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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })One of the most commercially and critically successful series in American television history, M*A*S*H is — to quote its lead character, Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) — "finest kind".The show ran on CBS from 1972 to 1983, seven years longer than The Korean War during which it takes place. The setting is the 4077th MASH (short for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, a type of Army field hospital first activated in the last month of World War II), which is located three miles from the front line in Uijeongbu. The doctors and nurses there perform "meatball surgery" and otherwise do what they can to patch up the physical (and sometimes psychological) wounds of the war's numerous casualties while staving off their own fear, stress, boredom, and fatigue.M*A*S*H was first presented as a wacky, slightly edgy sitcom based on Robert Altman's movie—which was an adaptation of Richard Hooker's novel—but the series moved away from strictly comedic storylines early in its run (starting with Season 1's "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet") and incorporated dramatic plotlines in conjunction with comedic ones in the same episode. The show is often cited as TV's first true Dramedy.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })"Abyssinia, Henry", the final episode of the third season, is one of the major turning points for the series. It was the final episode for both Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) and "Trapper" John McIntyre (Wayne Rogers), and the tragic shock ending—Henry's plane home is shot down; "there were no survivors"—delineated the line between "Funny M*A*S*H" and "Dramatic M*A*S*H", as many fans would later divide the series. The fourth season proved crucial to the show's long-term success; at the time, very few shows had ever lost such significant characters and kept the audience. But the creators' decision to replace Henry and Trapper with completely different character types in Colonel Potter (Harry Morgan) and B.J. Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) succeeded, and the show continued to enjoy high ratings and critical acclaim.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Character development often came first in the "Dramatic M*A*S*H" phase. Previously one-note characters such as Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan (Loretta Swit) became more sympathetic and complex, as seen in Season 5's "The Nurses", in which Margaret asked her nurses, "When did one of you ever even offer me a lousy cup of coffee?" This approach ultimately led to Frank Burns (Larry Linville) leaving the show by receiving a psychiatric discharge, as the writers had developed Burns as a wholly unlikeable character with no room for growth.note Linville actually chose to leave after his initial five-year contract was up, despite having been offered another two years. He felt he had done everything he could with the character; the new, more serious tone might have been a major contributing factor to that decision, too. Burns was replaced by Charles Emerson Winchester III (David Ogden Stiers), who not only proved to be an actual asset to the medical staff, but even (eventually) became a nicer guy...in his own way.Other ways in which M*A*S*H changed how the Sitcom was perceived was by the use (or disuse) of the Laugh Track, commonly imposed by the networks if a studio audience would not be present at an episode's filming. The show's creators grudgingly accepted the laugh track, but soon imposed rules on when it was not to be used (during any of the operating room scenes); they dropped it entirely in certain nontypical episodes, and eventually abandoned it entirely. (The laugh track was never used when the series was broadcast by The BBC in the UK, and the DVDs on both sides of the pond offer the option to watch the shows with or without it.)M*A*S*H revolutionized the use of camera movements and editing styles on television—one example is the use of long tracking shots moving with the action (usually of soldiers being moved from helicopter/bus/Jeep to the OR). The show also experimented with unusual storylines married with different camera moves and screen devices. One special camera technique, Boom Up and Over, was new to television at the time; the use of this technique in sequences where camp announcements were shown from the "perspective" of the loudspeaker was groundbreaking and memorable.Critics and fans note that the show did Something Completely Different very well by keeping the tone of the show consistent while experimenting with unusual storylines or storytelling techniques. "Hawkeye" is a 25-minute monologue by Hawkeye as he struggles to stay awake after suffering a head injury. In "Point of View," the entire episode is literally seen through the eyes of a wounded soldier via P.O.V. Cam. "Life Time" is told in Real Time, with a clock in the corner ticking off the minutes as the doctors race to replace a soldier's crushed aorta before he becomes paralyzed. The series also has a Fever Dream Episode, the obligatory Clip Show, and a Documentary Episode told as a series of (largely improvised) television interviews with the characters.For twenty-five years, the show's final episode—"Goodbye, Farewell and Amen", which aired on February 28, 1983—held the record for the most-watched single broadcast in U.S. television history, with a 60.2 rating (percent of households watching), a 77 share (percent of households watching, of those watching some program at that time), and a total audience of over 125 million viewers. Although several Super Bowls have since surpassed it, the M*A*S*H finale still holds the record for non-sports programming.Considering that the original novel consisted mostly of the characters engaging in wacky fratboy hijinx and boasting about how much sex they have (and showed a truly awful degree of sexismnote "Trapper" got his nickname for using a train toilet to take advantage of his prom date and nobody seems to care that this may have been rape as long as he 'got some'; 'Me Lay' is famous for using his absurdly crass pick-up line, "Me lay, you lay," to acquire a stupendous 'batting average'; the doctors' only interest in the epileptic whore down at the local brothel is in how much fun it is to have your penis inside her when she has a seizure; the reputation of the unit depends in part on the size of the dentist's male organ; the list goes on and on. to boot), to produce such a long, successful and at times thoughtful series is a fine example of Pragmatic Adaptation, a very nice change in a world full of Adaptation Decay. Of course, Dr. Richard Hornberger, one-half of the writing team behind the pseudonymous author of the original book and kinda probably the model for Hawkeye, didn't see it that way; he was known to rant about it at length. (In a sequel, MASH Mania, he has his version of Hawkeye remark how he enjoys going down to the State University to "kick the shit out of a few liberals".)The show has both a character page and a recap file. | |
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Artistic License – Gun Safety | |
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Artistic License – Gun Safety: see Juggling Loaded Guns. Averted at least once in a deleted scene. In "It Happened One Night," Klinger has just introduced Hawkeye to a new private going on guard duty for the first time. After the discussion, Klinger stands. The private picks up his rifle and inadvertently points it in Klinger's face. Klinger is quick to nudge it away, having anticipated the eventuality upon seeing him pick it up. This trope gets played straight later on when (offscreen) the gun goes off, and Klinger is brought into Post-Op, trying to ham up being fatally shot when the bullet barely nicked him. Hawkeye in "Hawkeye Get Your Gun." The fact Potter cocks the hammer before Hawkeye starts firing means he must carry it loaded and hammer-down. This is the least safe way to carry a 1911. John Browning specifically designed it to be carried loaded with the hammer cocked (Situation One), and included a sear disconnect, a grip safety, and a manual safety (which can't be activated unless the hammer is cocked). This means for it to fire, the manual safety must be deactivated, the grip must be held, and the trigger must be pulled. This isn't that surprising, given Hawkeye's attitude to guns; see Doesn't Like Guns below. Frank Burns is a walking example of how to not handle a firearm. Highlights include shooting B.J. in the leg, shooting himself in the foot, and shooting out a light while chambering a round. Justified as this is specifically portrayed as a function of his incompetence, not as the correct or appropriate way to do things. | |
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Limited Advancement Opportunities | |
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Limited Advancement Opportunities: Only Klinger and Father Mulcahy get promoted in the show (though Burns makes Lieutenant Colonel after his departure, and Flagg goes from Lt. Col. to full Col. between appearances). Radar also received a temporary promotion (as well as a fake one to "Corporal Captain"). | |
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Strip Poker: An early episode has a gag where Hawkeye and Trapper are down to their underwear while playing this with (and losing badly to) a nurse. When Hawkeye loses another hand, he takes off... his dogtags. A later episode has several characters playing this. However, since it's the dead of winter, even the losers are still donning several layers of clothing when the game's interrupted by arriving wounded. In another early episode, a visiting general looking for Henry walks in on Spearchucker and Nurse Ginger playing strip dominoes (albeit not too far into the game). | |
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Canon Foreigner | |
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Canon Foreigner: A very large percentage of the regular and recurring characters on the show never appeared in the original novel or film, including the various replacements (B.J., Potter, Charles) as well as Klinger, Flagg, Sidney, Igor, Zale, Rizzo, etc. | |
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Faux Yay | |
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Faux Yay: In "Bananas, Crackers and Nuts", Hawkeye tries to get leave by (among other things) pretending to be romantically interested in Burns. | |
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Control Freak: Frank Burns, and to a lesser extent Hot Lips. | |
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Dirty Coward | |
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The episode "Rainbow Bridge" tries to make Hawkeye and Trapper seem completely in the right by upholding the Chinese stipulations for MASH personnel to come completely unarmed for a prisoner exchange, while Frank is painted as a Dirty Coward, ridiculous and needlessly jeopardizing lives for bringing a tiny gun for protection. Except the PVA troops came armed to the hilt at the same time they demanded the US medics come unarmed, giving a lot of credence to Frank's (and Margaret's) protests that they could be walking right into a trap. | |
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Anyone Can Die: Henry's death was as shattering and it was unexpected for all the deaths and injuries of one-shot characters. | |
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I Was Quite a Looker: In "The Trial of Henry Blake", after the elderly Nurse Cratty testifies on Henry's behalf, an admiring Hawkeye leans over and tells her, "You're beautiful." She answers, "I used to be, sonny." | |
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Klinger employs this (and/or Playing Sick) in some of his dodge attempts. Once he faked fainting spells, and another time he pretended to have crippling depression. This is averted, however, in the one time that he was actually ill (he had anemia) but everyone else assumed he was faking. His response points out that while he may try to scam his way out of the Army, he has never done it when people's lives are on the line and he is needed in surgery. Indeed, his only fake fainting spell in the OR was after the last patient was seen to. Inverted when Klinger is too close to an exploding land minenote He was on guard duty and the cold weather was making the soil contract around the land mines and set them off and loses his hearing. At first, the main characters suspect he is attempting another scam, but it turns out he really has lost his hearing. At the end of the episode, he gets his hearing back, only for another character to tell him that hearing loss is a sure-fire way out of the Army. Klinger, being Klinger, immediately starts pretending he lost his hearing again. | |
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My Friends... and Zoidberg: When Hawkeye, B.J., Charles, and Radar are in the Swamp together, Charles will often excuse himself with: "Gentlemen. (nod to Radar) Corporal." | |
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Likes Older Men: This is invoked in "Potter's Retirement". During the Kentucky Derby party, Hawkeye—dressed like a Colonel Sanders Expy—once again hits on Bigelow, only for her to actually go along with him this time. | |
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Scenery Censor: Hawkeye's naked stroll through the compound in "Dear Dad...Again". They even moved the signpost to just beside the door of the Swamp to complete the effect. (It normally stands in an open area in the middle of camp.) Done with Hawkeye and B.J. after Margaret steals their robes from the shower in "An Eye for a Tooth", and with Winchester after Hawkeye pulls down his pants in the O.R. in "Bottoms Up". | |
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Surrogate Soliloquy: "Hawkeye" | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Hawkeye gets one in the finalé when a mother smothers her child when they're all hiding from an enemy patrol. Even worse, he feels that it's his fault; she did it after he told her they'd all get killed if she didn't keep the baby quiet. A visiting surgeon (who had seemed cheerful and "as [sane] as any of us" - "that's what scares me," Hawkeye replies) suffers one in the middle of OR, walking out and wandering into a tent where he's found softly complaining that the blood won't come off. Charles has an episode-long one when he is almost shot in the head by a sniper (he enters it upon seeing the twin bullet holes in his cap. | |
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Freeze-Frame Ending: The show began using the flash variation in Season Six, usually to acknowledge the show's ever-changing story editors (or script consultants as they were eventually called), program consultants, and to acknowledge creative consultants Gene Reynolds (co-creator and previous producer) and Alan Alda. Also depending on the nature of the episode, the variation of the music cue would differ: while most episodes featured a short, upbeat arrangement of the show's main theme, especially sombre and poignant episodes would either use a slower and more melancholy arrangement or omit the music altogether. This continued up until the Grand Finale. | |
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Anonymous Benefactor: Charles, in "Death Takes a Holiday". | |
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All Are Equal in Death | |
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All Are Equal in Death: The episode "Follies of the Living - Concerns of the Dead" is told from the POV of a dead soldier. At the end of the episode he walks down the road toward the afterlife along with all the other dead - U.S. soldiers of various ranks, North Korean soldiers, civilians, etc. | |
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Gratuitous Spanish | |
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Gratuitous Spanish: Col. Potter loves this trope. Father Mulcahy attracts a little of this as Potter calls him "Padre" (Father), which is moderately common US Army slang; the rest of the cast uses "Father," but some Korean characters picked it up. Potter is not even close to being a native speaker; his pronunciation is horrendous, e.g. he pronounces "Padre" and "comprende" with an "ee" sound at the end. At one point, he conducts a phone call with a Canadian unit with some very gratuitous French sprinkled in, also terribly pronounced. The viewers are collectively embarrassed for him. | |
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Early Winchester episodes suggested that he'd become Frank's replacement in more way than one by hinting at an upcoming Relationship Upgrade between him and Margaret, but that never came to fruition. | |
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Right Behind Me: Invoked a few times in earlier seasons, whenever Frank and/or Margaret would barge in to register complaints with Henry, while Henry is preoccupied with reading sports magazines, or even sleeping, and casually mentioning to Radar what pains they are. A later episode has Charles Winchester, who's temporarily in charge while Potter's away, occupying the CO's office and employing Klinger as his personal valet. In a scene toward the end, Charles makes insulting remarks about Potter to (he assumes) Klinger, not realizing that Potter has returned and slipped in behind him. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: You wish Colonel Potter was your grandfather, admit it. | |
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Misplaced Wildlife | |
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Radar always had a large menagerie of different animals, including rabbits, guinea pigs, raccoons, squirrels, skunks, and even a turtle, each having their own cages. Then, in his very last episode, when he says goodbye to his animals, all that are left are one turtle, one rabbit, and one guinea pig. He tells them the rest of the camp will take care of them in his absence, although we see them only once after that, in "The Red White Blues". | |
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Do You Want to Haggle? | |
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Do You Want to Haggle?: In "Dear Mildred", Frank and Margaret are commissioning a local Korean artist to make a wooden bust of Col. Potter's head for his birthday: | |
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Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace | |
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Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: Played with in "Margaret's Marriage"; at the line in question, everyone present turns to Frank, but he demurs. | |
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The Trickster | |
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The Trickster: Hawkeye, Trapper, B.J., and on occasion, Winchester. Father Mulcahy can be one from time to time, engaging in the camp poker games and pools to raise money for the local orphanage, and usually walking away with the other trickster's money. | |
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Apocalypse Anarchy | |
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Apocalypse Anarchy: In one episode when they think that they are all about to be killed, several of the officers get together for a high-stakes poker game. Trapper asks, "So, what are the stakes again?" Hawkeye explains that the values are $5,000 for the white chips, $10,000 for the red, and $25,000 for the blue. He then clarifies, "And if we don't die, whites are 25¢, reds are 50¢, and blues are a dollar." | |
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Accent Slip Up | |
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Accent Slip Up: In the episode "Dear Comrade" where the narrating character, Kwang, is a new houseboy Dr. Charles Winchester hires to clean around his area, get his food, etc., and is a North Korean spy. When he talks with the Americans, Kwang uses broken English as is stereotypical of an Asian learning English second. In the final scene when he is celebrating with the doctors drinking some good whiskey, he ends up speaking better English than previously shown. The doctors, while thoroughly inebriated as well, take note of the improvement but Kwang simply states it is the good whiskey causing it to everyone's laughter. | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_1989b0c | type |
Comic-Book Time | |
| M*A*S*H / int_1989b0c | comment |
Comic-Book Time: The series lasted twelve years. The Korean War lasted three years. Technically, the series begins at least three months into the Korean War so the entire series covers the events of about two years and nine months. Potter's granddaughter is born during the war; one season later, she's five years old and writing him letters. There are several Christmas' celebrated and the actors noticeably age, both of which are ignored throughout the series. | |
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A Father to His Men | |
| M*A*S*H / int_19d06ef7 | comment |
A Father to His Men: Colonel Blake, to Radar; Colonel Potter, to everyone. | |
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Always Someone Better | |
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Always Someone Better: In "Chief Surgeon Who?", this is Hawkeye to Frank. Henry assigns the position of the 4077th chief surgeon to Hawkeye, and boy does Frank resent it: In "Smilin' Jack," this was fellow chopper pilot Dangerous Dan to Jack, who was bucking for Chopper Pilot of the Year. Jack was grounded after being diagnosed for diabetes, but not before he picks up four more wounded soldiers from the front aid station. As Jack boards the bus for a ground position, Dangerous Dan shows up with two more wounded to put him back in the lead. | |
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The Klutz | |
| M*A*S*H / int_1bdbbbae | comment |
The Klutz: Nurse Edwina Ferguson in "Edwina", Private Paul "Look Out Below" Conway in "Too Many Cooks". | |
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The Voice | |
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The Voice: The camp PA announcer. In the episode "Run for the Money", Winchester plays a tape recording from his sister, Honoria. In "Springtime", Laverne Esposito can be heard when Klinger marries her via radio. Pvt. Rich, in the "Point of View" episode. In an early episode, Radar's unseen girlfriend breaks up with him via a Dear John recording. Both her voice and the voice of her new fiancé are heard. | |
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Paranoia Gambit | |
| M*A*S*H / int_1c81c658 | comment |
Paranoia Gambit: In "The Joker is Wild", B.J. bets Hawkeye that he can prank eveyone in the camp, but as his pranks intensify and everyone but Hawkeye gets pranked, Pierce becomes so paranoid that he sleeps outside within a barb wire enclosure. At the end, B.J. and his "victims" reveal that no one was actually pranked—it was all a plan to prank Hawkeye by making him paranoid. Though it does mean that, technically, B.J. lost the bet. In another escalating prank war initiated by Charles, after they drop a dummy on her while in bed, Margaret tells B.J. she sent a letter to his wife detailing their year-long affair, and that Hawkeye set them up. It's actually another Kansas City Shuffle, this time on Charles. | |
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The Main Characters Do Everything | |
| M*A*S*H / int_1c9537cd | comment |
The Main Characters Do Everything: M*A*S*H is a particularly bad example. Other surgeons are occasionally mentioned, but rarely seen. This leads to many instances of the four doctors working many hours straight without a break. There is also only one person who does the clerking work (who also works as a stretcher-bearer), when there should be somewhere between two and four, plus an entire administrative staff. In the first season, the camp had an anesthesiologist, "Ugly John", who was written out after a few episodes and replaced with whoever was closest to the anesthetics at the time, regardless of their qualifications to administer it. Perhaps the worst and most confusing is "Cementing Relationships". Despite a camp full of lower-ranking soldiers with a great deal more experience with manual labor and less to lose from a hand injury, three surgeons, the head nurse, and the camp chaplain are the ones who put the new cement floor in the OR. Unsurprisingly, they screw up their first try. Similarly, in "MASH Olympics", when an ambulance is overturned, two of the three surgeons, the head nurse, and the camp chaplain are tasked with righting it. Justified on one occasion in the Season 3 episode "Bombed". A wounded enemy soldier came in rigged with a wire and a live grenade. Frank recommended getting Staff Sergeant Benson, the camp demolitions expert, to look after it; trouble was, the camp was being shelled and Benson was on the next table. | |
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Clown Car | |
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Clown Car: Invoked in one episode, Hawkeye tries to break the record for the most people stuffed into a Jeep (16) after seeing a picture in Life magazine of a bunch of college kids doing it in a Volkswagen. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Hawkeye and Trapper, and later Hawkeye and B.J.. | |
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I Owe You My Life | |
| M*A*S*H / int_1e4a1e0e | comment |
I Owe You My Life: Figures as a subplot in "Springtime" and "Operation Friendship". | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: The season 4 premiere "Welcome to Korea" ends with the P.A. announcer naming the new season's cast regulars as both actors and characters. | |
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Source Music | |
| M*A*S*H / int_1ebbebc5 | comment |
Source Music: In a carryover from the film, the P.A. occasionally plays music in camp. This actually becomes a plot point in "Your Hit Parade", where Potter tasks Radar with keeping up morale during one grueling O.R. session by spinning popular tunes of the day. (Particularly "Sentimental Journey".) | |
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Invented Individual | |
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Invented Individual: Hawkeye, not wanting to take credit for the supplies he and Trapper give the orphanage, says they're from a Captain Tuttle. This eventually blows up into a whole thing, with Hawkeye and Trapper convincing the whole camp that there is a doctor stationed at the 4077th named Tuttle. Truth in Television in this case: Tuttle is listed on IMDB as playing himself. His "successor" Major Murdock also qualifies. | |
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Who's Watching the Store? | |
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Who's Watching the Store?: In the episodes "The Bus" and "The Novocaine Mutiny", all of the 4077th's regular surgeons (Hawkeye, B.J., Frank, Potter) are away from camp for an extended period. It's never explained who's operating on the wounded in their absence. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
| M*A*S*H / int_1f250372 | comment |
I Need a Freaking Drink: This is averted in one episode when Hawkeye, having sworn off alcohol for a week, orders a drink in the Officers' Club after a close encounter with a live grenade in OR, admitting that he flat out needs it after nearly getting blown up. He is just a few inches from drinking it when he decides that he would prefer to want the drink instead of need it, puts the glass back down, and leaves the club. Colonel Blake frequently went straight to his liquor cabinet whenever he heard that trouble (usually in the form of a general) was coming his way. Come to think of it, he usually did the same thing even when it was good news, too. Used subtly in "What's Up Doc?" upon Radar realizing that they have to kill his rabbit in order to do a pregnancy test on Margaret. While Radar loses it, a clearly exasperated Margaret grabs a bottle of liquor that Potter and Hawkeye had just been drinking from and pours herself a shot. | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: They're in the Army, after all, so the 4077th occasionally find themselves dealing with one or more of these. This includes things like supplies, where on occasion the 4077th gets sent the wrong supplies and can't protest because according to the Army's records they got what they were supposed to, when they clearly didn't. | |
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Hidden Heart of Gold | |
| M*A*S*H / int_20c99f6e | comment |
Hidden Heart of Gold: Charles Winchester. | |
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It Only Works Once | |
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It Only Works Once: You would think threatening to tell Frank's wife about Margaret would be an easy way for Hawkeye and Trapper to keep him in line, but they only do it once. | |
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Seduction-Proof Marriage | |
| M*A*S*H / int_21768d3f | comment |
Seduction-Proof Marriage: Played straight by B.J. Hunnicutt, who is (almost) completely faithful to his wife because of this. The one or two times he does get seduced he feels awful about it afterwards. Played with between Frank Burns and Margaret Houlihan. The former is married but is having an ongoing relationship with Margaret. When Margaret gets engaged he thinks they can still fool around but she shoots him down. | |
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The Tooth Hurts | |
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The Tooth Hurts: Charles deals with this in "The Tooth Shall Set You Free". | |
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Family of Choice | |
| M*A*S*H / int_21cf9301 | comment |
Family of Choice: In the Winchester seasons, as he gradually becomes a better person and Margaret learns to be more open. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
| M*A*S*H / int_22071825 | comment |
I'm a Humanitarian: In an early episode, Hawkeye feigns stress-induced insanity by sitting down to a delicious meal of liver. That he got from a North Korean. Who croaked. | |
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Black Comedy | |
| M*A*S*H / int_222dc873 | comment |
Black Comedy: Basically what the show is built on. Something as horrifying as war shouldn't be funny, but they make it so. | |
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Laugh Track | |
| M*A*S*H / int_224c9aef | comment |
Beginning with Season 3's "O.R.", there would also be at least one or two episodes per season where the laugh track would be omitted entirely. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
| M*A*S*H / int_237404cc | comment |
Ironic Echo: At one point in the Grand Finale, Klinger asks Potter's advice on his being in love with Soon-Lee and how the idea is giving him trouble. Potter tells him, "When you're in love, you're always in trouble, so there's two things you can do: either stop lovin' 'em, or love 'em a whole lot more." Towards the end, when Klinger announces he and Soon-Lee are getting married and that he's staying in Korea to help her find her family, he concludes with: | |
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Patriotic Fervor | |
| M*A*S*H / int_23be181a | comment |
Patriotic Fervor: This is frequently displayed by both Frank Burns and (especially) Colonel Flagg. | |
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Babies Make Everything Better | |
| M*A*S*H / int_23f1384a | comment |
Babies Make Everything Better: Averted with Margaret, who at one point believes she's pregnant but says that a baby will only exacerbate the problems she's already having with her husband, not to mention end her Army career. It turns out she's not, but Margaret and Donald later divorce anyway. Also averted in the finale, the staff is returning from visiting a beach for the 4th of July when they pick up some civilians and wounded soldiers. They stop to avoid an enemy patrol, and one of the civilians smothers her baby to stop it crying and giving the bus' position away. | |
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Long-Runner Cast Turnover | |
| M*A*S*H / int_240fd641 | comment |
Long-Runner Cast Turnover: The series had a significant cast turnover during its eleven seasons. Alan Alda (Hawkeye) and Loretta Swit (Margaret) were the only main cast present from pilot to finale. Jamie Farr (Klinger) was introduced early in the first season, but he started off as an extra. William Christopher played Father Mulcahy beginning early in the first season, but the role was played by a different actor in the pilot. The military hospital setting made it easy to write characters in and out with the excuse of them getting drafted, transferred, and discharged. | |
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Flipping Helpless | |
| M*A*S*H / int_246268be | comment |
Flipping Helpless: In one episode, an ambulance-truck flipped on its back demonstrated to Colonel Potter the general unfitness of his camp: after everyone pushing together can't get it rightside up, a group of 4 MPs happens by and rights it all by themselves. Another time, B.J. rolls a jeep onto its side while avoiding a crash. When he and Hawkeye attempt to right it, they roll it on its top, leaving them to walk back to the 4077. | |
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Trash of the Titans | |
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Trash of the Titans: A relatively mild example, but there's a reason Hawkeye's tent is known as "The Swamp". As shown, the Swamp is untidy, but not actually dirty. Character dialog, however, indicates it's supposed to be filthy. | |
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Out, Damned Spot! | |
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Out, Damned Spot!: Captain Newsome in "Heal Thyself." | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Although the show tends to be good about actual history, there are times that the research breaks down. In one episode, both Godzilla and The Blob (1958) are referenced. Neither of those movies were released during the Korean War (Gojira: 1954/Godzilla, King of the Monsters: 1955, The Blob: 1958). Another borderline case of this is with The Moon is Blue: The movie was released on July 8, 1953 and was still in first-run release in the US by the time the war "ended" on July 27, 1953. While it's within the realm of possibility that the unit could have seen it, it seems highly unlikely given two reasons: The episode revolved around the MASH wanting to see the movie to see what all the fuss was about, which most likely wouldn't have happened till the film was very close to release or already released; and transit times for movies to the Korean Front. If by plane, it might be plausible. In "Movie Tonight", Radar shows off his impression of John Wayne, but the line he quotes ("I'm not gonna hit ya, I'm not...the Hell I'm not!") is lifted from McLintock!, which was released in 1963. When Radio Tokyo is playing on the camp loudspeakers, it’s often playing Kyū Sakamoto’s “Ue o Muite Arukō,” otherwise known as “Sukiyaki.” While notable for being one of the first Japanese songs to gain popularity in the West, it wouldn’t be released until 1961. In the episode "Der Tag," Radar is shown sleeping with a copy of The Avengers comic book on his chest, with the 1970s logo. One shot later, it switches to another issue of the same comic with the '60s logo. Either way, the Avengers weren't around during the Korean War (in fact, none of the major characters from the Marvel Universe had even been created, other than Captain America). In "The Novocaine Mutiny," Radar is shown possessing a Spider-Man comic book. Spidey wouldn't be created until 1962. The "points" system referenced in some episodes was no longer current for rotation of personnel, nor was it ever used for surgeons. According the U.S. Army Center of Military History “…a soldier earned four points for every month he served in close combat, two points per month for rear-echelon duty in Korea, and one point for duty elsewhere in the Far East…The Army initially stated that enlisted men needed to earn forty-three points to be eligible for rotation back to the States, while officers required fifty-five points. In June 1952 the Army reduced these requirements to thirty-six points for enlisted men and thirty-seven points for officers.” B.J.'s latter-seasons hairstyle was much longer than what any professional man in the 1950s, military or civilian, would have worn. (This may be excusable, since the whole point was that B.J. was rebelling against the Army.) Several times, Korean soldiers are shown with AK-47-type rifles (actually stand-ins) before any communist nation even issued them yet. In one episode Klinger hands out Hershey bars with UPC symbols on the back wrapper to recovering patients. A pinball machine from the 1970s appears in the Officers' Club, along with a poster on the wall with an illustration of a Vietnam-era helicopter. In one episode Henry uses a bullhorn that wasn't invented until after the war. In "Officer of the Day," Flagg appears wearing the branch insignia for military intelligence. This insignia wasn't used by the Army until 1962. Medics are always shown wearing helmets with the Red Cross painted on the front. This practice was stopped in early 1951 because North Korean snipers were using them as targets. General MacArthur is almost constantly referred to as the Allied Commander. MacArthur was relieved of command in April 1951 for insubordination, after less than a year in command. In the episode "War of Nerves", Sidney Freedman asks Radar, "Do you know how many people...think I Love Lucy is real?" I Love Lucy premiered in October of 1951. Given when the characters were supposed to have been in Korea, there is no way that either of them would have ever seen the show. In one episode, Klinger, the surgeons, and Margaret are all playing poker. Margaret buys Klinger's hoop earrings off him so he can stay in the game, and Klinger mentions he'd wear hula hoops in his ears if he thought it'd get him out of the Army. Later in the series, he technically invents the hula hoop (or at least decides to patent it so he can make money). The hula hoop wouldn't be officially invented until 1958. You know that wool cap that Radar always wears? It's called a Jeep Cap, and it's actually a uniform accessory from World War II, not the Korean War; in fact, Patton and other American officers hated the Jeep Cap because it looked "sloppy" and "unmilitary" that it was eventually replaced with the standardized field cap before WW2 ended. It was only after Radar made the Jeep Cap famous that the U.S. Army started to issue them again as surplus, though they look nothing like they used to. In one episode Hawkeye can be seen wearing bright blue '70s tennis shoes while walking through the compound. Noted in MAD's parody "M*U*S*H" (not to be confused with the one mentioned below) when Luke-Warm Lips's appearance is commented on thusly: "This is 1950 and she's wearing a hairdo that won't even be invented until 1981!" Several actresses from the period can be seen in glamor shots with roughly similar styles to Margaret's season 5 and 6 look. However (as Klinger would tell you) a side part was more common. Parting down the middle is a very '60s look, and the feathered style of the last seasons didn't come in until the mid-'70s. However, the halter top Margaret wears in "The Merchant of Korea" and a couple of other hot-weather episodes is not out of place. The Chinese dudou, popular all over East Asia, has been around since at least the 14th century CE; Margaret looks to have made hers from an Army undershirt, perhaps after seeing locals wearing them. | |
