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* FoeRomanceSubtext: Margaret admits to Trapper in the showers that she'd always been attracted to him, lamenting his un-military demeanor: "...and there you were, unshaven, out-of-uniform."
--> '''Hawkeye''': [[HoYay That's when I fell in love with him.]]
--> '''Hawkeye''': [[HoYay That's when I fell in love with him.]]
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* BerserkButton: Frank does not take kindly to his neighbourhood being labelled as restricted.
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* BerserkButton: BaitAndSwitchComment: Frank does not take kindly to his neighbourhood neighborhood being labelled as restricted.restricted... because there's still a Catholic family living across the street from him.
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--> '''Henry''': ''[chuckling]'' Pierce, you're the limit.
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* WarForFunAndProfit: Frank Burns is jubilant that his war stocks have gone up.
* YourCheatingHeart: One of the enlisted men loses a prospective date with a nurse when Radar delivers him a letter from his wife.
* YourCheatingHeart: One of the enlisted men loses a prospective date with a nurse when Radar delivers him a letter from his wife.
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* WarForFunAndProfit: Frank Burns is jubilant that his war stocks have gone up.
* YourCheatingHeart: One of the enlisted men loses a prospective date with a nurse when Radar delivers him a letter from his wife.up.
* YourCheatingHeart: One of the enlisted men loses a prospective date with a nurse when Radar delivers him a letter from his wife.
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* HopeSpot: There is a moment in Henry's office where Margaret seems to reconsider her wanting a transfer out of the unit after the colonel pays her [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments a heartfelt compliment]].
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* HopeSpot: There is a moment in Henry's office where Margaret seems to reconsider her wanting a transfer out of the unit after the colonel pays her [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments a heartfelt compliment]].compliment.
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* RunningGag: The first appearance of Col. Blake's correspondence with the "Tabasco Film Company of Havana, Cuba."
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* HopeSpot: There is a moment in Henry's office where Margaret seems to reconsider her wanting a transfer out of the unit after the colonel pays her [[HeartwarmingMoments a heartfelt compliment]].
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* HopeSpot: There is a moment in Henry's office where Margaret seems to reconsider her wanting a transfer out of the unit after the colonel pays her [[HeartwarmingMoments [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments a heartfelt compliment]].
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* TheUnseen: The audience doesn't see any of the dirty movie Henry, Hawkeye and Trapper are watching. All we know is that Hawkeye recognizes one of the performers as a fellow doctor's receptionist, and that Hawkeye says she looks better in balloons than in a uniform.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When Margaret calls Henry "nothing but a spineless, mealy-mouthed, fly-fishing impostor", he can't help but laugh at Trapper & Hawkeye's reply:
--> '''Trapper''': He's not an imposter.
--> '''Hawkeye''': Right. He's a ''genuine'' spineless, mealy-mouthed fly-fisher.
--> '''Trapper''': He's not an imposter.
--> '''Hawkeye''': Right. He's a ''genuine'' spineless, mealy-mouthed fly-fisher.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: At the beginning of the episode, Radar is distributing mail. The first person he gives a letter to, a soldier named Voskowitz, briefly examines it before tossing it into a burn barrel without opening it.
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* GenreSavvy: Frank quips to Margaret that it's sad for friends like him and her to part on such bad terms. Margaret retorts the use of the word 'friends' to describe their relationship and asks him if he's rehearsing a letter to his wife and is putting her in it as being male.
--> '''Margaret''': Two ''friends'', Frank? What are you doing? Rehearsing a letter to your wife home? "Darling, did I mention my friend Major Houlihan has been transferred. Tut, tut. You woulda liked him. Swell guy.
--> ''Margaret turns to get another drink from the still. Behind her back, Frank nervously hides his letter''
--> '''Margaret''': Two ''friends'', Frank? What are you doing? Rehearsing a letter to your wife home? "Darling, did I mention my friend Major Houlihan has been transferred. Tut, tut. You woulda liked him. Swell guy.
--> ''Margaret turns to get another drink from the still. Behind her back, Frank nervously hides his letter''
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!! Hot Lips and Empty Arms and a lot of tropes:
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--> '''Henry'': That's not his appendix, Frank. That's my pinkie, and I'm very fond of it.
