Trapper's last episode
Owen Smith
>
> I've been watching MASH for God-knows-how-long now, but the one episode
> the station here will NOT play is Trapper's final episode. COuld some one
> fill me in on what happens in it? I remember in the final MASH episode,
> Hawkeye says after BJ left for the first time "First Trapper doesn't say
> goodbye, and now BJ", or something to that extent. Could some one help?
> Why did Trapper get sent home? (Not just to be on Trapper John, MD) :)
> -Any help is gratefully appreciated!-
> --Dave--
>
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Hawkeye had gone on R&R in Tokyo, when he returned, Radar informed him
Trapper had gone home and that he couldn't reach him in Tokyo. Trapper
never actually appeared in his so called final episide, like Col Blake
did. I had often wondered if the actor left the show without notice.
Anyway, he found out that his plane hadn't left yet, and Radar had to go
pick up B.J. so Hawk and Radar went to town (forget which town). Hawk
misses the plane by a few minutes, Radar finds B.J.. They go into an
officers club (they faked Radars bars), when they came out, their jeep
was gone, so they swiped the Generals. It was a good show, sorry you
missed it.
Owen Smith.
Tim Schubach
> I've been watching MASH for God-knows-how-long now, but the one episode=20
> the station here will NOT play is Trapper's final episode. COuld some one=
> =20
> fill me in on what happens in it? I remember in the final MASH episode,=20
> Hawkeye says after BJ left for the first time "First Trapper doesn't say=20
> goodbye, and now BJ", or something to that extent. Could some one help?=20
> Why did Trapper get sent home? (Not just to be on Trapper John, MD) :)
> -Any help is gratefully appreciated!-
> --Dave--
>
> *Dave Walls * "Hi........I'm in Delaware......." *
> *w...@hopi.dtcc.edu * *
> *DasB...@xband.com * -Wayne (Mike Meyers) from the *
> *Web site Address: * movie, "Wayne's World" *
> *http://www.dtcc.edu/~w27 * *
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>
In the episode where Trapper is sent home, Hawkeye is on R&R, and doesn't know that he's been sent home until he gets back ( Trapper had earned enough points to be sent home, and had left before Hawkeye's return ). Radar tries to convince Hawkeye that they tried to get in touch with him before Trapper left, but Hawkeye was "unavailable".
That same episode is the first for BJ.
One more good quote from last night's episode:
Frank to Radar, who is trying to sneak out of the mess tent with a bunch of
food for his animals:
"What kind of a jackass do you think I am, anyway?"
Radar in reply:
"Oh, you'd know that better than I would, sir!"
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E. & N. Persson
<w...@hopi.dtcc.edu> writes:
>
>I've been watching MASH for God-knows-how-long now, but the one
episode=20
>the station here will NOT play is Trapper's final episode. COuld some
one=
>=20
>fill me in on what happens in it? I remember in the final MASH
episode,=20
>Hawkeye says after BJ left for the first time "First Trapper doesn't
say=20
>goodbye, and now BJ", or something to that extent. Could some one
help?=20
>Why did Trapper get sent home? (Not just to be on Trapper John, MD) :)
>-Any help is gratefully appreciated!-
>--Dave--
Trapper got sent home because his time was up. He was getting out.
Eric Newman
>I've been watching MASH for God-knows-how-long now, but the one episode=20
>the station here will NOT play is Trapper's final episode. COuld some one=
>=20
>fill me in on what happens in it? I remember in the final MASH episode,=20
>Hawkeye says after BJ left for the first time "First Trapper doesn't say=20
>goodbye, and now BJ", or something to that extent. Could some one help?=20
>Why did Trapper get sent home? (Not just to be on Trapper John, MD) :)
>-Any help is gratefully appreciated!-
There was never an episode in which Trapper left. One season ended,
and when the next one began Trapper was gone. (Apparently Wayne Rogers
decided over the summer that he wasn't coming back.) Hawkeye was on
R&R in Tokyo for a few days, and when he came back Radar told him that
Trapper had gotten his orders and had gone home. Hawkeye rode with
Radar to the airport to pick up BJ in hopes of seeing Trapper before
he left, but he was too late.
