Plot: Two important letters: Col. Potter is going to be a grandfather, and Frank's wife wants a divorce.

Considering how badly Margaret blew up after being called a "war horse" and "an army mule--with bosoms", how did Frank ever manage to make up with her? Of course, Margaret would get engaged in the next season.

This episode has Radar's home movies. Radar does bear a striking resemblance to his mother, doesn't he?

Margaret snapped off her statistics for the baby pool without asking any questions about it. The baby might have already been born at that point; Margaret wouldn't have known.

Father Mulcahy won the baby pool. He knows a little more about conceptions.

But I'll bet Margaret knows more about deliveries! LOL

While Colonel Potter and Frank Burns are waiting to place stateside phone calls, Klinger goes into the Colonel's office with a tale about his two dead brothers. The next time we see Klinger he has just finished digging a latrine and Burns' phone call is about to go through. Now either it took Radar a really long time to place that call or Klinger is very fast at digging latrines. Not to mention a quick change artist. In the Colonel's office he's in a mourning outfit. Later after digging the latrine, he's in fatigues.

In a later episode (the one where Potter's son-in-law comes to visit), I thought he said that he had only a daughter and her son was his only grandchild. Am I misremembering or did the writers forget about the son and granddaughter?

No, you're not misremembering things, Rsbare. The writers did forget about Potter's son and granddaughter.

They also forgot about Hawkeye's sister, and his mother, and Margaret's sister (who's only a captain), and Radar's sister (who flips the chain on his bike when she borrows it) and his brother (who's 4F and works in a grocery), and Winchester's sibling of unknown gender who produced a son with fainting spells (unless Honoria had an illegitimate child)....

Not to mention how Henry's wife switches from Mildred to Lorraine, or - a personal favourite - how Margaret's dad goes from dead to alive and well and visiting her at the 4077th...

There's a scene cut from the Mess tent. Hawkeye is still reading aloud from his paper, and Margaret, worried about Frank, snaps that no one wants to listen to him. Hawkeye makes a comeback (I can't recall what it was.) Nurse Kelleye, sitting across from Margaret, covers her mouth with her hand. Margaret whips around and says, "I heard that smirk!" She threatens Kelleye with disciplinary action, and Kelleye looks stunned.

Apparently Frank and Margaret have changed their secret knock since "Iron Guts Kelly". When Radar knocks, you can tell by the expression on Major Houlihan's face that she thinks it's Frank at the door. Given that it's so easy for the camp to learn their secret knocks, you'd think the Majors wouldn't bother with them. Then again, they seem completely oblivious to the fact that everyone in camp knows they're fooling around.

Why is it that the two basketball scores Father Mulcahy reads, it's "St. Mary such-and-such" score and "visitors such-and-such" score? In a real letter, wouldn't the Padre's sister give the names of the schools St. Mary's defeated? (One school - Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrows - is named, but not in the score report.)

Radar has a different clipboard this episode, jusging by the scratch marks on it.

The picture of Frank's Mother is missing from the shelf by the door to the Swamp. Wonder if that's because of the damage it sustained when Frank rode over the tent in a tank in "Hey Doc"?

At some point, Colonel Potter must have been stationed in Ohio. He says his son was born in the City General Hospital there in 1926. What military bases are there in Ohio anyhow?

Believe it or not, the newspaper Hawkeye reads really is called the Crabapple Cove Courier.

When Margaret threatens to confine Kellye to her quarters, Hawkeye says, "Where she goes, I go." While this may have been the impetus for Nurse Kellye's interest in Captain Pierce, it also kinda contradicts the idea that he's ignored her all this time.

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Ohio has currently got Rickenbacker ANG base and Wright Patterson AFB. I think there is a Naval reserve site up in Cleveland or somehwere on the lake. As for in the fifties I am not sure. I know there was several sites or camps during WW1 and WW2 that I learned about in history clas but they might have been closed by the time of the korean war.

Thanks for the info R!

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No problemo man.