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Happy 90th birthday to the legendary Alan Alda!

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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.

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“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?"

isn't it kind of crazy that mulcahy is enlisted. he isn't even drafted. do you think he enlisted because he's such a man of action that he saw where he was going to be the most needed and went, both entering the most hypermasculine space possible after being abused growing up about how he isn't man enough & risking life and limb, while hanging onto his softness and decency. a move that he keeps echoing throughout the show when he does stuff like stare down the soldier with the gun or deal with the black market to get supplies & echoing his people's devotion to continuing to secretly preach in the hills on rocks under threat of death by english priest-hunters. isn't it kind of crazy how he gets there and is basically the acting chief mourner as the sole person around for miles who is responsible for giving every dying soldier's last rites and spiritually processing the dead. isn't it kind of crazy to enlist as a psychopomp. isn't it kind of crazy how he does that and is so insistent with continuing to be helpful and assists in OR so much that the surgeons trust him to take over in triage or stand in for a nurse when there aren't enough hands to go around. isnt it kind of crazy that he does all that and still doesn't think he's useful