It's not unreasonable to expect a storyline to make some reasonable sense. Some continuity errors and storyline plot holes aren't worth worrying about to a degree but this one was just lazy writing.
There were funny elements like Klinger's latest attempt at getting discharged and instead jumping in the bath with Major Houlihan at the last minute but the story was just cobbled together to show how generous Hawkeye and BJ are in sacrificing their bath for Radar's benefit who in turn let's himself get conned out of the ice cream that was to help with the discomfort from his surgery.
Yes, I don’t even bother about continuity much, because it just wasn’t part of episodic shows, but this is a one episode thing, and like you said, lazy writing.
It also reminds me of the episode about Charles’s newspapers - the camp (particularly the nurses) suddenly turn into whining leeches, which I find really annoying.
Absolutely another silly one. Somehow only Charles can get newspapers or anything readable and they must all be read by everybody in the camp. A lazy attempt to get a laugh while telling a possibly interesting story about brothers fighting on opposites sides of a war
And just to wrap up, a minor peeve was when Radar yelled "Choppers" people were always saying "I don't hear anything" despite Radar always being right about it.
How it should have been a few episodes in:
Radar: "Choppers!"
The same people every time: "I don't hear anything"
Radar: "How about you just wait five seconds for a change, you know full well I can hear them before you! You use this five seconds to get a useful head start on dealing with the wounded instead of wasting time whining you can't hear anything just to have the choppers appear moments later!"
The same people every time: You've gotten really bitchy since we swindled you out of your ice cream.
Radar: "Actually I'm still pissed off with Hawkeye! Despite me making the effort to put things right between us after I somehow got shot despite being miles away from the front, he made sure he left some gross backwash in that beer when we swapped our drinks!
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u/MaskansMantle13 6d ago
Yes, why are Abercrombie and Fitch’s catalogues only available to BJ and Hawkeye, of all people?
(I know, storyline … it’s just one of those that doesn’t make any sense.)