Plot A: Ping Pong champ Cho Lin is shanghaied when he travels to Seoul to get a ring for his fiancee, Soony. He is sent back to the 4077th after being wounded, and afterwards marries Soony.
Plot B: Lt. Col Harold Becket, recovering in Post-Op, has thirty days on the line to go in order to retire a full Colonel. After hearing of the man's incompetence, which led to many casualties, Col. Potter must sacrifice his friendship by removing him from combat duty.

In the episode, Colonel Potter says he's looking forward to back home to Nebraska. Doesn't he mean home to Missouri? Potter would call Nebraska home in yet another episode, too.

I'm not sure I understand how it is that Hawkeye wasn't paid any winnings from betting on the ping pong match. Igor gave a reason that I can't remember, but it seems a bit flimsy.

As of this episode, Colonel Potter has 16 months, 3 weeks and four days. Assuming this episode takes place in November, say, of 1950, Potter should've been retired before the end of the Korean War. (It has to take place in 1950 because of the episode "A War For All Season" begins on New Year's Eve 1950. Potter assumed command of the 4077th in October, IIRC.)

Please note that with the exception of Frank Burns and Klinger, all the major characters of M*A*S*H are dressed in their Class-A uniforms. The extras (and Frank) all appear in their fatigues. Apparently wardrobe couldn't afford to outfit the entire camp in Class-A uniforms.

In the german translation, becket had only 5 days of the 30 left over to go through. The look on his face is appalling: to the end, he doesn't understand why potter sacrificies his friendship rather than risk anymore lives. What an egoist, to only think of his own career.

I really liked the korean wedding - though I wondered if it was shown correctly - it looked so nice in this war zone.

About the uniforms: I can't recall seeing the normal soldiers in other than the green uniforms on other special occasions, either (big macs visit etc.), so I thought it had to do with rank, only captains and above get the brown uniform. Besides, klinger did dress up special for this occasion, and how nicely!

How very fitting for frank to appear in his normal outfit, but when everybody is congratulating the happy couple, he starts eating the buffet.

Also very nice how hawk gets potters cooperation by simply making him father of the bride.

"About the uniforms: I can't recall seeing the normal soldiers in other than the green uniforms on other special occasions, either (big macs visit etc.), so I thought it had to do with rank, only captains and above get the brown uniform. Besides, klinger did dress up special for this occasion, and how nicely!" - Constanze

Radar, at least, has been shown in a brown, Class A uniform. He wore it at the Kempo Airport in "Goodbye, Radar". I believe he also had it on in "The Trial of Henry Blake". If I'm not mistaken, all soldiers have Class A uniforms. There are occasions where the brown, formal uniforms are required.

From what I understood from my fathr. All soldiers where issued class A formal uniforms but it depended upon what was going on and what the requirements where as to what they wore. Also I think a lot of it had to do with how many Class A costumes and Extras they could get a hold of on the show.

Watched this uncut last night.

There is a scene in the scrub room, where Cho is washing his hands. Frank walks right into him, then yells that Cho should watch where he's going. Cho protests that he wasn't moving, that Frank ran into him. Frank snaps back that Cho should watch where Frank is going, then.
Frank then makes a rather bizarre comment. I was watching this without the laugh track, so I don't know if there was a burst of laughter here. Certainly Hawkeye and B.J. did not react to it, which makes me wonder if Larry Linville simply garbled his sentence accidently. He made a comment on "Occident-prone accidentals." Presumably he meant accident-prone Occidentals. Either way, the sentence doesn't make much sense, because Cho is Oriental.

They cut part of the scene where Hawkeye comes up to Soony, crying because Cho has been gone for two days and won't be back. Just prior to it, Hawkeye was hitting on a nurse, who put him off.

I didn't understand what all the fuss was about regarding Cho's not being sent on the the 21st Evac. Cho is a member of MASH 4077, so why on Earth would they send him away? It wasn't as if he had a bad injury that required more care. He didn't even need one of the 4077's hospital beds.

When Radar is playing dressmaker's dummy, just prior to Klinger coming in and protesting Radar working his side of the street, Igor and I think Goldman come in and make some expectable comments.

I didn't understand what all the fuss was about regarding Cho's not being sent on the the 21st Evac. Cho is a member of MASH 4077, so why on Earth would they send him away?
I believe since he was drafted into the Korean Army would cause him to lose his job at the MASH. I would think they originally gave him a job as a civilian orderly and being part of the army would override that.

Interesting. When Soony and Cho enter the Swamp, Hawkeye says they’d've had the place cleaned up but their houseboy was drafted two years ago. Could that be a reference to Ho-Jon?

As of this episode, Colonel Potter has 16 months, 3 weeks and four days. Assuming this episode takes place in November, say, of 1950, Potter should've been retired before the end of the Korean War. (It has to take place in 1950 because of the episode "A War For All Season" begins on New Year's Eve 1950. Potter assumed command of the 4077th in October, IIRC.) - me

Okay, let’s do this right. Potter assumed command of the 4077th in September of 1952. That means this ep takes place in late October, early November of ‘52.

This ep marks the first appearance of actress Enid Kent as a nurse. She will appear five or six more times in future eps.

"Mule fritters!"

Cho delays the wedding to buy a ring, but that's a western tradition that Koreans didn't really adopt until much later. It didn't figure into the ceremony anyway.

Dramatically speaking, what was the point of Cho getting drafted? He just came back and resumed his plans.

The wedding ceremony was pretty accurate though a bit truncated. My wife and I were married in this style.