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** The above example also counts for Flagg; he's wearing it to impersonate a Chinese double agent. When Potter points out that he doesn't look Chinese, Flagg counters that the double agent wouldn't look Chinese either if dressed like that.

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-->'''Frank:''' Sir, I think the Chinese have captured Major Houlihan.
-->'''Col. Potter:''' I see. So, naturally, you shot Captain Hunnicutt.

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-->'''Frank:''' Sir, I think the Chinese have captured Major Houlihan.
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Potter:''' I see. So, naturally, you shot Captain Hunnicutt.



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-->'''Hawkeye''': Why stop there? Why not just drop an atomic bomb?
-->'''Col. Flagg''' [smiling]: Hey... don't try and make friends with me.

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-->'''Hawkeye''': Why stop there? Why not just drop an atomic bomb?
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bomb?\\
'''Col.
Flagg''' [smiling]: Hey... don't try and make friends with me.

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--> '''Frank:''' Sir, I think the Chinese have captured Major Houlihan.
--> '''Col. Potter:''' I see. So, naturally, you shot Captain Hunnicutt.

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--> '''Frank:''' -->'''Frank:''' Sir, I think the Chinese have captured Major Houlihan.
--> '''Col.-->'''Col. Potter:''' I see. So, naturally, you shot Captain Hunnicutt.



--> '''Radar:''' There might be naked female personnel showering in there with their clothes off!

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--> '''Radar:''' -->'''Radar:''' There might be naked female personnel showering in there with their clothes off!



--> '''Hawkeye''': Why stop there? Why not just drop an atomic bomb?
--> '''Col. Flagg''' [smiling]: Hey...don't try and make friends with me.

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--> '''Hawkeye''': -->'''Hawkeye''': Why stop there? Why not just drop an atomic bomb?
--> '''Col.-->'''Col. Flagg''' [smiling]: Hey... don't try and make friends with me.



-->'''B.J.:''' I've been sitting here quietly for a long time, and there's something I'd like to say now, Colonel...Goodbye.

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-->'''B.J.:''' I've been sitting here quietly for a long time, and there's something I'd like to say now, Colonel...Goodbye. goodbye.



* WakingNonSequitur: Radar gives up on waking up Klinger when the latter mumbles "Honey, let's get back in the front seat! Here come the cops!"

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* WakingNonSequitur: Radar gives up on waking up Klinger when the latter mumbles mumbles, "Honey, let's get back in the front seat! Here come the cops!"cops!"
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-->'''B.J.:''' There's something I've been wanting to say for a long time...I'm leaving.

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-->'''B.J.:''' There's something I've been wanting to say sitting here quietly for a long time...I'm leaving.time, and there's something I'd like to say now, Colonel...Goodbye.
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** Earlier in the episode, Flagg walks in [[PaperThingDisguise dressed in an Italian uniform with dark glasses and a fake mustache]]. Radar sees through the disguise immediately.

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** Earlier in the episode, Flagg walks in [[PaperThingDisguise [[PaperThinDisguise dressed in an Italian uniform with dark glasses and a fake mustache]]. Radar sees through the disguise immediately.
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** Earlier in the episode, Flagg walks in dressed in an Italian uniform with dark glasses and a fake mustache. Radar sees through the disguise immediately.

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** Earlier in the episode, Flagg walks in [[PaperThingDisguise dressed in an Italian uniform with dark glasses and a fake mustache.mustache]]. Radar sees through the disguise immediately.
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: See InsaneTrollLogic, since Flagg actually thinks that it's plausible but for that one bit of inaccuracy.

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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: See InsaneTrollLogic, since Flagg actually thinks that it's plausible but for that one bit of inaccuracy.inaccuracy.
* WakingNonSequitur: Radar gives up on waking up Klinger when the latter mumbles "Honey, let's get back in the front seat! Here come the cops!"
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: After Frank shoots B.J., Hawkeye and Potter discuss Frank's SanitySlippage that will have him gone by the end of the season.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: B.J.'s reaction when he hears the lengths Col. Flagg is going to in order to find Margaret:
-->'''B.J.:''' There's something I've been wanting to say for a long time...I'm leaving.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
-->'''Radar:''' Sir, I was just looking in the nurses' shower.
-->'''Hawkeye:''' I told you [[ADateWithRosiePalms you wouldn't go blind]].

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
-->'''Radar:''' Sir, I was just looking
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 nurses' shower.
-->'''Hawkeye:''' I told you [[ADateWithRosiePalms you wouldn't go blind]].
future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Colonel Potter after BJ is injured.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Colonel Potter after BJ B.J. is injured.



* JugglingLoadedGuns: Frank Burns once again provides a clear-cut example of how ''not'' to safely handle a gun. He ends up shooting BJ in the leg.

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* JugglingLoadedGuns: Frank Burns once again provides a clear-cut example of how ''not'' to safely handle a gun. He ends up shooting BJ B.J. in the leg.
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Margaret leaves the camp to help a Korean woman deliver a baby. Unfortunately, the only person she tells is Klinger, who goes to sleep without informing anyone else. Next morning, the rest of the camp is in a panic over Margaret's seeming disappearance. Colonel Flagg drops by and adds to the confusion.

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--> '''Radar''': There might be naked female personnel showering in there with their clothes off!

