After Henry is transferred to Tokyo (and Frank Burns takes command), the doctors scheme to bring him back.

This episode actually takes place earlier in the series. Hammond is still the General in charge of the 4077th's sector.

This is the episode that establishes Bloomington, Illinois as Colonel Blake's hometown.

Did it not occur to the Swampmen that if Henry is transfered, Frank Burns would be in charge? Who did they think would in command of the unit?

After Frank sets some of his gear into the C.O. tent, Burns tries to get Hawkeye & Trapper to salute him. This is cut for syndication.

In an earlier episode, Hawkeye claims that others watch Trapper doing calinthestics. Here, Trapper is trying to get out of doing them, just like Pierce and Spearchucker.

The still in the Swamp is different. It's not the same as the one in the pilot, but it's not yet the one we would become familiar with for the rest of the series.

The idea of faking an attack of appendicitis is first mentioned in this episode. Ugly John suggests it as a way to get rid of Major Burns. Trapper & Hawkeye would later perform an unnecessary appendectomy on Colonel Flagg. Hawkeye would perform another on another Colonel.

When Radar hands Hawkeye two passes to Tokyo, Radar says he should've looked under T for Tokyo. Why? The passes are blank. There's nothing to indicate they are Tokyo passes, per se.

I think some dialogue is cut in the scene where the geisha girl is walking on Henry's back. The conversation concerns the fact that Leslie is falling apart without Colonel Blake at the camp.

How long was Henry gone? Hawkeye says Radar started developing symptoms the previous week. So we know Blake was gone at least a week.

That comic book Radar is reading in Post-Op is an anachronism. It's Marvel Comics' Captain Savage #10. It was published in the Sixties.

Henry has more back bone in the episode than in later episodes. Particularly in the scenes where he's confronting Major Burns.

Radar was supposed to be sick. Henry says he's going to call General Hammond. Radar jumps out of bed volunteering to place the call for Colonel Blake. O'Reilly goes to the phone by the Post-Op desk. Waitaminnit! A phone in Post-Op?! Only in this episode.

I thought it was Bloomington, Indiana?

No. Frank Burns was from Indiana - Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Look at Henry's coffee cup. It's the Fightin' Illini. Remember in "Adam's Rib", Henry is able to give the phone number of the Dearborn Station in Chicago because he had to go there so often. That Henry was from Illinois was also mentioned in the ep, "The Yalu Brick Road".

Is there a Bloomingtion, Indiana?

Yeah, that's where Indiana University (Former home of Bobby Knight) is.

Ah. I did not know that.

"That Henry was from Illinois was also mentioned in the ep, 'The Yalu Brick Road'." - me

Behzzzzzz! Wrong! The episode I was thinking of was "Rainbow Bridge". "The Yalu Brick Road" was well after Henry was gone.

When Radar hands Hawkeye two passes to Tokyo, Radar says he should've looked under T for Tokyo. Why? The passes are blank. There's nothing to indicate they are Tokyo passes, per se.

No...but where else do the guys go on leave? Seems to me that when somebody comes to Radar for a pass, he can be pretty certain of their destination.

(Alternate suggestion, since that one's pretty lame: Maybe there's some sort of administrative code somewhere on the form in teeny-tiny print that indicates the destination?)

(Alternate to the alternate suggestion, just thought of now: Maybe the filing system is a form of security, so Radar can be sure nobody finds the forms and scams themselves a pass?)

"No...but where else do the guys go on leave?" - kerriem

Seoul.

The passes in this ep, were business card size, maybe a little bigger.