Plot: There's a deluge of patients, and the 4077th is out of blood. A truckload of Turkish soldiers comes in to donate blood in gratitude after their commander's life is saved.

(Thanks yet again, Khaja!)

One of the various vignettes in this episode was a Puerto Rican soldier shocked and shamed because his mustache had been shaved off. (Facial damage.) Klinger very kindly made him a false mustache to wear until he could grow a new one. ("One hundred percent Lebanese. It'll probably keep growing!")

This is the first episode we see B.J. having to deal with removing the leg of a patient. The next one would be a patient with a wife and daughter. Just like Captain Hunnicutt.

This episode also marks the second time actor Hilly Hicks appears on M*A*S*H. The first time he appeared in the ep, "White Gold" as "Perkins"/Johnson. In this ep he plays Corporal Moody. It's a shame TPTB did not make them both the same character. There's no real reason not to. At least that I can think of.

If you look carefully at the mustache Klinger made for Robelo ,the Puerto Rican soldier, you can see a bit of tape sticking up from the end of it. If Robelo were to push the ends to his face, the tape would give away the fact that it's a fake.

In the second scene with the Puerto Rican, you can see that the bandage has migrated further across his lip.

One of the vignettes of the episode has a patient who was brought in unconcious and remains so. After fretting about the problem, it finally occurs to Col. Potter (while in the OR) that perhaps the man had been bitten by a snake. He instructs Kellye to have Hawkeye examine the man's feet for bite marks. In the syndicated versions, this is usually the last we hear of the patient, but there is a scene where Potter talks with the patient, and tells him that if the snake had struck around his throat, he would have died with a permanent hickey.

There is another deleted scene that I didn't remember at all--Frank was talking with a patient who comments about getting patched up, only to go back to the fighting to get hit again. He doesn't want to fight anymore. Frank blithely comments that he will be going home soon, back to his safe, civilized life. He also comments that his wife only sends him cookies twice a month now. He is certain that she is fooling around. He had hired a detective to follow her. The man had reported that Louise went to church meetings, PTA, etc, which convinced Frank that the detective was one of her lovers, so he hired another detective (which he referred to as a "cop") to follow the first one. He was annoyed because the second man demanded expenses. The patient by now is very uncomfortable and wants Frank to go away, but he's unwillingly drawn back to the conversation when Frank mentions "his" disease. A man had come in with an unidentified rash, which Frank named "Burn's Blight." He was all set to go on the lecture circuit and make lots of money, when the ungrateful man got well. Frank finally asks the patient to talk about himself, saying that the doctors are under orders to be compassionate. When the patient finally says again that he doesn't want to fight anymore, Frank more or less tells him, "Save it for the chaplain, coward, I don't have to listen to you!" and leaves.

BTW, the reason that Frank refused to donate blood was "strategy". One of the doctors should always have "a full tank".

Right before the scene where Hawkeye and B.J. force Frank to the head of the blood donation line, Col. Potter goes on the P.A. system. He says that he knows that it has not been forty-eight hours yet, but they are desperate for blood, and would people please donate again. Volunteers will be exempt from Potter's hygiene lectures for the next month--and don't knock people down in the rush to get in line.
(Nowadays, of course, people are expected to wait 56 days between blood donations.)

In “Hepatitis”, Potter says he doesn’t want to go through another round of “camp jaundice”. Is this episode what he’s referring to? I realize that two patients contracting the disease from tainted blood is hardly an epidemic, but the alternative is to conclude that hepatitis struck the camp at least three times since Potter took command.

Robelo, the Puerto Rican says he’s had a moustache since he was 12. If so, he’d’ve had to have gone to school in Puerto Rico. I sincerely doubt any American schools, particularly in the ‘50s, would have allowed him to wear a moustache at that age.

Frank’s comment that he’s “going home soon” is interesting. Apparently, Burns had almost gotten all of his points (disregarding the fact that the point system was no longer used by the Army). There is only more episode left in which Major Burns will appear, and then he will be gone. Unfortunately, Frank was not discharged the way he thought he would be. Was this meant to let the viewers know that this was Larry Linville’s last season on the series?

When Potter is talking to the snake bite victim, you can see Frank walking out of Post-Op. If the sequence that follows, the one with Hawkeye and B.J. talking about playing football, is meant to follow immediately after Potter’s “terminal hickey” comment, then there’s a nit. Because we see a nurse walk out the same door Frank did. However, she doesn’t seem to have come from anywhere. She’s just suddenly going through the door.

The chart for the patient that makes a pass at Margaret appears to have nothing written on it. (Thanks to the zoom function on DVD player.)

When Potter uses the P.A. to announce the need for more blood, he blows into the microphone twice. Nice continuity by TPTB for that one. In “Lt. Radar O’Reilly”, Radar instructs Klinger to blow into the microphone before using it.

Sgt. McGill, the man with the Polaroid camera and the whiskey trade, was played by Sal Viscuso, one of the voices of the P.A. announcer. This is his second onscreen appearance this season.

"Mule fritters!"