#ep: Alcoholics Unanimous

[mylittleredgirl]

m*a*s*h season three continues!! disc two!!

"alcoholics unanimous" is so funny oh my god

the scene where trapper, hot lips, and hawkeye are all lit and making each other laugh is note perfect i want to live in it forever. i can't decide if "who was that guy?" was scripted or if loretta swit just went for a one-shot kill after the scene was over but i live for these bits when margaret accidentally ends up on team 100 proof

it's also nice of them to periodically remind us that frank has a huge wang. i'm glad he's got that one thing going for him

they're really softening hot lips this season 💕

they're styling her much younger, too. the barrettes! the ponytails!!!! i might never recover from the ponytails.

and the scene where she is reading a that letter to radar while he's in the hospital, and she has that little giddy smile at the end! it's so sweeeeeet it's killing me come on

i have a lot of thoughts about frank and margaret, and like five of them are about the phone call in the nurses episode

"knowing you'd kill me makes my life worthwhile" see. with the laugh track off, this joke turns into just margaret staring dreamily in soft focus and the realization that ohhhh. oh no. she really means that. she's like in love in love with this clown, that's so embarrassing for her

(also from that episode: the afterlife song is stuck in my head! the nurse song with the halfhearted montage though like. what happened in the editing room there.)

(also hilarious that trapper misses his wife for the first and only time when every woman in the camp is gone)

"adam's rib" - i like how everyone universally thinks hawkeye's quest is dumb, but they climb aboard the shenanigans because they have nothing else to do

WE LIED TO MILDRED!!!

i don't think i've mentioned how much i love henry and radar together. their comic timing is flawless. that bit of talking over each other never gets old. and then whenever they love and defend each other!!! i love a professional substitute dad

time for "bombed"!!! blow that pyrotechnics budget babyyyyy! blow shit up! break windows! light stuff on fire!!

the trapper/hot lips ship watch on this blog turned into a ship warning just in time for the two of them to get locked in a supply tent and not bang

you gotta admit the long-running ust potential here is pretty great (they hate each other) (but he's a little obsessed about hating her) (and she lusts after him) (and they're both hot)

SADLY for my cause there was no booze in there, because every time she gets drunk she's like "regrettably, there's frank" but sober she wants to marry him

no wonder he wants to outlaw alcohol in the camp

"we held hands and said the pledge of allegiance together" okay they are genuinely so funny sometimes though

i'm also falling hard for hawkeye/trapper but they would never be exclusive so multishipping is built in

last on the disc is "bulletin board"!!!

an episode about nothing is so soothing after all the explosives. the balance of action and Just Hanging Around in this series is really enjoyable

trapper writing a letter to his daughter 🥺

"korea? the war still?" and the rest of that little pillow fight scene. so much sibling energy in the swamp.

henry losing that patient hit well. i hate to be like "i'm rooting for patients to die" because it's not that, but they save them so successfully that it's dramatically satisfying whenever they don't. and i like how it silently affects henry through the rest of the ep while the rest of them have fun

that long beautiful shot of all of them running back to camp!!!!

ok this post took me like three days to write somehow because i rewatched everything ENJOYYYYYY

[wellntruly]

M*A*S*H - Viewguide, S3

Are you interested in the long-running anti-war situation tragicomedy M*A*S*H (1972-1983), but there are simply so many asterisks and so many episodes?

Well I can’t help you with the asterisks, but nor can I help myself: I started watching all 11 seasons of M*A*S*H, and bringing back for you my viewing selections, chosen for The Qualities.

— — —

You should have seen me at Movie Madness pulling out the drawer for “TV: 1970s” and finding this complete stack of covers for all 11 seasons of M*A*S*H. Lost in the saaauuce.

But, amazing news: not only did I make the surprising discovery that what's on Hulu is clearly a restored and remastered version of the far crunchier material on the DVDs, but also that I DEEPLY prefer the original laugh track! It turns out, the laughter is the score. They’d cut to it like music. Without that melody it was built around everything felt so off, so eerily quiet.

Incidentally, over the recent holiday weekend I sang all of 1.75 non-chorus lines of ‘Suicide Is Painless’ in the kitchen and my dad just said, “MASH.” We then talked about all our faves while playing solitaire and drinking maple whiskey sours by the woodstove. Cannot believe I’m getting such a fond memory with my father from M*A*S*H but I’m not sure why, that seems right.

Here are my own suggested favorites from the third season, the last of an era!!! /weeping

M*A*S*H - Season 3 Recommended sequence

3x02 ‘Rainbow Bridge’ - It is amazing that the first episode of this season that aired was the first episode of this season that aired, as everything about the second episode, ‘Rainbow Bridge’, feels like the premiere of the third season of a service comedy (slowly turning dramedy). The 4077th get a message from the Chinese that they have nine wounded American GIs that need more medical help than they can offer, and give their coordinates 50 miles behind the line. “Could be a trap, Trap.” GREAT STUFF. And hey, Season 3? Someone’s upgraded the photography department! She’s moving, folks (the camera). They also keep cutting to Loudon Wainwright perched above the camp with his guitar singing some absurd song about Tokyo like every third scene transition. Why? Couldn’t tell ya. Except to repeat the first line.

3x03 ‘Officer of the Day’ - Henry’s away and Frank makes Hawkeye be Officer of the Day. I love that when he’s backed into a management position, Captain Pierce is actually rather good at it. Tired and clever and humane. It’s gonna sound odd, but he’s almost Lawful, just his code is nothing Army regulation, simply Do The Least Harm. He is a stickler on that. Also contains the best visual punchline I've seen yet. Simply burst out laughing.

3x04 'Iron Guts Kelly' - Margaret kills a general and is like, who would help me hide this body, and doesn’t even have to think about it. Cordially, [throwing a pillow in the face of me of the past] YOU DIDN’T KNOW WHAT YOU HAD, YOU DOSED UP LUNATIC.

3x05 ‘O.R.’ - Ha ha I COULD EAT MY OWN HAND.

100% in surgery, zero laugh track, which does forever prove The Power of Editing (!) as it runs so beautifully, no weird stilted silence like when you take it out later, and also I’m changed as a person. 10/10 I am gnawing.

3x06 'Springtime' - Update ‘Springtime’ an essential episode as writer & actor Mary Kay Place’s literal-literal self-insert M*A*S*H script in which she plays a hot nurse in glasses getting seduced by Radar O’Reilly. I am….obsessed with her. Also Klinger gets married!!!

