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* RecycledScript: In season one, Hawkeye and Trapper {{gaslight}} a gung-ho colonel (LeslieNielsen) - with twice the casulaty rate but half the ground - into thinking he has battle fatigue and needs time to cool off. "White Gold", the second last episode of season three, ends with Hawkeye and Trapper remove Colonel Flagg's appendix to send him stateside for sevel weeks. Season seven's "Preventative Medicine" has Hawkeye perform an unnecessary appendecemy on a colonel to stop him from provoking the enemy to attack him so he could take a hill he was ordered to avoid.\\

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* RecycledScript: In season one, Hawkeye and Trapper {{gaslight}} a gung-ho colonel (LeslieNielsen) - with twice the casulaty rate but half the ground - into thinking he has battle fatigue and needs time to cool off. "White Gold", the second last episode of season three, ends with Hawkeye and Trapper remove removing Colonel Flagg's appendix to send him stateside for sevel weeks. Season seven's "Preventative Medicine" has Hawkeye perform an unnecessary appendecemy on a colonel to stop him from provoking the enemy to attack him so he could take a hill he was ordered to avoid.\\
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* RecycledScript: In season one, Hawkeye and Trapper {{gaslight}} a gung-ho colonel (LeslieNeilson) - with twice the casulaty rate but half the ground - into thinking he has battle fatigue and needs time to cool off. "White Gold", the second last episode of season three, ends with Hawkeye and Trapper remove Colonel Flagg's appendix to send him stateside for sevel weeks. Season seven's "Preventative Medicine" has Hawkeye perform an unnecessary appendecemy on a colonel to stop him from provoking the enemy to attack him so he could take a hill he was ordered to avoid.\\

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* RecycledScript: In season one, Hawkeye and Trapper {{gaslight}} a gung-ho colonel (LeslieNeilson) (LeslieNielsen) - with twice the casulaty rate but half the ground - into thinking he has battle fatigue and needs time to cool off. "White Gold", the second last episode of season three, ends with Hawkeye and Trapper remove Colonel Flagg's appendix to send him stateside for sevel weeks. Season seven's "Preventative Medicine" has Hawkeye perform an unnecessary appendecemy on a colonel to stop him from provoking the enemy to attack him so he could take a hill he was ordered to avoid.\\



Ken Levine, writer of that episode, said they were so embarassed they deliberately had it scheduled opposite [[http://kenlevine.blogspot.ca/2007/01/mash-oscar-show.html that year's Academy Awards]] so fewer people would see it.

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Ken Levine, writer of that episode, said it was unintentional, and when they discovered it they were so embarassed they deliberately had it scheduled opposite [[http://kenlevine.blogspot.ca/2007/01/mash-oscar-show.html that year's Academy Awards]] so fewer people would see it.

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* RecycledScript: In season one, Hawkeye and Trapper {{gaslight}} a gung-ho colonel (LeslieNielson) - with twice the casulaty rate but half the ground - into thinking he has battle fatigue and needs time to cool off. "White Gold", the second last episode of season three, ends with Hawkeye and Trapper remove Colonel Flagg's appendix to send him stateside for sevel weeks. Season seven's "Preventative Medicine" has Hawkeye perform an unnecessary appendecemy on a colonel to stop him from provoking the enemy to attack him so he could take a hill he was ordered to avoid.

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* RecycledScript: In season one, Hawkeye and Trapper {{gaslight}} a gung-ho colonel (LeslieNielson) (LeslieNeilson) - with twice the casulaty rate but half the ground - into thinking he has battle fatigue and needs time to cool off. "White Gold", the second last episode of season three, ends with Hawkeye and Trapper remove Colonel Flagg's appendix to send him stateside for sevel weeks. Season seven's "Preventative Medicine" has Hawkeye perform an unnecessary appendecemy on a colonel to stop him from provoking the enemy to attack him so he could take a hill he was ordered to avoid.\\
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Ken Levine, writer of that episode, said they were so embarassed they deliberately had it scheduled opposite [[http://kenlevine.blogspot.ca/2007/01/mash-oscar-show.html that year's Academy Awards]] so fewer people would see it.

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* McLeaned: How Henry Blake left he series. {{TropeNamer}}. And this was used to get some EnforcedMethodActing in the final scene.

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* McLeaned: How Why Henry Blake left he the series. {{TropeNamer}}. And this was used to get some EnforcedMethodActing in the final scene.scene.
* RecycledScript: In season one, Hawkeye and Trapper {{gaslight}} a gung-ho colonel (LeslieNielson) - with twice the casulaty rate but half the ground - into thinking he has battle fatigue and needs time to cool off. "White Gold", the second last episode of season three, ends with Hawkeye and Trapper remove Colonel Flagg's appendix to send him stateside for sevel weeks. Season seven's "Preventative Medicine" has Hawkeye perform an unnecessary appendecemy on a colonel to stop him from provoking the enemy to attack him so he could take a hill he was ordered to avoid.

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** WrittenByCastMember: Alda (19 episodes), Farrell (4 episodes), [=McLean=] Stevenson (2 episodes).

