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The Wall Trivia and Quotes

 

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Air Date

Tuesday May 16, 2006

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1ALF12

  • Goof: The gas in the rubber balloons would have dissolved the rubber and end up leaking out. []
  • Goof :The letter about Mac reenlisting, flashed by his wife Tiffy for the Col.Ryan eyes only in the bar is not reenlisting related, is about leaving the Army. At closer look one discovers that is about an unrelated individual that enlisted in the Army Delayed Entry Program in the past and now is seeking separation from such program due to family hardship. []
  • Goof: French soldiers are shown wearing British style DPM uniforms, they are also seen driving American Humvees. The French Foriegn Legion is a part of the Regular French Army and as such are given French Uniforms and French vehicles. Also another mistake is that the UN mission in Bosnia and Serbia ended in December of 2002. []
  • Rebecca Pidgeon (Charlotte Canning Ryan) is the wife of David Mamet, the producer of The Unit. []
  • Brown: When you see Indians be careful. When you don't see Indians be twice as careful.
    Jonas: Who said that?
    Grey: Helen Keller. []
  • Mack: (waiting with his sniper rifle) Avon calling. Come out and play. []
  • Charlotte Canning Ryan: The secrets of marriage are private. The secrets of combat are private. We women can't know them. We can only be close to them by being close to you. And as in a marriage you men honor us by trusting us not only to keep your secrets, but to respect them. []
  • Mack: Oh no. Oh man. I am going to yet again miss my wife's birthday.
    Williams: What'd you get her?
    Mack: Oh man I'm gonna miss her birthday. Stuck with a bunch of froggies.
    Grey: Yeah, yeah you should have stayed in school and got your doctorate in nuclear physics. []
  • Grey: I'd take Sacagawea out on a scout, but you stand out in this neighborhood.
    Williams: I stand out in any neighborhood.
    Grey: Yea, but your supposed to blend in. []
  • Brown: You fellas seem to get a long boss, you and the colonel.
    Jonas: Oh we had a lot in common.
    Brown: Oh, what was that?
    Grey: You guys go to high school together.
    Jonas: No seemed we both seen Lawrence of Arabia. []
  • Yugoslav General : You killed my wife. []
  • Charles: Top, you're shot. Give me your gun--you're bleeding.
    (Jonas notices that he took a hit.)
    Jonas: Well how 'bout that. []
  • Jonas: How's Mack?
    Charles: He's still shot. []

Allusions

  • This episode contains a reference to the film "Glengarry Glen Ross", written by David Mamet in 1992, writer and creator of "The Unit"; exactly when one character orders a cup of coffee and the answer given by another character is "coffee is for closers". []
  • Sacagawea

    A Shoshone woman who accompanied the Corps of Discovery with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark as an interpreter. []
  • Lawrence of Arabia

    A 1962 film starring Petter O'Toole about Lawrence's life during World War I in Arabia. []
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