Plot: Trying to fix the nurses' stove, Hawkeye suffers flash burns when it explodes in his face. While waiting to find out if the blindness is permanent, Hawkeye learns to adapt, and pulls a trick on Frank, who has been betting on baseball games when he already knows the outcomes.

Trivia note: the actor playing the blinded soldier in Post-Op really is blind. The movie "If You Could See What I Hear" is based on his life.

In a later episode it seems Sgt. Zale is the camp's repairman ("Goodbye Radar"). So why don't the nurses go to him instead of Hawkeye to get their furnace fixed?

When Radar's on the phone to get the ophthalmologist, he pretends to be a "General Walter O'Reilly". It appears to me that Radar is imitating Colonel Potter.

I'm not sure, but I would think that if the furnace did blow up in Pierce's face, I'd suspect he'd suffer some burns on his face. At least first degrees burns. Or at least his hair should be singed.

When Frank enters the Swamp, notice that he's whistling "Three Blind Mice".

Strange that no one else in camp knows that there's a radio station that broadcasts the baseball games before the Armed Forces Radio does. On the other hand, apparently they do. In order to make Frank think he's listening to the game, they'd have to know what frequency the game is being played on. Wouldn't they?

Unless I'm mistaken, when Kellye lays Hawkeye down on the bed in Post-Op, she should have identified herself. When dealing with blind people, you really should not lay your hands on them unless they know who you are and what you are doing.

Interesting. In this ep, Rosie's is just across the street (so to speak) from the Swamp. In later eps, it seems to be further away from camp. Which is where it most likely should be, what with all the gambling and prostitution that goes on there.

I believe there's a scene cut just after Klinger escorts Hawkeye to the latrine. Margaret informs the corporal that Colonel Potter wants Klinger's help in picking out a present for Mildred. Max tells the Major she'll have to wait for Pierce to finish using the latrine. She agrees to wait. She then takes Hawkeye to the Mess Tent. Margaret's appearance to tell Max that the Colonel wants him has been cut for syndication, I do believe.

BTW, why does Potter need Klinger's help in picking out a gift for the Missus? Wouldn't Margaret's opinion be just as valid, if not more so? (Wonder what the occasion for the present was?)

Given the reference to New Year's Eve, this ep probably takes place in January 1953. (Radar is ordering 300 more rubber gloves because they used most of the last shipment for balloons on New Year's Eve. That would almost certainly be a recent event.)

Frank really isn't that bright, is he? Despite such slip ups as Klinger yelling out "Peanuts! Goulash!" and the off key chime signally the end of the "broadcast", the Major still believes he's actually listening to a live broadcast of the Indians/Yankees game.

"Mule fritters!"

BTW, why does Potter need Klinger's help in picking out a gift for the Missus? Wouldn't Margaret's opinion be just as valid, if not more so?

Klinger has become somewhat of an authority on dresses by this point.

>Given the reference to New Year's Eve, this ep >probably takes place in January 1953. (Radar is >ordering 300 more rubber gloves because they used >most of the last shipment for balloons on New >Year's Eve. That would almost certainly be a >recent event.)

The problem with this is, of course, is that there wouldn't be any baseball in January.

The trick Hawkeye pulls on Frank might possibly have been inspired by a similar one that Ham Brooks pulled on his rival Monk Mayfair in chapter six of the Doc Savage adventure The Stone Man.