A friend's letter causes Margaret to re-evaluate her life in the 4077th and request a transfer.A friend's letter causes Margaret to re-evaluate her life in the 4077th and request a transfer.A friend's letter causes Margaret to re-evaluate her life in the 4077th and request a transfer.
Roy Goldman
- Man in Jeep
- (uncredited)
Todd Susman
- P.A. Announcer
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Dennis Troy
- Soldier standing next to a pole
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaHenry's line, "Looks like you've already been dipping your bill" is clearly looped.
- GoofsWhen Margaret and Col. Blake are having a drink in the office, Margaret makes a comment that Henry reminds her of her father before he died. In later seasons, Margaret makes other references to her father, and in Season 9, the episode "Father's Day" has her father coming to visit.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 26th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1974)
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Margaret Deserves Better
By the 11th season of M*A*S*H, Margaret Houlihan is a feminist icon...strong, independent and respectable. In this episode however the Major is still merely cannon-fodder for Hawkeye's and Trapper John's misogynistic abuse.
When Houlihan receives word that Tricia Spaulding, a woman who she'd known in basic-training, had married a doctor and was now living in luxurious comfort she begins to have regrets about her life choices. Frustrated by insubordinate nurses and the constant harrassment, both physical and sexual, by Pierce and McIntyre she decides that she's had enough of the 4077th and requests a tranfer.
At no point do the doctors express their gratitude for her hard work, they instead make jokes and express joy at her imminent departure. At one point Hawk and Trap offer the Major a truce and an offering of what they claim to be champagne, only to serve her something that "eats away" the inside of the nose. It is at this point that Margaret lists some of the offences that the pair of jokers have committed against her....none of which I found interesting or funny. The show ends with Houlihan thanking her persecutors and brushing off Frank Burns....however the pair are chummy again by the next episode.
Subsequently the nickname "Hot Lips" is dropped altogether in reference to the tough-as-nails nurse as the writers of the show realized that by disrespecting Major Houlihan they were thumbing their noses at the brave women who had served in field hospitals, heroically risking their lives to save the lives of others.
When Houlihan receives word that Tricia Spaulding, a woman who she'd known in basic-training, had married a doctor and was now living in luxurious comfort she begins to have regrets about her life choices. Frustrated by insubordinate nurses and the constant harrassment, both physical and sexual, by Pierce and McIntyre she decides that she's had enough of the 4077th and requests a tranfer.
At no point do the doctors express their gratitude for her hard work, they instead make jokes and express joy at her imminent departure. At one point Hawk and Trap offer the Major a truce and an offering of what they claim to be champagne, only to serve her something that "eats away" the inside of the nose. It is at this point that Margaret lists some of the offences that the pair of jokers have committed against her....none of which I found interesting or funny. The show ends with Houlihan thanking her persecutors and brushing off Frank Burns....however the pair are chummy again by the next episode.
Subsequently the nickname "Hot Lips" is dropped altogether in reference to the tough-as-nails nurse as the writers of the show realized that by disrespecting Major Houlihan they were thumbing their noses at the brave women who had served in field hospitals, heroically risking their lives to save the lives of others.
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- mrjoegrennon
- Aug 9, 2021
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3
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