3x08 ‘Life With Father’ - This one is ultimately a lil' silly sure, but I think I’m powerless to resist Radar, Father Mulcahy, and this young Korean mom moving Heaven & Earth to get a rabbi on the radio to walk them through performing a bris for her Jewish-Korean infant son. And that’s the A-plot, the B-plot is Hawkeye and Trapper are trying to complete a Hidden Picture to win a pony.

3x09 ‘Alcoholics Unanimous’ - I wasn’t going to include both alcoholism episodes, but this is such a good Margaret ep I couldn’t kick it out of bed. Loretta Swit is just so, so funny in this one. I was losing it. Even our impossible miscreants are like lol hang out with us! Favorite drunken scene yet, for sure for sure for sure for sure.

3x11 ‘Adam’s Rib’ - The fact that my dad spontaneously quoted a line from this episode to me, and not even one I would have thought particularly memorable, should alone earn it a spot on any recommendation list. But I too still find myself recalling multiple moments from this one. 'Adam's Rib'—it's gotta be on here!

3x13 ‘Mad Dogs and Servicemen’ - Oh you know I’m here for an episode where in the first minutes Trapper is going, “Frank, that’s straight out of World War I, no one thinks ‘shellshock’ anymore!” Tragically we don’t actually get to see psychiatrist Sidney Freedman, their one-time comedic antagonist turned professional pal and poker buddy (I love this...so much), but I did send a plot synopsis to my own pal Jen, doctor of psychology and practicing therapist, for the psych eval, and her full report is pending but the abstract indicates that hey, Sid’s c. 1950s therapy for their phantom paralysis case (currently probably called a conversion disorder) might be a plausible approach! Remains to be seen if it would be strictly necessary for Hawkeye to have to role-play as Betsy Tough Love to this kid and feel chewed up about it, but it does make for good TV.

3x15 'Bombed' - Everyone’s emotions are running VERY high in this episode, which just straight up opens with the camp being bombed all to hell. With ‘O.R.’ and ‘Aid Station’ as well this season, this fellow dramatic one ended up just missing the first edition of this list, but it’s important to be able to admit when you were wrong. Margaret & Trapper trapped in the supply shed…the bombs are not the only thing shaking me.

3x17 ‘The Consultant’ - This episode rules so, so hard. Love a sneaky cautionary taaaale! Definitely a far finer crafted story than ‘Alcoholics Anonymous’, but we’re including both for their various other appealing elements. Such as, here: a sublimely absurd interlude to a British camp where everyone is like “..Quite,” heavy bombardment, a scene with the trio in incredible swimming get-ups for the water tank pool Henry has made, tensely breathtaking surgery, and just a steady course of Alan Alda being rampantly bisexual in front of, across, and at one point directly to his own real life father. You love to can't believe you're seeing it.

3x18 ‘House Arrest’ - This one is sheer chaos and with an ending I don’t care for much, but the primary plot is Hawkeye & Trapper have possibly never been more dating. Really some peak absurd & precious ne'er-do-well pair behavior, and I just can’t keep this one from you, not here, not now..(!) I also quite like the bit with Radar & Klinger, and ultimately Hawkeye, having a moment of critical self-reflection on his own teasing. Damn Frank storyline, get out of here! Just give us more of the gang watching the new Gene Tierney picture.

3x19 ‘Aid Station’ - Literally cheered at the end of a Margaret monologue in this, a stand-out even before she and Hawkeye and Klinger are in the midst of actual hell together at the front, and work so hard & desperately and get so dear. Not to bandy about the term mutual respect, but Hawkeye bandies about the term mutual respect. Haha, [softly] help. Meanwhile, Trapper & Radar :’) & Henry :’) Second of two episodes this season, both of which I have very much included, where Colonel Blake has to make the decision to send some of his people to the front where they very much might die, and his heart just won’t rest until they’re back, which is always *primo.* Henryyy..!

This episode is M*A*S*H being funny and harrowing and sincere and really, really aware of humor as a way to try to shore against the loss of people you care about all in 25 minutes, which is why, in probably an even more dramatic move than any episode I’ve skipped yet: this is my Season 3 finale for you. This does goodbyes in wartime best this season, goofy, glorious, gutting, the whole cocktail. The ingredients are there in ‘Check-up’ and ‘Abyssinia, Henry’, but they haven’t been balanced in the shaker by as steady a hand as the ones that crafted ‘Aid Station’.

And you’ll learn what happened in the actual season finale at the beginning of Season 4, and as you should: just a few careful sentences with a pit beneath them, and in a moment when the loss has gotten even ❤️ worse.

Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3 • To be continued

#M*A*S*H hours

[marley-manson]

Alcoholics Unanimous is odd. It’s a little too wishy washy. Frank and his army regulations were allowed to be correctly righteous, which sucked, bc the rampant alcoholism was treated as a legitimate issue, but yk, then the episode concludes with a ‘welp,' and a shoulder shrug.

There was some lipservice paid to the situation they’re in essentially requiring it ofc, and Frank (and Mulcahy’s) hypocrisy is demonstrated when they both turn to booze in moments of emotional need, but it wasn’t a particularly strong note. Those moments were Hawkeye kicking Frank lol, and Mulcahy being nervous about a speech. Not much about the war beyond Hawkeye’s brief ‘well it sucks here what do you expect’ monologue.

On the other hand this episode has one of the best scenes ever with Hawkeye, Margaret, and Trapper drinking together. It has two great scenes with Klinger and Mulcahy. A lot of hilarious jokes in general of course.

And one of my main concerns going in was shown to be nonexistent as an issue - I’d read someone’s take somewhere at some point that this episode demonstrates that Hawkeye and Trap don’t really like each other and only get along while drunk. I wasn’t worried that was true lol since it’s ridiculous, but I did wonder if it was something that could be reasonably extrapolated from this ep in isolation. But lol no - it was very clear about them both being generally irritable to everyone including each other due to withdrawal, not sobriety making them realize they find each other annoying.

Also their argument was delightful lol, extremely married-coupley, and Hawkeye sniping about Trapper’s butch hobby mags (and shoulders) while making a joke about shaving his armpits was just a fun vibe.

(Also has Hawkeye ever shown an interest in fishing outside that damn Where There’s a Will scene with Potter? bc Hawkeye mocking Trapper for reading Field and Streams strikes me as about 1000x more authentic than Hawkeye bonding with Potter over fucking fishing lol.)

