* {{Anvilicious}}: Not as often as you might think, although there were times when the "war is hell, just don't do it" message got a teeny bit strong...
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** Possibly the snippet of Jimi Hendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower" at the beginning of the episode "Limbo".
** The Katrina and the Waves (featuring Eric Burdon) cover of "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place" that served as the sometime season 3 theme song.
** The entire soundtrack of the series was composed mainly of classic hits of 60s-70s rock/pop music (hence the difficulty in getting a DVD release of the show, as the clearances are through the roof) and some fantastic instrumental/incidental pieces. Most of it fit this trope.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: This show had quite a few of these, several of which surprisingly centered on Dr. Richard. Although, there's something about the moment in "The World part 2" when Colleen shares a dance with a wheelchair bound veteran to Music/ProcolHarum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" that's particularly moving.
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Colleen, KC (perhaps because of her main profession), Boonie (on occasion)...really take your pick.
* LesYay: Laurette and Colleen, with the former going ''hard'' for the combat nurse right out the gate in the pilot.
* MemeticMutation: (Through the mirror of my mind!) The series that brought women to the front line...[[labelnote:Explanation]]A line from an advertisement for the DVD set, brought to infamy by WebVideo/JennyNicholson after she made several jokes about the advertisement in her video about ''Series/TheVampireDiaries''.[[/labelnote]]
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome:
** Several, particularly Colleen and Dr. [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude Richard Richard]]'s successful removal of [[spoiler: a live mortar round]] from a patient.
** The portrayal in the episode "The Always Goodbye" of [[spoiler: one of the last choppers out of Saigon]], which is a must for any UsefulNotes/VietnamWar media. This was also a possible TearJerker in that it featured KC [[spoiler: sending away, possibly forever, her young daughter Karen]], whom she'd only recently gotten to know.
* NightmareFuel:
** It's a medical show set in a warzone. There's blood, there's guts.
** Wayloo's dream at the beginning of "Cherry" of walking into the G.R.U. and finding herself in a body bag is at least a mild form of this.
* TearJerker: Almost countless. Cherry's death, Colleen dancing with her ill father right before we're shown [[spoiler: his funeral]] at the beginning of the next episode, KC [[spoiler: sending her daughter away]] on one of the last choppers out of Saigon...the list goes on.
* TheWoobie:
** Colleen was definitely intended to be the Woobie for most of the series, but sometimes her drunkenness and occasional abrasive behavior got in the way.
** Cherry was a sort of Woobie for the first season, even after she toughened up a bit at the beginning of season 2.