Plot A: Klinger redecorates his office with heirlooms from home. The resulting ridicule drives him to commit forgery in his quest to be sent home.
Plot B: A famous Asian-American war hero reacts oddly to the news that he's being shipped home.

I loved Sidney's expression "meatball psychiatry."

So this is the... "Sherman TEEEEE Potter!" episode.

Wonder why Klinger didn't decorate his own tent (when he had his own tent) with all the junk he has? Where did he store that stuff anyway? That's an awful lot of junk to fit into a footlocker along with the uniforms and other items he'd have to keep in the locker.

Potter told Klinger get doctors for second opinions. Max brought in Hawkeye, B.J., Charles and Margaret. Why Margaret? And as long Klinger's going beyond Colonel Potter's orders, why not get Father Mulcahy as well? (Where was the Padre in this ep anyway?)

This episode does bring up a point. Klinger could have forged his way out of the Army. Didn't it occur to Colonel Potter that Klinger, who has tried every other scam in the book to get discharged, might take advantage of his position as Company Clerk?

I don't recall seeing Klinger's lamp in later episodes. Was it still there, or only used for this one ep?

Wonder why Klinger didn't decorate his own tent (when he had his own tent) with all the junk he has? Where did he store that stuff anyway?

Haven't seen this ep. in a while, but I thought there was a line at the very beginning that his uncle abdul sent him a big box containing all the stuff to make his tent look more like home. Maybe it was cut.

This episode does bring up a point. Klinger could have forged his way out of the Army. Didn't it occur to Colonel Potter that Klinger, who has tried every other scam in the book to get discharged, might take advantage of his position as Company Clerk?

I think that in some way klinger was playing a game with potter of getting this section 8, and forgery would have been breaking the unwritten rules. If klinger really was against the war and wanted to get out of korea, he could have found several other ways than sitting on a flagpole, flying a red bird with fluffy pink feet etc.
There's also the recurring nit that klinger needs the signatures of 3 doctors, but whenever a lever could be applied to frank, or some other doctor is around, klinger doesn't wave his paper and say "sign here, please", he seems to have forgotten about it. Probably he somehow considers this to be too easy compared to some other stunts he pulled.
(This is what makes frank's discharge so ironic: he is given an advancement and shipped home quietly, as if nothing happened. Klinger just has to continue working. It shows the injustice nicely.)

"Haven't seen this ep. in a while, but I thought there was a line at the very beginning that his uncle abdul sent him a big box containing all the stuff to make his tent look more like home. Maybe it was cut." - constanze

No, the line still exists. I'm just wondering why it's taken so long for Uncle Abdul (or anyone else in Klinger's family) to send the stuff to Max.

"I think that in some way klinger was playing a game with potter of getting this section 8, and forgery would have been breaking the unwritten rules." - constanze

Interesting idea, except Klinger breaks that rule in this ep. Keep in mind that if klinger has been playing a game with Potter (and Henry), it's often been a dangerous one - eating the jeep, eating too much, hang gliding (the "big yellow bird with fuzzy pink feet"). Forgery would have been the safest, most efficient way Klinger could have gotten his Section 8 discharge.

"There's also the recurring nit that klinger needs the signatures of 3 doctors, but whenever a lever could be applied to frank, or some other doctor is around, klinger doesn't wave his paper and say "sign here, please", he seems to have forgotten about it." - constanze

Realistically, Klinger should have been gone by the Second Season. Need three signatures? Okay, Hawkeye signs. Trapper signs. Spearchucker signs. Klinger goes home. The very lastest Klinger could have stayed was until about the Third Season. Then he could have gotten the signatures of Hawkeye, Trapper and Captain Spalding. Really, getting the Section 8 document signed by three doctors should never have been a problem.

"(This is what makes frank's discharge so ironic: he is given an advancement and shipped home quietly, as if nothing happened. Klinger just has to continue working. It shows the injustice nicely.)" - constanze

Yeah, definitely. Hawkeye threw the telephone out of Radar's office when he heard the news about Frank. Imagine what Klinger did. (Started calling every blonde in camp, "Margaret"? Actually, I can see him doing just that.)

I love Charles' prediction that television is a passing fad and Colonel Potter telling the medics what Mildred says Jack Benny looks like. Such dialogue helps to remind us that the series takes place in the Fifties.

Potter tells Klinger to get a couple of the doctors to get a second opinion about how the Corporal has the Company Clerk's Office decorated. Why doctors? Why not just any of the MASH unit's personnel like Igor or Rizzo or Zale? (Okay, Zale was gone by this point. But still...)

Looking at how Klinger has the Office decorated, Charles quips, "Looking at these treasures, I can see why Toledo is kept in Ohio." B.J. raises his head and laughs. In the next shot, Hunnicutt's head has changed positions.

When Klinger mentions that rich people use Persian rugs in their houses, B.J. starts to look back at Charles. In the next shot, he is looking at Charles.

B.J. and Klinger are talking about Max's latest escape attempt. Hunnicutt reminds the Corporal that Potter will know he didn't give Klinger his discharge. When B.J. says that, Klinger is looking straight ahead. The camera angle changes and Max is looking at Hunnicutt.

This is the second time this season that Klinger has impersonated one of his colleagues. Earlier this season, Max impersonated Colonel Potter. This ep, he's impersonating Radar.

As Sgt. Yee is being loaded on the evac ambulance, Pierce is bent over him. A change of camera shots, and Pierce is missing.

"I'm so conservative, I make you look like a New Dealer."

BTW, the Klinger family must not be doing too badly to be able to afford to ship that crate to Max. As big as it was, I imagine it cost quite a bit to mail it to Korea. Klinger probably had to shell out a lot, too, to have it returned to Toledo.

"I'm so conservative, I make you look like a New Dealer."

BTW, it's Klinger's mom that sent him the stuff, not his uncle.

Actually, I don't see why he couldn't curtain off a private alcove for himself, except that it looked as though he had blocked off one side of the double doors.

Sgt. Yee had been in the service for 10 years, including WWII. He apparently has been making a living legend of himself in Korea. Question: Why is he still only a Sergeant?

Was it really ethical of Sidney to hypnotize Yee without telling him that that was what he was going to do?