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Hawkeye arrived back from 3 days R&R in Tokyo and headed straight for the shower. Radar followed him in to break the news that Trapper had been shipped home. |
| When Radar was ordered to Kimpo to collect a replacement doctor, Hawkeye insisted on going along to try and catch Trapper before he went Stateside. |
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| While Radar went to find the new doctor, a Captain B.J Hunnicutt, Hawkeye tried to find his friend before he left for home. He was too late, Trapper had gone. |
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When Hawkeye got to meet the new doctor he was very abrupt with him, still angry that he had missed Trapper. With the introductions over they headed for the jeep only to find that it had been stolen. |
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| So with no transport to get them back to the 4077th Hawkeye decided it was time to visit the officers club, but there was a problem, Radar wasn't an officer, so Hawkeye borrowed some of B.J's Captains bars and gave him a field promotion. When they came out a jeep was waiting, it didn't matter that it wasn't theirs, to Hawkeye a jeep was a jeep. |
| On the way back they met up with a group of G.I's and B.J. got his first taste of war when they came under mortar attack and he had to treat the wounded soldiers. |
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After a detour to Rosie's bar they finally arrived at the 4077th. B.J fell out of the jeep, landing at Franks feet "What say ya, Ferret Face ?" |
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Review By Eric Miller
This episode of M*A*S*H, which introduces us to Captain B. J. Hunnicut, contains some of the series' funniest moments, and at least one of its most moving. The dialogue in this episode is excellent, with such classic lines as "You are now a Corporal Captain," Hawkeye's military double-talk, and B. J.'s "What say, Ferret Face?" Beyond the one liners, however, this episode is particularly effective in the way that it almost matter-of-factly introduces B. J. right after Hawkeye has learned that Trapper had "left ten minutes ago." B. J. shows himself early on to be very different from Trapper, while at the same time appearing as a perfect partner for Hawkeye. Hawkeye's pleasantly surprised reaction to B. J's "Rudyard Kipling" line is a short but effective foreshadowing of things to come.
This episode, with all of its great humor, has one of the show's most affecting moments. The scene where B. J. rolls the dead soldier over and is so sickened by the sight that he throws up, put M*A*S*H's whole view of war in about ten seconds. Hawkeye's helping hand, and his line that the sad part was that B. J. would get used to it, grounds this hilarious episode in the stark and ugly realities of war.
Copyright © 1996 Eric Miller
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