Goofs

The writers probably didn't remember every little thing or detail when they wrote the show.

Now how about one where Radar is both smoking a cigar and playing poker and discussing time differences!
That would have been something to watch! LOL

The time difference is very elastic on the show. Sometimes, it's as much as three days and can be as little as no difference at all.

Yeah, there are a lot of goofs, more than there should be in some cases, like Potter's ever-changing family, but I think Radar's changes are kind of necessary. By the middle seasons, he didn't look young, so him being worldly was dull. Having him regress mentally made sense.

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I'm just expressing my opinion.

You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.

I don't know if this is as much a goof or a nitpick, but they seemed to get things from home pretty fast. Like Charles getting imported water from his parents when there was a shortage or Radar writing his mother to get his toboggan cap sent to him before Christmas. Also, Trapper seemed to get his wife's approval to adopt Kim pretty fast too.

I didn't nitpick or complain , just I like these sort of goofs / trivia here's another Radar is all for animals but in one episode radar clearly is going to eat a lamb roast with mint jelly of which the cook traded for a pair of long johns with radar (Hawkeyes originally) in another Ep not to far a long in the series radar is saving a lamb and he sends it back to his home in Iowa saved from being eaten by the Greek soldiers who throw party for mash 4077 and this wouldn't have been forgotten by the writers so quickly surely . Thanks for your responses anyway

In the episode "Welcome to Korea" as Hawkeye and Radar are bringing B.J to the 4077th they get a flat tire.


Being that they were under fire from a band of natives that disappeared into the woods, they left the flat tire where it was, instead of putting it back on the back of the Jeep.

On the rest of the trip the tire is gone until they pull up to Rose's bar. Suddenly it's back. It stays back until they get back to the camp where Hawkeye introduces B.J to Frank and Margaret.

The next morning, outside the office not only is the Jeep turned around, but the tire that was suddenly back is now gone again.




Destroying an empire to win a war is no victory and ending a battle to save an empire is no defeat

My favorite M*A*S*H goof occurs in the final episode; I call it 'The Magic Tent.'

A wounded soldier drives his tank into the compound, flattening the latrines. The tank is attracting enemy fire, so Klinger erects a tent over it to hide it. The ruse doesn't work, though, and the enemy continue to shell the 4077th. Finally, Hawkeye dashes out to the tent, fires up the tank and drives it to the camp garbage dump.

Here's the goof: When the tank drove into the camp, it as an M24 Chaffee. When it drove out of the tent, it was an M4 Sherman.

Thus I can only conclude that the tank was transformed by the Magic Tent.

How about in season one Hawkeye had both a sister and mother and then after season 2 it was just his dad. What happened to the rest of Hawkeye's family? Guess they wound up in the same place as Chuck Cunningham.

In Season 2 Margaret says her father is dead, but in Season 9 he rises from the grave and visits the camp.