Eric Newman
ed...@intac.com
Mark Givens
episode=20
>the station here will NOT play is Trapper's final episode. COuld some
one=
>=20
>fill me in on what happens in it? I remember in the final MASH
episode,=20
>Hawkeye says after BJ left for the first time "First Trapper doesn't
say=20
>goodbye, and now BJ", or something to that extent. Could some one
help?=20
>Why did Trapper get sent home? (Not just to be on Trapper John, MD) :)
>-Any help is gratefully appreciated!-
>
>*******************************************************************=A0
>*Dave Walls * "Hi........I'm in Delaware......." *
>*w...@hopi.dtcc.edu * *
>*DasB...@xband.com * -Wayne (Mike Meyers) from the *
>*Web site Address: * movie, "Wayne's World" *
>*http://www.dtcc.edu/~w27 * *
>*******************************************************************
>
Actually I don't think Trapper really had a "last episode" because he
quit in the off season and so his last episode is the same as Henry's.
In B.J.'s first episode Hawkeye returns to camp to find that Trapper
has been sent home and then races to try and say goodbye to him. He
doesn't make it and instead meets B.J. at the airport.
Jim Leahy
<osm...@mprgate.mpr.ca> wrote:
> Dave Walls wrote:
> >
> > I've been watching MASH for God-knows-how-long now, but the one episode
> > the station here will NOT play is Trapper's final episode. COuld some one
> > fill me in on what happens in it? I remember in the final MASH episode,
> > Hawkeye says after BJ left for the first time "First Trapper doesn't say
> > goodbye, and now BJ", or something to that extent. Could some one help?
> > Why did Trapper get sent home? (Not just to be on Trapper John, MD) :)
> > -Any help is gratefully appreciated!-
> > --Dave--
> >
> > *******************************************************************
> > *Dave Walls * "Hi........I'm in Delaware......." *
> > *w...@hopi.dtcc.edu * *
> > *DasB...@xband.com * -Wayne (Mike Meyers) from the *
> > *Web site Address: * movie, "Wayne's World" *
> > *http://www.dtcc.edu/~w27 * *
> > *******************************************************************
>
> Hawkeye had gone on R&R in Tokyo, when he returned, Radar informed him
> Trapper had gone home and that he couldn't reach him in Tokyo. Trapper
> never actually appeared in his so called final episide, like Col Blake
> did. I had often wondered if the actor left the show without notice.
> Anyway, he found out that his plane hadn't left yet, and Radar had to go
> pick up B.J. so Hawk and Radar went to town (forget which town). Hawk
> misses the plane by a few minutes, Radar finds B.J.. They go into an
> officers club (they faked Radars bars), when they came out, their jeep
> was gone, so they swiped the Generals. It was a good show, sorry you
> missed it.
>
> Owen Smith.
Hang on a minute. I seem to remember that Trapper DID have a farewell
episode. I'm pretty sure that he was upset (I don't remember the issue)
and just decided he'd had enough. He hopped in a jeep and went AWOL. In
fact, I thought that was a fuzzy issue about Trapper John, MD years
later. I recall many of the aspects of the episode where BJ comes to the
airport (the stolen jeep, the bar, BJ calling Frank "ferret face" before
falling down on his arrival), but I don't recall that this was Trapper's
"farewell" episode.
(additional lines added because my server won't let me reply without
adding more than I reply to).
.
samantha hotte
being drunk and packing toilet paper into his duffel bag! I don't think
he went though! I honestly cannot recall a farewell episode with Trapper
in it!!
Can anyone else help clear this up?
Samantha
Abigail
[ Trapper leaving ]
++ Hang on a minute. I seem to remember that Trapper DID have a farewell
++ episode. I'm pretty sure that he was upset (I don't remember the issue)
Wrong. Trappers last episode is the one in which Blake dies.
