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* AmbiguouslyBi: It's a bit suspect that George tells Hawkeye he's gay and then disappears, and Hawkeye spends the rest of the episode particularly bitey about the subject.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Hawkeye jokes about him volunteering to make Radar an officer. In ''Lt. Radar O'Reilly''...
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Hawkeye is concerned when a wounded soldier, [[TitleCharacter George Weston]], has bruises from several beatdowns. At first, it is thought that Weston has just been getting into fights until it is revealed that Weston is a target at his unit simply for being homosexual. Hawkeye, the good guy that he is, wants to have something done about the assaults, but Weston does not want him to do anything as it means the army would investigate, find out about his orientation, and dishonourably discharge him. Unfortunately, Frank finds out about Weston's secret and is on the warpath for the army to do just that.
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!!Attention, all personnel. The following tropes occurred in the episode:
* BatmanGambit: Hawkeye and Trapper's [[spoiler: winning]] tactic to get Frank to lay off putting Weston up on a dishonourable discharge.
* BigBad: Frank gradually evolves into this. The volutions is completed halfway through the episode.
* TheCastShowoff: Wayne Rogers as Trapper sings the entirety of "I've Got You Under My Skin" in the opening scene.
* CureYourGays: Frank Burns is of the mindset about homosexuality being a perverted disease.
** So is Margaret, but to a far lesser extreme.
* DeadpanSnarker: In an [[InvertedTrope inverse of their antagonistic relationship]], Frank accuses Hawkeye of being slow and hesitant while operating.
--> '''Frank''': You getting paid by the hour, Pierce?
--> '''Hawkeye''': If I close him up before we remove those other fragments, we'll invalidate his warranty. Permanently.
* {{Determinator}}: George Weston wants to fulfil his tour of duty, no matter what people think of him or his sexuality.
* DudeNotFunny: Hawkeye bizarrely does this to Trapper of all people when Frank yells at the latter to quit singing and Trapper [[{{Troll}} increases his voice volume]].
* EntertaininglyWrong: Trapper and Hawkeye believe that Henry has pulled a FaceHeelTurn and signed the forms Frank Burns wanted him to sign to get Private Weston dishonourably discharged.
--> '''Trapper''': Thanks a lot, Henry.
--> '''Henry''': For what?
--> '''Hawkeye''': For signing those forms for Frank.
--> '''Trapper''': For helping to ruin another man's life.
--> '''Henry''': Can I say one thing?
--> '''Hawkeye''': For once again winning the rubber backbone award.
--> '''Henry''': Pierce, I didn't sign.
--> [''Hawkeye does a DoubleTake'']
--> '''Hawkeye''': [[ReflexiveResponse How dare you do the right thing?]]
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: Despite the title, George Weston is never referred to by his first name, only by his rank or surname.
* EyeTake: Henry is shocked when he discovers Hawkeye has been rubbing his hands instead of his girlfriend.
--> '''Henry''': That was a dirty trick, Pierce.
* FlatWhat: Henry's response when Radar describes his inner ear during a checkup as being like a nativity scene.
* GetOut: Frank threatens Radar, after the clerk informs Hawkeye, Trapper and Margaret he wanted Private Weston left off his patient roster, to leave the mess tent.
--> '''Margaret''': You've taken Private Weston off your day sheet.
--> '''Radar''': He said it gave him the willies to be around him.
--> '''Frank''': You're an enlisted man, Corporal. This is an officers' mess. Do you read me?!
* HilariousInHindsight: Hawkeye jokes about him volunteering to make Radar an officer. In ''Lt. Radar O'Reilly''...
* LampshadeHanging: Frank gets annoyed that whenever he tries to do something or encourages something in a military fashion, Hawkeye is always there to subvert it.
--> '''Frank''': Pierce, why is it we always turn up in the same place?
--> '''Hawkeye''': It only happens when I go tourist.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Invoked by Hawkeye when Frank Burns insists that he doesn't have to take the kind of abuse he's been getting from him and Trapper.
--> '''Hawkeye''': Oh yes you do, Frank. You invite abuse. It would be impolite not to accept it.
* LateToThePunchline: Frank is telling Hawkeye and Trapper that he found out something interesting about a certain someone. Hawkeye slides a StealthInsult in.
--> '''Hawkeye''': Is this person a well-stacked US Army Major nurse, who's bigger than a breadbox that you're seeing on the side.
--> '''Frank''': no. [catches on] No!
* LyricalDissonance: Trapper sings "I've Got You Under My Skin" while operating in the OR.
