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Margaret's engagement and marriage book-end this season.

Randall Banks | Lansing, MI USA | 10/22/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Aside from the first episode this season, Bug-Out, this year is dominated by the sudden shocking engangement of Margaret to Donald Penobscott. This is also the final year for Frank Burns.



Bug-Out - Radar and Klinger are talking in the office with Klinger celebrating his new cigars when the phone rings. There's a rumor of a camp bug-out. Word spreads fast. Meanwhile, the latrine digging stops and Hawkeye worries over a delicate surgery in which the patient can't me moved for 24 hours due to possible paralysis. Potter makes a phone call and finds it's just a rumor.



Hawkeye and Margaret start the surgery, with B.J's assistance. Then, after calling assembly to stop the rumors Potter finds out that there is a full out bug-out happening. Radar runs in and tells Hawkeye, but it's too late. Hawkeye, Margaret and Radar stay behind to watch the patient. Meanwhile, the rest of the camp finds a damaged old school house which doulbes as a brothel. They trade Klinger's dresses for the building. Hawkeye and Radar go to Rosie's for one last drink before leaving themselves. They get into a jeep, but it breaks down. Suddenly there's the sound of a large number of vehicles. It's the rest of the camp returning.



Margaret's Engagement - Margaret returns from a conference in Tokyo with news of her sudden engagement. This drives Frank over the top. He brings in a family, suspecting that they are snipers. He stays up all night, rifle in hand, with an itchy trigger finger. Potter says he's heading to a section eight. "Section Eight, Section Eight," Frank yells jumping to action. Everyone reacts. Radar tells him there's a phone call. He called Frank's mom. The final scene shows Margaret talking about Donald Penobscott. Frank tells Hawkeye that he wants to double date. He mentions a young new nurse with freckles. Margaret says that she's a bit young."I don't know. I thought a little youth might be nice for a change!". Margaret leaves in a huff, B.J and Hawkeye both shake their heads. "I really got her on that one didn't I!", is Franks responce. This gets good laughter our of the three of them.



Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind - An act of kindness in trying to fix the nurses tent stoves leave Hawkeye blind. Frank litens to a game at night, and then bets eveyone on the outcome for the replay. Hawkeye does some soul searching with another blind patient. Klinger gives him a kazoo to get people attention. In the end he gets his sight back, but not before getting revenge on Frank. He does the play by play of a fake game, with the assistance of Radar, Klinger, and B.J. When the patches are taken off and Hawkeye finds the blindness over, the real score of the game is announced over the radio. Eveyone chases Frank seeking resitution.



The Nurses - A nurse gets into hot water with Margaret. This happens just before her husband, who she rarely sees, comes to camp. B.J and Hawkeye conspire to get them together. They come up with a bogus disease and place the husband in Margaret's tent. The two spend the night together, but he's caught by Margaret. When she tells her who the man is, Margaret relents. When Potter confronts everyone on the miraculous cure Margaret syas it's a private matter between her and her nurses.



Dear Sigmund - Sydney comes to the Swamp for the usual poker game. He ends up staying for two weeks due to stress from work. Hawkeye and B.J find that he's been writing Dr. Sigmund Freud. Sydney rights about the antics of the camp. The barage or practical jokes, including shoe polish on binocular lenses which puts rings around Potter's eyes. Radar falls out of the jeep he's laughing so hard. A mess tent bench with one leg half sawed off. As soon as Frank sits down the bench collapses, sending him to the floor. He tells of his view of each of the main characters.



Mulcahy's War - A patient is brought in with a self inflicted foot wound. Hawkeye sends Father Mulcahy in to talk to him. Turns out they both know the same pastor at a church in Philadelphia. The patient though won't talk to Mulcahy because the good Father has no idea what it's like. Father Mulcahy heads to the front with Radar. They end up saving a patients life on the road back. The patient hears about it and ends up talking to the good Father.



The Colonel's Horse - Potter gets a week of R&R for a second honeymoon with his wife. While he's gone his mare gets sick. B.J calls his father in law to get help. Meanwhile Margaret gets appendicitis and requests Hawkeye's help. Both girls turn out fine.



Hawk's Nightmare - Hawkeye suffers through several bad dreams and some bouts of sleepwalking. Sydney is called in. Sydney figures that the problem is just the war and that it will pass. In the end Hawkeye and Sydney play a mean game of zombie basketball.



End Run - Radar discovers that one of his hero's, a college football player from Iowa, is brought in a stretcher. The player ends up losing a leg and figures that his life is over. Radar comes to the rescue. He shows him a magazine of the game and how much he loved listening to the game. Radar helps the player see that he has more to live for.



Hepatitis - A bought of hepatitis sidelines Father Mulcahy, and Hawkeye get upset over an average surgeon in his home town. Hawkeye goes around the camp, with a bad back. He helps Margaret see more eye to eye with her mother-in-law who's not too happy with her. He also puts up with a paranoid Frank. Klinger is agitated after being put on report for fighting with Zale. He fights him all the way through the exam. B.J is reading up to perform delicate surgery. Hawkeye finally gets the entire camp examined and Potter helps him see that the average surgeon in Maine has nothing on him.



Movie Night - A lack of mail, little sleep mean low morale. Potter winds up a movie. The movie though has many splices and keeps breaking. The have a Father Mulcahy sound-alike contest and a sing-along. They sing "Army Camp" "The Surgeons in Army Camp..." and so on.



Margaret's Marriage - This is the final episode this year. At Frank's urging Donald Penobscott comes to the camp to get married to Margaret. Frank, thinking he was going to die, runs as soon as he realized that it was Mr. Penobscott. Donald catches him and asks him to be the best man. The women hold a bridal shower where she gets gifts like a back scracher. Klinger shows up in a bright dress. Margaret says that it's for ladies only. Klinger, however, gives her a wedding dress to wear. The men hold a bachelor party where everyone gets real drunk, including Radar. As a kicker they really get Donald plastered, from his chest to his toes. The wedding goes on as planned but it interupted by incoming wounded. Donald, wearing a full body cast, is left behind and falls down."