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Sick Episode | |
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Sick Episode: Most of the characters come down with the flu in "Carry On, Hawkeye" and get food poisoning in "The Yalu Brick Road". Hawkeye starts sneezing uncontrollably in "Bless You, Hawkeye" and has chronic back pain in "Hepatitis". Both turn out to be psychosomatic in nature, however. Henry suffers a Ruptured Appendix in "The Long John Flap". Frank develops a hernia in "As You Were" and contracts a severe fever in "Soldier of the Month". Radar gets tonsillitis in "None Like It Hot". Col. Potter and Charles get the mumps in "Heal Thyself". "Follies of the Living, Concerns of the Dead" has Klinger getting a severe fever and seeing the ghost of a dead soldier. Margaret develops laryngitis in "Say No More", and both she and Charles get food poisoning in "The Grim Reaper". | |
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Failure Is the Only Option | |
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Failure Is the Only Option: Klinger trying to get a Section 8, Burns trying to instill military discipline, Winchester trying to get transferred back to Tokyo. In all cases, Status Quo Is God guarantees they will fail. Winchester seems to play on his awareness that his exile to the 4077th is permanent at the end of the episode where the staff members' families meet at a party back in the States. On hearing that his parents and Radar's mother and uncle hit it off so well that they're planning another get-together after the war, he asserts that for all he cares, they "...can bring your goat. Makes no difference to me, for I shan't be there; I'm turning myself in to the Chinese." | |
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It Has Been an Honor | |
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It Has Been an Honor In the Grand Finale: Hawkeye and B.J. give Col Potter a silent one by standing at attention and saluting him, something that they did very rarely for anyone, much less their CO, throughout the course of the series. Major Houlihan tells everyone in the 4077th that it has been an honor serving with them. Hawkeye salutes Radar in "Good-bye Radar (Part 2)" while in the operating room, as well as when presenting him his Purple Heart at the end of "Fallen Idol". | |
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SteelEardrums | |
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Steel Eardrums: Averted, when Father Mulcahy is deafened by an artillery shell. Happened to Klinger once too, except he regained his hearing by the end of the episode. Mulcahy didn't until the spinoff. | |
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Am I Just a Toy to You? | |
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Am I Just a Toy to You?: Inverted, as all series long Hawkeye is more than happy to be the rehearsal for engaged women, an alternative to Margaret for horny generals, or Trapper/B.J.’s alternate wives. He’s semi-serious for most of this, but even Mulcahy is aware that one of his "talents" is sex. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: Maybe not entirely in the background, but if you watch Trapper John in "Private Charles Lamb" while the Greeks are bringing food in the mess tent, he tries to open three or four jars of food while chatting with Radar using his shirt to get a grip on the tight lids. He fails to open even one. In one episode, a colonel is talking to one of his wounded soldiers who is in a full body cast, with only his eyes, mouth, and one hand visible. When the colonel leaves, the man waves his hand goodbye. In "Cowboy," as Radar helps Henry to the hospital following the jeep crashing through his tent, Mulcahy moonwalks out of the shot; even the nurse who was standing next to him turns and looks on with a bemused look on her face. In "Operation Noselift", Hawkeye stops to talk to Father Mulcahy in the compound. Behind them is a parked jeep in which two soldiers sit, one reading a hard-bound medical reference and the other a comic book, comparing notes. The same episode has a scene where Hawkeye is making a phone call from Henry's office, and Trapper can be seen in the background playing with a Japanese doll on Henry's desk, breaking it, and hurriedly hiding the pieces. (Later, when Hawkeye and Trapper are out in the compound, an angry Henry comes up demanding to know who broke the doll.) Anytime Hawkeye and Trapper watch Frank walk right into one of their pranks, Trapper cannot keep a straight face. There's a recurring stock footage shot of the 4077th compound that has four corpsman doing the Can-Can on the wooden platform near the camp entrance. In, "Adam's Ribs," during Hawkeye's tirade in the Mess Tent regarding the poor selection and quality of Army chow, Radar continues to eat, even swiping food off other people's trays. In "Dear Dad", during the otherwise tense scene where Mulcahy is trying to talk Klinger out of using a grenade on Frank, watch the background behind Mulcahy. In one cut, an extra comes around the corner, suddenly realizes what he's about to walk into, and backpedals back around the corner. | |
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Unique Pilot Title Sequence | |
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Unique Pilot Title Sequence: The pilot starts with the title "Korea 1950 - 100 Years Ago" as Hawkeye and Trapper John play golf with "My Blue Heaven" playing in the background. Radar gets tossed a football and stops as he hears the choppers coming, which then leads into an extended version of the standard opening. Just imagine what a whole new meaning it'll take on when we're still watching reruns of this show in 2050. | |
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Porn Stache | |
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Porn Stache: B.J. has one of these beginning in Season Seven. Ugly John also sported one. | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles: Jamie Farr (season 4), William Christopher (season 5). | |
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Life-or-Limb Decision | |
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Life-or-Limb Decision: This is done in an unusual way in "Heal Thyself". Potter and Charles are down with the mumps, and the one replacement surgeon has been showing signs of instability. When they get a large batch of wounded, at one point Hawkeye is forced to amputate a soldier's leg because other patients don't have time for him to do anything else. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: Frank Burns, who thinks of himself as a patriotic and loyal American who deserves to be looked up to as a role model for the unit, when everyone else (except Margaret) thinks of him as an asshole and blowhard. | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen: Margaret Houlihan starts off as an unlikable martinet. Eventually, she splits from Frank and relaxes, joining the others for poker games and other social activities. | |
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Hurricane of Puns | |
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Hurricane of Puns: Every single episode. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: Klinger's Arabic, while it doesn't sound specifically Lebanese, is pretty accurate (ironically, far more so than the Korean spoken on the show, which is usually not even Korean). However, in the episode "Hawkeye", Korean is actually spoken by the family in whose house Hawkeye is staying. As Hawkeye is both the only main cast member and the only English-speaking character in the episode, Korean-speakers get to hear about twice as much dialog as English-only-speakers. Among the gems are the father telling Hawkeye to "Please shut up so we can eat dinner." In the second scene of "Fade Out, Fade In - Part 1," Hawkeye spits game at a nurse in very good French. | |
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Halloween Episode | |
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The season 11 Halloween Episode "Trick or Treatment" has the group telling ghost stories to each other in the O.R. with varying degrees of credulity from the listeners. | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: This is played straight when you consider that most of the people in camp are army personnel and thus pretty much wear their uniforms all the time. But it is curiously averted whenever we see a character leave for R&R and they start packing a whole bunch of different clothes we never see them wear at all, even when they're out of uniform in camp. Hawkeye and Trapper seem to pack a lot of Hawaiian shirts, despite only wearing the same ones over and over again, and when Radar is unpacking his to stay at the 4077th rather than go home, he seems to have a lot of clothes he's pulling out of his suitcase and duffle bag. | |
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Bury Your Gays | |
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Bury Your Gays: Actually averted in the episode "George", although Weston was asking Hawkeye to clear him for further duty on the front, even if he wasn't physically fit, so how long he survived past the episode is anyone's guess. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: When they first meet, Col. Flagg condescendingly attempts to browbeat Col. Potter. Potter puts him in his place, and fast. Flagg never treats Potter with anything less than respect again. According to Hawkeye, Winchester never was broken. However, he was in the final episode by the death of his prized Chinese musicians. | |
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Running Over The Plot | |
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Running Over The Plot: Whiplash Wang makes a meager living by purposely getting run over by GIs in jeeps, then making them pay him off to keep him from reporting it. | |
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Quietly Performing Sister Show | |
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Quietly Performing Sister Show: Roll Out!. Airing for only one season in 1973, it too was created by Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds, as CBS decided to try and have another military sitcom with M*A*S*H's success to bolster it. It didn't work out that way though, and today is virtually all but forgotten. | |
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Ambiguously Jewish | |
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Ambiguously Jewish: Sidney Freedman | |
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Trespassing to Talk | |
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Trespassing to Talk: In the episode "Cowboy", Henry - who is in a really bad mood - enters his office to find Hawkeye waiting for him behind his desk, wanting to discuss giving chopper pilot Cowboy a temporary medical discharge. Henry even remarks, "Uh-uh-uh! Don't get up... let me just pretend YOU'RE the one in charge of this nuthouse." In "Rally 'Round the Flagg, Boys", Potter walks into his office, with Father Mulcahy in tow, to find Colonel Flagg waiting for them at his desk, and neither of them (nor Radar, who was in his outer office the whole time) can even figure out how Flagg got in there in the first place. | |
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Better as Friends | |
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A few episodes hint at the fact that Margaret and Hawkeye actually have feelings for each other... some do more than just hint it... and their last interaction is a decent length, passionate kiss in the series finale. It's at least a half a minute long, during which Col. Potter, B.J. and Charles are standing on looking uncomfortable and trying to find something else to look at. The season 6 two-parter "Comrades in Arms" has them making out while spending the night in an abandoned hut behind enemy lines. In the morning it's clear that Margaret takes things a lot more seriously than Hawkeye does, leading to a serious falling-out between them before they finally decide they're Better as Friends. | |
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Omniglot | |
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Omniglot: Klinger. He speaks English, Arabic, Lebanese, and has picked up a little Korean. | |
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Mysterious Middle Initial | |
| M*A*S*H / int_2f1fa94c | comment |
Maxwell Q. Klinger's middle name was never revealed. | |
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Big Storm Episode | |
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Big Storm Episode: "They Call The Wind Korea" is about the camp preparing for and dealing with the onslaught of a massive freezing windstorm. | |
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I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine | |
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I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Jamie Farr was suggested for the (originally one-shot) part of Klinger after producer/director Gene Reynolds worked with him on F Troop, in which Farr played an Indian comedian named Stand-Up Bull, whose riff was basically ripping one Incredibly Lame Indian-Based Pun after another. | |
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Gratuitous Foreign Language | |
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The two different words for "stop" thing is actually a genuine attempt to avert this. Korean features a couple of different words that, in any dictionary, would be glossed as "stop". If the horrible pronunciation is ignored, we have "geuchyeo" (그쳐, the imperative form of 그치다) and "jeongji" (정지, a noun meaning "stop" or "arrest"). The camp's stop signs even feature a third word: "meomchum" (멈춤, a nominal form of 멈추다). In addition, it's the main characters attempting to use these words. | |
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Office Golf | |
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Office Golf: Henry. | |
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Scunthorpe Problem | |
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Scunthorpe Problem: Father Mulcahy's nickname of "Dago Red", used once in the pilot and then never again in the series. In a way, this inverts the movie, where he was initially introduced by his name, and then always addressed by his nickname after that. | |
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Chivalrous Pervert | |
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Chivalrous Pervert: Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce | |
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Color Me Black | |
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Color Me Black: In one episode, Hawkeye and Trapper gradually darken the skin of a white racist to make him think he's turning black after getting a blood transfusion from a black person, an in-universe exploitation of said soldier failing biology forever. The plot is somewhat inspired by a season one episode of All in the Family. | |
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Open Heart Dentistry | |
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Open Heart Dentistry: On one occasion, Dr. Freedman was asked to help out in O.R.; as a psychiatrist he is a qualified medical doctor, but he's not a surgeon, and as Sidney put it, "Medical school was a long time ago." Spearchucker as well. He commented once that "anything outside the skull, I'm dead" while performing surgery on a patient's abdomen. Major Houlihan is also taught by Hawkeye to perform emergency surgery note they have temporarily been sent to replace a medical team killed in action in the front line. Despite her protestations that she is not trained and legally cannot perform surgery, she performs very capably. Even Father Mulcahy performed basic surgical procedures when assisting in the OR. On one occasion, he performed a tracheotomy on the road with Hawkeye coaching him over the radio. One gifted doctor, temporarily with the 4077th, turns out not to be a qualified doctor at all—he is a Walter Mitty who is pretending to be a doctor. Hawkeye notes that for a guy with no medical training, he's still ten times better than Frank Burns (and never lost a patient). | |
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It Will Never Catch On | |
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It Will Never Catch On: One episode has Klinger trying unsuccessfully to convince Winchester to invest in his invention—the hula hoop. (The stinger to the same episode has Winchester himself inadvertantly inventing the frisbee while discarding a pie plate.) Hawkeye and B.J. spend months improvising a dialysis machine, determined to provide a superior alternative to peritoneal lavage for patients with kidney problems. Peritoneal dialysis is now the preferred treatment for kidney patients who are capable of performing the procedure; all it took was the invention of a plastic bag that could safely and cheaply hold dialysate fluid, so people could do it at home. The "television fad" is mentioned on occasion. | |
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Hospital Hottie | |
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Hospital Hottie: Major Houlihan, as well as many of the various guest nurses Hawkeye tries to bed. As for the men: Hawkeye himself, B.J. (especially when he didn't have that mustache), Trapper, Father Mulcahy when he was only wearing that tight, black t-shirt, and Winchester in his nicer moments. | |
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Shameful Source of Knowledge | |
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Shameful Source of Knowledge: In "Tea and Empathy", a passing soldier confesses to Father Mulcahy that he was involved with the black market, and reveals that stolen penicillin is kept under an old bell at a burn-out school house. As it turns out, the 4077th is having a dire penicillin shortage (which was stolen by the aforementioned soldier and the black market) and can't obtain any new supply, leaving Mulcahy conflicted about what he should do about what he knows about the whereabouts of some penicillin. | |
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Embarrassing Nickname | |
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Embarrassing Nickname: Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, Frank "Ferret Face" Burns. In "The Foresight Saga" we (and Klinger) learn that Potter's wife calls him "Pudd'nhead", a Shout-Out to Mark Twain. | |
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Stuff Blowing Up | |
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Stuff Blowing Up: One episode had the camp experience weather so cold that the landmines around the camp detonated on their own due to the contracting dirt. Though the explosions occur in the middle of the camp, where mines simply would not be located (and are much larger and fiery than actual landmines). | |
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Critical Staffing Shortage | |
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Critical Staffing Shortage: On a couple of occasions the nurses are all shipped off because of a potential bombing (or other) attack by North Koreans, so the doctors and enlisted personnel have to do all the stuff the nurses usually do. At one point even a civilian bartender gets roped into nurse duty during an operation. Another time, due to a flu epidemic, Hawkeye is the only doctor who isn't bedridden. He has to jump from operating table to operating table doing bits of surgeries while the nurses help much more than usual and Radar is dragooned into assisting. Margaret pretty much performs an operation all by herself, but not without a lot of coaching and encouragement from Hawkeye. | |
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Black Market | |
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Black Market: Figures in several episodes. | |
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Apology Gift | |
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Apology Gift: Happens several times over the course of the series. In one episode, Hawkeye and Trapper try to butter Frank up with a handful of wild flowers, after they secretly drew a pint of blood from him to give to a wounded POW; Frank is touched, but then they kill the moment when Hawkeye says, "Glad there's no hard feelings Frank, because there's a new heart procedure we'd like to try, and you're just the right type." During a company picnic, Margaret gives Frank the cold shoulder since he won't loan her money to buy her sister a wedding present; Frank tries to butter her back up with a balloon, only for her to pop it with a hairpin. In another episode, Frank tries to make peace with Margaret (this after she had gotten engaged earlier in the season), by presenting her with an American-made Japanese umbrella; of course, Frank isn't able to curb his lust, and Margaret throws it at him as he runs out of her tent. In "The Winchester Tapes", Charles apparently had upset Radar, and insincerely brings him an entire case of grape Nehi to butter him up in order to contact his former commanding officer to get him transferred back to Tokyo General Hospital. When Radar refuses, Winchester takes the case back. And then he takes the one bottle that Radar had opened. Then there's the one time the gift is actually accepted. In one Christmas episode, most of the staff have been giving Charles the cold shoulder for his unwillingness to donate to the Christmas potluck, despite having received several huge packages from home. When Klinger finds out why — the packages were filled with expensive chocolates that Charles was planning to give to the children at the local orphanage as part of a family tradition — he brings Charles a plate of leftover food and they share a heartfelt moment over it. | |
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The Prankster | |
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The Prankster: B.J. is this especially, but other characters (Hawkeye, Trapper, Charles) take on this role in various episodes as well. Even Frank Burns gets to try his hand at this in "Showtime". The Season Eleven episode "The Joker Is Wild" turns the entire camp into Pranksters. Although they're eventually revealed to have all been collaborating on a master pranking of Hawkeye at the behest of B.J. | |
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Hollywood Law | |
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Hollywood Law: Any time Frank brings charges against Hawkeye and crew, when Hawkeye is found "not guilty" of whatever it is Frank was setting him up for, Frank is never brought up on any charges for falsifying statements even when his actions could have led to Hawkeye's death. When Flagg visits the camp in "Officer of the Day," he insists that Hawkeye prepare his patient so Flagg can take him to Seoul, where he intends to execute him for being a spy. Although spies may have been executed, it wouldn't have been for Flagg to do on his own. Many of the stunts and hijinks pulled were incredibly illegal under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and would have brought serious consequences. Remarkably, accounts from real M*A*S*H staff suggest they and their colleagues often got away with worse, so it may be Truth in Television. | |
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Out with a Bang | |
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Out with a Bang: "Iron Guts Kelly" combines this with a bit of Of Corpse He's Alive. | |
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Gender Flip | |
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Gender Flip: Mentioned in "Tuttle" when Radar says his imaginary friend was this, of himself. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Hawkeye has a tendency to do this. In "38 Across", Frank receives a B.B. game for his birthday, and spends three days trying to get all of the B.B.s in the holes. During The Tag, he finally gets the last B.B. in, which Hawkeye intentionally slaps Frank on the back, causing him to knock all of the B.B.s loose. This is certainly one of those few times where one can't help but actually feel sorry for Frank. In the pilot, Hawkeye drugs Frank so he can put on a fundraiser to send a young lad to college. In "For Want of a Boot", he steals a birthday card sent to Frank from Frank's wife and uses it to cover a hole in his boot, then returns the card and tells Frank what he did. In "House Arrest", he punches Frank after finishing surgery because he stood up for Houlihan after Hawkeye's unprovoked verbal abuse of her. In "Crisis", Hawkeye and Trapper attack Frank for wearing heated socks he bought privately — which he was wearing in lieu of blankets — during a cold snap. | |
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Sick and Wrong | |
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Sick and Wrong: In "The Late Captain Pierce", this is a nurse's reaction to B.J.'s idea to hold a wake for Hawkeye, who's been mistakenly listed as dead by the Army. Hawkeye quickly assures her that he would have wanted it that way. In "Period of Adjustment", Hawkeye and Margaret discover that a drunken B.J. and Klinger made a Dartboard of Hate with a picture of Radar's face, calling the game "Vaccinate Radar" (It Makes Sense in Context), leading Margaret to exclaim, "Now that's sick!" | |
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Book Burning | |
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Book Burning: Done by Frank in preparation of Gen. MacArthur's visit in "Big Mac". | |
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Ascended Meme | |
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Ascended Meme: The cast frequently had William Christopher sound-alike contests between takes. In "Movie Tonight" everyone takes turns impersonating Father Mulcahy. This contest contains a bit of Beam Me Up, Scotty!, as several of the attempts include the word "jocularity" (and Potter's consists of just that word, twice). But Mulcahy had never used that word at any time in the series up to that point. He did afterward, however. For instance, in the episode where Margaret and Donald get married, the men have a bachelor party to celebrate. Mulcahy, while quite intoxicated, exits the Swamp, saying "Even the jocularity is jocular!". (Towards the end of the show's run, he used the term even more frequently.) This is likely a case where the latter scene was either written or shot first, and someone just forgot that the imitation scene was set to air earlier. (Alternatively, there might have been a reference in an earlier scene that was cut.) | |
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Temporary Blindness | |
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Temporary Blindness: Hawkeye (and, in another episode, Temporary Deafness for Klinger). In "The Bus", Col. Potter mentions experiencing this after being gassed in World War I. | |
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Instrumental Theme Tune | |
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Instrumental Theme Tune: "Suicide Is Painless", originally used (with lyrics) in the feature film. The theme was rearranged several times during the show's run, albeit so subtly for the most part that the changes are hard to notice if you're not listening for them. | |
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Real Award, Fictional Character | |
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Real Award, Fictional Character: This is used basically the same way twice. In one episode, Frank Burns slips and injures his back in a "normal" accident on the base, which requires routine intervention. He browbeats Colonel Blake into accepting the logic that since the 4077 M*A*S*H is officially a front-line military hospital which shares front-line perils like occasional shelling and sniping, his "wound" was sustained on the front lines and thus merits a Purple Heart. Henry grudgingly gives in and writes the citation. Meanwhile, Hawkeye and Trapper are dealing with a real American hero: a fifteen-year-old boy who lied about his age to enlist in the Marines. Hawkeye wrestles with the ethical dilemma about breaching a patient's confidence, but exposes the youth to the Military Police. He is to be discharged from the Marines and sent home to his parents. Hawkeye and Trapper sweeten the pill by stealing Frank's medal and re-presenting it to a soldier who really was wounded in combat. Frank claims a Purple Heart because when he cracked open his breakfast egg, some of the eggshell got in his eye. The official medical records read "shell fragment", and since they're a frontline unit, it counts as a war wound. Hawkeye & B.J. steal Frank's Purple Heart medal and give it to a Korean baby born to a mother had a harrowing time getting to the unit before she gave birth. In "Bombshells", Potter has B.J. awarded the Bronze Star after hearing that B.J. helped a chopper escape while under fire—he likely did not hear that B.J. was forced to cut a rope to wounded soldiers, abandoning one to either death or capture. B.J. gives it to a wounded soldier for "getting out in one piece". In his introductory episode, Colonel Potter reveals he was awarded the Good Conduct Medal during the First World War. Though he is correct that it is unavailable to officers, he served before the medal was established and the retroactive dates only go to 1940. Radar is awarded the Purple Heart (presented to him by Hawkeye) when he is wounded by the enemy while on a three-day pass. | |
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TrackingShot | |
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Tracking Shot | |
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Now You Tell Me | |
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Now You Tell Me: This happens in Season One when Henry reads instructions on how to disarm a bomb while Hawkeye and Trapper perform the actual task. A few steps in, they're given one step—followed by a "but first" clause. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: Potter's April Fool's joke requires a visiting inspector, Col. Tucker, to enrage the doctors so much that they'd try to pull a major prank on him; then he'd lose his temper and fake a heart attack, making the doctors think they'd killed him. If they didn't try to prank Col. Tucker, the gag wouldn't work, but Potter knew they would. Hawkeye's prank on the colonel is a Batman Gambit of its own: It requires knowing not only that the colonel would come to the Officers' Club that evening, not only what table he'd sit in, but which seat at that table he'd sit in. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: Larry Linville guest starred on the original Mission: Impossible in three separate episodes, each time as an Eastern Bloc official (though never the same one twice) who all act a good deal like his later characterization of Burns, minus the comedic edge. Allan Arbus's role as Sidney Freedman harks back to his appearance as Jesus in the 1972 film Greaser's Palace. ("If you can feel, heal!") Klinger, as one of his Section 8 scams, pretends to be a civilian back in Toledo and that Colonel Potter is a cop and angrily barks: "I pay your salary!", a line famously said to Joe Friday in the 1954 movie version of Dragnet. Harry Morgan (who played Potter) wasn't in that version of Dragnet, however, co-starring in the 1967 incarnation of the franchise, instead. Lance Cpl. Lyle Wesson in "Springtime" is basically Mongo in uniform. | |
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Fake Aristocrat | |
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Fake Aristocrat: In order to get Radar into the Officers' Club at the Kimpo airport in "Welcome to Korea", Hawkeye appends B.J.'s captain's bars to the corporal's uniform. When questioned about this, Pierce explains that the Army is field-testing a new intermediate rank: corporal captain. | |
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Boring, but Practical | |
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Boring, but Practical: An all-star Football player who loses a leg talks with Radar about how the team won a major victory against another team with superior defense: The short pass. | |
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Refuse to Rescue the Disliked | |
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Refuse to Rescue the Disliked: Being the jingoistic patriot that he was, Frank would prioritize allied casualties over enemy casualties during triage, even putting Americans with minor injuries over severely wounded POWs. On occasion, wounded American soldiers would criticize the doctors for treating the enemy soldiers at all. | |
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One Scene, Two Monologues | |
| M*A*S*H / int_3a79543 | comment |
One Scene, Two Monologues: In "Life with Father", Colonel Blake and Father Mulcahy have a conversation of this type. (Blake's worried about his wife being unfaithful back home; Mulcahy's worried about his sister, a nun, possibly leaving the sisterhood; the two of them consequently talk right past each other.) | |
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Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy | |
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Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy: Mulcahy has to perform one of these when a patient he and Radar are transporting can't breathe; Hawkeye coaches him over the radio. | |
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G-Rated Drug | |
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G-Rated Drug: Averted in "Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde". Winchester gets addicted to amphetamines, which are hardly G-Rated. And in "Tea and Empathy", a wounded man is hooked on morphine and B.J. helps him quit. | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_3b113b7 | type |
Character Development | |
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Klinger gets one from his wife in "Mail Call Three", launching his Character Development from comedy relief into a more serious (and more reliable) member of the team. When the rest of the camp thinks it's another Section 8 attempt, he has a Heroic BSoD where (among other things) he tears off his dress publicly. | |
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Something Completely Different | |
| M*A*S*H / int_3b4773de | comment |
Something Completely Different: Several episodes; see the trope page for examples. | |
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Warts and All | |
| M*A*S*H / int_3bfd638c | comment |
Warts and All | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
| M*A*S*H / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: The origin of Margaret's nickname, "Hot Lips", is this in the series. Hawkeye uses it in the pilot episode, but when General Hammond arrives later in the episode and uses it, they react like they've never heard it before; Hawkeye simply stumbled onto an embarrassing nickname she already had. The origin is known to the audience and all of the characters in the novel and movie. It's more likely that the captains were already aware of the nickname and are simply surprised that the general not only knows it as well but used it within earshot of them. | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_3c51db1c | type |
Zany Scheme | |
| M*A*S*H / int_3c51db1c | comment |
In the first three seasons, Lt. Col. Blake was often tricked into signing some kind of requisition, or pass, or anything for whatever Zany Scheme Hawkeye and Trapper had cooked up. | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_3e8c87a3 | type |
Dated History | |
| M*A*S*H / int_3e8c87a3 | comment |
Dated History: In one episode, after putting makeup on a racist man and telling him he was turning black after receiving a blood transfusion from a black donor, Hawkeye notes Dr. Charles Drew, innovator in how blood transfusions are stored and transported, had recently died after being refused admittance to a whites-only hospital due to the colour of his skin. This was a common assumption at the time (and the show certainly helped spread the idea), but in reality Dr. Drew was actually admitted to the Alamance Greater Hospital in Burlington, North Carolina, and died because his injuries were so severe there was nothing that could have saved him, as confirmed by a passenger in his car, John Ford, who also stated a blood transfusion would have likely killed Dr. Drew sooner due to shock. | |
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World's Smallest Violin | |
| M*A*S*H / int_3f7ef3da | comment |
World's Smallest Violin: Possibly the Trope Maker: Margaret does this in 1978 when Charles complains that an overflow of post-op patients has kicked him out of his tent. | |
