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[[File:MASH.jpg|frame|Seasons 1-3 cast. Left to right: Frank "Ferret Face" Burns, Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, Henry Blake, "Trapper" John McIntyre, John Patrick Francis Mulcahy, Walter "Radar" O’Reilly, and Maxwell Q. Klinger]]
One of the most commercially and critically successful series in television history, ''M*A*S*H'' ([[Fun With Acronyms|short for]] ''[
The show ran on [[CBS]] [[Long Runner|from 1972 to 1983]], seven years longer than [[The Korean War]] during which it takes place. At first seen as a wacky, slightly edgy sitcom based on [[Mash (Film)|Robert Altman's 1970 movie]], the series moved away from strictly comedic storylines early in its run (Season 1's "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet" was the first [[Tear Jerker]]), and began to incorporate dramatic plotlines in conjunction with comedic ones in the same episode.
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* [[Animated Adaptation|Animated Parody]]: Filmation's ''M*U*S*H'', a segment of the Saturday Morning Kid's Show ''[[Uncle Crocs Block]]''
* [[Anonymous Benefactor]]: Charles, in "Death Takes a Holiday".
* [[April
* [[Armed Farces]]
* [[Artistic License Gun Safety]]: see [[Juggling Loaded Guns]].
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** Loretta Swit (Margaret) is blue-eyed as well.
* [[Bluffing the Murderer]]: Hawkeye exposes a thief by tricking him into a revealing giveaway.
* [[Book
{{quote| '''Frank:''' One of the greatest living Americans is coming and I'm not going to let him see some of the trash that's read around here.<br />
'''Trapper:''' Plato's ''Republic''? ''The Life of Red Grange''?<br />
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** Crossed over into [[Loophole Abuse]], since they persuaded the MPs that they couldn't arrest them for stealing the beef unless they tasted it to know for sure that it was beef, and then told them that since they had eaten the evidence, there was no beef left to prove they had taken it.
* [[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, rather than let on to her vision problems.
* [[El Spanish
* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]]: Hawkeye and Trapper crack up when they learn Frank's is "Marion".
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, Frank "Ferret Face" Burns
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* [[Episode Title Card]]: Used in "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen", and "Our Finest Hour" (the second interview show)
* [[Escalating War]]: A staple, an example being "The Smell of Music".
* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: Occasionally, most commonly in the early seasons.
* [[Exact Time to Failure]]: Occurs in the episode "Life Time". They ran over the timer, but since they induced hypothermia the patient still recovered.
* [[Executive Veto]]: One early season episode would have dealt with Hawkeye getting two different nurses pregnant simultaneously, and not wanting to marry either. After the script had been finished, CBS rejected it, feeling it would be a [[Moral Event Horizon]] for Hawkeye.
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* [[Faux Yay]]: Hawkeye tries to get leave by pretending to be romantically interested in Burns.
* [[The Fifties]]
* [[Finger
{{quote| '''Colonel Flagg''': Do you believe that I can break your leg with this finger?}}
* [[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.
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* [[Girl of the Week]]: Or, in Hawkeye's case, a Nurse of the Week.
* [[Glory Hound]]
* [[Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen]]: In on episode, Margaret steals Hawkeye's and B.J.'s clothes while they are showering.
* [[Good Looking Privates]]: Hawkeye doesn't wear his dress uniform very often, but [[Fetish Fuel|when he does...]]
* [[Good Shepherd]]: Father Mulcahy.
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* [[Greater Need Than Mine]]
* [[G-Rated Drug]]: Averted in "Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde". Winchester gets addicted to amphetamines, which are hardly G-Rated.
* [[Gung
* [[Hahvahd Yahd in My Cah]]: Charles Emerson Winchester III
* [[Halloween Episode]]: "Trick or Treatment"
* [[Hawaiian
* [[He Who Must Not Be Seen]]: Sparky, the telephone operator at I-Corps, was a constant fixture on the other end of Radar’s calls, but was only shown on screen once, in the "Tuttle" episode. He was shown sitting at a switchboard, eating an apple and reading a ''[[Shazam|Captain Marvel]]'' comic. He only got two lines of dialog, but judging from that, Sparky seemed to have a southern drawl.
