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* ShoutOut: The episode is titled after a popular '50s radio/TV program of the same name.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:

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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Radar starts to get tired after several hours straight of DJ duty:
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* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Played with. Sgt. Gribble actually thought that he ''had'' disabled a bomb at the 4077th the night before, rather than being a blood donor.
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!!Attention all personnel! The following tropes are on your hit parade:

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!!Attention !!Attention, all personnel! The following tropes are on your hit parade:
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Potter mentions falling in love with Doris Day "about a dozen years ago" when he went to see Les Brown and His Band of Renown in New York. The band and Doris Day recorded "Sentimental Journey" in 1945 -- no more than eight years earlier than the episode's possible setting.

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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Potter mentions falling in love with Doris Day Creator/DorisDay "about a dozen years ago" when he went to see Les Brown and His Band of Renown in New York. The band and Doris Day recorded "Sentimental Journey" in 1945 -- no more than eight years earlier than the episode's possible setting.
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* IncessantMusicMadness: Col. Potter requests Sentimental Journey twenty-three times in a row, driving everyone crazy.

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* IncessantMusicMadness: Col. Potter requests Sentimental Journey "Sentimental Journey" twenty-three times in a row, driving everyone else crazy.
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* BecomingTheMask: After initially suffering an attack of mike fright, Radar gets awfully comfortable in his persona of camp DJ, adapting a line of slangy patter and even swapping his fatigues for a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses.

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* BecomingTheMask: After initially suffering an attack Despite needing Klinger to coach him at first due to a lack of mike fright, self-confidence, Radar soon gets awfully comfortable in his persona of camp DJ, adapting a line of slangy patter and even swapping his fatigues for a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses.
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To break the boredom during a multi-day stretch without wounded, Radar turns DJ with a recently-arrived shipment of records. The music becomes more important than ever when the wounded arrive in full force, overwhelming the hospital.

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To break the boredom during a multi-day stretch without wounded, Radar turns DJ disc jockey with a recently-arrived shipment of records. The music becomes more important than ever when the wounded arrive in full force, overwhelming the hospital.



* BecomingTheMask: Radar gets awfully comfortable in the persona of radio DJ - even swapping his fatigues for a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses.

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* BecomingTheMask: After initially suffering an attack of mike fright, Radar gets awfully comfortable in the his persona of radio DJ - camp DJ, adapting a line of slangy patter and even swapping his fatigues for a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Potter mentions falling in love with Doris Day "about a dozen years ago" when he went to see Les Brown and His Band of Renown in New York. The band and Doris Day recorded "Sentimental Journey" in 1945 - no more than eight years earlier than the episode's possible setting.

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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Potter mentions falling in love with Doris Day "about a dozen years ago" when he went to see Les Brown and His Band of Renown in New York. The band and Doris Day recorded "Sentimental Journey" in 1945 - -- no more than eight years earlier than the episode's possible setting.



* LoveNostalgiaSong: "Sentimental Journey" serves as a reminder for Col. Potter of the time he fell in love with Doris Day.

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* LoveNostalgiaSong: "Sentimental Journey" serves as a reminder for Col. Potter of the time he fell in love with Doris Day.Creator/DorisDay.
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-->'''Margaret:''' Charles, you know what this is?

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-->'''Margaret:''' Charles, you know what this is?is? ''(moves fingers)''
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-->'''Margaret:''' It's the world's smallest violin, and it's playing just for you.

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-->'''Margaret:''' It's the [[WorldsSmallestViolin world's smallest violin, violin]], and it's playing just for you.
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* SourceMusic: The records broadcast over the PA system serve as background music for most scenes.

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* SourceMusic: The records broadcast over the PA system serve as background music for most scenes.scenes.

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To break the boredom during a multi-day stretch without wounded, Radar turns DJ with a recently-arrived shipment of records. The music becomes more important than ever when the wounded arrive in full force, overwhelming the hospital.

!!Attention all personnel! The following tropes are on your hit parade:

* ABNegative: One of the patients requires AB Negative, and the only source they're able to find for a transfusion is a sergeant from a bomb disposal unit who's on R&R...and totally drunk.
* AfraidOfNeedles: The bomb disposal sergeant sobers up awfully fast as soon as he sees the transfusion needle.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Potter mentions falling in love with Doris Day "about a dozen years ago" when he went to see Les Brown and His Band of Renown in New York. The band and Doris Day recorded "Sentimental Journey" in 1945 - no more than eight years earlier than the episode's possible setting.
* BecomingTheMask: Radar gets awfully comfortable in the persona of radio DJ - even swapping his fatigues for a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses.
* {{Calvinball}}: Double Cranko, the game Hawkeye and B.J. play with cards, checkers, and chess pieces. At the end of the episode, after losing, Potter asks B.J. if Hawkeye is playing by the rules and gets "what rules?" as a response.
-->'''Hawkeye:''' Bishops are worth three jacks, checkers are wild, and you have to be 21 or over to open.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
-->'''Radar:''' You know, uh, this is Radar, mike-side talking to you over the mike...And you folks have been so kind with your requests and your kind requests...
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: During their game of Double Cranko, Hawkeye "crowns" one of B.J.'s kings with a hammer, sending one of his pawns flying into his martini glass. B.J. is later seen picking it out while refilling.
* IncessantMusicMadness: Col. Potter requests Sentimental Journey twenty-three times in a row, driving everyone crazy.
* LargeHamRadio: Radar becomes this while playing DJ.
* LoveNostalgiaSong: "Sentimental Journey" serves as a reminder for Col. Potter of the time he fell in love with Doris Day.
* NoSympathy: Margaret has no sympathy when Charles grumbles about having to be moved out of the Swamp.
-->'''Margaret:''' Charles, you know what this is?
-->'''Charles:''' What?
-->'''Margaret:''' It's the world's smallest violin, and it's playing just for you.
* OverusedRunningGag: Col. Potter requests "Sentimental Journey" so often that the entire camp is sick of it pretty quickly. By the end of the episode, even he's gotten tired of it.
* SourceMusic: The records broadcast over the PA system serve as background music for most scenes.

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