M*A*S*H Der Tag (1972–1983) Online
- Original Title :
- Der Tag
- Genre :
- TV Episode / Comedy / Drama / War
- Year :
- 1972–1983
- Directror :
- Gene Reynolds
- Cast :
- Alan Alda,Mike Farrell,Harry Morgan
- Writer :
- Everett Greenbaum,James Fritzell
- Type :
- TV Episode
- Time :
- 25min
- Rating :
- 8.0/10
In a classic episode, Frank is lonesome and driving everyone insane. Margaret is in Tokyo at a nurses seminar and he feels absolutely friendless. Potter asks BJ and Hawkeye for a special favor: befriend old Ferret Face. Potter encourages the guys to invite Frank to drink and play poker with them; Frank gets snockered and pulls a heart flush in the very first hand. Frank is on a winning streak and he is a very giggly winner. At the 4077 club, Frank confides he has had his eye on Nurse Kellye for a long time; he asks her to dance and calls her a hotsie-totsie. Although Hawkeye and BJ manage to stumble back to the Swamp with Frank, they are both plastered. Then, Hawkeye gets a lightbulb; he writes a toe tag: "emotionally exhausted and (BJ's contribution) morally bankrupt" before they pass out cold. A fluke sends Frank to the front by way of an open door on an ambulance en route to the latrine. Since it was their prank, Potter makes the Swamp rats go pick up Frank. They get caught in a ...
Episode cast overview: | |||
Alan Alda | - | Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce | |
Mike Farrell | - | Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt | |
Harry Morgan | - | Col. Sherman T. Potter | |
Loretta Swit | - | Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan | |
Larry Linville | - | Maj. Frank Burns | |
Gary Burghoff | - | Cpl. Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly | |
Jamie Farr | - | Cpl. Maxwell Q. Klinger | |
William Christopher | - | Father Francis Mulcahy | |
Joe Morton | - | Captain Saunders |
During the scene in the OR, the PA announcer mentions that Ralph Kiner hit his 47th home run which would date this episode as 27 Sep 1950. Kiner played for the Pittsburgh Pirates that season and his 47 home runs led the National League.
The comic book Radar is seen sleeping with, The Avengers, is about a group of superheroes, one of whom, in the issues shown, is named Hawkeye, the same as one of the main characters in MASH.
This episode's title is German for "The Day".
The comic book that Radar is reading, Avengers vol. 1, issue #60, is cover dated January 1969. Almost 16 years after the war ended.
When BJ and Hawkeye are speculating about Margaret and Frank in the mess tent, BJ asks Hawkeye if he thinks "the rabbit died." At the time, the accepted way of testing for pregnancy was to collect blood or urine from the woman in question, inject the blood into a female rabbit, then after a few days, euthanize the rabbit and dissect it to check its ovaries for growth, hence the phrase "the rabbit died" becoming a common euphemism for a woman learning she's pregnant. The show would later dedicate a whole episode to this, when Major Houlihan has a pregnancy scare and Radar's pet rabbit is needed for the test.
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