** Also, the camp's unnamed [[The Voice|P.A. announcer]], voiced at different times by Sal Viscuso or Todd Susman.
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* [[Hero of Another Story]]: Sidney Freedman who works mostly at the EVAC Hostpital in Seoul and the 8063rd M*A*S*H, members of which would be mentioned and occasionally seen who are supposed to be at ''least'' as crazy as the members of the 4077th.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Hawkeye and Trapper, and later Hawkeye and BJ.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Numerous actors who would go on to bigger and better fame appeared on the show.
** [[Patrick Swayze]] appeared as a soldier diagnosed with [[Harsher in Hindsight|leukemia]].
** Lawrence Fishbourne was a wounded soldier.
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** Hawkeye attempting to surrender the entire camp to a lone sniper, against orders, so they can attend to the wounded (without even trying to explain how this makes any sense);
** 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).
* [[Hospital Hottie]]: Hot Lips, as well as many of the various guest [[Hello, Nurse!|nurses]] Hawkeye tries to bed.
** As for the men: Hawkeye himself, BJ (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. what, no mention of Klinger?
* [[Huddle Shot]]: Two in the opening, and occurred in the episode P.O.V.
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** It was a completely different man who was the pilot who dropped bombs on what might have been a civilian village (we never find out what he hit that day, and neither did he, which was the whole point). Chandler was a bombardier who, after dozens of missions, couldn't cope with dropping any more bombs on ANYONE.
* [[I Have This Friend]]: Klinger tries to use this with Potter once. Potter sees through it immediately (Probably because Klinger said the friend was serving in a MASH unit in Cleveland) and tells him to spit it out. Klinger admits that he'd found evidence that the camp's newest nurse had a serious drinking problem.
* [[
{{quote| '''Henry:''' Captain Hildrebrand doesn't care for any.<br />
'''Radar:''' Oh, then I won't bring his glass in. }}
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* [[Oh, Cisco]]
* [[Old Soldier]]: Colonel Potter.
* [[Open
* [[Operation Blank]]: "Operation Noselift"
* [[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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* [[Pin Pulling Teeth]]: Frank pulls a pin out of a grenade with his teeth and spits it away before panicking and desperately searching for the pin.
* [[Pointy-Haired Boss]]: Colonel Blake, much of the time.
* [[Poor
* [[Porn Stache]]: Donned by BJ beginning in season 7.
* [[POV Cam]]: "Point of View"
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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 Swap to complete the effect. (It normally stands in an open area in the middle of camp.)
* [[Screw the War,
* [[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.
* [[Series Continuity Error]]: The show had quite a few of these. To give just one example: 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.
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* [[Ship Tease]]: A few episode 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.
** Early Winchester episodes suggested that he'd become Frank's replacement in more way than one by hinting at an upcoming [[Relationship Upgrade|relationship upgrade]] between him and Margaret, but that never came to fruition.
* [[Shout
** For a short while in S4, they had a really big thing for referencing ''[[The Shadow]]'' in almost every episode.
** Charles Emerson Winchester III was possibly named after a fellow Bostonian, founder of Emerson College, Charles Wesley Emerson.
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* [[Suicide Is Painless]]: The show's (and film's) theme song is the [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Surrogate Soliloquy]]: "Hawkeye"
* [[Tanks,
* [[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 waited a beat and added "Same to you."
* [[Team Dad]]: Potter and Henry Blake.
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* [[Warts and All]]
* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]
* [[Wham! Episode]]: "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet", also the first [[Downer Ending]] episode. More would follow, most notably "Abyssinia, Henry".
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]?: "Preventive Medicine"
** Hey Hawkeye, I don't like [[Jerkass|Frank Burns]] any more than you do, but did you really need to punch him in "House Arrest"? Granted there have been plenty of times Frank could use a good pop, but given the circumstances, this wasn't one of them.
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'''BJ''': My mother, ''Bea'' Hunnicutt, and my father, ''Jay'' Hunnicutt. }}
* [[Whole Costume Reference]]: Many of Klinger's dresses were from the studio's stock from other shows and films.
* [[Whole
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: 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.
* [[Wildlife Commentary Spoof]]: Hawkeye describes an encounter between Frank and Margaret in this fashion:
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