M*A*S*H (TV Series)
Fallen Idol (1977)
Gary Burghoff: Cpl. Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly
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Quotes
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Hawkeye : Radar, I'd like to apologize.
Radar : Oh, yeah? Well, you can just forget it. Just forget it! Hell with me, huh? The hell with you! How about that? And another thing,
[gets out of bed]
Radar : I wanna tell you something, anybody says anything about Iowa better be prepared to back it up, pal. I'll give you a fist-full of Iowa naivete right in the puss! How about that? You know I don't need you to tell me what's what. I know what's what just as well as you do. So why don't you just crawl back in your bottle of booze and pickle yourself? Ha ha!
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Radar : You walked out on a patient, and Major Winchester had to finish for you!
Hawkeye : So? I'd have done the same for him if he was sick.
Radar : Well, a lot of people don't look at it like you were sick, Hawkeye. A lot of people look up to you here. They admire you and they kinda feel they want to be like you. And... Gee, when you walk out on an operation, they kind of feel like you've let them down. If they can't depend on you, well, they figure, well, maybe there's no point in depending on anything.
Hawkeye : Look, you can't lay all that on my shoulders. Don't you know how much this place stinks? Don't you know what it's like to stand day after day in blood? In the blood of children?
[slams down a pillow]
Hawkeye : I hate this place. And if I can't stand up to it to your satisfaction, then the hell with it.
[stands up; turns around]
Hawkeye : How *dare* you! The hell with your Iowa naivete and the hell with your hero worship and your teddy bear and while you're at it, the hell with *you*. Why don't you grow up, for crying out loud? I'm not here for you to admire. I'm here to pull bodies out of a sausage grinder. If possible, without going crazy. Period.
[Radar stifles crying]
Hawkeye : Come on, cut it out! Stop it, will you? You *ninny*!
[exits]
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Hawkeye : Radar, I'd like to apologize.
Radar : Oh, yeah? Well, you can just forget it. Just forget it. Hell with me, huh? The hell with *you*. How about that? And another thing,
[gets out of bed]
Radar : I wanna tell you something, anybody says anything about Iowa better be prepared to back it up, pal. I'll give you a fist-full of Iowa naivete right in the puss! How about that? You know I don't need you to tell me what's what. I know what's what just as well as you do. So why don't you just crawl back in your bottle of booze and pickle yourself? Ha!
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Radar : [confiding] I don't think that this place is turning out to be that great an experience for me. I work under terrible pressures, and there's lots of death and destruction and stuff. But other than that, I don't think I'm getting much out of it.
B.J. : I knew there was something wrong with this place.
Radar : I mean, the army's supposed to... it's well, it's supposed to make a man out of you, isn't it?
Hawkeye : It depends which sex you are to start with. You have to meet them halfway.