[amidst-wonderland]

[mane]

pairing: mentioned! nora + michael / michael + gina warnings: language, alcohol, smoking summary: one of the many series five, ep two versions i have (this is pre-timeline nora because i started writing it about three years ago but i genuinely have nowhere to put it now because this isn't at all how i'd handle the scene at all). word count: 0.7

“look, i don’t want to hear another fucking thing about mosley. that man is a danger to this country, but,” he braces himself whilst stubbing out the cigarette. “jimmy mccavern is an immediate threat to us.”

     thomas’ eyes dance around the dimly light room hidden at the back of the garrison, watching each and every member of his family stare intently with varying degrees of distaste and discomfort. “the tory-bastard has all eyes on him; mccavern is a protestant hooligan in over his head that nobody gives two fucks about. glaswegians don’t do suits; they don’t do politicians and they don’t do family meetings. they use their fists, their rage.”

     the atmosphere felt tense, bleak and unbreakable despite everyone being surrounded by loved ones. polly and ada were cornered off to the side mumbling amongst themselves. occasionally an contradicting remark would slip from the matriarch followed by a giggle and had she wanted thomas to have heard, arthur would’ve chuckled. shelby boys were spread between, as was charlie, johnny and isaiah.

     “i say, we go to glasgow, their territory – their shithole. pol’s even set us up with acquaintances.”

     she scoffs rolling her eyes. “if you’d call it that.”

     michael glances to his mother, feeling his eyes narrow on their own accord. glasgow meant trouble and trouble in glasgow was the last thing he needed.

     “our contact runs a pub like this one and is somewhat of a figure head of the norman conks. they live in brigdeton – yes, the same place the billy boys are from before you ask finn.”

     “he’s got a son, a missus and an older sister who operates in said gang and in the taylor’s inn pub. father is scottish and mother was originally born in calais.”

     “you said, taylor’s, didn’t you?”

     “yes.”

     “the mother, you got a name?”

     “no.”

     “oh, i do.” johnny smirks, before continuing. “name’s carmen taylor, married colin mcleod, beautiful ceremony – a lot like your john’s – anyway that was 1901 up in gretna green. then…”

     “-you goin’ anywhere with this fucking story?”

     “1903 strolls around, as does baby number three. wouldn’t you believe she’s once sat in this very room.”

     michael sighs, attempting not to beat johnny to the punchline with gina sitting within his peripheral.

     “our nory.”

     the room falls into a unanimous confusion. “you’re dealing with nora’s fucking family tommy.”

     “i don’t see how that problem pertains to the rest of us michael.” thomas states rather nonchalantly. “you dug that grave.”

     polly snorts at her nephew’s blatant hypocrisy, earning herself a few contentious looks from him and the other women occupying the space. any of them could’ve been in that position, particularly linda. the shelby men left behind a trail of dead, deserted and abandoned wives, any of the remaining would be next on the chopping-block.

     “alec’ll have your fucking head kid.” arthur mutters, patting his cousin on the shoulder when passing behind him to pour another drink from the bar. “can’t speak for tom or finn, but if that was lovely ada and fred–“

     “arthur.” michael warns, “not here.”

     michael’s sudden sharpness intrigues thomas, as he watches the boy fidget in seat not knowing quite where or what to do with his hands and the conclusion being rather obvious with his disposition. “have you neglected to mention this to your new wife?”

     perplexed, gina’s tilts her head pouting at her husband who was now pulling out his cigarette tin.

     she’d assumed this nora her in-laws spoke of was simply a jilted ex-girlfriend michael had left behind and that her family didn’t take too kindly to his sudden departure nor his return.

     “george’d be what? five–six? starting primary school and making friends of his own.” thomas jeers, “and little rosalin she’d be–“

     “–three.” michael mumbles into the straight as he attempts to light it. “the fuck’s your point? i wasn’t there, alright?”

     “my point michael,” thomas punctuates. “is that it was carless, reckless and because you lack any fucking fundamental sense of initiative and responsibility you’ve once again ended up with a mass amount of collateral that we’re – as a family, having to clean-up.”

     “where are they?”

     “glasgow. scattered.”

again, like i said this was written quite a while ago and at that point the mcleod's and shelby's had never met, let alone had reoccurring engagements.

also back then thomas had faked michael's death after nora purposely left him so she wouldn't go looking for him when in actual reality michael is more of a flight risk and thomas didn't want him coming back knowing he'd be more likely to find nora than the vice-versa.

i switched it because for all his faults (and theirs as a couple) i truly don't think michael would've gotten remarried if he knew nora was still around. do i think he would've cheated on her? absolutely but at the very least the threat of the legal system would've stopped anything past that.

nora and the kids obviously aren't dead with thomas, polly and ada being the only ones aware of the truth. but that's initally why i wrote michael shitting himself a little because in the older version he was going to have to face nora and her volatile family.

[cuddleswinchester]

My most-rewatched (comfort ep??) of MASH is ‘Alcoholics Unanimous’ what is yours?

(I say ‘comfort ep’ loosely because I sometimes watch sad ones on purpose to cry, this one is to make me laugh though and it never fails)

[ajoytobeheld]

Los Campesinos! Record box project 2009: the winner!!

September 29th, 2009

So here it is…

For four long weeks we scoured the independent record shops of the United States of America for what we deemed the best 7″s they had to offer. We then, selflessly offered them up to you guys to win, in what was, with hindsight, a ridiculously dull final competition question. Please, I assure you, it was just as boring for me to have to go through the 127 (ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN. Seriously guys, we’ve not even sold that many ALBUMS) entries we received. And you lot didn’t even have the decency to present your answers in a HILARIOUS video.

The fruits on offer were as follows:

Xiu Xiu/High Places 7″ Split (includes David Horvitz polaroid)

Lovvers Laughing Man 7″

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone Town Topic EP

BARR The Song Is The Single 7″

Dan Deacon/Future Islands 7″ Split

Cheap Time Woodland Drive 7″

Telepathe/Effi Briest 7″ Split.

Tokyo Police Club Tessellate 7″ (featuring Tom Campesinos! remix)

Zola Jesus Poor Sons 7″

No Age Eraser 7″ (SIGNED!!)

