87 Episode M*I*S*T*A*K*E*S

1. In the pilot episode when they sedate Frank Burns, Radar O’Reilly administers a shot to Frank to keep him under sedation. Are we to believe that 2 of the best doctors in the Korean Theatre are going to allow Radar to administer a shot??? Also in the Pilot there is a fake Father Mulcahy.



2. In Episode #10 "I Hate A Mystery" Early in the episode, Frank calls Hotlips "Major Houlihand"! Freudian slip...? You decide.



3. In Episode #10 "I Hate A Mystery" McLean Stevenson has a bit of a quiver to his voice the first time he orders Hawkeye to open his footlocker... perhaps Alda's laughing was breaking him up. I also think he's grinning quite unseriously/unmilitarily, but luckily for him, the soot makes it difficult to tell! Gary Burghoff seems to also be giggling a little, but I can't tell if, as Radar, he was merely being amused by the situation. He appears to be trying to stifle his laughter, but he might just be acting as Radar might... not wanting to laugh at Henry.



4. In Episode #10 "I Hate a Mystery" Hawkeye calls a bunch of names into the Mess Hall. When they arrive all are there, and so is Ho Jon who's name wasn't called? Yet he was the one being charged with the crime



5. In Episode #11 "Germ Warfare" Hawkeye and Trapper take blood from Frank for a North Korean soldier while Frank is asleep. Hawkeye is looking on a list of the staff and their blood types. Since it is the Army, it would be logical to assume that the list is in alphabetical order. Hawkeye finally finds frank on the last page, but Frank's last name is Burns, so he would be on the first page...



6. In Episode #12 “Dear Dad” Hawkeye mentions having a sister and a living mother in Vermont…Hawkeye is obviously from Crab Apple Cove Maine and he has no siblings and his mother is dead…. Rookie Move Gelbart!!!!!



7. In Episode #12 "Dear Dad" An extra walks into the camera (behind Father Mulcahy when he and Klinger are talking outside the Post-Op ward after Klinger punches Frank). The extra then notices hes on camera and turns around and runs off screen



8. In Episode #16 "The Ringbanger" In the scene where Hawkeye and Trapper are in Leslie Nielson tent telling him that he made such a fuss about getting his milk before bed, the milk is sitting on the table before Radar puts it there from under the tent.



9. In Episode #16 "The Ringbanger" during the shower seen between Frank and Hawkeye, at the start of the scene, Frank is wearing his dog tags. Later, when the camera cuts back to him, the dog tags are gone. When he storms into Hotlips tent, the dog tags are back on.



10. In Episode #17 "Sometimes You Hear The Bullet" Henry presents Frank with a 'Purple Heart' and calls him Franklin D. Burns when Frank's middle name is Marion. Also, in 'Reqium for a Lightweight', he was referred to as Fraklin W. Burns.



11. In Episode #19 “The Long John Flap” when Klinger puts his rifle in to steal the Long Johns from Hot Lips tent he uses his hand to remove the garment from his bayonet. The hand in his seen is clearly not Klingers. The hand is almost hairless, Jamie Farr on the other hand is one of the Hairiest men in Hollywood. His hand and knuckles resemble that



12. In Episode #20 "The Army-Navy Game" As Trapper, Hawkeye and a couple of nurses are cheering in Blake's office, one of the nurses hits Hawkeye in the nose. You notice this, because Alan Alda grabs his nose and spins around.



13. In Episode #25 "Divided We Stand" Henry finds out that General Hammond has sent a guy to 'observe' the 4077th due the great pressure the unit must be under being so close to the front, while in the office when henry is talking to the officer, (the one hawkeye refers to later as the 'nose throat and bloomers' specialist) henry says something but his mouth does not move, obviously the voice over was recorded at a completely different time from the filming!



14. In Episode #26 "5 O'Clock Charlie" Frank says that he can fire the anti-aircraft gun because he has had ROTC training, but in "Abyssinia Henry", he tells Margaret that he wishes he had taken ROTC in school, and not wasted so much time in the stamp club.



15. In Episode #36 "The Incubator" Hawkeye and Trapper are sitting down with the base commander when he says that with a few days notice, he can get anything, even a B-52 But B-52 wasn't in service until after the war.



16. In Episode #42 "A Smattering of Intelligence" At the end of the episode Captain Stone uses a Minaux camera that was not in use until the late 1960s, and the series was set in the early 1950s.



17. In Episode #47 "Mail Call" Frank Burns is trying to call his broker on Wall Street to sell all of his assets and buy "Pioneer Aviation". Radar explains that home is 16 hours behind Korea. In Reality New York City is 14 hours behind during standard time, and 13 hours during daylight savings time.



18. In Episode #49 "The General Flipped at Dawn" in one scene radar is wearing one colored uniform.... but when he leaves henry's tent...he is wearing a different uniform



19. In Episode #49 “The General Flipped at Dawn” Harry Morgan arrives as the tremendously funny General Steele, then in episode #75 “Change of Command,” he is back as Col. Sherman Potter only 19 episodes later



20. In Episode #52 "Iron Guts Kelly" During the scene with Frank and Margaret in her tent with him sitting on her bunk after he discovers a "general's star" in her bed, Hot Lips is standing in front of the bunk, and as Frank asks her about this star, her dialogue from frame to frame includes some that is clearly shot from a different time. For that split second frame, her hair and voice are completely different from the preceding and following frames. Interesting, perhaps an editor botched that one.



