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** Hawkeye has running trauma with NeverGotToSayGoodbye throughout the series, but in this episode he talks about his mom was dying when he was ten, and his dad kept making him fancier breakfasts: a bowl of cereal when she first became unwell, and bacon and eggs when she was hospitalized, but he kept downplaying the seriousness of her condition each time. By the time he was making French toast, she was gone. (This is also an implied tearjerker on Father Pierce's side: his wife was dying and it's only been a few years since his son nearly drowned, fair enough that he treats Hawkeye a little fragile.)

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** Hawkeye has running trauma with NeverGotToSayGoodbye throughout the series, but in this episode he talks about his mom was dying when he was ten, and his dad kept making him fancier ever-fancier breakfasts: a bowl of cereal when she first became unwell, and bacon and eggs when she was hospitalized, but he kept downplaying the seriousness of her condition each time. By the time he was making French toast, she was gone. (This is also an implied tearjerker on Father Pierce's side: his wife was dying and it's only been a few years since his son nearly drowned, fair enough that he treats Hawkeye a little fragile.)
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** Potter's dream is the only truly happy one. He recalls a moment from his childhood, seeing a younger version of himself riding a horse and getting called to dinner by his mother. The sad part is when Klinger has to abruptly wake him up to deal with a crisis. Potter understands, but he admits it would've been nice to have his mother's blueberry muffins again after so long.
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I'll make you a deal: you show me ONE instance in the show where the announcer said "all hands", and I'll stop getting pissed when people use a NAVY term for an ARMY show.


!!'''''ATTENTION, ALL HANDS! CAUTION: UNMARKED SPOILERS AHEAD!'''''

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!!'''''ATTENTION, ALL HANDS! PERSONNEL, CAUTION: UNMARKED SPOILERS AHEAD!'''''
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** Even worse when you consider that the Korean War wouldn't end until 1953.
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** And the end of the episode shows that ultimately, Hawkeye accomplished ''nothing.'' The war goes on.
--->'''B.J.:''' You just treated a symptom...the disease still rolls on.
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** It’s also the second half of what “Dr Pierce and Dr Hyde” set up, that Hawkeye tries so hard to save everyone, stop anything bad from happening, fighting death since he came here (and lost the two people who looked after him) that he’s brokenly exhausted and might as well join it.

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** It’s also the second half of what “Dr “Dr. Pierce and Dr Mr. Hyde” set up, that Hawkeye tries so hard to save everyone, stop anything bad from happening, fighting death since he came here (and lost the two people who looked after him) that he’s brokenly exhausted and might as well join it.



* It’s a few seconds, but in “Of Moose And Men”, Margaret tries to be a ComfortingComforter to a sleeping exhausted Hawkeye, who jumps at the touch before covering with a joke about wanting to sleep with her. She seems to understand.
* When Frank is sick in “Soldier Of The Month”, he admits that his mom used to smack him a lot, and that his only friend was the janitor at school who showed him PoorMansPorn. Of course he ruins sympathy by being horrible to Margaret later.

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* It’s a few seconds, but in “Of Moose And and Men”, Margaret tries to be a ComfortingComforter to a sleeping exhausted Hawkeye, who jumps at the touch before covering with a joke about wanting to sleep with her. She seems to understand.
* When Frank is sick in “Soldier Of The of the Month”, he admits that his mom used to smack him a lot, and that his only friend was the janitor at school who showed him PoorMansPorn. Of course he ruins sympathy by being horrible to Margaret later.



* It’s looked into in more depth later on, but in “The Price Of Tomato Juice”, despite how much he sleeps around, entertains people and is “the heart of the 4077”, Hawkeye still feels alone.

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* It’s looked into in more depth later on, but in “The Price Of of Tomato Juice”, despite how much he sleeps around, entertains people and is “the heart of the 4077”, Hawkeye still feels alone.



* It’s ostensibly a joke, but in “The Abduction Of Margaret Houlihan” Hawkeye sounds sad when he asks Flagg he lost his virginity twenty years ago (he’s at best meant to be 31), not being able to find it again, and as shown later on in “Lil”, he was genuinely having sex at this point. For extra points, on his early trauma timeline, his mom had just died without him getting to say goodbye.

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* It’s ostensibly a joke, but in “The Abduction Of of Margaret Houlihan” Hawkeye sounds sad when he asks Flagg he lost his virginity twenty years ago (he’s at best meant to be 31), not being able to find it again, and as shown later on in “Lil”, he was genuinely having sex at this point. For extra points, on his early trauma timeline, his mom had just died without him getting to say goodbye.

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