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Hawkeye and Trapper try to unite a Korean medic with his family when they find out he is about to become a father. As usual, Frank interferes. They also discover out a young GI isn't telling the whole truth about his upcoming marriage to a Korean woman.

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** Apparently, Hawkey and Trapper have met the sleazy Dr Pak before.

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** Apparently, Hawkey Hawkeye and Trapper have met the sleazy Dr Pak before.
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** McShane is implied to have been at the 4077th for a while.

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** McShane [=McShane=] is implied to have been at the 4077th for a while.
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* ShoutOut: Trapper mentions Literature/TheGoodEarth. This reminds Radar the unit is getting the 1937 film version for Movie Night next week.

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* ShoutOut: Trapper mentions Literature/TheGoodEarth.''Literature/TheGoodEarth''. This reminds Radar the unit is getting the 1937 film version for Movie Night next week.

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* AggressiveCategorism: Frank will praise the fair-skinned American [=McShane=] for doing a fine job as an orderly but will not take a sincere apology from the Korean Mr Kwang for this reason.

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* AggressiveCategorism: Frank will praise the fair-skinned American [=McShane=] for doing a fine job as an orderly but will not take a sincere apology from the Korean Mr Mr. Kwang for this reason.



%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Henry with the word [[OverusedRunningGag 'signing'.]]
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Mister Kwang appears in the episodes Rainbow Bridge, There Is Nothing Like a Nurse and Bombed.


** Kwang and [=McShane=] are both implied to have been at the 4077th for a while.

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** Kwang and [=McShane=] are both McShane is implied to have been at the 4077th for a while.
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* FaintInShock: On a bus, when a wounded Mrs. Kwang goes into labor, Radar practically has a HeroicBSOD.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The whole scene involving Mrs Kwang giving birth to her son. Though DiscretionShot is heavily used, it's amazing this got past the censors of early 1970s television.

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The whole scene involving Mrs Kwang giving birth GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to her son. Though DiscretionShot overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is heavily used, it's amazing on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this got past in the censors of early 1970s television.future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* RoleReprisal: Johnny Haymer as Zelmo Zale.
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* BilingualBonus: Kwang wishes Hawkeye good luck in Korean after he and Radar volunteer to bring Kwang's pregnant wife to the 4077th.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Averted for [[spoiler: [=McShane=].]] The young [[spolier: orderly]] is nothing more than a greedy opportunist.

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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Averted for [[spoiler: [=McShane=].]] The young [[spolier: [[spoiler: orderly]] is nothing more than a greedy opportunist.
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* ButtMonkey: Radar, in the second half of the episode.



* {{Foil}}: Despite the two rarely interacting, the episode presents Kwang and [=McShane=] as this. Kwang has been missing his beloved wife as he hasn't seen her since the war broke out and has become desperate to get back to her, especially upon knowing that she's about to give birth to their first child. [=McShane=] seems to be head-over-heels with Soong Hi, a Korean woman he wants to marry, but it's all a facade as he's done a deal with Pak's marriage racket for $1,000.



** Radar gets top billing in the naming of Kwang's newborn son as a thank you for the pass he let him have. This leads Henry to realise Radar was the one who manipulated him into signing the pass.



* RunningGag: Becuase of the way Radar manipulated Henry into signing the three-day pass meant for Kwang, Henry cannot ever recall signing the pass, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero which would exonerate Kwang for possessing a forged pass]]. Even at the end with his EurekaMoment, he still doesn't get how his signature was on the pass, thinking Radar did the forgery.



--> '''Trapper''': Find us a sane war somewhere, Frank.

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--> '''Trapper''': Find us a sane war somewhere, Frank.Frank.
* WrongGenreSavvy: When Kwang thanks Radar for the three-day pass by naming his son after him, Henry believes Radar has been forging his signature for said pass, never realising that Radar just manipulated ''him'' into signing the pass.

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* BabiesEverAfter: Radar Benjamin Franklin Trapper John Henry Kwang is born at the episode's conclusion.



* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Averted for [[spoiler: [=McShane=].]] The young [[spolier: orderly]] is nothing more than a greedy opportunist.



* BigBrotherIsWatching: Henry believes the Army has been keeping an eye on him through Frank.
* BlatantLies: Frank tries to cover his listening in at Henry's door as him just checking the locks.



* {{Gaslighting}}: Hawkeye, Trapper and even Radar pull this to make sure Henry doesn't realise they manipulated him into signing a pass for Kwang.
** [=McShane=] thinks Trapper is trying to pull this on him when the doctor informs him Soong Hi has tuberculosis. Trapper proceeds to show him the medical report saying so.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The whole scene involving Mrs Kwang giving birth to her son. Though DiscretionShot is heavily used, it's amazing this got past the censors of early 1970s television.



