Writer:	Gene Reynolds, Dennis Koenig, Dennis Koenig
Director:	Mike Farrell
Star:	William Christopher (Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahy),  Alan Alda (Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce),  David Ogden Stiers (Major Charles Emerson Winchester III (Season 6-11)),  Harry Morgan (Colonel Sherman T. Potter (Season 4-11)),  Jamie Farr (Corporal/Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger),  Loretta Swit (Major Margaret J. "Hot Lips" Houlihan),  Mike Farrell (Captain BJ Hunnicut (Season 4-11))
Recurring Role:	Gwen Farrell (Nurse),  Kellye Nakahara (Kellye),  Roy Goldman (Goldman)
Guest Star:	Edward Herrmann (Dr. Steven J. Newsome)

Sidney Freedman is mentioned in this episode although he does not appear. Colonel Potter says Hawkeye should call him to help Steve Newsome. (edit)

Klinger: (wearing a mask and using a spray gun to spray for mumps) If you get them as a kid, you don't get them as an adult, if you get them as an adult, you don't get kids. (resumes spraying) Take that you little home wreckers! (edit) Hawkeye (during a brutal OR session): This can't be real! Come on all you guys, sit up and say "April Fool," please! (edit) Steve Newsome (after tasting Swamp gin): Now I know what the corporal's been spraying the office with. (edit) BJ (about Charles not having had mumps): His butler got them for him. (edit) BJ: Our cook should be stoned to death. With his own pancake. (edit)

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When Charles refers to Chicago as "Hog butcher for the world," he's quoting a line from Carl Sandburg's famous poem "Chicago." Although Charles says it in a derogatory manner, Sandburg was actually quite fond of Chicago. Another line from the aforementioned poem is, "Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning." (edit)