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M*A*S*H (TV Series)
Fallen Idol (1977)
Harry Morgan: Col. Sherman T. Potter
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Quotes
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Col. Sherman Potter : [an oversoused Hawkeye had to leave the O.R. to be sick] Listen, you can walk around with your brains at half-mast 24 hours a day for all I care, but when that chopper hits the pad I expect you to tie a slipknot in a match box. It's incomprehensible to me that a surgeon of your caliber would walk into an operating room with a bag on. Okay, let's hear some talk. What's your explanation?
Hawkeye : I screwed up.
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B.J. : [Earlier, Hawkeye barked at hospitalized Radar] Gee, you have a marvelous effect on people.
Col. Potter : [Enters the Swamp; to Hawkeye] What the hell is the matter with you? Are you nuts?
Hawkeye : I think I must be, yes.
Col. Potter : I think you are. I no sooner give you a lecture on one patient, then you go in and try to destroy another! Maybe we should aim you at the Chinese.
Margaret : [Enters; to Hawkeye] I'd like to talk to you.
B.J. : This oughta be good.
Margaret : What is the matter with you?
Col. Potter : Just a minute, Major, I have something to say on that subject myself.
Margaret : Just hang on, you'll get your turn.
Col. Potter : I'll get my turn? I'm the commanding officer!
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Col. Sherman Potter : [to Hawkeye] Your behavior is incomprehensible. Again! You have a boy there, fresh out of the cornfields, who is highly vulnerable and impressionable, not to mention the fact that he worships you...
Margaret : Although, *why* I can't see!
Col. Sherman Potter : And you make this kid the target of the most bellicose barrel full of Bull Durham anybody's ever heard you utter!
Margaret : And I for one have heard you utter plenty!
Col. Sherman Potter : If you don't mind, I *rehearsed* this as a single.
Margaret : And you're doing fine. Really.
Col. Sherman Potter : Gee, Major, I appreciate that. Now will you *clam up*?
[to Hawkeye]
Col. Sherman Potter : This boy's been told he's nothing more than a pimple on a flea by the man whose opinion he values more than anyone in the world. And I think you *damn well* better do something about it! Now what do you think?
Hawkeye : I think you're right.
[Exits]
Margaret : I never got to say anything!