Plot: Frank decides to auction off the camp garbage. Hawkeye, who's suffering from temporary impotence, buys the garbage as a present for an obnoxious colonel.
Cut from this episode is the scene where Colonel Potter advises Hawkeye to take up a hobby. It's a badly chosen snip, as we later see Hawkeye and Sherman in the mess tent going over possible hobbies for Pierce. Later, when it's revealed that Hawkeye bought the garbage, he turns to the Colonel and says, "Well. You told me to get a hobby." The latter two scenes make little sense because of the syndication cut.
I've always wondered about the feasibility of making love in one's personal tent when that tent is shared by others. Wouldn't you be wondering all the time if someone would just walk in? At least in the supply tent, you could hang a hanger on the door to warn people away.
D.K.'s last comment got me thinking...
How come Margaret gets her own tent, while Frank had to share with Hawkeye and Trapper/BJ? Frank (apparently) outranks Margaret (he does seem to be second-in-command).
Margret is the ranking female officer.
What I've always wondered is why Klinger got his own tent, when he was out ranked by almost anyone in the 4077. (It's in the episode where Klinger has a "crazy" sidekick. I beileve it's "Major Topper" at the end of season 6.) Then, Klinger gets promoted to clerk and looses his tent.
Maybe no one wanted to share a tent with a rack of dresses, a sewing machine, a hair dryer...but no, it really doesn't make sense. Actually, you never see any of the other NCO's in their sleeping quarters.
The episode ends in the mess tent with Radar staring blankly at the camera as if he suffered some tradegy. I missed the first part of this episode. What happened?
Radar noticed one of B.J.'s patients was in trouble. Hunnicutt helped him, told Radar he may've saved the kids life. Radar became friends with the patient. The patient had to be operated on a second time. Shortly after that, the patient died.
Kevin Hagen, who played the callous Colonel in this episode, is best known as Doc Baker on Little House on the Prairie. I must say he is quite effective playing a heavy, a far cry from kindly Doc Baker to be certain.
Kevin Hagen also used to be the authority chasing the little people in Land of the Giants.
They cut the ending of the O.R. scene, where Nurse Able asks Hawkeye what he'll be doing afterwards. She offers him a nickel. Hawkeye agrees, saying "I'm so easy!" This scene makes it clear that it is not always Hawkeye who does the propositioning.
When the Colonel is brought in wounded with some of his men, it shows his right arm all bloody. However, in the Mess tent, you can see bandaging on his left wrist.
The camp garbage is described as consisting mainly of used surgical material, but the net of garbage dropped on Col. Coner was almost entirely made up of slimy lettuce. Perhaps Hawkeye sorted out his garbage to ensure that nothing would actually injure the Colonel.
BTW, given the Colonel's name, I'm surprised that they weren't referring to him as "Coner the Coroner".
Kevin Hagen was also in the episode "Peace on Us." I forgot what he came to the unit for, but he joined in the red-dyed party and already had red hair.
He was the MP.
What I've always wondered is why Klinger got his own tent, when he was out ranked by almost anyone in the 4077. - Charles Cabe
Maybe no one wanted to share a tent with a rack of dresses, a sewing machine, a hair dryer...but no, it really doesn't make sense. Actually, you never see any of the other NCO's in their sleeping quarters. - D.K. Henderson
Klinger's not the only one. In "Hey Doc!" it's pretty obvious that Supply Sgt. Kimball has his own tent (a redress of Margaret's).
B.J. has a patient that he and Father Mulcahy take out of O.R. to get him into Post-Op. They are told by Klinger that there is no room in Post-Op. So B.J. leaves him in the hallway. Later, after Radar tells B.J. that his patient is having some trouble, Hunnicutt says they'll see if there's room in Post-Op. It's only been a few minutes since the patient was left in the hall. Would space in Post-Op open up that quickly? And why wasn't Colonel Potter informed that they were running out of space so that orders could be given to start putting the patients into alternative spaces like the the Swamp, the VIP tent or other such places? It's been done before.
Klinger asked Radar if he's ever pulled K.P. Why would Radar do kitchen duty? He's the Company Clerk. That's pretty much a full-time position, isn't it? Klinger never went back to guard duty after he became Company Clerk.
Once again, the Nurse Able seen in this ep is completely different from the previous "Nurse Ables". Why couldn't the creators have just given these women individual names instead of these generic "Nurse Able, Baker, Charlie" names?
Klinger enters the Swamp to inform Hawkeye and B.J. that there are fresh wounded in Pre-Op. Isn't there normally a P.A. announcement when wounded arrive? We never hear it. Klinger is the only one to announce the arrival of new wounded.
When Radar is in Post-Op working on the jigsaw puzzle and talking to B.J.'s head wound patient, Private Phelan, you can see Nurse Kelly talking to a man in a white smock. Is this one of the other doctors that should populate the 4077th? How come we never see him elsewhere?
Radar mentions to Phalen that he called "that number to get the time in Kansas City" for over an hour. Why Kansas City? Radar's from Ottumwa, Iowa. Isn't there a place to call in Iowa that would give the time there, too? Radar speaks of it as if it was something well known. But what good would it do the rest of the nation to call Kansas City to get the time? The U.S. is divided into four time zones, IIRC. (Eastern, Central, Moutain and Pacific.) Shouldn't there be more local calls that give the correct times? And for over an hour? Much of the time in the series, phone calls are restricted to a few minutes at a time. How'd Radar finagle a hour long call?
After Radar is told the puzzle piece he has is an elbow, the Corporal goes to put the piece in its place on the puzzle and notes that the picture is one of "Jane Russell". He can tell that from just one elbow?
When Colonel Potter acts surprised that Hawkeye bought the garbage at the auction, Pierce defends it by reminding the Colonel that he advised Pierce to get a hobby. The thing is, Hawkeye bought the garbage before having the talk with Potter about getting a hobby.
Just how much garbage did Hawkeye buy? At the time that he and B.J. entered the auction room (the supply hut), Lot A was up for bid. Yet, Frank in the Mess Tent makes it seem like Hawkeye bought more than just Lot A. ("I used to think you were smart until you bought all that garbage." Emphasis mine.)
Once again the camp compound is paved instead of dirt.
Why does the garbage land before the canvas that holds it? Shouldn't the canvas at least hit Coner first, if not simultaneously with the garbage?
How'd Pierce escape getting court martialed this time? Coner knew that Pierce bought the garbage. Frank said so in front of Colonel Coner. Klinger told Hawkeye that "everything's ready" with the Colonel's jeep. Pierce should have been busted for that one. There are no extenuating circumstances that would exonerate the Captain.
Horse hockey!
The U.S. is divided into four time zones, IIRC. (Eastern, Central, Moutain and Pacific.)
At the time of the Korean War, that was correct.
Nowadays, though it is correct only if you refer to the continental US. However, since we're nitpickers, I'll nitpick. There is also HST and NST (Hawaiian Standard Time and Nome Standard Time).
Note that I don't include whatever timezone Guam and any other US Territories are in, only states.