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a surgeons hands

an underappreciated genre of hawkeye is when an activity requires no hawkeye and he's kind of just lurking and pissing everyone off

#he's doing important Hawkeye business

allonsy-miles

I recently discovered these photos of Alan Alda in the 1966 musical ‘The Apple Tree’

Barbara Harris, Larry Blyden, Alan Alda

#the fabled rock and roll costume #I love the little curl for Adam

grapehyasynth

he's not wrong

bobdylanslesbianlover

what does BJ stand for?

bored and cold as hell scriblings

#ooo amazing

fiollaigean

he said 😁

#someone stop this man #(never stop BJ)

robkellycreative

My one lone idea for MASH fanfic was an episode set entirely in a Tokyo jail. Hawkeye, BJ, and Frank got wrongfully arrested by some overzealous MPs and have to spend the night locked up until Col Potter can straighten it out in the morning.

It would be a bottle episode where Hawkeye and Beej, forced to talk to Frank, learn a lot of crazy/disturbing stuff about their tent mate.

Basically “The Bus” + “Hawkeye”, I admit.

#cool idea

major-marg

do i clench my fists? // MASH

#😭

Fanfic I will one day write: Margaret and Hawkeye in an open lavender marriage where they have a son.

Hawkeye refuses every suggested name until finally Margaret comes up with something acceptable (has the right letters).

Hawkeye finally agrees.

Ink on birth certificate isn't even dry when he starts to call child B.J.

Margaret: I hate you. Also it's perfect, you could have told me he's my friend too.

Hawkeye: no I couldn't.

Margaret: why not?

Hawkeye: because there's a part two to this.

Margaret: ...

Hawkeye refuses to tell B.J. name of his child.

When asked Hawkeye replies: I named him after you.

BJ: I can't believe you.

Hawkeye: well? What does B.J. stand for?

BJ: whatever you like.

Hawkeye: exactly! And you'll never know! Ahhahaha!

#hawkeye pierce #margaret houlihan #bj hunnicutt #houlihawk #beejhawk #hunnihawk #I my mind it's Benjamin John so that he can also sneak Trapper's name in there but that's beside the point

peachestheproud

About to get kicked out of the war exhibition I’m on with my family because I keep saying “This is just like Mash” every five seconds

#they knew exactly what they were doing with that mannequin Margaret lookalike

serpercival

I think it's really interesting in Love and Marriage how Mr. Kwang is clearly nervous being invited to the Swamp to drink with Hawkeye and Trapper even as Hawkeye is trying to reassure him. Hawkeye jokes about Frank's ineptitude; Mr. Kwang defends him. He looks scared of Hawkeye - and then Trapper comes over with the drinks, compliments his English, and asks after his personal life.

There's plenty of reasons for Mr. Kwang to be nervous about Hawkeye. He's chief surgeon. He's the other surgeon who was working with Frank on the surgery they just finished. But, more interestingly: Hawkeye makes no attempt to prove that he's on Mr. Kwang's side. Even as he invites Mr. Kwang to the Swamp with the express purpose of reassuring him, his reassurances are all focused on how much he finds Frank intolerable, how Frank is an idiot - there's no focus on the man he's actually trying to reassure.

But Trapper, he's the one who is quiet; personable. He's direct and complimentary and curious. Mr. Kwang relaxes the moment Trapper asks to know more about him and happily answers.

Similarly interestingly: Trapper is the one who expresses concern when the MPs being Mr. Kwang back. He's gentle and kind when he asks why he didn't just tell them that he was going to be a father, and he's the one who says they'll deal with Henry while Hawkeye cracks frustrated jokes.

And then, in dealing with McShane, Trapper is the one sicced on him while Hawkeye goes to bring Mrs. Kwang to the MASH. Trapper is quiet, and personable, and he lulls McShane in with that before he chews him the hell out and makes it damn clear he knows what he's doing and why he's doing it. Frankly, Trapper looks like he'd probably have beaten the guy up if he didn't get the radiology results back.

