Plot: Hawkeye hits Frank and is placed under arrest. After a visiting colonel nurse puts the moves on Frank and then cries "Rape!" Hot Lips decides not to testify against Hawkeye.

Plot B: Radar gets built-up shoes, because he's tired of being teased about his shortness.

Hawkeye can be a real idiot at times. I hardly think that a towel snap on the rump justifies punching a superior officer. With Hawkeye's skill at the put-down, he could have shriveled Frank without lifting a finger.

Does anyone know offhand if Hawkeye stopped teasing Radar about his height after this episode? I'm sure that he didn't stop teasing him on other accounts.

Just saw this one again. Yet another episode where they disregard the V.I.P. tent for the sake of the plot. If Col. Reese had been in the V.I.P. tent, naturally Frank would never have accidently walked in on her (and Margaret would never have accidently walked in on them). I've commented elsewhere on the feasibility of making love in a tent that's shared by two or more people. (These tents don't seem to have any locking mechanisms.)

So what happened after the episode was over? Did Col. Reese quietly drop the charges? Did Margaret, in spite of her outrage, testify accurately at the hearing? If she had, it would have been clear that Reese was a willing and active participant, because she was...er...on top of the situation. Would Col. Reese have been court-martialed for deliberately attempting to destroy a man's career and freedom in order to save face?

In the OR, after Reese showed Margaret the most efficient way of laying out an instrument tray, she spoke of the necessity of developing a "working rhythm" with the surgeon, walked around the table, and edged Margaret aside--a totally pointless manuever, because Frank was completely finished with the patient. If she wanted to get close to Frank, why didn't she do it sooner?

By the way, in describing the instrument tray, she said something about Army-Navy tape or ribbon or something...she definitely said Army. Anyone know what that was about?

Haven't seen this in a very long time, but...doesn't Reese at some point indicate she'd rather stay with Margaret? Less formal, or something? Maybe it got lost in syndication.

Frank asks Margaret why Reese has to stay with her, and Margaret says something like, "Because there's nothing else available in officers' country."

I've been watching the DVD discs, and Hawkeye definitely goes on teasing Radar about his height after this episode. (the other major teasing point seems to be Radar's seeming disinclination to bathe.)

Hawkeye was given steak (church water buffalo) while he was under arrest, and Trapper (and Father Mulcahy) eagerly helped him eat it. Just what happened to the rest of the approximately 500-1000 pounds of meat you'd get from a buffalo? (Or did they give the poor creature a local and slice off a pound of flesh?)

The episode opens with a mention of the camp library and the shipment of a hundred copies of Rumplestilskin. I wonder where the library is?

Once again, the scrub sinks face each other. However, this time they run parallel with the wall that has the doors to the scrub room. Normally when you see the scrub sinks facing each other, they run parallel with the wall the camera occupies.

Other than to keep from having his back to the camera, why does Captain McIntyre use the same scrub sink as Hawkeye?

Some syndication cuts include some footage of Colonel Reese drooling over Hawkeye when she first arrives, a conversation between Reese and Margaret about Frank Burns, and his marital status (not to mention whether Margaret and Frank are an item) and Pierce telling Father Mulcahy he really wants to see the Gene Tierney picture. The latter scene takes place after the Padre gives Hawkeye the prisoner of war package.

By the way, in describing the instrument tray, she said something about Army-Navy tape or ribbon or something...she definitely said Army. Anyone know what that was about?
- D.K. Henderson

Her exact words were "army and navy goulet, and ribbon". The only goulets I know are Robert, the singer and Ron, the writer.

I guess not many people wanted to see the movie. I mean, if it's showing in the Swamp, you can't get too many people in there. That would mean either that most people wouldn't get to see the film or would have to stand outside of the Swamp to see it. Frank claims there about 50 people in the Swamp watching the movie. Would fifty people really fit into the Swamp? And where's the rest of the camp? The movie incidentally, is Leave Her to Heaven, a 1945 film.

It's funny that when Frank says he's going to the C.O., Igor doesn't bother telling him that Henry is in the Swamp watching the movie.

Waitaminute. Were the M.P.s going into the Officers' Latrine? Can they do that? They're not officers, are they?

Abyssinia!

MPs go where they are ordered to go. if they are ordered to guard/protect or otherwise follow an officer and he goes into the latrine they go too.

I suppose we have to assume Frank got off. Maybe when it went to trial Margret would have said the the woman had been on top leading people to question whether it really was attempted rape.

As I've mentioned previously, the movie that is shown in the Swamp was Leave Her to Heaven (1945). The thing is, the movie was filmed in Technicolor. So why is the print they're watching in black and white? The film projector would have shown the movie in color or in black and white. It just depends on how the motion picture was filmed. There's no reason 20th Century Fox would have made a monochrome print of the film. Leave Her to Heaven being in color would have been one of its selling points. (By the way, I just watched it and it is an excellent movie.)

Abyssinia!

Incidentally, despite what Father Mulcahy says, there is no wedding scene in Leave Her to Heaven.