The Moose (M*A*S*H)
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| M*A*S*H episode | |
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| “The Moose” | |
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| Episode no. | Season – Episode – |
| Guest star(s) | Paul Jenkins Virginia Ann Lee |
| Writer(s) | Laurence Marks |
| Director | Hy Averback |
| Production no. | J305 |
| Original airdate | October 15, 1972 |
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"The Moose" is an episode from the television series M*A*S*H. It was the fifth episode broadcast and aired on October 15, 1972, and repeated May 27, 1973. It was written by Laurence Marks and directed by Hy Averback.
Guest cast is Paul Jenkins as Sergeant Baker, Virginia Ann Lee as Young-Hi, Timothy Brown as Spearchucker Jones, Craig Jue as Benny , Barbara Brownell as Lt. Jones, Patrcik Adiarte as Ho-Jon.
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[edit] Overview
Sergeant Baker stops by the 4077th with his "moose"; a teenaged Korean girl named Young Hi whom he "bought." Obsessed with freeing the girl, Hawkeye wins her from Baker in a card game, but now Young Hi thinks she belongs to Hawkeye.
[edit] Detailed story
Sergeant Baker has stopped by the 4077th with his "moose"; a Korean girl named Young-Hi, whom he "bought." Hawkeye Pierce is outraged and attempts to try to convince Baker to let the girl go free. Eventually, he plays poker with Baker (and cheats with a little help from Radar.)
Baker agrees to trade Young-Hi for the debt he runs up. However, he explained to Young-Hi that she belonged to Hawkeye, rather than that she was free (as was Pierce's intent.) Pierce first attempts to get rid of Young-Hi by sending her on a truck to Seoul, but she got off when the truck stopped for gas and hitchhiked back.
Eventually Pierce and McIntyre decide to "demoosify" Young-Hi and teach her how to be a normal person. Eventually, they manage to reach the head of Young-Hi's family, but discover the man of the family is Young-Hi's little brother Benny and that he immediately plans to sell her again. Initially, Young-Hi agrees with Benny out of loyalty to her family but then returns, having told Benny to "shove off".
In the end, Young-Hi is enrolled in convent school in Seoul. In the last scene of the episode, Pierce, McIntyre and Spearchucker Jones receive a letter from her.
[edit] M*A*S*Hisms
- When Benny shows up and says, "You bought Young Hi from Baker. Now you want to dump her. What's the beef? She goofing off?," to which Pierce replies, "The 'Dead End Kids' in Korea."
- The "Dead End Kids" were six young actors from New York, New York that starred in the play and the movie "Dead End".
[edit] Notes
- Though Larry Linville and Loretta Swit are listed in the opening titles, neither Frank Burns nor Major Houlihan appear in the episode.
- Another "moose" was seen in the fourth-season episode "Of Moose and Men."
| Preceded by: "Chief Surgeon Who?" |
M*A*S*H episodes | Followed by: "Yankee Doodle Doctor" |
| M*A*S*H | |
|---|---|
| Film: | MASH |
| TV series: | M*A*S*H | Trapper John, M.D. | AfterMASH | W*A*L*T*E*R |
| Characters: |
Hawkeye Pierce | Trapper John McIntyre | Duke Forrest | B.J. Hunnicutt | Henry Blake | Sherman T. Potter | Frank Burns | Margaret Houlihan | Charles Winchester | Radar O'Reilly | Father Mulcahy | Maxwell Klinger | Igor Straminsky | Luther Rizzo | Sidney Freedman | Col. Flagg | Spearchucker Jones | Ugly John | Walter Koskiusko Waldowski | Ho-Jon | Nurse Bigelow | Lieutenant Dish | Donald Penobscot |
| Episodes: | Season 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| Books: | M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors | M*A*S*H Goes to Maine |
| Related material: | Guest stars | Differences between book, film and TV versions of M*A*S*H | Suicide Is Painless |
