M*A*S*H (TV Series)
The General Flipped at Dawn (1974)
Alan Alda: Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce
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Quotes
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Maj. Gen. Bartford Hamilton Steele : You're insubordinate!
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Right!
Maj. Gen. Bartford Hamilton Steele : You're insolent!
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Right! And you're nuts!
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Lt. Col. Henry Blake : Man. More stuff's coming in from headquarters. New orders, regulations. Read that first one, Radar.
Radar : Uh, yes sir. Uh, the winners of the model yacht race at the cesspool are...
Lt. Col. Henry Blake : Not that, Radar!
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Nah, let him read it! I haven't seen a sports page in months!
Radar : First place went to Pvt. Norman Polanski with his yacht, the American Beauty Dream. Corncob construction, with toilet paper sails.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Ah, that Polanski has the sea in his blood.
Radar : Second prize to Corporal Timothy McInerney for his clipper, the Evangeline, carved from a pound cake his mother sent him six months ago.
Trapper : Hope he doesn't invite us for dessert.
Radar : The remainder of the contestants didn't finish due to a sudden undertow after breakfast.
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Lt. Col. Henry Blake : [arguing about General Steele's orders to move the camp closer to the front line] I can't just disobey orders! The guy's a 2 star general!
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Yeah. but he's a 3-star looney!
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Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : [after General Steele dances out of a court marshal hearing singing a song] I take it we don't have to leave.
Lt. Col. Henry Blake : Only the general does.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : Yeah, in a rubber truck.
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Major Franklin Marion Burns : Can you still see the hair in my nose?
Trapper : Uh huh, but it's parted on the wrong side.
Major Franklin Marion Burns : I never realized I had so much hair up there.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce : I did. I just thought it was an ingrown mustache.