Writer:	Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell
Director:	Alan Alda
Star:	Alan Alda (Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce),  William Christopher (Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahy),  Mike Farrell (Captain BJ Hunnicut (Season 4-11)),  Loretta Swit (Major Margaret J. "Hot Lips" Houlihan),  Larry Linville (Major Franklin Delano Marion Burns (Season 1-5)),  Jamie Farr (Corporal/Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger),  Harry Morgan (Colonel Sherman T. Potter (Season 4-11)),  Gary Burghoff (Corporal Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly (Season 1-8))
Recurring Role:	Byron Chung (Korean Soldier),  Lynne Marie Stewart (Nurse Fox),  Gwen Farrell (Nurse Able),  Leland Sun (Soldier)
Guest Star:	Redmond Gleeson (Sergeant Callan),  John Fujioka (Colonel Kim),  Rollin Moriyama (Colonel Park)

This is the first of 4 appearances by Lynne Marie Stewart, as various Nurses. The last appearance is in episode 122. (edit)

Radar: (in his letter) You'd like Klinger, Ma. He looks a little bit like Aunt Jean before electrolysis. (edit) Radar (about the nearby village): Last time I went, they served grasshoppers and rice. I don't mind that but the sauce made me sick. (edit) Radar (in his letter): As usual, I'm writing real slow because I know you can't read fast. (edit) Hawkeye (after a soldier salutes him): You'd better be prepared to explain that! (edit) Margaret: Make sure no one goes into my tent.
Radar: I wouldn't do that, Ma'am.
Margaret: Somebody does.
Radar: Maybe it's rats.
Margaret: You think rats have been trying on my undies?
Radar: Some of them rats are weird. (edit)

I'm surprised that Frank was not court-martialed for assaulting the South Korean 3-star general in the mess tent. Seeing that no one in the unit likes him (except possibly Margaret at the time), everyone at camp would be glad to see him go. (edit) Radar's math needs a little work: whilst describing the foot inspection to his mother, he says with 200 people in camp, and 10 toes each, that's 20,000 toes to check. That is in fact only 2,000 (perhaps the Triple A High School Diploma Company of Delavan, Indiana (Episode 18) should revoke his diploma). (edit)

Radar says in his letter, "I sent away to a mail-order house for a guinea pig and he's doing terrific. I named him Dopey after the Seven Dwarves." He later writes that he has to mail the letter, "before Dopey eats it." (edit)