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Colonel Coner (Kevin Hagen) is giving the 4077 too much business; BJ is livid, as all the Colonel cares about is his kill ratio. He will risk 10 live soldiers to retrieve one dead soldier. Give the locals a taste of our garbage; next they will want New Jersey; Frank has another bee in his bonnet - this time, about wasting waste. Frank wants to auction the 4077's trash. Col. Potter decides to thrust the greatness of garbage on Frank Burns. Radar saves the life of one of Coner's wounded soldiers, Private Gerald Phelan. Like the Chinese proverb, Radar not only begins to feel responsible for him, but he befriends the young man, as well. Hawkeye was unable to be able with the pretty Nurse Able (Lynette Mettey) and he is very upset; Hawkeye gets some advice from Colonel Potter about having hobbies and unwinding that have some unexpected results.

Per the title, the 38th parallel north was used as the pre-Korean War boundary between North Korea and South Korea.

Final appearance of Lynette Mettey.

When the load of garbage is dumped on Colonel Coner, BJ exclaims, "Beautiful! Beautiful! A Tintoretto in barf." Tintoretto was a famous Italian painter.

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    • Author: Blackredeemer
    There are several plot lines here. One is the "enterprising" Frank Burns, who realizes that the locals are stealing from the garbage dumps outside the camp. Frank decides to sell the trash to the highest bidder. Our resident sex machine, Hawkeye, is unable to perform with an attractive nurse and goes through throes of uncertainty about his manhood. This is really as sickening as Frank's garbage thing. The most touching involves Radar discovering that some tubes have been pulled out of a patient waiting to be brought in to surgery. He is told he saved the man's life. This develops a friendship between the two, but the kid is still in bad shape. He is the product of an overzealous Colonel who feels the need to risk his soldiers to get the dead off the battlefield. All three plots come into alignment as the story ends.
  • Episode credited cast:
    Alan Alda Alan Alda - Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce
    Mike Farrell Mike Farrell - Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt
    Harry Morgan Harry Morgan - Col. Sherman T. Potter
    Loretta Swit Loretta Swit - Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan (credit only)
    Larry Linville Larry Linville - Maj. Frank Burns
    Gary Burghoff Gary Burghoff - Cpl. Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly
    Jamie Farr Jamie Farr - Cpl. Maxwell Q. Klinger
    William Christopher William Christopher - Father Francis Mulcahy
    Kevin Hagen Kevin Hagen - Colonel Coner
    George O'Hanlon Jr. George O'Hanlon Jr. - Private Gerald Phelan
    Lynette Mettey Lynette Mettey - Nurse Able
    Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
    Richard Lee-Sung Richard Lee-Sung - Man at Auction
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