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Sad Clown | |
| M*A*S*H / int_3f89452c | comment |
Sad Clown: Hawkeye. But don't tell him that. B.J. accusing him of this contributes to the plot of Season 9's "No Laughing Matter". | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_401d4116 | type |
Broken Aesop | |
| M*A*S*H / int_401d4116 | comment |
Broken Aesop: In the episode "Images," The Stinger has Radar setting up a weight bar on two chairs to start working out. Potter tells him not to, because he would have to keep working out basically for the rest of his life, lest the muscles atrophy. So, it's bad to want to be physically fit and get into shape, even in the Army as a corpsman/stretcher bearer? The whole of the episode involves Radar wanting to get a tattoo and the others telling him not to—not because the local tattoo artists aren't sterile, but because they think tattoos look dumb. Even worse is the next episode, "MASH Olympics," where Potter is appalled that everyone is in such poor shape that several can't right an ambulance, yet four MPs can with ease. Not only does it break the Aesop, it doesn't even make sense. The characters are established to work absurdly hard at highly physical duties, including carrying stretchers, for extremely long hours. If they aren't up to righting an ambulance, it's because they're tired, not out of shape. There's the episode "Souvenirs," in which Hawkeye and B.J. force a chopper pilot to stop selling trinkets made out of junk found on battlefields. Granted that people, including little kids, are getting hurt and killed when they try to scavenge something that turns out to be booby-trapped, but this doesn't solve the problem. Fact #1: These people are dirt poor and desperate for every penny they can scrape up. Fact #2: Metal is valuable. Even if the souvenir industry dried up, the brass shells could be sold to someone who can use them, to melt down if nothing else. Fact #2 can't be changed. Fact #1 can, but Hawkeye and B.J. don't do anything about it. In fact, they put a guy out of business who gives fifty bucks to the family of one of his suppliers who got hurt. Nice move. He even mentions that his predecessor used to just send flowers. Those families are certainly better off with him gone. | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_4023b8c8 | type |
First-Name Basis | |
| M*A*S*H / int_4023b8c8 | comment |
First-Name Basis: Most characters in the show are usually called by their first names (Charles, Margaret, Frank, B.J., even Col. Henry Blake) or an affectionate nickname ("Hawkeye", "Trapper", "Radar"). The only ones of the major cast to whom everyone regularly refers by their rank/title and last name are Col. Potter and Fr. Mulcahy, out of a sense of respect from pretty much everyone. The notable exception to this trope is Klinger, whose first name, Maxwell, is very rarely used. | |
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The Tonsillitis Episode | |
| M*A*S*H / int_4046f869 | comment |
Radar gets tonsillitis in "None Like It Hot". | |
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Blatant Lies | |
| M*A*S*H / int_40bb59d0 | comment |
Blatant Lies: In order to get a new foot locker, Margaret shoots it with Charles's shotgun and claims that it was destroyed by enemy fire. Frank got his black eye when he slipped on a bar of soap and hit his face on the sink. Hawkeye most definitely had not gotten fed up with Frank and belted him before bursting out in song. Hawkeye sedated Frank by force and unlawfully took command of the 4077. Frank most definitely didn't concuss himself walking into a door and leave the others to fend for themselves. Major Burns handles the most difficult cases, as Major Houlihan tells a visiting colonel. He most definitely doesn't get saddled with the least difficult cases on account of his incompetence. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
| M*A*S*H / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet," which also counts as the series' Wham Episode. Hawkeye's friend dies, which results in Hawkeye going back on a promise he made to an underage soldier to keep his secret and having him sent home, leaving them both bitter. In the end, however, Hawkeye manages to make it up to the kid by getting him a Purple Heart medal to show off to his girlfriend back home. | |
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You Can Say That Again | |
| M*A*S*H / int_411fe2c4 | comment |
You Can Say That Again: In "A Smattering of Intelligence," when Pratt and Flagg show up to arrest Frank: | |
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Pie in the Face | |
| M*A*S*H / int_41435fc2 | comment |
Pie in the Face: Father Mulcahy gets one (thrown by Margaret and meant for Hawkeye and B.J.) in "An Eye for a Tooth". | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
| M*A*S*H / int_415b3315 | comment |
Stylistic Suck: Radar, having recently enrolled in the Famous Las Vegas Writers' School, narrating the staff duty log (via voiceover) in "The Most Unforgettable Characters". | |
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Tastes Better Than It Looks | |
| M*A*S*H / int_41f02f77 | comment |
Tastes Better Than It Looks: In "Too Many Cooks", the recuperating Private Paul Conway spends his time at the 4077th cooking for the personnel, using what little ingredients he has to work with, but applying his ingenuity; at first, his dishes (such as Spam Parmesan) may sound and look awful, but they turn out to smell and taste so wonderful that the camp practically lines up outside the Mess Tent for his culinary delights. | |
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Downplayed Trope | |
| M*A*S*H / int_42c9f1ec | comment |
B.J. Hunnicutt is a downplayed example for Trapper John as he functioned very similarly to him. However, B.J. was a family man who loved his wife Peg to the point that he felt ashamed that he cheated on her. In contrast, Trapper constantly cheated on his wife with zero regret for his actions. There was also a contrast in morals. One episode during B.J.'s tenure recycled a plot from an earlier episode with Trapper. Hawkeye wants to perform unneccessary surgery to keep a particularly callous officer off the front for a little while longer. Trapper had gone along with that plan with no problem, but B.J. considers it a horrific violation of the Hippocratic Oath. This severly strains Hawkeye and B.J.'s friendship (and strained Alan Alda and Mike Farrel's working relationship). | |
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Cue Card Pause | |
| M*A*S*H / int_42f8ae38 | comment |
Cue Card Pause: In "The Army-Navy Game". | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_43c5a4b7 | type |
Court-Martialed | |
| M*A*S*H / int_43c5a4b7 | comment |
Court-Martialed: "The Novocaine Mutiny": Pierce is on the receiving end of a hearing instigated by Burns.note Not an actual court martial; it's a preliminary hearing to determine whether to recommend charges The events of Burns' short tenure as a commanding officer are rehashed in flashbacks. Burns' embellished version ultimately charges Pierce with assaulting the CO. After hearing both sides, the court finds Pierce innocent and otherwise preserves the status quo. In "Snap Judgement", the 4077 suffers from elusive thieves and a Polaroid camera goes missing. Continuing in "Snappier Judgment," Klinger, who bought the camera back from black market peddlers, because the Army didn't believe his explanation for how he got it or why he delayed reporting it stolen, is arrested by military police and court-martialed for the theft instead. Winchester volunteers to be his legal counsel, while Hawkeye and B.J. set out to catch the culprit. Because of Winchester's ineptitude in law and the unfortunate circumstances, Klinger is just about to be convicted when the real thief is brought into the court, absolving Klinger of the charges. "The General Flipped At Dawn" had a preliminary to a court-martial against Hawkeye for insubordination, until General Steele (who initiated the preliminary) proved to be nuttier than a fruitcake. "The Trial of Henry Blake", as mentioned above. "House Arrest" has Hawkeye confined to quarters pending a court martial for punching Burns, but never gets that far. | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! | |
| M*A*S*H / int_440d1d0b | comment |
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: A lot of character conflict in the early seasons is from several of the characters are focused on helping the wounded stay alive by any means possible while By-the-Book Cop characters like Frank and Margaret focus more on following Army regulations to the letter. | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_4435aa66 | type |
Attractive Bent-Gender | |
| M*A*S*H / int_4435aa66 | comment |
Attractive Bent-Gender: Averted with Klinger, although he had some fantastic legs. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_4435aa66 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_443f9d8a | type |
Ask a Stupid Question... | |
| M*A*S*H / int_443f9d8a | comment |
Ask a Stupid Question...: Klinger enters Henry's office: From "The Novocaine Mutiny": From "The Chosen People": From "Deal Me Out": From "Fade In, Fade Out"" | |
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M*A*S*H / int_443f9d8a | |
| M*A*S*H / int_445bc425 | type |
GreyAndGreyMorality | |
| M*A*S*H / int_445bc425 | comment |
Grey-and-Grey Morality: Neither side is played as completely bad or good. The 4077th often treats North Koreans, Chinese, and Allied troops alike and often meets men on the other side who are civil and polite, and some of whom even Majored in Western Hypocrisy or compliment the unit on their surgical skill. At the same time we also have people like Major Burns and Major Houlihan, who embody Eagleland Type 2 to an absurd degree, people like Colonel Flagg, and a variety of soldiers and officers who are just as cruel and bloodthirsty as they often accuse the Communists of being. Hawkeye claims numerous times that both sides bleed just the same. | |
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Becoming the Mask | |
| M*A*S*H / int_44606d14 | comment |
Becoming the Mask: Klinger worries about this in Season 6's "War of Nerves", wondering if he's taken his Section 8 routine too far: | |
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War Is Glorious | |
| M*A*S*H / int_44cdd259 | comment |
War Is Glorious: Frank, as an Eagleland Type-2, believes this, sometimes even talking about it as if it's some sort of holy mission against Communism (which many Americans did believe of the Cold War). | |
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M*A*S*H / int_44cdd259 | |
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Pretty in Mink | |
| M*A*S*H / int_44f5d199 | comment |
Pretty in Mink: Klinger, although one was used as a plot point before he stopped cross-dressing. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
| M*A*S*H / int_4583a262 | comment |
Shirtless Scene: Any scene in the showers. Depending on the actor, this was either fanservice or Squick. | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_4604fd4d | type |
Worthy Opponent | |
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Worthy Opponent: Winchester, for Hawkeye and B.J.. In fact, he was designed this way, in contrast to the man he replaced, Frank, who was little more than a punching bag for Hawkeye and B.J. and Trapper before him. Charles stood as an equal or even a superior to his colleagues in surgery, and could give as good as he got in insults and pranks. Occasionally moved into the realm of Vitriolic Best Buds, whenever Hawkeye or B.J. would have an actual problem and Winchester's empathy would kick in, and likewise Hawkeye and B.J. both admitted a respect and care for Charles they never displayed for his predecessor Frank. If Winchester hadn't had total disdain for pretty much everyone in camp, he'd probably have been very close friends with the other two. The boys probably respected him more because he was capable of taking their pranks and pranking them back, and his surgical skills were impressive (which is more than could be said for Frank's, especially post-Flanderization). Then there were those times when one of them (usually B.J.) would form a temporary alliance with Charles, either against the remaining Swampmate (usually Hawkeye) or some other character. Margaret actually has hints of this with Hawkeye. They might have clashed over matters of discipline and regulation (especially early on in the series) but it's quite clear that both of them never had anything but the highest respect for each other's skills and professional ability. If Margaret hadn't been so uptight (or if Hawkeye hadn't been so nuts) that Ship Tease probably would have become more than just teasing. One time, Frank managed to continually one-up Hawkeye with pranks (trick showerheads, a bucket of water over the door, etc). In the end, Hawkeye wins the prank war by rolling up the wall of the latrine tent while Frank is occupied therein, finishing with a genuine looking salute. | |
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Theme Tune Cameo: Trapper whistles the theme tune while entering the Mess Tent in "Dear Dad... Again". | |
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Rape as Comedy: After Frank and Margaret save Hawkeye and Trapper's cause in "For the Good of the Outfit", Trapper pins Margaret to Henry's desk to kiss her despite her protests while Hawkeye chases Frank around the office to apparently do the same. | |
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Military Moonshiner | |
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Military Moonshiner: There's always been a distillery in the Swamp, but it's been three different stills. The first (which looked radically different) was destroyed by Frank Burns in the pilot episode and rebuilt in the design that was seen for the rest of the show. The second was totaled by B.J. in the episode after Radar's departure. The third iteration of the still survived to the end of the show, but it's not clear what exactly happened to it; presumably it was discarded, as Hawkeye and B.J. would have no need for it at home. | |
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Characterization Marches On | |
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Radar, sort of. Leading to Characterization Marches On when you go back and watch the early episodes. | |
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Stress Vomit | |
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Stress Vomit: After B.J. first arrives in Korea, he faces a young Korean girl injured in a minefield, pinned down by guerilla sniper fire, and having to assist foot soldiers under mortar fire, all before he even got to camp; at one point, when he sees how badly a soldier had been wounded (and killed) by mortar fire, and the situation finally sinks in, he crawls over to a thicket of tall grass to vomit, while Hawkeye holds his head for him. | |
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Local Hangout | |
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Rosie - the proprietor of the Local Hangout just outside of camp. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Frank Burns, who frequently gets comeuppance for being a jerkass. Igor, who only serves the food and is in no way responsible for its quality but nonetheless takes a steady stream of verbal abuse over it. This on top of being on permanent KP. If the episode "A War for All Seasons" is any indication of Igor's usual culinary efforts, then at least some of the abuse directed at him is well deserved. Father Mulcahy spends most of the episode tending to a small cornfield he planted so he can treat the camp to corn on the cub during their 4th of July celebration, but Igor ruins Mulcahy's efforts by instead serving creamed corn. Henry Blake frequently experienced any number of mishaps and misfortune. | |
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The Stinger | |
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On one episode where Hawkeye, B.J. and Charles are on a promotion committee, they evaluate the prospective promotees and give their recommendations. In The Stinger, after commenting on wondering who was promoted, Private Igor, who works in the mess tent chow line and was not promoted, tosses a scoopful of mashed potatoes on B.J. "Oh, I'm sorry. But what do you expect from a dumb private?" | |
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"Knock Knock" Joke: Hawkeye tells a couple truly awful ones in "Dear Dad...Again". | |
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Stock Footage | |
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Stock Footage: Aside from the opening sequence (which sometimes still featured Radar years after his departure), all the bugout footage of the camp being torn down was filmed in season one. In the finale, you can even see Radar! | |
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Road Trip Plot | |
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Road Trip Plot: The two-part Season 4 premiere "Welcome to Korea" (B.J.'s debut) was one of these. Also, "Rainbow Bridge" and "Aid Station" (Season 3); "The Bus" (Season 4); "Bug Out" (Season 5); "Comrades in Arms" (Season 6); "They Call the Wind Korea" and "C*A*V*E" (Season 7); "The Yalu Brick Road" (Season 8). A significant chunk of the series finale, "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen", takes place away from Uijeongbu: the beach party in Incheon, the mental hospital where Hawkeye is treated by Sidney, and the temporary camp where the 4077th relocates after the wildfire forces them to bug out. | |
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File Mixup | |
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File Mixup: In the episode "A Smattering Of Intelligence," Col. Flagg and Vinnie Pratt, an old friend of Trapper's who is in Intelligence, compete with each other to find security leaks at the 4077th. Hawkeye and Trapper mess with Frank's personal file (taking out his real file and inserting a doctored one) to make it appear to the two agents that he's a communist and a fascist. They let on to the prank eventually, when the agents try to arrest Frank. | |
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Broken Ace | |
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Broken Ace: Captain Newsome in "Heal Thyself". And Hawkeye in "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen". Also Captain Chandler in "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler". | |
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Humiliating Wager | |
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Humiliating Wager: In "The Joker is Wild", Hawkeye bets B.J. that he can't pull a prank on each of the major characters. When B.J. succeeds (sort of), Hawkeye has to stand on a table in the mess hall with his pants down and sing "You're the Top" to him. | |
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Gold Fever | |
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Gold Fever: Deliberately inculcated in Frank by Hawkeye and Trapper, in "Major Fred C. Dobbs". | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In an episode from Season Six (when the show was airing on Tuesday nights), Potter remarks "Why is it Tuesdays are always the worst?" in reaction to one of Klinger's more irritating schemes. | |
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Death of the Author | |
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Death of the Author: In-Universe, during the "Dramatic M*A*S*H" phase; in one episode, the whole camp becomes infatuated when a mystery novel, "The Rooster Crowed at Midnight", is accidentally shipped to their camp. But it's damaged, and missing the last few pages (B.J. ripping out pages so others could read probably didn't help). So, they finally resort to phoning the (apparently senile) author and hearing her answer to Whodunnit?. Minutes before the episode ends, Colonel Potter gets on the loudspeaker and announces to the whole camp that the person that the author named as the culprit couldn't be responsible, because he had an alibi, leaving the whole camp no better off than they were before. | |
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I'll Take Two Beers Too | |
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I'll Take Two Beers Too: In "Divided We Stand", Henry offers a drink to a visiting psychiatrist who's evaluating the camp. The man declines, and Henry nervously hastens to add that he's not ordinarily much of a drinker. Then Radar enters with a couple glasses of brandy: | |
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Ruptured Appendix | |
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Henry suffers a Ruptured Appendix in "The Long John Flap". | |
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Getting Crap Past the Radar | |
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Getting Crap Past the Radar: In the Season 2 episode "The Sniper", Radar's bare butt is shown briefly when a sniper opens fire on him as he runs back into the showers tent; however, depending on the network, some syndicated prints have a different version where he doesn't drop his towel. More generally, the show had a lot of Double Entendre gags in the early years. For example: A similar example from "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler?": From the same episode: Margaret's face makes it clear she really is talking about his penis. "The General Flipped at Dawn" has one just as blatant: In one episode, Hawkeye sees Margaret using a scalp massager on Frank. Hawkeye's response is, "Behind every great man is a woman with a vibrator." And yes, they had vibrators back then — Hamilton Beach started selling them in 1902 (see Hysteria). Scalp massagers really were called vibrators as well. The Tag of the pilot, with Hawkeye and Trapper handcuffed together (they were being arrested by General Hammond) was considered controversial at the time. For some reason. We're actually treated to some brief side-boobage in, "The Merchant of Korea," after Margaret finishes her angry phone call to Penobscott, as she leaves Radar's office, she swings her arm far enough to reveal a little side-boob under her summer shirt. During "It Happened One Night," the unit is getting shelled by a negligent friendly army unit. Radar calls the lieutenant in charge of the battery, and we only see their side of the conversation. In "Goodbye Radar pt. 2", Klinger is wheeling and dealing for a new generator when theirs is stolen. At the depot, an enormous major shows up announcing he's here to pick up HIS generator — the one that was supposed to go to the 4077 — and Max mutters Ya ibn kalb! This is "son of a dog", and considered mild enough to say to a misbehaving child, but still. (To make matters worse, the major's outfit was the one that stole the 4077's backup generator before the main one broke.) In one episode, the writers clearly didn't care about the Radar at all, having Hawkeye directly call a South Korean Torture Technician (that's right, a South Korean who planned to torture an admittedly unrepentant enemy) a "son of a bitch", marking the first time that phrase had been used on television. Of course, it was obviously done for shock value. When propositioning a nurse, Hawkeye was once interrupted by Father Mulcahy. When asked, he said they were discussing the ups and downs of doctor-nurse relationships. Speaking of the good padre, in one episode Radar asks if he's seen Hawkeye anywhere. Once, when Hawkeye is propositioning a nurse during surgery: In "The Interview", since what we see is ostensibly a documentary shown on TV, swear words are bleeped out. At one point, Hawkeye gets a "shit" past the radar. Margaret compares Frank to Donald. Every single episode has a major one: the show's theme song was titled "Suicide is Painless" and its original version in the movie included lyrics that would not have been acceptable on 1970s TV because of the suicide theme. However, using an instrumental version for the TV series qualifies for the trope since many viewers knew the lyrics anyway. For a character who (according to Alan Alda) was explicitly told to not go near men's underwear by execs because "degrading", Hawkeye managed to call himself every 50s-style euphemism for queer that would just manage to get under the radar. Even if he was straight and just making jokes, there was a lot. Hawkeye’s frequent nudist magazines weren’t just of naked women, and they even called attention to the fact that they had men in them too, not just ignoring them in favor of girls. | |
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Kansas City Shuffle | |
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In another escalating prank war initiated by Charles, after they drop a dummy on her while in bed, Margaret tells B.J. she sent a letter to his wife detailing their year-long affair, and that Hawkeye set them up. It's actually another Kansas City Shuffle, this time on Charles. | |
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It's Always Spring | |
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It's Always Spring: While several episodes take place in winter, due to California Doubling none of them contain any snow and feature completely green plantlife. In the early seasons, the green plantlife is averted by having all exterior scenes in winter episodes taking place at night. In later seasons, this was not always done (and wouldn't have made sense for some of them anyway). The increasing use of the sound stage exteriors instead of location shooting made it easier to avert this. One of the Christmas episodes, "Dear Sis", does end with the beginnings of snow, naturally. Klinger throws snow onto a sleeping Major Burns' bare feet at the beginning of "The Late Captain Pierce". In any episode where the weather is supposed to be cold, the actors who are trying to pretend to be cold by bundling up and huddling around heaters and burning barrels, are obviously uncomfortable and sweating profusely, making it difficult to believe they're cold. Such episodes were a Take That! from the writing staff. Whenever the writers got upset with comments and complaints from the cast about scripts, they would write a winter episode to make the actors miserable. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: "Abyssinia Henry". See Cruel Twist Ending above. "Preventive Medicine". Hawkeye removes a healthy appendix of a colonel to try to stop him from provoking an attack against his own troops so that he would have an excuse to seize a particular hill (for pride, apparently) and callously throw away the lives of the troops under his command (completely against orders, hence the previous provoked attack serving as a loophole). Hawkeye removes his appendix, but sadly, even without said colonel, the gears of war churn onward. To make it worse, unbeknownst to him, Potter was in the process of getting the colonel pulled from combat through legitimate means. Also an example of Real Life Writes the Plot as the original script didn't deal with the implications of Hawkeye's actions (as in an earlier episode in which Hawkeye and Trapper do the exact same thing to Colonel Flagg just to get back the penicillin he stole, without any kind of hand-wringing). Mike Farrell complained that B.J. wouldn't stand for that, and his objections were written in. "Period of Adjustment" deals with B.J.'s growing despair due to being separated from his family and ends with him broken and sobbing against Hawkeye on the floor. "Yessir, That's our Baby!" has the staff find an abandoned Korean Doorstop Baby girl of mixed race by an American soldier. Warned by Father Mulcahy that the girl will face a hellish existence in Korea, the staff try to get her sent to the United States. Unfortunately, all avenues fail with no one willing to help and the staff have no choice but to follow Father Mulcahy's original suggestion to leave the baby at a secluded monastery where she will have sanctuary with a chance of later being sent to America but with a limited life. The Finale has its share of them as well: Potter leaving Sophie behind when he returns to the States. Hawkeye seemingly giving up surgery to instead become a general practitioner due to his PTSD. The musicians that Charles had been training getting killed on their way home. Mulcahy going deaf. | |
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Wham Line | |
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The Wham Line from the final episode, which was one of the forbidden Seven Dirty Words in The '80s: | |
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Wheelchair Antics | |
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Wheelchair Antics: During the Olympics episode, Hawkeye and B.J. are team captains. They make a bet that the loser has to push the winner around in a wheelchair for a month. | |
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Early Installment Weirdness | |
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Early Installment Weirdness: Watching the early seasons (and Season 1 in particular) can be a disorienting experience if you're more accustomed to the later ones, due to the turnover in the cast as well as the Cerebus Syndrome mentioned above. A prime example of this: in the early seasons, the laugh track will sometimes play in the OR, something the producers objected to and which was excised in the later seasons. That only happened three times, one of which was justifiable, as it was during Frank's Rashomon Style flashback making himself out as being a super surgeon during a particularly heavy deluge — we all know not to take Ferret Face seriously. Season 3's "The General Flipped at Dawn" featured the only time when McLean Stevenson and Harry Morgan would appear in the same episode as Lt. Col. Henry Blake and Major General Bartford Hamilton Steele, respectively. When Season 4 aired after Lt. Col Blake died in a helicopter crash after his discharge, Morgan would return in the main cast as Col. Sherman Potter, the 4077th's new commandant. | |
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I Have This Friend... | |
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I Have This Friend...: Klinger tries to use this with Potter once. Potter sees through it immediately (probably because Klinger claims the "friend" is serving in a MASH unit in Toledo) and tells him to spit it out. Klinger admits that he's found evidence that the camp's newest nurse has a serious drinking problem. Another episode has Sidney Freedman visiting the 4077 and Father Mulcahy coming to him, saying he has a friend who he's kind of worried about, because "things aren't going so well for him, and he's feeling a little low". When Sidney smiles and asks who the friend is, Mulcahy tells him it's him, Sidney (who has, in fact, been feeling depressed over a patient who blames him for getting re-injured). They then have a nice little therapy-for-the-therapist chat. | |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension | |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension: Between Hawkeye and Margret. It was briefly resolved in "Comrades in Arms", but it was undone midway through Part 2 and stayed that way. | |
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Conservation of Competence | |
| M*A*S*H / int_51605de2 | comment |
Conservation of Competence: At least, until Colonel Potter shows up. | |
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Drowning My Sorrows | |
| M*A*S*H / int_52488c54 | comment |
Drowning My Sorrows: Or, as Margaret once puts it, "taking them for a swim". In one episode, an upset Radar takes a rare swig of Hawkeye and B.J.'s moonshine gin, then grimaces at the taste. | |
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Narrator | |
| M*A*S*H / int_52989fee | comment |
Narrator: In the "Dear ______ " episodes. | |
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Book-Ends | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book-Ends: "A War for All Seasons" opens and closes with successive New Year's ceremonies at the 4077, complete with identical toasts given by Col. Potter. At the beginning of the series, the words "Korea - A hundred years ago" appear onscreen. In the last standard episode of the series, the characters are burying a time capsule to be dug up in a hundred years. | |
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Escalating War | |
| M*A*S*H / int_534bc834 | comment |
Escalating War: A staple, an example being "The Smell of Music". | |
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Day in the Life | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5389b851 | comment |
Day in the Life: The "letter home" episodes. | |
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Flashback | |
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"The Novocaine Mutiny": Pierce is on the receiving end of a hearing instigated by Burns.note Not an actual court martial; it's a preliminary hearing to determine whether to recommend charges The events of Burns' short tenure as a commanding officer are rehashed in flashbacks. Burns' embellished version ultimately charges Pierce with assaulting the CO. After hearing both sides, the court finds Pierce innocent and otherwise preserves the status quo. | |
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Dreaming of a White Christmas | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5485efbf | comment |
One of the Christmas episodes, "Dear Sis", does end with the beginnings of snow, naturally. | |
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The Alleged Boss | |
| M*A*S*H / int_54bb2c63 | comment |
Henry Blake was the commanding officer and The Alleged Boss who both Trapper and Hawkeye would go around his orders and who Burns and Hotlips had no respect for. The Korean War was also his first war and he wasn't that very militant. In contrast, Sherman Potter was a regular Army Man who was part of two previous wars. He also commanded much more respect from the other staffs and wasn't afraid to actually command. | |
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Earned Stripes | |
| M*A*S*H / int_55052d8a | comment |
Earned Stripes: In one episode a nurse with the rank of sergeant is given an unofficial, honorary field promotion to 2nd lieutenant for the last three weeks of his tour of duty. Major Houlihan donates her old lieutenant bars to pin on him. In a late episode Klinger earns a promotion from corporal to sergeant and has a brand new set of stripes on his arm. | |
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Acoustic License | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5532b579 | comment |
Acoustic License: Subverted in the final episode, "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen". As B.J. is departing, Klinger tells Col. Potter that his discharge orders were rescinded, but Potter pretends to be unable to hear the message because the helicopter taking him away is too loud. Also averted when orders have to be relayed down a long vehicle convoy when the 4077 is moving camp. This is then Played for Laughs when Father Mulcahy decides to bless the new site, with the words of his prayer shouted from one truck to the next. | |
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Wire Dilemma | |
| M*A*S*H / int_55f92df9 | comment |
Wire Dilemma: "The Army-Navy Game" | |
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Let's Get Dangerous! | |
| M*A*S*H / int_562abd51 | comment |
Let's Get Dangerous!: In "Mulcahy's War", Father Mulcahy accompanies Radar to an aid station (in spite of Potter's orders not to—Mulcahy had been ostracized by a wounded patient about never having been in the field of war) where a soldier with a chest wound is unable to breathe because his tongue was swollen. Using radio instructions from Hawkeye, Mulcahy makes an incision in the soldier's throat and inserts an eye dropper tube in it so the soldier can breathe. | |
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The Stool Pigeon | |
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The Stoolpigeon: During Henry's tenure as CO, Burns and Houlihan often would go running to the nearest authority figure whenever he did something they didn't like. This all but disappeared when Potter took over. | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_56635771 | type |
Recurring Character | |
| M*A*S*H / int_56635771 | comment |
Recurring Character: Colonel Sam Flagg - the overzealous Intelligence officer. Major Sidney Theodore Freedman - the divisional psychiatrist. Private Igor Stramensky - the 4077th's mess tent server. Sergeant Zelmo Zale - the 4077th's supply sergeant. Sergeant Luther Rizzo - the 4077th motor pool sergeant. Cho Man Chin - the swindling Korean peddler. Rosie - the proprietor of the Local Hangout just outside of camp. Sergeant Jack Scully - a front-line soldier and potential romantic interest for Margaret. Klinger and Father Mulcahy started out as this before eventually becoming regulars. The numerous nurses and the handful of generals as well. | |
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Operation: [Blank] | |
| M*A*S*H / int_56863152 | comment |
Operation: [Blank]: "Operation Noselift", "Operation Friendship" | |
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Wildlife Commentary Spoof | |
| M*A*S*H / int_56e3c2b5 | comment |
Wildlife Commentary Spoof: Hawkeye describes an encounter between Frank and Margaret in this fashion: | |
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Lucky Charms Title | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5744f019 | comment |
Lucky Charms Title: M*A*S*H. | |
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Reassigned to Antarctica | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5798bfbf | comment |
Reassigned to Antarctica: How Henry Blake ended up in the 4077th. He was in Honolulu when he responded to an order for a coffee enema by asking, "With cream and sugar?" Also applies to Charles, who happened to be beating his CO at cribbage (to the tune of $672, or about $6,100 in today's money) and being insufferable about it when the request for Frank's replacement came. | |
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Near-Death Clairvoyance | |
| M*A*S*H / int_57bb7b55 | comment |
