Mine is from Tom Skerritt as Duke.
"Colonel, fair's fair. If I nail Hot Lips and punch Hawkeye, can I go home, too?"
Have fun. Lifes' too friggin' short.
I like the "that man is a POW" and Trapper saying "so are you, you just don't know it"
shareTrapper yelling, while Frank is physically attacking Hawkeye: "Watch out for your goodies, Hawkeye! That man is a sex maniac!"
share"You put me right off my fresh fried lobster."
That one's found its way into my vocabulary, it seems.
I like the whole speech he gives Hot Lips at that point, with the "I might have invited you to my bed and you might possibly have come" business.
"My brain rebelled, and insisted on applying logic where it was not welcome."share
"You put me right off my fresh fried lobster."When I get irritated, I say this line to myself.
when the cheerleaders chant "69 is divine!"
shareI'm an unabashed fan. Every line is a favorite line.
"We're the pros from Dover. We're here to operate." I used that one a bit when I was younger.
One line that I think gets overlooked--and I didn't catch it fully until after several viewings--is when Radar has miked Hot Lips's tent as she and Frank are having sex, and their moanings and groanings are being broadcast all over camp. Hawkeye is performing surgery when he hears the ruckus over the loudspeaker. He looks up briefly, then says, "Sounds like Major Burns is performing a little dilation and curettage."
When I was a kid, I didn't understand what that meant. When I got older, and learned what a D&C is . . . a prime example of the kind of (please pardon me here) cutting humor that delights fans and infuriates detractors who label the film sexist and misogynistic. No woman I've met does not shudder at the thought of that procedure.
Make of that line what you will. As with so much of the film, it's a slap in the face to convention, and I think it's designed to provoke a reaction of some kind. To tell from the many negative comments I've read in this forum so far, M*A*S*H is still provoking a reaction more than 40 years on.
Good.
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"Do your job and do it right/Life's a ball--TV tonight" - Frank Zappa
I'm an unabashed fan. Every line is a favorite line.
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Me, too.
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"We're the pros from Dover. We're here to operate." I used that one a bit when I was younger.
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Me, too. With a friend. Usually on the golf course.
So sue me. Hah.
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One line that I think gets overlooked--and I didn't catch it fully until after several viewings--is when Radar has miked Hot Lips's tent as she and Frank are having sex, and their moanings and groanings are being broadcast all over camp. Hawkeye is performing surgery when he hears the ruckus over the loudspeaker. He looks up briefly, then says, "Sounds like Major Burns is performing a little dilation and curettage."
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A stunningly intelligent line, reminding us that Hawkeye is, after all, a surgeon, and that he would know that term in all its technical glory. But, indeed ...pretty sexist when you think about it. EXCEPT...well, see below.
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When I was a kid, I didn't understand what that meant. When I got older, and learned what a D&C is . . . a prime example of the kind of (please pardon me here) cutting humor that delights fans and infuriates detractors who label the film sexist and misogynistic. No woman I've met does not shudder at the thought of that procedure.
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Nor men, thinking of women undergoing that procedure.
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Make of that line what you will. As with so much of the film, it's a slap in the face to convention, and I think it's designed to provoke a reaction of some kind. To tell from the many negative comments I've read in this forum so far, M*A*S*H is still provoking a reaction more than 40 years on.
Good.
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Indeed, good. What's interesting about MASH the movie is that its "slap to convention" was extremely important to where the movies were in 1970, and impossible to duplicate in movies today. These intelligent macho-men sexist combat surgeons are the way they are because (a) they are in the hell of war and bloody death and (b) they are SURGEONS -- brilliant, arrogant , and (it has been said) men who are comfortable cutting into the bodies of human beings(surgeons and serial killers have some of the same qualities.)
Hot Lips is humiliated in MASH, but so is Major Burns and so is the priggish commander at the Tokyo base who tries to stop the life-saving operation on a little boy. Men AND women are equal targets. And if the married nurses are up for a little sex with the married surgeons...the movie makes a point WHY. (Death all around.)
But this makes MASH the movie sound too serious. Its hilarious. Blood and all.
And very intelligent.
Does that- does that big ass of hers move around a lot, Frank or does it sort of lie there flaccid?
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I saw it. A thing that was cold and dry. It was me. - La Belle Noiseuse
Father Mulcahy's reply to Hotlips question: "He was drafted." Always gets a laugh.
shareHawkeye's speech at the last supper-
Hawkeye: I just want to say one thing. Nobody ordered Walt to go on this mission.
He volunteered for certain death. That's what we award our highest medals
for. That's what being a soldier is all about.
Gloriously outrageous. But if you believed that the Vietnam War was a needless
waste of lives, also a sting of truth.
The jeep driver:
"Goddamm Army."
Not just the line. The WAY he says the line. A couple of times.
And it is literally the last line spoken in MASH before the screen goes blank at the end.
General(on the phone to Colonel Blake): I just can't believe what I'm hearing.
Colonel Blake: (Quickly) Then..don't believe it. (Hangs up phone.)