21. In Episode #52 "Iron Guts Kelly" Margaret wakes up Hawkeye to confess that the general she was sleeping with died in her bed, there is a scene where Frank comes to talk to her because he suspects something. While she is trying to get rid of him, the scene cuts from Margret to Frank, back and forth. During one quick cut to Margaret, her hair is dry and perfectly styled, and there appears to be a fog filter on the camera. The rest of the scene, her hair is wet because she just came out of the shower.



22. In Episode #55 "Check-Up"...Henry is giving Radar his physical and Radar reveals his new anchor tattoo he paid 50 cents for.. In a later episode Radar is debating getting his first tattoo, but decides against it in favor of a fake one



23. In Episode #56 "Life With Father" involving a Korean born US military dependant that needed a "Bris"; The Naval Jewish Chaplain is on the USS Essex. However, when the ship is shown the Island has the number "10". The Exxex was number "9". The Yorktown was "10". The Yorktown was not on station in the Korean Theater of Operations until two months after the final cease fire.



24. In Episode #57 "Dear Mildred" Notice the facial markings on the horse as Radar is "sweet talking" it into capture. Then in the last scene of the episode, Potter is riding the horse through the compound, notice the facial markings again, and they are different, as this must have been a different horse. Also, they refer to the horse as "him" "he" but later the name of the horse is Sophie.



25. In Episode #59 “Adam’s Ribs” Henry mentions he met his wife at the Dearborne Station. In episode #22 “Army Navy Game” he says he met his wife at the Freshman Mixer. She was “Succatash Queen”



26. In Episode #62 "Private Charles Lamb" Radar tells the lamb he would never eat him, like all the others want to. However, in the episode 'The Long John Flap', Radar trades his coveted long johns to the cook for a leg of lamb with mint jelly and promptly cancels a night with a nurse and heads out of the mess tent to eat the lamb. As his character progressed, Radar became a more total vegetarian.



27. In Episode #64 "Bulletin Board" Margaret wants to borrow $240 from Frank. She says she needs it as gift for "key" money for her younger sister, a captain, although in numerous other episodes Margaret states she is an only child.



28. In Episode #65 "The Consultant" In one of the early scenes in the bar at the officer's club in Japan, Hawk is describing the 4077th to Borelli and tells him "7 tables and no waiting". Watch any of the OR scenes and there are 4 tables: 4 surgeons, 4 tables.



29. In Episode #65 "The Consultant" Henry is operating on a patient but isn't wearing surgical gloves



30. In Episode #67 “Aid Station” Hawkeye tells Margaret as they stop the jeep right before they go into the camp. "We're home Emmy Lou." I wondered what he referred to. The Reference Emmy Lou was from a comic strip called "Emmy Lou." The Comic Strip started originally as "Betty Lou and Ho-Hum" in 1945. It was changed to "Emmy Lou" in 1958.



31. In Episode #70 "Payday" Hawkeye states that he would have made the extra 3,000 dollars at his civilian practice but in all other episodes he works at a hospital.



32. In Episode #72 "Abyssinia, Henry" Henry gives Radar his dads pen which is engraved with the year 1952 on it. Col. Sherman T. Potter showed up on September 19, 1951. Why would Henry have the pen engraved with the year 1952, if he was there in 1951 and didn't live to see 1952???



33. In Episode #73 "Welcome to Korea" Hawkeye, Radar, and B.J. steal a jeep after someone takes theirs. On their way back to the 4077th they meet some Koreans coming down the road. Radar wants to give them some gum but remembers he left it in his jacket which was left the other jeep. He later begins chewing on Chiclets that he takes from his jacket pocket. Later still the three come upon some soldiers, get attacked by mortars, and Hawkeye asks Radar to give a soldier a Chiclet. Radar does. What happened to the candy being left in the jacket?



34. In Episode #73 "Welcome to Korea" Radar is in the shower telling Hawk that Trap just went home, he tells him "we were vegetarians" and in several other episodes Radar is seen eating meat---chicken, lamb, etc.



35. In Episode #73 "Welcome to Korea" During the emcee intro he says that Radar and Hawk took off for Seoul to pick up B.J. and earlier the episode, Radar asks for permission from Burns to pick up B.J. at Kenpo



36. In Episode #73 "Welcome to Korea" During the jeep tire changing scene, Radar jumps out to get the jack and crowbar as the locals are shooting at them, but before they speed away, Hawk yells at him to "get in" and Radar drops it straight down to the ground and they speed off. The scene continues right down the road as they stop to "tighten the General's lug nuts," Hawk jumps out of drivers seat WITH the crowbar in hand to tighten the lug nuts.



