Plot: Radar has enrolled in the "Famous Las Vegas Writers School" and writes his impressions of the camp. Hawkeye and B.J. stage a fight for Frank's birthday that escalates into the real thing.

Plot B: Klinger threatens to immolate himself is he doesn't get a Section 8.

Great Line:"Who put gasoline in my gasoline?"

Another vignette in this episode had Klinger rushing off to try and gain points by bringing in surrendering Chinese soldiers. Unfortunately, he was wearing a dress at the time, and the Chinese had not seen a woman "for an overexcited length of time." They never did explain how Klinger was able to get away.

Saw this one the other day, and something occurred to me. In the episode where Hawkeye was trying desperately to get a new pair of boots, the chain of favors led to Margaret wanting to throw a birthday party for Frank. During the episode, it became obvious that it was either winter or very early spring, being extremely cold and mushy outside.

In THIS episode, it's again Frank's birthday, but it is not wintertime.

Searching for a most unforgettable character, Radar talks to Father Mulcahy, who tells him of his sister the sister. Later, Radar, speaks to Margaret right after she's come out of the shower, asking her to describe a romantic interlude, since he doesn't think that he personally has ever had one. Margaret tells of a time that she and Donald were in a restaurant, when a big, 250 lb man came by and somehow brushed against her leg. Margaret screamed, and Donald jumped up, prepared to take the man on. Radar, awestruck, asked if Donald did indeed fight the big man, and Margaret said no--he and his Seeing Eye dog went on their way.

There is a scene in the mess tent with Frank complaining about not getting tapioca when other men did. Klinger protests that that's the reason there is no more--the other men ate it all up. Frank states that he always has tapioca for his birthday. Klinger asks why Frank didn't tell him that before (presumably Klinger would have held some back for him) and Frank childishly replies that Klinger should have asked him. He then goes to the table and "confiscates" Igor's bowl of tapioca--with flies instead of raisins.

They slightly extend the tent scene after the sham fight. Hawkeye comes back, saying that Potter is asleep, and B.J. slams out. Frank embroiders on what B.J. had said to him, and Hawkeye stares out the tent, repeating, "He really said that?" Frank, meanwhile, is grinning away.

There is then an outdoor scene, when B.J. comes up to Hawkeye, chortling, and asking which of them should get the Oscar. Hawkeye starts calling him on what B.J. had said to Frank. B.J. is confused, but slowly comes to admit that he does believe that Hawkeye is too competitive, and always has to have the last word, which Hawkeye denies. B.J. finally starts getting angry and challenges Hawkeye to allow B.J. to tell him something and then walk away without Hawkeye saying something more. Hawkeye agrees, but he can't do it--he keeps adding a last word, and B.J. gets more and more angry, finally shrieking "I can't win!" as he stalks away. Hawkeye mutters, "You're wrong."

If Radar is typing the duty log for June 13, then the year would have to be 1953 and the war is almost a couple of months away from ending.

While Hawkeye is telling Radar an amusing anecdote, you can see someone getting their haircut just outside the Swamp. I swear the camp’s barber must really be bad. He never gets any business.

Why does Frank’s anecdote about the kid in the wheelchair named Timmy remind me of South Park?
Frank always gets tapioca pudding on his birthday? I don’t believe he did on his last birthday. (“For Want of a Boot”)

It isn’t until Potter sniffs his hand that he realizes that Klinger isn’t using real gasoline. Why does it take that long? If Klinger had really poured gas on himself, everyone who was standing around the Corporal would be able to smell it. And despite how much he poured on himself the first time, he sure looked awful dry.

Is Frank a slow reader or what? When the argument between Pierce and Hunnicutt begins, Frank is reading a magazine. He’s still reading the magazine during the last tag in which Radar performs magic. But he’s still on the same page he was the previous day. (You can tell by the ads on the back of the magazine.)

"Mule fritters!"