History Recap / MashS3E5OR

* IChooseToStay: Hawkeye offers to get Henry a medical discharge for arthritis (naturally a career-killer for a surgeon). Henry declines, arguing out that while his practice in Bloomington is lucrative, his work in Korea is more challenging and rewarding than anything else he's ever done as a civilian doctor.

!!Get these tropes ready for surgery:

** When they get a business girl injured with 20k on her, Hawkeye jokes he's in the wrong profession. But five minutes later when he's hurting from having a patient die on him, he admits that sometimes he thinks he'd be more useful as a hooker.

---> '''Hawkeye''': That's not insane-making, Frank. Neither is bedding down every night with a flea circus. Or eating food prepared by a cook who used to make box lunches for kamikaze pilots. Or getting so bored out of my skull, I put on my dress uniform for a trip to the latrine.

** Later, he expresses sincere and uncharacteristic gratitude to Trapper for preventing him from making a terrible mistake in surgery, opens up to him about [[FreudianExcuse his miserable childhood]] and his desire not to be enemies with Trapper and Hawkeye, and even manages to laugh at one of Hawkeye's anti-military wisecracks.

** Later, he expresses sincere and uncharacteristic gratitude to Trapper for preventing him from making a terrible mistake in surgery, opens up to him about [[FreudianExcuse his miserable childhood]] and his desire not to be enemies with Trapper and Hawkeye, and even laughs at one of Hawkeye's anti-military wisecracks.

--> '''Hawkeye''': I just don't understand why they're shooting at us. All we wanna do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American Dream. Freedom, achievement, hyperacidity. Affluence, flatulence, technology, tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back. [''beat''] That's entertainment.

--> '''Trapper''': I didn't. [''beat''] How embarrassing.

--> '''Sidney''': Klinger, there's seventeen other guys wearing dresses ahead of you. And some smart stuff.

** ''Blood and Sand'' (1941), the film intended to be shown for Movie Night, is piped through the radio system for all the surgical staff to hear while they're working.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Trapper uses water in a syringe to put out the fire along the light switch wires. In reality, adding water to an electrical fire is a '''really bad idea'''. Water is a good conductor of electricity and will just make the problem worse.[[note]]Although he turned the power off first, the possibility of a flare still existed.[[/note]]

* RealityEnsues: When medical supplies and equipment are running dangerously low, some really tough choices have to be made. See the ''Sadistic Choice'' entry below for the full story.

* IChooseToStay: Hawkeye offers to get Henry a medical discharge for arthritis (naturally a career-killer for a surgeon). Henry declines, arguing out that while his practice in Bloomington is lucrative, his work in Korea is more challenging and rewarding than anything else he's ever done as a doctor.

---> '''Hawkeye''': That's not insane-making, Frank. Neither is bedding down every night with a flea circus. Or eating food prepared by a cook who used to make box lunches for kamikaze pilots. Or getting so bored out of my skull, I put on my dress uniform for a trip to the latrine.
* YourCheatingHeart: A soldier about to be put under for surgery requests that Father Mulcahy write a letter to his wife for him. He claims that she is the only one he has ever loved while the numerous affairs he carried out in Tokyo, Okinawa and Honolulu meant nothing. Trapper and the father are left stunned.
--> '''Trapper''': Don't send it, Father. He's gonna pull through, unless his wife gets that letter.
--> '''Father Mulcahy''': Right.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Trapper smells something burning. [[InadvertentEntranceCue Radar and Klinger arrive with hamburgers and coffee]]. Trapper ignores them and the resultant jubilant mood, still believing that something is burning. [[MeaningfulBackgroundEvent He's right]].

* BottleEpisode: Going by the title, this might be apparent, but the episode only takes place in or just outside the operating theater. No Swamp, no colonel's office, no mess tent, no officers' club, not even the post-op ward.

* BigWordShout: '''FIRE!'''

** One from Frank's point of view is Hawkeye rightly criticizing General MacArthur for trying to escalate the Korean War to a war with China.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Frank rightly points out that Hawkeye is allowed to say what he wants, while Frank is censured when he tries to fire back.