37. In Episode #73 "Welcome to Korea" While at Rosie's Bar, as Hawk, BJ and Radar are drinking, a fight is going on behind them in another room, behind a big white "glass" window. The fight progresses and one of the soldiers comes flying through the window to the floor. A loud crashing glass breaking is heard as he flies through, but if you look at the "glass" now, it has not broken, only ripped, as the "glass" was really white paper.



38. In Episode #75 "Change of Command" As Radar unpacks the colonel's picture frames, he asks where his wife's picture should go on the desk and Potter replies: "no, no...she always goes on the right hand side of my desk." In many other episodes to follow, you can clearly see her picture on Potter's LEFT hand side of his desk



39. In Episode #75 "Change of Command" At the end of the episode notice the Jeep that Col. Potter drives up in. It is a CJ-5 model, which was built from 1955 - 1983, and therefore could not have been present during the Korean conflict. It is easily recognizable by the "rounded" front fenders, rather than the "flat" fenders used on the military jeeps of the time. Also, the Jeep has a glossy paint job, rather than the correct flat O.D. paint.



40. In Episode #75 "Change of Command" Colonel Potter asks Father Mulcahy if he does a good Methodist sermon. However, in the episode "Period of Adjustment", when Father Mulcahy is describing Radar's former clumsiness as a company clerk, the Colonel asks "You wouldn't lie to a Presbyterian, would you?"



41. In Episode #75 “Change of Command” it says that Sherman Potter arrive on Sept 19, 1952…yet in a later episode the year 1951 seems to fly by



42. In Episode #75 “Change of Command” Klinger breaks out in a rash from where a uniform for this one episode….What about after Season 7 when Klinger stopped wearing dresses and was always in uniform, there was no mention of the rash.



43. In Episode #80 “Smilin Jack” the pilot known as Smilin Jack beat Dangerous Dan by 1 patient and is very excited and thinks he will win Chopper Pilot of the Year until Dangerous Dan brings in 2 more. How can smilin Jack be so naïve and think that his record is gonna stand and Dangerous Dan is just gonna stop bringing in wounded soliders on his chopper.



44. In Episode #83 “Of Moose And Men” When BJ takes the liberty to write a letter for Zale, he goes to Zale's "moose" to give him the letter. Anyway, in his mooses hut, you can see a Coleman camp stove. The model of Coleman Stove is From the 60's, 70's or 80's.



45. In Episode #89 "Der Tag" Frank is missing, B.J. asks Radar if he looked in Margaret's tent. He replied saying no because their was a big padlock on the door. Minutes later when she returns to camp, Margaret walks right in her tent without unlocking the padlock.



46. In Episode #93 “Some 38th Parallel” the garbage that falls on Colonel T.K. Kroner is made up of simply lettuce and water, nothing more. Also Colonel Kroner lists his kill ratio at 9:1 for knocking out “18-19 reds” while losing 3 men of his own. This would make his kill ratio approximately 6:1



47. In Episode #96 "The Interview" When Clete Roberts is interviewing B.J. and he states "I had done my first amputation before my first breakfast when I first got here". However in the episode "Change of Command" presumably a day or two had passed since B.J.'s arrival and the arrival of Col. Potter. Also when the first batch of wounded come in it is stated that this is B.J.'s first surgery in a MASH.



48. In Episode #99 "Bugout" Klinger says he spent 3 years collecting the Klinger Collection. The Korean Police Action as a whole only lasted 3 years and this was in season 4 where there is noway Klinger had been in Korea that long.



49. In Episode #99 "Bugout” the footage of the tents and the basketball hoop being torn down are the same footage they used in “Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen” when they are dismantling the 4077th for the last time.



50. In Episode #99 "Bugout” Klinger should have STOPPED wearing dresses right after this episode! because he had NONE left!. Or shouldn't have, anyway. Every dress he owned was traded to the bordello for the building [remember the girls running across the field with the dresses?] in that episode, and there is NO mention of Klinger ever getting his collection back. [I seem to remember him wheeling an EMPTY clothing rack back to the camp at the end of part two.]



51. In Episode #106 "Hawkeye, Get Your Gun” How did the soldier at the end know Hawkeye was a Captain? Hawkeye had on no bars or visible reference to his rank.



52. In Episode #109 "Hawke's Nightmare" Hawkeye is speaking with a patient about hometowns, and mentions that Crabapple Cove has a population of 3976. But in "Letters" when the fourth-graders wrote back to the 4077th, he said that there were only three hundred people in Crabapple Cove.



53. In Episode #111 “38 Across” Hawkeye says he had never finished a crossword puzzle in his life, yet his college roommate Tippy Brookes was a crossword genius. Why would Tippy never help Hawkeye live out his life long dream of finishing a “Times Crossword Puzzle.”



54. In Episode #112 "Ping Pong" As part of the secondary plot, as Potter is speaking with Col. Becket in post-op, Becket relates to Potter that in his job he buys the meats, vegetables, etc., for the troops and Potter (sarcastically) responds that he had a piece of the meat the other day that "whinnied" [horse meat]. Potter had a horse who he rode often and in one other episode (visit from orphans) he jumps on everybody relating how horses are such noble beasts and that they could not possibly be eaten (he was responding to a perplexing medical problem for the doctors: some locals were having a reaction to a serum and Potter went off how they were allergic due to the fact that all they eat is horse meat, unable to afford beef).



