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* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: While the gang are divvying up their winnings from the football game, we see a jeep rolling past the tent bearing a dead soldier covered in a white sheet. This was originally part of a (deleted) subplot involving [[spoiler:Ho-Jon]] getting wounded in action and then dying in surgery.
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* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: While the gang surgeons are divvying up their winnings from playing poker in Painless Pole's tent toward the football game, end of the film, we see a jeep rolling past the tent bearing a dead soldier covered in a white sheet. This was originally part of a (deleted) subplot involving [[spoiler:Ho-Jon]] getting wounded in action and then dying in surgery.
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* IntimatePsychotherapy: Hawkeye convinces Dish to "cure" Painless Pole in this manner.
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--->'''Ho-Jon:''' Here he comes! The Jawbreaker!
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* SouthernFriedPrivate: Duke is kind of this, though he's actually a captain.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Hawkeye, Trapper and Duke do this to Hotlips.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Hawkeye, Trapper and Duke do this to Hotlips. Hot Lips.
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* MistakenForServant: Due to Hawkeye using his rank insignia to pin a busted zipper on his bags in the opening scene, Duke assumes that he's the driver to get him to the 4077th. Hawkeye doesn't bother to correct him until they have arrived and are eating and Col Blake asks about the 'stolen jeep.'
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* MistakenForServant: Due to Hawkeye using his rank insignia to pin a busted zipper on his bags in the opening scene, Duke assumes that he's the driver to get him to the 4077th. Hawkeye doesn't bother to correct him until they have arrived and are eating and Col Col. Blake asks about the 'stolen jeep.''
* NeverMyFault: As Duke says of Frank Burns, "Every time a patient croaks on him he says it's God's will or somebody else's fault."
* NeverMyFault: As Duke says of Frank Burns, "Every time a patient croaks on him he says it's God's will or somebody else's fault."
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* HeyItsThatGuy: ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' fans are often surprised to see Odo as Father "Dago Red" Mulcahy. Private Boone is [[HaroldAndMaude Harold]]. Also, the [[NWordPrivileges infelicitously-named]] "Spearchucker" will survive the war, but meet his doom in [[FromDuskTillDawn a titty bar in Mexico]].
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* HeyItsThatGuy: ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' fans are often surprised to see Odo as Father "Dago Red" Mulcahy. Private Boone is [[HaroldAndMaude Harold]]. Also, the [[NWordPrivileges infelicitously-named]] "Spearchucker" will survive the war, but meet his doom in [[FromDuskTillDawn a titty bar in Mexico]].
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* {{Blackmail}}: When Col. Merrill breaks in on Hawkeye, Trapper, and Me Lay performing unauthorized surgery on a American-Japanese infant, they anesthetize him and take compromising photos of him in bed with a prostitute to keep him from talking.
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* {{Blackmail}}: When Col. Merrill breaks in on Hawkeye, Trapper, and Me Lay performing unauthorized surgery on a an American-Japanese infant, they anesthetize him and take compromising photos of him in bed with a prostitute to keep him from talking.
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As a resident of Japan, the child would be considered American-Japanese, not Japanese-American (fairly relevant to the context here, unfortunately).
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* {{Blackmail}}: When Col. Merrill breaks in on Hawkeye, Trapper, and Me Lay performing unauthorized surgery on a Japanese-American American-Japanese infant, they anesthetize him and take compromising photos of him in bed with a prostitute to keep him from talking.
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* BreakingtheFourthWall: The final PA announcement at the end of the film, doubling as the credits.
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* BreakingtheFourthWall: The final PA announcement at the end of the film, doubling as the credits.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Painless states that "Poker is only a game", the priest knows how seriously depressed Painless is.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Hawkeye, Trapper and Duke do this to Hotlips.
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** Duke later went on to [[{Alien}} command a space mining ship]] and train [[TopGun Navy fighter pilots.]]
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** Duke later went on to [[{Alien}} [[{{Alien}} command a space mining ship]] and train [[TopGun Navy fighter pilots.]]
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** Duke later went on to [[{Alien}} command a space mining ship]] and train [[TopGun Navy fighter pilots.]]
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* CoolShades: Hawkeye wears tinted glasses along with a NiceHat.
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* BerserkButton: "Would you say that she was a moaner, Frank?"
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Hawkeye, through and through.
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** "Painless Pole" could be taken to refer to Capt. Waldowski's status as a dentist and his ethnicity. Or it could be taken to refer to [[DoubleEntendre something else entirely]].
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* CharacterTics: That little whistle that Hawkeye keeps doing.
** Which showed up again in ''FantasticMrFox''.
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** Which
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* NoodleIncident: More of a Noodle Insult. One of the opposing players in the football game calls a (black) M*A*S*H player a "coon", trying to invite an attack to get him thrown out of the game. Spearchucker tells him the name of the guy's sister and tells him "Use it!". The guy walks up to the line, and we don't hear anything but the normal background noise of the game, but the opponent suddenly lunges at the M*A*S*H player and chases him all over the field.
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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: "Painless Pole" is the "best-equipped" dentist in the army. After Lt. Dish spends the night with him, she is still in a daze the next morning.
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* InvulnerableKnuckles: Subverted. When Trapper punches Frank Burns in the face, he appears to be in as much if not more pain than Burns.
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Hawkeye, through and through.
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''MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors'' was written in 1968 by Richard Hooker, and became the RobertAltman-directed feature film ''M*A*S*H'' in 1970. A few years later, the quite well-known [[{{MASH}} television series]] debuted.
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''MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors'' was written in 1968 by Richard Hooker, and became the RobertAltman-directed feature film ''M*A*S*H'' in 1970. A few years later, the quite well-known [[{{MASH}} [[{{Series/Mash}} television series]] debuted.
