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* PunBasedTitle: As well as a DoubleMeaningTitle, referring both to the 38th parallel (the latitude marking the boundary between North and South Korea) and the fact that the episode's plotlines run parallel to one another.

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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Hawkeye has trouble performing with a nurse.



* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Hawkeye has trouble performing with a nurse.
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* ThousandYardStare: Radar, after the soldier he helped save ends up dying anyway. He still has it at the end of the episode's {{Tag}}.

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* ThousandYardStare: Radar, after the soldier he helped save ends up dying anyway. He still has it at the end of the episode's {{Tag}}.[[TheTag Tag]].
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* PoorMansPorn: The Jane Russell puzzle that Radar and Private Phelan were putting together apparently qualified before Major Houlihan confiscated some of the pieces.

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* PoorMansPorn: The Jane Russell Creator/JaneRussell puzzle that Radar and Private Phelan were putting together apparently qualified before Major Houlihan confiscated some of the pieces.

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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Col. Coner is getting covered in garbage, three enlisted men standing behind him laugh and then run away.
* IWasNeverHere: Col. Potter's reaction to Col. Coner getting garbage dumped on him:
-->'''Potter:''' I didn't see any of it. But I loved it.



* WeHaveReserves: At first it seems like its averted, because Colonel Coner sends men behind enemy lines to take American soldiers who died and didn't have their bodies recovered. However, it turns out Colonel Coner doesn't care about the men he ''loses'' on those missions, especially when his troops end up killing more Communists than they lose men.

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* UnusualEuphemism: Hawkeye's revelation that he can perform again is described as being able to "make change".
* WeHaveReserves: At first it seems like its averted, because Colonel Col. Coner sends men behind enemy lines to take American soldiers who died and didn't have their bodies recovered. However, it turns out Colonel Coner doesn't care about the men he ''loses'' on those missions, especially when his troops end up killing more Communists than they lose men.

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* BuffySpeak: When Radar informs B.J. of Phelan's loose IV line:
-->'''Radar:''' I was just walking by, and I noticed this gizmo came disconnected from the thingamabob, and it wasn't dripping into the doohickey right.
-->'''B.J.:''' [[DeadpanSnarker You lost me with all the technical terms]], Radar, but I get the picture.



* ThousandYardStare: Radar, after the soldier he helped save ends up dying anyway.

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* ThousandYardStare: Radar, after the soldier he helped save ends up dying anyway. He still has it at the end of the episode's {{Tag}}.
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* StealthInsult: Potter does this to Frank ''twice'', when the latter is complaining about the camp's garbage situation.
-->'''Potter:''' I guess I just don't have your head for garbage, Burns.
-->'''Frank:''' The late Colonel Blake said I was the best rubbish officer we'd ever had.
-->'''Potter:''' The man knew talent when he saw it.
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* SanitySlippage: In the background, as it's the first time Hawkeye's body craps out on him, and it's attributed to all the trauma he's gone through.
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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Radar, after B.J. tells him that he probably saved Private Phelan's life - even taking credit for the act of reconnecting the IV line when telling the story to Klinger.

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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Radar, after B.J. tells him that he probably saved Private Phelan's life - -- he even taking takes credit for the act of reconnecting the IV line when telling the story to Klinger.
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-->'''Frank:''' ''whimpering'' I had dreams like this all through puberty.

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-->'''Frank:''' ''whimpering'' ''(whimpering)'' I had dreams like this all through puberty.

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The 4077th is getting heavy business from a colonel who insists on retrieving the bodies of dead soldiers, regardless of the consequences for those still alive. Radar bonds with one of the wounded after helping B.J. get his IV line reconnected. Frank proposes selling the camp's garbage to local villagers. Hawkeye has trouble "[[UnusualEuphemism making change]]".

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The 4077th is getting heavy business from a colonel who insists on retrieving the bodies of dead soldiers, regardless of the consequences for those still alive. Meanwhile, Radar bonds with one of the wounded after helping B.J. get his IV line reconnected. reconnected, Frank proposes selling the camp's garbage to local villagers. villagers, and Hawkeye has trouble "[[UnusualEuphemism making change]]".
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* WeHaveReserves: At first it seems like its averted, because Colonel Coner sends men behind enemy lines to take American soldiers who died and didn't have their bodies recovered. However, it turns out Colonel Coner doesn't care about the men he ''loses'' on those missions, especially when his troops end up killing more Communists than they lose men.

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* WeHaveReserves: At first it seems like its averted, because Colonel Coner sends men behind enemy lines to take American soldiers who died and didn't have their bodies recovered. However, it turns out Colonel Coner doesn't care about the men he ''loses'' on those missions, especially when his troops end up killing more Communists than they lose men.men.

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The 4077th is getting heavy business from a colonel who insists on retrieving the bodies of dead soldiers, regardless of the consequences for those still alive. Radar bonds with one of the wounded after helping BJ get his IV line reconnected. Frank proposes selling the camp's garbage to local villagers. Hawkeye has trouble "[[UnusualEuphemism making change]]".

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The 4077th is getting heavy business from a colonel who insists on retrieving the bodies of dead soldiers, regardless of the consequences for those still alive. Radar bonds with one of the wounded after helping BJ B.J. get his IV line reconnected. Frank proposes selling the camp's garbage to local villagers. Hawkeye has trouble "[[UnusualEuphemism making change]]".



* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Radar, after BJ tells him that he probably saved Private Phelan's life - even taking credit for the act of reconnecting the IV line when telling the story to Klinger.

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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Radar, after BJ B.J. tells him that he probably saved Private Phelan's life - even taking credit for the act of reconnecting the IV line when telling the story to Klinger.
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* SingleIssueWonk: Frank is ''obsessed'' with the fact that the Koreans are scavenging the unit's garbage, claiming that it's still government property despite being useless to them now.
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* ThousandYardStare: Radar, after the soldier he helped save ends up dying anyway.

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* ThousandYardStare: Radar, after the soldier he helped save ends up dying anyway.anyway.
* WeHaveReserves: At first it seems like its averted, because Colonel Coner sends men behind enemy lines to take American soldiers who died and didn't have their bodies recovered. However, it turns out Colonel Coner doesn't care about the men he ''loses'' on those missions, especially when his troops end up killing more Communists than they lose men.
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The 4077th is getting heavy business from a colonel who insists on retrieving the bodies of dead soldiers, regardless of the consequences for those still alive. Radar bonds with one of the wounded after helping BJ get his IV line reconnected. Frank proposes selling the camp's garbage to local villagers. Hawkeye has trouble "[[UnusualEuphemism making change]]".

!!Attention all personnel. Major Burns will be auctioning off the following tropes:

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Radar, after BJ tells him that he probably saved Private Phelan's life - even taking credit for the act of reconnecting the IV line when telling the story to Klinger.
* BlatantLies: Col. Potter's reaction to watching Hawkeye's garbage prank take place.
-->'''Potter:''' I didn't see any of it. But I loved it.
* PoorMansPorn: The Jane Russell puzzle that Radar and Private Phelan were putting together apparently qualified before Major Houlihan confiscated some of the pieces.
* RecurringDreams: Frank was apparently a victim of dreams where he's covered in garbage.
-->'''Frank:''' ''whimpering'' I had dreams like this all through puberty.
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Hawkeye has trouble performing with a nurse.
* ThousandYardStare: Radar, after the soldier he helped save ends up dying anyway.

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