HEALTH Die Slow 7″

Times New Viking Stay Awake 7″ EP

bis Sweet Shop Avengerz 7″

Abe Vigoda Animal Ghosts 7″

Deerhunter Nothing Ever Happened 7″

Big Black He’s A Whore/The Model 7″

Bikini Kill New Radio/Rebel Girl/Demi Rep 7″

Art Brut Alcoholics Unanimous 7″

Q And Not U Hot And Informed 7″

The Smiths William, It Was Really Nothing/Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want 7″

The Hot Puppies Somewhere 7″

The Housemartins Five Get Over Excited 7″

Fucked Up Year Of The Pig 7″

Les Savy Fav Plagues And Snakes 7″ (Wake Up A Snake/Raging In The Plague Age)

Electrelane In Berlin 7″

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Young Adult Friction 7″

Preston School Of Industry Falling Away 7″

Dead Science Tomlab Alphabet Singles Series 7″

The Mountain Goats Palmcoder Yajna 7″

Hearts Of Animals Hearts Of Animals 7″

Help She Can’t Swim Hospital Drama 7″

Vivian Girls Surf’s Up 7″

Gossip Gossip 7″

The xx Crystalised 7″

Low Santa’s Coming Over

The Locust/Melt Banana Split 7″

Mudhoney Touch Me I’m Sick 7″

Blonde Redhead Symphony of Treble 7″

Sounds Of The American Fast Food Restaurants – 10 Authentic Field Recordings 7″

Voxtrot Blood Red Blood 7″

Scout Niblett It’s Time My Beloved 7″

The New Trust Dark Is The Path Which Lies Before Us 7″ Album

Vivian Girls Wild Eyes 7″

Parenthetical Girls A Song For Ellie Greenwich 7″

Sleater-Kinney Get Up 7″

Dananananaykroyd Pink Sabbath 7″

Dananananaykroyd Black Wax 7″

Girls Lust For Life 7″

Miscellaneous Badges

A couple of ‘Zines

The box will also include the first signed 7″ of our There Are Listed Buildings single. Kind of puts the rest of that crap into perspective, doesn’t it?

Here is a photograph of Kim and myself holding the record box, just moments after thinking “this blog’s a bit text heavy, best get a picture in there”.

The suspense is killing you, I’m sure. This is just one of the many tricks of the trade I learnt from Kate Thornton, when we used to…well, enough about that. At the end of the day…there can be only one winner, and that winner is:

LOIS HADGRAFT.

What a lucky sod, hey?

Guys, thank you for all your entries and for following the competition. We’ll do something similar  but less tiresome, sometime soon. Part of the reason it’s taken so long to announce the winner is because it was breaking my heart that you couldn’t all have a Record Box. And the fact I didn’t want to have to give it up.

Keep it Real,

G-Money.

[alansaldas]

its actually kind of incredible how often mash, a 50 year old sitcom, had hawkeye show serious signs of withdrawl symptoms. of course there was alcoholics unanimous, but there was also commander pierce where hawkeye kinda went power crazy and out of character and at the end of the ep its casually noted that potter left his liquor cabinet locked while he was away

[argumentl]

The Freedom of Expression - Ep 36 The banning of snacks and sweet drinks displays from next to cash registers.

K: Hi, this is Dir en grey's Kaoru with this week's episode of The Freedom of Expression. Joe san, Tasai san, welcome. Ok, today lets get straight on with it. Joe  could you please...

J: Yes, lets have a look at this news. Snack and sweet drinks displays next to cash registers banned in Berkeley, California, USA. In the university city of Berkeley, northern California, a law has been passed this week banning the sale of junk food next to cash registers in supermarkets. According to local media, this is the first of its kind in America. The law, unanimously voted for by Berkeley City council, targets cheap, unhealthy products next to cash registers which 'encourage impulse buying, and burden parents of children who want them', with the aim of promoting  healthy lifestyles. Products with over 5g of added sugar or 250mg of added sodium, and drinks containg a lot of sugar or artificial sweetners have been banned from sale next to cash registers. The ban will come into effect from next March. In the city of 120,000 people it will be imposed in 25 large scale supermarkets. The progressive city Berkeley, on the outskirts of San Francisco has been taking health initiatives before now. In 2014 they imposed a tax on soft drinks, and according to a survey from last year, consumption of soft drinks had halved by 2017.

K: Its true though, the cash registers over there have so many snacks near them.

J: They do, don't they?! They are really colourful. But banning it by law is really stepping in, isn't it?

T: Yeah.

J: The supermarkets aren't stopping it through self-restraint, its been forbidden by law, so if they do it will they be penalised?

T: Yeah, wow.

J: I think this is a warning that in America this kind of health damage caused by excessive additives and sugar in food is becoming a serious problem.

K: Yeah, people just end up picking it up.

J: When im waiting in line at the supermarket, its the same in Japan...in the convenience store in Japan, I wait till the last moment and always end up picking up those little Tirol chocolate squares.

K: Oh yeh, they have those out, don't they?

J: They do! Don't those chocolates just call out  to you at the last minute? I always end up buying a few.

T: I  buy 'Bikkuriman'. For the sticker.

J: Oh yeh. Still?

T: I just sometimes get the feeling like I want to open it. I reminds me off old times, haha. I throw it away straight away though.

J: Kaoru, what about you?

K: I don't buy that stuff.

J: Oh, you don't?

K: No, I just buy what I was intending to buy before I went. If Im walking around the store and I see an interesting new product or something, I might buy it, but the stuff near the cash register seems more like left over produce to me.

J: Ah, close to expiring?

K: Yeh, it looks like they really want you to buy it, so they put it there. I don't really feel like picking it up.

T: Ah, I see.

K: But in supermarkets they have gum and stuff near the registers, don't they?

J: Yeah.

K: I do buy gum.

J: Ahh, yeh...Kami? What do you think?

Kami: I pick all of it up.

T: Nice, Kami.

Kami: I get tonnes. 1000yen worth.

T: Haha

Kami: Maybe 500yen, not 1000.

K: Do you like sweets, Kami?

Kami: Yeh, i do. I pick them up straight away. Um, there's often drinks on display too, right?

J: Yeah.

Kami: If there's cola or fanta, I will buy both.

T: Haha

Kami: If I go to buy tea, I will buy all that.

K: You like sweet stuff, right?

J: Yeah.

Kami: No, its not that. Its just that it all looks delicious. It makes you forget *1

T: I see, yeh.

J: In that sense, its part of the store's strategy.

T: Yeh, Kami seems like he would hate that kind of strategy, but he still falls for it.

J: Yeh, he seems like he would be opposed to it, but he still buys tonnes, right Kami?

Kami: Yeh, I really jump on the bandwagon.

K: This stuff must sell a lot.

J: Yeh, I think so. This kind of food looks visually fun, right? Colourful and stuff. Kids get pulled in by it. Like, 'I wanna eat this!'. Its pretty amazing to pass a law in this. That would be impossible in Japan, right?

