Plot A: There is a possiblity that the supply of morphine is contaminated, and Post-Op is full of patients with very painful injuries. The doctors experiment with a placebo.
Plot B: Klinger must contend with a newcomer who is genuinely crazy.
Plot C: Hawkeye and B.J. become annoyed with Charles' constant one-up-manship, and try to get back at him, without sucess.
During a bout of one-up-manship, Hawkeye and B.J. are discussing well-known lushes back home. Charles breaks in with an anecdote about his handyman, who drank up all the champagne set up for a wedding...his SISTER'S wedding. The only sister we know of is Honoria, who is still living at home, and at one point has her engagement to an Italian broken. Was her erstwhile groom so offended by the handyman stealing all the booze that he walked out on her? Or is this perhaps the invisible, nameless sister who provided Charles with a nephew who gets fainting spells?
Notice that Charles, after constantly protesting that the placebos will not, cannot work, shrugs off the nearly 50% sucess rate as nothing special.
Charles comments that Audrey Hepburn had an "appetite of a bird." This is a very old and very inaccurate expression. Birds have to eat frequently to maintain their high metabolism. Any human with an "appetite of a bird" would be constantly stuffing food in.
Don't klinger and the newcomer(forget his name) live in quite nice quarters for enlisted men?
Very nice; looks just like Margaret's or Potter's tent.
They cut some of Charles one-up-manship in the O.R.
Miller's tour of the Mess tent was also extended, and he exited singing imitation Rosemary Cloony.
What was the man doing in the Pharmacy? Do they have someone stationed there around the clock? Are the things in Pharmacy more accessible than the drugs kept in Supply, and therefore require a guard?
During the scene in Klinger's tent, Klinger told Miller that "We" have guard duty in two hours, yet later we see Klinger showing up to "relieve" Miller.
When Charles brushed off the nearly 50% success rate of the placebos, he related the story of a surgery done by hypnosis. No offense, Charles, but hypnosis is not exactly the same as a bunch of guys feeling better simply because they expected to feel better.
During a bout of one-up-manship, Hawkeye and B.J. are discussing well-known lushes back home. Charles breaks in with an anecdote about his handyman, who drank up all the champagne set up for a wedding...his SISTER'S wedding. The only sister we know of is Honoria, who is still living at home, and at one point has her engagement to an Italian broken. Was her erstwhile groom so offended by the handyman stealing all the booze that he walked out on her? Or is this perhaps the invisible, nameless sister who provided Charles with a nephew who gets fainting spells? - D.K. Henderson
Maybe it was Honoria's wedding - the one where she was married to the "simple farmer", as related in the previous episode, "Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde"?
Did Miller, who apparently had just been assigned to the 4077th, just suddenly crack up or was he that way before joining the MASH unit? If he was that way before his current assignment, why wasn't his craziness noticed before now?
Shows how ignorant I am, but does morphine taste like sugar? If not, then why are the morphine placebos being made out of sugar? Why not, say a combination of aspirin and sugar?
So after Miller discharges his rifle in the compound, many of the unit exit their tents to see what's going on. Surprisingly, none of them stick around to find out what happened, much less ask if there's anything they can do. And why didn't Potter or any of the other officers show up? Surely the sounds of gunfire would have taken them away from the task of making the placebos?
Mm. So, after giving these patients these "super-pain pills", wonder what the wounded thought when the next day they were given plain ol' morphine again?
In the Mess Tent the doctors are talking about how well the placebo effect is working. In the long shot, the handle of Colonel Potter's coffee cup is turned one way. In Potter's close-up, it's turned another way.
More M*A*S*H 47s: When regaling the other doctors with the tale about the surgery using hypnosis, Charles indicates the event happened at "Massachusetts General, '47". Later Hawkeye talks about dating a Lenore Clement, who was "Miss Crabapple Cove '47".
I'm just wondering, behind B.J., when he's talking about dating Esther Williams' stand-in, among Hawkeye's personal effects, you can see a picture of an older man. Is this supposed to be Daniel Pierce, Hawkeye's Dad? If so, this may the only time we see him in the series.
How many months after Miller was Section Eighted from the 4077th does the last tag take place? I mean, it would take time, I would imagine, for Miller to approach the Novelite Toy Company and then convince them to start manufacturing his Mr. Sock toy and then become Vice-President (or whatever position he held with the company).
Wonder if Klinger ever tried to copy Miller in order to get a Section 8 of his own?
"Gentlemen, please. Mozart."
>Wonder if Klinger ever tried to copy Miller in order to get a Section 8 of his own?>
I doubt it. Miller could have put the 4077th in danger. Klinger would never intentionaly do that.
I know. But I was thinking Max could swipe the talking to his shoes and socks and using the ladle as a camera/microphone bits. You know, copy the less dangerous elements of Miller's act. I mean, come on, the minute he was told fainting spells would get him out of the Army, Klinger immediately start fainting. So, he's just seen another successful Section Eight ploy. Why wouldn't he use some of it?
"Gentlemen, please. Mozart."
Maybe Klinger knew the unwritten rules of movies that every trick works only once? Or he thinks that the shrinks will never fall for the same story twice?
Could be. But again, after Charles mentioned a nephew had gotten out of the service due to fainting spells, Klinger immediately starting having them. Moreover, the whole dressing as a woman bit was something he had gotten from his Uncle Gus (I think it was Gus. Maybe Uncle Abdul?)
"Gentlemen, please. Mozart."
But the dreggin as a woman trick didn't work the 2nd try. (Thus proving the rule.)
"...dreggin as a woman..."? How do you do that? 
Anyway, Max still kept wearing the dresses until he officially became the unit's Company Clerk. It may have proved the rule you mention (one the Wile E. Coyote has always abided by), but the fact is Klinger did try wearing dresses to get out the Army, because his uncle did - which is what my point is.
"Gentlemen, please. Mozart."
I ment "...dressing as a woman".
Ahhh... Bach!
I figured as much. 
"Gentlemen, please. Mozart."
>Shows how ignorant I am, but does morphine taste like sugar? If not, then why are the morphine placebos being made out of sugar? Why not, say a combination of aspirin and sugar?<
If I remember correctly, the doctors put the sugar into capsules. If the patients swallowed them quickly enough, the outer coating wouldn't have dissolved yet, so the patients wouldn't have tasted the sugar. I think there was one patient who said he could only chew pills, and somehow the doc (I think it was Potter) got him to swallow it whole. The way it was done made me think that the doctor didn't want the patient to taste the sugar, so he made sure the pill went down whole.