# MASH-Hawkeye's marital status **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 13, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mash-hawkeyes-marital-status/259638 "2004-08-13T02:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mash-hawkeyes-marital-status/259638/21 "2004-08-13T21:32:28Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > I don’t remember Margaret marrying Sully, but she did marry, Donald Penobscott. That’s Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscott. Of West Point. Sully was after her divorce. The only guy Margaret slept with while married (other than Donald, one assumes, although he was in that body cast for the honeymoon) was Hawkeye. ---
**Author:** ![Port123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5a626/32.png) [@Port123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Port123)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mash-hawkeyes-marital-status/259638/22 "2011-11-22T01:37:17Z")
In the “CeaseFire” episode, (Season One, Episode twenty-three), Hawkeye claims he is married to avoid relationship promises he made to three single nurses. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mash-hawkeyes-marital-status/259638/23 "2011-11-22T01:42:29Z")
Okay, my head just slightly blew up. I actually read a bunch of those books before I watched the TV series; and I only watched the series casually. So all along I’ve assumed Hawkeye was married, which made one episode I recall (he and Hot Lips are under fire somewhere and get it on, I think?) particularly dramatic for me. Well what the heck. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mash-hawkeyes-marital-status/259638/24 "2011-11-22T01:46:27Z")
> [@Port123](#): > > In the “CeaseFire” episode, (Season One, Episode twenty-three), Hawkeye claims he is married to avoid relationship promises he made to three single nurses. Thank you, thank you. I’ve been waiting seven years for that explanation. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mash-hawkeyes-marital-status/259638/25 "2011-11-22T02:21:48Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Okay, my head just slightly blew up. Which means it’s leaking _braaaaiiiinssss_… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mash-hawkeyes-marital-status/259638/26 "2011-11-22T05:08:19Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Thank you, thank you. > > I’ve been waiting seven years for that explanation. > mmm You can finally stop checking this thread every day. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mash-hawkeyes-marital-status/259638/27 "2011-11-22T17:25:49Z")
Hawkeye also fell in love with a Korean woman, educated in Paris, who was responsible for the care of what remained of her village. She eventually had to evacuate with her people to the South, and so she and Hawkeye bid adieu. It was a very bittersweet episode. ~VOW (whups! already mentioned!) ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mash-hawkeyes-marital-status/259638/28 "2011-11-23T01:12:12Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > (whups! already mentioned!) Yep, quite some time ago. Geesh, aren’t you caught up yet?😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Zheng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@Mr.Zheng](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Zheng)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mash-hawkeyes-marital-status/259638/29 "2011-11-23T08:01:15Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > That’s Lieutenant Colonel Donald Penobscott. Of West Point. > > Sully was after her divorce. The only guy Margaret slept with while married (other than Donald, one assumes, although he was in that body cast for the honeymoon) was Hawkeye. There were actually two actors who played Penobscott. Penobscott was supposed to be from a wealthy northern family, yet the second actor sounded very southern, like Elvis. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mash-hawkeyes-marital-status/259638/30 "2011-11-23T18:00:19Z")
> [@DrMemory](#): > > IIRC B.J. did “Fall off the fidelity wagon” as Hawkeye put it in one episode. He had a one-nighter with a nurse who was also very lonely , once again, IIRC. The nurse had just received a “Dear Jane” letter from her stateside husband. She regarded the event as helping a lonely friend through a bad night, and not as an invitation to an affair. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mash-hawkeyes-marital-status/259638/31 "2011-11-23T18:10:12Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Okay, my head just slightly blew up. I actually read a bunch of those books before I watched the TV series; and I only watched the series casually. So all along I’ve assumed Hawkeye was married, which made one episode I recall (he and Hot Lips are under fire somewhere and get it on, I think?) particularly dramatic for me. > > Well what the heck. There are two distinct sets of books. The first set is really by Hooker, and after the war Hawkeye and the whole crew go to Maine (where Democrat is a curse) and open up a combined clinic/bait shop. The second set, written by someone other than Hooker though his name is on them, has the TV series cast in various exotic locales. I don’t recall Hawkeye being married in the subsequent real books, but I don’t doubt he is married in the first one. As for why he isn’t married in the series, it makes sense to not have all your leading characters identical in this respect - married and cheating. Trapper was plenty good enough for that role. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mash-hawkeyes-marital-status/259638.md?page=1)