1 | Margaret Houlihan receives a letter from an old friend who describes that she has been doing so well in her personal life that it causes Margaret to realise her choice of a professional career in the army has led her nowhere in hers. This leads her too look at her current lifestyle a second time, and a result, decides to change it around by making a few important choices such as getting a transfer from the 4077. |
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4 | !!Attention, all personnel! The departure of Major Houlihan will be celebrated with ice cream and the following tropes: |
5 | * ActuallyPrettyFunny: When Margaret calls Henry "nothing but a spineless, mealy-mouthed, fly-fishing impostor", he can't help but laugh at Trapper & Hawkeye's reply: |
6 | --> '''Trapper''': He's not an imposter. |
7 | --> '''Hawkeye''': Right. He's a ''genuine'' spineless, mealy-mouthed fly-fisher. |
8 | --> '''Henry''': ''[chuckling]'' Pierce, you're the limit. |
9 | * ADayInTheLimelight: You can get this from the title and the episode description, but the main story arc revolves around Margaret Houlihan. |
10 | * AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Margaret Houlihan, the more the episode goes on. |
11 | * BaitAndSwitchComment: Frank does not take kindly to his neighborhood being labelled as restricted... because there's still a Catholic family living across the street from him. |
12 | * BrutalHonesty: When Margaret says she has nothing in her life, Frank takes that to mean he's also nothing to her. |
13 | --> '''Frank''': Well, am I nothing, Margaret? |
14 | --> '''Margaret''': You're government issue, Frank. You came with my mess kit and my khaki girdle. |
15 | --> '''Frank''': ''[insulted]'' Well! So much for Frank Burns. |
16 | --> '''Margaret''': And when you're home, I'll only be a smile on your face your wife won't understand. |
17 | * DeadpanSnarker: |
18 | ** Margaret is not too pleased when Frank suddenly comes on to her. |
19 | ---> '''Frank''': What's eating you, Margaret? |
20 | ---> '''Margaret''': At the moment, you are. |
21 | ** Margaret, in an even deeper drunken state than what she has been before, asks Radar if she can see Colonel Blake and she stumbles off in search of him. |
22 | ---> '''Radar''': I wonder if you can too. |
23 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Margaret's father is dead. That's clearly not the case later on. |
24 | * FailedASpotCheck: Frank almost makes a huge mistake in the OR. |
25 | --> '''Henry''': Gonna do a little cutting, Frank? |
26 | --> '''Frank''': Well, as long as I'm there, I thought I'd go after the appendix. |
27 | --> '''Henry''': That's not his appendix, Frank. That's my pinkie, and I'm very fond of it. |
28 | --> '''Frank''': Oh. |
29 | * FoeRomanceSubtext: Margaret admits to Trapper in the showers that she'd always been attracted to him, lamenting his un-military demeanor: "...and there you were, unshaven, out-of-uniform." |
30 | --> '''Hawkeye''': [[HoYay That's when I fell in love with him.]] |
31 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: At the beginning of the episode, Radar is distributing mail. The first person he gives a letter to, a soldier named Voskowitz, briefly examines it before tossing it into a burn barrel without opening it. |
32 | * GreenEyedMonster: Frank goes up in emerald flames when Trapper starts being romantic with Margaret in TheTag. |
33 | * HeroicBSOD: The source of Margaret's woes are that her old friend from her training days married a doctor Margaret herself had turned down and now she has a $45,000 home with a swimming pool, two children and a two-car garage. |
34 | * HopeSpot: There is a moment in Henry's office where Margaret seems to reconsider her wanting a transfer out of the unit after the colonel pays her a heartfelt compliment. |
