YMMV / China Beach

• Anvilicious: Not as often as you might think, although there were times when the "war is hell, just don't do it" message got a teeny bit strong...
• Awesome Music:
  • Possibly the snippet of Jimi Hendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower" at the beginning of the episode "Limbo".
  • The Katrina and the Waves (featuring Eric Burdon) cover of "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place" that served as the sometime season 3 theme song.
  • The entire soundtrack of the series was composed mainly of classic hits of 60s-70s rock/pop music (hence the difficulty in getting a DVD release of the show, as the clearances are through the roof) and some fantastic instrumental/incidental pieces. Most of it fit this trope.
• Heartwarming Moments: This show had quite a few of these, several of which surprisingly centered on Dr. Richard. Although, there's something about the moment in "The World part 2" when Colleen shares a dance with a wheelchair bound veteran to Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" that's particularly moving.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Colleen, KC (perhaps because of her main profession), Boonie (on occasion)...really take your pick.
• Les Yay: Laurette and Colleen, with the former going hard for the combat nurse right out the gate in the pilot.
• Memetic Mutation: (Through the mirror of my mind!) The series that brought women to the front line...^Explanation A line from an advertisement for the DVD set, brought to infamy by Jenny Nicholson after she made several jokes about the advertisement in her video about The Vampire Diaries.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • Several, particularly Colleen and Dr. Richard Richard's successful removal of a live mortar round from a patient.
  • The portrayal in the episode "The Always Goodbye" of one of the last choppers out of Saigon, which is a must for any Vietnam War media. This was also a possible Tear Jerker in that it featured KC sending away, possibly forever, her young daughter Karen, whom she'd only recently gotten to know.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • It's a medical show set in a warzone. There's blood, there's guts.
  • Wayloo's dream at the beginning of "Cherry" of walking into the G.R.U. and finding herself in a body bag is at least a mild form of this.
• Tear Jerker: Almost countless. Cherry's death, Colleen dancing with her ill father right before we're shown his funeral at the beginning of the next episode, KC sending her daughter away on one of the last choppers out of Saigon...the list goes on.
• The Woobie:
  • Colleen was definitely intended to be the Woobie for most of the series, but sometimes her drunkenness and occasional abrasive behavior got in the way.
  • Cherry was a sort of Woobie for the first season, even after she toughened up a bit at the beginning of season 2.