Plot A: The heat is getting everyone down, except Hawkeye and B.J, who have just gotten a canvas bathtub. Charles blackmails his way into sharing the tub, and Margaret and Father Mulcahy discover it, too. The whole camp finds out shortly, and tensions go even higher, so Hawkeye and B.J. are ordered to get rid of it.
Plot B: Radar needs his tonsils out.
Plot C: Klinger decides to deliberately overheat himself, to show how crazy he is. Col. Potter agrees on a section 8 if Klinger can last 24 hours.

Another episode that shows the camp's lack of concern for other's property. The tub that was owned by Hawkeye and BJ soon became communal property and everyone thought they had a right to it.

What exactly was Potter's objection to the tub? Sure, when Zale and the other soldier got into a fight over it, it was kinda justified. But still, surely Potter could've given orders regarding its use. Instead, it seems to have been left to Pierce and Hunnicutt to govern it. Almost like the Colonel was waiting for the system to fail. Potter also seems to have been the only one not to make use of the tub.

How often was the water in the tub changed? I'm not sure I'd want to use the same water as some of the others in the camp.

There's a scene where Klinger is heckling everyone in line. While everyone has sweat pouring all over them, Max is bone dry.

About the only clear syndication cut that I could spot in this episode came when Hawkeye and B.J. are prepping to operate on Radar. Klinger comes staggering in, begging for salt pills to keep him going just a little longer. Potter comes in, having overheard the request, and Klinger promptly denies that he needs them, and slips out of the room.

The impression you get is that this whole thing took place in just a couple of days. Yet, watch the shower line. We see Margaret and Charles standing in line, just a few people short of the tent. Charles has his record player, and announces that he plans to listen to the "1812 Overture" today. Scene cuts elsewhere, then cuts back. Charles is now well back in the line, and Margaret is nowhere to be seen. When the fight breaks out, Charles quickly slides to the front of the line, then steps into the tent. After the fight is dispersed, you can hear "1812" coming from the tent.
One hour short of the deadline, Klinger dives into the tent and the tub. Margaret, who had disappeared from the line, is the one in the tub.

The problem did not seem to be a lack of water. Some seasons ago, they had a quite large outdoor pool set up. What ever happened to that?

I love the menu screen for this ep. All those rubber duckies with helmets on...I laughed when I saw them.

As Pierce and Hunnicutt leave the Officers Club, there's a sign next to the door saying, "Officers", "Enlisted", "Club". Has that sign always been there? I don't remember seeing it before.

Um, why is it that B.J. and Hawkweye are receiving a package (the bathtub) at 11:00 at night? Isn't that a mite late to be getting mail of any sort? Even if there had been a heavy load of casualties, judging by the captains' attire, they'd already been in the Swamp before the package arrived.

This is, btw, the second episode in a row to start at night.

B.J. makes the comment that fifty people wouldn't fit in the tub. "Fifty"? I thought the camp had more people assigned to it than that?

The tub was being kept in the scrubroom. Just what the hell were Pierce and Hunnicutt going to do with it if there were suddenly a deluge of wounded coming in? That tub would probably not drain too quickly (it apparently holds 63 gallons [according to Hawkeye]*) and would be in the way and found very quickly if they had to go to work at a moment's notice.

Then again, how'd they get it into the scrubroom without being noticed?

Why does Hawkeye have a rubber ducky?

Father Mulcahy was scrubbing his back with a toilet brush?? Ewww. I hope it was clean.

When Sgt. Rhoden appears, Hawkeye tells him that the tub has been "in (his) family since yesterday." Um, no. Hawkeye and B.J. got the tub the other night, not the night before. So that statement is false.

Sgt. Rhoden first appeared in the episode, "The Incubator".

Just how did Rhoden hear about the tub? If word got out to him, then one would think that everyone in the area had heard about it. The camp would be probably overrun with people from every other unit looking to use it. Not to mention the possibility that it could have gotten stolen.

