1 | Col. Potter and Hawkeye volunteer for duty at a Korean field hospital, putting them up against two of their demons: Potter's age and Hawkeye's aversion to guns. Klinger tries to get out of the army by claiming to be king of a gypsy tribe, and therefore not an American citizen and eligible for the draft. |
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4 | !!Attention all personnel! Hawkeye refuses to carry the following tropes: |
5 | * DentedIron: Potter repeatedly faces insinuations from Frank that he is past his prime. His posturing in front of Frank in TheTag suggests there may be something to it. |
6 | * DumbassHasAPoint: Although he defends Potter when Frank calls him old, Hawkeye later has to agree when Potter mentions Creator/ClaraBow, an actress whose career had ended 20 years prior to the start of the war. |
7 | * FiringInTheAirALot: What Potter proposes when Hawkeye refuses to shoot back at the enemy during the ambush. This is [[DoesntLikeGuns the only use of a gun Hawkeye agrees to.]] |
8 | * FamedInStory: Frank Burns, who even the commander of the Korean hospital knows as "Ol' Ferret Face". |
9 | * FortuneTeller: Klinger makes two attempts at fortune telling by palm reading and drawing cards. He breaks character during the latter attempt after accidentally dealing a straight. |
10 | * IWasHavingSuchANiceDream: Potter awakens Hawkeye from a dream about a lady at a bar. |
11 | * MagicMisfire: Of a kind. Hawkeye claims that he can make Potter sleep by repeating it over and over. He falls asleep instead. |
12 | * PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: From ''Theatre/AnnieGetYourGun''. |
13 | * RoguishRomani: Inverted; as part of his latest discharge ploy, Klinger tells Potter that he was stolen from a Roma family by his Lebanese parents. |
14 | * ShoutOut: To ''Film/MrsMiniver''. |
15 | * {{Spoonerism}}: Potter as he and Hawkeye drunkenly walk back to camp (this following being holed up in a foxhole during enemy fire): |
16 | -->'''Potter:''' You didn't hit a thing, sharpshooter!\ |
17 | '''Hawkeye:''' Well, you fired as many shots as I did and you were the one who claimed to shoot an apple off the Kaiser's head.\ |
18 | '''Potter:''' Frankly, Hawkeye...I couldn't shoot a bullet with the side of a barn! |
19 | * TwoDecadesBehind: Hawkeye cites apple pie and Creator/BettyGrable to prove to the arriving US soldiers that they're friendlies. Potter cites Creator/ClaraBow. |
20 | -->'''Hawkeye:''' Clara Bow? Frank's right, you ''are'' old. |
21 | * WhatTheHellHero: The Korean head of hospital calls Hawkeye out on his self-righteousness about the cleanliness or lack thereof of the place, saying they manage with what they have. |
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