55. In Episode #113 "End Run" Hawkeye tells Frank that the soldier who "slipped on some Jell-O" was PFC (Private First Class) Kornhaus. But Kornhaus was only a private.



56. In Episode #117 "Movie Tonight"- the one where they're all watching an old western, and the projector keeps breaking down (the one where they sing "I don't want no more of army life")- Radar does an impression of John Wayne from the movie "McClintock"- but that movie didn't come out until-1964!!



57. In Episode #119 "Post Op" a soldier arrives at the camp and introduces himself as Sergeant Attias of the Turkish Brigade, but he is wearing a corporal's uniform!.



58. In Episode #121 "Fade Out Fade In" During the arrival of the casualties, BJ is in a bus reassuring a soldier that he will be ok. In the shot through the rear door of the bus it is clear that BJ is talking to the soldier in the top stretcher. When the shot shifts to the face of the soldier it is obvious that he is in the lower stretcher. The upper stretchers on the buses were at window level and you can see that next to the soldier there is no window.



59. In Episode #124 "War of Nerves" Colonel Potter "authorizes" the troops to construct "one bon-type fire!" In reality, a bonfire would never have been set at night, because to do so would "give away" their position to enemy aircraft, who would bomb the 4077th!.



60. In Episode #125 "The Winchester Tapes" the first time we see Charles dictating into his open-reel tape recorder, the spools are turning counter-clockwise. This would be if the tape was recording backwards, or rewinding.



61. In Episode #126 "The Light That Failed" Klinger had to steal a light bulb from above Potter's desk, because they had no others. Yet only a few scenes later, Potter had one above his desk and the supply truck had not arrived yet?



62. In Episode #130 "The M*A*S*H Olympics" Penobscott arrives and Potter informs him that he made it in time for the last 2 events. Potter had to of been a physic or fixed the game to know that, because the last event was a special tiebreaker event which only occurs if there's a tie.



63. In Episode #133 "Comrades in Arms part 2" When Hawkeye and Margaret are rescued. Father Mulchay doesn’t have his glasses on. As soon as they walk in the tent he has his glasses on. These scenes must have been shot at different times and didn’t notice Mulchahy didn’t have his glasses on in the previous scene! A mistake indeed



64. In Episode #134 "The Merchant of Korea" This is the episode in which BJ needs money to put a downpayment on property in Stinson Beach, CA. Charles loans him the money and then treats BJ like a servant. He later does the same to Hawkeye after paying off Hawk's bar tab and a round of beers. BJ and Hawkeye, seeking revenge, round up the gang to fleece Winchester in a game of poker. The slip-up comes early in the episode when BJ is decribing the property in Stinson Beach. He says that it has a "beautiful view of the Golden Gate Bridge." Stinson Beach is nowhere near the Golden Gate Bridge and the are mountains between the two. There is no way that you could see the Bridge from Stinson Beach. A little research with an atlas would have prevented this slip-up.



65. In Episode #135 "The Smell of Music" In the scene where Hawk and BJ are tape recording Winchester in the Swamp to prove he snores, as Hawk records, BJ is holding the microphone to Winchester's mouth and when Hawk stops the recording, BJ hands the mic to Hawk and you can see a rope or cable from above that the mic is strung to. Continuing throughout the scene the rope is still visible at Winchester's right side in bed. Funny about this is that in the scene as BJ hands the mic to Hawk it's made to appear the cable is run OVER Winchester's chest area, not strung up ABOVE his head as is apparent



66. In Episode #135 "The Smell of Music" Margaret and Klinger spray down Hawkeye and B.J. with a fire hose. Where did they get a fire hose from? There is no way they got any kind of pressure to run a fire hose from their water tower. And if they did have access to a firehose, why didnt they stop the fire from burning down the entire camp in the series finale "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen?"



67. In Episode #135 "The Smell of Music" A wounded soldier wants to take his own life and sneaks off to the OR from post-op where Potter finds him trying to breathe anesthesia in a suicide attempt, and as the patient Saunders is inhaling the gas, you can see his bare feet as he sits and struggles with Potter over the mask. As the scene ends, Potter and Saunders are walking out of the OR, with the problem resolved and you can see the patient now has on house slippers.



68. In Episode #137 "Tea and Empathy" Father Mulcahy finds out the stolen penicillin is hidden at a burned out school under the bell, shooting starts but there's no bullet holes in the jeep and one of the bullets obviously hits the gas can/Jerry can on the back



69. In Episode #140 "Mail Call Three" Radar states that his mother's boyfriend takes her to bingo night in his Nash Metropolitan. The Korean war ended in July 27, 1953, the Nash Metropolitan wasn't introduced in the US until March 1954.



70. In Episode #142 "Potter's Retirement" BJ and Hawkeye are in The Swamp. In one shot BJ's scarf is hanging down, in the next shot, a split second later, it is over his shoulder and in the third shot it's again hanging down.



