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A group of suspected black marketeers attempts to steal penicillin from the 4077th. This brings Col. Flagg to investigate.

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* AmusingInjuries: The lengths Flagg goes to to make it look like Perkins fought and overpowered him and then escaped involved breaking a telephone receive over his head and charging headfirst into a closet.

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* AmusingInjuries: The lengths Flagg goes to to make it look like Perkins fought and overpowered him and then escaped involved breaking a telephone receive receiver over his head and charging headfirst into a closet.
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* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Perkins and his friends have been stealing penicillin from the 4077 and other medical units because the Army won't supply the frontline medical stations with the required amount of the drug.

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* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Perkins and his friends have been stealing penicillin from the 4077 and other medical units because the Army won't supply the frontline medical stations with the required amount of the drug.drug.
** Flagg points out that by trading the penicillin he plans on stealing from the 4077 for information that could avert a battle, he is saving more lives than the doctors can in the aftermath.
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* TheComicallySerious: Colonel Flagg

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* TheComicallySerious: Colonel FlaggFlagg, who could have just as well had his funny bone surgically removed. And he's funnier for it.
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'''Henry''': Well, how proud are you gonna be if I... How are proud are you gonna be if [[RealityEnsues I charge you with deserting your post?]]\\

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'''Henry''': Well, how proud are you gonna be if I... How are proud are you gonna be if [[RealityEnsues I charge you with deserting your post?]]\\post?\\

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--> '''Flagg''': My people need it for barter. They're desperate for it up North, so we use it to buy information.
--> '''Hawkeye''': We use it to save lives.
--> '''Flagg''': If I get information that'll end a battle sooner and information that will avoid an ambush, I'll save more lives than you will.

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--> '''Flagg''': -->'''Flagg''': My people need it for barter. They're desperate for it up North, so we use it to buy information.
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information.\\
'''Hawkeye''': We use it to save lives.
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lives.\\
'''Flagg''': If I get information that'll end a battle sooner and information that will avoid an ambush, I'll save more lives than you will.



--> '''Hawkeye''': It's still seven against one.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Flagg strongly implies this is what he's going to do to get answers out of Perkins.

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--> '''Hawkeye''': -->'''Hawkeye''': It's still seven against one.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Flagg strongly implies this is what he's going to do to get answers out of Perkins. Instead he just lets Perkins go and fakes an assault on himself.



--> '''Henry''': It's sort of a joke.
--> '''Flagg''': We don't joke in the CIA.
--> '''Henry''': Check.
--> '''Flagg''': Leave the jokes to the Kremlin.
--> '''Henry''': Double check.

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--> '''Henry''': -->'''Henry''': It's sort of a joke.
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joke.\\
'''Flagg''': We don't joke in the CIA.
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CIA.\\
'''Henry''': Check.
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Check.\\
'''Flagg''': Leave the jokes to the Kremlin.
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Kremlin.\\
'''Henry''': Double check.



--> '''Margaret''': Isn't there one man among you?
--> '''Hawkeye''': The job's open, Margaret.

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--> '''Margaret''': -->'''Margaret''': Isn't there one man among you?
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you?\\
'''Hawkeye''': The job's open, Margaret.Margaret.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Margaret, by Flagg. When he's apprehended trying to steal the penicillin, she winds up prodding at his midriff.
-->'''Margaret''': [[BlatantLies I'm checking his ribs.]]\\
'''Hawkeye''': [[DeadpanSnarker Should we send out for sauce?]]



--> '''Flagg''': Now, I'm only going to say this once. [beat] [[GetOut Get lost.]]
--> ''Perkins does a suspicious EyeTake''
--> '''Flagg''': Beat it.
--> ''Perkins does a second EyeTake''
--> '''Flagg''': Take a powder.

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--> '''Flagg''': -->'''Flagg''': Now, I'm only going to say this once. [beat] [[GetOut Get lost.]]
-->
]]\\
''Perkins does a suspicious EyeTake''
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EyeTake''\\
'''Flagg''': Beat it.
-->
it.\\
''Perkins does a second EyeTake''
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EyeTake''\\
'''Flagg''': Take a powder.



--> '''Henry''': I'll deal with this. No need for a mob scene.
--> '''Trapper''': I don't know. Seven against one seems fair.

