Love Story

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: M*A*S*H: Season One: Love Story
By D.K. Henderson on Tuesday, February 08, 2000 - 5:26 pm:

Plot: Radar gets a "Dear John" phonograph record. The doctors try to help him out when he falls for an intellectual new nurse.


By margie on Thursday, February 10, 2000 - 11:31 am:

Is this the one where Radar kept saying, "Ahhh, Bach"?


By D.K. Henderson on Thursday, February 10, 2000 - 2:44 pm:

Yup.


By Benn (Benn) on Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 9:50 pm:

Several things are cut from the beginning of this episode. For starters is the discussion amongst Henry, Hawkeye and Trapper about how Radar is acting strangely. Hot Lips walks in to tell Henry that Radar screwed up a requisition form by ordering cotton thread, instead of silk thread. It's then decided that O'Reilly might be sick. And so he is given a physical.

Of that physical only the x-ray scene has survived syndication cuts. There's also a scene where Trapper checks Radar's blood pressure (it's high) and a scene where Hawkeye waits while a nervous Corporal O'Reilly tries to produce a urine sample. (Radar drops the specimen jar.)

Finally, there's a scene in the Swamp where Pierce, McIntyre and Frank talk to Radar about the results of the physical. Frank insists that Radar is "goldbricking". The deleted scene also contains the first time Frank Burns says, "Nerts to you."

How long has Radar been carrying that record around with in his shirt's pocket? How'd he avoid breaking it?

Here's a shock - Radar was engaged! I never knew that. In all the years that I've seen this episode, I've never noticed that fact.

Trapper tries talking a nurse into going out with Radar. She's in the shower. Trapper talks to her from outside the shower tent. This nurse must be an exibitionist to leave the flap to the window up like that.

According to Henry, Radar has six toes on each feet. Wouldn't that have gotten him declared 4-F?

Once again Hawkeye and Trapper conspire to keep Frank and Margaret separated. And once again Margaret is sent to Post-Op on a false alarm. Actually, she's sent there twice.

The film that's about to be shown in the Mess Tent is about cardiogenic shock. Frank says it's his specialty. In a later episode, post operative infections would be Frank Burns' specialty.


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