M*A*S*H (TV Series)

Fallen Idol (1977)

William Christopher: Father Francis Mulcahy

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• Father Mulcahy : [Hawkeye has just lost it with a hospitalized Radar]  I just left Radar. Now, Hawkeye, please accept this with the spirit intended. You're under enormous pressure here and I'm... I just want to know one little thing... Have you lost your mind?

  Hawkeye : Father, you don't know how sorry I am.

  Father Mulcahy : I mean tha - that boy is lying there in a hospital bed with tubes sticking out of body and you... You call him a ninny?

  Hawkeye : Father...

  Father Mulcahy : I'm incensed! I am outraged! Where is your decency, man? Your humanity? I am acrimonious! I am not a man given to physical demonstrations of emotion, but let me tell you, I am persuaded to violence!

  Hawkeye : Go ahead, Father.

  Father Mulcahy : Well, I think I will!

  [kicks down the stove] 

  B.J. : I'm glad you let it out, Father.

  Father Mulcahy : Well as a matter of fact, I found it *particularly* unsatisfying. And if you want to know the *truth*, it is entirely possible I have *broken* my toe!