
When Hawkeye and Inga hug, in the wide shot he slides his left hand down her back. In the close-up, the hand appears to be higher up Inga's back.
You know, despite the fact that Margaret chewed him out the most about his attitude towards Inga and women in general, it's interesting that Margaret is so kind to Hawkeye at the end of this ep.
It is also interesting that the 4077th got such an A-class film like Casablanca. I always thought they generally got the B movies (or worse).
"All that good whiskey shot to hell."
I only spotted one major syndication cut. After his two spoiled evenings with Inga, we find Hawkeye in the mess tent with Potter, who is lecturing him about the habits of the male sea horse. After Hawkeye gets up to leave, Klinger (in organdy) tells him that he's behind him all the way, that men and women have to know their places and keep to them. Going outside, Hawkeye meets Father Mulcahy, who states that he knows what's been going on. He tells Hawkeye that his concern if for Hawkeye to avoid sinning, then smiles and notes that Hawkeye seems to be avoiding that problem.