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--> '''Henry''': -->'''Henry''': I'll deal with this. No need for a mob scene.
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scene.\\
'''Trapper''': I don't know. Seven against one seems fair.



--> '''Henry''': If I don't get to the latrine, something will happen that hasn't happened since I was six. If that happens, you'll be in the army until you're a little old whatever-you-are in correction shoes and support stockings. Now blow!
--> '''Klinger''': [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Yes sir.]]

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--> '''Henry''': -->'''Henry''': If I don't get to the latrine, something will happen that hasn't happened since I was six. If that happens, you'll be in the army until you're a little old whatever-you-are in correction shoes and support stockings. Now blow!
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blow!\\
'''Klinger''': [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Yes sir.]]



--> '''Hawkeye''': What are you, the British Navy?

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--> '''Hawkeye''': -->'''Hawkeye''': What are you, the British Navy?



--> '''Trapper''': Gee, the next time you come here, I wish you'd pass out programs.

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--> '''Trapper''': -->'''Trapper''': Gee, the next time you come here, I wish you'd pass out programs.



-->'''Frank''': If you got all the supplies you needed, we wouldn't have anything to inventory! ''[confused look from Perkins''
* SlippingAMickey: Frank suspects Hawkeye and Trapper have been putting something in his coffee, which causes him to cut his date with Margaret short.

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-->'''Frank''': If you got all the supplies you needed, we wouldn't have anything to inventory! ''[confused look from Perkins''
Perkins]''
* SlippingAMickey: Frank suspects Hawkeye and Trapper have been putting something in his coffee, which causes him to cut his date with Margaret short. At the end of the episode, Hawkeye slips something in Flagg's coffee that fakes appendicitis so they can operate on him and get him off their backs.



--> '''Hawkeye''': [[OhCrapSmile Ha.]] Let me put that another way.

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--> '''Hawkeye''': -->'''Hawkeye''': [[OhCrapSmile Ha.]] Let me put that another way.



--> '''Flagg''': Don't cross me, Colonel. We know where your family lives.
--> '''Henry''': Hey. I'm an American too, fella.
--> '''Radar''': [[BerserkButton Yeah]].

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--> '''Flagg''': -->'''Flagg''': Don't cross me, Colonel. We know where your family lives.
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lives.\\
'''Henry''': Hey. I'm an American too, fella.
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fella.\\
'''Radar''': [[BerserkButton Yeah]].



--> '''Perkins''': I didn't sell the stuff.

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--> '''Perkins''': -->'''Perkins''': I didn't sell the stuff.



---> '''Henry''': Frank, how can you be such a peabrain?
---> '''Frank''': Well, Flagg wanted to get on with his torture and, you know, three's a crowd.
---> '''Henry''': I'll not have anyone tortured at the 4077th, Frank. [[SuddenlyShouting We're a hospital!]]
---> '''Frank''': We're also army.
---> '''Henry''': [[NoSell You're army!]] I bet if I cut you, you'd bleed khaki.
---> '''Frank''': And proud of it.
---> '''Henry''': Well, how proud are you gonna be if I... How are proud are you gonna be if I charge you with deserting your post?
---> '''Frank''': [[OhCrap He ordered me to leave]]. [[NeverMyFault He's a superior officer]].
---> '''Henry''': He's a superior ''psycho''. His head's so twisted he's gotta screw his cap on.

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---> '''Henry''': --->'''Henry''': Frank, how can you be such a peabrain?
--->
peabrain?\\
'''Frank''': Well, Flagg wanted to get on with his torture and, you know, three's a crowd.
--->
crowd.\\
'''Henry''': I'll not have anyone tortured at the 4077th, Frank. [[SuddenlyShouting We're a hospital!]]
--->
hospital!]]\\
'''Frank''': We're also army.
--->
army.\\
'''Henry''': [[NoSell You're army!]] I bet if I cut you, you'd bleed khaki.
--->
khaki.\\
'''Frank''': And proud of it.
--->
it.\\
'''Henry''': Well, how proud are you gonna be if I... How are proud are you gonna be if [[RealityEnsues I charge you with deserting your post?
--->
post?]]\\
'''Frank''': [[OhCrap He ordered me to leave]]. [[NeverMyFault He's a superior officer]].
--->
officer]].\\
'''Henry''': He's a superior ''psycho''. His head's so twisted he's gotta screw his cap on.
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* SkewedPriorities: Frank objects to giving "Perkins" the penicillin he needs.
-->'''Frank''': If you got all the supplies you needed, we wouldn't have anything to inventory! ''[confused look from Perkins''
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* RoleReprisal: Wait, do we know Captain Goldberg as someone else in the series. If so, we should put this entry in YouLookFamiliar ... Oh, it's Colonel Flagg in disguise. Never mind.
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!!Attention, all personnel. Please check the supply room for penicillin. There may be some missing.