From the FAQ:
72. Abyssinia, Henry
73. Welcome to Korea
"Abyssinia, Henry" is the last episode of season 3, "Welcome to Korea"
the first episode of season 4. In "Abyssinia, Henry" Henry dies. In
"Welcome to Korea", B.J. arrives. And unless there were some MASH
episodes in the summer season of 1975 noone else knows about, there
isn't a Trapper farewell episode.
Abigail
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George Brock-Nannestad
: Hang on a minute. I seem to remember that Trapper DID have a farewell
: episode. I'm pretty sure that he was upset (I don't remember the issue)
: and just decided he'd had enough. He hopped in a jeep and went AWOL. In
: fact, I thought that was a fuzzy issue about Trapper John, MD years
: later. I recall many of the aspects of the episode where BJ comes to the
: airport (the stolen jeep, the bar, BJ calling Frank "ferret face" before
: falling down on his arrival), but I don't recall that this was Trapper's
: "farewell" episode.
Trapper was upset because he couldn't be with his daughter (He had
recieved a picture of his daughter from his wife), and decided to leave.
He never did leave, because just as he was about to, Frank entered the
Swamp and Hawkeye told him about the Pioneer Aviation stock scam, and
Trapper somehow decided to stay. (This is just the way I remember it, but
it's been a while since I saw that episode, so it might not be correct).
In one of the other episodes Trapper DID have a farewell party, and a
chance to say goodbye to Hawkeye (tears and everything :-)), but he was
never sent home. I think he had an ulcer, but a new army regulative
forced him to stay.
I hope this helps to clear things up a little :-)
Laust Brock-Nannestad
Janice Wickeri
> I honestly cannot recall a farewell episode with Trapper
> in it!!
> Can anyone else help clear this up?
>
> Samantha
People here on this thread have been thinking of three different
episodes.
First, the one where Trapper tries to put toilet paper in his bag and
take off is not related to Trapper actually leaving the show. In it,
Trapper gets drunk and is depressed because his wife sent him a picture
of his two little girls. This is the same episode where Trapper and
Hawkeye trick Frank into buying shares in "Pioneer Aviation" [which
doesn't exist].
The second episode, where you think it's going to be a "farewell
episode", is where Trapper gets a stomach ulcer [there have just been
physical check-ups in camp] and he thinks he's going home. There's a
really touching bit where Hawkeye and Trapper are telling each other what
good friend's the other has been. But then the army "in its infinite
wisdom" says Trapper can't go home.
There was never an actual leaving episode for Trapper. The last one he
appeared in was Henry's leaving episode. After this - as someone else
explained [I think!] - Hawkeye tries to catch up with him to say goodbye,
but misses him and meets B.J.
I love all the little twists and turns in M*A*S*H!!
Liz
victor kamhi
abi...@mars.ic.iaf.nl (Abigail) wrote:
The episode where Trapper "leaves" (goes, or at least threatens to go, AWOL actually)
was one in which he gets real pissed off about something. He's drunk as well.
Hawkeye tries to dissuade him (something along the lines of the Army, having gone
to all the trouble of "inviting" them to Korea, would be really upset if they were to
leave). Trapper answers something along the lines of this being like a movie....
"if I don't like it, I leave". He then sucker punches Hawkeye and storms out of the
Swamp.
Actually, almost the same story line gets played out later with Hawkeye and BJ.
BJ gets a letter from Peg wherein she describes meeting Radar in San Francisco on
his way home. And Erin calls Radar "Daddy". BJ gets upset, then really drunk, and
says he's leaving. Once again, it's Hawkeye who tries to talk him out of it. BJ
clobbers Hawkeye with his duffle bag, I think, and then leaves. Interesting parallel
between the episodes.
But, going back on thread, there was NO Trapper actually goes home episode. (There
was one where he THOUGHT that an ulcer would give him a medical discharge, but
when he found out that all they'd do is treat him in Seoul (Tokyo?) and then reassign
him --- likely toa different MASH unit -- he decided to let them treat him at the 4077th).