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** * WrittenByCastMember: Alda (19 episodes), Farrell (4 episodes), [=McLean=] Stevenson (2 episodes).



** Jamie Farr, the actor who played Klinger, the man trying to be declared crazy in order to be thrown out of the Army and sent back home, was the only member of the cast who had actually served in Korea. However, during the Korean War, Farr was stationed in Japan.
*** Interesting note: the dog tags that Klinger wears are actually Jamie Farr's from his time in the Army.

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** Jamie Farr, the actor who played Klinger, the man trying to be declared crazy in order to be thrown out of the Army and sent back home, was the only member of the cast who had actually served in Korea. However, during the Korean War, Farr was stationed in Japan.
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Japan. The dog tags that Klinger wears are actually Jamie Farr's from his time in the Army.


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* McLeaned: How Henry Blake left he series. {{TropeNamer}}. And this was used to get some EnforcedMethodActing in the final scene.
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** [[Film/TheMatrix Morpheus]], [[Film/TheNakedGun Frank Drebin]], [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment George Bluth Sr.]] and even Harry Morgan before he was Potter.

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** [[Film/TheMatrix Morpheus]], [[Film/TheNakedGun Frank Drebin]], [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment George Bluth Sr.]] ]], [[BabylonFive Londo Mollari]] and even Harry Morgan before he was Potter.

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* Klinger was said to be based on a real person. However the real Klinger was Gay and wanted to ''stay in'' the Army, it was his commanding officers who wanted him discharged.
** Actually, that was the original script. It was felt that a straight man wearing women's clothes for a discharge was funnier and more interesting. The actual source, according to Larry Gelbart, were stories that LennyBruce would dress in a WAVES uniform to dodge military service.

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* Klinger was said was, according to be Larry Gelbart, based on stories that LennyBruce would dress in a real person. WAVES uniform in an attempt to get out of the Navy. However in the real original script, Klinger was Gay and wanted to ''stay in'' the Army, it was his commanding officers who wanted him discharged.
** Actually, that was the original script. It
discharged, but it was felt that a straight man wearing women's clothes for a discharge was funnier and more interesting. The actual source, according to Larry Gelbart, were stories that LennyBruce would dress in a WAVES uniform to dodge military service.interesting.
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** BrianDennehy played a one-scene MP in the episode "Souvenirs."
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** Actually, they both died the same day of the same cause, but because of the very eerie coincidence, the media decide to "stall" news of Bowen's death till the next day thinking it would somehow be less eerie.

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** Actually, they They both died the same day of the same cause, but cause too, so because of the very eerie coincidence, the media decide to "stall" news of Bowen's death till the next day week thinking it would somehow be less eerie.
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** WrittenByCastMember: Alda (19 episodes), Farrell (4 episodes), [=McLean=] Stevenson (2 episodes).
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** Captain Murrhardt is [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs Brainy Smurf]].
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** Larry Wilcox (''{{CHiPs}}'') turns up in a season 5 episode.

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** Larry Wilcox (''{{CHiPs}}'') (''Series/{{CHiPs}}'') turns up in a season 5 episode.
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** Actually, that was the original script. It was felt that a straight man wearing women's clothes for a discharge was funnier and more interesting. The actual source, according to larry Gelbart, were stories that LennyBruce would dress in a WAVES uniform to dodge military service.

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** Actually, that was the original script. It was felt that a straight man wearing women's clothes for a discharge was funnier and more interesting. The actual source, according to larry Larry Gelbart, were stories that LennyBruce would dress in a WAVES uniform to dodge military service.
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** Actually, that was the original script. It was felt that a straight man wearing women's clothes for a discharge was funnier and more interesting. The actual source, according to larry Gelbart, were stories that LennyBruce would dress in a WAVES uniform to dodge military service.

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** Ron Howard when he was 19 playing a 15 year old. He appeared in the 1973 episode "Sometimes you Hear the Bullet."

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** Ron Howard [[DawsonCasting when he was 19 playing a 15 year old. old.]] He appeared in the 1973 episode "Sometimes you Hear the Bullet."


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* In that vein, Mike Ferral served in the Marines in his youth.
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* According to legend, during the first commercial break of the series finale the city of New York lost all water pressure.

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** Actually, they both died the same day of the same cause, but because of the very eerie coincidence, the media decide to "stall" news of Bowen's death till the next day thinking it would somehow be less eerie.
* According to legend, during the first commercial break of the series finale the city of New York lost all water pressure.pressure because of so many people going to the bathroom.

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** Alex Karras as Lance Cpl. Lyle Wesson in the 1974 episode "Springtime." He gained fame from being in Film/BlazingSaddles.

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** Alex Karras Karras, former NFL player and future star of ''BlazingSaddles'' and ''{{Webster}}'', appeared as Lance Cpl. Lyle Wesson in the 1974 episode "Springtime." He gained fame from being in Film/BlazingSaddles."Springtime" episode.



** Larry Wilcox (''{{CHiPs}}'') turns up in a season 5 episode.



** Pat Hingle played a General in an AprilFools Episode.

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** Pat Hingle played a General in an AprilFools Episode.AprilFoolsPlot episode..