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!!Attention, all personnel. Please check the supply room for penicillin.penicillin and the following tropes. There may be some missing.
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* GenreSavvy: Hawkeye knows all to well from [[Recap/MashS2E24ASmatteringOfIntelligence experience]] that the injuries Flagg sustained in his "fight" with Perkins could very well have been self-inflicted by the colonel himself.
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--. '''Trapper''': Gee, the next time you come here, I wish you'd pass out programs.

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--. --> '''Trapper''': Gee, the next time you come here, I wish you'd pass out programs.

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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Hawkeye, Trapper and Klinger vs. Colonel Flagg in the supply room. Father Mulcahy's ReactionShot really helps this as well as the hilarity.



* WhiteAnDgREYmORALITY: pERKINS AND HIS FRIENDS HAVE BEEN STEALING PENICILLIN FROM THE 4077 AND OTHER MEDICAL UNITS BECAUSE THE aRMY WON'T SUPPLY THE FRONTLINE MEDICAL STATIONS WITH THE REQUIRED AMOUNT OF THE DRUG.

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* WhiteAnDgREYmORALITY: pERKINS AND HIS FRIENDS HAVE BEEN STEALING PENICILLIN FROM THE WhiteAndGreyMorality: Perkins and his friends have been stealing penicillin from the 4077 AND OTHER MEDICAL UNITS BECAUSE THE aRMY WON'T SUPPLY THE FRONTLINE MEDICAL STATIONS WITH THE REQUIRED AMOUNT OF THE DRUG.and other medical units because the Army won't supply the frontline medical stations with the required amount of the drug.

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* AmusingInjuries: The lengths Flagg goes to to make it look like Perkins fought and overpowered him and then escaped involved breaking a telephone receive over his head and charging headfirst into a closet.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Frank maintains that buying penicillin from the black market is illegal. Hawkeye asks him what's worse, buying from the black market or waging a war.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: In a way, both Flagg and the 4077th's different needs for penicillin are capable of saving lives.
--> '''Flagg''': My people need it for barter. They're desperate for it up North, so we use it to buy information.
--> '''Hawkeye''': We use it to save lives.
--> '''Flagg''': If I get information that'll end a battle sooner and information that will avoid an ambush, I'll save more lives than you will.
* BrokenPedestal: Happens briefly with Margaret when she learns Colonel Flagg was caught trying to steal penicillin.



* ColdBloodedTorture: Flagg strongly implies this is what he's going to do to get answers out of Perkins.



* ColdBloodedTorture: Flagg strongly implies this is what he's going to do to get answers out of Perkins.



* DeadpanSnarker: After Margaret realises too late that Hawkeye and Trapper have caught onto her attraction to Flagg, she makes up the lie that she was just checking his ribs for damage. Hawkeye simply asks if she would like to order some sauce to go with it.



* GenreSavvy: Hawkeye knows all to well from [[Recap/MashS2E24ASmatteringOfIntelligence experience]] that the injuries Flagg sustained in his "fight" with Perkins could very well have been self-inflicted by the colonel himself.
* GreenEyedMonster: Frank gets jealous of the attraction Margaret holds for Colonel Flagg.



* MrExposition: The [=MP=] guard reveals Perkins' identity.



* ReflexiveResponse: After the [=MPs=] bring Perkins in, Frank loudly suggests he should be flogged.
--> '''Hawkeye''': What are you, the British Navy?



* RunningGag: Goldberg, Perkins, Flagg. Which is which?
--. '''Trapper''': Gee, the next time you come here, I wish you'd pass out programs.



* ThatCameOutWrong: Hawkeye tells Flagg the only he will be leaving the 4077th with any penicillin is over his dead body. This earns him a DeathGlare from the menacing CIA man.
--> '''Hawkeye''': [[OhCrapSmile Ha.]] Let me put that another way.



