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[ktae]

they couldn't write hawkeye saying goodbye to trapper john bc you couldn't show gay sex on television in 1975

[strangegoingson]

[8thparadox]

Frank: how dare you compare your perversions to my marriage Hawkeye: who's comparing, Frank?

[m--bloop]

[tuttle-did-it]

No one does the cunty bounce and hand on hip better than Mike Farrell.

[coffeeandtveasily]

[mash4077confessions]

[03pilot]

Hawkeye Pierce and modern slang would go so well together. "Come on, Radar! Put your pussy into it!"

[4-0-doublenatural]

"Hawkeye's a pacifist."

Listen. I love Hawkeye "I Won't Carry a Gun" Pierce, but he's not above physically harming someone. He's against weapons and war, but he isn't devotedly non-violent.

Hawkeye has leaped over tables to get into a fist fight with Frank Burns. He's almost gotten court martialed for shoving brass. He has physically postured more than once to get people to back off.

He won't carry a gun but you will absolutely catch his brilliant surgeon hands if he's pushed far enough.

The thing is, Hawkeye isn't GOOD at fighting. The one time he gets a knockout is when Frank had no idea it was coming. That wet noodle of a man goes off way more than BJ both emotionally, verbally and physically despite BJ getting pinned as the more aggressive of the two. It's just that when Hawkeye gets into a fight (with someone that isn't Frank) he's almost immediately overwhelmed. Also on a meta level Hawkeye's violence is always played for laughs.

The thing about BJ is that if he gets set off he might actually murder you because he can actually do damage. Hawkeye will get violent out of frustration, BJ gets violent from rage. That said in situations where BJ can keep a cool head he will verbally talk people down, or trick them if he has time. Early days he tries to soothe Hawkeye and talk sense into him when Hawkeye's frustration has boiled over and gotten him in trouble. That's why it's so jarring when he attacks someone. And with BJ it isn't played for laughs. Whenever it happens it's serious.

As for Trapper, despite his knowing how to fight he is not prone to sudden physical violence. Sometimes he will posture. The only times he actually tries to physically harm someone he usually has at least a second to think about it. Like smacking Hawkeye with his duffle when he's drunk. The situation he has a full beat to consider when Hawkeye tries to stop him before he acts. He isn't loud or intimidating, he just thinks about it and does it. The other time is when he's stewing over the death of his patient and cuts off the blood supply to the soldier that did it. Once again it's a very cool and deliberate action. So Trapper is less volatile. He thinks about it. I don't mean to say he has a clear head about it, just that he'll get to a bad enough place in his head where it feels like a solution rather than a sudden release of frustration like Hawkeye or a flash of uncontrollable rage like BJ.

The reason Hawkeye gets less physical later on is that Frank is gone, who apparently has been evoking Hawkeye's fight reflex on an almost daily basis.

[nezbeanz]

this came to me in a dream

[4-0-doublenatural]

I like to think getting a section eight became less and less appealing for Klinger the closer Hawkeye came to one. At first he thinks Hawkeye's doing the same thing, trying to scam his way out of the army, and hey! Had some good ideas there! But it becomes clear that Hawkeye actually has periods of intense emotional distress to the point of pain and disfunction. Klinger knows the signs, he's tried to replicate the signs, but he never understood the fear involved until he sees it on Hawkeye's face.

And he sees all this, sees the difference between faking it and what losing your mind looks like and watches as Hawkeye is sedated, or calmed, or talked away from the edge, or sent for R&R and they never even talk about sending him home because his hands still work. His hands never shake. He can still do surgery.

And Klinger's the only one that isn't truly surprised when Hawkeye Pierce is sent back to them after time spent in a mental hospital.

It wasn't about being crazy at all. It was about being functional as a cog in the war machine and Klinger and Hawkeye were always the most functional pieces in the 4077th.

Crazy or sane they were trapped.

[freelance-abortionist]

[bracketsandunderscores]

when you get assigned to the 4077th and you cant decide if you want to fuck the closeted lesbian, the married gay-in-denial with the gayest moustache anyones ever seen, the other married man who is the straighest person ever, the divorced lebanese dude with impeccable taste in womens clothing, the sexy priest who you cant even hold hands with, the rich man who nerfed himself with his shitty hairstyle, or the most insufferable openly bisexual dude with a pregnancy kink

[not-a-birb]

Rip Hawkeye Pierce you would’ve loved mpreg

[thelatecaptainpierce]

Top 5 Houlihawk Episodes (as voted by mashblr) #1: Carry On Hawkeye

[chainofclovers]

Put in the tags the completely finished (whether cancelled or wrapped up on its own terms) TV series that has YOUR perfect ending, however you define that

Please don’t include huge spoilers for the specifics of the endings, and it would also make me happy if people don’t use this to talk about the shows whose endings they hated

[not-trustworthy]

mash being surprisingly queer in the 70′s - 38/?

[thelatecaptainpierce]

[strangegoingson]