It's such a good episode in showing the difference between Hawkeye and Trapper socially. Trapper is damn good at being personable. He's good at doing what needs to be done, whether that's in bedside manner or in chewing someone out. Hawkeye, meanwhile, just is. Hawkeye is Hawkeye and he can't imagine turning that off or changing it, no matter how poorly being himself is working to make friends with someone. Hawkeye immediately gets in snits with nearly every person who outranks him; Trapper got along just fine with Frank until Hawkeye showed up. I don't know what my broader point is here I just really like this episode in terms of slightly more indirect characterization for both of them.

#hawkeye has no tolerance for the people he finds intolerable #trapper is better at reading a room #Hawkeye's strong sense of justice means he's impulsive about situations he doesn't find fair #but trapper is more likely to focus on the person in the situation rather than how to fix or avenge what they're going through #which makes them a good team #when trapper is gone Hawkeye slowly starts to try to take this into account but he's never as natural at it as Trapper #at least that's my two cents #trapper will fix or avenge but it will have in mind the person rather than the situation.

funfettitoonz

kissies

#the added need to go on his top toes and for Hawkeye to bend down to reach each other's cheeks

freelance-abortionist

#wife behaviour

4-0-doublenatural

It's so funny when the doctors wander around in their bloody scrubs. Second episode they're still wearing gloves too and Hawkeye makes a phone call.

I'd say the 4077 would be scary under a blacklight but considering the rats and the doctor's night time habits that would be a given.

tuttle-did-it

Personally, I believe Hawkeye does this on purpose. He finds everything about war offensive. He finds the fact that he is doing surgery on 18 year-old kids with bullets in their bodies – and then who are sent back after he removes those bullets for him to remove more bullets – repugnant.

I think little things like this is his way of trying to remind everyone that nothing they’re seeing is OK. They all get so used to piles of bodies, it almost becomes normal.

He knows that it’s distasteful to walk around covered in the blood of these dying kids. He knows that. He knows it’s actually probably offensive to some people to do that. But I think it’s his way of trying to be offensive to the war. Trying to remind people that what they are seeing is not normal, and it’s not acceptable.

He is mirroring the offensiveness of war in order to remind people that it’s never acceptable or normal. I am convinced he does it on purpose, as a visual representation of not just “fuck the war” but also “fuck all of us who are willingly participating in this shit when we know it’s wrong.”

He wants to be visually offensive because he finds his entire surroundings offensive.

4-0-doublenatural

I feel like this works on a meta level of the writers trying to show this, as well as the emotional and physical exhaustion that went into that long in surgery, but works less so in universe since a doctor that we have been shown is competent and cares about patient health would never risk the kind of contamination this would cause. It would be Frank Burns level malpractice.

On my part I think the writers just weren't considering this. There's one point early on where Hawkeye switches between patients without switching his bloody glove at all.

outlaw-monarch

I think all of you have good points here! But I definitely also agree that it was probably a case where they just hadn't researched it /thought it through as carefully as they should have, especially in the earlier seasons, Where they figured that people were mostly focused on the comedy and not noticing that sort of thing.

A similar example- I like the show Elementary too and that one was also very well written for the most part One thing that I really appreciated about the show is that considering how much of the work they did was based on what kind of trace evidence they could find at a crime scene they were always careful not to touch the evidence directly with their hands.

So now if I catch a detective show where they AREN'T that careful, (especially if it's a detective outside the law who mught get more easily accused of things by official investigators, I'm like

"Where are your gloves?? You're examining this scene for the first time. No one else has looked at this yet! You JUST found that piece of evidence. WHY are you holding it with your bare hands??"

#I also do this 😂#just the other day I was watching one where she even has gloves and uses them #but several pieces of evidence she touches bare handed #I promise I know how to suspend disbelief it's just funny when you catch stuff like that #especially if the show is serious