M*A*S*H (TV Series)
War of Nerves (1977)
Harry Morgan: Col. Sherman T. Potter
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Quotes
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Colonel Sherman T. Potter : [after stopping people from burning a number of items] You see how loony they're getting?
Maj. Sidney Freedman : You know, this may be just what they need.
Colonel Sherman T. Potter : Major, when people are suffering from overwork, do you usually prescribe arson? Because if you do, I'm gonna take another look under that bandage.
Maj. Sidney Freedman : Look, Colonel, they don't want to burn the whole camp, just carefully selected bits of it. Actually, it's a pretty controlled response to this place. They might actually have found themselves that pressure valve you're looking for.
Colonel Sherman T. Potter : [addressing the crowd] All right, let me have your attention. I am reversing my previous order. You are hereby directed to assemble one regulation, bon-type fire.
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Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan : Colonel Potter, I clearly saw Major Winchester touch his nose.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : You naughty boy.
Maj. Charles Winchester : Colonel, I refuse to spend another seven and a half minutes scrubbing up because of this woman's paranoid hallucinations!
Col. Sherman T. Potter : She's a pretty good observer, Winchester.
Maj. Charles Winchester : I DID NOT TOUCH MY NO-- I did not touch my nose.
Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan : You DID touch your nose! I SAW you touch your nose!
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : It's the battle of the noses, ladies and gentlemen. Who do you think is ahead, Captain Hunnicutt?
Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt : Well, Winchester was ahead for a while, but he blew it.
Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce : Say, that's disgusting.
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Col. Sherman T. Potter : [Col. Potter approaches the pile for the bonfire] May I ask what's going on here?
Sgt. Zelmo Zale : Well, sir, we were burnin' the Chinese uniforms, sir, because they're infested.
Col. Sherman T. Potter : Are you telling me some Chinese soldier came in here wearing an American ladder?
Sgt. Zelmo Zale : Oh, uh, l-I guess that must've just slipped up there by mistake, sir.
Col. Sherman T. Potter : Well, you better slip it back off, Zale, or your service record is liable to get one giant hotfoot.
Sgt. Zelmo Zale : Yes, sir.
Col. Sherman T. Potter : Thank you.