MAS*H

The Kids

Season 4, Episode 8, Aired 10/31/75

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The 4077th plays host to kids bombed out of their orphanage, and at the same time has to deliver a baby and care for battle casualties.

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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

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A heart-warmer

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By XMLarry, Dec 16, 2009 Report Abuse

A great episode on how the 4077th helps a local orphanage that is being shelled by taking in the children as well as a mother to be who has been shot by a sniper. A purple heart for Frank? Surely they jest (and they did). Great performance by Ann Doran as the head of the orphanage and her no nonsense approach to the kids. Would love to hire that little girl who plays the piano so well, we need an accompianist at church. :) As for the purple heart, well it finally went to the right person (sorry Frank, better luck next time.)moreless

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Displaced Korean orphans stay overnight at the 4077th. A pregnant Korean woman gets shot by a sniper and the surgeons work to save her life and deliver the baby safely.

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By Angelwomyn, Jan 27, 2006 Report Abuse

It's uplifting to watch the children in this episode because they are so resilient. They've been through hardship, loss and war but they still act like children. They give people hugs, they ask to hear bedtime stories, they make silly faces, they are drawn to a piano in the Officers' Club and Radar's teddy bear. They've suffered, but they still find happiness in things. And except for Frank, the 4077th's staff is very kind to the Koreans. Colonel Potter reads some of the children a story, although apparently the only book he can find is a manual about rifles. Klinger wants to give the pregnant women a quilted bed jacket that doesn't fit him. He also prays for her even though he is supposedly an atheist. I think we see a lot of the characters at their best in this episode.moreless

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- Just four episodes after being credited as an "Able/Baker" nurse (Baker, to be precise), Kellye Nakahara now has the distinction of an individual character name. (And unless her last name is Kellye, she is also the only nurse who is titled with her first name.) Edit
- Meg Cratty, who had run an obstetrical clinic for twenty years (according to The Trial of Henry Blake apparently decided to abandon that and run an orphanage instead. Edit
- There is kid that keeps calling Klinger "mama san" in this episode. "Mama san" means something like "respected mother" in Japanese. Why would a Korean kid call him that, I wonder? Edit
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- Frank receives a Purple Heart that he applied for after getting a shell fragment in his eye . . . an eggshell fragment. In the Season 1 episode "Sometimes You Hear The Bullet," he applied for a Purple Heart after he threw his back out dancing with Margaret. According to him, these were combat injuries. Edit
- Alan Alda received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series. Edit
- Meg Cratty was played by Hope Summers in her first appearance. Edit
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- (Hawkeye and B. J. notice that Frank is wearing a Purple Heart.) Hawkeye: You were never wounded! Burns: I most certainly was! Hawkeye: When? Burns: Last month during the sniper attack. I got a shell fragment in my eye. Hawkeye: Wait a minute! Hold the phone, central! I was the one who did that operation. That was an egg shell fragment! Burns: Nevertheless, it's listed on my report as 'shell fragment.' Edit
- Korean child: Mamasan. Klinger: No, no mamasan! Corporal Klinger! Child: Mamasan. Klinger: G.I. Joe. Look. (opens his bathrobe) See? No McGuffies. Edit
- Klinger: Nurse Cratty? Cratty: Hmm? Klinger: I got something I'd like to give the mother. It's a bedjacket that's too small for me. It's quilted, aquamarine, with off-white brocade, and right here there are violet sequins arranged in a stunning fleur-de-lis. Potter: I gotta get him that discharge. Edit
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