Near-Death Clairvoyance: "Follies of the Living - Concerns of the Dead" is a combination of this and Fever Dream Episode. | |
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Hero of Another Story | |
| M*A*S*H / int_581f6468 | comment |
Hero of Another Story: Sidney Freedman (who works mostly at the EVAC hospital in Seoul) and the staffs of the 8055th and 8063rd (Real Life MASH units, which would be mentioned and occasionally seen, and the members of which were supposed to be at least as crazy as the members of the 4077th). And the front-line aid station personnel. And the chopper pilots, ambulance drivers, etc. Several of the patients, who are recognized as such by the doctors and/or their peers. Examples include the former football player who lost his leg, the Chinese-American soldier who had been wounded several times, and the homosexual soldier who had three Purple Hearts. | |
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Eat the Evidence | |
| M*A*S*H / int_58bf7895 | comment |
Eat the Evidence: Done by the entire unit to an illicitly acquired side of beef. When an MP shows up looking for the beef, he's invited to sit down and have a plate, which he happily accepts. | |
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Greeting Gesture Confusion | |
| M*A*S*H / int_59204dfb | comment |
Greeting Gesture Confusion: In "The Nurses", one Sergeant Tony Baker drops in at the 4077th, where his newly wedded wife is a nurse. Baker steps into Radar's office and proceeds to introduce and greet himself by sticking out his hand for handshake, which Radar confuses for a salute. The two briefly try to figure out what to do, but just shrug it off. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5989e3b6 | comment |
Then there were those times when one of them (usually B.J.) would form a temporary alliance with Charles, either against the remaining Swampmate (usually Hawkeye) or some other character. | |
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Even the Guys Want Him | |
| M*A*S*H / int_598ad6e2 | comment |
Even the Guys Want Him: Frank is a mild, and subtle example of this when it comes to Colonel Flagg. | |
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Better Than Sex | |
| M*A*S*H / int_59938d30 | comment |
Better Than Sex: In "Adam's Ribs", Hawkeye tries to get a case of barbecued pork ribs from a Chicago restaurant shipped to Korea. When Radar asks if these ribs are as good as Hawkeye says they are, Hawkeye answers, "Better than sex." Radar then grouses, "I wouldn't know how good that is, sir." In "The Light That Failed", after B.J. finally lets a bored Hawkeye start reading the mystery novel Peg sent, Hawkeye declares that reading just might be better than sex. | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_599ad6d5 | type |
Contrived Clumsiness | |
| M*A*S*H / int_599ad6d5 | comment |
Contrived Clumsiness: On one episode where Hawkeye, B.J. and Charles are on a promotion committee, they evaluate the prospective promotees and give their recommendations. In The Stinger, after commenting on wondering who was promoted, Private Igor, who works in the mess tent chow line and was not promoted, tosses a scoopful of mashed potatoes on B.J. "Oh, I'm sorry. But what do you expect from a dumb private?" A flashback in one episode showed Father Mulcahy "accidentally" tucking a tablecloth into his belt and ruining the meal of a visiting general who was causing a holdup in the mess tent. | |
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Animal Lover | |
| M*A*S*H / int_59d7839f | comment |
Animal Lover: Walter O'Reilly tends to a small menagerie of animals in the camp and once saved a lamb from being made into lamb chops. | |
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But Not Too Bi | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5a194444 | comment |
But Not Too Bi: As much (according to Alan Alda, intentional) coded jokes as they put in and flirting with other men as Hawkeye did, it’s a 70s show and they can’t be explicit, so from references and other characters’ reactions (exasperated or affectionate), he does a lot more offscreen. | |
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Adaptation Distillation | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5a40d6a | comment |
Adaptation Distillation: The movie itself combined two characters from the book to create Major Burns. A number of book/movie characters (most notably Duke Forrest and Painless Pole) are eliminated from the series altogether, and Ugly John and Spearchucker Jones disappear without explanation even before the first season is over. | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_5a4aa505 | type |
Government Conspiracy | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5a4aa505 | comment |
Government Conspiracy: The army tries to cover up its mistake in shelling a civilian South Korean village in "For the Good of the Outfit," by claiming North Korea was responsible, burying the story, and hiding the evidence. | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_5a59b3a1 | type |
Hulk Speak | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5a59b3a1 | comment |
Lampshaded by Hawkeye again when, running Rosie's bar while Rosie is recovering, he tries to talk to one of the waitresses for Rosie's cut of the tip money. When both this and Hulk Speak fail to get his point across, he remarks, | |
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Racial Face Blindness | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5b0a8d6a | comment |
Racial Face Blindness: In a season two episode, the Korean liaison officer semi-sarcastically explains the difficulty in finding the father of a half-American baby as, "You all look alike to us." There are also several episodes that deal with or make reference to the difficulty in people being able to tell the difference between Japanese, Chinese and Korean people. Invoked in the finale, Klinger's Korean fiancee (played by Rosalind Chao, Chinese-American) is looking for her family, whom she describes several times as "Short, dark hair?" Perhaps a meta casting gag in that there were plenty of Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese actors cast to play Koreans. Humorously invoked in "To Market, To Market". Hawkeye and Trapper arrange a deal with Charlie Lee, a black marketeer, to give him Henry Blake's newly-acquired antique oak desk — without Henry's knowledge — in exchange for some hydrocortisone. As a prelude to the deal, he shows up at Henry's office disguised as a South Korean general to examine said desk. Then, at the end of the episode after the exchange has been made, Henry sees Charlie again without the disguise: | |
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Aliens in Cardiff | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5c446b43 | comment |
Aliens in Cardiff: No fewer than four characters on the show studied in Illinois.note Henry Blake, presumably Hawkeye if he was there long enough to develop a taste for Adam's Ribs, Dr. Lin Tan in "Rainbow Bridge", and the titular physician in "The Korean Surgeon". Even more remarkable, two of them were North Korean, one of whom went to the same university as Henry Blake. | |
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Doorstop Baby | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5cd8680b | comment |
"Yessir, That's our Baby!" has the staff find an abandoned Korean Doorstop Baby girl of mixed race by an American soldier. Warned by Father Mulcahy that the girl will face a hellish existence in Korea, the staff try to get her sent to the United States. Unfortunately, all avenues fail with no one willing to help and the staff have no choice but to follow Father Mulcahy's original suggestion to leave the baby at a secluded monastery where she will have sanctuary with a chance of later being sent to America but with a limited life. | |
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AwesomeMcCoolName | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5d103ea8 | comment |
Awesome McCoolname: Hawkeye Pierce. | |
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The Casanova | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5e2e55e4 | comment |
The Casanova: Hawkeye, particularly in the earlier seasons. Also Trapper. It ultimately starts backfiring on Hawkeye in the later seasons, when every advance either ends in a strikeout, getting humiliated, or a disastrous date. And, in the season 11 episode "Who Knew", Millie Carpenter has such a crush on him that she ends up wandering into a minefield. Carlye Walton, nee Breslin, from season 5, is Hawkeye's one true love that got away. | |
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Courtroom Episode | |
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Courtroom Episode: "The Trial of Henry Blake", "The Novocaine Mutiny", "Snappier Judgment", coupled with Court-Martialed | |
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Poor Man's Porn | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5f251b1b | comment |
Poor Man's Porn: Hawkeye's nudist magazines, and Radar's reference to looking at National Geographic when his Uncle Ed wasn't around. Additionally, Radar's holes drilled in the nurses' shower tent. And Hawkeye was prone to bribing Radar by offering him to look at the nurses' x-rays. Henry's movies from Cuba and his Japanese prints. All of which is justified since the real thing as we know it today was hard to come by in the 1950s. | |
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Nerds Are Virgins | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5f2b0457 | comment |
In "Adam's Ribs", Hawkeye tries to get a case of barbecued pork ribs from a Chicago restaurant shipped to Korea. When Radar asks if these ribs are as good as Hawkeye says they are, Hawkeye answers, "Better than sex." Radar then grouses, "I wouldn't know how good that is, sir." | |
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Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5f798c84 | comment |
One episode features Hawkeye being wagered that he go an entire day without snarking. That day is filled with an absurd amount of things that a man can make wisecracks about. Finally, after keeping his mouth shut the entire day, Hawkeye finally lets it all out in a massive snark-fest over the PA at 12:01 AM the next day. | |
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Big Eater | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5fcedca | comment |
Big Eater: Hawkeye reminisces about once eating twelve banana sandwiches (and spending a week in the bathroom afterwards). Any time a real meal is to be had in camp, Trapper somehow finds a way to eat the whole thing himself. Radar especially, his heaping portions in the Mess Tent are often the butt of a joke. Hawkeye even suggests that their side could possibly win the war if Radar would simply eat North Korea. Then there was the time Klinger tried to eat his way out of the Army, by getting so fat and out-of-shape that they'd have to discharge him. It didn't work. He also tried to eat his way out of the Army by devouring a jeep. He managed to get down a windshield wiper, several bolts, and a horn button before his stomach decided no more. | |
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Long List | |
| M*A*S*H / int_5ff56a1f | comment |
Long List: Hawkeye seems to utilize this trope whenever he can, usually in describing things he will or won't do in any given situation. A few characters (mostly Radar) will go into detail of all the specific paper, forms, requisitions, and such that are needed in order to obtain something that is needed. | |
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Head-Tiltingly Kinky | |
| M*A*S*H / int_60a66fb1 | comment |
Head-Tiltingly Kinky: In "Rally 'Round the Flagg, Boys", Col. Flagg—believing Hawkeye to be a Communist sympathizer—enlists Charles to try and find some incriminating evidence. Rooting through Hawkeye's belongings, Charles comes across one of his nudist magazines and subsequently reacts in this manner. | |
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The Lancer | |
| M*A*S*H / int_60b21fa3 | comment |
The Lancer: Trapper, and later B.J., were basically this for Hawkeye. | |
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Dream Sequence | |
| M*A*S*H / int_615fdb1f | comment |
Dream Sequence: The aptly titled "Dreams" features one. | |
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I Take Offense to That Last One! | |
| M*A*S*H / int_61b576af | comment |
I Take Offense to That Last One!: | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
| M*A*S*H / int_61b8f9e2 | comment |
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: No matter how madcap Hawkeye gets, his medical skills save him from court martial a few dozen times. Klinger is trying to get a Section 8 discharge by crossdressing and generally acting insane. But he's too much of a professional to actually shirk his duty as a sentry or doing anything other than his utmost to help when the 4077 is inundated with wounded. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_61b8f9e2 | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
| M*A*S*H / int_62434fe2 | comment |
Hawkeye's dream in "Dreams" involves him helpless on a boat. The next season has him uncover the trauma that his friend nearly drowned him. Also while the numerous jokes about him ending up in an institution were valid reactions to his Sanity Slippage throughout the series, he seemed fond of jokes about him getting pregnant, all getting rewarded with a dead baby in the finale. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_62434fe2 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_62907b90 | type |
Bottle Episode | |
| M*A*S*H / int_62907b90 | comment |
Bottle Episode: "O.R.", "The Bus", "Hawkeye", "A Night at Rosie's" | |
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M*A*S*H / int_62907b90 | |
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'70s Hair | |
| M*A*S*H / int_629de9ad | comment |
'70s Hair: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, and Loretta Swit all sported increasingly blatant (and therefore blatantly anachronistic) examples of this as the show went on. | |
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Finger-Twitching Revival | |
| M*A*S*H / int_630910ba | comment |
Finger-Twitching Revival: In one episode, a soldier's "corpse" is shipped to the 4077th along with a bunch of wounded. For most of the episode, the viewers are the only ones who see the soldier try to move enough to call for help. Luckily, Mulcahy finally notices when he goes to administer the Last Rites. | |
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Old Soldier | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6366f900 | comment |
Old Soldier: Colonel Potter. | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_63f136ec | type |
It Is Pronounced | |
| M*A*S*H / int_63f136ec | comment |
It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY": Charles pronouncing "cretin" and "Iowa" as "creh-tin" and "Io-way"; Radar pronouncing zwiebac as "z-why-back"; Potter pronouncing "kudo" as "cue-do" and "deaf" as "deef"; among others. We have this exchange between Frank and Klinger in "It Happened One Night:" | |
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M*A*S*H / int_63f136ec | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: Margaret's foot locker, at least, according to her report in one episode where she's trying to replace it. She actually blew a hole in it herself, using Charles' shotgun. Mulcahy's actions in the finale can be seen as a (barely) averted one, since he left shelter during a bombardment to rescue a group of prisoners who had been left out in the open. He survives, but loses most of his hearing from a near-miss artillery shell. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_6439de78 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6459cc02 | type |
I See Dead People | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6459cc02 | comment |
I See Dead People: In "Follies of the Living - Concerns of the Dead", a sick Klinger is the only person to see the spirit of Pvt. Weston, a recently killed soldier. During The Stinger, the crew are happy to see Klinger well again, but are confused when Klinger asks of Weston, "Where is he? Did he get what he wanted?" | |
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M*A*S*H / int_6459cc02 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_64e975cf | type |
Manly Tears | |
| M*A*S*H / int_64e975cf | comment |
Manly Tears: Several times, but especially in "Abyssinia, Henry". Even Frank is seen crying on hearing the news of Henry's death. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_64e975cf | |
| M*A*S*H / int_65331274 | type |
Flynning | |
| M*A*S*H / int_65331274 | comment |
Flynning: "Requiem for a Lightweight" both plays straight and subverts this with boxing. Trapper is trying to just keep in the fight long enough to knock his opponent out with what he thinks is an ether-soaked glove. His opponent, however, seems to barely tap Trapper during the match despite having 197 wins. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_65331274 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_661d7909 | type |
Maligned Mixed Marriage | |
| M*A*S*H / int_661d7909 | comment |
Maligned Mixed Marriage: GIs with Korean girlfriends/wives (and sometimes children) occasionally appear, often struggling to get through red tape to either get married or bring their new families back to the States with them. This also became a central plot point in the Spin-Off series AfterMASH, as Klinger struggled with his fellow Americans maligning his marriage to the Korean Soon-Lee. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_661d7909 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6627695f | type |
Author Appeal | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6627695f | comment |
Author Appeal: A lot of the more explicit “Hawkeye might be bi” references come from Alan Alda’s writing, like “I must be obvious or something” from Dr Pierce and Dr Hyde, or the winky “I loved as many of you as I could” in the finale, or “you’re all bent over/who told you?” from Hepatitis. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_6627695f | |
| M*A*S*H / int_66d4d0e6 | type |
Defeat by Modesty | |
| M*A*S*H / int_66d4d0e6 | comment |
Defeat by Modesty: Hawkeye and Winchester steal B.J.'s clothes out of the shower in retaliation for a series of practical jokes. | |
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1.0 | |
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M*A*S*H / int_66d4d0e6 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_67013b78 | type |
Aluminum Christmas Trees | |
| M*A*S*H / int_67013b78 | comment |
Aluminum Christmas Trees: Spearchucker Jones. There were, in fact, black doctors in Korea, and Spearchucker was based on a doctor Richard Hooker heard about at the 8055. Too bad the executives didn't look into it first. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_67013b78 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_680f950 | type |
Gilligan Cut | |
| M*A*S*H / int_680f950 | comment |
Gilligan Cut: In "Too Many Cooks", Potter is acting unusually testy and irritable. At one point, the others are trying to decide whether one of them should confront him about what's bothering him. In an earlier episode, thanks to a combination of bad communication and bad timing, Margaret and Hawkeye are caught on the road during an air strike. As they take refuge in a hut, a bit of a spark ignites between them. Meanwhile, their friends back at the 4077th have learned what the pair accidentally headed into and are frantic with worry. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_680f950 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_68169a5 | type |
Mix and Match | |
| M*A*S*H / int_68169a5 | comment |
Mix and Match: In the finale, Klinger marries a Korean woman and, in a act that surprises everyone—including himself—decides to stay in Korea temporarily to help locate his new wife's family. On the flip side are Korean women abandoned by the GI father of their child. Both mother and child suffer from ostracism from society and rejection from their families. Sadly this is Truth in Television for many mixed race children born in countries at war. Further exacerbated by the fact, mentioned on the show, that while most countries with troops in Korea offered assistance to the children of their service personnel and Korean women, no such support was forthcoming from the US. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_68169a5 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_683176a1 | type |
Wedding Ring Defense | |
| M*A*S*H / int_683176a1 | comment |
Wedding Ring Defense: Hawkeye is fooled by one of these, worn by the episode's visting guest nurse. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_683176a1 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6968c6b0 | type |
Not So Remote | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6968c6b0 | comment |
Not So Remote: In "They Call the Wind Korea", Klinger and Charles are out in a Jeep (Klinger was taking Charles to the airport, as he was going to Tokyo for R & R) when a bad storm breaks out. They take refuge in an overturned truck, and find several wounded Greek soldiers inside, whom Charles must treat without adequate medical supplies. The next morning Klinger goes out in search of more resources and discovers that they were only a short distance away from camp the entire time. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_6968c6b0 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_698dcc45 | type |
Huddle Shot | |
| M*A*S*H / int_698dcc45 | comment |
Huddle Shot: Two in the opening credits, and one occurred in the "Point of View" episode. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_698dcc45 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_69e77917 | type |
Bucket Booby-Trap | |
| M*A*S*H / int_69e77917 | comment |
Bucket Booby-Trap: Frank rigs one for Hawkeye (yep, you read that right) in "Showtime", while Hawkeye himself does so for a visiting colonel in "April Fools". | |
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M*A*S*H / int_69e77917 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6a4f3cf7 | type |
Took a Level in Dumbass | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6a4f3cf7 | comment |
Took a Level in Dumbass: Radar, sort of. Leading to Characterization Marches On when you go back and watch the early episodes. Even William Christopher thinks this of Father Mulcahy when we have this little exchange at the beginning of "Fade Out, Fade In, Part 1": | |
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M*A*S*H / int_6a4f3cf7 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6acb79b2 | type |
Episode Title Card | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6acb79b2 | comment |
Episode Title Card: Used in "Our Finest Hour" (the second interview show) and "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" (the Grand Finale). | |
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1.0 | |
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M*A*S*H / int_6acb79b2 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: Frank was right when he warned Margaret that Donald might not be all that he seems. Yes, he said this in an attempt at getting her into bed, but Donald was eventually revealed to be cheating on Margaret and stealing her money. He ultimately requested a transfer behind her back, which led to their divorce. Frank is also perhaps the only one to acknowledge how the hospital is only three miles from the front line, while everyone else seems to act like it's a vacation between OR sessions. Hawkeye reluctantly points out that Frank is correct in that Trapper needs a physical to diagnose what's wrong with him, which turns out to be an ulcer. When Hawkeye and B.J. question Frank on a missing gun (which he had stolen), he points out that Radar is given the presumption of innocence, even though he should be the one responsible for the gun locker, but they won't give Frank the same right. The episode "Rainbow Bridge" tries to make Hawkeye and Trapper seem completely in the right by upholding the Chinese stipulations for MASH personnel to come completely unarmed for a prisoner exchange, while Frank is painted as a Dirty Coward, ridiculous and needlessly jeopardizing lives for bringing a tiny gun for protection. Except the PVA troops came armed to the hilt at the same time they demanded the US medics come unarmed, giving a lot of credence to Frank's (and Margaret's) protests that they could be walking right into a trap. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_6b05b601 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6b35bdff | type |
Serious Business | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Serious Business: In "Sons and Bowlers", the 4077 has a bowling match against a Marine unit, and Col. Potter makes it abundantly clear that winning it is very, very important to him. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_6b35bdff | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6b3c357e | type |
Ivy League for Everyone | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6b3c357e | comment |
Ivy League for Everyone: Charles graduated summa cum laude from Harvard and Trapper attended Dartmouth. B.J. went to Stanford (non-Ivy, but of comparable prestige). According to "Adam's Ribs", Hawkeye seems to have graduated from the University of Chicago, a rather prestigious research school. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_6b3c357e | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6bd689ca | type |
Meaningful Echo | |
| M*A*S*H / int_6bd689ca | comment |
Meaningful Echo: Provided by Sidney Freedman in the finale. | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Back home, the O'Reillys have a goat named Randy, who apparently likes to try and mate with other animals on the farm. In fact, in a letter from home, Randy had tried to kiss a turkey. Meta example: The episode "38 Across" is about what happens when misunderstandings spiral out of control with disastrous results. The title refers to a crossword puzzle clue that kicks off the episode's plot, but also to the 38th Parallel—the line of latitude that cuts across the Korean Peninsula between North and South Korea, where much of the war's combat (and fruitless peace talks) occurred. | |
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FanService | |
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Fanservice: Margaret wearing shorts and a backless bathing suit in "The Merchant of Korea"; B.J. doing pull-ups in "The Smell of Music." | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy | |
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Imperial Storm Trooper Marksmanship Academy: North Korean and Chinese soldiers could never seem to hit any of the main characters when shot at on camera. The closest one came was putting a bullet through Winchester's hat. Another notable example is a sniper who took several shots at two bottles of high-class scotch, eventually destroying both, then an ambulance's tire, and not actually hitting anyone. There was also Five O'Clock Charlie, a bomber pilot with terrible aim. The episode "featuring" him had everyone in the camp betting on how badly he would miss every time he dropped a bomb. And judging by quality of equipment (a sputtering prop plane not even equipped as a bomber; he just lobbed them by hand) and pilot, his target (a nearby ammo dump) was very low on the North Korean target priority list. A sniper shooting at Klinger and Father Mulcahy continuously hit the bell behind them, but never managed to actually hit them. Even the tactics the North Koreans used failed miserably. When the North Koreans were shelling the unit, they never seemed to hit anything. The shells would often drop into the center of camp or, on occasion, blow up boxes and such sitting around (and sometimes the latrine). How they missed the large central building with the big red '+' on top is anyone's guess. Any time someone drove a Jeep somewhere, the North Koreans would attack it with artillery, not the best weapon to use against a single, moving target. In the episode with General Stone, a sniper starts shooting at General Stone and doesn't seem to hit anything, not even the Jeep. General Steele, after inspecting a swamp he wants to move the 4077 to, insists on being saluted despite the danger of tipping off any snipers. A sniper starts shooting at him, but never even gets close. | |
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You No Take Candle | |
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You No Take Candle: Korean characters sometimes talk like this, much to the disdain of actual Korean viewers. | |
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The Shrink | |
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The Shrink: Sidney Freedman | |
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Affectionate Gesture to the Head | |
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Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Hawkeye has a habit to cradle the people he love’s heads, whether it’s BJ, Carlye, Tommy or Kyung Soon. When he’s glad Trapper and Kim are safe, he gives both of them a relieved ruffle to the hair. | |
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Crossword Puzzle | |
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Crossword Puzzle: The central MacGuffin of the episode "38 Across", as the characters struggle to solve a New York Times crossword puzzle. However, the episode seems to have been written by someone who has never seen a New York Times crossword puzzle, as there is no way for anyone to be missing just one word - all letters in NYT crossword are used in exactly two words. If they are missing a 5-letter-word beginning with V (which is "vantz"), then they are also missing one letter from exactly four other words. | |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten | |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten: During an episode when Hot Lips (whose nickname itself is an example) demands a transfer from the 4077th, citing Hawkeye and Trapper's hijinks as one cause: | |
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Extreme Omni-Goat | |
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Extreme Omni-Goat: Season 10's "That Darn Kid" has a goat eating the 4077th's entire monthly payroll, leaving Hawkeye (who's serving paymaster duty) and Klinger (who bought the animal from a local merchant so it could provide the unit with fresh milk) in deep trouble till they can convince the officer sent to investigate the issue that they didn't make up the story to cover for embezzlement. | |
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Artistic License – Military | |
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Artistic License – Military: Too many to count, but a few stand out above the others: Frank demands and receives a Purple Heart for getting an eggshell in his eye during an artillery barrage (he claimed he was hit by shell fragments, and omitted the part about the shell in question being an eggshell). In real life, he would have been denied as the injury wasn't directly caused by enemy action. He earlier demanded a Purple Heart for "slipping" on the way to the "shower" (actually a back spasm while dancing with Margaret). Potter is correct in stating that the Army Good Conduct Medal is only for enlisted soldiers. He's wrong in insisting that his status as a prior-service enlisted soldier entitles him to wear the medal, which he is seen wearing from time to time and he has his medal framed on his wall. What he (or the writers) failed to realize is that the medal was awarded long after Potter was an enlisted soldier and that the retroactive dates don't go back to when he was enlisted and eligible for the award. As a Chaplain, Mulcahy would have entered the military as a Captain, not a Lieutenant. Doctors didn't automatically enter service as a captain. There were plenty of surgeons in the war that were lieutenants. The Points system was never used for rotation of doctors. It was never used in the Korean War at all. Most of the doctors and nurses spent 12-16 months in Korea, then were sent to Japan or a Stateside Army hospital to finish up their military obligation. Aside from Henry Blake earning enough Points to be discharged, the Point System was a plot point in a later episode, where the peace talks had failed again, but Potter reminds everyone if they receive enough Points, they would be rotated home. Although Hawkeye gripes the most, Charles points out he actually has the least amount of complaining to do as he has more Points than the rest of them. Later still, when Potter breaks the news that the Army upped the number of rotation Points to get transferred back to the states, Hawkeye loses it. In one episode, the doctors think it's ridiculous that Frank has made them pack up the unit and move it across the road, and in another, General Steele makes them move 20 miles closer to the front. Part of the reason for the unit's existence was to follow the troops into battle so the wounded could be taken care of as quickly as possible. In the early part of the war, MASH units were quite mobile, and it was only in the latter part of the war, when the battle lines stabilized, that they tended to stay put. While Frank's reasoning was absurd, Steele's wasn't, and moving the entire unit quickly wasn't out of the question; in fact it was one of the functions of a MASH. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, just about every character could be charged with a plethora of very serious offenses, and being a doctor would not have saved anyone. Somewhat Truth in Television, but only somewhat. It's likely a case of The Main Characters Do Everything, but the administrative section of a MASH would have consisted of two Medical Service Corps officers (non-doctors), a warrant officer, a first sergeant, and numerous enlisted men ranging from master sergeant to private, not just one guy named "Radar". Granted, in any military organization there are "go to" guys like Radar that can get stuff done that no one else can, but a unit run by the hospital commander and one company clerk would have fallen apart fairly quickly. It's implied in several episodes that Radar does have underlings, and his chief job is to negotiate and barter with other clerks, though we never see any. Two different characters go completely bonkers and are quietly promoted and given cushy posts to get them out of the way. The US military was not known for being kind to people who cracked under the stress of war; summary discharge under Section 8 was the usual remedy. The first example is justified as being a general, whose friends probably protected him. The second example, Frank Burns, had no friends, and it is a mystery why anyone would go out of their way to keep him in the Army. | |
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Casting Gag | |
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Invoked in the finale, Klinger's Korean fiancee (played by Rosalind Chao, Chinese-American) is looking for her family, whom she describes several times as "Short, dark hair?" Perhaps a meta casting gag in that there were plenty of Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese actors cast to play Koreans. | |
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Christmas Episode | |
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Christmas Episode: Somehow they had four of these, although there were only three Christmases during the war. "Dear Dad" (Season 1), "Dear Sis" (Season 7), "Death Takes a Holiday" (Season 9), "'Twas the Day After Christmas" (Season 10). | |
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Time Capsule | |
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Time Capsule: "As Time Goes By" sees Margaret deciding to put together a time capsule to commemorate the presence of the 4077th in Korea. Hawkeye is cynical bordering on hostile toward the idea for most of the episode, while several other staff members have singularly inappropriate suggestions for contents for the capsule, but when the time comes to bury the box, the Swampmen have found some suitable contributions that include several nods to now-departed cast members (Radar's teddy bear, a fishing lure that belonged to Henry - and, as Charles observes, nothing from Frank). | |
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Stealth Hi/Bye | |
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Stealth Hi/Bye: Usually attempted unsuccessfully by Flagg. | |
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Opposites Attract | |
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Opposites Attract: Laid-back Hawkeye and hard-nosed Margaret had quite a few Foe Yay and Tsundere-type moments throughout the series, especially in times when Margaret expressed disappointment in her marriage to Donald Penobscot. Perhaps as a result of this, she became more laid-back herself, and started showing a rapport with the snobbish Charles in the last three seasons or so. | |
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Clark Kenting | |
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Clark Kenting: In "The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan," Col. Flagg arrives incognito as an Italian officer. Both Radar and Col. Potter know right away it's Flagg. | |
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Up to Eleven | |
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In "Communications Breakdown" an anonymous prankster does this to Charles (all Charles and the viewer sees is an arm reaching into the shower and stealing his bathrobe), leaving behind a only a newspaper. It's later taken Up to Eleven when the prankster steals all of Winchester's clothing and furniture from his tent. | |
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Burn Baby Burn | |
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Burn Baby Burn: In "War of Nerves", psychiatrist Sidney Freedman convinces Col. Potter to let the camp make a bonfire, burning many non-essential items which represent the stifling Army lifestyle. "You have to let them go crazy once in a while to keep from going crazy." Freedman himself strips to his underwear and tosses his fatigues into the blaze. | |
