As B.J.'s anniversary approaches, the camp tries to find a way to make it easier for him being so far away from Peg. Winchester's failing grade for a unit's sanitation inspection earns him a punch to the jaw from the unit's commander, prompting a young Korean patient's grandfather to offer him martial arts lessons for self-defence.
Attention, all personnel! Major Winchester will be learning karate to defend himself from the following tropes:
- All Asians Know Martial Arts: Key Yong Lu teaches Winchester karate after his run-in with Major Finch.
- Artistic License – Martial Arts: Karate is a Japanese martial art, and is unlikely to have been known or taught in 1950s Korea. It would have been far more realistic for Key Yong Lu to practice and teach the Korean martial art of Taekwondo. The show might have chosen karate simply because an American television audience is more likely to know what that is, compared to Taekwondo.
- Answer Cut: When Key Young Lu offers to help Winchester, Winchester patronizing asks, "What can you do to help me?" Cut to Key Yong Lu demonstrating karate to him (see All Asians Know Martial Arts above).
- Bait-and-Switch: Klinger comes to B.J. and Hawkeye, telling them Col. Potter has heard about the stunt they pulled in imitating Winchester with the commander of the Battalion Aid unit, and they better get into the colonel's office. Turns out it's a ruse to get B.J. there so the camp can give him the present for his and Peg's anniversary.
- Dead Man Writing: Winchester records a farewell message to his family before going to perform a unit's sanitation inspection, assuming it will become this. It gives Hawkeye the idea to use the same tech to make B.J.'s anniversary better.
- Hollywood New England: Hawkeye really leans into the accent when imitating Winchester on the phone.Hawkeye: (to B.J. and Klinger in his normal voice) I think I sprained my tongue.
- Large Ham: Charles goes into this mode when he stands up against the infantryman who assaulted him earlier as part of his karate demonstration.
- Hawkeye also dines on quite a bit of Klinger's office as he overacts his way through his impersonation of Winchester while on the phone with Maj. Finch.
- Longing Look: Depressed dogs don't look as sad as Hawkeye's expression when B.J. and Margaret dance. He looks away when B.J. notices.
- Meaningful Name: The title has a meaning for both plots: B.J. recalling fond memories with Peg and the combat "dance" between Charles and the infantryman.
- On Second Thought: When Key Yong Lu demonstrates his ability at karate (see All Asians Know Martial Arts above), Winchester is intrigued, but points out as a surgeon, he shouldn't use his hands in a fight. Not to worry, as Key Yong Lu demonstrates the feet can be used as a weapon as well, at which point Charles asks, "Tell me, do you charge by the hour?"
- Perfectly Cromulent Word: When Hawkeye's impersonating Winchester on the phone to the guy who punched him, he uses the word "sedacious" to describe his actions. When B.J. and Klinger look at him bewilderingly, he says "I just made that up; what does he know?"
- Phrase Catcher: After Hawkeye finishes imitating Charles, and as B.J. and Klinger applaud him, he says, "Gentlemen" and leaves.
- Shout-Out: When Klinger is giving B.J. the bad news about not being able to find a harmonica for his patient, he admits, "Mighty Klinger has struck out."
- When Hawkeye is imitating Winchester (see Hollywood New England above), Klinger asks if he can also imitate James Stewart.
- Shout-Out to Shakespeare: When Winchester is telling Hawkeye why he won't press charges against Major Finch, he quotes Julius Caesar: "Cowards die many times before their deaths."