T: I feel like Japan has more freedom. I had the image since I was small that America is the country of freedom, but recently if you look at America, there is ban after ban...it seems like life there is getting more restricted. And in Japan, even with covid we can still go outside, or go to restaurants and stuff. It made me think Japan is quite free. Its a weird feeling.

J: Ahh, the rules in America are stricter?

K: Overseas, they were quite strict about indoors. Japan is only just getting like that recently, right?

J: Yeh, America was a lot quicker to regulate indoor smoking.

T: Its like that with alcohol too. When one of my best friends was in America during his student days, he once wore a Budweiser tshirt and he was told, 'Its illegal', and he had to change it. I thought that was pretty strict when I heard.

K: You can't carry it around with you either, can you?

J: Yeah, you have to put it in a bag.

K: I stepped outside a venue without knowing this while I was holding a beer can once, and I was told that isn't allowed.

J: Yeh, yeh, yeh. Well, it does depend on how you look at it. Its often said that in Japan, rather than having rules...well, in America there is a kind of society that is governed by rules, but in Japan its more about community, so rather than having rules, peer presure is very strong. People worry about what others think. Its very Japanese, 'other people are saying this, so...', or 'other people are doing this, so...'. People adapt themselves to that first of all.

T: I wonder which style is better?

J: Yeah. They are both different.

T: Its not nice being told by the government to stop something, is it? I understand the reasons though.

K: Well, people do protest that kind of thing.

Kami: But I think this law is good.

J: It is good.

Kami: I think its really good, because you can finish up without buying stuff.

K: Well, it is good.

Kami: Its really good. I thoroughly agree with it.

K: Kids won't pine for sweets either.

J: Yeh.

Kami: I do think its good to buy sweets for kids though.

J: Oh really?

K: Yeh, but just not there, right?

Kami: I wanted sweets when I was a kid.

K: Me too.

T: Yeh, me too.

Kami: I really wanted all those sweets by the register when I was a kid, but I never got them.

K: There are those socks full of snacks at Christmas, right? I wanted one of those.

T: Yeh, me too.

J: If you think about what made you excited as a kid, basically its the sweet shop, right?

K: Yeh, I used to go there.

J: Whenever I ate sour plums and stuff from the sweet shop, my tongue went bright red *2

K: They were crunchy, right?

J: Yeh! I would drink up all the syrup.

K: Haha.

J: I bet that would be no good under that tax in Berkeley.

T: Yeah.

K: Ahh, sweet shops...

T:???

J:???*3

K: I still feel like eating those kind of sweets sometimes.

J: Yeah. There aren't many sweet shops around these days, in the Tokyo area.

T: Yeah, there aren't.

K: But there are sections in other shops that sell those kinds of sweets.

T: A long time ago there was an izakaya in Sangenjaya that only served sweets as beer snacks.

K: Oh, there was, wasn't there?!

T: Yeh. I went a couple of times, cause its unusual, but sweets...

K: You can't withstand it?

J: After you become an adult, right? At first you are like, 'Woah, so nostalgic', but ..

T: Yeh, it gets boring.

J: You start to think halfway, 'this needs to be more tasteful!' Uh, in the precincts of Kishibojin there is apparently Japan's oldest sweet shop or something still there. Its a famous old man, or old woman who runs it.

K: I recently went to Kawagoe.

T: Oh, Little Edo!

K: Yeh, there is a sweet shop street there. The people there were amazing. Well, I mean they were all wearing yukatas and stuff, and eating.

T: Its made me want to go to a sweet shop!

J: Ah, there is a tonne of good places to eat there, isn't there?

K: Oh, is there? In Kawagoe?

J: Yeh.

K: As for sweet shops, the ones that have a downtown feeling are the best. 

J: Yeah.

K: Its nostalgic, going to the sweet shop in the evening, and getting those colourful squeezy things to drink...

J: Yeh!

K: And eating sweets at the same time.

J: Which was your favourite sweet, Kaoru? From the sweet shop?

K: From the sweet shop? I liked Curry rice-crackers, and 5yen chocolate, and those gummy type things in a box, that you pick up with a little stick.

J: Oh yeh.

K: I used to eat that kinda stuff.

T: What about you, Joe?

J: I liked plum jam, I sandwiched it between those kinda soft rice-crackers. And I liked the  Castella.

T: Oh yeh, they had those small ones.

J: Yeh, they were on a skewer. I used to eat them a lot.

K: Tasai?

T: I used to get those squeezy things too. And wasn't there always like a 10yen game outside sweet shops? I would win more sweets with that.

K: You won?? More sweets came out of the game?

T: It was like a 30yen ticket, right?

J, K: Ehh?

J: I never saw that.

T: Didn't you? Like, where you try to get the ball in the hole for ten yen? And if you win, you get a ticket?

K: Ah, I remember something like that where you can win, but I don't remember tickets coming out. It was little freebies. Ah, its nostalgic. Should we try going to a sweet shop on this show?

J: A sweet shop?? Should we??

K: Yeh.

T: Thats a good idea. With 100yen in change.

K: Actually, that place in Kawagoe was closed.

J: Haha, really?

K: I went all the way there, but..

J: Just for that?

K: Yeh.

J: Really?

K: Well, lets go to one on this show.

J: Yeh, lets do it! Film on location!

K: Ok, lets plan something. Lets fill ourselves with unhealthy snacks.

J: Ah, but it won't be that much.

K: Well, yeh.

J: It'll be limited to what you can get at the sweet shop.

T: Sounds good.

K: Is this ok? Us ending up talking about this?

T: Its ok, it feels good to talk about it.

J: It does, haha.

K: Ok, well, we'll finish here. Please subscribe. Thank you very much.

*1, 2 Difficult to hear, but i think its this.

*3 Couldn't catch.

[cauldronofmorning]

What are your top s1-3 eps?

AI’ll put the ones you haven’t seen yet near the bottom! This is chronological order: (and plenty of cute comfort episodes, but I’ll stick to quality)

1. Yankee Doodle Doctor. Yeah it’s more cute and comfort, but Trapper and Hawkeye dance together, Trapper is protective of Hawkeye, the director has a crush on Hawkeye (which is just really funny considering part of why Alda got the role is he was pretty and flamboyant) and Hawkeye’s little speech is underrated.

2. Sometimes You Hear The Bullet. The bi! The unambiguous gay as hell shit with Tommy! the angst and the guilt and the lovely Henry!