35 | --> '''Henry''': Whatever was, of course, has been. But uh, we are family, Margaret. |
36 | --> ''[long pause]'' |
37 | --> '''Radar''': ''[via loudspeaker]'' Attention, all personnel. Effectively immediately, Major Margaret Houlihan is leaving the 4077th. There will be wine with dinner with ice cream and chocolate sauce. |
38 | --> '''Hawkeye''': Well there are families and there are families. |
39 | * NoodleIncident: |
40 | ** Hawkeye and Trapper inadvertently reveal to Frank they have been spying on his and Margaret's dates. |
41 | ---> '''Hawkeye''': Wouldn't you miss her, Frank? Those midnight meetings behind the delousing tent? |
42 | ---> '''Trapper''': Soaping each other in the scrub room? |
43 | ---> '''Hawkeye''': Fumbling with the leather aprons in X-ray? |
44 | ** Margaret makes a sardonic toast to Hawkeye and Trapper and their pranks and behaviours, mentioning a few of them in turn. |
45 | * OhCrap: Radar realises too late that he spoke all too casually with a furious Major Houlihan. |
46 | --> '''Margaret''': Is Colonel Blake in? |
47 | --> '''Radar''': Uh yeah, but he's busy right now. |
48 | --> '''Margaret''': ''[snaps]'' Come to attention! Get to your feet! Put that cigar out! Get rid of that magazine! |
49 | --> ''Radar's face falls and he does everything Margaret has demanded he do.'' |
50 | * OutOfCharacterAlert: |
51 | ** As strict as she can be, there is usually a limit as to how far Margaret will snap harshly at her nurses in the OR. Hawkeye is quick to notice there is none. |
52 | ** Hawkeye and Trapper badger Frank when he doesn't emotionally react to Margaret leaving. |
53 | ---> '''Hawkeye''': Frank, Margaret's departure is imminent. |
54 | ---> '''Frank''': So? |
55 | ---> '''Hawkeye''': Isn't that unzinging the strings of your heart just a little bit? |
56 | ---> '''Frank''': None of your business, Captain Buttinsky. |
57 | ---> '''Trapper''': Frank, one is a lonely number. |
58 | ---> '''Frank''': I'll thank you to mind your p's and q's. |
59 | ---> '''Trapper''': ''[insulted]'' That hurt. |
60 | * OutOfCharacterMoment: A drunken Margaret comes by the Swamp to give Frank some things she has of his back to him. Her mood and behaviour triggers an [[OutOfCharacterAlert alert]] with Frank. |
61 | --> '''Frank''': Margaret, this is so unlike you. |
62 | --> '''Margaret''': No it's not. If I'd have been more like me, you maybe would have liked me more. |
63 | --> '''Frank''': You've been ''drinking''! |
64 | --> '''Margaret''': Correction. I ''am'' drinking. |
65 | --> '''Frank''': Margaret, that's liquor! |
66 | --> '''Margaret''': Right, Reverend Davidson. |
67 | * RunningGag: The first appearance of Col. Blake's correspondence with the "Tabasco Film Company of Havana, Cuba." |
68 | * ShipTease: |
69 | ** Hawkeye and Margaret. In reply to the latter snapping at her nurses, Hawkeye proclaims something. |
70 | ---> '''Margaret''': I have an announcement. One more stupidity and every nurse goes on report. |
71 | ---> '''Hawkeye''': And I'd like to make an announcement. Major Houlihan and I are getting married. Right, sugar? |
72 | ---> '''Margaret''': [[BigWhat What?!]] |
73 | ---> '''Frank''': [[GreenEyedMonster That's outrageous!]] |
74 | ---> '''Margaret''': We are not. |
75 | ---> '''Hawkeye''': Then go ahead and have the baby alone. |
76 | ---> '''Trapper''': Is it a boy or a girl? |
77 | ---> '''Hawkeye''': Give us a chance. We just met. |
78 | ---> '''Margaret''': Oh! |
79 | ---> '''Hawkeye''': [[{{Troll}} Oh.]] |
80 | ** Trapper and Margaret, towards the episode's conclusion and in TheTag. |
81 | * TheUnseen: The audience doesn't see any of the dirty movie Henry, Hawkeye and Trapper are watching. All we know is that Hawkeye recognizes one of the performers as a fellow doctor's receptionist, and that Hawkeye says she looks better in balloons than in a uniform. |
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