History Awesome / Mash

-->'''Charles:''' To our fathers.\\

-->'''Potter''': You want death? We got plenty around here, suck it in, punk!
-->'''Saunders''': ''[fighting the mask away]'' Get away from me, you're crazy! You stay away from me, or so help me, I'll belt you!
-->'''Potter''': [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Now you're fighting to stay alive?]] ''[Saunders breaks down, Potter hugs him]'' The part of you that wants to stick around is stronger than the part that wants to end it all.

-->'''Potter:''' As long as I'm in charge around here, which will be another seventeen months, two weeks, six days, there will be no shenanigans. I do not approve of carrying tales. Evidence is one thing. Innuendo is another!

-->'''Hawkeye:''' ''(haggard from lack of sleep but smug)'' It seems like only yesterday you were saying someone could get each of us with a masterful joke from someone's worn-out bag of tricks. I guess the bag just wasn't big enough, huh? Well, nice try. You got all the others, but ''(grins)'' you didn't get me.\\

* "The Joker is Wild" - The entire senior staff and especially B.J. pulling off an episode-long BatmanGambit ''and'' ParanoiaGambit to beautifully prank Hawkeye after he claimed that B.J. couldn't pull off pranks as well as Trapper.

* "What's Up, Doc?" - When Margaret needs a pregnancy test, Radar allows his rabbit to be used, provided the doctors not kill it (the ovaries have to be extracted, which you can imagine are much smaller than human ovaries). Hawkeye and Margaret manage to perform surgery on a rabbit despite having no experience in this field, no training for anesthetizing an animal, and only the vaguest idea of what they're doing. [[UpToEleven And in the middle of a hostage situation in the OR, to boot!]]

** Hawkeye operates on a bigoted soldier who is worried about getting the "wrong color" blood. To teach him a lesson Hawkeye and Trapper darken the man's skin with makeup while he's sedated, then once he's awake he's treated as though he were African-American. When the soldier asks them if he received the wrong color blood Trapper and Hawkeye tell him there's no difference between "white blood" and "black blood". They follow up by telling him about how [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Drew the doctor who pioneered the system for donating blood]] died after a car accident because the hospital wouldn't treat him because he was colored.[[note]]This is not actually true, but in the pre-Internet era, it's not unthinkable that Hawkeye heard an incorrect version of the story; it gets the point across in any case.[[/note]] At the end of the episode the soldier comes into the Swamp to thank Hawkeye (who panics at first, because the guy is carrying a rifle). He then turns and offers [[TokenMinority Nurse Ginger]] [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments a genuine salute]].

--> '''Klinger (bursts into the O.R., guardsman rifle in hand)''': What's all the hoo-ha?
--> ''[Chinese prisoner sees him, lets out a battle cry and attacks, cutting through one of the shoulder straps of Klinger's dress. Two members of the staff try to restrain the distracted prisoner, but he still resists]''
--> '''Klinger (outraged)''': Are you crazy? You wrecked a thirty nine dollar dress. Your people will pay for this!
--> ''[Klinger arms his rifle and raises it right into the prisoner's face. The prisoner's defiant look changes to [[OhCrap terror]] and he drops the scalpel.]''

* "Local Indigenous Personnel" has Henry remind everyone why he's still in command of the camp when, after having his style of command insulted by Frank (who is speaking through Houlihan), he threatens to [[WouldHitAGirl slug her right in the mouth]], shocking them both enough to get them to back off. For those who are tired of ''both'' of their self-righteousness and arrogance it can be quite cathartic.

* "The Trial of Henry Blake" - Henry had one when he was being threatened with a court martial after Frank and Margaret ratted him out to the Army for giving Meg Cratty supplies for her civilian clinic. At first, Henry is overwhelmed and scared. Just when it looks like he's doomed, Hawkeye, Trapper, Meg and one of her patients walk into the hearing and speak up for him. Emboldened, Henry stands up and forcefully explains how he helped her:
-->'''Henry:''' May I say something General? Before Meg Cratty set up shop, 7 out of 10 babies born to the hill people never made it past the first few days. My giving her penicillin and whatever just made her job a little easier. No money changed hands and I didn't deprive our own wounded kids of one thing! I'm guilty. That's my explanation. So you can hang my butt from a flagpole!

*** And what was said evidence?
---->'''Radar''': (picks up the paper from the ground) "Dear Mrs. Burns, since you're so proud of your husband as an officer, it is sad to report that he is frequently out of uniform. [[{{Blackmail}} And maybe you should know with who.]]"
---->'''Hawkeye''': That's "whom".
* Margaret managing to do operations by herself in Carry On Hawkeye. Also sweet cos she’s unsure if she did it right and Hawkeye calls it perfect.
* "Dear Dad...Three" - Hawkeye operates on a bigoted soldier who is worried about getting the "wrong color" blood. To teach him a lesson Hawkeye and Trapper darken the man's skin with makeup while he's sedated, then once he's awake he's treated as though he were African-American. When the soldier asks them if he received the wrong color blood Trapper and Hawkeye tell him there's no difference between "white blood" and "black blood". They follow up by telling him about how [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Drew the doctor who pioneered the system for donating blood]] died after a car accident because the hospital wouldn't treat him because he was colored.[[note]]This is not actually true, but in the pre-Internet era, it's not unthinkable that Hawkeye heard an incorrect version of the story; it gets the point across in any case.[[/note]] At the end of the episode the soldier comes into the Swamp to thank Hawkeye (who panics at first, because the guy is carrying a rifle). He then turns and offers [[TokenMinority Nurse Ginger]] [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments a genuine salute]].

* Klinger got one in "Big Mac," when he dressed up as the Statue of Liberty, complete with flaming torch, for [=MacArthur's=] visit. [=MacArthur=] ''saluted'' him as he drove by.
** Hawkeye’s seething rage when Frank tries to burn books with any sort of activism or “perversion”. It’s 1950, the nazis burning books were very recent.
* In Pay Day, Margaret conning Frank into giving her the real pearls and not the cheap fake ones he had bought her originally.