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--> '''Henry'': '''Henry''': That's not his appendix, Frank. That's my pinkie, and I'm very fond of it.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Frank almost makes a huge mistake in the OR.
--> '''Henry''': Gonna do a little cutting, Frank?
--> '''Frank''': Well, as long as I'm there, I thought I'd go after the appendix.
--> '''Henry'': That's not his appendix, Frank. That's my pinkie, and I'm very fond of it.
--> '''Frank''': Oh.
--> '''Henry''': Gonna do a little cutting, Frank?
--> '''Frank''': Well, as long as I'm there, I thought I'd go after the appendix.
--> '''Henry'': That's not his appendix, Frank. That's my pinkie, and I'm very fond of it.
--> '''Frank''': Oh.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Frank goes up in emerald flames when Trapper starts being romantic with Margaret in TheTag.
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** Trapper and Margaret, towards the episode's conclusion and in TheTag.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Margaret Houlihan, the more the episode goes on.
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** Margaret, in an even deeper drunken state than what she has been before, asks Radar if she can see Colonel Blake and she stumbles off in search of him.
---> '''Radar''': I wonder if you can too.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Margaret's father is dead. That's clearly not the case later on.
* GenreSavvy: Frank quips to Margaret that it's sad for friends like him and her to part on such bad terms. Margaret retorts the use of the word 'friends' to describe their relationship and asks him if he's rehearsing a letter to his wife and is putting her in it as being male.
--> '''Margaret''': Two ''friends'', Frank? What are you doing? Rehearsing a letter to your wife home? "Darling, did I mention my friend Major Houlihan has been transferred. Tut, tut. You woulda liked him. Swell guy.
--> ''Margaret turns to get another drink from the still. Behind her back, Frank nervously hides his letter''
---> '''Radar''': I wonder if you can too.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Margaret's father is dead. That's clearly not the case later on.
* GenreSavvy: Frank quips to Margaret that it's sad for friends like him and her to part on such bad terms. Margaret retorts the use of the word 'friends' to describe their relationship and asks him if he's rehearsing a letter to his wife and is putting her in it as being male.
--> '''Margaret''': Two ''friends'', Frank? What are you doing? Rehearsing a letter to your wife home? "Darling, did I mention my friend Major Houlihan has been transferred. Tut, tut. You woulda liked him. Swell guy.
--> ''Margaret turns to get another drink from the still. Behind her back, Frank nervously hides his letter''
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* HopeSpot: There is a moment in Henry's office where Margaret seems to reconsider her wanting a transfer out of the unit after the colonel pays her [[HeartwarmingMoments a heartfelt compliment]].
--> '''Henry''': Whatever was, of course, has been. But uh, we are family, Margaret.
--> ''[long pause]''
--> '''Radar''': ''[via loudspeaker]'' Attention, all personnel. Effectively immediately, Major Margaret Houlihan is leaving the 4077th. There will be wine with dinner with ice cream and chocolate sauce.
--> '''Hawkeye''': Well there are families and there are families.
* NoodleIncident:
** Hawkeye and Trapper inadvertently reveal to Frank they have been spying on his and Margaret's dates.
---> '''Hawkeye''': Wouldn't you miss her, Frank? Those midnight meetings behind the delousing tent?
---> '''Trapper''': Soaping each other in the scrub room?
---> '''Hawkeye''': Fumbling with the leather aprons in X-ray?
** Margaret makes a sardonic toast to Hawkeye and Trapper and their pranks and behaviours, mentioning a few of them in turn.
--> '''Henry''': Whatever was, of course, has been. But uh, we are family, Margaret.
--> ''[long pause]''
--> '''Radar''': ''[via loudspeaker]'' Attention, all personnel. Effectively immediately, Major Margaret Houlihan is leaving the 4077th. There will be wine with dinner with ice cream and chocolate sauce.
--> '''Hawkeye''': Well there are families and there are families.
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** Hawkeye and Trapper inadvertently reveal to Frank they have been spying on his and Margaret's dates.
---> '''Hawkeye''': Wouldn't you miss her, Frank? Those midnight meetings behind the delousing tent?
---> '''Trapper''': Soaping each other in the scrub room?