Hope this clarifies things. -- VIC (kam...@pt.cyanamid.com)
Borg001792
trappers farwell episode is one in which he dosen't appear, it is the
hawkeye radar airport episode.
Eric L Miller
> > fact, I thought that was a fuzzy issue about Trapper John, MD years
> > later. I recall many of the aspects of the episode where BJ comes to the
> > airport (the stolen jeep, the bar, BJ calling Frank "ferret face" before
> > falling down on his arrival), but I don't recall that this was Trapper's
> > "farewell" episode.
> >
> > adding more than I reply to).
> >
> > .I don't remeber that episode! I do remember him trying to go awol and
> being drunk and packing toilet paper into his duffel bag! I don't think
> in it!!
> Can anyone else help clear this up?
>
> Samantha
Trapper did not have a final episode. He was gone already at the
beginnig of "Welcome To Korea," where Hawkeye and Radar rush to
catch him before he leaves, and miss him by 10 minutes. It was a
"Dear Dad" episode where Trapper was drunk and bent on going awol,
but Hawkeye managed to stop him. There was also another episode
where Trapper thought he was going home because he had an ulcer.
They had a going away party for him in that one (where we could hear
a druken Henry say to a nurse "Honey, marriage has nothing to do
with sex."), but the army decided that an ulcer was not enough to
send him home. Instead, Hawkeye treated him right at the 4077.
Hope this clears things up!
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craig
I realize this is nit picky but Trapper hits Hawkeye with the duffle bag and
BJ who hits him with his fist.
Craig
Jacqueline Lofton
Hawkeye was due back from a leave, any minute. Trapper tried to wait,
but his ride shows up and he had to go. Hawkeye was very busy just
comming home from a leave, all excieted and talking about his vacation.
Radar and the others tried to tell Hawkeye but he just continues to be
too excieted to listen to them. Finally when they do tell him, he jumps
in a jeep to try to catch up to say goodbye, but he just misses him.
Thats about it for the Trapper part of the show. Trapper did leave
without saying goodbye, but it was almost Hawkeyes own fault, not
Trappers. Trapper did try.
victor kamhi
Jacqueline Lofton <jwr...@heart.net> wrote:
But this part is HEARSAY! Radar TELLS Hawkeye this story about Trapper waiting
and then having to leave (I think he tells him while Hawkeye is showering -- clothes
still on -- after his R&R-ing in Tokyo). We don't actually SEE this occurring. I'm not
questioning that Radar is telling the truth; only that it all happens off-camera, and
in the past tense. Repeat after me: "there never was a show with Trapper John
leaving....there couldn't have been, since Wayne Rogers quit during the filming
hiatus, never to be seen in the following season. They were forced to explain away
his character's disappearance".
One thing I wonder. With McLean Stevenson having already left (and in such a way
that they likely couldn't have him ever return), did this add to Roger's concerns
about not wanting to continue to play second banana to Alda? This is the reason
usually quoted about why he left.
--VIC (kam...@pt.cyanamid.com)
samantha hotte
Thank you very much!!! I didn't think he had his own farewell episode.
So I feel much better now having gotten this all straigtened out in my
mind; it was beginning to get very confusing! Thanks to all who were
able to clarify things!!
Samantha sama...@supernet.ab.ca
Chris
>
>I was dissapointed in the last Trapper one. Trapper had to leave and
>Hawkeye was due back from a leave, any minute. Trapper tried to wait,
>but his ride shows up and he had to go.
This isn't technically Trapper's last episode as Trapper doesn't
actually appear in that episode. His true final appearance is in
"Abynissia, Henry" in which Henry Blake dies on a helicopter going home.
Trivia buffs: What is Trapper's last line on M*A*S*H?
Larry Mcgillicuddy
>Trivia buffs: What is Trapper's last line on M*A*S*H?
Trapper: Radar, put on a mask!!