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->''This isn't a hospital. It's an insane asylum. And it's your fault.''
-->-- '''Hotlips O'Houlihan'''
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It brings on many changes,\\
And I can take or leave it if I please
->''This isn't a hospital. It's an insane asylum. And it's your fault.''
-->-- '''Hotlips O'Houlihan'''
''MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors'' was written in 1968 by Richard Hooker, and became the RobertAltman-directed feature film ''M*A*S*H'' in 1970. A few years later, the quite well-known [[{{MASH}} television series]] debuted.
In the midst of the KoreanWar, the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is tasked with fixing up the wounded. Two Army Surgeons, "Hawkeye" Pierce and "Duke" Forrest arrive on the scene with fellow surgeon "Trapper" John [=McIntyre=]. Defying all conventions, they decide to "fix up" the mood in the hospital with their brand of black humor. The plot of the film is made up of various episodes dealing with their escapades in the Hospital.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AdaptationDistillation: The film took the novel's main themes, stripped out the [[ValuesDissonance uglier parts]], and came up with this.
* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: The unit dentist, "Painless Pole", [[spoiler:wanted to commit suicide, so they set up a mock funeral for him so he could take cyanide and die in a casket. The cyanide pills were fake, and the only dying he did was [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex in the Shakespearean sense]]]].
* {{Blackmail}}: When Col. Merrill breaks in on Hawkeye, Trapper, and Me Lay performing unauthorized surgery on a Japanese-American infant, they anesthetize him and take compromising photos of him in bed with a prostitute to keep him from talking.
* CatchPhrase: As in the book, Hawkeye's is "finest kind". Save for one or two occasions, this really didn't carry over to the TV show.
* CharacterTics: That little whistle that Hawkeye keeps doing.
** Which showed up again in ''FantasticMrFox''.
* CompositeCharacter: Frank Burns from the movie is a cross between the Frank Burns from the novel (in which he's a Captain instead of a Major) and another character from the novel named Major Jonathan Hobson, a religious zealot who lived in the Swamp with Hawkeye and Duke before they got him thrown out for praying too much.
* CreatorBacklash: Despite winning the film's only AcademyAward, screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr. later disowned the film since quite little of his script was used in the final film.
** On the DVD commentary for the film, Robert Altman said it upset him that Lardner hated the film so much - the reason the film had the feel that it did, as opposed to the racist, sexist, homophobic book, was because of his script. Essentially, Altman claimed the final film was a distillation of Lardner's script.
* CreditsGag: The film ends with the camp P.A. announcer telling us that "tonight's movie has been ''M*A*S*H''", and reading off the names of the cast.
* DuelingMovies: Released the same year as that other anti-war satire, ''{{Catch-22}}''.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Hot Lips, Spearchucker, Dago Red, Ugly John...
** Then there's Trapper John, who acquired that nickname after being caught "finding fulfillment" with a coed [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces in the ladies' restroom of a Boston & Maine railroad car]], and the young woman in question accusing him of having "trapped" her.
* {{Expy}}: Apart from a few mentions of them being in Korea, the sets, costumes and props are clearly meant to evoke TheVietnamWar which was ongoing at the time. This was intentional.
* FauxSymbolism / LastSupperSteal: Painless's "last supper" looks very much like [=DaVinci=]'s original.
* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: Pretty much the whole film was improvised; the screenplay was just a template.
* HeyItsThatGuy: ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' fans are often surprised to see Odo as Father "Dago Red" Mulcahy. Private Boone is [[HaroldAndMaude Harold]]. Also, the [[NWordPrivileges infelicitously-named]] "Spearchucker" will survive the war, but meet his doom in [[FromDuskTillDawn a titty bar in Mexico]].
* InvulnerableKnuckles: Subverted. When Trapper punches Frank Burns in the face, he appears to be in as much pain as, if not moreso than, Burns.
* KickTheDog: Frank Burns brings the young Private Boone to tears by telling him that his bringing the wrong needle caused a patient's death even though the patient died before Boone could've brought it.
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: What convinces Painless Pole that he's a "latent homosexual".
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: While the gang are divvying up their winnings from the football game, we see a jeep rolling past the tent bearing a dead soldier covered in a white sheet. This was originally part of a (deleted) subplot involving [[spoiler:Ho-Jon]] getting wounded in action and then dying in surgery.
* MistakenForServant: Due to Hawkeye using his rank insignia to pin a busted zipper on his bags in the opening scene, Duke assumes that he's the driver to get him to the 4077th. Hawkeye doesn't bother to correct him until they have arrived and are eating and Col Blake asks about the 'stolen jeep.'
* OfficeGolf: Hawkeye and Trapper play an impromptu game of this in Col. Merrill's office.
* PrecisionFStrike: During the football game, Painless Pole tells an opposing player, "All right, bud, your fuckin' head is comin' right off!" The line (an ad-lib by actor John Schuck) was the first use of the F-word in a major American studio film.
* RandomEventsPlot
* RunningGag: The camp's bumbling P.A. announcer.
* SeriousBusiness: When Painless states that "Poker is only a game", the priest knows how seriously depressed Painless is.
* ShoeShineMister: Snippets of the song "Tokyo Shoe Shine Boy" are played at various times. The song is also on the movie soundtrack. In the film it is sung in Japanese, except for the words "Tokyo Shoe Shine Boy" in English.
* SuicideIsPainless: The theme song is the TropeNamer. ItMakesSenseInContext.
* ThrowItIn: During the opening credits a medic stumbles and falls on his ass while carrying a wounded soldier from the chopper pad. This was a real, unscripted accident during filming.
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