71. In Episode #142 "Potter's Retirement" at the Kentucky Derby party, Alan Alda is sitting on a sawhorse. Everyone cheers about something, and Alda nearly falls off the horse, taking the saddle with him! But, he catches himself just before he falls.



72. In Episode #169 "The Party" There is a bug out scene in which it shows the M*A*S*H unit driving several trucks in a caravan, the camera shoots the different characters driving in pairs down the road. However, you can tell that they were all filmed at different times using the same truck because of distinct scratches above the windshield.



73. In Episode #182 “Period of Adjustment” Father Mulcahy describes Radar as being a worthless clerk when he first arrived and he should take it easy on Klinger. This is not right. Radar was a genius back in the movie, before the world had heard of William Christopher. It is a known fact that Radar actually runs the camp, Col Blake would not be in command if not for Radar “holding down the fort.”



74. In Episode #191 "Dreams" Winchester dreams he is performing magic. They show all the other characters applauding, and Klinger is wearing earrings. After they show Charles again, they show the other cast members. Klinger is not wearing earrings anymore



75. In Episode #191 "Dreams" Charles is doing a magic act. When we first see a shot of Klinger in the crowd, he's wearing long "diamond" earrings. In the shots after that, they're no where too be seen.



76. In Episode #194 "April Fools" when Mulcahey is in the robe and says a line about Last Rites and a few Lefts....he holds his RIGHT hand up, not his left.



77. In Episode #201 "Your Retention Please" Members of the camp comment on the fact that Klinger is riding Sophie in the buff, but you can clearly see that Klinger's wearing shorts.



78. In Episode #206 "Depressing News" Hawkeye decides to build a tower with them.In one of the scenes, if you watch his feet, he is wearing NIKES instead of his Army Boots. This happens on more than one occasion. Hawkeye is also seen walking with BJ. He is wearing his bathrobe and a pair of bright blue early 80s Trainers.



79. In Episode #212 "Blood Brothers" Father Mulcahy is preparing for a visiting James Cardinal Reardon and as the Cardinal arrives, outside the officers' club, Father Mulcahy and Potter greet their new guest and Igor and a friend stumble up drunk telling a joke which embarrasses Mulcahy. Father Mulcahy then goes into the mess tent to complain to Hawkeye how he's just been "embarrassed by Rizzo and his crap shooting monkeys" or a similar line. Any way, in the previous scene he was embarrassed in front of the Cardinal by IGOR, not Rizzo, but in an earlier scene from the same episode, Rizzo is down on his knees playing illegal craps, but there is no embarrassment here.



80. In episode #224 “Give ‘em Hell Hawkeye” Hawkeye is writing a letter to Harry S. Truman. About ¾ of the way through the episode Hawkeye licks the letter and gives it to Klinger to put in the outgoing mail. In the end of the episode he is still working on the letter, even though he already sent it.



81. In Episode #225 "The Birthday Girls" Margaret has asked Klinger to drive her to Kenpo Airport and on the way she orders him to take a detour through a very rocky road. As they are sitting in the jeep at a dirt intersection arguing about which road to proceed on, you can see the jeep's folded down windshield has NO rearview mirror. The next scene is of the doctors in the stable about to deliver the calf. The next scene is back to Margaret and Klinger on the road and sitting in their broken down jeep, which very clearly HAS a rearview mirror on the folded down windshield. Evidently, they used 2 different jeeps for this scene or maybe just forget to either add or subtract the rearview mirror before filming.



82. In Episode #226 "Blood and Guts" Clayton Kibbee asks Father Mulcahy if he knows the Pope, and the father responds with "By reputation only." Yet in "The Smell of Music" he tells Hawkeye and B. J. that he had once dined al fresco with the Pope.



83. In Episode #230 “Where theres a will, theres a War” Hawkeye mentions fishing for Sockeye Salmon in Maine. According to Biologist Richard Shelton that variety of Salmon does not swim in Maine or its surrounding areas.



84. In Episode #236 "Hey Look Me Over" where Nurse Kelly yells at Hawkeye for never paying her any attention, Hawkeye walks into the Officer's club in a tuxedo and sits at the bar. If you look behind him you will see Nurse Kelly sitting at the table. The shot then goes to her and she is just about to sit down at the table.



85. In Goodbye, Farewell and Amen when they return to the camp after the fire, the camera looks around at the burned camp and all of the trees surrounding the camp aren't burnt, they still have their leaves.



86. In Goodbye, Farewell and Amen the tank that is driven in to camp is an M4, but the one driven out is an M24.



87. In the episode where Hawkeye is collecting photos of women for the soldier who got the dear john letter there is a scene where Fr. mulcahy goes to talk to potter. Potter is looking at pictures in his photo album. He points to some photos but later as he turns the page the page is blank.

34 Misc. M*I*S*T*A*K*E*S

1. In an early episode hot lips alluded to the fact that her father was dead. he later showed up.



2. In early episodes Psychologist Sidney Freidman’s first name is Milton



3. Father Mulcahy tries to get a promotion in 3 different episodes, is this the only way the writers had to show that Father Mulcahy was only human and got as angry as other men?