---> '''Hawkeye''': Fumbling with the leather aprons in X-ray?
** Margaret makes a sardonic toast to Hawkeye and Trapper and their pranks and behaviours, mentioning a few of them in turn.
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* OutOfCharacterAlert: As strict as she can be, there is usually a limit as to how far Margaret will snap harshly at her nurses in the OR. Hawkeye is quick to notice there is none.
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* OutOfCharacterAlert: OutOfCharacterAlert:
** As strict as she can be, there is usually a limit as to how far Margaret will snap harshly at her nurses in the OR. Hawkeye is quick to notice there isnone.none.
** Hawkeye and Trapper badger Frank when he doesn't emotionally react to Margaret leaving.
---> '''Hawkeye''': Frank, Margaret's departure is imminent.
---> '''Frank''': So?
---> '''Hawkeye''': Isn't that unzinging the strings of your heart just a little bit?
---> '''Frank''': None of your business, Captain Buttinsky.
---> '''Trapper''': Frank, one is a lonely number.
---> '''Frank''': I'll thank you to mind your p's and q's.
---> '''Trapper''': ''[insulted]'' That hurt.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: A drunken Margaret comes by the Swamp to give Frank some things she has of his back to him. Her mood and behaviour triggers an [[OutOfCharacterAlert alert]] with Frank.
--> '''Frank''': Margaret, this is so unlike you.
--> '''Margaret''': No it's not. If I'd have been more like me, you maybe would have liked me more.
--> '''Frank''': You've been ''drinking''!
--> '''Margaret''': Correction. I ''am'' drinking.
--> '''Frank''': Margaret, that's liquor!
--> '''Margaret''': Right, Reverend Davidson.
** As strict as she can be, there is usually a limit as to how far Margaret will snap harshly at her nurses in the OR. Hawkeye is quick to notice there is
** Hawkeye and Trapper badger Frank when he doesn't emotionally react to Margaret leaving.
---> '''Hawkeye''': Frank, Margaret's departure is imminent.
---> '''Frank''': So?
---> '''Hawkeye''': Isn't that unzinging the strings of your heart just a little bit?
---> '''Frank''': None of your business, Captain Buttinsky.
---> '''Trapper''': Frank, one is a lonely number.
---> '''Frank''': I'll thank you to mind your p's and q's.
---> '''Trapper''': ''[insulted]'' That hurt.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: A drunken Margaret comes by the Swamp to give Frank some things she has of his back to him. Her mood and behaviour triggers an [[OutOfCharacterAlert alert]] with Frank.
--> '''Frank''': Margaret, this is so unlike you.
--> '''Margaret''': No it's not. If I'd have been more like me, you maybe would have liked me more.
--> '''Frank''': You've been ''drinking''!
--> '''Margaret''': Correction. I ''am'' drinking.
--> '''Frank''': Margaret, that's liquor!
--> '''Margaret''': Right, Reverend Davidson.
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Margaret Houlihan receives a letter from an old friend who describes that she has been doing so well in her personal life that it causes Margaret to realise her choice of a professional career in the army has led her nowhere in hers. This leads her too look at her current lifestyle a second time, and a result, decides to change it around by making a few important choices such as getting a transfer from the 4077.
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!! Hot Lips and Empty Arms and a lot of tropes:
* ADayInTheLimelight: You can get this from the title and the episode description, but the main story arc revolves around Margaret Houlihan.
* BerserkButton: Frank does not take kindly to his neighbourhood being labelled as restricted.
* BrutalHonesty: When Margaret says she has nothing in her life, Frank takes that to mean he's also nothing to her.
--> '''Frank''': Well, am I nothing, Margaret?
--> '''Margaret''': You're government issue, Frank. You came with my mess kit and my khaki girdle.
--> '''Frank''': ''[insulted]'' Well! So much for Frank Burns.
--> '''Margaret''': And when you're home, I'll only be a smile on your face your wife won't understand.
* DeadpanSnarker:
** Margaret is not too pleased when Frank suddenly comes on to her.
---> '''Frank''': What's eating you, Margaret?
---> '''Margaret''': At the moment, you are.
* HeroicBSOD: The source of Margaret's woes are that her old friend from her training days married a doctor Margaret herself had turned down and now she has a $45,000 home with a swimming pool, two children and a two-car garage.
