Radar writes home to his mother about the goings-on in the camp, including the monthly foot inspection and Potter being wounded while bringing supplies to locals.
Attention all personnel! Please prepare for inspection of the following tropes:
- Accidental Tickle Torture: Potter reacts this way to Hawkeye's foot inspection.
- Blatant Lies: Col. Potter's wife Mildred had called when he left the camp because she had a premonition something bad would happen to him. Turns out Mildred was right - Col. Potter comes back to the camp having been shot by a sniper (see Shot in the Ass below) - but when she calls back, Col. Potter lies and says he's in the Officer's Club, and that nothing happened.
- Con Man: The patient who sells B.J. a watch with no works, claiming he needs to send the money home for his wife's medical bills.
- Continuity Drift:
- Klinger makes a reference to General Ridgeway as supreme commander; however, B.J. arrived in September 1952, several months after Ridgeway passed command on to someone else.
- Hawkeye requires Radar to stay in Margaret's tent while the former performs her foot inspection, explaining that two people must be present when examining an opposite-sex patient. However, he examines her on his own in other episodes both before and after this one.
- Crushing Handshake: The judo move that General Park performs on Frank when the latter offers him a handshake as an apology for tackling him.
- Delayed "Oh, Crap!": Radar when he realizes the soldier whose gun he was admiring was a North Korean.
- Foreshadowing: When Frank claims he could have taken on the North Korean soldier, Radar warns him that they know judo. Sure enough, when he tackles a South Korean general after mistaking him for a North Korean, he is nearly reduced to tears by a judo move.
- Embarrassing Cover Up: Frank was avoiding his foot inspection because, while drunk, he and Margaret painted his toenails. He doesn't want that to end up in the report, and begs Hawkeye to doctor it. He does...by saying that Frank has an unusual discoloration on his toenails.
- Friend to All Living Things: Radar adds to his menagerie by mail-ordering a guinea pig.
- Kick the Dog: A nurse tells Radar that nobody's sitting next to her when he asks...and promptly gets up and leaves him without a word.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Guess whose table the patient who scammed B.J. ends up on after he's wounded again.Callen: Am I really gonna be all right, Doc?
B.J.: I'll have you running as well as that watch in no time. (Callen laughs nervously) - Noodle Incident: Apparently, when they were children, Father Mulcahy's sister bit him on the toe. We're not told why she did that, only that she bit down hard enough for it to scar.
- Running Gag: About the Cordon Bleugh Chef - when B.J. is showing General Park and his translator around the camp, he brings them to the mess tent, and tells the general he'd offer him dinner, but as a doctor, he doesn't want to endanger the general's health. General Park laughs at that, and tells B.J. they should arrange a war where only cooks fight each other, so both sides could get rid of the common enemy.
- Shot in the Ass: Potter gets a bullet to the behind thanks to a sniper. He insists on only getting a local anaesthetic so he can watch the surgeons work.
- Shout-Out:
- To Batman when Hawkeye tells Radar "Come along Robin"
- To Macbeth when Hawkeye says "Lead on Macduff" (actually a
Beam Me Up, Scotty! quote; the proper line is "Lay on, Macduff.'' - Radar names his guinea pig "Dopey".
- B.J. snarks that the South Korean general's name translates to Ashley Wilkes during Frank's Oh, Crap! moment after tackling him.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: A North Korean soldier lines up in the mess tent for food, has a conversation with Radar, and leaves without anyone noticing until after he's gone.
- Violin Scam: What the conman pulls on B.J. He gets B.J. to buy a "$150" watch for $20.
- Voiceover Letter: Radar narrates a letter to his mother in Iowa.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Frank, who has been avoiding his foot inspection for the duration of the episode, is finally pinned down by Hawkeye and B.J., who remove his boots to reveal he's wearing nail polish. He explains that he and Margaret had been discussing trench foot and got a little silly.