4. Col. Blakes wife in an early episode is Mildred, then later it is changed to Lorraine Blake…then Sherm Potter comes and his wife’s name is Mildred… what is the obsession with the name Mildred?



5. The whole episode #91 “Hawkeye” is a waste of an episode…complete crap. (Simply to refresh your memory this is the episode where Hawkeye’s Jeep Crashes and he stays with a Korean Family and basically talks to himself the whole episode…22 minutes of torture….except where he talks about the amazing incredible opposable thumb)



6. No explanations in the series about what happened to Doctor Oliver Wendell Jones (Spearchucker) and Gas Passer “Ugly John.” There one episode, gone the next….



7. What is the actual purpose of a Tank???? In an episode in the 4th or 5th season a sniper is invading the 4077th and Sherm says what they need is “the Calvary, today’s Calvary, a Tank.” The Tank scares the sniper of. In the final movie “Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen” the Tank they have draws enemy fire and they try to cover it up.



8. Frank tries to put Igor on report and asks for his name. First off, Frank should know his name, he is mentioned several times in the series and is the head steam table operator in the mess tent. Secondly Igor replies his name is “Maxwell.” A possible explanation is that Igor is played by Jeff Maxwell and he bumbled the line and nobody caught it.



9. How many officer’s signatures are required for Klinger to get his Section 8 discharge? In episode #64 “Adam’s Ribs” Klinger only needs 3 officers to sign his “nuts-so-gram.” In episode #41 “For want of a Boot” Klinger needs 4 officers to sign the paperwork.



10. Doctors do not get discharged by the Point System in the Korean War. The point system was stopped after the Big One WWII… Yet Henry goes home when he earns his points for rotation.



11. In one episode frank burns was sneaking into the c.o.'s office. he shined his flashlight down on a sleeping radar. radar had fallen asleep with an "avengers" comic book in his hands. only problem is that "the avengers" was not published until the early 1960's. (1963 i think.)



12. There are a couple references to Hula Hoops, they weren't invented yet. In fact, a few seasons after the first reference, Klinger proposes to invent something similar to a Hula Hoop.The 'Godzilla' series of films were often mentioned in the show, but they weren't actually made 'till after the Korean War.



13. In a few episodes people can be seen drinking from beer cans that seem to be aluminum cans, an invention of the '70s



14. In the mess, there is a sign on the wall entitled 'Air Ambulance'. On this sign there is a drawing of a Bell Huey. And there is at one time, one hanging in Henry's office. These helicopters weren't used until the Vietnam era.



15. Gneral Kelly was a Three-Star, or Lieutenant General, but his aid referred to him as Major General Kelly.



16. After everyone has fallen into the mud, Radar on his knees can be heard saying "choppers" but you never see his lips move. Obviously, in post-production this vocal line was inserted, well after the scene was filmed.



17. As everyone is in the mess tent watching a Shirley Temple film, a fight breaks out between Klinger and Zale. Mulcahey comes in to intervene, but right before this you can see at the left, outside of the tent is an MP, just sitting there watching it all, with his back to them! And as the fight continues, the MP is now standing to the left of the mess tent's back door outside (and the MP is hidden behind this door) and then Mulcahey gets pushed outside and as the left door swings outward for him to go bumbling through, the MP is forced to move to where you can see him again, outside the tent, waiting to enter the stage for his scene. The mess tent "walls" are a mesh screen type so anybody standing off stage could be seen if they were not careful, as this scene demonstrates. From watching this scene it is clear to me that the MP is not aware that he is being filmed prior to his stage entrance.



18. When B.J. and Hawkeye are talking with Potter in his office, they are making some kind of trouble and Potter begs for his last 16 months in the Army to be smooth so he can go back and be on his "patio in Nebraska." Every single episode before this, Potter when referring to his hometown, it was always Hannibal, Missouri.
19. Hawkeye has had three different blood types throughout the series.



20. Hershey bars are clearly seen with UPC codes, which weren't invented at the time.



21. The movie The Blob was also mentioned but wasn't made until 1958, five years after the war ended



22. The Korean War took place from 1950-1953, when there were only 48 states (Alaska and Hawaii were added in 1958 and 1959). Yet every time the flag is shown in the compound, it has 50 stars. A definite historical inaccuracy there.



23. The pinball machine in the Officer's Club is a Gottlieb "Spot-a-Card", introduced in 1960, after the war ended



24. Klinger has at least two blood types, B and AB- in two different episodes



25. Henry's daughter is Molly or, as in a later ep, Janie. (Janiepoo)



26. Radar had a brother that died as a baby. Later, his brother was a boxboy at a supermarket



27. Both Radar and Klinger are quoted as having 2 different army serial numbers.



28. There were many props that didn't fit the time. Huey helicopters in silohuettes on the wall hangings (If you pay attion to Col Blakes office, on the right wall after you enter the door, hanging from the wall is a model of a "Huey" helicopter. The Huey was not introduced till the early sixties ), references to taking credit cards, etc.



29. Other examples of modern props were episodes where the camp is watching movies. The projector is a more modern Bell & Howell with a fiberglass case. This projector was made in the 60's & 70's.