I'm not sure, but it seems like Radar's position in his Post Op bed changes from shot to shot. In the close-ups, he seems to be sitting up straighter than in the long shots.

Just as Radar takes a bite of the ice cream, Klinger and the rest of the camp arrives wanting some of it. In the next shot however (and I could only tell this by using the zoom function on the DVD), Radar is just dipping his spoon into the ice cream.

*To be honest, it doesn't look like the tub could hold that much water.

"All that good whiskey shot to hell."

I'd have to look back to see, but at some point after the episode where they first got the Officers' Club, someone tacked up an "And Enlisted" board onto the original sign.

Regarding receiving the tub at night--perhaps Radar had been busy that day, and delivered it late.

I wonder if Hawkeye ordered so much ice cream because he knew that everyone would demand some. When Hawkeye and B.J. bring the cart with the ice cream in, you can see one of the nurses hurrying out the door--to spread the word, no doubt.

The impression you get is that this whole thing took place in just a couple of days. Yet, watch the shower line. We see Margaret and Charles standing in line, just a few people short of the tent. Charles has his record player, and announces that he plans to listen to the "1812 Overture" today. Scene cuts elsewhere, then cuts back. Charles is now well back in the line, and Margaret is nowhere to be seen. When the fight breaks out, Charles quickly slides to the front of the line, then steps into the tent. After the fight is dispersed, you can hear "1812" coming from the tent.
One hour short of the deadline, Klinger dives into the tent and the tub. Margaret, who had disappeared from the line, is the one in the tub. - D.K. Henderson

I don't think there's anything wrong with the timeline. The ep does take place in the course of two days, more or less.

It starts off with Beej and Hawk receiving the tub at 11 o'clock one night. The next morning, the two are using it in the scrubroom when Margaret and Father Mulcahy find out about it.

Later that afternoon, Klinger introduces his latest Section Eight scheme. Potter tells Max he has to wear the winter clothes for 24 hours and he's got the discharge. Still later that day, at supper time, Margaret complains about Charles monopolizing the tub. Hawkeye informs Radar of the tub, which causes the word of the tub's existence to be leaked out to the rest of the camp.

The next morning Charles and Margaret are in line to use the tub, when Major Houlihan interrupts Father Mulcahy's bath. Rhoden shows up to make Pierce and Hunnicutt a few offers on the tub. He's turned down.

Hawkeye, B.J. and Potter then operate on Radar's tonsils, say around noon. By the time the operation has been completed, Charles has gotten back in line for the tub (say around 12:30, one o'clock). (There was a line, btw, about Winchester "living in the line".) The fight breaks out and Charles takes over the tub again. Rhoden returns a short time later to make another offer for the tub.

Klinger, a short time later, caves in to the heat, and loses out on the magic Section Eight. (This could have happened around 3 or four in the afternoon, thus placing the start of Klinger's 24 hours at 4 or 5, just before supper.)

As for the whole "1812 Overture" thing - Maybe Charles just liked it so well, he played it again, Sam.

My only question is "How did Sgt. Rhoden get that strawberry ice cream so fast?" It seems like he brought it in that night.

Regarding receiving the tub at night--perhaps Radar had been busy that day, and delivered it late. - D.K. Henderson, part II

Could be. But for that to happen would be very unusual for the Corporal. Normally, he delivers the mail as soon as he sorts it. I don't think the camp, which would be fully aware of the arrival of mail (which has be shown before in the series) would let Walter wait so many hours before delivering it.

"All that good whiskey shot to hell."

I'd have to look back to see, but at some point after the episode where they first got the Officers' Club, someone tacked up an "And Enlisted" board onto the original sign. - D.K. Henderson

Yes, the sign above the door. However, the sign I'm talking about is by the door. That sign is also really three slats. Each board has a word on it. "Officers", "Enlisted" and "Club".

"All that good whiskey shot to hell."