History Recap / MashS1E5TheMoose

!!Attention, all personnel! "The Moose" features the following tropes:

* WhiteMansBurden: Hawkeye is already been established as someone who takes every injustice personally, but Spearchucker and Ho-Jon barely have any screentime.

!!Attention all personnel! '''The Moose''' features the following tropes

* PrecisionFStrike: Sgt. Baker gets fed up with Hawkeye and Trapper ordering him to send Young Hi away.
-->'''Sgt. Baker''': I've been in the army a long time, and no meat cutter with a temporary commission is gonna work me over. So save that G.I. crapola for the folks back home.

** Young Hi's brother is compared to ''The Dead End Kids''.

** To Humphrey Bogart

** Young Hi's brother is compared to ''The Dead End Kids''

* GodzillaThreshold: The infamously unmilitary Hawkeye Pierce put on a Class-A uniform unironically and (tried to, at least) put on a serious display of military bearing that would have been Frank Burns' wet dream had he been there to see it -- including issuing direct orders and pulling rank [[note]]something he did all of two or three times in the entire series[[/note]]. All in an effort to rescue Young-hi from slavery. [[NoSell Sadly, the sergeant he's trying to impress doesn't buy it.]]

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Young Hi tells her arrogant brother to shove off

--> '''Sgt. Baker''': I've been in the army a long time, and no meat cutter with a temporary commission is gonna work me over. So save that G.I. crapola for the folks back home.

After a non-stop period of fourteen hours in the operating room, Hawkeye and Trapper are going to the Swamp for a "martini breakfast" and to sleep when a U.S. sergeant and a young Korean girl roll in to the camp. At first, the meeting of the two duos is amicable until the sergeant lets a particular racist slur slip from his mouth, which arouses Hawkeye's anger. One scene later, that anger blossoms into hatred when he is told that the Korean girl, Young Hi, is actually the sergeant's "moose", or slave, rather than his employee. Being a man who sees things in [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white]] rather than the [[GreyAndGreyMorality grey view the military takes]], Hawkeye hatches a plot to free Young Hi from her life of slavery.

After a non-stop period of fourteen hours in the operating room, Hawkeye and Trapper are going to the Swamp for a "martini breakfast" and to sleep when a U.S. sergeant and a young Korean girl roll in to the camp. At first, the meeting of the two duos is amicable until the sergeant lets a particular racist remark slip from his mouth which arouses Hawkeye's anger. One scene later, that anger blossoms into hatred when he is told that the Korean girl, Young Hi, is actually the sergeant's slave rather than his employee. Being a man who sees things in [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white]] rather than the [[GreyAndGreyMorality grey view the military takes]], Hawkeye hatches a plot to free Young Hi from her life of slavery.

* BaitAndSwitch: At the episode's conclusion, all of Young Hi's personal development seems to go out the window when her brother returns and reminds her of her duty to the family and she leaves with him, destined to continue a life of slavery and leaving a downhearted Hawkeye and Trapper to lament how close they had come to winning. Then Young Hi returns, telling them that she had just told her brother to shove off.

* BaitAndSwitch: At the episode's conclusion, all of Young Hi's personal development seems to go out the window when her brother returns and reminds her of her duty to the family and she leaves with him, destined to continue a life of slavery and leaving a downhearted Hawkeye and Trapper to lament how close they had come to winning. [[spoiler: Then Young Hi returns, telling them that she had just told her brother to shove off.]]

* AbsenteeActor: Larry Linville and Loretta Swit are absent from this episode. It's briefly explained that Frank is in Tokyo.

* DiscriminateAndSwitch: Played for heartwarming: As Spearchucker is telling Young-hi how everyone is NotSoDifferent, she says "not true" while touching Spearchuker's cheek. Spearchucker is baffled by this and asks why, fully expecting her to state he's black, but instead she laughs and says "you need a shave."

* RighteouslySelfRighteous: The first appearance of Hawkeye's infamously burning sanctimony. He's not ''wrong'', but naive, condescending and in over his head.

* LostHimInACardGame: This is how Baker loses Young Hi to Hawkeye. Played with in that Young Hi was never actually bet on in the game. Rather, Baker gave her up in exchange for Hawkeye returning his poker winnings. Still, Hawkeye later characterized the situation as him having won a person in poker.

* LostHimInACardGame: This is how Baker loses Young Hi to Hawkeye. Played with in that Young Hi was never actually bet on in the game. Technically, Baker gave her up in exchange for Hawkeye returning his poker winnings. Still, Hawkeye later characterized the situation as him having won a person in poker.

* LostHimInACardGame: This is how Baker loses Young Hi to Hawkeye. Played with in that Young Hi was never actually bet on in the game. Rather, Baker gave her up in exchange for Hawkeye returning his poker winnings. Still, Hawkeye later characterized the situation as him having won a person in poker.

---> '''Sgt. Baker''': I've been in the army a long time, and no meat cutter with a temporary commission is gonna work me over. So save that G.I. crapola for the folks back home.

** Young Hi's brother is compared to ''The Dead End Kids''