30. In the Officer's Club you may notice a red sign on the wall with a drawing of a helicopter. It too, I believe, is a UH1. Anyway, Viet Nam era, not Korea.



31. There is one episode where everybody is in Potter's office talking about something, and there is a sudden explosion outside. If you watch carefully, you can see Hunnicut wince right before they hear the sound. This is probably because he knew it was going to happen, and it is a pretty obvious mistake.



32. Hawkeye made a bet that he could walk into the mess tent naked and no one would notice. When he walks into the mess tent, the camera shows a shot of him from the waist up, but if you look closely, you can see the top of his shorts or pants at the bottom of the screen.



33. CIA agent Col. Flag refers to "the Malaysian Chest Implosion torture." The term Malaysia was not invented uintil 1963, when the Federation of Malaysia was created out of Malaya and two other territories. Had he said the Malayan chest implosion torture, it would have been correct.



34. In an early episode Ho Jon says he needs money to bribe the border guards to bring his famly down from North Korea. There was no border, much less border guards, while the war was being fought

25 Character M*I*S*T*A*K*E*S

1. Sal Viscuso (the unseen P.A. announcer in several of the M*A*S*H episodes) also played 3 different characters in 3 different episodes:
       -- A patient named John in episode #105 "Dear Sigmund"
       -- Sgt. McGill in episode #121 "Post Op"
       -- Corporal Benny Bryant in episode #140 "Tea and Empathy"



2. Stuart Margolin played 2 different characters in 2 different episodes:
       -- Captain Dr. Mandel Sherman in episode #7 "Bananas, Crackers and Nuts"
       -- Major Stanley Robbins, E.N.T. Surgeon in episode #42 "Operation Noselift"



3. Buck Young played 3 different characters in 3 different episodes:
       -- An M.P. in episode #12 "Dear Dad"
       -- O'Brien, the Chopper pilot in episode #29 "Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde"
       -- Dan in episode #80 "Dear Mildred"



4. Soon-Teck Oh played 5 different characters in 5 different episodes:
       -- Mr. Kwang in episode #68 "Love And Marriage"
       -- A Korean Soldier in episode #79 "The Bus"
       -- Dr. Syn Paik in episode #107 "The Korean Surgeon"
       -- Ralph in episode #183 "The Yalu Brick Road"
       -- Joon-Sung in episode #243 "Foreign Affairs"



5. Byron Chung played 7 different characters in 7 different episodes:
       -- a P.O.W. in episode #11 "Germ Warfare"
       -- Mr. Kwok in episode #52 "Iron Guts Kelly"
       -- A Korean Soldier in episode #89 "Dear Ma"
       -- Myung in episode #160 "Out Of Gas"
       -- North Korean Patrol Leader in episode #183 "The Yalu Brick Road"
       -- Lt. Yook in episode #225 "Communication Breakdown"
       -- Chong-Wa in episode #243 "Foreign Affairs"



6. James Lough played 7 different characters in 7 different episodes:
       -- An Enlisted Man in episode #98 "Bug Out"
       -- Felix Kornhaus in episode #115 "End Run"
       -- A Driver in episode #123 "Fade In / Fade Out"
       -- Webster in episode #148 "Commander Pierce"
       -- An M.P. in episode #169 "Rally Round the Flagg, Boys"
       -- A Courier in episode #194 "Goodbye, Cruel World"
       -- Private Crotty in episode #242 "Trick or Treatment"



7. Lynnette Mettey played Nancy Griffin in 3 episodes and played 3 different characters in 3 different episodes:
       -- Nurse Sheila Anderson in episode #35 "Carry on Hawkeye"
       -- Nurse Baker in episode #49 "The General Flipped at Dawn"
       -- Nurse Able in episode #92 "Some 38th Parallels"



8. Tom Dever played 6 different characters in 6 different episodes:
       -- A Soldier in episode #27 "Radar's Report"
       -- Lt. Rogers in episode #37 "Deal Me Out"
       -- A Corpsman in episode #67 "Aid Station"
       -- An M.P. Lieutenant in episode #73 "Welcome To Korea"
       -- Corporal Boone in episode #131 "Change Day"
       -- An M.P. in episode #155 "They Callt the Wind Korea"



9. Sheila Lauritsen played 3 different characters in 3 different episodes:
       -- Nurse Hardy in episode #20 "The Army-Navy Game"
       -- Nurse Watson in episode #38 "Hot Lips And Empty Arms" And #39 " Officers Only"
       -- Sheila in episode #41 "For Want of a Boot"



10. Momo Yashima played 3 different characters in 3 different episodes:
        -- Kim's Mother in episode #30 "Kim"
        -- A Korean Mother in episode #113 "38 Across"
        -- Suni in episode #186 "Captain's Outrageous"



11. Gwen Farrell played 3 different characters in 3 different episodes:
        -- Nurse Butler in episode #28 "For The Good Of The Outfit"
        -- Nurse Wilson in episode #35 "Carry On Hawkeye"
        -- Nurse Able in episode #89 "Dear Ma"



