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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Yossarian is described as Assyrian in the book. It's never addressed in the series, and he is noticeably darker than his fellow airmen. The actor is of Italian and Portuguese descent.
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* TestesTest: Yossarian takes a piece of shrapnel across his scrotum when he's shot down flying with Orr. When he's being patched up later by a village doctor who doesn't speak English, he ends up using knickknacks from the end table to ask the doc through pantomime if both his testicles are still intact. [[spoiler:He and Daneeka later try to use the (healed) injury as a reason Yossarian should be medically discharged, only for Scheissekopf to order Yossarian to drop his pants and personally check whether his genitals are intact.]]
* ThirdPartyDealBreaker: Yossarian manages to {{blackmail}} Colonel Cathcart into agreeing to let him rotate home to the States [[spoiler:in exchange for [[EveryManHasHisPrice keeping mum about Aarfy raping and murdering a woman in Rome]]]], only for General Scheissekopf to override Cathcart his first day on base in petty vengeance for Yo-Yo cuckolding him at the start of the series. (In the book he never found out about the affair.)

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* TestesTest: Yossarian takes a piece of shrapnel across his scrotum when he's shot down flying with Orr. When he's being patched up later by a village doctor who doesn't speak English, he ends up using knickknacks from the end table to ask the doc through pantomime if both his testicles are still intact. [[spoiler:He and Daneeka later try to use the (healed) injury as a reason Yossarian should be medically discharged, only for Scheissekopf Scheisskopf to order Yossarian to drop his pants and personally check whether his genitals are intact.]]
* ThirdPartyDealBreaker: Yossarian manages to {{blackmail}} Colonel Cathcart into agreeing to let him rotate home to the States [[spoiler:in exchange for [[EveryManHasHisPrice keeping mum about Aarfy raping and murdering a woman in Rome]]]], only for General Scheissekopf Scheisskopf to override Cathcart his first day on base in petty vengeance for Yo-Yo cuckolding him at the start of the series. (In the book he never found out about the affair.)

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* TestesTest: Yossarian takes a piece of shrapnel across his scrotum when he's shot down flying with Orr. When he's being patched up later by a village doctor who doesn't speak English, he ends up using knickknacks from the end table to ask the doc through pantomime if both his testicles are still intact.

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* TestesTest: Yossarian takes a piece of shrapnel across his scrotum when he's shot down flying with Orr. When he's being patched up later by a village doctor who doesn't speak English, he ends up using knickknacks from the end table to ask the doc through pantomime if both his testicles are still intact. [[spoiler:He and Daneeka later try to use the (healed) injury as a reason Yossarian should be medically discharged, only for Scheissekopf to order Yossarian to drop his pants and personally check whether his genitals are intact.]]
* ThirdPartyDealBreaker: Yossarian manages to {{blackmail}} Colonel Cathcart into agreeing to let him rotate home to the States [[spoiler:in exchange for [[EveryManHasHisPrice keeping mum about Aarfy raping and murdering a woman in Rome]]]], only for General Scheissekopf to override Cathcart his first day on base in petty vengeance for Yo-Yo cuckolding him at the start of the series. (In the book he never found out about the affair.)
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* AdaptedOut: Much of the supporting cast, given the novel's LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. Some of the notable cuts to the cast include Hungry Joe, Chief White Halfoat, General Peckem, Ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, and Appleby.

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* AdaptedOut: Much of the supporting cast, given the novel's LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.number of characters. Some of the notable cuts to the cast include Hungry Joe, Chief White Halfoat, General Peckem, Ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, and Appleby.
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** "Scheisskopf" literally means "shithead", and he's the most odious character in the series.

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** "Scheisskopf" literally means "shithead", "shithead," and he's the most odious character in the series.

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** "Scheisskopf" literally means "shithead," and he's the most odious character in the series.

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** "Scheisskopf" literally means "shithead," "shithead", and he's the most odious character in the series.


