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== [[Fridge Brilliance]] ==
* In ''[[MASHM*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'', Hawkeye always referred to Colonel Potter by his rank or name ("Colonel, I need some help here"), while he tended to call Lt. Col. Henry Blake by his given name. At first, I thought it was primarily because Hawkeye and Blake were more friends than officers. Then it hit - Hawkeye also had far more respect for Potter than he had for Blake (probably because Potter didn't put up with much from Hawkeye). The only time Hawkeye called Potter by his given name was when he was going to ask Potter to stay in Korea... and it came out like he was asking a loved one not to leave. I have no doubt that Hawkeye loved Henry Blake, but he ''respected'' Potter - and using Potter's rank was his way of showing it.
** And this dynamic is inverted, naturally, with Frank Burns. Hawkeye ''et al.'' clearly didn't routinely address him by his first name from a sense of chummy cameraderie.
* All the characters who [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome|disappear without explaination]] were in a frontline unit in a war zone, with a mine field nearby. In fact, one nurse near the end of the series dies after stepping on a mine while on a walk. These characters could have died, and it was too depressing for the main characters to mention close friends and collegues dying. The nurse late in the series had only been there about a month, and no one had gotten to know her, and Henry dying was so much of a shock that they couldn't help but think of it.
 
* Edward Winter, known for portraying Colonel Samuel Flagg, first appeared as a Captain Halloran, an officer with the CID in the episode ''Deal Me Out'', where he played poker with Sidney Freedman. When Colonel Flagg later met Sidney Freedman in the episode "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler" he remarked that they once played poker together.
** Particularly good, as when he first appears as Colonel Flagg, a G2 officer shows up investigating him and tells Hawkeye and Trapper John that Flagg had previously infiltrated the CID.
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** It was BJ and Hawkeye that were making the rape joke.
 
* Whenever Hawkeye replaces Frank's gun with a toy or a gun shaped lighter, he immediately pulls the trigger when unholstering it, thinking it is a real gun. We all know Frank [[Artistic License Gun Safety|failed gun safety]] and [[Rule of Funny]] notwithstanding, he's pointing it at someone '''every''' time. In ''"Five O'Clock Charlie''", when he 'arrests' Henry and Pierce for sabotaging his AA gun, he points the toy popgun at Pierce and pulls the trigger, [[Rule of Funny|if only done for the 'bang' flag to pop out]]. When he builds a small sandbag bunker in the Swamp and is woken up in the middle of the night, he points the lighter in Hawkeye and BJ's direction. Again, this was done so the lighter would light, but still. In either time, had he had a real gun and done that, he would have [[I Just Shot Marvin in Thethe Face|shot Pierce in the face]]
** In fairness, a real loaded pistol is heavier than a lighter/toy gun. It's possible that Burns pulled the trigger after realizing he'd been pranked. Then again, this is [[The Neidermeyer|Frank]] we're talking about....
 
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