M*A*S*H (television): Difference between revisions

* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The movie itself [[Composite Character|combined two characters to create Major Burns]]. The show removed the character Duke Forest altogether, and Ugly John and Spearchucker Jones [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome|disappear without explanation]] later on in the first season. Painless Pole, the camp dentist, seems to be an exception, since he shows up from time to time throughout the series.

** Painless is more of an [[Unseen Character]], being mentioned but rarely if ever actually appearing. The only dentist actually shown on screen who was stationed at the 4077 appears in one episode, completely paranoid about being injured in the last few hours before he goes home. (He does get injured, crashing the jeep as he's driving out of camp because he insisted on driving the jeep himself instead of allowing his assigned driver to do it.)

* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: Numerous times, generally at least once a season.

* [[All Asians Are Alike]]

'''Hawkeye:''' Everybody runs around half-naked.

'''Trapper:''' Norman Mailer?

* [[Bottle Episode]]: "O.R.", "The Bus", "Hawkeye", "A Night at Rosie's"

* [[The Boxing Episode]]: "Requiem for a Lightweight" has Trapper John taking on the champ of the 8063rd, a heavyweight enlisted man.

'''Potter:''' I'm not fond of personal abuse, Flagg. I was in this man's Army when the only thumb you cared about was the one in your ''mouth''. }}

* [[Briefer Than They Think]]: As mentioned above, you could fit three Korean Wars into the show's run.

* [[Bucket Booby Trap]]: Frank rigs one for Hawkeye (yep, you read that right) in "Showtime".

* [[Bug-Out]]: Amusingly averted for virtually the entire run of ''M*A*S*H''; the "M" in "M*A*S*H" stands for "Mobile", but for obvious reasons of production logistics the camp was almost always in the same location. The only exceptions were the two-part episode "Bug Out" from 1976, and the 1979 episode "C*A*V*E". In the former, the camp's comfortable location had to be abandoned in the face of an enemy advance; in the latter, a seemingly endless barrage of friendly artillery fire forces the camp to relocate to a nearby cave.

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