For a while there was a community on livejournal called hawkeyeisbi. It was deleted by its founder, I have no idea why, but it expressed a great and functional truth: Hawkeye Pierce IS bisexual.

And these two episodes - which I started to watch just because they were the next two in the sixth season after "Fade In Fade Out" are practically blatant about it.

Hawkeye is bi. Radar knows it (he's telepathic): BJ knows it (Hawkeye came out to him or, more likely, made a pass at him). Radar has a massive honkin' great crush on Hawkeye - about as big a crush as a straight boy can have on another man - and really wants nothing but Hawkeye to stand there and be adored by Radar - if Hawkeye actually made a pass, it would terrify Radar. Hawkeye thinks Radar is cute - as he drunkenly admits to BJ - but mostly because Radar is so crushed out on Hawkeye and so shy and so straight about it. The devotion part is just irritating. Hell, everyone in the camp who's been there for more than a month knows that Radar has a crush on Hawkeye - but everyone (well, certainly the Colonel and Father Mulcahy and probably Margaret) take for granted that Hawkeye would never do anything about it.

And then this slightly untenable situation comes to a head and Radar reproaches his idol for letting him down, and Hawkeye yells at him. Understandably: he was too hungover to operate because he'd got drunk because he couldn't stand to see Radar injured, and now Radar is lying there not looking the least bit happy to discover that his idol is so fond of him, but instead reproaching him for not being perfect.

I love the end: where Hawkeye reaches out of the bottle of grape NeHi, and takes it from Radar, and Radar takes the bottle of beer, and they both toast each other in drinks they loathe.

"The Last Laugh", following immediately after it, not only has the line Hawkeye yells after BJ as he's arrested, about coming for a conjugal visit: it also has Hawkeye sitting in the Swamp watching BJ and Bardonero interact, and having a more-or-less silent fit of jealousy.

The Next 48 Hours, by xylodemon: Trapper/Hawkeye. Gosh, this is good: it reminds me why Trapper and Hawkeye are my favourite canon couple. if it hurts, it heals, by mijmeraar: Hawkeye/BJ. Post-"Sons and Bowlers". Also good, though Hawkeye/BJ will never be more than my third-favourite non-canon couple.