Eric Newman
>In article <DpCq...@bcl.net>, jwr...@heart.net says...
>>
>>I was dissapointed in the last Trapper one. Trapper had to leave and
>>Hawkeye was due back from a leave, any minute. Trapper tried to wait,
>>but his ride shows up and he had to go.
> This isn't technically Trapper's last episode as Trapper doesn't
>actually appear in that episode. His true final appearance is in
>"Abynissia, Henry" in which Henry Blake dies on a helicopter going home.
>Trivia buffs: What is Trapper's last line on M*A*S*H?
Something along the lines of "Goodbye, Henry."
Henry didn't die on a helicopter. His PLANE was shot down over the Sea
of Japan.
Eric Newman
ed...@intac.com
michael A Upton
> > This isn't technically Trapper's last episode as Trapper doesn't
> >actually appear in that episode. His true final appearance is in
> >"Abynissia, Henry" in which Henry Blake dies on a helicopter going home.
> >Trivia buffs: What is Trapper's last line on M*A*S*H?
I would have to agree, the last thing Trapper said was "Radar put on a
mask!" at which point Radar revealed that Henry's plane had been shot
down over the sea of Japan.
mike
Tony D. Lowe
ulcer and Hawk tells him that it's his ticket home. While the party is going
on in the Mess Tent, Henry and Radar give Trapper the bad news back at the
Swamp: ulcers don't get you home, only a trip to Tokyo General for treatment
and then re-assignment. When Trapper found out he could end up in a place
worse than the 4077th, he decided to stay there to have it treated. Of
course, they had the party anyway.
Tony D. Lowe, The HapMaster
Louisville, KY
hap...@thepoint.net
http://www.thepoint.net/~hapmstr
Jfi...@su.edu
says...
Sorry to dispute but I am pretty sure that Hawkeye was the one who said
that, Not BJ. Wasn't his last line when he said good bye to Henry at the
chopper?
allan b goodrich
>cfai...@su.edu (Chris) wrote:
>>In article <DpCq...@bcl.net>, jwr...@heart.net says...
>>>
>>>I was dissapointed in the last Trapper one. Trapper had to leave and
>>>Hawkeye was due back from a leave, any minute. Trapper tried to wait,
>>>but his ride shows up and he had to go.
>> This isn't technically Trapper's last episode as Trapper doesn't
>>actually appear in that episode. His true final appearance is in
>>"Abynissia, Henry" in which Henry Blake dies on a helicopter going home.
>>Trivia buffs: What is Trapper's last line on M*A*S*H?
>Something along the lines of "Goodbye, Henry."
>Henry didn't die on a helicopter. His PLANE was shot down over the Sea
>of Japan.
>Eric Newman
>ed...@intac.com
No it was "Radar put a mask on"
ABG
West Newton Cinema
Dave Walls
> Eric L Miller wrote:
> >
> > samantha hotte wrote:
> > >
> > > Jim Leahy wrote:
> > > >
> > > > In article <315C4267...@mprgate.mpr.ca>, Owen Smith
> > > > <osm...@mprgate.mpr.ca> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Dave Walls wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I've been watching MASH for God-knows-how-long now, but the one=
episode
> > > > > > the station here will NOT play is Trapper's final episode. COul=
d some one
> > > > > > fill me in on what happens in it? I remember in the final MASH =
episode,
> > > > > > Hawkeye says after BJ left for the first time "First Trapper do=
esn't say
> > > > > > goodbye, and now BJ", or something to that extent. Could some o=
ne help?