--> '''Perkins''': I didn't sell the stuff.

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--> '''Perkins''': I didn't sell the stuff.stuff.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Margaret scolds Hawkeye and Trapper for bothering Flagg.
** Henry rips into Frank with an epic one after knowing the major left Perkins alone with Flagg.
---> '''Henry''': Frank, how can you be such a peabrain?
---> '''Frank''': Well, Flagg wanted to get on with his torture and, you know, three's a crowd.
---> '''Henry''': I'll not have anyone tortured at the 4077th, Frank. [[SuddenlyShouting We're a hospital!]]
---> '''Frank''': We're also army.
---> '''Henry''': [[NoSell You're army!]] I bet if I cut you, you'd bleed khaki.
---> '''Frank''': And proud of it.
---> '''Henry''': Well, how proud are you gonna be if I... How are proud are you gonna be if I charge you with deserting your post?
---> '''Frank''': [[OhCrap He ordered me to leave]]. [[NeverMyFault He's a superior officer]].
---> '''Henry''': He's a superior ''psycho''. His head's so twisted he's gotta screw his cap on.
* WhiteAnDgREYmORALITY: pERKINS AND HIS FRIENDS HAVE BEEN STEALING PENICILLIN FROM THE 4077 AND OTHER MEDICAL UNITS BECAUSE THE aRMY WON'T SUPPLY THE FRONTLINE MEDICAL STATIONS WITH THE REQUIRED AMOUNT OF THE DRUG.

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* CallBack:
** Upon discovering Corporal Perkins is a stolen identity, Colonel Flagg wonders who the man could be. Henry lamely suggests he could be Perkins in the CIA. Flagg retorts against it because he's Perkins in the CIA. This is not the first time the name Perkins has been used as a gag when Colonel Flagg's around.
** Trapper reminds Flagg of the last time he was at the 4077 [[Recap/MashS2E24ASmatteringOfIntelligence when he broke his own arm]]. However, this presents a ContinuitySnarl as that was not [[Recap/MashS3E3OfficerOfTheDay the last time]] Colonel Flagg came to the 4077.
* TheCavalryArrivesLate: Frank arms himself with a rifle right after Perkins has been captured. Hawkeye throws a StealthInsult in response, using a remark Trapper had just made (see NoHoldsBarredBeatdown entry).
--> '''Hawkeye''': It's still seven against one.
* TheComicallySerious: Colonel Flagg
--> '''Henry''': It's sort of a joke.
--> '''Flagg''': We don't joke in the CIA.
--> '''Henry''': Check.
--> '''Flagg''': Leave the jokes to the Kremlin.
--> '''Henry''': Double check.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Flagg strongly implies this is what he's going to do to get answers out of Perkins.



* DeadPersonImpersonation: The real Perkins was killed in action a month ago.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Hawkeye and Trapper try to get answers out of Perkins as they tend to his injuries. He remains (mostly) quiet.



* ExactWords: When Flagg meets Perkins and orders him to get up, he tells the thief that he's only going to give a particular command once. [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint Perkins takes a while to get the hint]], leaving Flagg to adopt a DistinctionWithoutADifference tactic.
--> '''Flagg''': Now, I'm only going to say this once. [beat] [[GetOut Get lost.]]
--> ''Perkins does a suspicious EyeTake''
--> '''Flagg''': Beat it.
--> ''Perkins does a second EyeTake''
--> '''Flagg''': Take a powder.



* ImpliedDeathThreat: When Radar sticks up for Colonel Blake, Flagg orders him to be quiet or he'll use him to clean a cannon.



* OhCrap: Klinger is adamant that he cannot let Henry pass since the colonel did not give him the correct password. This drives Henry to fury and he threatens to make sure Klinger's stay in the army will last a whole lot longer if he's not allowed through. Given the fact Klinger is [[CharacterTics trying to get out of the army]], he caves.

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* OhCrap: NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Trapper is not opposed to this after Perkins held a gun against them all.
--> '''Henry''': I'll deal with this. No need for a mob scene.
--> '''Trapper''': I don't know. Seven against one seems fair.
* OhCrap:
**
Klinger is adamant that he cannot let Henry pass since the colonel did not give him the correct password. This drives Henry to fury and he threatens to make sure Klinger's stay in the army will last a whole lot longer if he's not allowed through. Given the fact Klinger is [[CharacterTics trying to get out of the army]], he caves.



