Plot A: After 24 hours of surgery, Col. Potter and Hawkeye go to a Korean hospital to lend aid and supplies. Hawkeye is required to bring his gun with him. When they come under attack during their return, Potter urges Hawkeye to use his gun in self-defense.
Plot B: Klinger claims to be Zoltan, King of the Gypsies, and therefore cannot be in the army because he's not an American citizen.

I loved the scene in the Korean hospital where Hawkeye or Potter makes a reference to Frank Burns. Mako, the Korean surgeon, speaks up: "You mean, old Ferret Face?"
Potter (or Hawkeye?): "You know him?"
Mako: "He worked on two of my men."
Hawkeye: "And they survived?"
Mako: "Yes, they were lucky!"

Yeah, I loved that part too. I liked the episodes where they went to other hospitals or aid stations and realized that the 4077th was actually tame compared to those.

The scene where Frank Burns makes a crack about Potter's age in the OR has been cut.

It's kinda fun watching Margaret and Frank insult each. It's a sign of how badly their relationship had deteriorated since she got engaged.

Potter tells Burns that who goes to 426 Korean Hospital will not be made alphabetically. Actually, it is. In reverse order, though. Pierce and Potter follow Burns and Hunnicutt alphabetically.

As the get ready to leave the camp, Potter orders Hawkeye to get his gun. He tells Pierce, "I'm not riding shotgun." Uh, since Hawkeye is driving, Potter is riding shotgun.

I love the scene where Klinger uses the cards to determine Potter's and Pierce's fortune. "Holy Mackerel! I drew a straight!"

I'm a bit surprised that the censors let them get by with showing so much blood on Hawkeye's and Colonel Potter's shirts at the Korean Hospital. I don't remember seeing so much blood on them at the 4077th.

Apparently the dangers of drinking and driving weren't too well known in the '50s. Everytime Hawkeye would toast Klinger's nose (or Zoltan's or Charles DeGaulle's), Potter would tell him is a double (or a triple) drink. That's a good way to get drunk. And Hawk's the driver.

Given how adversed Pierce is to fire a gun, why doesn't Colonel Potter just shoot the gun himself? I mean, does it really matter who shoots it? Besides, has Hawkeye ever really been to the firing range to develop any shooting skill? Potter has surely been trained in the use of a gun. Basically, Potter is hoping that Hawkeye, who apparently has never used a gun before, would be able to score a hit on the enemy. Not likely. Not even if Pierce were sober. It might have been more interesting if the TPTB had actually placed Hawkeye in a direct confrontation where he either had to shoot somebody to save his and Colonel Potter's lives or allow them to be killed by the enemy. As it is, the argument about using the gun is pointless. There's never really a sense that using the gun is a necessity.

Doesn't the Colonel seem more drunk than Hawkeye? Potter drank less than Hawkeye, and yet he seems more tipsy. Lower tolerance, perhaps?

After drinking the swamp hooch Hawkeye probably has no liver left and the tolerance level of an elephant. A little bit of scotch whiskey isnt going to phase him.

Yeah, but don't forget, Potter's had quite few belts from the still, too.

One of the scenes cut from this ep has Igor handing out the mail to Klinger. One is a letter to Radar, who’s on leave. The other’s a package to Klinger containing his Zoltan costume. As company clerk (temporary company clerk, I might add), shouldn’t Klinger be handling the mail?

The other cut scene takes place in the Supply Hut and it has “Zoltan” reading Frank’s palm. Klinger attempts to use a false prediction of glory to persuade Frank to insisting upon replacing Colonel Potter on the trip to the Korean hospital. It doesn’t work.

According to this ep, Colonel Potter became a surgeon in 1932. So he’s been at it for about 20 years. Given that in one ep, the Colonel says he was 16 when he joined the Army that would mean he was in his late thirties, early forties when he became a surgeon. Wonder why he took so long to choose that occupation?

Rather convenient that there was a foxhole just where Colonel Potter and Hawkeye stopped the jeep, wasn’t it?

Just before Hawkeye begins his famous “I treat their wounds, heal their wounds” speech, Potter hands the doctor the pistol. Pierce in the long shot holds the weapon lower down on the grip than he does in the close-up during the speech.

“Mule fritters!”

"As company clerk (temporary company clerk, I might add), shouldn’t Klinger be handling the mail?"
Perhaps Radar has so many tasks that, when he is on leave, they are split among the other non-coms so that no one is overwhelmed with doing their usual job and Radar's.

"Wonder why he took so long to choose that occupation?"
A lot of people change their professions later in life, although I wonder how he was able to do it while being in the army, since it has been mentioned he's a career army man.

A lot of people change their professions later in life, although I wonder how he was able to do it while being in the army, since it has been mentioned he's a career army man. - Margie

Oh I know a lot of people do change their professions at different times in their lives. Look at me. Just last year, after turning 40, I became a CNA (Certified Nurse Aide). I'm just wondering what prompted the change. Didn't mean that it was a nit or anything.

"Mule fritters!"

Benn: As the get ready to leave the camp, Potter orders Hawkeye to get his gun. He tells Pierce, "I'm not riding shotgun." Uh, since Hawkeye is driving, Potter is riding shotgun.

Maybe he meant it in the original meaning? The guy who carried the gun on the stagecoach. He might mean he doesn't want to have to protect Hawkeye. Its a stretch, I know, but its the only thing I can come up with....

Or maybe they started out with the colonel driving and then switched over after some point since i'm pretty sure the entire drive was not shown.

Nope. There was only one driver of the jeep - Captain Benjamin Franklin Hawkeye Pierce. It's most likely what Merat said, if anything. And given that Potter's a fan of Westerns - My Darling Clementine, Zane Grey, etc. - that makes it all the more likely.

"Mule fritters!"

Oh ok.