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** George Wendt in the 1982 episode "Trick or Treatment" as the guy who got the billard ball stuck in his mouth. The same year he began playing Norm on Cheers.

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** George Wendt in the 1982 episode "Trick or Treatment" as the guy who got the billard ball stuck in his mouth. The same year he began playing Norm on Cheers.''{{Cheers}}''.
*** Not to mention Shelley Long appearing as a nurse in "Bottle Fatigue" a couple years earlier.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Father Mulcahy was played by George Morgan in the pilot episode before William Christopher took over the role.
** Margaret Houlihan's fiancé, Lt. Donald Penobscot, was played by a different actor in each of his two appearances on the show.
** Three different actresses played Rosie, the proprietress of Rosie's Bar, during the course of the show.
** There were also several different actresses playing "Nurse Able" or "Nurse Baker" in various episodes. And two different guys voiced the camp P.A. announcer.
*** The nurses may be an exampled of not caring, and were simply placeholder names used instead of creating names for unimportant background characters, much as the location of the battle the casualties are coming from is very often given as just "hill 403' (although the stagnation of the front on the later part of the war might be the cause of that).
** A vehicle example: in the finale, a tank is driven into the compound by a wounded tanker. After it starts drawing enemy mortar fire, Hawkeye drives it out of the camp. The tank driven into the camp is an [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/M24-Chaffee-latrun-1.jpg M24 Chaffee light tank]]; the tank Hawkeye drives out is an [[http://www.usarmymodels.com/AFV%20PHOTOS/M4%20SHERMAN/M4%20Sherman%20Front%20Left.jpg M4 Sherman medium tank]]. The two look nothing alike.
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** Alex Karras as Lance Cpl. Lyle Wesson in the 1974 episode "Springtime." He gained fame from being in BlazingSaddles.

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** Alex Karras as Lance Cpl. Lyle Wesson in the 1974 episode "Springtime." He gained fame from being in BlazingSaddles.Film/BlazingSaddles.



** Alan Alda was an Army Reservist who did only six months on active duty.

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** Alan Alda was an Army Reservist who did only six months on active duty.



* According to legend, during the first commercial break of the series finale the city of New York lost all water pressure.

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* According to legend, during the first commercial break of the series finale the city of New York lost all water pressure.
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** [[{{Lost}} Sun's father]] was a frequent guest actor.

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** [[{{Lost}} [[Series/{{Lost}} Sun's father]] was a frequent guest actor.



** [[Film/TheMatrix Morpheus]], [[Film/TheNakedGun Frank Drebin]], [[ArrestedDevelopment George Bluth Sr.]] and even Harry Morgan before he was Potter.

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** [[Film/TheMatrix Morpheus]], [[Film/TheNakedGun Frank Drebin]], [[ArrestedDevelopment [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment George Bluth Sr.]] and even Harry Morgan before he was Potter.
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* DirectedByCastMember: Alan Alda (32 episodes), Harry Morgan (8 episodes), Mike Farrell (5 episodes), David Ogden Stiers (2 episodes), Jamie Farr (1 episode).
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*** Interesting note: the dog tags that Klinger wears are actually Jamie Farr's from his time in the Army.
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** [[TheMatrix Morpheus]], [[NakedGun Frank Drebin]], [[ArrestedDevelopment George Bluth Sr.]] and even Harry Morgan before he was Potter.

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** [[TheMatrix [[Film/TheMatrix Morpheus]], [[NakedGun [[Film/TheNakedGun Frank Drebin]], [[ArrestedDevelopment George Bluth Sr.]] and even Harry Morgan before he was Potter.
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* According to legend, during the first commercial break of the series finale the city of New York lost all water pressure.

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** Pat Hingle played a General in an AprilFools Episode.



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** [[CharlieChan Number One Son]] showed up a few times.

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** Keye Luke, aka [[CharlieChan Number One Son]] Son]], showed up a few times.
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** Alex Karras as Lance Cpl. Lyle Wesson in the 1974 episode "Springtime." He gained fame from the 1974 movie Blazing Saddles.

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** Alex Karras as Lance Cpl. Lyle Wesson in the 1974 episode "Springtime." He gained fame from the 1974 movie Blazing Saddles.being in BlazingSaddles.



** [[TheMatrix Morpheus]], [[NakedGun Frank Drebin]], [[ArrestedDevelopment}} George Bluth Sr.]] and even Harry Morgan before he was Potter.

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** [[TheMatrix Morpheus]], [[NakedGun Frank Drebin]], [[ArrestedDevelopment}} [[ArrestedDevelopment George Bluth Sr.]] and even Harry Morgan before he was Potter.

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** [[{{TheMatrix}} Morpheus]], [[{{Naked Gun}} Frank Drebin]], [[{{Arrested Development}} George Bluth Sr.]] and even Harry Morgan before he was Potter.

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** [[{{TheMatrix}} [[TheMatrix Morpheus]], [[{{Naked Gun}} [[NakedGun Frank Drebin]], [[{{Arrested Development}} [[ArrestedDevelopment}} George Bluth Sr.]] and even Harry Morgan before he was Potter.


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** [[CharlieChan Number One Son]] showed up a few times.

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