** Henry gets the dangerous feeling that Colonel Flagg may be more [[AxCrazy crazy]] and [[KnightTemplar malevolent]] than he has been before.



* SlippingAMickey: Frank suspects Hawkeye and Trapper have been putting something in his coffee, which causes him to cut his date with Margaret short.

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* RoleReprisal: Wait, do we know Captain Goldberg as someone else in the series. If so, we should put this entry in YouLookFamiliar ... Oh, it's Colonel Flagg in disguise. Never mind.
* SlippingAMickey: Frank suspects Hawkeye and Trapper have been putting something in his coffee, which causes him to cut his date with Margaret short.short.
* SpeakInUnison: After Perkins is captured by Klinger, everyone's questioning as to who he is and what they should do with him overlaps one another.
* TheStarscream: Flagg is apparently aware of a plot being masterminded by the CIA to overthrow the President of the United States.
* StealthInsult: Hawkeye tells Flagg that he should take a rest at a place with [[RuleOfThree a soft bed, soft chair, and soft walls]]. For once, Flagg doesn't get it.
* TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: Colonel Flagg infers that he'll go after Henry's family if the colonel interferes with him taking Perkins into his custody.
--> '''Flagg''': Don't cross me, Colonel. We know where your family lives.
--> '''Henry''': Hey. I'm an American too, fella.
--> '''Radar''': [[BerserkButton Yeah]].
* WhamLine: Hawkeye suspects Perkins and his gang of thieves of trying to steal the penicillin so they could sell it on the black market. Remaining silent up until that point, Perkins quietly refutes the accusation.
--> '''Perkins''': I didn't sell the stuff.
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!!Attention, all personnel. Please check the supply room for penicillin. There may be some missing.
* ConvenientlyTimedDistraction: An armed Perkins is holding most of the main cast at bay with a rifle, unknowingly backing himself toward Father Mulcahy's tent. When the chaplain emerges to investigate the commotion, Perkins instinctually turns toward him. His back now to the others, he is taken down and restrained by Klinger.
* DirtyCoward: When Perkins is holding all of them at riflepoint, Margaret accuses Henry, Trapper and Hawkeye of being this instead of charging forward to take Perkins. Knowing how reckless that is, Hawkeye [[DeadpanSnarker snarks quietly]] at her.
--> '''Margaret''': Isn't there one man among you?
--> '''Hawkeye''': The job's open, Margaret.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: The episode opens this way with Klinger wearing high heels while on guard duty.
* {{Irony}}: Father Mulcahy is heard giving thanks to God for getting the people of MASH 4077 through another day without too much trouble, just as the thieves are sneaking behind his tent.
* MassOhCrap: Perkins is trying to escape after being seen by Klinger, but is pursued by Henry Blake and cornered and held at riflepoint by Klinger. Then he snatches the rifle from Klinger and points it at the two of them. The noise the situation created leads the rest of the main cast to investigate.
* OhCrap: Klinger is adamant that he cannot let Henry pass since the colonel did not give him the correct password. This drives Henry to fury and he threatens to make sure Klinger's stay in the army will last a whole lot longer if he's not allowed through. Given the fact Klinger is [[CharacterTics trying to get out of the army]], he caves.
--> '''Henry''': If I don't get to the latrine, something will happen that hasn't happened since I was six. If that happens, you'll be in the army until you're a little old whatever-you-are in correction shoes and support stockings. Now blow!
--> '''Klinger''': [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Yes sir.]]
* OverlyLongGag: The thieves sneak behind a total of four tents and overhear, in order, Father Mulcahy uttering a prayer of thanks, Hawkeye and an unnamed nurse on a date, Trapper asking his date when her roommate (Hawkeye's date) would be getting back, and finally [[RuleOfThree another date]] between Frank and Margaret. By the end of the gag, Perkins rolls his eyes.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Henry gives Klinger the password from the previous week, thinking this trope is in play. He then whines when he is InstantlyProvenWrong.
* SlippingAMickey: Frank suspects Hawkeye and Trapper have been putting something in his coffee, which causes him to cut his date with Margaret short.

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