# M\*A\*S\*H Fans: Did Father Mulcahy Ever Once Say...? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084 "2004-04-09T01:26:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/21 "2004-04-09T21:51:16Z")
> [@Moody Bastard](#): > > My hands-down favorite Father Mulcahy moment was when he just flipped out on Hawkeye, punched him in the neck, and called him a c\*cksucker. My favorite was when he was caught selling heroin on the black market to make up the money he’d stolen from the collection plate to pay for his 14 year old Korean girlfriend’s abortion. I think the episode was called \*Klinger? I Don’t Even Know-her!". (Ever wonder how a Lebanese guy from Ohio got a German name?) Or for the heartfelt ones, I like the episode where he comforts the depressed and drunken Radar after the latter’s brutal rape by Margaret’s Rottweiler (which I think was called _Radar Get’s Raped By Margaret’s Rottweiler? I Don’t Even Know Her!_) Trivia: One member of the cast of M_A_S_H_ actually served in the Korean War. Which one was it? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/22 "2004-04-09T22:13:07Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > It’s still fun to say, “Aaahhhhh… Bach.” Thank you for reminding me of what must be my favorite episode from any TV comedy ever. Hmmm, now I really want to get that 3rd season DVD set… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/23 "2004-04-09T22:39:30Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Trivia: One member of the cast of M_A_S_H_ actually served in the Korean War. Which one was it? None of 'em. 🙂Jamie Farr did serve in Korea but after peace had been declared. ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/24 "2004-04-09T23:22:09Z")
How about Hawkeye’s many variations of: _I will not carry a gun. I’ll carry your books, I’ll carry a torch, I’ll carry a tune, I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even hari-kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!"_ ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/25 "2004-04-10T02:44:54Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Ah, but did _you_ know that Linville was featured in the short-lived sitcom _Checking In_, which is notable for being a spin-off of a spin-off? More than that, it was a spin-off of a spin-off of a remake. (Based on a British TV show) ---
**Author:** ![BoringDad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@BoringDad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoringDad)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/26 "2004-04-10T02:48:26Z")
> [@Jinx](#): > > Your second answer was correct - Potter. But, Radar did the best imitation, IMHO. He really sounded like the Father almost as much as the Father did! > > FYI: “Margaret’s Marriage” is the last episode of that season; hence the “Movie Night” episode came first! > > - Jinx Hey! This thing got off subject, and I don’t think the question was really given an answer we can hang a hat on. Meaning I disagree with no real evidence with the final answer given. I would have sworn **don’t ask** was correct and Mulcahy actually said it while he was drunk at the bachelor party. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/27 "2004-04-10T04:31:51Z")
This one time, he got real mad at the cook for making creamed corn out of his corn on the cobs, and he said, “YOU NINNY!” ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/28 "2004-04-10T08:02:45Z")
I like the one where some emotional trauma from Hawkeye’s past is suddenly triggered, and he has a nervous breakdown. Oh wait…that’s _all_ of them. I also like the one where Hawkeye and Trapper do something to piss off a general, but then the general lets them off the hook when he sees what great surgeons they are. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/29 "2004-04-10T15:01:52Z")
My wife and I saw good ol’ Hot Lips (Loretta Swit) about a month ago. There was a jewelry show in town, one of those convention center shows with a few hundred jewelers from around the country selling their stuff. I was a little surprised but she was there, hawking her jewelry with all the other shills. She has her own line of designer jewelry and was working her booth. Lots of glamor-type “head shot” photos, nothing from the M_A_S\*H days however. Sad really. MeanJoe ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/30 "2004-04-10T15:57:33Z")
I liked Sally Kellerman as HotLips. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/31 "2004-04-10T16:59:38Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > (Ever wonder how a Lebanese guy from Ohio got a German name?) I dunno, I’m a Hispanic from Canada who has an Egyptian first name and a German last name. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/32 "2004-04-10T17:04:25Z")
Oh, and I was traumatized by the “nightmare episode” of M_A_S\*H. I was 9 yrs old when I first saw it and had to trun off the TV when it got to the part where Hawkeye pulled his arms off. Every time it came on in re-runs I’d turn it off. Years later I finally watched it through and thought: “This is what freaked me out so badly?” ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/33 "2004-04-11T01:54:30Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Yes, majestic herds of them, thundering across the SDMB. What a picture they present! > > Now for this word from Mutual of Omaha… > > Regards, > Shodan [MARLON PERKINS] While Shodan is down in the SDMB with the MASH nerds… I’ll be observing the action from the helicopter [/MARLON PERKINS] ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/34 "2004-04-11T02:33:30Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > I dunno, I’m a Hispanic from Canada who has an Egyptian first name and a German last name. “Eats” is Egyptian … and “Crayons” is German? Fascinating! ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/35 "2004-04-11T04:22:23Z")
Isn’t Farr a German name too? Yet he really _is_ Lebanese. One of my favorite parts is when Hawkeye and Frank and a few others are lost in the countryside and Frank finds a walkie-talkie in the bus. He figures maybe someone might hear him if he sends out a mayday. To give a position, he says something like, “There’s a jet going overhead…Now!” Hawkeye says, “By the time you said ‘Now’, the pilot was already home and in his jammies.” I always think of that line when a see a military-type jet flying by. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/36 "2004-04-11T05:26:08Z")
> [@Tikki](#): > > Isn’t Farr a German name too? Yet he really _is_ Lebanese. I think his real last name is Farrar. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/37 "2004-04-11T06:17:59Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > I dunno, I’m a Hispanic from Canada who has an Egyptian first name and a German last name. Hmm. I went to school with a Puerto Rican kid from Montreal named Akhenaton Scheindorfer and he swore that _he_ was the only Hispanic from Canada with an Egyptian first name and German last name. Either he was lying or… Akhenaton, is that you? > [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > Oh, and I was traumatized by the “nightmare episode” of M_A_S\*H. I was 9 yrs old when I first saw it and had to trun off the TV when it got to the part where Hawkeye pulled his arms off. Hijack, but the OP’s been answered: Here’s a question I always had about the nightmare episode. As the camera goes wide you see Margaret in a wedding dress covered with blood. When I first saw it as a kid I thought that it was significant that the gown was bloodiest around her abdomen, as if symbolic of a child being ripped from her; she had just comforted a dying teenaged soldier, and I thought at the time that perhaps it was an empathy for the mothers who lost their children to war. Did anybody else get this imagery, or am I overcomplicating it? My favorite from that episode was Charles’ tapdancing to hide his incompetence. (My nickname throughout high school was Charles due to what my classmates felt was a physical and vocal resemblance to Charles Emerson Winchester; I went to school in a tiny town in Alabama, I had no Southern accent and very clear diction [due in part to a childhood speech impediment that I had to correct] so they regarded me as snobby and classist, which was fine really because at the time I was [though not on a socioeconomic level). However, the dream of Father Mulcahy as Pope (with the blood drops from the crucified GI) was also disturbing and restores us to the OP.[/Hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084/38 "2004-04-11T06:19:42Z")
Note to above: that should have read “Charles tap-dancing to hide his impotence”, impotence here being a word that conveys not sexual malfunction as inability to save life, as in “Count Olaf’s impotence caused him to tap dance”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-a-s-h-fans-did-father-mulcahy-ever-once-say/239084.md?page=1)