M*A*S*H had some great lines. One of my favourites was Hawkeye's response to an Ethiopian soldier whose life he saved and who thanked him in Ethiopian: "Well, that's Haile Selassie of you."
Or when Hotlips wanted to talk to BJ about something she was nervous about: "So, talk." (embarrassed silence) "Louder."
And of course, who could forget Radar's line after Colonel Blake told him to slip a message under the door: "It's a verbal message - I'll get my mouth dirty."
But my all-time favourite has to be the little scene ad-libbed by the actors. After an episode of pranking Major Winchester by swapping his uniform for smaller and smaller sizes, making him believe he's putting on weight and start exercising (then increasing the sizes to make him think he's losing weight), this:
Hawkeye: "So, what do we do to him now?"
BJ: (after a moment's thought) "Tomorrow, he gets taller."
Or when Hotlips wanted to talk to BJ about something she was nervous about: "So, talk." (embarrassed silence) "Louder."
And of course, who could forget Radar's line after Colonel Blake told him to slip a message under the door: "It's a verbal message - I'll get my mouth dirty."
But my all-time favourite has to be the little scene ad-libbed by the actors. After an episode of pranking Major Winchester by swapping his uniform for smaller and smaller sizes, making him believe he's putting on weight and start exercising (then increasing the sizes to make him think he's losing weight), this:
Hawkeye: "So, what do we do to him now?"
BJ: (after a moment's thought) "Tomorrow, he gets taller."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
