M*A*S*H (TV Series)

Sons and Bowlers (1982)

David Ogden Stiers: Maj. Charles Winchester

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• Major Charles Winchester : Pierce, you should be grateful that only distance is separating you. My father and I have been 12,000 miles apart in the same room. The most intimate and personal communication in the Winchester household, took place at the evening meal. Every night, promptly, at 7:15, we would gather at the dinner table. The soup would be served, and my father would begin with "Tell us what you did today, Charles." I would then have until the salad to report the highlights of my day. Even now the sight of lettuce makes me talk faster. I assumed that's how it was in every family. When I see the warmth, the closeness, the fun of your relationship. My father was a good man, and he always wanted the best for me. But, where I have a father, you have a dad.

  Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce : Charles, you never told me anything like this before.

  Major Charles Winchester : Actually, Hawkeye - I've never told you anything before.

• Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce : [while the rest of the gang celebrates beating the Marines in bowling, Hawkeye and Charles share a private toast in celebration of Hawkeye's father's successful surgery] 

  Major Charles Winchester : To our fathers.

  Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce : And their sons.

• Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce : What do you mean you can't call Portland from Guam? You're routing me through where?

  Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce : [Perplexed, after a pause]  Mars?

  Major Charles Winchester : Military Affairs Radio Station.