* LaserGuidedKarma: [=McShane's=] deal with Pak and his marriage racket falls through when Soong Hi's medical exam reveals she has tuberculosis.



** Radar [[JawDrop jawdrops]] when he sees on a map just how close Kwang's home village is to enemy lines.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: It turns out [=McShane=] is only interested in getting married to Soong Hi for the money Dr Pak is offering him.
* RapidFireNo: Radar during the birth-giving scene.



* RoleReprisal: Johnney Haymer as Zelmo Zale.

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* RoleReprisal: Johnney Johnny Haymer as Zelmo Zale.


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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Dr Pak flees for his life when Hawkeye and Trapper threaten to break his legs for bribing them to go along with his marriage racket.


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* ShoutOut: Trapper mentions Literature/TheGoodEarth. This reminds Radar the unit is getting the 1937 film version for Movie Night next week.

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* BackAlleyDoctor: Dr Pak
--> '''Hawkeye''': Still doing those phoney operations with fake stitches?
--> '''Trapper''': And using hair cream for penicillin?



* CardGames: Hawkeye, Radar, Trapper, Henry and Zale play a round of poker after the premarital exams.
* ComicallySmallBribe: Hawkeye asks Radar to get him a three-day pass for Mr Kwang in exchange for a book about reproduction. It works.
* {{Conscription}}: This is how Mr Kwang came to be part of the staff at MASH 4077.
--> '''Kwang''': I was a student at the University of Seoul when the war broke out.
--> '''Hawkeye''': So much for school.
--> '''Kwang''': Walking there one day, two soldiers jumped out of a truck and threw me into the back. At that moment, I realised [[GotVolunteered I'd volunteered.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: SoreLoser Zelmo Zale complains that officers always seem to have better luck at winning poker games.
--> '''Zale''': Why do the officers win the big pots when they got everything else going for them?
--> '''Hawkeye''': Don't give me that poor GI crapola, Zale. You mailed home three Jeeps and two-thirds of a truck.
--> '''Henry''': You're not doing that, are ya?



* YouAreBetterThankYouThinkYouAre: Henry tries to console Frank with this after Hawkeye and Trapper's round of verbal jabs at him in the OR. It doesn't work so well because Frank's ego gets in the way.

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* YouAreBetterThankYouThinkYouAre: OhCrap:
** When [=McShane=] introduces Hawkeye and Trapper to the Korean woman he wants to marry, the doctors recognise her as a middle-aged call girl from Rosie's Bar.
** During a game of poker held at the Swamp, the players hear loud arguing outside, arguing that is followed by a gunshot.
* RememberTheNewGuy:
** Kwang and [=McShane=] are both implied to have been at the 4077th for a while.
** Apparently, Hawkey and Trapper have met the sleazy Dr Pak before.
* RoleReprisal: Johnney Haymer as Zelmo Zale.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Hawkeye illegally gets a three-day pass for Mr Kwang so the man can visit his wife by applying to Radar for help.
* ShipperOnDeck: Radar supports Danny [=McShane=] in his wanting to get married so much that he gives Hawkeye and Trapper a WhatTheHellHero for interfering. Unfortunately, it turns out his support was misguided.
* TemptingFate: Frank claims that he can handle a firearm as well as the best of them. Cue his pistol going off in his hand and shooting out a light.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre:
Henry tries to console Frank with this after Hawkeye and Trapper's round of verbal jabs at him in the OR. It doesn't work so well because Frank's ego gets in the way.


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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Henry with the word [[OverusedRunningGag 'signing'.]]
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!!Attention, all personnel! Please prepare for your premarital exam by reading the following tropes:
* AggressiveCategorism: Frank will praise the fair-skinned American [=McShane=] for doing a fine job as an orderly but will not take a sincere apology from the Korean Mr Kwang for this reason.
* BerserkButton: Once again, Frank bursts into a fiery temper when Hawkeye insults his surgical ability.
--> '''Frank''': I don't need this abuse!
* NeverMyFault: An overwrought Frank blames Kwang for a mess-up in the OR.
* YouAreBetterThankYouThinkYouAre: Henry tries to console Frank with this after Hawkeye and Trapper's round of verbal jabs at him in the OR. It doesn't work so well because Frank's ego gets in the way.
--> '''Henry''': Frank, I don't know why you let them bother you. You know you're a good surgeon.
--> '''Frank''': Of course I'm a terrific surgeon.
--> '''Henry''': Who said terrific? I said fair.
--> '''Frank''': You said good.
* YoureInsane: Frank has a few choice words to say about the 4077th.
--> '''Frank''': I cannot work in this madhouse!
--> '''Trapper''': Find us a sane war somewhere, Frank.

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