Plot: Billy Tyler, a young football player from Iowa, is brought in with a leg injury. After finding that his leg has been amputated, he wants to die, but Radar persuades him to go on living.

Plot B: After Klinger and Zale have a fight (and Margaret breaks it up) Frank more or less orders them into a formal boxing match.

I saw this one today. As they're loading Tyler into the ambulance at the end of the episode you can clearly see the outlines of both his legs under the blanket.

Is it just me, or does Rosie's look smaller in this episode? The counter is almost certainly smaller than it appears in the ep "Captains Outrageous".

The doctors at the 4077th should have been tending more of the fighters from Rosie's than the one Frank took care of. One soldier got hit on the head with a bottle. He could have gotten a concussion. Another gets thrown through a window. Those guys should have been badly cut. At least.

Zale calls Klinger a coward for not fighting someone from the 8063rd? Why didn't Zale take the guy on himself instead of trying tell to Klinger to do it?

Why are the soldiers from the 8063rd at Rosie's? Is the 8063rd that close? I would have thought that the two MASH units would have been miles apart.

If I'm told one of my legs had been cut off, I wouldn't just raise the blanket to check. I'd throw the blankets off and sit up to look at my leg.

B.J. says to Radar, "I thought your liver was a virgin." Hunnicutt has apparently not seen any of the first season episodes. Radar was drinking quite frequently then. He even, I think, had a martini from the still once.

It's surprising that Colonel Potter never heard about Zale's and Klinger's impending bout. It seems like the whole camp knew. Plus the ring was made in the middle of the compound. It'd've been hard for Sherman to miss it. Even if he was exercising Sophie at that time.

Benn,

Zale calls Klinger a coward for not fighting someone from the 8063rd? Why didn't Zale take the guy on himself instead of trying tell to Klinger to do it?

Throughout the whole fight, zale is cheering people on instead of fighting himself. I wonder why nobody else calls him a coward.

B.J. says to Radar, "I thought your liver was a virgin." Hunnicutt has apparently not seen any of the first season episodes. Radar was drinking quite frequently then. He even, I think, had a martini from the still once.

Probably because Radar never shows affinity for drinking or spirits like all the others do.

It's surprising that Colonel Potter never heard about Zale's and Klinger's impending bout. It seems like the whole camp knew. Plus the ring was made in the middle of the compound. It'd've been hard for Sherman to miss it. Even if he was exercising Sophie at that time.

I got the impression that the window in potters office go outside on the quiet side of the camp, the backside, instead on the busy street where ambulances drive. If he was buried in paperwork and didn't want to know, he could easily pretend to not notice. Probably he doesn't want to regulate everything in the camp, because he trusts things will work out eventually.

I like it that radar comes up with a way to help the football player, and hawk, who should have more experience, is helpless. It makes both of them more human. I can also understand the anger of the football player at hawk during the first talk, that hawk can't understand what it means for taylor. The closest would be loss of a hand preventing hawk from ever operating again, but then he would still have his education to open other careers; taylor has nothing besides football, no acceptable role model (and he is black in a still segregated america.)

There is a cut scene in the Mess tent, prior to Klinger and Zale's altercation. Frank and Margaret are sitting together, with Zale behind them. Frank turns and urges Zale to tell Margaret about Rosie's, how he defended the honor of the 4077th with his fists. Zale boasts that he didn't need to use his fists, holding up his hand with two fingers extended. He uses eye gouging instead. Margaret shudders with disgust, but Frank acts pleased. This is the only indication that Zale may actually have participated in the fight after Klinger sneaked out, but he is suspiciously free from any bruises or lacerations.

There is also a scene where Zale confronts Klinger, who is hanging out his washing with Radar holding the laundry basket. Zale comments that Klinger should have defended his outfit. Klinger replies, "I did defend my outfit. I didn't want it to get torn." The two keep arguing and pressing closer, until Radar protests. They look at him, and he says, "You're squishing me!"

I don't understand why Klinger didn't comment on the fact that Zale was urging everyone else on while keeping out of the fray himself. It's such an obvious comeback to Zale's taunts.

I also don't understand why Margaret didn't comment on the fact that Frank held back from interfering in the Mess tent fight until after she had broken it up herself.

The final scene has Frank bursting into Potter's office, with Klinger and Zale in tow. Frank has bandages on both ears and is having trouble hearing. He wants Klinger and Zale sent to the stockade for striking a superior officer. Klinger mutters that if he's going to the stockade, he's not going alone. Frank hears that well enough, and says that Klinger wouldn't dare. Klinger replies that he would, and Zale asks Potter what happens to officers that break regulations. Potter says very sternly that they end up in the stockade. Klinger and Zale look at Frank, and Frank asks Potter if he may drop all charges. As they leave the office, Zale tries to compliment Frank, who doesn't hear what Zale said. Klinger tries to tell him that Zale called him an idiot, but Frank still can't hear. Klinger cups his hand to his own ear and says that he can't hear Frank....

When the fight in Rosie’s first starts, there’s a chair with three of those old wooden soda pop cases near the bar. Someone is knocked against them and the top case falls to the floor. In the next shot of Rosie’s, that case is nowhere to be found.

Why is Klinger hanging up his laundry while there’s surgery going on? Isn’t he a corpsman? Isn’t he normally working in the O.R. when there are casualties?

Why doesn’t anyone make Frank put a mask when he brings Kornhaus, the cook’s assistant to O.R. to be treated? There is the leg operation on Tyler still going on. You’d think they’d be worried about Frank contaminating the field. For that matter, why is Kornhaus being treated in O.R.? Shouldn’t he be tended to in Pre-Op where all such minors wounds are treated?

The tent that Zale is billeted in a redress of the Nurses’ tent from “The Nurses”.

"Mule fritters!"