When Cpl. Klinger walks into Father Mulcahy's tent wearing a suit, the priest doesn't recognize him. Klinger asks, "First time you ever seen me without a dress, right?" to which the cleric responds, "Exactly!" However, in episode 12, "Dear Dad", Mulcahy convinces Klinger, who was wearing regulation fatigues and a non-regulation bandanna from his mother, not to blow up Maj. Burns with a hand grenade.
When Henry pretends to be talking to his wife on a broken phone, he calls her Mildred. However, Henry's wife is Lorraine. The Mildred persona, Colonel Potter's wife, was not (correctly) mentioned until Potter arrived in season 4.
In the opening scene Father Mulchahy acts like he's never bet on anything before, then after the PA announces him as the winner, Hawkeye and Trapper say, "You win again, you always win."
Hawkeye, Trapper, Radar, and 2 nurses are preparing to listen to the Army-Navy game. Klinger bursts in and tries to sit in a chair, but Hawkeye blocks him. The blonde-haired nurse behind them has her hair straight down on the sides. The next second, Father Mulcahy enters, and the blonde nurse's hair is tucked behind her right ear.
When Hawkeye is on the phone and looking into the compound where the bomb is, he has a tuft of hair drooping in the middle of his forehead for several shots. When he gets off the phone and turns to Frank, that tuft of hair is gone.
The camp is tuned in for a live afternoon broadcast of the Army-Navy football game. However, a live broadcast of a game that was played in the afternoon in the United States (as all Army-Navy games of that era were) would be airing in the middle of the night in Korea.
The radio announcer states that the Army-Navy game is the "53rd gridiron classic" and that the final score is Navy 42, Army 36. In reality, the 53rd Army-Navy game was played in 1952, after the end of the Korean War. None of the Army-Navy games actually played in the years of the war (1950, 1951, 1952) had a final score of 42-36.
If any kind of an explosive device or bomb - in this case, a huge one - were to land in the middle of the compound, there is NO way they would send out two highly skilled DOCTORS (their BEST Doctors) who know nothing about defusing bombs to do so.
Just before the Army fumbles on its own one-yard-line, the Navy commander says "punt!" which makes no sense whatsoever for that situation.
The dud bomb in the courtyard is configured like one that would be dropped from the air not shot from artillery cannon. Air dropped bombs have fins on a tail while exploding artillery are shells.
It is said that the locking mechanism needs to be turned counter-clockwise. When Hawkeye does it with his fingers, he gets it right the first time, but he switches to clockwise after Trapper hits his arm. They then rotate the locking mechanism clockwise, and it opens even though it should not.
This is incorrect. From the viewers angle Hawkeye gets this backwards, however from his and Trapper's angle he first rotates his hand clockwise and then corrects it to counterclockwise.
When Hawkeye and Trapper loosen the locking ring on the tail assembly of the bomb and then remove the tail assembly (exposing the green and black wires), there is no threaded rod running up from the bomb to the tail assembly for the locking ring to secure to. In essence, there is nothing connecting the two parts of the bomb together other than the green and black wires Trapper cut.
When the shelling starts, a table in the foreground with glasses and bottles on it barely moves, then suddenly tips up to throw everything on it onto the ground. During subsequent shells, the table doesn't even rock, showing that it was obviously tipped up by someone off screen.
Regardless of any other logic, and regardless of who 'volunteers', a commanding officer would never allow two officers who are doctors to attempt to defuse unexploded ordnance. This task would most definitely be assigned to an enlisted man, and not to one of the physicians and/or surgeons.
After Trapper cuts the two wires inside the bomb, Hawkeye and Trapper realize the bomb stopped ticking, and it can explode in two minutes (or less), yet they run only a few yards before hitting the ground. If they thought they had even one minute, they could have run back inside the hospital or anywhere further away.
When Hawkeye first approaches the bomb, he has no boots on so as not to cause vibrations that could set it off. However, when he and Trapper go out to diffuse it later, they both have their boots on.
Henry addresses a Navy Commander as 'sir'. Commander (O-5) is equal to Lt. Colonel, and thus, it was improper for Henry to address him in this manner.
Commander Sturner is wearing the rank of a Lt. Commander (O-4) and is equal to an army major. Henry, therefore, would outrank him.
When Hawkeye is defusing the bomb he holds the crescent wrench on the nut backwards.
When using a crescent wrench you don't turn it in a way that applies force to the sliding portion of the wrench.
Henry Blake told a story of an Illinois-Ohio State football game that ended in a 21-20 Illinois loss.
No IL-OSU game has ever ended 21-20.