Hot Lips returns from her honeymoon to discover that Frank has went awol and is on a course of wild events during his weekend pass. Charles Emerson Winchester joins the team as a temp surgeon after irritating a higher ranked officer. Klinger gets a lawyer that he thinks will be able to get him out of the army.

Madness strikes as B.J. and his old friend Bardonaro play a series of practical jokes on each other, just as Bardonaro is about to leave Korea. Hawkeye gets the last laugh. He sends Bardonaro off without his traveling papers, and in a jeep with too little gas.