After Hawkeye and Trapper John tell Radar to fill up the brandy bottle with "white brandy," he uncorks the bottle next to the basket. The scene cuts and the cork is back on the bottle. Radar gets offended by Hawkeye and walks out without filling it. The bottle still has the same amount of liquid (brandy) as when it came in, yet Hawkeye puts it in the basket as if it had been filled per his request. The next scene at the picnic shows Hawkeye filling his and Teri Garr's wine glasses. When he sets the bottle down, it is still half full. But as noted above when he left the tent, the bottle only had a little bit of brandy in it.
At the beginning of the episode, Trapper is washing his socks. He takes a drink of his martini and then throws the rest into his wash basin and sets the empty martini glass down . Hawkeye comes in and as the camera pans over to Trapper, the martini glass is no longer empty but half full.
After the sniper is shot, there is no reason for a doctor to attend to him.
Blake should have sent an armed person of lower rank to secure the prisoner, who could call for medics to bring a stretcher to carry the man to the hospital or at least out of brush for triage.
Blake should have sent an armed person of lower rank to secure the prisoner, who could call for medics to bring a stretcher to carry the man to the hospital or at least out of brush for triage.
When Margaret and Frank are talking about 'real men,' Loretta Swit's fingernails are over an inch long. No nurse, especially a head nurse, would have fingernails that long.
Just before the sniper shoots a football out of a soldier's hand, the guy throwing the football pauses, and waits for the ball to be shot out of his hand.
When Radar is running back and forth while under fire, at one point he starts to turn around before the "bullet" hits the building in front of him. He is obviously anticipating and turning as instructed by the script, even though that squib has yet to actually go off.
The sniper hits the loudspeaker on the post but does not punch a hole in it. The metal of which a loudspeaker is made is thin and would easily be penetrated by a rifle bullet traveling well over 2500 feet per second (such as a Mosin-Nagant at 2600 fps, the weapon supplied to the North Korean Army by the Soviet Union).
LTC Blake was negligent in not sending at least one armed enlisted man with Hawkeye after the sniper waved the white flag.
The wood and canvas tents would not be very good protection from a high-powered snipers rifle since the rounds would pass through them. Hiding inside would merely conceal them from the snipers view.
At approximately 6:41, a group of seven extras run toward the camera. The woman in the center and the woman on her right both smile briefly. This seems unlikely, as the characters are fleeing from a sniper attack.
Inside the tent with Trapper and Hawkeye, Frank incorrectly (and very dangerously) handles his sidearm with his finger on the trigger. He also commits several violations of muzzle discipline. All military personnel are taught basic firearm skills, and no one committing these types of egregious safety violations would be considered qualified to carry arms. But he is Frank Burns who isn't qualified for anything much.