Plot A: The surgeons need a special, delicate clamp--one that doesn't exist. A local jewelry dealer, Mr. Shin, is commissioned to make one after other efforts fail.
Plot B: Margaret's wedding ring has gotten tossed out with the garbage. Mr. Shin comes to the rescue again to save Klinger from Margaret's wrath.

In "Comrades in Arms" which is an earlier episode, Margaret tells the 8063rd that the instrument they're using was designed at the 4077. Is this the instrument they're referring to? Was this episode actually filmed prior to "Comrades in Arms"?

Wonder if Margaret ever came to appreciate the irony of the mistaken engraving--"Our love will EVER fail"?

According to this ep the trash at the 4077th is hauled away by a garbage truck. Wonder how big that truck is? I wonder that because of the mountain of garbage Hawkeye and Father Nulcahy were fighting in the episode "The Live You Save". And while it's on my mind, where does the Army send the garbage?

Is there is a reason Hawkeye just happens to be carrying the clamp around with him. He has it in the Mess Tent to show Zale when the Sargeant volunteers to make a new clamp. Surely the clamp should be sterilized and put into storage in case it's needed for the next batch of wounded.

Hawkeye's queen on the chess board doesn't look like it's part of the set. It's base and coloring are different from the other pieces. There's also a pawn on the board that looks different.

That Japanese bathrobe B.J.'s wearing, that's what, the second or third one he's worn so far? Unless I'm mistaken, Hunnicutt would be shown wearing something like five different robes throughout the run of the series.

In this ep we see the nurses tent that has the two people occupancy, not the four bunk one. Wonder how it is determined who is housed where.

Didn't Hawkeye or B.J. check the inscription on the ring before handing it over to Klinger to give to Margaret? I would have, just to be sure an inscription was there to begin with. It was the first thing Margaret noticed.

When talking to Cohen in Post Op after operating on his leg, Hawkeye pulls out of his coat pocket the new vascular clamp. Now Pierce didn't come from OR with the clamp. He came in from the compound. That is a one of a kind surgical instrument and Pierce carries it around like it was his wallet?

I would hope the doctors would have had Mr. Shin make two or three more of those clamps. Surely there will be days when each surgeon will have a patient on whom they will need to use such an instrument. They may need more than one such clamp on an individual patient. It could also break. Or it could get lost (especially if Hawkeye keeps carrying the damned thing with him everywhere). I think it'd be a good idea to have a couple of extras on hand.

When Charles places Hawkeye in checkmate, B.J. starts to look away from Captain Pierce. However, the very next shot shows Hunnicutt looking at Hawkeye, a smile on his face.

When Hawkeye and B.J. talk to Mr. Shin about making the new clamp, Hawkeye, once again, has a clamp with him. Is there a scene in this ep where Pierce isn't carrying a clamp? What, does he expect to whip it out on a moment's notice to perform emergency surgery? Or is he carrying it to ask everyone in camp if they can make the arterial clamp the doctors need?

There's a cut scene right after their attempt to hire the Seabees to make the clamp. Potter looks at Hawkeye and B.J. and says, "How are you at do it yourself?" Usually the scene cuts to the Swamp where Zale comes in and volunteers to make the clamp. Prior to this, Hawkeye and B.J. come into the lab, armed with a clamp and a tool kit. Hawkeye at first hands B.J. a truly enormous screwdriver to take the clamp apart, then finds a smaller one. Once apart, they attempt to straighten the clamp with delicate precision--a hammer, in other words. Charles comes in to watch and be entertained while he has his lunch--which consists of three hard-boiled eggs. (Gee, and I thought real eggs were hard to come by!) Watching their attempt with the hammer fail, Charles asks for it, as though he's going to try to help, but he only uses it to carefully crack his eggshells. An exasperated B.J. ends the scene by smacking all three eggs with the hammer, one by one. You could, of course, see that coming the moment Charles took the eggs out of the paper bag.

Presumably, in an unfilmed scene, they carefully explained to Mr. Shin just what they needed in the clamp. All we saw was them handing the old one to him.

While discussing the possibility of going through official channels to have the clamp made, Potter said that by the time he got permission to get married, his son was divorced. Is that the son who was married to Jeanine, who had the baby in "Mall Call Again" back in season four? That wasn't that long ago (in series time).

When B.J. says, "Hey, we're inventors", Charles' arms are folded. In the next shot, when Winchester says, "More like dreamers", his left hand is rubbing the back of his neck.

Margaret is searching for her ring in the scrub room. She's throwing gown out of the laundry barrels in her frantic search. One of the gowns land on Charles' head. The gown's position on Winchester's head changes between shots.

In the longshot in the scrub room, the edges of Klinger's green hat lay flat. In the close-up on him and Margaret, the front of the hat is bent up.

While Potter's on the phone to I-Corps, Hawkeye's holding the clamp he seems to carry everywhere he goes in this ep. The position Pierce holds the clamp changes in different shots.

The eggshell fragments in the close-up (when Beej smashes them) do not match the fragments in the longshot.

When Charles steps away from his table to see how the new clamp is working, he stands beside Father Mulcahy. Mulcahy's right arm changes its position between shots. (There's a lot of continuity errors of this sort in this ep.)

"Gentlemen, please. Mozart."

BTW, this is the ninth episode this season in which Radar does not appear. Maybe he was hiding out with his animals? (Interesting how there was never an in-story explanation for Corporal O'Reilly's absence.)

"Gentlemen, please. Mozart."

Hawkeye and BJ seemed awfully ungrateful for Sgt Zale's effort at construction of the surgical tool. Zale put alot of effort into it, and it was almost what they wanted. Couldn't he have modified it to work right? Hawkeye and BJ acted like he should've throw it in the trash.