Follow TV Tropes

Following

History Recap / MashS5E3OutOfSightOutOfMind

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* Hypocrite: For all his earlier rants about gambling, he is shown to be someone totally willing to not only gamble but cheat at gambling to take advantage of other unit members.

to:

* Hypocrite: {{Hypocrite}}: For all his earlier rants about gambling, he is shown to be someone totally willing to not only gamble but cheat at gambling to take advantage of other unit members.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* Hypocrite: For all his earlier rants about gambling, he is shown to be someone totally willing to not only gamble but cheat at gambling to take advantage of other unit members.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

** Earlier, while in post-op, Hawkeye feels around to see if there are patients he can help. When he comes across an empty bed, he smiles and says, "Hmm, [[Film/TheInvisibleMan1933 Claude Rains]]."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* DoubleEntendre: When he's comfortable enough to be a SadClown, Hawkeye gets right back on the innuendo train, making jokes about not being able to fit his lips around a howitzer and being passed around the camp.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


'''Frank:''' Sir, isn't it against regulations to have a blind man in surgery?
'''Potter:''' Ask Captain Pierce. He's chief surgeon.

to:

'''Frank:''' -->'''Frank:''' Sir, isn't it against regulations to have a blind man in surgery?
'''Potter:''' -->'''Potter:''' Ask Captain Pierce. He's chief surgeon.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* MathematiciansAnswer: Potter offers one when Frank complains about Hawkeye showing up in the O.R.:
'''Frank:''' Sir, isn't it against regulations to have a blind man in surgery?
'''Potter:''' Ask Captain Pierce. He's chief surgeon.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* AnachronismStew: Frank listens to the baseball games overnight using a transistor radio, which was not available for sale until 1954, the year after the Korean War ended.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* JerkAss: Frank enters the Swamp, where Hawkeye is recuperating, whistling "Three Blind Mice".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Of all the people the nurses could ask to relight their stove, they pick the camp's Chief Surgeon.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* ReassignedToAntarctica: "General" O'Reilly threatens the clerk of the 121st EVAC with having to dig a latrine for every GI in Korea if the ophthalmologist isn't at the 4077th by morning.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* EyeScream: Downplayed with Hawkeye, who simply had flash burns and recovered his vision. Lt. Straw, however, had a grenade go off a few feet in front of him and took most of the shrapnel in the face.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* ShoutOut: When Hawkeye detects a perforated bowel through sense of smell, BJ says "[[Series/TheLoneRanger Who was that masked man?]]"
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* BatmanGambit: After overhearing Frank gloating about winning a bet on a baseball game and remembering him listening to it the night before, Hawkeye teams up with Radar, BJ, and Klinger to broadcast a fake game for Frank to listen to the next night, knowing Frank would be listening in.

to:

* BatmanGambit: After overhearing Frank gloating about winning a bet on a baseball game and remembering him listening to it the night before, Hawkeye teams up with Radar, BJ, B.J., and Klinger to broadcast a fake game for Frank to listen to the next night, knowing Frank would be listening in.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

** Also, when Hawkeye visits the nurse's tent while he's blinded, he runs into Bigelow (one of the nurses), and immediately figures out who she is:
-->'''Kelleye:''' How did you know?
-->'''Bigelow:''' Never mind.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* BrickJoke: During a visit to the nurses' tent while blinded, Hawkeye teases a nurse who is uncomfortable getting undressed for a shower with him there. He goes back after his recovery, claiming a temporary relapse, hoping for similar results. It doesn't work.


Added DiffLines:

** Hawkeye too when he goes to the nurses' tent claiming to have had a temporary relapse, telling the nurses to go ahead and do what they usually do - get undressed for a shower, iron their undies, etc. Then he miraculously manages to catch a cup one of the nurses throws into the air.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Frank.
-->'''PA Announcer:''' Here's the results of yesterday's game. Yanks 8, Indians 1. For those who'd like to collect, Major Burns is in post-op.
-->'''Frank:''' Oh, that score can't be right. I listened to the game [[OhCrap and...]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


While troubleshooting the furnace in the nurses' tent, a backflash blinds him, leaving him worried it will be permanent. Meanwhile, Frank has found a foolproof way to win at betting on baseball games.

to:

While Hawkeye is troubleshooting the furnace in the nurses' tent, a backflash blinds him, leaving him worried it will be permanent. Meanwhile, Frank has found a foolproof way to win at betting on baseball games.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

While troubleshooting the furnace in the nurses' tent, a backflash blinds him, leaving him worried it will be permanent. Meanwhile, Frank has found a foolproof way to win at betting on baseball games.

!!Attention all personnel! Please use caution with the following tropes:

* BatmanGambit: After overhearing Frank gloating about winning a bet on a baseball game and remembering him listening to it the night before, Hawkeye teams up with Radar, BJ, and Klinger to broadcast a fake game for Frank to listen to the next night, knowing Frank would be listening in.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Frank attempts to cheat at betting with the enlisted men on baseball games. It doesn't end well for him.
* DisabilitySuperpower: Hawkeye appears to undergo this, being able to smell more strongly that a patient's bowel is perforated in the OR and being able to hear his surroundings more clearly.
* NoodleIncident: The four days Hawkeye and "Sharon Share Alike" spent together.
* ThePlan: Frank's scheme to cheat at gambling on baseball games: listen to the real-time broadcast and then make bets on the afternoon reruns the next day, already knowing the winner. It works for a while...
* ReallyGetsAround: "Sharon Share Alike", who Hawkeye spent four days in a deserted cove with after the local lobster festival one year.
* [[SadTrombone Sad Duck Call]]: Pierce employs one when Frank accidentally reveals that he's been cheating.
* TemporaryBlindness: Luckily for Hawkeye. Lieutenant Straw, unfortunately, isn't as lucky.

Top