> > > > > > Why did Trapper get sent home? (Not just to be on Trapper John,=
MD) :)
> > > > > > -Any help is gratefully appreciated!-
> > > > > > --Dave--
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ***************************************************************=
****
> > > > > > *Dave Walls * "Hi........I'm in Delaware......=
." *
> > > > > > *w...@hopi.dtcc.edu * =
*
> > > > > > *DasB...@xband.com * -Wayne (Mike Meyers) from the =
*
> > > > > > *Web site Address: * movie, "Wayne's World" =
*
> > > > > > *http://www.dtcc.edu/~w27 * =
*
> > > > > > ***************************************************************=
****
> > > > >
> > > > > Hawkeye had gone on R&R in Tokyo, when he returned, Radar informe=
d him
> > > > > Trapper had gone home and that he couldn't reach him in Tokyo. Tr=
apper
> > > > > never actually appeared in his so called final episide, like Col =
Blake
> > > > > did. I had often wondered if the actor left the show without not=
ice.
> > > > > Anyway, he found out that his plane hadn't left yet, and Radar ha=
d to go
> > > > > pick up B.J. so Hawk and Radar went to town (forget which town). =
Hawk
> > > > > misses the plane by a few minutes, Radar finds B.J.. They go int=
o an
> > > > > officers club (they faked Radars bars), when they came out, their=
jeep
> > > > > was gone, so they swiped the Generals. It was a good show, sorry=
you
> > > > > missed it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Owen Smith.
> > > >
> > > > Hang on a minute. I seem to remember that Trapper DID have a farew=
ell
> > > > episode. I'm pretty sure that he was upset (I don't remember the i=
ssue)
> > > > and just decided he'd had enough. He hopped in a jeep and went AWO=
L. In
> > > > fact, I thought that was a fuzzy issue about Trapper John, MD years
> > > > later. I recall many of the aspects of the episode where BJ comes =
to the
> > > > airport (the stolen jeep, the bar, BJ calling Frank "ferret face" b=
efore
> > > > falling down on his arrival), but I don't recall that this was Trap=
per's
> > > > "farewell" episode.
> > > >
> > > > (additional lines added because my server won't let me reply withou=
t
> > > > adding more than I reply to).
> > > >
> > > > .I don't remeber that episode! I do remember him trying to go awol =
and
> > > being drunk and packing toilet paper into his duffel bag! I don't thi=
nk
> > > he went though! I honestly cannot recall a farewell episode with Trap=
Wow! thanks for all the help!! It's kinda hard to follow a show when it
comes on at 12:30 am, and out of sequence!!!! :)
--Dave--
*******************************************************************=A0
Dave Walls
> cfai...@su.edu (Chris) wrote:
>
> >Trivia buffs: What is Trapper's last line on M*A*S*H?
>
>
> Trapper: Radar, put on a mask!!
>
Wow..that's pretty good! He's right! This episode came on last night.
Radar comes in to tell everyone that Henry's plane has crashed, and
trapper tells him to put a mask on!! Wow.....
Eric Newman
>> >Trivia buffs: What is Trapper's last line on M*A*S*H?
>>
>>
>> Trapper: Radar, put on a mask!!
>>
>Wow..that's pretty good! He's right! This episode came on last night.
>Radar comes in to tell everyone that Henry's plane has crashed, and
>trapper tells him to put a mask on!! Wow.....
>--Dave--
No, it's the other way around. Trapper tells Radar to put the mask on
before Radar says anything.
Eric Newman
ed...@intac.com
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Kiser Soze
Dave Walls <w...@hopi.dtcc.edu> wrote:
I'm 14 and have only been watching the show for the past 3 yrs and
even I have seen the Trapper episode. However, I haven't seen the
final episode....what happens.
"Keaton said he didn't belive in god, but he feared him.
Well, I do belive in God and the only thing I fear is
Kiser Soze."
MrQuixote
What happened in Trapper's final episode?
Henry Blake died.
That was the end of the third season. In the hiatus, Wayne Rogers decided
that he didn't want to return to MASH. He saw the handwriting on the
wall, and it said "Hawkeye is the man." Rogers had a successful outside
career going as a financial adviser. So he said he'd rather not come
back, and the powers that be let him out of his contract. They cast Mike
Farrell to replace him, and the fourth season began with Welcome to Korea,
which I believe was a two parter. That was followed by "Change of
Command," when Sherman Potter arrives.
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