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Goofs

posted 9 years ago by deansaintly
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I can pick out a couple of more goofs in M*A*S*H 1 Radar is helping Hawkeye to cheat in a poker game he is spying for him on haweyes opponents cards and knows about poker , but in a later episode Radar intervenes on a poker game and asked the other players do they know go fish intending he knows nothing about poker 2 Col Potter offers Radar his first cigar and he's not keen on it , but in an earlier episode Radar is caught by General Barker in Henry's office smoking a cigar and drinking brandy .and enjoying them both 3 the time difference is mentioned I think it's Chicago time this time it is mentioned 18 hrs behind and BJ says it's 2am where they are in Korea and so it must be 8 pm the night before in Chicago I only make that 6 hrs behind . There's probably plenty more but those ones stand out for me , I love the show but I just like that sought of trivia

[–] wordsatplaytoday 9 years ago

As for MASH's timeline, well, the war lasted June 25th, 1950 to July 27th, 1953

Which means that in the real life war, they would have had only three Christmas celebrations.

How many did MASH have? More than 3?

Damn, I'm good.

[–] crockett_john 9 years ago

I think they only had three and one Boxing Day.

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[–] drunkbear 9 years ago

And don't forget: they had one episode that covered an entire YEAR.

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[–] vpilutis 9 years ago

Another goof about Margaret's wedding: Her having kids, no way in the army or any of the other services at that time.
Being PG was a automatic medical discharge for women.

I knew a few during my 2 yrs in the army, none of them mine

[–] iamtherealbg 9 years ago

How about Radar's teddy bear. At the beginning of the series it is shown with a plastic type nose whereas when he leaves it on Hawkeye's bed when he's sent home it has a cloth type nose. I can see him bringing it along when he's deployed to SK but I can't see him buying another one while he is there. Maybe he lost the first one along the way and his mother sent him another. ?????

As for the guerrillas shooting at them while they were changing the Jeep tire. I never took the group of people walking down the road to be the guerrillas. I thought they were L.I.P. and after Hawkeye, Radar, and B.J. say hello to them they somehow become aware of guerrillas around them and they went into the bush to hide not shoot at the Jeep. I don't know. I just never took them to be the shooters.

[–] iamtherealbg 9 years ago

Okay, I think I found a goof that I have been missing every time this episode comes on. It is the one where Klinger meets a nurse from the 8063 and Winchester hooks up with a Korean hooker (Wimpy). Although he swears she comes from a very distinguished bloodline. Anyway near the end, just before the hooker dumps him, they are sitting at a table back at Rosie's and he is reciting a poem and she is eating a hamburger. He asks, "How was it?" referring to the poem but she remarks on the burger instead.

Here's the goof: She says, "The meat is stale and the bun is burnt. Don't they know how to make a decent burger?"

But clearly the bun is not burnt. And meat doesn't get stale it rots. Right? I think she got her lines wrong and should have said: The bun is stale and the meat is burnt. Anyone else see this or am I just drinking too much coffee again?

[–] ExplorerDS6789 9 years ago

Given that this show is NOTORIOUS for 'bad food' jokes, I think that line was intentional.

[–] indy_go_blue44 8 years ago

Another longterm Radarism: In the S-1 episode where they make the movie (Yankee Doodle Doctor) Radar stands beside the 4077 sign alongside Hawkeye and Trapper in their skivvies, but in S-3 Officer of the Day, he wants Hawkeye to turn his head while he disrobes. That was several episodes before Pvt. Charles Lamb when he went full scale Ellie Mae O'Reilly.