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| Frank with a different gun. |
CBS
December 2, 1975
Dramedy
DVD
B-
M*A*S*H shifted over to Tuesdays at 9 p.m., so I could've watched it after Welcome Back, Kotter at 8:30, but of course this was past my second-grade bedtime and M*A*S*H was far too grown-up for me at that point. I certainly wasn't ready for the Freudianism of Margaret's excitement that Frank seems to own a gun like her father's. He's actually stolen it, and Radar gets blamed and threatened with fifteen years' imprisonment, so Frank reluctantly returns the gun, shooting himself in the foot. We can see here how Margaret continues to fall out of love with Frank, as she becomes more and more disillusioned with him. Yet she stays with him, for inexplicable reasons. I'm curious to see where this goes in the long run. (I remember she gets married and later has a one-night stand with Hawkeye, but I don't remember details.)
Jeff Maxwell (Straminsky) returns. Metcalfe directed, Gelbart & Reynolds co-wrote.
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