* MoodWhiplash: We go from Trapper cheerily singing in the OR to a sour Hawkeye lamenting that he hates sunrise.
* MrFanservice: Hawkeye and Trapper in the shower stalls.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Hawkeye and Trapper recognise that Weston's injuries did not all come from fighting in the war.
* NoodleIncident: Hawkeye once slipped [[{{Squick}} a pancreas under Margaret's pillow]].
* ReflexiveResponse: Radar informs Hawkeye and Trapper while they're in the shower that Major Burns is giving Henry a lot of static.
--> '''Hawkeye''': Major Burns is loaded with static! He was born in a taxi with the radio on while it was stalled under a bridge.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Frank Burns is sending Ross back to active duty too soon after the man's recovery instead of letting him go and recuperate further at a military hospital in Tokyo because the war needs to be fought. Henry lets him know how dumb that reasoning is.
--> '''Henry''': Frank, you scheduled Ross for active duty?
--> '''Frank''': Yes sir. Tomorrow he'll have his cast off and I'll have him out of traction. I'm giving him a little rubber ball to squeeze.
--> '''Henry''': Frank, who's it going to hurt if he spends one week in Tokyo? I mean, you know, he could take his little rubber ball with him.
--> '''Frank''': May I remind you, sir, that we are fighting a war?
--> '''Henry''': [[DeadpanSnarker Well, that certainly explains all the noise at night]].
--> '''Frank''': This hospital is a vital cog in our fighting machine. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. That's why we can't allow any letdown, in command, or in the ranks.
--> '''Henry''': Frank. You are the only man I know who makes UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington seem like a slacker.
* StraightGay: George Weston.
* TheTag: A little gag punchline involving INeedAFreakingDrink as part of a playful lighthearted argument between Hawkeye and Trapper.
--> '''Trapper''': Would you like a drink before you go?
--> '''Hawkeye''': I thought you'd never ask.
* ValuesDissonance: Frank sets himself against Weston and wants him dismissed with a dishonourable discharge because the private is a homosexual. Weston's war buddies, and the term is used very loosely here, [[ViolenceIsDisturbing are much worse]].
** ValuesResonance: Hawkeye and Trapper put up a valiant fight to stop Frank's attempts to out Weston.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Frank thinks that whenever Hawkeye and Trapper are talking about Hitler, they are really talking about him. What they're actually doing is covering up that they were just talking about the problems Private Weston has been enduring.
* YoureInsane: Hawkeye is bewildered that Private Weston ''wants to go back to the front''.
--> '''Hawkeye''': You want to go back? Keep talking like that, I'll give you a saliva test.
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!!Attention, all personnel. The following tropes occurred in the episode:
* BatmanGambit: Hawkeye and Trapper's [[spoiler: winning]] tactic to get Frank to lay off putting Weston up on a dishonourable discharge.
* BigBad: Frank gradually evolves into this. The volutions is completed halfway through the episode.
* TheCastShowoff: Wayne Rogers as Trapper sings the entirety of "I've Got You Under My Skin" in the opening scene.
* CureYourGays: Frank Burns is of the mindset about homosexuality being a perverted disease.
** So is Margaret, but to a far lesser extreme.
* DeadpanSnarker: In an [[InvertedTrope inverse of their antagonistic relationship]], Frank accuses Hawkeye of being slow and hesitant while operating.
--> '''Frank''': You getting paid by the hour, Pierce?
--> '''Hawkeye''': If I close him up before we remove those other fragments, we'll invalidate his warranty. Permanently.
* {{Determinator}}: George Weston wants to fulfil his tour of duty, no matter what people think of him or his sexuality.
* DudeNotFunny: Hawkeye bizarrely does this to Trapper of all people when Frank yells at the latter to quit singing and Trapper [[{{Troll}} increases his voice volume]].
* EntertaininglyWrong: Trapper and Hawkeye believe that Henry has pulled a FaceHeelTurn and signed the forms Frank Burns wanted him to sign to get Private Weston dishonourably discharged.
--> '''Trapper''': Thanks a lot, Henry.
--> '''Henry''': For what?
--> '''Hawkeye''': For signing those forms for Frank.
--> '''Trapper''': For helping to ruin another man's life.
--> '''Henry''': Can I say one thing?
--> '''Hawkeye''': For once again winning the rubber backbone award.
--> '''Henry''': Pierce, I didn't sign.
--> [''Hawkeye does a DoubleTake'']
--> '''Hawkeye''': [[ReflexiveResponse How dare you do the right thing?]]
