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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)

Larry Linville: Maj. Frank Burns

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M*A*S*H

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Maj. Frank Burns

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  • 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.
  • Col. Potter: What's the problem now, Burns?
  • Frank Burns: Well sir, I'm the garbage officer
  • Col. Potter: We all know that.
  • Frank Burns: And there's been a tremendous waste of food, especially rutabaga, lima beans and liver.
  • Col. Potter: Is that a surprise to you?
  • Frank Burns: What if the enemy got ahold of this?
  • Col. Potter: We'd win the war.
  • Hawkeye: Frank, let me use your pen.
  • Frank Burns: No.
  • Hawkeye: Come on, Frank!
  • Frank Burns: N-O! No.
  • Hawkeye: Why not?
  • Frank Burns: Because it's used to the way I write.
  • Hawkeye: It's used to: stupid
  • Maj. Frank Burns: Gee whiz, that's terrific. I haven't seen a good movie in ages.
  • Hawkeye: Frank, don't be childish. It's only a movie.
  • [Frank walks away]
  • Hawkeye: Oh, boy! Oh, boy! A movie! Hee, hee, hee! I'm so excited, I could plotz!
  • Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce: Frank, go make yourself useful.
  • Maj. Frank Burns: I'm a supervisor. I don't have to be useful.
  • Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce: Well, you're doing a great job.
  • Maj. Frank Burns: Oh, go stuff a goose.
  • Frank Burns: [singing] Oh Hawkeye and oh B.J., they think they're pretty smart. I'd like to take a scalpel and stab them in the heart.
  • [Chuckles]
  • Frank Burns: This is fun.
  • Frank Burns: Penobscott, what a stupid name! And you're gonna be Margaret Penobscott. I'd like you to meet the Penobscotts: Donald Penobscott, Margaret Penobscott, and all the little Penobscotts - Huey, Dewey and Louie Penobscott! Ha-ha-ha-ha!
  • Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan: Frank.
  • Frank Burns: Huh?
  • Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan: I'm gonna count to three, and if you're still here, I'm gonna snap off your epaulets.

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