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Descent into Addiction | |
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Descent into Addiction: During the fifth season (Frank's last), Margaret's engagement and eventual marriage to Donald Penobscott effectively ends her affair with Frank, which drives him over the edge, and as that season progresses, his obsession for her grows and grows to pathological proportions; his attempts to just talk or eat with her usually ends with him breaking down and making a move on her, only for her to push him away and threaten to tell Penobscott. In "Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde", Charles starts taking amphetamines to make up for a lack of sleep and quickly becomes addicted to them. "Tea and Empathy" has B.J. dealing with a patient who became addicted to morphine after a hip wound. | |
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Gaslighting | |
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Gaslighting: Done to the titular character from "The Ringbanger" when Hawkeye and Trapper note how many casualties happen under his command and conspire to get him sent home. Hawkeye, Trapper, and Radar try it on Henry in "Love and Marriage"; he catches on immediately. When B.J. visits Hawkeye at the psych ward in "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen", Hawkeye starts ranting about the movie Gaslight and how this was done to Ingrid Bergman's character, implying that he believes the same thing is being done to him. | |
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Adaptational Angst Upgrade | |
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Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Even before the series really starts kicking him with Sometimes You Hear The Bullet onwards, TV-Hawkeye has abandonment issues and his answer to any Sanity Slippage accusations is why shouldn’t he be losing his mind. | |
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Documentary Episode | |
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Documentary Episode: "The Interview", "Our Finest Hour" | |
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Radish Cure | |
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Radish Cure: Father Mulcahy cures a dog of its liquor-stealing habits by giving the dog all the whiskey it can drink. One massive hangover later, and the dog refused to touch alcohol ever again. | |
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Fox News Liberal | |
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Fox News Liberal: Winchester is a conservative version. An insult that Hawkeye purposefully throws at Charles to make him talk visibly angers him: | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: Sidney Freedman's advice in an early appearance and the final episode: "Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice. Pull down your pants and slide on the ice." Count how many times Hawkeye refers to both babies (including a lot of jokes about getting pregnant) and chickens. It amounts to a lot in eleven seasons before the finale. | |
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Embarrassing Cover-Up | |
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Embarrassing Cover Up: When an optometrist visits the camp, Houlihan comes in for a checkup, but everyone thinks she's there to hit on him; when everyone else leaves, she reveals that she'd rather they think "Hot Lips" was on the move than let on to her vision problems. | |
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Translation by Volume | |
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Translation by Volume: Lampshaded when Hawkeye tends to a wounded Korean. Lampshaded by Hawkeye again when, running Rosie's bar while Rosie is recovering, he tries to talk to one of the waitresses for Rosie's cut of the tip money. When both this and Hulk Speak fail to get his point across, he remarks, Frank and Margaret do this a few times when conversing with locals. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Henry, Trapper, Frank, and Radar are all Put on a Plane and sent back to the States. (In Henry's case, the plane crashes, literally and figuratively.) Each of these people get a mention in the final two episodes. Hawkeye and B.J. contribute items once belonging to Radar and Henry for the time capsule and explain to Charles that nothing of Frank's would be included due to his incompetence. And when B.J. leaves for home in the series finale without leaving Hawkeye a farewell note, Hawkeye laments that Trapper did the same thing. | |
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Played for Laughs | |
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Also averted when orders have to be relayed down a long vehicle convoy when the 4077 is moving camp. This is then Played for Laughs when Father Mulcahy decides to bless the new site, with the words of his prayer shouted from one truck to the next. | |
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To Absent Friends | |
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To Absent Friends: Most especially when Potter is the last survivor of his World War I unit. Played with in Frank's departure episode: The end of "Goodbye, Radar." Radar leaves his teddy bear on Hawkeye's cot. Hawkeye (who sees it along with B.J. and Potter) picks it up and quietly says "Bye, Radar." | |
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Mattress Tag Gag | |
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Mattress Tag Gag: Variant: In "The General Flipped at Dawn", Henry dons a new set of fatigues in anticipation of Gen. Steele's arrival. He asks Radar if there are any tags visible, and Radar tears one off from the back of the pants before reading: "Do not remove this tag under penalty of Federal Code 764-J." | |
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Contagious Laughter | |
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Contagious Laughter: Once Frank tried to join in when Blake was talking about what kidders the men were. | |
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Technical Pacifist | |
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Technical Pacifist: Father Mulcahy, as a priest, chaplain, and medic, is forbidden from engaging in combat. That doesn't stop him from dropping a few folks with that right hook of his when the need arises. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
| M*A*S*H / int_786bf97f | comment |
"Preventive Medicine", where B.J. argues with Hawkeye that removing a healthy organ is immoral (see Real Life Writes the Plot above). | |
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Prosthetic Limb Reveal | |
| M*A*S*H / int_78c4e567 | comment |
Prosthetic Limb Reveal: In the episode "Dreams", Hawkeye dreams that he's taking a test and the proctor tells Winchester to remove Hawkeye's arms, which are then tossed onto a pile. Then Hawkeye is supposed to operate on an injured Korean boy, but can't because he doesn't have arms. In the context of the dream, Hawkeye doesn't have real arms, which is revealed when Winchester removes them. It symbolizes Hawkeye's frustration at his inability to make any real changes to the war. | |
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Crying Wolf | |
| M*A*S*H / int_78d0ebcf | comment |
Crying Wolf: This finally comes back to bite Klinger when he gets a "Dear John" Letter from his wife. It doesn't help that he has used this exact scam before. By then, everyone is understandably bored of it and don't feel like humoring him when they're trying to watch a movie. Another time, in "Red and White Blues," Klinger comes down with severe anaemia and everyone is convinced that it's another of his malinger scams. Only when others develop similar symptoms do they realize Klinger is having a severe reaction to a new anti-malaria drug which was later found to hit people from the Mediterranean region hard with such a side effect. | |
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Familiar Soundtrack, Foreign Lyrics | |
| M*A*S*H / int_795ebae2 | comment |
Familiar Soundtrack, Foreign Lyrics: Many early episodes had Japanese or Korean language versions of traditional American songs played over the PA in order to emphasize the fact that they're in Korea. | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_79bfd876 | type |
The Only Believer | |
| M*A*S*H / int_79bfd876 | comment |
The Only Believer: From the main cast, only Frank Burns and Margaret Houlihan really believe in the cause of the Korean War. All the rest are draftees and anti-war. | |
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Not with the Safety on, You Won't | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7a2a34ef | comment |
Not with the Safety on, You Won't: When Hawkeye and Potter are pinned in a foxhole and Hawkeye must actually fire his pistol, Potter cocks the hammer first. Which means Hawkeye carries it hammer down, which on a 1911note Actually a Star Model B, a Spanish 9mm copy (without a grip safety), because 9mm blanks were more reliable then. is actually the least safe way to carry it (John Browning designed it this way, so no matter how much you drop a cocked 1911, it will never accidentally discharge). | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7a2a34ef | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7aaa865a | type |
After-Action Healing Drama | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7aaa865a | comment |
After-Action Healing Drama: The essence of the unit. | |
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1.0 | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_7ab81664 | type |
Kick Them While They Are Down | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7ab81664 | comment |
Radar gets a "Dear John" record from his hometown girlfriend in "Love Story", complete with her new boyfriend saying hi and her telling him to stop groping her. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7ab81664 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7b21ef92 | type |
Later Installment Weirdness | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7b21ef92 | comment |
Later Installment Weirdness: Although the subject of Seasonal Rot has always been up for debate, critics and fans alike often agree that the show's ultimate turn for the worse began with Season Eight. By that time, Alan Alda and Burt Metcalfe had completely overhauled the production staff and replaced almost all of the writers, shifting the tone of the show from a sitcom with dramatic undertones to a drama with comedic undertones. Cerebus Syndrome combined with the loss of Radar and the end of Klinger's Section 8 schemes and cross-dressing (even Harry Morgan once remarked, "When we lost Radar, we essentially lost Klinger as well") turned the last four seasons into an almost entirely different show altogether. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7b21ef92 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7b6e47a5 | type |
Armor-Piercing Question | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7b6e47a5 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Question: "She killed the chicken?" | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7b6e47a5 | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7b8b3def | comment |
Celebrity Paradox: A minor case, but still noteworthy. One of the films shown to the camp on movie night was the 1945 musical State Fair, which features Harry Morgan (aka Colonel Potter) in a supporting role. Granted, he would have looked 30 years younger, but no one seems to note the similarity between their commanding officer and the character in the movie. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7b8b3def | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7ba00b55 | type |
Superstition Episode | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7ba00b55 | comment |
Superstition Episode: A B-plot in season 4's "Dear Ma" has Colonel Potter's wife getting a premonition that something bad will happen to him. Sure enough, he gets shot in the butt by a sniper while making a supply run to a nearby village. In season 5's "Exorcism", Potter makes Radar remove a Korean spirit post from the middle of the compound because it's blocking traffic — on Friday the 13th, no less — after which a bunch of bad things happen, from a lighter not working to an ambulance crash. Radar puts a horseshoe up in Potter's office to ward off the bad luck, and a shamanic priestess is brought in to exorcise any evil spirits from the camp. The season 11 Halloween Episode "Trick or Treatment" has the group telling ghost stories to each other in the O.R. with varying degrees of credulity from the listeners. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7ba00b55 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7ba4adea | type |
Black Market Produce | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7ba4adea | comment |
Black Market Produce: The occasional real food is quite a treat. One time a farmer gives the unit a bunch of real eggs, not the reconstituted stuff they usually get. Another time Radar goes through a Chain of Deals in order to supply Col. Potter with fresh tomato juice after some accidentally got shipped to them and Potter liked it—but then after all that trouble, it turns out Potter is mildly allergic. He'd been without it for so long he forgot. | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_7bb1296b | comment |
"Rashomon"-Style: "The Novocaine Mutiny" has Hawkeye and Frank narrating very different versions of the same events during a court-martial hearing. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7bb1296b | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7c47e9b9 | type |
Invented Invalid | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7c47e9b9 | comment |
Invented Invalid: Klinger tries numerous times to get out of the Army. In one sequence, he presents Henry with a letter from home saying his mother is dying. Henry pulls out Klinger's file filled with letters from home saying his mother is dying, his father is dying, his sister is dying, his sister is pregnant, his sister is dying and his mother is pregnant...and so on, until the capper: "Half of the family dying, other half pregnant." | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7c47e9b9 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7cc1924a | type |
Handshake Refusal | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7cc1924a | comment |
Handshake Refusal: Winchester's dental woes coupled with his fear of dentists. In the end of the episode, Winchester is about to shake the hand of the man who Hawkeye and B.J. brought on to handle the episode's A-plot only for them to reveal he's a dentist; Winchester immediately retracts his hand, but due to his fear of dentists, not an attempt at being insulting. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7cc1924a | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7d10c8a5 | type |
Skip the Anesthetic | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7d10c8a5 | comment |
Skip the Anesthetic: Col. Flagg of the CID insists on going into surgery without anesthetic because if he's knocked out he might inadvertently talk, and nobody at the unit is cleared to hear any of the state secrets he might accidentally divulge. In another episode a Turk and a Greek soldier are both at the 4077th at the same time trying to out-stoic one another, refusing anesthetic after a fight at Rosie's bar. After drunkenly crashing B.J.'s motorcycle and ending up with glass shrapnel in his rear-end, "Blood & Guts" Kibbee initially refuses the anesthetic before Hawkeye and B.J. remove the glass. He relents after a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Hawkeye. Potter takes a shot to the butt as Margaret rushes him to the operating tent. He doesn't want to be put under and asks for a local so he can see how Hawkeye and B.J. perform first hand. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7d10c8a5 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7d14c988 | type |
A Tankard of Moose Urine | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7d14c988 | comment |
A Tankard of Moose Urine: The stuff that comes out of the still in the Swamp is roundly deemed to be barely drinkable. | |
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1.0 | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7d14c988 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7d34f23a | type |
Reckless Gun Usage | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7d34f23a | comment |
Reckless Gun Usage: Frank Burns, who seems dangerously unaware of basic firearm safety for a military officer. In the course of the series he managed to accidentally wound a fellow officer (B.J.) and even shot himself in the foot. Not to mention the time that he blew up an Army ammo dump (though it was technically Hawkeye that made that happen; Burns' crew was about to refuse the order) or caused an enlisted man to shoot Radar's bugle out of his hand with a miniature cannon salute during Morning Colors. | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_7d68f571 | type |
...Or So I Heard | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7d68f571 | comment |
...Or So I Heard: In "Adam's Ribs": | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7d68f571 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7d89315b | type |
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| M*A*S*H / int_7d89315b | comment |
After drunkenly crashing B.J.'s motorcycle and ending up with glass shrapnel in his rear-end, "Blood & Guts" Kibbee initially refuses the anesthetic before Hawkeye and B.J. remove the glass. He relents after a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Hawkeye. | |
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| M*A*S*H | hasFeature |
M*A*S*H / int_7d89315b | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7dbfa45b | type |
Spy Speak | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7dbfa45b | comment |
Spy Speak: Col. Flagg | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7dbfa45b | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7df2b942 | type |
Moving the Goalposts | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7df2b942 | comment |
"The Merchant of Korea" has Winchester loaning money to B.J. and then proceeding to treat him like a servant, expecting him to do everything he wants. For some reason B.J. grudgingly complies, even though he already has the money and these conditions were never discussed when he asked for the loan. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7df2b942 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7e043a42 | type |
Suicide Is Painless | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7e043a42 | comment |
Suicide Is Painless: The show's (and film's) theme song is the Trope Namer. One episode has an example of the trope, where a soldier, injured when his rifle backfired and the bolt struck him in the face, would rather die than go home disfigured. Colonel Potter eventually gets him to give up when he tries to overdose on anesthetic by opening the valves to make the dosage lethal, and explains that the part of the body that wants to live is stronger than the part that wants to die. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7e043a42 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7e345221 | type |
Snowball Lie | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7e345221 | comment |
Snowball Lie: "Tuttle" and "Bombshells", among others. | |
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1.0 | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7e345221 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7e733dcd | type |
Mobile Shrubbery | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7e733dcd | comment |
Mobile Shrubbery: Radar (spying on Hawkeye) in "I Hate a Mystery"; Klinger (attempting to escape the 4077) in "Dear Peggy". Colonel Flagg hides inside a garbage can for a meeting with Charles in "Rally 'Round the Flagg, Boys". | |
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1.0 | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7e733dcd | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7e9a0f3a | type |
Wrote the Book | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7e9a0f3a | comment |
Wrote the Book: Hawkeye wrote the book on the appendix. (He even wrote the appendix, but they took that out.) | |
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1.0 | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7e9a0f3a | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7ef728b1 | type |
Tsundere | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7ef728b1 | comment |
Tsundere: Margaret, especially toward Hawkeye. Her dere-dere side was revealed in "Comrades In Arms, Part 1", and then Double-Subverted in "Comrades In Arms, Part 2"— she began and ended the latter episode with a friendly chat with Hawkeye, but they had quite a few disagreements in between. | |
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-0.3 | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7ef728b1 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7f0f19e5 | type |
I Coulda Been a Contender! | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7f0f19e5 | comment |
I Coulda Been a Contender!: Sergeant Billy Tyler in "End Run" was a college football player when he was drafted into the Army and, according to Radar, one of the hottest prospects around...until he lost his leg. | |
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| M*A*S*H / int_7f2427a6 | type |
Dawson Casting | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7f2427a6 | comment |
In a Meta example, Gary Burghoff played the teenaged Radar well into his 30s.invoked | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7f2427a6 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7f933d43 | type |
Claustrophobia | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7f933d43 | comment |
Claustrophobia: Hawkeye, in "C*A*V*E". | |
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1.0 | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7f933d43 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7fbb13bf | type |
Unfriendly Fire | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7fbb13bf | comment |
During "It Happened One Night," the unit is getting shelled by a negligent friendly army unit. Radar calls the lieutenant in charge of the battery, and we only see their side of the conversation. | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7fbb13bf | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7fbb2a3 | type |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| M*A*S*H / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Averted when Father Mulcahy contributes fresh corn on the cob from his vegetable garden to the camp's 4th of July picnic, thinking the change of pace would be appreciated...only to learn that the cook prepared it as the usual creamed corn instead thinking the camp preferred creamed corn. | |
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1.0 | |
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M*A*S*H / int_7fbb2a3 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_8042e814 | type |
Actually Pretty Funny | |
| M*A*S*H / int_8042e814 | comment |
Actually Pretty Funny: Charles isn't above laughing at jokes at his expense. | |
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1.0 | |
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M*A*S*H / int_8042e814 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_8077793f | type |
Open Secret | |
| M*A*S*H / int_8077793f | comment |
Open Secret: Frank and Margaret's relationship in the first four seasons is this. Father Mulcahy was the only one who didn't officially know...but he did suspect. | |
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1.0 | |
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M*A*S*H / int_8077793f | |
| M*A*S*H / int_820ac3c5 | type |
Dysfunction Junction | |
| M*A*S*H / int_820ac3c5 | comment |
Dysfunction Junction: Big time, especially in later seasons. The various members of the medical staff and personnel (as well as various visiting/wounded soldiers and even some of the high-ranking generals from elsewhere) tend to have their own issues, mental, familial or otherwise, as they deal with the horrors of war on a regular basis. This is ultimately the reason why Klinger can't get a Section 8 discharge, as he's so well-adjusted that compared to the rest of the loopy 4077th he doesn't stick out when he tries to pass off as crazy, as he points out in a letter to his uncle Abdul. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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M*A*S*H / int_820ac3c5 | |
| M*A*S*H / int_823c6e3e | type |
Large Ham | |
| M*A*S*H / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Averted at least once in a deleted scene. In "It Happened One Night," Klinger has just introduced Hawkeye to a new private going on guard duty for the first time. After the discussion, Klinger stands. The private picks up his rifle and inadvertently points it in Klinger's face. Klinger is quick to nudge it away, having anticipated the eventuality upon seeing him pick it up. This trope gets played straight later on when (offscreen) the gun goes off, and Klinger is brought into Post-Op, trying to ham up being fatally shot when the bullet barely nicked him. | |
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Finger Poke of Doom | |
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Finger Poke of Doom: | |
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Present-Day Past | |
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Present-Day Past: The show is pretty infamous for how much its version of the early '50s resembles the '70s. Some of this was carried over from the film, which deliberately made the Korean War look like the then-ongoing Vietnam War as a political statement. In the series, this was apparently due more to laziness, at least if you take the show's producers at their word that the series was not meant as a Vietnam allegory. And much like with Happy Days, the laziness about period detail tended to increase with each passing season. The show does have occasional flashes of remembering when it's supposed to take place, usually for the sake of It Will Never Catch On jokes. | |
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Adaptational Nice Guy | |
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Adaptational Nice Guy: In the TV series, Hawkeye and friends never treated Father Mulcahy's faith with anything less than the upmost respect. Compare that to those same characters in the film when they loudly mock Frank Burns when he prays in the Swamp. Trapper in the show also never gets the reason for his nickname mentioned. | |
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MST | |
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MST: In "There Is Nothing Like a Nurse," Hawkeye, Henry, Trapper, Radar, and Klinger riff on home movies of Frank's wedding. As it starts with a scene of the wedding guests in line: | |
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Tag | |
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In the tag of "The Young and the Restless", Col. Potter has apparently accepted that Klinger truly believes he is in Toledo, so he calls him into his office to approve his Section 8 paperwork. After going over preliminary information such as name, place of birth, mother's maiden name, and Social Security number, Potter asks "Rank?" Klinger instinctively replies, "Corporal." Potter gleefully cries, "Aha! Gotcha, soldier!" and tears up the paperwork. | |
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Tall Poppy Syndrome | |
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Tall Poppy Syndrome: Happens in multiple episodes. Normally whenever a character gets something the rest of the camp has been longing for, everyone ends up wanting it, no matter how unreasonable they're being in wanting it, whether it's Charles getting newspapers, B.J. and Hawkeye getting a bathtubnote Admittedly, this is during a major heat wave, or something else. | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic: Many people found the presence of a black surgeon, Capt. Oliver Harmon "Spearchucker" Jones, in a 1950s American unit to be political correctness. M*A*S*H is based on a real unit, the 8055th, which did indeed have an African-American surgeon on staff. | |
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The '50s | |
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The '50s: Ostensibly. As the seasons roll on, it's increasingly apparent that the show is The '70s disguised as The '50s. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Hawkeye takes up a collection to send his house-boy to the states to go to medical school, but then we never hear from him again. Until he robs most of the regular cast to get money to bribe border guards to allow his family to cross the border. Hawkeye mentions in a Season 4 episode "Our house-boy got drafted two years ago," very likely referring to him. Radar always had a large menagerie of different animals, including rabbits, guinea pigs, raccoons, squirrels, skunks, and even a turtle, each having their own cages. Then, in his very last episode, when he says goodbye to his animals, all that are left are one turtle, one rabbit, and one guinea pig. He tells them the rest of the camp will take care of them in his absence, although we see them only once after that, in "The Red White Blues". In "The Foresight Saga", the MASHers send a Korean boy to live in Iowa and work as a farmhand for Radar. Between AfterMASH and the DOA spinoff W*A*L*T*E*R, we learn that Radar's farming career fell through, but his farmhand is never mentioned past this episode. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: The camp's slogan is, "Best Care Anywhere!" and they back it up with a 97% survival rate. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Tyrant | |
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Frank Burns, whenever he's given temporary command of the camp. Col. Potter could be considered something of a Bait-and-Switch Tyrant. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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No matter what zany scheme Hawkeye pulls off or what general he offends, they need him as a doctor. Also somewhat Truth in Television - surgeons could get away with some ridiculous things, due to the sheer need for them, though there were limits even for doctors. | |
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Initialism Title | |
| M*A*S*H / int_8898ce54 | comment |
Initialism Title: Of course, "MASH" is not exclusive to the fiction of the series. In the real world, Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals, like the one in which the series is based, are indeed referred to as "MASHes" or "MASH units". Their successors, officially titled Combat Support Hospitals, are still commonly referred to as "MASHes". | |
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Stiff Upper Lip | |
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Stiff Upper Lip: Explored: In one episode, the 4077th is treating wounded from a British unit. Their Major walks around, telling the men how they'll soon be back in action, after handing out cups of tea to the wounded in the field. Hawkeye asks him how he can be so callous about his men's lives, even risking killing some of them by giving tea to those with abdominal wounds. The British major explains that he is speaking about going back into battle soon to give the men the impression that things aren't as bad as they seem (by downplaying their injuries, he is keeping up their morale by not letting them dwell on the severity of their wounds), and that it wasn't known on the frontlines that giving tea to treat abdominal wounds could cause complications, and promises to stop the practice immediately. | |
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Significant Reference Date | |
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Significant Reference Date: During the P.A. announcement at the end of "Welcome to Korea". | |
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New Year Has Come | |
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New Year Has Come: "A War for All Seasons" covers an entire year in the life of the 4077th, bookended by New Year's Eve celebrations in 1950 and 1951. | |
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Gentleman Snarker | |
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Gentleman Snarker: Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, in his better moments. | |
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Never Got to Say Goodbye | |
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Never Got to Say Goodbye: In "Welcome to Korea", Hawkeye discovers Trapper was sent home while he was away on R&R. Made even worse that they tried to call and tell him but he was busy with a geisha at the time. In "Goodbye Radar", the entire camp decides to throw Radar a going-away party, which he is late to attending. Before he can get to it, the choppers arrive and the camp goes into hospital-mode, the party left abandoned. Radar is forced to settle for quick goodbyes with the primary cast, and a simple salute from Hawkeye, who is in the O.R. performing surgery. In the Grand Finale "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen", B.J. leaves for home while Hawkeye is in the psychiatric hospital recovering from his breakdown. Subverted when B.J.'s discharge orders are rescinded, Hawkeye is released from the hospital, and both of them are sent back to the 4077 to see the end of the war together. | |
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Trope Namers | |
| M*A*S*H / int_8ac2fe0d | comment |
Season three's finale has Henry Blake getting discharged and finally getting to go home. What happened next was a trope-naming moment.invoked | |
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Deconstruction | |
| M*A*S*H / int_8ae880f7 | comment |
Deconstruction: Fallen Idol was apparently written by Alan Alda because he wanted to see what fall out would happen if one of the main characters who drank regularly, had too much and couldn’t operate. | |
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Cerebus Retcon | |
| M*A*S*H / int_8b67aba7 | comment |
Cerebus Retcon: While a few season 1-3 episodes implied Hawkeye had pre-existing trauma/mental illness, he was mostly alright, and had an alive sister and mother. Season four started a running theme that people he loved he Never Got to Say Goodbye to (Trapper, Carlye the first time, his mother, unknowingly sabotages a chance to say goodbye to Radar), he was nearly drowned at seven by a friend he loved too much to admit could hurt him, his mom died a few years later and Alan Alda has talked about how he didn’t actually change much throughout the series. | |
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One-Shot Character | |
| M*A*S*H / int_8bc5b86e | comment |
One-Shot Character: Not only were there a number of them, but many of them got a Day in the Limelight episode: Young-Hi: A young Korean woman who was bought by an America Sergeant as his own personal "Moose" (an oriental slang term for girl), whom Hawkeye, Trapper, and Spearchucker liberate and attempt to teach her how to act like a person. John "Cowboy" Hodges: A Reno-native chopper pilot who fears his stateside wife may be cheating on him and continually attempts to assassinate Henry for refusing to let him go home. Lieutenant Edwina Ferguson: A disasterously clumsy and awkward nurse who initially joined the Army on an impulse after her fiancee enlisted and she never heard from him again, and still hadn't found love since. Colonel Buzz Brighton (the ringbanger): who's so callous about his army career, yet in such peak physical fitness that Hawkeye and Trapper convince him he's suffering a mental breakdown and needs to be sent stateside for a while. Kim: An assumed orphaned boy who Trapper decides to adopt until his mother turns up in the end to reclaim him. Nancy Sue Parker: A young twentysomething whom Henry falls in love with, despite the difference in their ages (and already being married), and despite taking into consideration at that young age, Nancy's hormones aren't quite under control. Private Baker: Who was desperate for plastic surgery to reshape his large, bulbous nose. George: A foot soldier who was beaten by his fellow soldiers for being gay, for which Frank tries to get him dishonorably discharged. General Bartford Hamilton Steele: The crazy general who inspects the 4077th and decides they need to move even closer to the front to conserve on helicopter fuel and get casualties to the hospital faster. General Robert "Iron Guts" Kelly: A visiting general who dies in the middle of hanky-panky with Margaret. Colonel Reese: An older female colonel who has the hots for Frank, but when she's caught forcing herself on him, she claims rape. Lieutenant "Digger" Dettmuller: An undertaker who was sent to claim Hawkeye's body after he was mistakenly registered as dead, but is still in need of taking a body back to the morgue. Captain Arnold Chandler: A downed bomber pilot who suffers an identity crisis and believes he's Jesus Christ. Smilin' Jack: A chopper pilot whose desperate to win the Chopper Pilot of the Year award, despite Potter ordering him to be grounded due to having diabetes. Most of the nurses in "The Nurses", particularly Mickie Baker, who ends up in house arrest for arguing with Margaret but gets sneaked out so she can spend the night with her newly-wedded husband as he passes through on a 24-hour pass. Sergeant Billy Tyler: The All-American running back from Ottumwa, Iowa, who loses his leg, and believes his football career is over. Lieutenant Carrie Donovan: A heartbroken nurse who receives a "Dear Jane" letter from her husband, but finds comfort (and kinda probably a little more) from B.J. Leo Bardanaro: B.J.'s old friend who is a notorious practical joker and gets B.J. by having him arrested for pranking a general in a hotel by yelling "fire" while the general and his secretary were in the bathtub at the time. Captain Roy Dupree and Captain Lorraine Anderson, both of whom temporarily trade places with Hawkeye and Bigelow, respectively; the former B.J. and Charles find incredibly obnoxious for his boorish personality, the latter is a childhood friend of Margaret's and is actually envied for still retaining her carefree spirit. Colonel Lillian "Lil" Rayburn: An elderly female colonel who spends a few days at the 4077th for inspection, and ends up becoming very friendly with Potter, much to Radar's outrage. Sergeant Jerry Neilsen: A field medic who comes down with amnesia after his baby brother is killed by mortar fire in his bunker. Private Rich: A foot soldier whose stay at the 4077th is seen completely through his point of view after sustaining a throat injury. Kwang: A Korean Charles hires to be his own personal houseboy, not knowing he's actually a North Korean spy sent to gather information of the 4077th's surgical techniques to find out what makes the unit so efficient. Inga: A Swedish lady doctor who unintentionally bruises both Hawkeye and Charles's male egos. And this is only a partial list! | |