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: Despite the title, George Weston is never referred to by his first name, only by his rank or surname.
* EyeTake: Henry is shocked when he discovers Hawkeye has been rubbing his hands instead of his girlfriend.
--> '''Henry''': That was a dirty trick, Pierce.
* FlatWhat: Henry's response when Radar describes his inner ear during a checkup as being like a nativity scene.
* GetOut: Frank threatens Radar, after the clerk informs Hawkeye, Trapper and Margaret he wanted Private Weston left off his patient roster, to leave the mess tent.
--> '''Margaret''': You've taken Private Weston off your day sheet.
--> '''Radar''': He said it gave him the willies to be around him.
--> '''Frank''': You're an enlisted man, Corporal. This is an officers' mess. Do you read me?!
* HilariousInHindsight: Hawkeye jokes about him volunteering to make Radar an officer. In ''Lt. Radar O'Reilly''...
* LampshadeHanging: Frank gets annoyed that whenever he tries to do something or encourages something in a military fashion, Hawkeye is always there to subvert it.
--> '''Frank''': Pierce, why is it we always turn up in the same place?
--> '''Hawkeye''': It only happens when I go tourist.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Invoked by Hawkeye when Frank Burns insists that he doesn't have to take the kind of abuse he's been getting from him and Trapper.
--> '''Hawkeye''': Oh yes you do, Frank. You invite abuse. It would be impolite not to accept it.
* LateToThePunchline: Frank is telling Hawkeye and Trapper that he found out something interesting about a certain someone. Hawkeye slides a StealthInsult in.
--> '''Hawkeye''': Is this person a well-stacked US Army Major nurse, who's bigger than a breadbox that you're seeing on the side.
--> '''Frank''': no. [catches on] No!
* LyricalDissonance: Trapper sings "I've Got You Under My Skin" while operating in the OR.
* MoodWhiplash: We go from Trapper cheerily singing in the OR to a sour Hawkeye lamenting that he hates sunrise.
* MrFanservice: Hawkeye and Trapper in the shower stalls.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Hawkeye and Trapper recognise that Weston's injuries did not all come from fighting in the war.
* NoodleIncident: Hawkeye once slipped [[{{Squick}} a pancreas under Margaret's pillow]].
* ReflexiveResponse: Radar informs Hawkeye and Trapper while they're in the shower that Major Burns is giving Henry a lot of static.
--> '''Hawkeye''': Major Burns is loaded with static! He was born in a taxi with the radio on while it was stalled under a bridge.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Frank Burns is sending Ross back to active duty too soon after the man's recovery instead of letting him go and recuperate further at a military hospital in Tokyo because the war needs to be fought. Henry lets him know how dumb that reasoning is.
--> '''Henry''': Frank, you scheduled Ross for active duty?
--> '''Frank''': Yes sir. Tomorrow he'll have his cast off and I'll have him out of traction. I'm giving him a little rubber ball to squeeze.
--> '''Henry''': Frank, who's it going to hurt if he spends one week in Tokyo? I mean, you know, he could take his little rubber ball with him.
--> '''Frank''': May I remind you, sir, that we are fighting a war?
--> '''Henry''': [[DeadpanSnarker Well, that certainly explains all the noise at night]].
--> '''Frank''': This hospital is a vital cog in our fighting machine. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. That's why we can't allow any letdown, in command, or in the ranks.
--> '''Henry''': Frank. You are the only man I know who makes UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington seem like a slacker.
* StraightGay: George Weston.
* TheTag: A little gag punchline involving INeedAFreakingDrink as part of a playful lighthearted argument between Hawkeye and Trapper.
--> '''Trapper''': Would you like a drink before you go?
--> '''Hawkeye''': I thought you'd never ask.
* ValuesDissonance: Frank sets himself against Weston and wants him dismissed with a dishonourable discharge because the private is a homosexual. Weston's war buddies, and the term is used very loosely here, [[ViolenceIsDisturbing are much worse]].
** ValuesResonance: Hawkeye and Trapper put up a valiant fight to stop Frank's attempts to out Weston.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Frank thinks that whenever Hawkeye and Trapper are talking about Hitler, they are really talking about him. What they're actually doing is covering up that they were just talking about the problems Private Weston has been enduring.
* YoureInsane: Hawkeye is bewildered that Private Weston ''wants to go back to the front''.
--> '''Hawkeye''': You want to go back? Keep talking like that, I'll give you a saliva test.