3. Showtime: “it’s nice you can smile in Korean” I weep.

4. Radar’s Report: Trapper’s storyline is messed up and I mean that in the most appreciative way possible, and Hawkeye thinking of marriage as a disease but falling for the idea of it, mwah.

5. Dr Pierce Dr Hyde: *cries* also so much good character stuff, for Hawkeye of course and Trapper, and seeing that he and Henry look after Hawkeye because they know he’s heading for a breakdown gives Late Captain Pierce beautiful heartbreaking context.

6. Kim: I love that Alan Alda sneaks in a kiss to Wayne Rogers’ cheek, I love that Trapper cracks open the emotional shell a bit only to reel it right in again when mom comes back, I love that this camp is the sweetest to kids.

7. Carry On Hawkeye. PEGGING SCENE ASIDE, it’s a lovely one for Hawkeye and Margaret’s friendship with pegging, doesn’t get a snapback (would they have helped her in Hot Lips and Empty Arms if that’d happened first), and the gender stuff with Hawkeye being Margaret’s housewife? mwah.

8. Hot Lips and Empty Arms: hot take that Loretta Swit is the only one who can do funny drunk consistently well, but my wife gets an episode! and Hawkeye is in love with Trapper, though we already knew that.

----------------EPISODES YOU HAVEN’T SEEN YET AND SO I WON’T DETAIL

9. Mail Call, 10. OR, 11, Check Up (though fuck off with the fatphobic b-plot show, Swit and Alda later are beanpoles and you’re making me feel bad), 12. Alcoholics Unanimous, 13.  Adam’s Ribs, 14. Mad Dogs and Servicemen, 15. Bulletin Board, 16. The Consultant, 17. Aid Station, 18. Abyssina Henry

[lucindadixon]

holdontohopelove replied to your link: M*A*S*H - Best of Hawkeye/Margaret

Any chance you’d be willing to post the list itself to Tumblr? The link doesn’t work and I would loveeee the list of episodes.

Sure, here it is!

The following is a list of episodes with good HM scenes (or, on occasion, just good Margaret scenes, because I love her sfm) and a brief description of why I'm including it. Some are big important scenes, others are just little tiny things that no one but a die hard shipper would even notice.  I'm doing this primarily for my own reference, but if someone else gets something out of it, all the better.

 Season One

 Ep. 12  Dear Dad - First kiss!  Hawkeye walks up to Frank and Margaret, asks Frank to hold his drink, grabs Margaret, dips her and kisses the bejeezus out of her!  Margaret is speechless and weak-kneed when he's finished. Frank refers to Hawk as an animal and Margaret agrees, but she obviously does not consider that to be a bad thing.

 Ep. 21  Sticky Wicket - Hawkeye is deeply troubled about a patient who isn't getting any better.  Margaret assisted him on the surgery and seeks him to out try and figure out what went wrong.  Hawk is kind of rude to her actually, but when he eventually figures out the problem, it's her he hauls out of bed to operate with him.  While they are still a long way from the friends they end up being, it's obvious in this episode that they respect each other professionally.

Season Two

Ep. 6 Kim - Because it's Hawkeye she clings to when she's scared, not Frank.

Ep. 11  Carry on Hawkeye - Everyone has the flu but Hawkeye and Margaret and they have to work together to keep things running.  There's a great scene where they have to give each other flu shots - Hawkeye, of course, wants his in his tushie.  There are definite shades here of the friendship they eventually develop.  In fact, he even refers to her as 'nurse, friend, and all round good egg', and you can tell she's pleased.  One of my Top 10 HM episodes

Ep. 14  Hot Lips and Empty Arms - Nothing specifically HM (and there's a bit of Margaret/Trapper) but I'm including it anyway because it has some great Margaret scenes and she is just so stinking cute when she's bombed.

Ep. 15  Officers Only - Hawkeye tries to convince Margaret to agree to allowing enlisted men in the new O club.  There is dancing involved.  Frank is jealous.  Unfortunately he fails to convince her, but it's cute while it lasts.

Season Three

Ep. 4  Iron Guts Kelly - A visiting General dies in Margaret's tent and she seeks out Hawk and Trapper to help her cover it up.  Nothing specifically HM, but a really hilarious episode.

Ep. 7  Check-up - I'm torn on this one.  I decided to include it only because Hawkeye giving Margaret her check-up was cute, especially the fact that he shaved before it.  But then he basically calls her fat.  Huh?  It also features Drunk!Margaret which I love, but is kinda heavy on the Trapper/Margaret which I don't.

Ep. 9  Alcoholics Unanimous - Frank outlaws booze, so of course Margaret, Hawk, and Trap get drunk together and then make fun of Frank when he finds them.  Really funny scene.

Ep. 10  There's Nothing Like a Nurse - Because she quite enjoys her goodbye kiss.

Ep. 13  Mad Dogs and Servicemen -  Margaret and Hawk have words several times when she disagrees with the way he treats a soldier with what he believes to be hysterical paralysis. Also, Radar is bitten by a dog and needs rabies shots and there is a wonderful scene where Margaret kindly reads him a letter from a girl wanting to correspond with a serviceman.

Ep. 16  Bulletin Board - Because they're laughing and covered in mud.

Ep. 19  Aid Station - Hawkeye and Margaret (and Klinger) are sent to an Aid Station at the front.  There's a cute scene on the way where Margaret won't let Hawk change a flat tire because his hands are too valuable.  Once there, they work incredibly well together and the professional respect between them is obvious.  She tells a wounded soldier that he's lucky because Hawkeye is the best. He encourages her to start a surgery without him.  There is a sweet scene where they talk at the end of the day and end up going to sleep curled up together.  And when they get back to camp, he kisses her on the cheek.  One of my Top 10 HM episodes.

 Season 4

Ep. 3  It Happened One Night - Hawk and Margaret work the night shift in Post Op together.  When they relieve Frank, he says he's leaving them to "carry on".  The look they give him is priceless.  Later, a can of beans Hawk was heating on the stove explodes and gets all over them.  Margaret laughs as he uses his finger to taste the sauce on her face.  Best exchange of the night:  Patient:  "I hate your guts."  Margaret: "My guts are not here for you to love."  One of my Top Ten HM episodes

Ep. 10  Dear Peggy - Because she gets in the jeep as he admires her best side.

Ep. 11  Of Moose and Men - Hawkeye has to operate on a Colonel he's offended.  Margaret is very impressed with his work and tells him as much.  So naturally, he hits on her and pisses her off.  Just prior, there's a sweet scene when she covers him with a blanket as he sleeps in Post Op.

