A teetotaling general, despite having his life saved at the MASH unit, says he smelled alcohol on the breath of an orderly. He immediately declares the 4077th dry. There is a second plot and that is that the same movies keep getting sent to the unit over and over. Hawkeye is reading Stars and Stripes and sees a movie that was not allowed to get the seal of approval, due to suggestive sexual content. They soon submerge themselves in the bureaucracy of the military concerning who gets what, when. The movie is "The Moon Is Blue." They pull every finagle they can and think they are going to finally see it, with unfortunate results. For anyone who knows a little bit about movies, they know that this was a real clunker. It still makes for an interesting episode with some rather fascinating characters.
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The Virgin Diaries
safenoe10 November 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Here the focus of this episode is the risque (well for the time) 1953 film The Moon is Blue which was controversial for the use of "virgin". Anyway, the 4077th finally gets to see the film at the end, and they were very bored by the movie!!
Placebos also abound in this episode, playing tricks on the mind to overcome the heat or for an officer who wants to be on heat.
Placebos also abound in this episode, playing tricks on the mind to overcome the heat or for an officer who wants to be on heat.
John Wayne photos
jamesdavid13124 August 2006
When Hawkeye and BJ are in the office trying to get a movie on the wall behind the guy sitting at the desk are a bunch of photos and one is a photo of John Wayne from a western he did in the 60's. So how is it that photos from the 60's are hanging in an office of a program that is suppose to take place in the early 50's. Did the Duke go back in time and do a movie from the 60's just so the people from M*A*S*H could hang it on the wall and see if we viewers would notice the mistake they did? Well we are a little smarter than that, also in another episode Radar says a line from another Wayne movie McClintock which was also made in the 60's.
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