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L.I.P.

Episode Number: 31    Season Num: 2    First Aired: Saturday October 27, 1973    Prod Code: K406
Corporal Walker is being sent home, and he wants to marry his Korean girl so she and their baby can return with him. CID sends Lt Willis to investigate, but when he refuses Hawkeye and Trapper frame him. Hawkeye is upset that a nurse he was pursuing does not approve of the marriage between "a gook" and "one of us".

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Writer: Carl Kleinschmitt, Larry Gelbart, Laurence Marks (II), Carl Kleinschmitt
Director: William Wiard
Star: William Christopher (Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahy),  Alan Alda (Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce),  Gary Burghoff (Corporal Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly (Season 1-8)),  McLean Stevenson (Lt. Colonel Henry Braymore Blake (Season 1-3)),  Loretta Swit (Major Margaret J. "Hot Lips" Houlihan),  Larry Linville (Major Franklin Delano Marion Burns (Season 1-5)),  Jamie Farr (Corporal/Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger),  Wayne Rogers (Captain John Francis Xavier "Trapper" McIntyre (Season 1-3))
Recurring Role: Odessa Cleveland (Ginger)
Guest Star: Corinne Camacho (Lt. Regina Hoffman),  Burt Young (Lt. Willis),  Jerry Zaks (Corporal Phil Walker)

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Radar: Uh, the plane with John Wayne didn't get here.
Henry: Darn it!
Radar: Well, what movie are we showing tonight?
Henry: Well, what have we got on hand?
Radar: Uh, well, I could give you Bonzo Goes To College, or The Thing That Ate The Bronx.
Henry: Uh, show 'em both!
Hawkeye: Preferably at the same time. (edit)
Klinger: (talking to Hoffman while waiting for Hawkeye) So I'm taking out all my shoulder pads. I really feel that natural look is much more soft. And it helps the bustline. (edit)
Hoffman: Don't they ever show anything but war pictures?
Hawkeye: I think the Army's trying to prove movies are hell.
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Hawkeye: (seeing that his patient is a baby) Boy, did his Draft Board go crazy. (edit)
Hoffman: (as Hawkeye is leaving) Is that it?
Hawkeye: No, there's one more thing. (raspberry)
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Trivia

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Hawkeye ask the Korean woman to turn on the lights of the jeep, while he examines her baby. After he has returned the baby, the lights of the jeep are suddenly out again. The woman would have had time to turn off the lights, but she has to hold the baby at the same time and had to bend forward a lot when turning on the lights.
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The PA Announcer says that tomorrow night's movie is Flying Leathernecks with John Wayne. He tells everyone, "Be sure to see it with a Marine you love!" (edit)
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Episode: L.I.P.
Season Number: 2
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