Season 5

Ep. 1  Bug Out - While the rest of the camp bugs out, Hawkeye, Margaret, and Radar remain behind to look after a patient who can't be moved. There is a nice scene where they talk about being afraid.  Later, as they are about to leave the camp, Margaret tells Hawkeye he should be proud of the lives he's saved.  He tells her she should be as well and kisses her on the cheek.  One of my Top 10 HM Episodes

Ep. 2  Margaret's Engagement - Because he fixes her boo-boo and tells her to knock off the insensitivity.

Ep. 3  Out of Sight, Out of Mind - Because he knows her by her perfume.

Ep. 5  The Nurses - Hawkeye helps a nurse Margaret has confined to quarters have a rendezvous with her husband by "quarantining" him in Margaret's tent.  Margaret's pain at being rejected by the other nurses is heartbreaking.

Ep. 7  Dear Sigmund - Because she's playing poker in the Swamp wearing boxer shorts.

Ep. 11  The Colonel's Horse - Margaret needs an appendectomy and Hawkeye is the only surgeon she wants.  He pays her a tent call for a pre-op exam but she won't let him because he won't lay off the sexual innuendo.  She ends up waking him in the middle of the night to do the operation.  There is a cute scene at the end where he takes his patient for a stroll around the compound.  She thanks him for doing a wonderful job and he offers her a guarantee: every thousand miles he'll probe her chassis.

Ep. 19  Hepatitis - Hawkeye is examining everyone for hepatitis, including Margaret.  Hawkeye: "You're going to get a shot too."  Margaret (shaking her brush at him):  "So are you, kiddo."  She confides in him a problems she's having with her fiance's mother, he admires her caboose, she tells him off.  He tells her she's magnificent, inside and out.  Aww.

Ep. 21  Movie Night - Because he wants to hear her sing.

Season 6

Ep. 1  Fade in, Fade out - Because he was drooling over her bikini picture.  And because he was genuinely interested in why she was upset.

Ep. 7  In Love and War - Included only for the HM scene at the end where they commiserate over Hawkeye's lost love and Margaret's cheating husband.  Otherwise, not at all ship-friendly.

Ep. 9  Images - Margaret becomes upset after hearing that a stray dog she's grown attached to has been killed by a jeep.  Hawkeye sees that she's emotional and tries to get her to talk.  She doesn't want to admit to it and accuses him of always trying to get in her head. Eventually he succeeds in getting her to break down, and he holds her while she cries.

Ep. 12  Comrades in Arms (Pt 1) - Hawkeye and Margaret are stranded alone together in an abandoned hut while on a trip to the 8063.  They find comfort in each other's arms while shelling goes on all around them.  In addition to the kissing (squee!), I love that when she is going to sleep, she says to announce himself if he's coming over to her in the middle of the night so she doesn't brain him with a big stick thinking he's the enemy.  Hint, hint, perhaps?  One of my Top 10 HM episodes.

 Ep. 13  Comrades in Arms (Pt 2) - Margaret is kind of weird and OOC in the first half of the episode and it's a uncomfortable to watch her being all mushy and trying to make Hawkeye into something he's not. The ending scenes though, first with Hawkeye confessing to BJ that he felt something for her, and then the two of them making peace, make up for the bad beginning.  The whole 'who's smiling' bit at very end is adorable.  One of my Top 10 HM episodes.

Ep. 14  The Merchant of Korea - I love the scene in Margaret's tent when Hawkeye goes to invite her to the poker game.  Something about the way she casually picks up his hand and moves it out of her way instead of just commanding him to move it is adorable.

Ep. 15  The Smell of Music - Because of her brilliant three-wave plan to clean the boys and stop the French horn.

Ep. 16  Patient 4077 - Margaret loses her wedding ring and Hawk and BJ buy her a replacement.  She's a bitch about it at first, but after Klinger sets her straight, she says she likes it better than the original.

Ep. 19  What's Up Doc - Margaret confesses to Hawkeye that she fears she may be pregnant.  It's touching how concerned he is for her.  They perform surgery on Radar's rabbit's ovaries to do a pregnancy test. In my Top 10 HM Episodes

Season 7

Ep. 1  Commander Pierce - Because she's beautiful when she's overworked and because since when did he join the army?

Ep. 2  Peace on Us - I could write a book on this one.  I love how the only thing that gets though to Hawkeye when he's ranting about the army's rule change is Margaret's confession that Donald has run out on her.  And later, when they hug at the red party and she puts her hand on the back of his head and pulls him down like she's about to kiss him...swoon... (see icon). She's kind of all over him in this episode, both during the party and the next morning.  In my own personal head-canon, they totally fell off the 'just friends' wagon that night. On of my Top 10 HM episodes.

Ep. 7  They Call the Wind Korea - Because he never let's her get away with 'I'm fine' when she's not.  And because she lays her head on his shoulder.

Ep. 12  Out of Gas - A couple of cute moments.  While they're playing poker he calls her 'toots' and she doesn't even get mad.  When she passes out from the ether, he revives her.   And when she wakes him up to go into surgery, he ask her to help him up, which she does, and get him something to lean against, preferable her, which rates a smile.

Ep. 13  An Eye for a Tooth - Hawkeye's hungover and Margaret's in an incredibly good mood.  She starts tickling him at the breakfast table and then loads his coffee up with sugar, leading to a food fight!  Charles manipulates them into a prank war, but they team up and get him in the end.

Ep. 16  Inga - Even though Hawk spends most of the episode chasing another woman, I have to include this one because Margaret completely pwns him in the scene outside the mess tent, telling him off for being sexist. I find his accusation of jealousy interesting though, in that he seems to mean he thinks Margaret is jealous of Inga professionally, but Margaret takes it to mean being jealous over Hawkeye's attention.  Seems like maybe he unintentionally strikes a bit of a nerve, even if that isn't what prompted the fight..  And then it's just sweet when she makes him go to the movies with her at the end and they walk off with their arms around each other.

Ep. 19  Hot Lips is Back in Town - Because he does his best to make sure she's okay after her divorce papers arrive, at least until he passes out.  And she is absolutely trying not to laugh when he interrupts the triage lesson.

Ep. 20  C*A*V*E - Hawkeye and Margaret help each other work through their phobias (claustrophobia and loud noises, respectively) when the 4077th is forced to evacuate to a cave during an attack and then they have to take a critical patient back to operate on him.  BJ:  "Boy, I can't leave you two in the backseat of anything."  Um, what?  Has he seen things we have not? In my Top 10 HM episodes.