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--> '''Radar''': '''Radar:''' There might be naked female personnel showering in there with their clothes off!off!
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
-->'''Radar:''' Sir, I was just looking in the nurses' shower.
-->'''Hawkeye:''' I told you [[ADateWithRosiePalms you wouldn't go blind]].
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-->'''Flagg:''' I'll but that. For now.

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-->'''Flagg:''' I'll but buy that. For now.

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** Earlier in the episode, Flagg walks in dressed in an Italian uniform with dark glasses and a fake mustache. Radar sees through the disguise immediately.
-->'''Flagg:''' Alright, what tipped you off?
-->'''Radar:''' Well you don't look anything like you sir. And since you're a master of disguise I figured you were the only one who could look so much not like you, sir.
-->'''Flagg:''' I'll but that. For now.



* PaperThinDisguise: Radar immediately sees through Col. Flagg's disguise and reports his arrival to Col. Potter.

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** And why does he want them? "It's personal. Gift for a friend."
* PaperThinDisguise: Both Radar and Col. Potter immediately sees see through Col. Flagg's disguise and reports his arrival to Col. Potter.disguise.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Margaret tells only Klinger that she's leaving the camp to help deliver a baby. He soon finishes his guard duty shift and falls asleep without telling anyone else. When asked if he knows where Margaret is, he drowsily responds with, "She's having a baby."

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* PoorCommunicationKills: Margaret tells only Klinger that she's leaving the camp to help deliver a baby. He soon finishes his guard duty shift and falls asleep without telling anyone else. When asked if he knows where Margaret is, he drowsily responds with, "She's having a baby.""
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: See InsaneTrollLogic, since Flagg actually thinks that it's plausible but for that one bit of inaccuracy.
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That didn't happen in this episode. That was in Margaret's Engagement.


* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Not knowing where Houlihan is doesn't do wonders for Frank's psyche, enough that he runs off to try and be Rambo and ends up taking a ''South'' Korean family that was just eating dinner hostage and marching them back to camp as ''prisoners of war.''
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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Not knowing where Houlihan is doesn't do wonders for Frank's psyche, enough that he runs off to try and be Rambo and ends up taking a ''South'' Korean family that was just eating dinner hostage and marching them back to camp as ''prisoners of war.''
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* InsaneTrollLogic: As always with Col. Flagg. Parodied by Hawkeye and B.J. when Flagg accuses Frank of being responsible for Margaret's disappearance:
-->'''Flagg:''' You were insanely jealous of her engagement. You were furious at being rejected. You were capable of murder!
-->'''Hawkeye:''' That's right! So you hit her over the head with a blunt instrument.
-->'''B.J.:''' A saxophone.
-->'''Hawkeye:''' Then you hypnotized her and told her she was Johnny Ray.
-->'''B.J.:''' Then you performed plastic surgery on her, made her look like Johnny.
-->'''Hawkeye:''' The rest is obvious. You stuck her in a trunk, you mailed her to Las Vegas, and now she's doing two shows a night at The Sands.
-->'''B.J.:''' Three on Saturdays.
-->'''Flagg:''' There's only one flaw in that theory.
-->'''Hawkeye:''' Only one?
-->'''Flagg:''' They don't do three shows a night on Saturday at The Sands.
-->'''Hawkeye:''' How do you know?
-->'''Flagg:''' I was a showgirl for six weeks


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* NoodleImplements: Flagg wants Radar to get a box of about a dozen scorpions - and if he can't find those, to get two snakes and a rat.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Radar is intimidated by the prospect of having to search for Margaret in the women's showers:
--> '''Radar''': There might be naked female personnel showering in there with their clothes off!
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* InsultBackfire: Hawkeye is horrified at the extreme measures Col. Flagg is proposing to find Margaret:
--> '''Hawkeye''': Why stop there? Why not just drop an atomic bomb?
--> '''Col. Flagg''' [smiling]: Hey...don't try and make friends with me.

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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Frank Burns once again provides a clear-cut example of how ''not'' to safely handle a gun. He ends up shooting BJ in the leg.


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* JugglingLoadedGuns: Frank Burns once again provides a clear-cut example of how ''not'' to safely handle a gun. He ends up shooting BJ in the leg.
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The cleaning example is a different episode.


* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Frank Burns once again provides a clear-cut example of how ''not'' to safely handle a gun, primarily cleaning it while it's still loaded. He ends up shooting BJ in the leg.

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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Frank Burns once again provides a clear-cut example of how ''not'' to safely handle a gun, primarily cleaning it while it's still loaded.gun. He ends up shooting BJ in the leg.
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!!Attention, all personnel! The following tropes have been recovered during the search for Major Houlihan:
* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Frank Burns once again provides a clear-cut example of how ''not'' to safely handle a gun, primarily cleaning it while it's still loaded. He ends up shooting BJ in the leg.
* DeadpanSnarker: Colonel Potter after BJ is injured.
--> '''Frank:''' Sir, I think the Chinese have captured Major Houlihan.
--> '''Col. Potter:''' I see. So, naturally, you shot Captain Hunnicutt.
* PaperThinDisguise: Radar immediately sees through Col. Flagg's disguise and reports his arrival to Col. Potter.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Margaret tells only Klinger that she's leaving the camp to help deliver a baby. He soon finishes his guard duty shift and falls asleep without telling anyone else. When asked if he knows where Margaret is, he drowsily responds with, "She's having a baby."

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