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* TestesTest: Yossarian takes a piece of shrapnel across his scrotum when he's shot down flying with Orr. When he's being patched up later by a village doctor who doesn't speak English, he ends up using knickknacks from the end table to ask the doc through pantomime if both his testicles are still intact.
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''Catch-22'' is a six-episode miniseries adaptation of the [[Literature/Catch22 novel of the same name]] that premiered on Creator/{{Hulu}} in 2019. The series was written by Luke Davies and David Michôd, and features Creator/GeorgeClooney as an actor, executive producer and director. The series stars Christopher Abbott as Yossarian, leading an ensemble cast.

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''Catch-22'' is a six-episode miniseries adaptation of the [[Literature/Catch22 novel of the same name]] that premiered on Creator/{{Hulu}} in 2019. The series was written by Luke Davies and David Michôd, and features Creator/GeorgeClooney as an actor, executive producer and director. The series stars Christopher Abbott Creator/ChristopherAbbott as Yossarian, leading an ensemble cast.
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* AdaptationalLateAppearance: General Dreedle (played by Peter Guinness) only appears at the end of the very last episode.

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* AdaptationalLateAppearance: General Dreedle (played by Peter Guinness) Creator/PeterGuinness) only appears at the end of the very last episode.
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* RunningGag: Milo explaining how his business ventures work is usually drowned out by something incredibly loud in the background.
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Very little about the story follows real military rules of the age. The whole point was making war seem absurd.
** There's no such thing as Catch-22.
** Local officers could not arbitrarily raise the mission quota. That was decided at the very top.
** There actually are specific rules for returning to base with broken comms, so no pilot would be pilloried for doing so, though the mission would not count against his quota.
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* MaleGaze: Perhaps as a nod to the book's HoYay moments, there are a few shots of the Chaplain that can only be described as this--especially the funeral scene, if only for a brief moment.
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** DownplayedTrope: While John Yossarian is still the lead character's name, he's almost exclusively referred to as "Yo-Yo." He was referred to as such late in the book by some NewMeat that had moved into his tent, but disliked the nickname.

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** DownplayedTrope: While John Yossarian is still the lead character's name, he's almost exclusively referred to as "Yo-Yo." He was referred to as such late in the book by some NewMeat that had moved into his tent, but disliked the nickname. nickname; Yossarian is, however, consistently referred to as "Yo-Yo" throughout the novel's sequel, ''Closing Time.''
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** Scheisskopf, while still obsessed with parades, is presented as having a bit more intelligence than his book counterpart in that he isn't prioritising the parades over the flying of combat missions and that he's actually aware that Yossarian had been sleeping with his wife.
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** DownplayedTrope: While John Yossarian is still the lead character's name, he's almost exclusively referred to as "Yo-Yo."

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** DownplayedTrope: While John Yossarian is still the lead character's name, he's almost exclusively referred to as "Yo-Yo."" He was referred to as such late in the book by some NewMeat that had moved into his tent, but disliked the nickname.

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** The mess officer before Milo (played by Daniel David Stewart) is Schultz (played by Shai Matheson) instead of Corporal Snark.
** The base leader before Colonel Cathcart (played by Creator/KyleChandler) is referred to as Colonel Copeland instead of Colonel Nevers.
** A character with a similar function to the novel's Major Metcalf turns up known as Peele (played by Ian Toner).



* AdaptationalKarma: Inverted: Milo Minderbinder (played in the miniseries by Daniel David Stewart) never suffers any setbacks in his running of the syndicate, while in the novel he starts having problems later in the story, such as buying too many cotton balls and desperately trying to pass them off as candy by dipping them in chocolate.

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* AdaptationalKarma: Inverted: Milo Minderbinder (played in the miniseries by Daniel David Stewart) never suffers any setbacks in his running of the syndicate, while in the novel he starts having problems later in the story, such as buying too many cotton balls and desperately trying to pass them off as candy by dipping them in chocolate.

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