Season 8

Ep. 2  Are You Now, Margaret - A congressional aide is convinced Margaret is a communist sympathizer.  Nothing specifically HM, but it shows how far she's come that every single person was on her side.

Ep. 11  Lifetime - Because she's Hot Streak Houlihan and they work so well together.

Ep. 12  Dear Uncle Abdul - Because her valiant foot locker gave it's life so she might live.  Not HM, just really funny.

Ep. 13  Captains Outrageous - Because they really should own a bar together.

Ep. 14  Stars and Stripes -  After Margaret's date with Scully goes south, Hawkeye tries to give her a pep talk.  She includes Hawk in her list of failed relationships - I think this is the only time the events of CIA are ever referenced, however obliquely.  Later she describes her ideal man as being 20% her father, 10% Scully, 10% Hawkeye, 3% Frank Burns and 1% her ex-husband.  I love that he rates higher than Frank.

Ep. 16  Bottle Fatigue - Because she's the only one defending his cranky arse when he gives up drinking, even though he doesn't appreciate it.

Ep. 25  April Fools - Because she's Margaret the Menace and they steal her tent.

Season 9

Ep. 5  Death Takes a Holiday - Margaret, Hawkeye and BJ struggle to keep a soldier alive until December 26 so his kids don't have to remember Christmas as the day their father died.

Ep. 17  Bless You Hawkeye - Because she checks him for fever and sits by his bedside.

 (Sheesh. What happened, Season 9?  Where be all the HM?)

Season 10

Ep. 3   Rumor at the Top - No HM, but Margaret's attempts at making Col. Potter sound senile are quite amusing.

Ep. 4  Give 'em Hell Hawkeye - Because they sit awfully close together even though there are more chairs.

Ep. 11 The Birthday Girls - No HM, but Margaret and Klinger are really sweet in this one.

Ep. 14  The Tooth Shall Set You Free - Because he refills her coffee cup without her even having to ask.

Ep.  15  Pressure Points - Because she makes a good catch.

Ep  16  Where There's a Will There's a War - Hawkeye writes out a will during a harrowing visit to an aid station.  He leaves Margaret his Groucho glasses to remind her of how much he enjoyed her rarely seen silly side.  There is a flashback of a sleep-deprived Hawk and Margaret making bad puns and cracking up while taking inventory in the supply tent.

Ep.  20  Picture This - Charles, BJ and Hawkeye are fighting and Hawkeye moves out of the Swamp. It's Margaret who goes to trick Hawkeye into going back, while Klinger and Father Mulcahy go to BJ and Charles.

Season 11

Ep. 1  Hey Look Me Over - Because they dance the Lindy Hop. Sadly, off screen.

Ep. 2  Trick or Treat - Because he really likes her sexy costume.

Ep. 7  Settling Debts - Not HM, but included because Margaret does such a bang-up job of stalling Colonel Potter.

Ep. 10  U.N., the Night, and the Music - Margaret takes an interest in a U.N. representative who has suffered an injury that has left him impotent.  He confides in Hawkeye, who tries to run interference.  Included because the U.N. guy originally thinks Hawk and Margaret are more than friends and because Margaret thanks Hawkeye for "trying to be a jerk".

Ep. 15  As Time Goes By - Margaret decides to make a time capsule to commemorate the 4077th.  Hawkeye volunteers to help and they spend the episode arguing over what would be appropriate to include, Margaret wanting a military theme and Hawkeye goes more for the human side of the war.  In the end she is more agreeable to his way of thinking after they hear the story of a chopper pilot's heroism and then when she sees the items he's chosen.

Ep. 16  Goodbye, Farewell and Amen - A couple of little things in this one, and of course, one great big thing.  First, when BJ leaves the first time, it's Margaret he chooses to have explain things to Hawkeye for him.  Then, when he gets back from the psych hospital and goes right into surgery, it's Margaret that helps him through it.  And what can I say about their final scene?  I love that moment of understanding between them where they each know exactly what the other is thinking ("So, ah, listen..."  "Yeah.") and then they just grab onto each other at the same time.  That was one hell of a goodbye kiss.  To me what is happening here is that they are admitting, to themselves and to each other, just how much more there was to their relationship than the friendship they had eventually settled into.  That their reasons for not being together, while valid as far as they went, were no longer important in the face of probably never seeing each other again. Also, all shippiness aside, this is an incredible series finale.  Charles and the musicians make me cry every time, as does BJ's final goodbye note. One of my Top 10 HM Episodes

everytimeyougo 's Top Ten Hawkeye/Margaret Episodes

10.  Carry On Hawkeye

9.   It Happened One Night

8.   C*A*V*E

7.   Bug Out

6.   What's Up Doc?

5.   Comrades in Arms (Pt 2)

4.   Aid Station

3.   Goodbye, Farewell and Amen

2.   Peace on Us

1.   Comrades in Arms (Pt 1)

Honorable mentions:  Sticky Wicket, The Colonel's Horse, Hepatitis, Images, The Merchant of Korea, Where There's A Will, There's A War

[mylittleredgirl]

You have SO many (of my objective favorite) good eps coming up in S3 oh my goodness. OR!! Springtime!! Rainbow Bridge!! Alcoholics Unanimous!! Aid Station!! Adam’s Ribs!! Oh wow wow enjoy ♥️

this is exciting!!!! i will come back and report in!

[marley-manson]

M*A*S*H questions: 5, 7, 10.

5. An episode that makes you laugh out loud?

Well I can answer this again because there are so many to choose from. Let's go with Alcoholics Unanimous, the scene w/ the three of them drinking together is absolutely perfect and so infectiously funny. Also Deal Me Out which is just so consistently on.

7. Did Charles touch his nose?

Yep. Margaret is a pro and she had no beef with Charles at the start of the ep that might lead to her seeing something similar and making assumptions. The joke is that she's watching Charles extra closely bc she has a crush on him (ugh), and that Charles is pompous and refuses to admit to a mistake, not that she's seeing things.

10. What do you think B.J. stands for?

If we're being completely realistic I don't think BJ could hide his real name in the army (they're not gonna put a nickname on dog tags), but even if his name is really BJ I don't think his parents' names are Bea and Jay because... I just don't like it lol. What are they, mormon?

But ykw the show isn't realistic, the fact that Hawkeye persists suggests we're supposed to think it's ambiguous whether BJ was lying, so I like the Benjamin headcanon lol, I legit do think it's hilarious if they have the same name that neither of them use.

Also I’m just biased and I like the idea that he was lying about it in Lil lol.

Thank you!

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