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WholesomeCrossDresser | |
| M*A*S*H / int_8c30eaca | comment |
Wholesome Cross Dresser: Klinger, of course. It was his plan to get home - they'd think he was crazy and hence unfit for duty if he wore women's clothing. He was otherwise portrayed as a good soldier. This was based on a story about Lenny Bruce wearing a WAVES uniform to get discharged from the Navy during World War II. | |
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Ultimate Job Security | |
| M*A*S*H / int_8c55e307 | comment |
Ultimate Job Security: No matter what zany scheme Hawkeye pulls off or what general he offends, they need him as a doctor. Also somewhat Truth in Television - surgeons could get away with some ridiculous things, due to the sheer need for them, though there were limits even for doctors. Klinger, no matter how hard he tries to avert this. Although undeniably a force for good, Father Mulcahy gets away with some rather worldly behaviours for the sake of greater charity, such as gambling and black market dealings. Some of Hawkeye's stunts would, in Real Life, land him a court martial, such as "The Sniper", where he defies an order not to surrender, even though it could put the nurses in physical danger. Hawkeye makes an impassioned case for surrender, but what he actually does is go out to bring the wounded in from the ambulance under a flag of truce (which gets fired on). While surrender would also commonly be arranged under a flag of truce, that would involve communicating directly with the enemy, which he does not attempt. | |
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Out-of-Character Moment | |
| M*A*S*H / int_8ca20b69 | comment |
Out-of-Character Moment: Charles screwing over Korean peasants by buying scrip for a tenth of its value in "Change Day". This is nothing like blue blood, old money Charles, who later anonymously donates candies to an orphanage. It feels more like something Frank or Klinger might do. In fact, it's almost as if it was a leftover Frank script that had the names changed. It's even lampshaded in the show that he has no need for extra money, but he claims it's for the thrill of making the money, not for the money itself. There's a later episode where he demonstrates a similar motivation by making bets with just about everyone in camp over the World Series, but it still comes off as strange. | |
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Artistic License – Medicine | |
| M*A*S*H / int_8d6d9535 | comment |
Artistic License – Medicine: Many nurses can be seen with long, manicured fingernails. This is prohibited because, among other things, they have to be able to wear gloves during surgery. | |
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Wham Episode | |
| M*A*S*H / int_8e20979 | comment |
Wham Episode: "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet", also the first Downer Ending episode. More would follow, most notably "Abyssinia, Henry". | |
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Pin-Pulling Teeth | |
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Pin-Pulling Teeth: In a moment of ill-considered "manliness", Frank pulls the pin out of a grenade with his teeth and spits it away. Then he realizes what he's done and starts desperately searching for it. | |
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One-Liner, Name... One-Liner | |
| M*A*S*H / int_900d51a0 | comment |
One-Liner, Name... One-Liner: At the conclusion of "Smilin' Jack," Hawkeye asks Potter which of the three campaigns he's been in was the worst when word comes in that France suffered 500 casualties in an attack at Solma-Ri. In "As You Were," Radar is on the phone trying to get shelling either stopped or diverted: | |
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Demonic Possession | |
| M*A*S*H / int_906365a2 | comment |
Reprised in "Exorcism" with a twist: Frank warns that this too may be a scam, until the man's granddaughter explains that the old man was trying to frighten away a demon he believed had possessed him. | |
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Gentlemen Rankers | |
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Gentlemen Rankers: Nurses usually start at second lieutenant, but male nurse Barney Hutchinson was forced to start at private. He has to pull enlisted man duty (KP, patrolling, etc.) in addition to his nursing assignments. Three weeks before he is discharged, Colonel Potter gives him an honorary field promotion to lieutenant for the remainder of his tour. ("Your Retention Please") | |
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Justified Trope | |
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Frank Burns is a walking example of how to not handle a firearm. Highlights include shooting B.J. in the leg, shooting himself in the foot, and shooting out a light while chambering a round. Justified as this is specifically portrayed as a function of his incompetence, not as the correct or appropriate way to do things. | |
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HahvahdYahdInMYCah | |
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Hahvahd Yahd In My Cah: Charles Emerson Winchester III, Boston native and Harvard alumnus. | |
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Fallback Marriage Pact | |
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Fallback Marriage Pact: In "Mr. And Mrs. Who?," Charles returns from R&R in Tokyo with a hangover and discovers that he got married during that time. When the "bride," Donna Marie Parker, shows up at the camp, she tells Charles, who at the time announced in drunken revelry that he was going to marry the first girl he came across, that she agreed to marry him only to shut him up. And that the "minister" who performed the ceremony was the bartender (a Druid at that). At the end, the personnel hold a drunken dissolution ceremony in the mess tent, conducted by B.J. (with a Sad Sack comic book in place of a bible). | |
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Trivially Obvious | |
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Trivially Obvious: In "Say No More", a laryngitis-afflicted Margaret gets Charles to act as her voice for a phone call to Dr. Steven Chesler, an internationally-renowned ER doctor whom she admires but whom Charles regards as a quack. Charles' first words of the conversation are "Dr. Chesler! Well! This is indeed a... phone call." | |
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Locked in a Room | |
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Locked in a Room: Happens to Trapper and Margaret in an early episode. | |
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Killing for a Tissue Sample | |
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Killing for a Tissue Sample: In one episode, Margaret thinks she might be pregnant. She asks Hawkeye to do a Rabbit Test on her (where they inject a rabbit with a urine sample from a possible mother and then dissect the rabbit to examine its ovaries). The only female rabbit available is Radar's, who refuses to allow them to kill his pet, but he will let them do the test if they promise that the rabbit won't be killed. So Hawkeye does an ovarectomy on Radar's rabbit. | |
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Communications Officer | |
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Communications Officer: Radar (later Klinger, after Radar is sent home) is usually called upon to operate the communications equipment. Almost everyone else has trouble getting the stuff to work properly. | |
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Gung Holier Than Thou | |
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Gung Holier Than Thou: Col. Flagg is literally described as such. Burns and Houlihan also qualify until they stopped going over the CO's head to General Clayton. | |
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The Tape Knew You Would Say That | |
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The Tape Knew You Would Say That: In the "M*A*S*H Olympics" episode, Potter goes on the PA to announce daily calisthenics. Knowing what kind of reaction his announcement would get, he waits a beat and adds "Same to you." | |
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Cuckold | |
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Cuckold: In an episode there's a threat of an air raid so the nurses are sent away. It turns out it's just a "propaganda bomb," with leaflets dropped including "Harry Truman is sleeping with your wife." In other episodes it's played more dramatically (if hypocritically) as Henry, Trapper, Frank, and some of the other married personnel worry that their wives are cheating on them back home, even as they carry on their own dalliances at the 4077th. An unmade episode reveals Frank's wife was cheating on him with a state senator, but the canonicity of this is debatable. From the pilot: | |
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Every Helicopter Is a Huey | |
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Every Helicopter Is a Huey: Mostly averted in favor of the historically-accurate Bell 47G. However, some early episodes have a model Huey hanging from the ceiling of Col. Blake's office, and later on the O Club has a sign on the wall reading "4077th Med. Co. Air Ambulance" and featuring an illustration of either a Huey or another Vietnam-era chopper. Possibly intentional, as in the movie and in the first few seasons, Korea was meant to be a metaphor for Vietnam. Incidentally, the Bell 47G is the only helicopter that really makes that "chirp-chirp-chirp" sound as the drive belts disengage. It's become a well-known helicopter movie cliche. | |
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Exact Time to Failure | |
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Exact Time to Failure: This occurs in, and is the entire point of, the episode "Life Time". The doctors run over the timer, but since they induced hypothermia, the patient still recovers. | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: B.J. suffers from this in "Welcome to Korea" when he sees firsthand the savagery of war injuries. Being fresh out of residency at the time he's drafted doesn't help matters any. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: General Clayton spends the first season relatively jolly, flirting with Margaret and fine with Piercintyre’s antics for the most part. In For The Good Of The Outfit, he buries the evidence when they make reports about American shelling, and friendly threatens to send them to the front line. | |
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Tuckerization | |
| M*A*S*H / int_95bca4c9 | comment |
Tuckerization: A number of the characters on the series were named after people the writers and producers knew: Really, the only in-universe example is Hawkeye being given his nickname after the Indian character in the book The Last of the Mohicans, which was his father's favorite book. His real name, Benjamin Franklin Pierce, is supposedly a combination of an Indian, a president, and a stove. B.J. Hunnicutt was named after the series' original cinematographer, William "B.J." Jurgenson. Legend has it that Sherman T. Potter was named after Larry Gelbart's old doctor. Another has it he was named after Union General William Tecumseh Sherman. Writer Ken Levine was perhaps the most frequent user of this trope, as a number of the one-shot and guest characters were named after people he knew (something he does frequently in his writing), including two of Radar's love interests - Linda Nugent, and Patty Haven (both named for two of Levine's former girlfriends). | |
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Guns Do Not Work That Way | |
| M*A*S*H / int_95ff52c7 | comment |
Guns Do Not Work That Way: In Klinger's first scene, he does a Dramatic Gun Cock on his M1 Garand when his dress gets cut by a prisoner with a scalpel, forcing the prisoner to drop the scalpel. No round is seen ejected. The M1 rifle works by inserting a clip and allowing the bolt to close, which chambers a round. The only way one could rack the bolt and not eject a round is if it was empty. | |
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Mistaken for Profound | |
| M*A*S*H / int_964163e9 | comment |
The movie version of the theme, written by Johnny Mandel and then-14-year-old Mike Altman, was a huge hit on college and community radio stations. The lyrics were probably Mistaken for Profound; at best, they're an Ice-Cream Koan; Robert Altman, who directed the film, asked for "the stupidest lyrics ever written" and his son turned them out in five minutes. Painless Pole, the character that the song refers to, was adapted out of the series, so the lyrics would have less meaning. | |
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Not So Above It All | |
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B.J. is this especially, but other characters (Hawkeye, Trapper, Charles) take on this role in various episodes as well. Even Frank Burns gets to try his hand at this in "Showtime". | |
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"Dear John" Letter | |
| M*A*S*H / int_96cc4848 | comment |
"Dear John" Letter: The eponymous chopper pilot in "Cowboy" gets one of these addressed from Reno (at the time Nevada processed almost half the country's divorces). Subverted in that although it's a "Dear John" letter from Reno, his name actually is John and he actually lives in Reno back home. The letter tells him how his wife was tempted to an affair, but didn't go through with it and loves him even more. Radar gets a "Dear John" record from his hometown girlfriend in "Love Story", complete with her new boyfriend saying hi and her telling him to stop groping her. Klinger gets one from his wife in "Mail Call Three", launching his Character Development from comedy relief into a more serious (and more reliable) member of the team. When the rest of the camp thinks it's another Section 8 attempt, he has a Heroic BSoD where (among other things) he tears off his dress publicly. In "Hanky Panky", B.J. comforts a nurse after she gets one of these, leading to a one-night stand between them and the Happily Married B.J.'s subsequent guilt over his infidelity. | |
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There Are No Therapists | |
| M*A*S*H / int_96fbeaf | comment |
There Are No Therapists: Averted, with Sidney Freedman, who admits that he himself could use one sometimes. He actually comes up to the 4077 in "Dear Sigmund" to take a bit of a 'rest cure' after a patient commits suicide. | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: One of Potter's old war friends, a general named Woody, ends one of the last few episodes with one of these. Since the main conflict of the episode is trying to get him to realize that he shouldn't have even been on the front lines in the first place (he was an Armchair Military general who took command when an attack hit the base he was visiting, when he should have been in the rear with supply distribution, and his only contribution was getting a lot of men injured trying to secure a hill that they'd previously been ordered to stay away from) because the "young bucks" don't know what they're doing, eventually Potter sits him down to try and have a talk with him and explain that the glory days are gone. Rather than realize that his glory days in the Army have come and gone, Woody gets an Ignored Epiphany and angrily storms out of Potter's tent, claiming that he ruined their friendship and leaving Potter somewhat depressed over having lost one of his old friends. | |
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Tanks, but No Tanks | |
| M*A*S*H / int_9751f6eb | comment |
Tanks, but No Tanks: An interesting example. In the finale, a wounded tanker drives an M24 Chaffee light tank◊ into the compound, destroying the latrine in the process. The tank begins drawing enemy mortar fire, so Klinger erects a tent to hide it. It doesn't work, and the mortar crew resumes firing on the camp, and Hawkeye drives it out of the camp. The tank he drives out is an M4 Sherman◊, destroying the newly built latrine. While both were used Korea, the two tanks look nothing alike, not even the running gear, and the Sherman is missing its bow machine gun. | |
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Sleep Mask | |
| M*A*S*H / int_975fe61e | comment |
Sleep Mask: The staff need to get their sleep whenever and wherever they can due to the everpresent possibility of midnight OR sessions, but for some, wearing a sleep mask is part of their character rather than simply a way to block out the light while trying to sleep. Henry Blake wears a "double eyepatch" sleep mask, signifying that he would much rather sleep during breaks between OR sessions than try to run the 4077th (which he prefers to leave to Radar). Charles Emerson Winchester wears a blindfold-style sleep mask as one of the trappings of his privileged background. | |
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Cut Himself Shaving | |
| M*A*S*H / int_97b4c1fd | comment |
Cut Himself Shaving: Hawkeye likes to sarcastically explain patients' "trivial" injuries. Notably used by B.J. in "The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan" when Flagg is asking about the bullet wound in his foot. | |
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Momma's Boy | |
| M*A*S*H / int_97ee273 | comment |
Momma's Boy: Frank became a doctor as per his mother's wishes, he keeps her picture by his cot, and when he flips his lid over Margaret's engagement, Radar places a call to his mother. | |
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Speech Impediment | |
| M*A*S*H / int_98591d23 | comment |
Speech Impediment: Winchester counsels a soldier who is cruelly bullied as "stupid" because he stammers. Revealing that he's looked into the man's service record and knows of his actual high intelligence, he gives him Moby-Dick to read. Returning to his tent, he listens happily to a taped letter from his beloved sister Honoria... who also stammers. | |
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Cerebus Rollercoaster | |
| M*A*S*H / int_98ce3773 | comment |
Cerebus Rollercoaster: Especially in the later seasons, it wasn't unusual for the show to shift on a dime between comedic and dramatic moods, sometimes even within the same episode. | |
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Ironic Nursery Tune | |
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Ironic Nursery Tune: In "The Kids", Radar sings a lullaby to one of the Korean orphans, and we catch a look of sudden shock on his face as he realizes what he's singing: | |
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Heat Wave | |
| M*A*S*H / int_99ff79ee | comment |
In a more humorous example, Klinger comes tantalizingly close to actually getting a Section 8 discharge in "None Like It Hot". He dons a fur coat and other warm-weather gear in the middle of a blistering Heat Wave, and Col. Potter is so impressed with his determination that he promises to approve a Section 8 if he can keep it up for 24 hours. When Klinger finally breaks down and gives up toward the end of the episode, a sincerely disappointed Potter notes that he only had an hour left to go. | |
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13 Is Unlucky | |
| M*A*S*H / int_9a692ae9 | comment |
In season 5's "Exorcism", Potter makes Radar remove a Korean spirit post from the middle of the compound because it's blocking traffic — on Friday the 13th, no less — after which a bunch of bad things happen, from a lighter not working to an ambulance crash. Radar puts a horseshoe up in Potter's office to ward off the bad luck, and a shamanic priestess is brought in to exorcise any evil spirits from the camp. | |
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Dr. Jerk | |
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Dr. Jerk: Burns as an incompetent version and Winchester as a highly competent one. | |
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This Is Not a Drill | |
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This Is Not a Drill: The unit is rehearsing for a visit from General Douglas MacArthur when over the P.A.: | |
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Suspiciously Small Army | |
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Suspiciously Small Army: A real MASH unit usually had around 200 personnel, at least 10 medical officers, 12 nurses, 89 enlisted soldiers of assorted medical and non-medical specialties, one Medical Service Corps officer, one Warrant Officer and other commissioned officers of assorted specialties, such as an anesthesiologist, and a dentist. The 4077 had, at most, 70 personnel, an administrative staff of just the CO and his clerk, and four doctors (five in season one, but Spearchucker Jones was written out without explanation), Ugly John (the anesthesiologist) shows up in the first few episodes on season one, but is also written out without an explanation, and Dr. Kaplan (the dentist) is Put on a Bus in the first season finale. After Ugly John's disappearance, a nurse usually administers the anesthetic, something that isn't even done today.note Women can be anesthesiologists, of course, but all anesthesiologists are doctors, not nurses, who undergo extensive training to administer the correct dosage based on the patient. One half-joke is that they're not paid to put people to sleep, they're paid to make sure they wake up. This is why it is not a job just anybody can do. Of course, it wouldn't be impossible for the situation to make them short-handed enough that a nurse with enough experience would be "drafted" to fill the role, but it would never be done as a regular thing the way it is portrayed While occasional references are made to other doctors being present ("All surgical personnel report to the O.R.! Both shifts!") we never see any of them. All of which makes the season three episode "Rainbow Bridge" and the season 4 episode "The Bus" especially problematic, as the former depicts three of the 4077's surgeons (Hawkeye, Trapper and Frank) leaving to rescue wounded UN forces taken prisoner, while the latter has all four of the 4077th's regular surgeons (Hawkeye, B.J., Frank, Col. Potter) spending an extended period away from camp for a medical convention. Who was operating on the wounded in their absence? For that matter, both episodes feature Radar, even though it's repeatedly demonstrated the camp literally can not function without him. The proper total number of people in this type of unit was known to the show's creators, at least for a time. In "Dear Ma", Radar mentions the unit has about 200 people in it when he's helping Hawkeye with the regular foot inspection (and then gets the math wrong and says that 200 people times 10 toes each makes 20 000 toes to check). On rare occasions, other doctors are addressed just offscreen or shown in the background (one episode has Hawkeye ask for "Don" to help him with an operation, and in that same shot a never-before-seen man with glasses is seen helping Trapper; in the episode where Frank ends up at Battalion Aid with a toe tag, wounded come in and are treated without any of the main cast being woken up for it), but other times they are simply referenced as though they are in camp but offscreen for some unknown reason. | |
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Death by Ambulance | |
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Death by Ambulance: In "Dear Sigmund", Col. Potter has to write a letter to the parents of an ambulance driver who was killed when he overturned the ambulance while driving at unsafe speeds. He turns the duty over to Radar, who writes a touching letter about how their son died trying to save others' lives. | |
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Armed Farces | |
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Armed Farces: It's a comedy set in a military camp, so it's to be expected. | |
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Values Dissonance | |
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Values Dissonance: In-universe, the clash between American and Korean value systems occasionally creates problems. In particular, "The Moose" deals with a scumbag sergeant who's bought a Korean girl as a slave, but her family believes it's an honorable thing to do. | |
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Upper-Class Twit | |
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Upper-Class Twit: Frank Burns, in spades. | |
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Summation Gathering | |
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Summation Gathering: Hawkeye holds one in the mess tent in "I Hate a Mystery". | |
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Taking the Bullet | |
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Taking the Bullet: Margaret's foot locker. She's trying to replace it in one episode, and she can only do so if it's been damaged in combat. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: A typo is made on the inscription of Margaret's replacement wedding ring: "Over hill, over dale, our love will ever fail". Her marriage to Donald ends in a bitter divorce roughly a year later (real time). Hawkeye's dream in "Dreams" involves him helpless on a boat. The next season has him uncover the trauma that his friend nearly drowned him. Also while the numerous jokes about him ending up in an institution were valid reactions to his Sanity Slippage throughout the series, he seemed fond of jokes about him getting pregnant, all getting rewarded with a dead baby in the finale. | |
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My Nayme Is | |
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My Nayme Is: Sidney Freedman. It's actually brought up in one episode, where Hawkeye spells it out to Flagg: "Two 'E's, as in "Freedom". Flagg even later confronts Sidney; "I've done a lot of reading about you, Dr. Freedman with two 'E's." | |
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Whole Episode Flashback | |
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Whole Episode Flashback: used in "The Novocaine Mutiny" to show events that led up to Hawkeye being put on trial for mutiny. The flashbacks are divided between Frank's fictional account and Hawkeye's reveal of what "really" happened. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: Despite the above, the show does make numerous references to previous episodes and seasons: Arterial transplants, which Hawkeye performs for the first time in one of the early episodes, are performed regularly after that. Margaret even points out that she assisted when Dr. Borelli taught him the procedure. "The Late Captain Pierce" has Hawkeye reference how Trapper went home and Henry was killed. In "Depressing News" he again mentions these, as well as Frank's departure. Frank is mentioned several times after his departure, mainly in reference to Margaret's Character Development. The time capsule episode mentioned several characters who had departed, including Henry and Radar (they included a fishing hook and teddy bear to symbolize both men) and Frank (they referenced his lack of surgical skill by claiming that his scalpel was a deadly weapon). In "The Joker Is Wild", B.J.'s prank war against Hawkeye is inspired by the latter's reference to Trapper having been the best joker to ever be in the 4077. The staff get a letter from Radar in Iowa (and Potter subsequently talks to his mother on the phone) in "The Foresight Saga". The vascular clamps that the doctors develop are referenced in several other episodes. Klinger's crossdressing is mentioned several times after he gives up the act, including him signing a portrait of himself dressed as Scarlett O'Hara for B.J. in the finale. The promotions for Klinger and Mulcahy (to Sergeant and Captain, respectively) maintain through the rest of the series. The resolution of "Henry in Love" involves Henry talking to his wife on the phone, and her wanting him to balance her checkbook. A few episodes later there's a mail call episode, and the documents arrive for him to do it. In season 3's "Checkup", Henry informs Radar that he's going to have to have his tonsils removed eventually; it finally happens in season 7's "None Like It Hot". In season 7's "Rally 'Round the Flagg, Boys", while explaining his dislike of Col. Flagg to Charles, Hawkeye says he's "never been too fond of a guy who would bring you a wounded prisoner and beg you to fix him up just so he could take him out and shoot him", referencing Flagg's appearance in season 3's "Officer of the Day". While packing his things in preparation of going home in season 8, Radar finds the thermometer that Col. Blake had given him (in "Abyssinia, Henry"). He also finds his Purple Heart and comments on how Hawkeye had saluted him (in "Fallen Idol"). Radar, Henry, and Trapper are all mentioned in "Period of Adjustment". In "That's Show Biz", Brandy mentions that she was once married for three months. Margaret comments that her own marriage ("Margaret's Marriage" through "Peace On Us") was about the same duration. The series finale, "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen", has several of them: Hawkeye attempts to compose a "Dear Dad" letter while at the psychiatric hospital. Hawkeye laments that B.J. went home without leaving him a note, just as Trapper had done. Margaret and Charles re-hash an old argument (from season 6's "War of Nerves") over whether or not he touched his nose in surgery. Sidney references an earlier comment he had made (in season 3's "O.R.") with his parting words to the group. When saying goodbye to Hawkeye and B.J., Col. Potter mentions their pantsing of Winchester in the O.R. (from season 9's "Bottom's Up"). Saying goodbye to B.J., Hawkeye says he'll think of him "next time somebody nails my shoe to the floor" (something B.J. did earlier that season, in "The Joker Is Wild"). | |
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Fridge Logic | |
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One incident involved him shooting himself in the foot after stealing a high-ranking officer's beautiful revolver, which leads to the Fridge Logic that not only did Frank assume it was unloaded, but that Radar had left it loaded. He also had a particularly entertaining scene where he pulled the pin on a grenade for no good reason, and about six seconds later realized he was waving around a live grenade. Cue frantic search for the dropped pin and fumbling attempt to return it to the grenade (he found the pin and managed to get it back in the grenade). | |
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Gut Punch | |
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Gut Punch: The end of "Abyssinia, Henry", when the 4077th gets the news that Henry died when his plane was shot down. | |
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Sarcasm Mode | |
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In the episode "Cowboy", Henry - who is in a really bad mood - enters his office to find Hawkeye waiting for him behind his desk, wanting to discuss giving chopper pilot Cowboy a temporary medical discharge. Henry even remarks, "Uh-uh-uh! Don't get up... let me just pretend YOU'RE the one in charge of this nuthouse." | |
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Frozen in Time | |
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Frozen in Time: The series went 11 seasons while the shooting part of the Korean War only lasted three years. Not only that, but the date given in the season 4 opener (September 19, 1952) means that the last eight seasons of the show take place over only ten months. In fact, later episodes tend to give earlier dates than earlier episodes. So we have Henry at the 4077th in 1952 and "later" Potter is there and it's 1950. Clearly they were stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop — probably why everyone complained so much about the war never ending. Some explain the change in times with a theory of two M*A*S*H universes, one of which (for example) keeps Henry Blake in charge of the 4077th well into 1952 while the other has him die early in the war. (Some even go as far as to say there is a third M*A*S*H universe where Henry Blake never died and Trapper John left a note saying goodbye.) | |
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Nicknaming the Enemy | |
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Nicknaming the Enemy: Both North and South Koreans are called "gooks" by unsympathetic guest characters. Truth in Television, regrettably. The term "gook" was coined during the Korean War and was later used more famously in Vietnam. It's derived from "Miguk", the Korean word for the United States. Apparently, American soldiers thought the Koreans were identifying themselves as "gooks" in Hulk Speak ("Miguk" sounds like "me gook"). And yes, all too many American soldiers didn't even bother to make a distinction between the South Koreans they were defending and the North Koreans they were fighting, viewing them all as "just gooks". The North Koreans are also referred to as "unfriendlies" on a couple occasions. | |
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Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight | |
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Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight: Charles was sent to the 4077th after his CO got tired of losing over $600 to him playing cribbage. While nobody wanted to be in the southeast Asian theater, Charles detested it but was an admitted showoff in the operating room. Hawkeye dresses him down on it, telling him "without an audience, a patient means nothing to you." | |
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Left the Background Music On | |
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Left the Background Music On: The earliest episodes of the series actually contained music scoring throughout the whole show, as other sitcoms of the time would do. In the second season onward, music scoring was slowly, yet progressively, toned back; for at least a couple of seasons, background music would usually be heard in particularly lengthy comic sequences (e.g., Klinger hang-gliding out of camp, Flagg tearing apart a tent), though music buttons would be heard coming in and out of commercial breaks. For the next few seasons, those buttons were pretty much the only background music you heard. By Season Eight, the show had no background music whatsoever. Burt Metcalfe's reasonings for eliminating the background music were similar to that of Larry Gelbart's reasonings for wanting to forgo the laugh track altogther: "Just like the actual Korean War." Coincidentally, just before the final episode was filmed the show's outdoor set burned down in a wildfire. | |
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Hand-or-Object Underwear | |
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Hand-or-Object Underwear: Employed by Hawkeye in "Dear Dad...Again" (mess tent trays), B.J. in "Bottoms Up" (pillow), and Charles in "Communication Breakdown" (newspapers). | |
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Benevolent Boss | |
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Benevolent Boss: Describes Henry, and especially Potter, who is even more tolerant of his subordinates' antics because he understands their need to blow off steam. | |
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The Food Poisoning Incident | |
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The Food Poisoning Incident: Happens to Charles and Margaret in "The Grim Reaper", and nearly the entire camp in "The Yalu Brick Road". | |
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Identity Amnesia | |
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Identity Amnesia: In "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler?", a bomber pilot claims to be Jesus. Frank and Margaret think he's pulling a scam, but it turns out losing his identity was the only way he could escape his guilt about being a long-term bombardier. "The Billfold Syndrome" involves an amnesiac soldier whose condition turns out to stem from guilt over his failure to prevent his younger brother's death while they served in combat together. This is used by Klinger as a dodge one time. He attempted to convince everyone that he believed the 4077 was Toledo (he played off the wounded as him helping out the victims of a traffic accident). This almost worked — but, as always, he blew it at the last second. | |
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Compressed Abstinence | |
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Compressed Abstinence: Hawkeye once takes a bet from B.J. that he can go a whole 24 hours without making a joke. He barely makes it. Hawkeye also once pledges to give up drinking for a week. After a rough session in the OR on the seventh day, he joins the rest of the staff in the Officers Club and orders a martini. | |
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I Know Karate | |