12. Dennis Troy played 6 different characters in 6 different episodes:
        -- An Ambulance Driver in episode #34 "The Sniper"
        -- A Corpsman in episode #47 "Mail Call"
        -- The 2nd G.I. in episode #52 "Iron Guts Kelly"
        -- An M.P. in episode #66 "House Arrest"
        -- An Orderly in episode #195 "Dreams"
        -- Dennis in episode #218 "Ths Life You Save"



13. Jerry Fujikawa played 7 different characters in 7 different episodes:
        -- Hwang in episode #37 "Deal Me Out"
        -- A Father in episode #43 "The Chosen People"
        -- Sang Ya in episode #51 "Officer of the Day"
        -- Dr. Pak in episode #68 "Love and Marriage"
        -- Hung Pak in episode #169 "Rally Round the Flagg, Boys"
        -- Woo in episode #197 "Back Pay"
        -- A Farmer in episode #230 "The Birthday Girls"



14. Clyde Kusatsu played 3 different characters in 3 different episodes:
        -- Kwang Duk in episode #39 "Officers Only" and #40 "Henry in Love"
        -- Sgt. Michael Yee in episode #194 "Goodbye Cruel World"
        -- Capt. Paul Yamato in episode #244 "The Joker is Wild"



15. John Orchard played 2 different characters in 2 different episodes:
        -- Ugly John in Several 1st season episodes
        -- M.P. Muldoon in episode #182 "Captains Outrageous"



16. Edward Winter played 2 different characters in 2 different episodes:
        -- Col. Flagg in Several episodes
        -- Capt. Halloran is episode #37 "Deal Me Out"



17. Dick O'Neill played 3 different characters in 3 different episodes:
        -- The Admiral in Episode #111 "38 Across"
        -- Gen. Prescott in Episode #159 "B.J. Papa San"
        -- Col. Pitts in Episode #223 "Sons and Bowlers"



18. Dennis Dugan played 2 different characters in 2 different episodes:
        -- A Clean Cut Young Man In Episode #68 "Love and Marriage"
        -- Col Potter's Son In Law in Episode #246 "Strange Bedfellows"



19. Lt. Col. Donald Penobscott was played 2 different actors
        -- Beeson Carroll in Episode #120 "Margaret's Marriage"
        -- Mike Henry in Episode #130 "The M*A*S*H Olympics"



20. Harvey J. Goldenberg played 2 different characters in 2 different episodes:
        -- The Dentist in Episode #22 "Major Fred C. Dobbs"
        -- An enlisted man in Episode #24 "Showtime"



21. Rosie of Rosie's Bar is played by at least 3 different actors
        -- Shizuko Hoshi In Episode #61 "Mad Dogs and Serviceman"
        -- Frances Fong In Episode #98 "Bug Out"
                                     Episode #125 "Fallen Idol"
        -- Eileen Saki in Episode #171 "A Night at Rosie's"
                                  Episode #172 "Aint Love Grand"
                                  Episode #179 "Period Of Adjustment"
                                  Episode #186 "Captains Outrageous"
                                  Episode #200 "Letters"
                                  Episode #211 "No Laughing Matter"
                                  Episode #226 "Snap Judgement"



22. Leland Sun played 4 different characters in 4 different episodes:
        -- Mr. Kwang in Several Episodes
        -- A Korean Squad Leader in Episode #136 "Comrades in Arms Part 2"
        -- A Chinese Patient in Episode #175 "Are You Now Margaret"
        -- A G.I. in Episode #232 "A Holy Mess"



23. Lois Foraker played 3 different characters in 3 different episodes:
        -- Nurse Able In Episode #96 "Deluge"
        -- Nurse Denver In Episode #136 "The Smell of Music"
        -- Nurse Bell In Episode #142 "What's Up Doc"



24. Lynne Marie Stewart played 4 different characters in 4 different episodes:
        -- Nurse Fox In Episode #89 "Dear Ma"
        -- Nurse Plummer In Episode #96 "Deluge"
        -- Nurse Baker In Episode #102 "Lt. Radar O'Reilly"
                                    Episode #104 "The Abduction Of Margaret Houlihan"
        -- Nurse Clark In Episode #122 "Margaret's Marriage"



25. Bobbie Mitchell played 8 different characters in 8 different episodes:
        -- Nurse Mason In Episode #20 "The Army Navy Game"
        -- Nurse Marshall In Episode #25 "Divided We Stand"
                                        Episode #32 "The Trial of Henry Blake"
        -- Nurse Gilbert In Episode #33 "Dear Dad...Three"
        -- Nurse Lyons In Episode #42 "Operation Noselift"
                                    Episode #43 "The Chosen People"
        -- Nurse Murphy In Episode #44 "As You Were"
                                        Episode #46 "George"
        -- Nurse Able In Episode #52 "Iron Guts Kelly"
                                  Episode #53 "O.R."
                                  Episode #58 "There's Nothing Like a Nurse"
        -- Nurse Baker In Episode #61 "Mad Dogs and Servicemen"
                                    Episode #66 "House Arrest"
                                    Episode #70 "Payday"
        -- Lt. Gage In Episode #101 "Out Of Sight Out of Mind"