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Frode Bakkeslett Hagen

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Jan 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/11/99
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I've recently seen the last episode of MASH, where Klinger marries a Korean girl.
But I remember that he also married an American girl in an earlier episode.
Klinger had put on a wedding gown and married the girl over the radio.

What happened to the first marriage?


Frode

Matt J. McCullar

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Jan 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/11/99
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Klinger's first wife left him because she was having an affair with his
best friend back home in Toledo. Klinger went ballistic when he read
her letter and went AWOL for a little while before he cooled off. This
was one of the stories in an entire episode.

Matt J. McCullar
Arlington, TX

PAUL GADZIKOWSKI

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Jan 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/11/99
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Matt J. McCullar (mccu...@flash.net) wrote:
: Klinger's first wife left him because she was having an affair with his

: best friend back home in Toledo. Klinger went ballistic when he read
: her letter and went AWOL for a little while before he cooled off. This
: was one of the stories in an entire episode.

I don't think that's true. Klinger's wife left him in the last "Mail Call"
episode. I think in your memory you're combining that with "Your Retention
Please", a later episode when the divorce becomes final (?) and Klinger
decides he has nothing to lose by reenlisting.

My memory's a littel fuzzy too.

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Jan 14, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/14/99
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on 11 january, paul gadzikowski wrote:
>Matt J. McCullar (mccu...@flash.net) wrote:
>: Klinger's first wife left him because she was having an affair with his
>: best friend back home in Toledo. Klinger went ballistic when he read
>: her letter and went AWOL for a little while before he cooled off. This
>: was one of the stories in an entire episode.
>
>I don't think that's true. Klinger's wife left him in the last "Mail Call"
>episode. I think in your memory you're combining that with "Your Retention
>Please", a later episode when the divorce becomes final (?) and Klinger
>decides he has nothing to lose by reenlisting.

For some reason I don't remember the divorce-related AWOL storyline
at all, but I do know for sure that the episode where Klinger is so upset
that he re-enlists is in the same episode where we hear the first of his wife
Laverne leaving him.

Joey Allan

Babette Moore

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Jan 14, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/14/99
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Frode Bakkeslett Hagen wrote:

> I've recently seen the last episode of MASH, where Klinger marries a Korean girl.
> But I remember that he also married an American girl in an earlier episode.
> Klinger had put on a wedding gown and married the girl over the radio.
>
> What happened to the first marriage?
>

> Frode

His first wife cheated on him, so he divorced her. If I remember right it was with
a person named Morty, who was a butcher.

Elaine


Mikael Uhlin

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Jan 15, 1999, 3:00:00 AM1/15/99
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This is correct:

>>Klinger's wife left him in the last "Mail Call"
> >episode. I think in your memory you're combining that with "Your
Retention
> >Please", a later episode when the divorce becomes final (?)

Actually Klinger's ex-wife Laverne wrote him a letter (after the divorce),
announcing that she's leaving the new guy but then disappoints Klinger by
informing him about a new relationship with another of Klinger's old
friends. That's when he reenlists. Potter swears him in, but just in case
Klinger's gonna have second thoughts (which he has), Potter uses the
Presidential oath.
Klinger's love affair and marriage with Soon-Lee occurs in the next to last
and last episode and continues in AfterMASH.


baycra...@gmail.com

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collee...@gmail.com

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Jun 17, 2019, 1:55:21 PM6/17/19
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What was klingers 1st wifes name

sharniha...@gmail.com

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Jul 24, 2019, 6:38:42 AM7/24/19
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His wife’s name was Laverne and she actually cheated on Klinger with Morty previously and then Klinger received a letter from her saying she wants to be with Gus, he doesn’t go AWOL but does try to re enlist whilst drunk and upset. Colonel Potter helps him as he knows he wouldn’t re enlist if he wasn’t depressed and says the wrong oath. So he isn’t re enlisted for 6 years.

Andy K.

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Jul 28, 2019, 4:51:16 AM7/28/19
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On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 03:38:41 -0700 (PDT)
sharniha...@gmail.com wrote:

> His wife’s name was Laverne and she actually cheated on Klinger with Morty previously and then Klinger received a letter from her saying she wants to be with Gus, he doesn’t go AWOL but does try to re enlist whilst drunk and upset. Colonel Potter helps him as he knows he wouldn’t re enlist if he wasn’t depressed and says the wrong oath. So he isn’t re enlisted for 6 years.

Indeed, it was Laverne Esposito. Funny how the memory retains useless
bits of trivia seemingly indefinitely, yet routinely throws away useful
stuff. If only I could remember my friends' birthdays so well... :-)

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