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I Know Karate: When administering innoculations, Major Burns, thinking a Korean boy stole his Purple Heart, warns him with "I've had two judo lessons". A few episodes later, though, he mistakes judo for a religion. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: The show has far too many to list, but "Yankee Doodle Doctor" in particular stands out, both In-Universe and out. After doing Groucho Marx-esque gags throughout the film, Hawkeye ends it by sitting next to a critically injured patient and explaining that despite doing all they could, he has a 50/50 chance of surviving his wounds and they just can't save everyone. | |
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Cruel Twist Ending | |
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Cruel Twist Ending: "Abyssinia, Henry". Early in the episode, Radar cheerfully announces during an O.R. session that Col. Blake has earned enough points to be sent home from Korea. The rest of the episode deals with the entire camp giving him a celebratory sendoff. Many happy tearful goodbyes are made as Col. Blake departs the camp. In the very last scene, Radar again enters the O.R., this time to announce that he just received a message: "Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake's plane was shot down, over the sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors." | |
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Language Barrier | |
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Language Barrier: There was a language barrier between Americans who didn't speak Korean and some Korean civilians didn't speak English either, though a lot of them did to at least some degree. It happened several times that one of the doctors was sent away to help some Koreans and got lost. They were nearly unable to communicate with people who tried to help them. The amount of Korean that the various personnel speak seems to vary. In one episode, Radar is able to speak at least conversational Korean, and in another (later in the series, mind you!) is completely unable to speak any of the language. Margaret of all people seems to be the most fluent. Hawkeye is later shown to be able to read the language best of all the surgeons. | |
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Naked People Are Funny | |
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Naked People Are Funny: Done to great effect. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
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Ascended Extra: Klinger started out as a one-shot guest character, and by the fourth season was a series regular. Father Mulcahy, a minor character in the novel and film, initially only appeared every few episodes until he was made a regular. | |
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Character as Himself | |
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Character as Himself: "Tuttle" has its title character billed this way. | |
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Animated Adaptation | |
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Animated Parody: Filmation's M*U*S*H, a segment of the Saturday Morning Kid's Show Uncle Croc's Block. | |
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Hollywood Tactics | |
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Hollywood Tactics: Numerous, such as: Jeeps being shot at with artillery (virtually impossible against moving targets with immobile artillery pieces) when shooting the occupants would suffice. Hawkeye climbing down a rope to treat a wounded soldier in a foxhole, dressed as Santa, while under direct fire, rather than the chopper landing and taking off (as was developed in Korea before its extensive use in Vietnam). | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Whatever you do, don't ever, ever ever insult the state of Iowa within earshot of Radar. | |
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Large Ham Radio | |
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Large Ham Radio: "Your Hit Parade" has Radar playing DJ by spinning a new batch of records over the camp P.A. system. | |
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Scrabble Babble | |
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Scrabble Babble: In "Mad Dogs and Servicemen". | |
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Status Quo Is God | |
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Klinger trying to get a Section 8, Burns trying to instill military discipline, Winchester trying to get transferred back to Tokyo. In all cases, Status Quo Is God guarantees they will fail. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: After his general incompetence, Frank gets promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. After his jerkassery, he gets a cushy stateside post. After he cheats on his wife at every opportunity, he goes home to her and presumably continues cheating without losing his marriage, which he is only keeping for financial reasons. A lesser case, Trapper. He likewise cheats on his wife without a shred of guilt, and never suffers any consequences for it. A micro example: In "Last Laugh," Margaret throws a giant tantrum because she's horny and wants to see her husband to relieve this condition (and coaching it as though Donald is the one who desperately needs to get laid). She wrecks Radar's office and physically assaults him, and Potter lets her go see Donald. She returns smiling and relaxed, rewarded in full for her bad behavior. | |
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RealLife | |
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Some of Hawkeye's stunts would, in Real Life, land him a court martial, such as "The Sniper", where he defies an order not to surrender, even though it could put the nurses in physical danger. Hawkeye makes an impassioned case for surrender, but what he actually does is go out to bring the wounded in from the ambulance under a flag of truce (which gets fired on). While surrender would also commonly be arranged under a flag of truce, that would involve communicating directly with the enemy, which he does not attempt. | |
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Real Time | |
| M*A*S*H / int_a8593e70 | comment |
Real Time: "Life Time" | |
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Juggling Loaded Guns | |
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Juggling Loaded Guns: Gun fanatic Frank Burns. He frequently shot himself, and at one point, he accidentally shot B.J., for which he was relentlessly mocked. One incident involved him shooting himself in the foot after stealing a high-ranking officer's beautiful revolver, which leads to the Fridge Logic that not only did Frank assume it was unloaded, but that Radar had left it loaded. He also had a particularly entertaining scene where he pulled the pin on a grenade for no good reason, and about six seconds later realized he was waving around a live grenade. Cue frantic search for the dropped pin and fumbling attempt to return it to the grenade (he found the pin and managed to get it back in the grenade). When a sniper takes a shot at Hawkeye and his date in one episode, he initially assumes it was Frank being an idiot nearby with his target practice, then another shot comes in. | |
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Meganekko | |
| M*A*S*H / int_a9850481 | comment |
Meganekko: Lt. Simmons, a nurse Radar pursues in "Springtime". | |
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Holiday Volunteering | |
| M*A*S*H / int_a990828b | comment |
Holiday Volunteering: During several Christmases, the 4077th hosts the children from nearby orphanages instead of getting blind stinking drunk as they would've done otherwise. | |
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Think Nothing of It | |
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Think Nothing of It: In "Hot Lips And Empty Arms," Hawkeye and Trapper sober up Margaret, who is so upset over mail from home she dumps Frank, requests a transfer and gets toasted (on the boys' homemade hooch and Henry's liquor cabinet). In the O.R.: | |
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Obfuscating Disability | |
| M*A*S*H / int_aa07ca54 | comment |
Obfuscating Disability: In "Deal Me Out", Radar apparently hits an elderly Korean villager with a jeep. When the man demands $50 not to report Radar to the MPs, a visiting officer susses out that he is a notorious con man known as "Whiplash Hwang". Reprised in "Exorcism" with a twist: Frank warns that this too may be a scam, until the man's granddaughter explains that the old man was trying to frighten away a demon he believed had possessed him. Klinger employs this (and/or Playing Sick) in some of his dodge attempts. Once he faked fainting spells, and another time he pretended to have crippling depression. This is averted, however, in the one time that he was actually ill (he had anemia) but everyone else assumed he was faking. His response points out that while he may try to scam his way out of the Army, he has never done it when people's lives are on the line and he is needed in surgery. Indeed, his only fake fainting spell in the OR was after the last patient was seen to. Inverted when Klinger is too close to an exploding land minenote He was on guard duty and the cold weather was making the soil contract around the land mines and set them off and loses his hearing. At first, the main characters suspect he is attempting another scam, but it turns out he really has lost his hearing. At the end of the episode, he gets his hearing back, only for another character to tell him that hearing loss is a sure-fire way out of the Army. Klinger, being Klinger, immediately starts pretending he lost his hearing again. | |
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Forged Message | |
| M*A*S*H / int_aa517da5 | comment |
Forged Message: Klinger occasionally would forge letters, particularly in mail call episodes, in further attempts to get a discharge; Henry kept many of Klinger's letters on record and uses them against him to point out how ridiculous the claims in the letters are, leading up to one letter that reads, "Half of the family dying, other half pregnant." Potter, on the other hand, dug a little deeper when Klinger tried to pull a similar stunt on him. Incidentally, Klinger has no brothers. | |
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Embarrassing Middle Name | |
| M*A*S*H / int_aa9fcfed | comment |
Embarrassing Middle Name: Hawkeye and Trapper crack up when they learn Frank's is "Marion". | |
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Doesn't Like Guns | |
| M*A*S*H / int_aaf19fae | comment |
Doesn't Like Guns: Hawkeye Invoked and played with a few seasons later when Hawkeye and Potter are away from the camp, stuck in a foxhole, pinned down by enemy fire, and drunk off their asses. After getting upbraided by Potter for being so mule-headed about his distaste for firearms, Potter convinces Hawkeye to just fire it in the air to scare away the enemy. It should be noted that Hawkeye's hatred isn't reserved strictly for guns; he is also quick to express dislike for anything to do with war in general, including howitzers, bombs, tanks, ammo dumps, AA cannons, etc. | |
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Doesn't Know Their Own Birthday | |
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Doesn't Know Their Own Birthday: B.J. couldn't make it home in time for his daughter Erin's birthday, so in the Grand Finale, the camp cheers him up with a birthday celebration for a Korean orphan whom they claim was born on the same day as Erin. They later admit that they have no idea when the Korean orphan was born (no one does), and they just selected a child who looked to be the right age. B.J. is still touched by the gesture, saying that there's no better present than getting your birthday. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
| M*A*S*H / int_abad35b4 | comment |
Soundtrack Dissonance: Compared to the movie version, the show's version of "Suicide is Painless" is very upbeat-sounding, the closing theme even more so. Worse, several episodes have the closing theme played over the opening credits. | |
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Corrupt Quartermaster | |
| M*A*S*H / int_abb15066 | comment |
Corrupt Quartermaster: In "The Incubator", Hawkeye and Trapper John run into one of these, who is hoarding several of the incubators that they need, but refuses to release one. In another episode, Klinger gets a quartermaster to sell him an electrical generator because the camp's main generator is broken and the backup one is missing. Just before they complete the deal, the major of the unit which is supposed to get the generator shows up in person because several of their requests for generators have "mysteriously disappeared." The major even mentions that they're making do with a backup generator they stole from a M*A*S*H unit. | |
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Acronym Confusion | |
| M*A*S*H / int_ac8cc568 | comment |
Acronym Confusion: Invoked by Colonel Flagg. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
| M*A*S*H / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: Draftees at the 4077th, particularly the doctors, are occasionally surprised by either the extreme quirkiness of the Army or the horrifying effects of the war. Examples: everything to deal with the unexploded bomb in "The Army-Navy Game"; Klinger realizing the depth of his legal dilemma at the end of "Snappy Judgment"; and Hawkeye encountering a soldier who has lost his memory in "The Billfold Syndrome". Then there was the Army sending the 4077th a lawyer instead of a doctor, throwing both Hawkeye and B.J.. | |
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The Loins Sleep Tonight | |
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The Loins Sleep Tonight: Hawkeye experiences this in "Some 38th Parallels". "U.N., the Night and the Music" has Margaret falling for a Swedish soldier who suffers from this due to a war injury. (To her credit, when she finds out, she insists he stay the night with her anyway to continue talking with one another.) | |
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I Can't Believe I'm Saying This | |
| M*A*S*H / int_ad40d85 | comment |
Also an I Can't Believe I'm Saying This when he makes the announcement about this. | |
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Trademark Favorite Food | |
| M*A*S*H / int_ad641426 | comment |
Trademark Favorite Food: Hawkeye seems to like bananas, he once mentions to Trapper how as a child he once ate twelve banana sandwiches, and also says one of the first things he's looking forward to when he gets home is a banana (with chocolate cake). Potter says he loves really fresh corn. Inverted with regards to tomato juice; Potter loves it, but he's allergic to it (a detail he neglected to mention before Radar began a series of trades and favors to acquire it for Potter). Frank's favorite dessert must be pudding, if he actually prays for chocolate pudding at lunch, and requires tapioca on his birthday. | |
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P.O.V. Cam | |
| M*A*S*H / int_ad7a381d | comment |
Pvt. Rich, in the "Point of View" episode. | |
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I Choose to Stay | |
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I Choose to Stay: Of all people, Klinger in the finale. Also an I Can't Believe I'm Saying This when he makes the announcement about this. Margaret does this when the nurses are ordered to the rear when the line is pushed far enough south that the unit is in enemy territory. Hawkeye and Margaret in "Bug Out" when they need to tend to a wounded patient. Frank, after having a transfer approved and then being tricked into thinking that the area around the 4077 is filthy with gold. Henry, in the episode "Henry Please Come Home", decides to give up his newfound life of luxury in Tokyo, in favor of returning to the danger and generally poor lifestyle of the 4077th. | |
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Contrasting Replacement Character | |
| M*A*S*H / int_ae0e2472 | comment |
Contrasting Replacement Character: Every replacement surgeon. Henry Blake was the commanding officer and The Alleged Boss who both Trapper and Hawkeye would go around his orders and who Burns and Hotlips had no respect for. The Korean War was also his first war and he wasn't that very militant. In contrast, Sherman Potter was a regular Army Man who was part of two previous wars. He also commanded much more respect from the other staffs and wasn't afraid to actually command. Frank Burns was a Jerkass whose surgery skills were subpar at best. He was also bullied by Hawkeye and Trapper and later B.J.. His replacement, Charles Winchester, was more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and was a excellent surgeon. His relationship with Hawkeye and B.J. was also slightly better and he wasn't above playing pranks. B.J. Hunnicutt is a downplayed example for Trapper John as he functioned very similarly to him. However, B.J. was a family man who loved his wife Peg to the point that he felt ashamed that he cheated on her. In contrast, Trapper constantly cheated on his wife with zero regret for his actions. There was also a contrast in morals. One episode during B.J.'s tenure recycled a plot from an earlier episode with Trapper. Hawkeye wants to perform unneccessary surgery to keep a particularly callous officer off the front for a little while longer. Trapper had gone along with that plan with no problem, but B.J. considers it a horrific violation of the Hippocratic Oath. This severly strains Hawkeye and B.J.'s friendship (and strained Alan Alda and Mike Farrel's working relationship). | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
| M*A*S*H / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Literally half the cast. Hawkeye moves between this and the Pungeon Master. Charles has this as his default setting. | |
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Glory Hound | |
| M*A*S*H / int_aec3e0b8 | comment |
Glory Hound: Some of the commanding officers, like those who were determined to take some hill or other no matter what it cost in casualties. | |
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Thanksgiving Episode | |
| M*A*S*H / int_aec43c5f | comment |
Thanksgiving Episode: "The Yalu Brick Road" takes place immediately after Thanksgiving, and a subplot involves most of the camp contracting salmonella poisoning from the black-market turkeys Klinger had procured. | |
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Reunion Show | |
| M*A*S*H / int_afab5e94 | comment |
Reunion Show: Memories of M*A*S*H (1991) featured clips and pre-recorded interviews with the cast members; 30th Anniversary Reunion (2002) had the producers and surviving cast members getting together for a roundtable discussion. Done in an episode by having the families of the 4077 personnel gather in New York for a weekend together to bond and lament missing their loved ones. | |
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Promotion, Not Punishment | |
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Promotion, Not Punishment: Klinger is threatened with this. In his continued efforts of trying to get a discharge from the Army by running around in dresses (among other things), Frank, at one point, says to him, "I've warned you, that crazy stuff's not gonna wash with me! The next time I find you in a floppy hat, or a brassiere... I'll promote you!" On one occasion, Klinger recalls trying to convince his draft board he was crazy. He was told, "Keep this up and we'll make you an officer." | |
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Digital Destruction | |
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Digital Destruction: Due to the series' popularity, and the constant reprinting of episodes for syndicated markets, the video presentation on DVD isn't exactly impressive. While the picture quality is certainly an improvement over syndicated prints, earlier seasons on DVD show evidence of digital imperfections on occasion, such as pixelization and bad interlacing. Seasons 4 and 5 are probably the worst for this, but luckily things improve greatly afterwards, to the point that the last few seasons look wonderful on DVD. More recently, the show is presented in HD widescreen on Hulu. The picture quality is passable, but it's yet another victim of having the entire series reframed and cropped to fit a 16x9 TV for reruns/streaming. | |
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"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: Used in "Hey, Doc", when Hawkeye and B.J. have Frank Burns sign off on fudging a medical profile in exchange for covering his ass regarding an accident with a tank. In "The Price", Klinger asks Col. Potter to name his price to give him the Section 8 discharge he wants. | |
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Loophole Abuse | |
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An early episode has a gag where Hawkeye and Trapper are down to their underwear while playing this with (and losing badly to) a nurse. When Hawkeye loses another hand, he takes off... his dogtags. | |
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Retcon | |
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Retcon: The timeline was frequently reset out of necessity thanks to the show's Long Runner status. The first and perhaps most notable came in Season 4's "Deluge": although the season opener was set in September 1952, this episode is set in October, 1950, at the time of the Chinese entry into the war. | |
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Rearrange the Song | |
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The theme was rearranged several times during the show's run, albeit so subtly for the most part that the changes are hard to notice if you're not listening for them. | |
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Meatgrinder Surgery | |
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Meatgrinder Surgery: Hawkeye actually calls it "meatball surgery". A MASH unit's main objective was simply to make sure the wounded did not die; soldiers with minor injuries could be sent back to their units, but more severe cases had to be patched up so they could survive a trip to an evac hospital. He comes close to quoting the trope in "Fallen Idol" when he refers to his job as pulling bodies out of a sausage grinder. Charles struggles with this concept in his debut episode because he is a perfectionist and and takes pride in being able to perform complicated and delicate procedures that should really be done further away from the front line. In one episode, Recurring Character Dr. Sydney Freedman tells the gang that he himself performs "meatball psychiatry". | |
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The Anticipator | |
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The Anticipator: Radar has the uncanny ability to appear at the side of his commander before he even asks for him, as well as finish his sentences. A bevy of other sensing talents makes him this trope. | |
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SitCom | |
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Sitcom | |
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No OSHA Compliance | |
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No OSHA Compliance: One episode revolves around the 4077th making a new concrete floor for the operating room because the old one is covered with germs that's causing multiple staph infections. Everything goes well, eventually, but in The Tag we see what's causing the staph infections in the first place: All of the bloody cloth and whatnot used in surgery being tossed onto the floor instead of in the buckets beneath the operating tables. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: In "Abyssinia, Henry", Frank is seen crying when Henry's death is announced. Klinger may have pulled every con he could think of to get out of the Army, and would swear to every god he knew (and some he made up!) that he was insane. But when there were wounded that needed care, he dropped the act and did his job with gusto. In "The Young & Restless", where he portrays to perfection the delusion that he is actually back in Toledo, instead of dropping the charade when wounded are brought in he just pitches in to help the "accident victims". | |
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Epic Fail | |
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Another time, B.J. rolls a jeep onto its side while avoiding a crash. When he and Hawkeye attempt to right it, they roll it on its top, leaving them to walk back to the 4077. | |
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Obfuscating Insanity | |
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Obfuscating Insanity: Klinger tries this—repeatedly and unsuccessfully—throughout the entire series. Also tried unsuccessfully by Hawkeye to get leave in the episode "Bananas, Crackers, and Nuts." In "Fade Out, Fade In", Klinger enlists the services of a "lawyer" who turns out to be using this. This is subverted by a one-off character, Corporal Miller, in "Major Topper". Klinger is initially convinced Miller is faking, but changes his mind when Miller starts firing his rifle at nonexistent North Koreans. Miller returns to the States and makes a fortune off of the toys he was able to make based on his experiences in Korea, leaving Klinger despondent that even he was fooled. Then Potter reads part of Miller's letter where he asks if anyone had taken photos of the glider Miller claimed to have shot down. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: In universe example - when Frank Burns is not returning following his nervous breakdown after Margaret's marriage, the happiness and euphoria that is felt over him not returning is soured when it's revealed that the charges against him were dropped, he's being shipped home and promoted to Lt. Colonel to top it all off, much to the anger of Hawkeye and B.J.. In a weird sense, it really does feel like Frank's parting shot at Hawkeye and the camp as a whole. | |
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Cold Snap | |
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Inverted by Cold Snap episodes such as "The Long-John Flap" (Season One) "Crisis" (Season Two), "It Happened One Night" (Season Four), "Dear Sigmund" (Season Five), "The Light that Failed" (Season Six), "They Call the Wind Korea", "Baby It's Cold Outside", and "Out of Gas" (all Season Seven). | |
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The Bet | |
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The Bet: One episode features Hawkeye being wagered that he go an entire day without snarking. That day is filled with an absurd amount of things that a man can make wisecracks about. Finally, after keeping his mouth shut the entire day, Hawkeye finally lets it all out in a massive snark-fest over the PA at 12:01 AM the next day. In another episode, Hawkeye bets that B.J. can't prank the entire main cast. He puts a snake in Charles' bed, shaving cream in Potter's toothpaste, cuts the back off of Margaret's bathrobe, poisons Mulcahy, and blows up Klinger's office. Hawkeye then spends the night outside in a barbwire enclosure. It's then revealed that everyone lied about the pranks/did it themselves, and it was all a Kansas City Shuffle, and Hawkeye was the real victim. Although he still didn't win the bet, because pranking just Hawkeye wasn't the bet. During "The MASH Olympics" Hawkeye and B.J., the captains of the two teams, arrange a side bet that the losing captain will push the winning one around in a wheelchair for a week. In the first "Dear Dad" episode, Hawkeye bets Trapper that he could walk into the mess tent wearing nothing but boots during lunch and no one would notice due to the general malaise about the camp. He almost manages it, but ultimately loses as one soldier finally looks up and notices him, then alerts everyone else by dropping his tray. | |
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The Tag | |
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In "38 Across", Frank receives a B.B. game for his birthday, and spends three days trying to get all of the B.B.s in the holes. During The Tag, he finally gets the last B.B. in, which Hawkeye intentionally slaps Frank on the back, causing him to knock all of the B.B.s loose. This is certainly one of those few times where one can't help but actually feel sorry for Frank. | |
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Pregnancy Scare | |
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Pregnancy Scare: A subplot of "What's Up Doc?" has Margaret believing she's pregnant after having spent R&R in Tokyo with her beau Daniel Penobscott; she worries that giving birth will result in an automatic discharge. For confirmation, Hawkeye borrows Radar's female bunny for Margaret's pregnancy test, which turns up negative. Apparently, Margaret was simply having gallbladder problems. | |
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Cue the Rain | |
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Cue the Rain: "Deluge". | |
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DoubleStandard | |
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Double Standard: The show is quite famous for calling out America for all of its misdeeds during the war, but was rather sketchier on doing the same to the other side. Any such misdeeds that were called out (mistreatment of prisoners, press ganging civilians, use of internationally outlawed weaponry, and other war crimes) were more often blamed on the "horrors of war" than on the soldiers or country committing them... unless that country was America. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: Majors Burns and Houlihan often displayed this in the early seasons. In the very first episode, they spy on Hawkeye necking with Lieutenant Dish.... In spite of his rank, Potter hates colonels, on the grounds that all they do is try to make as many points as they can to make general, so they can kick back and relax on their big fat rear echelons. Justified in that he has no intention of becoming a general; he plans to retire at the end of his tour. A mild case occurs with Father Mulcahy, of all people. Frank had asked the Father to give a sermon on temperance. However, Mulcahy was uncomfortable with the subject ("The Prodigal Son" and "Turn the Other Cheek" being more familiar territory for him). Needing to calm his nerves, he has a drink from a bottle gifted to him by a grateful soldier. It may have been a case of it being some unusually potent stuff, or it may be that the good Father Can't Hold His Liquor, but the result was that Mulcahy delivered his temperance sermon while drunk. In "Chief Surgeon Who?," one of Frank's charges is that Hawkeye never address him as "Major," as is presumably part of military protocol. But immediately after bringing this up, he flat out calls Henry by his first name. In "5 O'Clock Charlie," Capt. Cardozo tells Hawkeye and Trapper that he promised his wife he'd never have a drink or touch another woman while he was in Korea. He immediately asks for a belt from the still and tells them he's got a date that night. Charles mentions a debate in which he won a fountain pen, with the topic "Should the U.S. permit more liberal immigration?" Another Charles example: he reacts with outrage to the suggestion that he might be the one sending the inspector general bad reports on Colonel Potter. | |
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Beef Bandage | |
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Beef Bandage: Trapper sports one in one of the very first episodes, "Requiem for a Lightweight". | |
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Dry Crusader | |
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Dry Crusader: Frank Burns, in "Alcoholics Unanimous"; a visiting general who's recovering from surgery, in "The Moon Is Not Blue". | |
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Girl of the Week | |
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Girl of the Week: Or, in Hawkeye's case, a Nurse of the Week. Largely averted in Seasons 2 and 3, where he almost exclusively was paired up with Nurse Gage. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
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Demoted to Extra M*A*S*H started off with a whole bunch of characters in the pilot, many of which were ported over from the movie. Aside from the familar leads (Hawkeye, Trapper, Henry, Hot Lips, Frank, Radar) the pilot episode has a closing sequence that announces the personnel assigned to M*A*S*H 4077: the list includes Karen Phillip as Lt. Dish (who lasted only one more episode); G. Wood as General Hammond (two more episodes); Timothy Brown as Spearchucker (five more episodes); and Patrick Adiarte as Ho-John (six more episodes). All had major moments in the pilot, and were clearly being set up to be recurring characters — but they were given little to do in future appearances, and were gone by the end of the first season, if not sooner. Note that the character of Spearchucker was supposedly written out for greater historical accuracy, as the writers claimed there were no records of African-American surgeons serving in Korea. (There were, in fact, black doctors in Korea, and Spearchucker was based on an African-American doctor that Richard Hornberger heard about at the 8055.) Odessa Cleveland as Nurse Ginger Bayliss also had a showcase credit at the end of the pilot, and actually stuck around through the early fourth season. But in what was maybe the show's most literal case of Demoted To Extra, Cleveland's occasional appearances on M*A*S*H became shorter and more infrequent over time, and by her last few appearances, she was uncredited and had almost no dialogue. Other pilot characters were virtual extras to begin with: Ugly John and Lieutenant Scorch were not really identifiable behind their masks and had very limited dialogue in the pilot. As well, the actors portraying these roles didn't receive any special audio billing in the closing, unlike the other characters intended to be regulars. However, both John and Scorch got a little more development and exposure early in season 1 ... then faded slowly into the background as the season continued. Ugly John had disappeared completely by season's end; Lt. Scorch made it all the way to the first episode of season two before going the way of Chuck Cunningham. | |
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Whole Costume Reference | |
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Whole Costume Reference: Many of Klinger's dresses were from the studio's stock from other shows and films. Klinger even lampshades it himself a few times when he's intentionally copying a movie character's garb. | |
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Extra-Long Episode | |
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Extra-Long Episode: The fourth, fifth, sixth, and tenth season premieres were originally hour-long episodes that were later split into half-hour two-parters for reruns; similarly, Season Seven originally had an hour-long Clip Show that was also split into a half-hour two-parter in syndication. Of course, the Grand Finale was a two hour (minus commercials) TV movie. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
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Another episode-specific case: In "Lend a Hand", Klinger having to change the writing on the cake he's prepared, every time the personnel are planning to celebrate a different occasion. | |
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Tear Jerker | |
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Invoked in the finale: Col. Potter calls Father Mulcahy "Francis" for the first time as they say goodbye. Made heartbreaking by the fact that the Father couldn't hear him due to his deafness. | |
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Modern Major General | |
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Modern Major General: Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake is a top-notch surgeon, but is clearly out of his depth as commanding officer of a M*A*S*H unit. | |
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Tyrant Takes the Helm | |
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Tyrant Takes the Helm: Frank Burns, whenever he's given temporary command of the camp. Col. Potter could be considered something of a Bait-and-Switch Tyrant. Ironically, even Hawkeye falls prey to this when he is put in command for an episode, insisting on silence in the OR (amongst other things) as an indication of how much it's getting to him. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: The usually timid and soft-spoken Radar once lets loose an exasperated "Hell!" When B.J. gives a surprised "What?" in response, Radar replies, "You heard me! H-E-double-toothpicks!" Also lampshaded in "Mad Dogs and Servicemen" when he's bedridden following being bitten by a dog but his test for rabies comes back negative. Radar, having endured numerous rabies shots: The Wham Line from the final episode, which was one of the forbidden Seven Dirty Words in The '80s: The above was actually used first in the episode "Guerilla My Dreams," when Hawkeye seethes at a Korean interrogator taking a female enemy soldier off to be tortured. It was the first time the phrase "son of a bitch" had ever aired uncensored on prime-time television. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Don't tell Hawkeye they're serving liver and fish in the mess tent yet again. Don't even suggest that B.J. would ever cheat on his wife. Whatever you do, don't ever, ever ever insult the state of Iowa within earshot of Radar. Don't even think of telling latter-seasons Margaret that women aren't as tough/smart/worthy/whatever as men. Particularly don't suggest that she's somehow not a real major. Point of fact, don't even think about evacuating the nurses for safety, even in an extreme crisis situation. Don't insult people who stutter in front of Charles. Also don't sell the chocolate bars he donated to your orphanage on the black market. Unless you have a very good reason. Don't talk about people eating horses in front of Potter. Don't deny Father Mulcahy his promotion...four times. Don't insult the Irish. Don't interrupt his bath. Don't replace his bathrobe with a flowery nightgown. Don't steal from Hawkeye. Don't be Charles Winchester. Just...don't. Don't you dare ruin one of Klinger's dresses. | |
