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Alan Alda, Gary Burghoff, William Christopher, Jamie Farr, Mike Farrell, Larry Linville, Harry Morgan, Kellye Nakahara, Loretta Swit, and Frank Pettinger in M*A*S*H (1972)

Jamie Farr: Cpl. Maxwell Q. Klinger

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M*A*S*H

Jamie Farr credited as playing...

Cpl. Maxwell Q. Klinger

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  • Father Mulcahy: [singing] A chaplain in the Army has a collar on his neck. If you don't listen to him, you'll all wind up in heck.
  • Everybody: Oh, I don't want no more of Army life. Gee, Mom, I wanna go home.
  • Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, Capt. B.J. Hunnicut: Oh, the surgeons in the Army, they say we're mighty bright. We work on soldiers through the day and nurses through the night.
  • Everybody: Oh, I don't want no more of Army life. Gee Mom, I wanna go home.
  • Col. Sherman T. Potter: Friendships in the army, they say are mighty rare. So I spend all my free time carousing with my mare.
  • Everybody: Oh, I don't want no more of Army life. Gee Mom, I wanna go home.
  • Nurses: The surgeons in the army, their brains they are profound. But we'll take chopper pilots, they'll get you off the ground.
  • Everybody: Oh, I don't want no more of Army life. Gee Mom, I wanna go home.
  • Cpl. Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly: The corporals in the army, ya say we're really green. But if it weren't for us guys you'd be in the latrine.
  • Everybody: Oh, I don't want no more of Army life. Gee Mom, I wanna go home.
  • Klinger: Oh, some guys like the Army. I think that it's a mess. If it's so damn terrific, how come I wear a dress?
  • Everybody: Oh, I don't want no more of Army life. Gee Mom, I wanna go home.
  • Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan: The nurses in the army, they haven't tied the knot. But this one's gonna try it with Donald Penobscott.
  • Everybody: Oh, I don't want no more of Army life. Gee Mom, I wanna go. But they won't let me go. Gee Mom, I wanna go home.
  • Cpl. Maxwell Klinger: [the movie projector goes out, again] I blew the bulb. It's not my fault. Who do I look like, Thomas Edison?
  • Hawkeye: No, you look like Mrs. Edison.
  • Hawkeye: And now for the moment no one has been waiting for: the Father Mulcahy sound-alike contest.
  • [Father Mulcahy passes him his hat]
  • Hawkeye: [imitating Mulcahy] My word, Hawkeye, this jocularity is most unseemly.
  • [tosses hat to Klinger]
  • Cpl. Maxwell Klinger: [imitating Mulcahy, in squeaky voice] How can you make jokes at a time like this? Ooh.
  • [passes hat to Frank Burns]
  • Maj. Frank Burns: [in high voice] The post-op is collapsing and the O.R. is on fire.
  • [passes hat to Margaret]
  • Margaret: [in high voice] And somebody has broken into the sacramental wine.
  • [tosses hat to Radar]
  • Radar: Sorry, Father.
  • [puts on hat; imitates Mulcahy]
  • Radar: It seems that Private Simpson has come down with a case of hepatitis. He's the most *remarkable* shade of yellow.
  • [tosses hat to Colonel Potter]
  • Col. Sherman Potter: [in high voice] Jocularity! Jocularity!
  • [tosses hat to Father Mulcahy]
  • Father Francis Mulcahy: Let me just say this about all these impersonations...
  • [everybody groans in protest]
  • Hawkeye: That's definitely the Mills Brothers.

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