Colonel Lillian "Lil" Rayburn visits the 4077th, and Radar worries that Potter is getting too close to her. Meanwhile, Hawkeye tries to find out what "B.J." stands for.
Attention, all personnel! Colonel Rayburn will inspect the following tropes:
- Cutting the Knot: Hawkeye's supposedly scientific method to learn what B.J.'s name stands for: "TELL ME OR I'LL KILL YOU!" Unsurprisingly, this fails.
- Everyone Has Standards: Potter never considered cheating on his beloved wife, while Lil is apologetic for coming on to a married man and asserts she doesn't just rush into bed with every guy she meets.
- The Gadfly:
- With Hawkeye becoming so insistent on finding out what the initials stand for, B.J. is all-too happy to tweak him to the very end.
- Charles joins in on the ribbing at one point when Hawkeye asks for some people B.J. knows to confer about his name. B.J. starts listing people who also have single initial names, both famous and normal. Charles asks B.J. about some more people with similar naming structure just to irk Hawkeye.
- Get Out!: A more polite version is done by Potter - when Hawkeye first starts badgering B.J. about what his initials stand for, and it's interfering with the conversation Potter is trying to have with Lil, he says, "Wait a minute guys - see those big, wooden things with hinges on over there? Shut them on your way out." B.J. and Hawkeye take the hint.
- Happily Married: Why Potter isn't remotely tempted by Lil, though he's thankful for his experience with her.Potter: I almost forgot how wonderful it is to spend some time with a woman who's been around as long as I have, speaks the same language. That's rare, Radar.
Radar: Gee, I hope I meet somebody like that someday.
Potter: You will. I met a couple. Married the one I loved. - Heroic BSoD: Radar is depressed over the idea of his surrogate father figure possibly cheating on his wife. He perks up when he learns that was never going to be the case.
- Irony: Hawkeye, of all people, points out to Radar that not every guy spends time with a woman to fool around with her and says some just do platonic activities like talk.
- Is It Always Like This?: Asked word for word by Lil. Potter's reply is, "Don't mind them. They love to show off in front of company."
- Lampshade Hanging: Margaret and Charles ask why Hawkeye cares so much about what "B.J." stands for.
- Rebuilt Pedestal: After grousing for much of the episode, Radar is relieved to find he was worrying for nothing when Potter goes back to his own tent instead of staying in Lil's.
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: When Hawkeye is looking for B.J.'s name in the personnel files:Radar: Officers in front, enlisted in the back.
Hawkeye: How come you're in the front?
Radar: Because I do the filing. - Skewed Priorities: When the colonels aren't back from their picnic, Radar exclaims that, "Listen, something might have happened out there, you know. There's snipers. There's land mines. Even worse, they might be getting friendly."
- Still Sucks Thumb: Hawkeye claims that he did this until he was twenty-six, adding "I gave it up for bed-wetting."
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: We get this exchange when Hawkeye is handed the mail from B.J.'s friends and family by Radar. He is stunned to find "B.J." written on letter after letter.Hawkeye: Who would name their kid "B.J.?"
B.J.: My mother, Bea Hunnicutt, and my father, Jay Hunnicutt. B.J.
Hawkeye: Oh, sure, now I get it. B and J. B.J. You honestly expect me to buy that cockamamie story?! Now, what does it stand for?!
B.J.: [smirking] Anything you want. - Wrong Assumption: Lil makes a move on Potter and apologizes when learning he's devoted to his wife, saying she must've misread a signal. Potter says the fault was his, as he was enjoying spending time with her so much.