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Wedding Finale | |
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Wedding Finale: The season 5 finale, "Margaret's Marriage", has the Major tying the knot with Donald Penobscott (with a heartbroken Frank Burns serving as best man). | |
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Beam Me Up, Scotty! | |
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This contest contains a bit of Beam Me Up, Scotty!, as several of the attempts include the word "jocularity" (and Potter's consists of just that word, twice). But Mulcahy had never used that word at any time in the series up to that point. He did afterward, however. For instance, in the episode where Margaret and Donald get married, the men have a bachelor party to celebrate. Mulcahy, while quite intoxicated, exits the Swamp, saying "Even the jocularity is jocular!". (Towards the end of the show's run, he used the term even more frequently.) This is likely a case where the latter scene was either written or shot first, and someone just forgot that the imitation scene was set to air earlier. (Alternatively, there might have been a reference in an earlier scene that was cut.) | |
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Finale Movie | |
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Finale Movie: The series ends with the movie-length special "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen", which has the 4077 disband after the Korean War finally ends. | |
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Dressing to Die | |
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Dressing to Die: In "The Army-Navy Game", an unexploded bomb lands in the middle of the compound; Klinger dons the suit he was drafted in, on the grounds that if they die when the bomb goes off, the way he wants people to see him as before their demise is, "Like a person with a nice suit." Though he does vow that if the bomb doesn't go off, he'll go back to wearing dresses. | |
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Happily Married | |
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Happily Married: Played straight with Henry, Potter, and B.J.. Averted with Klinger, Margaret, and Burns. | |
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Really Gets Around | |
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Really Gets Around: Hawkeye, obviously, though surprisingly he is portrayed as more or less monogamous with Nurse Gage during the second and third season. He gets called out more in the later seasons (with even BJ calling him depraved in "Taking The Fifth"), and heavily implied to be trauma-related in "Who Knew", but still tries to prostitute himself for charity in "Give and Take" and teases everyone in the finale that he loved as many of them as he was able. "Trapper" John is as bad as Hawkeye when it comes to chasing; unlike Pierce, Trapper is actually married back home. Major Houlihan is this during the Comedic phase, as she tends to have had intimate relationships with the visiting officers; her promiscuity is her worst-kept secret (alongside her passionate love affair with Frank Burns) and is why she has her nickname. But she also tends to make use of these relationships to further various schemes hatched by she and/or Frank. This aspect of her character gets cut almost completely during the Dramatic phase, though the effects continue to linger long after. | |
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife | |
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Played with with Margaret and Donald Penobscott, Margaret is so infatuated with Donald, that his physical traits that are pointed by other characters, or even herself, seem to only entice her even more (such as him being stocky, having no neck, one eyebrow, etc). In fact, both of Donald's appearances (played by two different actors) really don't help matters much. | |
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Suicide Dare | |
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Suicide Dare: Col. Potter deals with a suicidal patient by giving him the Radish Cure: Potter puts the mask from the knockout gas on the boy and forces him to continue to breathe in the fumes even when the boy tries to struggle free. Potter then points out the dichotomy, which makes the patient no longer suicidal. | |
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MacGyvering | |
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Macgyvering: In "Good-Bye Radar," with the generator on the fritz, the doctors put together a Wangensteen suction device from items in the camp kitchen to drain fluid from a patient's abdomen. In "A War for All Seasons", Hawkeye and B.J. rig a primitive dialysis machine out of odds and ends, including casings from a Toledo sausage company and a washtub ordered from Sears & Roebuck. | |
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Corpsing | |
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Corpsing: Many's a time Hawkeye and Trapper pull some kind of prank on Frank, and Trapper could never keep a straight face, from smirking when Frank wakes up from wetting his cot, to stifling laughter when Hawkeye slips into Margaret's seat next to Frank at the movie, to busting out into laughter watching Frank tear up the Swamp looking for the rest of Hawkeye's "Pioneer Aviation" letter. | |
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Loud of War | |
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Loud of War: In one episode, Hawkeye and B.J. got in a showdown with Charles — they didn't like him playing the French horn, so they refused to shower until he stopped. He refused to stop. | |
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Fake Pregnancy | |
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Fake Pregnancy: This is the subject of an episode that was ultimately never filmed, as at the time it was considered too risqué. The episode, entitled "Hawkeye on the Double," had Hawkeye seeing two different nurses behind each of their backs, and when the two found out about each other, they planned on getting back at him by both pretending to be pregnant with his child, and pressuring him into choosing which one of them to marry. The script for the episode is available as a special feature on DVD. | |
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Character Focus | |
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Character Focus: Numerous times, generally at least once a season. | |
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Who Names Their Kid | |
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Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: B.J. Hunnicutt's given name is, apparently, B.J.. Leads to this exchange: | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: Hawkeye had a tendancy to reply to any mention of CINCOMPAC with NINCOMPOOP. Henry in "The Chosen People," introduces Captain Pak and Father Mulcahy to some officials regarding a family of indigenous Koreans who are camped out on the MASH compound. | |
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Really Dead Montage | |
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Really Dead Montage: "Abyssinia, Henry" | |
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True Companions | |
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True Companions: Near the end of the series, when Winchester and Margaret had developed into jerks with hearts of gold, the main cast were a slightly vitriolic version of this. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Spearchucker Jones (dropped from the series after the makers learned that there's no evidence that any black doctors served in Koreanote The creators were mistaken on there being a lack of black doctors during the Korean War. From the memoirs of Harold Secor, an online memoir of a doctor from the 8055th MASH unit (the same one as Richard Hooker): "In Secor's quarters, there was...Captain Miles, a black doctor from Virginia...." Richard Hooker arrived near the end of Harold Secor's stay at the 8055th and based many of the stories that appear in the book off stories he heard from Secor and others. For more information search the Memoirs of Harold Secor.), Lt. Dish, Ugly John, Sgt. Zale. | |
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You Are Better Than You Think You Are | |
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You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Played with in "Chief Surgeon Who?" Hawkeye plays up his promotion to chief surgeon, when General Barker (whom Frank and Margaret called) comes to see Pierce in action. In the operating room with a patient: One of the more heartwarming examples of this trope comes in the Season 8 episode "Morale Victory". Winchester manages to save the leg of a soldier, only to find out the patient is more worried about the fact his hand is permanently damaged, as he's a concert pianist. Winchester is so devastated by this, and by the man's desire to give up, that he actually goes to Father Mulcahy for advice, and Mulcahy tells Winchester his love of classical music is the way to reach the man. Winchester ends up ordering some sheet music for piano players with one hand, gives them to the reluctant patient, and gives him this speech: | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: Lt. Col. Henry Blake is eligible for discharge in "Abyssinia, Henry", which would allow him to return to Bloomington, IL to be with his wife and family. He never makes it back, and he is killed when his plane is shot down with no survivors. The final scene announcing Blake's death was kept a secret from all of the cast except Alda, to evoke genuine sadness and shock. | |
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Can't Hold His Liquor | |
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A mild case occurs with Father Mulcahy, of all people. Frank had asked the Father to give a sermon on temperance. However, Mulcahy was uncomfortable with the subject ("The Prodigal Son" and "Turn the Other Cheek" being more familiar territory for him). Needing to calm his nerves, he has a drink from a bottle gifted to him by a grateful soldier. It may have been a case of it being some unusually potent stuff, or it may be that the good Father Can't Hold His Liquor, but the result was that Mulcahy delivered his temperance sermon while drunk. | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain: The first season has an episode where everyone comes to believe that there's been a ceasefire and the war is over. During their "farewell" party they learn the sad news: the war isn't over, and the wounded are arriving. Another early episode has Trapper thinking he'll get to go home due to a stomach ulcer, and even getting a farewell party, before being told by HQ that he'll have to stay in Korea and be operated on there. Trapper gets put through the wringer again in "Kim", deciding to adopt a seemingly-orphaned Korean boy with his wife back in the States, then having to rescue the kid after he wanders into a minefield...then having to watch as the kid's mother turns up and whisks him away. Season three's finale has Henry Blake getting discharged and finally getting to go home. What happened next was a trope-naming moment.invoked In "Welcome to Korea", Hawkeye races to an airport to try and say goodbye to Trapper, who was discharged while Hawkeye was away on leave and couldn't stay any longer. Naturally, despite his best efforts, Hawkeye misses him by minutes. In a more humorous example, Klinger comes tantalizingly close to actually getting a Section 8 discharge in "None Like It Hot". He dons a fur coat and other warm-weather gear in the middle of a blistering Heat Wave, and Col. Potter is so impressed with his determination that he promises to approve a Section 8 if he can keep it up for 24 hours. When Klinger finally breaks down and gives up toward the end of the episode, a sincerely disappointed Potter notes that he only had an hour left to go. In the show's final episode, B.J. receives discharge papers, though they are quickly rescinded. Col. Potter is informed of this, but doesn't say anything - hoping B.J. will be stateside before anyone finds out. Unfortunately, he only makes it as far as Guam before he's yanked back to the 4077th. (However, he does ultimately get to go home - along with everybody else - when the war ends shortly thereafter.) | |
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Nice Hat | |
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Nice Hat: Henry's bucket-style fishing hat; Colonel Potter's WWI campaign hat; Klinger's Toledo Mud Hens cap (and, in the earlier seasons, his impressive collection of feminine millinery); Father Mulcahy's Panama hat; Radar's wool knit cap; Trapper and B.J.'s straw hats; Winchester's childhood wool toboggan cap. Though he doesn't wear them often, Hawkeye has a few nifty-looking hats: a floppy camo hat that he wears in a few first-season episodes (it turns up in the opening credits), a straw cowboy hat, a propeller beanie, etc. Also Frank's wool knit cap, worn only in the TV interview show, for the rather obvious reason that it allows him to display his rank insignia prominently at all times when on camera (even in the OR, as he wears it under his surgical cap with the front pulled down to show the insignia). | |
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Internal Retcon | |
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Internal Retcon: In one of the Christmas episodes, a mortally wounded soldier is brought into the MASH and B.J. tries his best to help him. He knows he cannot save the soldier's life, but B.J. tries to delay the man's death until after midnight because he doesn't want his kids to think of Christmas as the day their daddy died. But even with the help of Hawkeye and Major Houlihan, he fails, coming up minutes short of midnight—so Hawkeye walks over to the clock and moves it ahead so the doctors can say the soldier died on December 26th. Hawkeye, B.J., Margaret, and Mulcahy (who had come to deliver the Last Rites) decide to falsify the record and keep it secret, even though it is illegal, so they can give some small measure of comfort to the soldier's family. | |
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Insane Troll Logic | |
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Insane Troll Logic: In "The Novocaine Mutiny," Frank (who is temporarily in command) hears Zale complain about losing 300 dollars, so Frank starts searching the entire camp to find the "stolen" money. Hawkeye and B.J. tell him that Zale's money wasn't stolen, he just lost it in a poker game. Frank says that's impossible because he has prohibited gambling, therefore there is no gambling in the camp, therefore the money was stolen. In "The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan", Col. Flagg shows up "disguised" in an Italian Army uniform, a false mustache and MacArthur sunglasses. When Col. Potter asks him why he's dressed that way, Flagg says he's actually dressed as Ling Chow, a Chinese double agent. When Potter remarks that he doesn't look Chinese, Flagg replies, "Neither would Ling Chow if he were dressed like this." A non-humorous example occurs in "Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde", when Hawkeye pleads with a chopper pilot to stop making pickups on the premise that, because the choppers go out empty and come back loaded with wounded soldiers, choppers going up are the cause of wounded soldiers. In his defense, he generally does know better, but his cognition is impaired by severe sleep deprivation at the time. | |
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Artistic License – Awards | |
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Artistic License – Awards: Several: Frank once browbeats Henry into approving a Purple Heart citation and another time he receives a Purple Heart by mistake. Neither time was he eligible. The first, "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet", he receives a Purple Heart for throwing out his back while dancing, which was not a direct result of combat and, more importantly, would cause him to be discharged; back problems were an automatic medical disqualification from service. The second (based on an incident in Vietnam), "The Kids", he gets a Purple Heart for getting a bit of eggshell in his eye, and putting it in a report as "shell fragment" — slightly more believable for it to go through in the first place, but by this point, the camp is under the command of Potter, who takes military awards much more seriously and would probably insist that Frank clear up the misconception and return the medal. In both cases, Hawkeye steals Frank's medal and gives it to someone he feels is more deserving: the first goes to an underage Marine with appendicitis who lied about his age to enlist (which would put him in worse trouble, as he has been reported for identity theft and now has stolen property), and in the second, Hawkeye steals it and gives it to a baby who was grazed by a bullet that went through his mother's abdomen shortly before she gave birth. But in addition to the fact that Frank's name would have been on both medals, those particular medals being stolen would have no long-term impact on Frank anyway; he would have been on record as a two-time recipient of the Purple Heart, and could have been issued replacements for the physical medals. In "Change of Command", Potter reveals he received a Good Conduct Medal as an enlisted soldier. However, he served in the First World War, became a doctor in 1932 and served in the Second World War as a surgeon, while the GCM was established in 1941 and retroactive dates only go to 1940. In "Bombshells", B.J. receives a Bronze Star for helping a medivac chopper escape while under fire, but decides to hand it off to a patient for "getting out in one piece". However, every Bronze Star has the recipient's name engraved on the back and comes with a certificate. As with the Marine, this would put him in possession of an undeserved medal that belonged to someone else (albeit this time, it's with the permission of the rightful owner), and it would still be B.J. who was on the record as receiving it. | |
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We Want Our Jerk Back | |
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We Want Our Jerk Back | |
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Celebrity Lie | |
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Celebrity Lie: Subverted in "Major Topper". In a bragging and name-dropping contest, Charles claims to have had dinner with Audrey Hepburn, despite never having seen any of her movies. Hawkeye and B.J. refuse to believe him, until Charles produces a photograph (which is never shown to the viewers) to prove the veracity of his tale. Played straight in "Bombshells", when Hawkeye and Charles start a rumor that Marilyn Monroe is going to visit the 4077th, and it snowballs until even Colonel Potter believes it and arranges a welcome ceremony for her. | |
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Fixing the Game | |
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Fixing the Game: The craps game in the back of Rosie's bar is rigged. Frank runs a bookie operation for baseball games that are broadcast to the camp during the day. Turns out he's listening to previous, late-night broadcasts of the same games to get the outcomes before taking anyone's bets. Charles giving uppers to Radar's mouse Daisy before she races a marine's champion rodent. Hawkeye and Trapper rig a boxing match by putting ether on Trapper's glove, but Frank realizes the fix is in and replaces the ether with water. During the bowling match against the marines, Charles and B.J. drug their ringer with a pill that turns his urine blue, tricking him into thinking he had a disease that his bowling would aggravate. Father Mulcahy convinces his opponent to throw a race so the proceeds of the bets can be used to build a roof for an orphanage. | |
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Way Past the Expiration Date | |
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Way Past the Expiration Date: A frequent topic of complaining is the surplus army food, some of which (it is claimed, mostly by Hawkeye) came from WWII or even WWI. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Folksinger Loudon Wainwright III appeared in a couple Season 3 episodes as a "Captain Spaulding", a clear Shout Out to Groucho Marx's Animal Crackers character. For a short while in S4, they had a really big thing for referencing The Shadow in almost every episode. More generally, many other classic programs, films, and songs of the era are referenced, either in-universe or in episode titles or both. Charles Emerson Winchester III was possibly named after a fellow Bostonian, founder of Emerson College, Charles Wesley Emerson. Sherman Tecumseh Potter is one for William Tecumseh Sherman. Klinger's early Running Gag of wearing womens' clothing in an unsuccessful bid to be declared insane and win a Section 8 discharge is loosely based on stories about Lenny Bruce attempting to get thrown out of the Navy by dressing up as a WAVE (or women's naval auxillary) during World War II (in truth, he only wore a WAVES uniform once for a comedy show, then lied to the psychiatrist to spite his commander for ordering an evaluation). Klinger even obliquely lampshades this with a reference to an uncle in the Navy using the same trick in WWII (and his family periodically sending him things from his uncle's WWII wardrobe). Klinger often expressed his support of two real-life institutions in his hometown of Toledo, Ohio: the Mud Hens (minor-league baseball team) and Tony Packo's Cafe (hot-dog restaurant). These references were added due to Klinger's actor (Jamie Farr) being from Toledo and being familiar with both of those institutions. At one point, Charles, who is complaining about the womanly chores he is forced to do, is referred to as "Mister I'm A Doctor, Not A Woman." | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: Frank Burns apparently had an absolutely miserable childhood. | |
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Retirony | |
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Retirony: The soldiers who died often suffered from this, as did Henry Blake. B.J. takes extreme measures to negate some of the irony in "Death Takes a Holiday". | |
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Obvious Stunt Double | |
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Obvious Stunt Double: When some of the characters are riding in a chopper, and it's clear it's not the actual actors. | |
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Clock Discrepancy | |
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Clock Discrepancy: In "Five O'Clock Charlie," Hawkeye and Trapper turn the clock back a half hour, just before Charlie is about to make his appearance, and inform Frank about a patient's (staged) infection so Frank can't operate a gun to bring down Charlie. In "Death Takes a Holiday", a soldier who they're trying to keep alive through December 25th (so his kids don't have to remember Christmas as "the day Daddy died") dies at about 11:35 pm. Hawkeye moves the hands of the clock so that it's 12:10 am, saying "Hey, look, he made it." They falsify the death certificate. | |
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Cigar Chomper | |
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Cigar Chomper: Trapper, Blake, Potter, Klinger, Zale, and Rizzo could all be seen enjoying the occasional stogie. Not to mention various visiting generals, colonels, etc. Even Radar was seen enjoying Blake's cigars from time to time in the first season or two. | |
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Lost Voice Plot | |
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Margaret develops laryngitis in "Say No More", and both she and Charles get food poisoning in "The Grim Reaper". | |
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Never Lend to a Friend | |
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Never Lend to a Friend: "The Merchant of Korea" has Winchester loaning money to B.J. and then proceeding to treat him like a servant, expecting him to do everything he wants. For some reason B.J. grudgingly complies, even though he already has the money and these conditions were never discussed when he asked for the loan. Another episode has Frank and Hot Lips arguing over this, including the obligatory mention of the "neither a borrower nor a lender be" quote from Hamlet. | |
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Informed Ability | |
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Informed Ability: In "Period of Adjustment", we learn from Father Mulcahy that Radar was every bit as incompetent a company clerk as Klinger when he first arrived, and that Colonel Blake helped him learn the ropes. From what we saw of Henry's style of command, he must have really relaxed after Radar came into his own. | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting: Frequently, especially in later seasons. | |
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Hollywood Darkness | |
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Hollywood Darkness: The "Major Fred C. Dobbs" episode has some outdoor "night" scenes that were clearly shot in the daytime with a dark filter over the camera. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: This happens in the episode "Lil" when Hawkeye tries to figure out what "B.J." stands for. Every record Hawkeye can find (even B.J.'s official personnel file) lists the name as simply B.J., much to Hawkeye's chagrin. As revealed in the end of that episode, B.J. was named after his parents: his mother Bea and his father Jay. Radar's first name, Walter, was not revealed until "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler". Maxwell Q. Klinger's middle name was never revealed. Trapper's full middle names Francis Xavier are not revealed during the course of the series, but the initials are seen on his footlocker. He does mention Xavier in "Bombed". | |
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Officer and a Gentleman | |
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Officer and a Gentleman: Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, as his name and his Boston Blue Blood accent would suggest, tries to affect this trope most of the time. | |
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Series Continuity Error | |
| M*A*S*H / int_ca95473c | comment |
Series Continuity Error: The show had quite a few of these. Early on, Hawkeye is said to be from Vermont, have a sister and his mom still alive; later he's from Maine, an only child and his mother died when he was ten. In the novel, his mother is dead but he has a brother. Colonel Potter's hometown is Hannibal, MO, but for some reason, in one episode, it's changed to Nebraska, and in another it's Montana. During B.J.'s earlier appearances, he mentions that his daughter, Erin, is two years old; however, in the finale, he's upset at the prospect of missing her second birthday. He also says he and his wife went out for the first time after Erin was born and returned home to find his orders to ship out to Korea had come through. In "Last Laugh", B.J. claims that his friend Bardonaro played a practical joke his wedding and that they both gave up practical joking "ten years ago" (peresumably after they both graduated from med school and after B.J.'s wedding). 1953-10=1943; both B.J. and Bardonaro would have been drafted in World War II; yet Bardonaro wears only Korean War medals on his dress jacket. In "Welcome to Korea" B.J.'s age is given as 28, which means B.J. went to Medical School at 14 and graduated at 18. Radar's virginity. It's established in the original novel and movie that he's lost his virginity, as an example of being corrupted by wartime impulses; when the series begins, Radar is a virgin (and the fact is even played with on occasion); in an early Season Three episode, it is heavily implied that he loses his virginity to a nurse of the week; afterwards, he's back to being a virgin, and seemingly stays that way. Radar is more than happy to smoke Colonel Blake's cigars and sneak his whiskey when he isn't around, but is introduced to them for apparently the first time by Colonel Potter. In one early episode Colonel Blake discovers Radar has a tattoo while giving him a physical. A much later episode has a subplot about Radar contemplating getting a tattoo for the very first time. Within the same season, Frank mentions having taken two judo lessons, then, just a few episodes later, Frank confuses judo for a religion. The 4077 staff's ability to speak Korean. At times Radar can speak it conversationally, other times it's like he's unaware Korean is even a language. Hawkeye is seen practicing Korean a couple of times, but doesn't seem to have picked it up. Father Mulcahy speaks a few words, but Margaret is the only one that is particularly fluent. And even that wasn't entirely consistent: in the episode where the 4077th adopts a seemingly orphaned boy, Margaret tries to read him a bedtime story, but is constantly checking with an English-to-Korean dictionary throughout the story in an attempt to translate for him. The year the show is supposed to take place changes repeatedly, from 1950 in the pilot to (reasonably) 1953 by "Rainbow Bridge" in season three (based on a real incident), then Potter's arrival in September 1952 and a passing reference several episodes later to General Eisenhower's visit to Korea in 1952 in "The Late Captain Pierce", then New Year's Day 1951 and 1952 in "A War for All Seasons" (which did the most damage) note The episode begins New Year's Day 1951 and included Col. Potter as Father Time. Henry Blake was killed in August or Sept 1952 since Col. Potter reported for duty at the 4077 on September 19, 1952. Did Potter step back in time?, an episode covering China's entrance to the war in October 1950 with MacArthur's statement of "This is an entirely new war" announced on the PA, and a near constant reference to General MacArthur being in command throughout the show's run (MacArthur was relieved of command in spring 1951 for insubordination). Before Radar's discharge, Klinger was a reasonably competent substitute clerk. One episode after Radar leaves, Klinger has trouble doing even the most basic duties until he gets help from Potter and Mulcahy. In "Comrades in Arms Part 2", while demonstrating a new vascular surgery at the 8063, Margaret mentions the clamp they use was invented at the 4077, yet three episodes later in "Patient 4077", they actually make the clamp. Subverted in the episode order on Netflix where "Patient 4077" is 3 episodes earlier. In "For Want of a Boot" in Season Two, it's the dead of winter, and it's Frank's birthday, however, later in "The Most Unforgettable Characters", it's Frank's birthday again, yet it's the middle of June. Potter's age and service in the First World War. He mentions he lied about his age to join in "Change of Command", and in "Foreign Affairs" he mentions he fell in love with a French woman named Danielle twenty years his senior. But, in "Pressure Points", he says he's 62, which would put his date of birth in 1889 or 1890, making him at least 27 by the time the US entered the war. He also mentions he was inspired to join the cavalry by Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders and San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, so while it could be possible he joined before the war, he also states he joined in 1917. At the end of "Smilin' Jack", the PA announcer makes a reference to the battle of Solma-Ri, also known as "Gloucesters Hill" or the battle of the Imjin River, in which 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment held off overwhelming Chinese forces for four days, from 22 to 25 April 1951. note Although completely surrounded, hugely outnumbered and short of ammunition, the Gloucesters continued to fight, delaying the Chinese advance long enough for other UN forces to establish a new defensive line where the Chinese advance was finally halted. When finally ordered to retreat, only 46 Gloucesters out of an initial strength of around 700 men managed to reach UN lines, with the rest either dead, missing or captured. Following the battle, the "Glorious Gloucesters" (as they became known) were awarded the US Distinguished Unit Citation for "exceptionally outstanding performance of duty and extraordinary heroism in action", while the British decorations included two Victoria Crosses. However, two episodes later in "Deluge", China has intervened in the war, entering Korea with 30 divisions, totalling 300,000 troops, which occured on 3 November 1950, and a reference is made to General MacArthur's statement of "we now face an entirely new war", which he made to the Joints Chiefs of Staff on 28 November 1950. In "Mail Call", Hawkeye says this is his second war. But then mentions that he was drafted. If he had served in WW II he would have had a 4A classification for prior service, making him exempt. In "The Novocaine Mutiny", Frank Burns is stated to have been drafted as a doctor, but other episodes state he was a reservist who was activated when the war broke out. Mulcahy's piano playing skills, or lack thereof, seem to change all the time. On some occasions, he can actually play the piano quite well, especially when it comes to ragtimes or waltzes, but most of the time, his playing leaves a lot to be desired, either rendering the tune unrecognizable, or having trouble finding where the music ends. In the Season 6 episode "Potter's Retirement", Charles mentions that the first successful open-heart surgery has just been performed. This took place on May 6, 1953, less than three months before the Korean War ended. | |
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The Chains of Commanding | |
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The Chains of Commanding: While Henry would regularly be a pretty lax boss, it is clear that leading the unit, deciding that a soldier is too injured to save given the limited available time and resources during a rush of wounded, getting Hawkeye through the loss of a close friend, and other moments, do wear on him over the series. Potter seems to keep things better, but there are episodes which show how deep inside he hates the job he is now in and the duties and obligations that come with it. From learning the enemy has a new weapon and the new means of treating the wounds, to having to end old friendships when those friends try to lead in the field and end up getting more young soldiers hurt because of their incompetence. When Pierce is made Commanding Officer in season 7's opener "Commander Pierce" showed his handling of matters, the fighting of bureaucracy to just get blankets for the wounded, and in addition to his duties as Chief Surgeon. When B.J. leaves without informing him to help an aide station, it leaves Pierce with just him and an ill Charles to work as the surgeons before a large rush of wounded are about to arrive. After it is over, Pierce talks with Houlihan and the following conversation follows: | |
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War Refugees | |
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War Refugees: Many Korean characters | |
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Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act | |
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Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: In "The Long-John Flap", Henry has a water pitcher in his office that not only doesn't belong in 1950, it doesn't even look like something from 1972... 2002, maybe... | |
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Hyper-Competent Sidekick | |
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Hypercompetent Sidekick: Radar, at least until season six or so. In fact, he was the Trope Namer at one point. | |
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Gesundheit | |
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Gesundheit: In "Margaret's Engagement," B.J., Hawkeye and Potter eavesdrop on Frank's phone call to his mother: | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: The show basically started out as a milder, more TV-friendly version of the movie. | |
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My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels | |
| M*A*S*H / int_ce9f550c | comment |
In the "Dear Sigmund" episode, Klinger claims to have been hit in the head with a chopper blade and only able to speak in Arabic. Via subtitles, he tells Col. Potter things like, "My olive has no pit and there is no yolk in my egg"; "Grandfather, may your pomegranates grow as big as the Queen's fanny"; and (after Potter informs him the ploy won't work) "May the fleas of a thousand camels nest in your armpit." | |
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Feedback Rule | |
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Feedback Rule: In "Change of Command," Radar prepares to make an announcement for the senior officers to report to Potter's office. In response to the P.A. microphone's immensely loud feedback, he drops the mic as if it hurt his hand. | |
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Cerebus Syndrome | |
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Up until Cerebus Syndrome set in, the writers and producers made it a point to have at least one episode each season that was far more serious in either tone or subject matter (e.g., "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet" from Season One, "George" from Season Two). | |
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Delivery Not Desired | |
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Delivery Not Desired: In the episode "Dear Sigmund", Sidney Freedman feels down in the dumps after a psychiatric patient of his commits suicide because of voices in his head. Wanting a "vacation", Sidney retreats to the 4077th for a couple of weeks; while there, he writes a letter about the people and the hijinks of the 4077th to none other than Sigmund Freud. | |
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