It’s freezing out and has been for some time. Henry goes into his office to discover his desk top lying on the floor, since someone cut off the legs to use as firewood. Radar points out how cold it’s been, and Henry replies: “I know, but to cut off a man’s legs, and steal his drawers.”
The delivery kills me every time.
Sauron’s second scene is the one I was going to mention.
I always felt that that scene is the essence of what made Winchester a better character than Frank Burns.
I think that’s the same episode that ends with Henry calling I-Corps from his office, which has been stripped bare of everything combustible. It’s basically him and the floor. He’s trying to explain why he needs to requisition a whole new office, and he says “I’m talking to you from the middle of a great big empty right now.”
“Radar, there’s no jeep here, there’s only a whole lot of here here!”
Oooh, that reminds me of the episode in which Radar * is mailing a Jeep home to Iowa, one piece at a time (sort of a reverse-Johnny Cash:D).
I think Hawkeye said something like, “When Radar’s mailman realizes he’s delivered a Jeep, he’s going to have a retroactive hernia.”
The whole camp (?) needs to be inoculated (vaccinated?) against something. Hawkeye gives Margaret her shot, she demands to receive it in her arm. Next she goes to inject Hawkeye, and asks where he wants it.
<mischievious grin> “Oh, I want it in my tush…” and drops trou.
Margaret spikes him. Hard.
She jabbed him hard because he was laughing about Radar walking in on them.
In another episode he injects her in the tushy.
Margaret: “Don’t say anything. Not a word!”
Hawkeye: “I won’t. But if I did say a word, that word would be ‘magnificent!’”
I remember he was trying to act younger and when asked what he wanted to drink replied "a peach blow fizz’. That cracked me up. I always say that now when asked what I want to drink. One of these days I’m going regret it and meet someone who actually can make one.
I’m pretty sure that is the Christmas episode where Hawkeye is writing home to his father. One of my favorites.
Wow so many good moments mentioned.
One of my faves is when the propaganda bomb is dropped on the camp and Hawkeye and Trapper are following directions from Henry Blake on how to defuse it.
Henry’s reading the directions one at a time, when you realize he didn’t read the full sentence.
Something along the general idea of…
[Henry Blake] “unscrew the locking not on the back of the tail fin assembly.”
(Trapper and Hawkeye do this step)
[Henry Blake] “But first, cut the red wire.”
It was so unexpected.
I’ll also second the horizontal stripe suit. Hilarious.
Whiplash Whang, and the poker game; for that matter, pretty much any episode with Col. Flagg
“No one ever sees me leave. I’m like the wind.”
CRASH!
“‘The wind’ just broke his leg.”
That happened in real life to me. Two coworkers and I were trying to clean a printer, which was far more complicated than it should have been. One guy was reading the instructions out of a book and the other two of us were doing what we were told.
“Step 37: Remove the whozy from the whatzit and clean off all debris.”
OK, did that. What’s next?
Page turn. “IMPORTANT! Never touch the whozy with your bare hands, as this will damage the delicate surface and necessitate a very expensive service call.”
Of course that made me immediately think about that episode.
I like the one with the gurney races with Henry doing his commentating about “BOUNCING BETTY!” That and Klinger dressed up as the Statue of Liberty as Gen. Macarthur drove through the 4077th.
“My Darling Clementine” is the name of that ep.
This one made me laugh so hard when I first saw it, I fell off my couch and couldn’t breathe for a good 5 minutes at Frank’s stanza of the song:
“Oh, Hawkeye and BJ, they think they’re pretty smart. I’d like to take a scalpel and stab 'em in the heart! – Hey, this is fun! – I don’t want no more of Army life, gee, Mom, I wanna go home…”
When Col. Potter was new and Radar wanted to keep that horse. He brings in the horse and says “here are the keys.” Something like that. Then Potter slips in some horse droppings which Burns & Hot Lips find disgusting and he said it was a “tiptoe through the tulips” for him.
The “real big empty” is one of my favorite lines ever.
How I could possible have missed that episode over all these years I’ll never know.
When they put a concrete floor in the OR after several mishaps and Burns or Winchester walks onto new newly finished but unset concrete after having refused to assist in the work. Hawkeye tosses his trowel to him and deadpans, “I don’t know about you, but I’m throwing in the trowel.”
Winchester. Burns could never pull off the kind of smug Charles does, and therefor could not have MADE the episode like he did.
Easy way to remember - it was a non-cross-dressing Klinger episode.
In Winchester’s very first episode, he’s playing cards with some bigshot general in a hospital (in Seoul? Tokyo, maybe?) and is clearly winning big. The general gets a call and learns that 4077th needs a new surgeon. The general smiles wickedly and says to his caller, “I have just the man for you…”
I’ve seen all the episodes so many times over the decades, most of them aren’t funny to me anymore.
But two bits I’ll mention:
When Henry’s killed, and Radar walks into the OR and tells the group that Henry’s plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan…“there were no survivors…”
Okay, not funny, but for years, that made me tear up. And I’ll make up for that with this:
One line from Potter still cracks me up, and I think it’s a combination of wording and Harry Morgan’s delivery.
Potter’s dictating a letter to Quartermaster Corps, and says, “We requested rectal thermometers, and you send us spark plugs! Both useful articles, but hardly interchangeable!”
Radar: “Excuse me, Colonel sir…”
Potter: “Radar, you can call me Colonel, or you can call me sir, but not both.”
Radar: “Yes sir, Colonel.”
Potter: “That’s better”.