* OhCrap: Radar realises too late that he spoke all too casually with a furious Major Houlihan.
--> '''Margaret''': Is Colonel Blake in?
--> '''Radar''': Uh yeah, but he's busy right now.
--> '''Margaret''': ''[snaps]'' Come to attention! Get to your feet! Put that cigar out! Get rid of that magazine!
--> ''Radar's face falls and he does everything Margaret has demanded he do.''
* OutOfCharacterAlert: As strict as she can be, there is usually a limit as to how far Margaret will snap harshly at her nurses in the OR. Hawkeye is quick to notice there is none.
* ShipTease:
** Hawkeye and Margaret. In reply to the latter snapping at her nurses, Hawkeye proclaims something.
---> '''Margaret''': I have an announcement. One more stupidity and every nurse goes on report.
---> '''Hawkeye''': And I'd like to make an announcement. Major Houlihan and I are getting married. Right, sugar?
---> '''Margaret''': [[BigWhat What?!]]
---> '''Frank''': [[GreenEyedMonster That's outrageous!]]
---> '''Margaret''': We are not.
---> '''Hawkeye''': Then go ahead and have the baby alone.
---> '''Trapper''': Is it a boy or a girl?
---> '''Hawkeye''': Give us a chance. We just met.
---> '''Margaret''': Oh!
---> '''Hawkeye''': [[{{Troll}} Oh.]]
* WarForFunAndProfit: Frank Burns is jubilant that his war stocks have gone up.
* YourCheatingHeart: One of the enlisted men loses a prospective date with a nurse when Radar delivers him a letter from his wife.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: You can get this from the title and the episode description, but the main story arc revolves around Margaret Houlihan.
* BerserkButton: Frank does not take kindly to his neighbourhood being labelled as restricted.
* BrutalHonesty: When Margaret says she has nothing in her life, Frank takes that to mean he's also nothing to her.
--> '''Frank''': Well, am I nothing, Margaret?
--> '''Margaret''': You're government issue, Frank. You came with my mess kit and my khaki girdle.
--> '''Frank''': ''[insulted]'' Well! So much for Frank Burns.
--> '''Margaret''': And when you're home, I'll only be a smile on your face your wife won't understand.
* DeadpanSnarker:
** Margaret is not too pleased when Frank suddenly comes on to her.
---> '''Frank''': What's eating you, Margaret?
---> '''Margaret''': At the moment, you are.
* HeroicBSOD: The source of Margaret's woes are that her old friend from her training days married a doctor Margaret herself had turned down and now she has a $45,000 home with a swimming pool, two children and a two-car garage.
* OhCrap: Radar realises too late that he spoke all too casually with a furious Major Houlihan.
--> '''Margaret''': Is Colonel Blake in?
--> '''Radar''': Uh yeah, but he's busy right now.
--> '''Margaret''': ''[snaps]'' Come to attention! Get to your feet! Put that cigar out! Get rid of that magazine!
--> ''Radar's face falls and he does everything Margaret has demanded he do.''
* OutOfCharacterAlert: As strict as she can be, there is usually a limit as to how far Margaret will snap harshly at her nurses in the OR. Hawkeye is quick to notice there is none.
* ShipTease:
** Hawkeye and Margaret. In reply to the latter snapping at her nurses, Hawkeye proclaims something.
---> '''Margaret''': I have an announcement. One more stupidity and every nurse goes on report.
---> '''Hawkeye''': And I'd like to make an announcement. Major Houlihan and I are getting married. Right, sugar?
---> '''Margaret''': [[BigWhat What?!]]
---> '''Frank''': [[GreenEyedMonster That's outrageous!]]
---> '''Margaret''': We are not.
---> '''Hawkeye''': Then go ahead and have the baby alone.
---> '''Trapper''': Is it a boy or a girl?
---> '''Hawkeye''': Give us a chance. We just met.
---> '''Margaret''': Oh!
---> '''Hawkeye''': [[{{Troll}} Oh.]]
* WarForFunAndProfit: Frank Burns is jubilant that his war stocks have gone up.
* YourCheatingHeart: One of the enlisted men loses a prospective date with a nurse when Radar delivers him a letter from his wife.
