M*A*S*H

Dear Comrade - S7-E11

Continuity mistake: When Potter is on the phone, he turns to hush Hawkeye and BJ. As he does so, he's holding the receiver with his left hand, and covering the mouthpiece with his right. He then puts his left hand down on the arm of the chair. When the camera cuts in for a close up, his left hand is on the phone again.

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Lil - S7-E3

Continuity mistake: Margaret comes in to the Officer's Club, and tells Klinger that the drinks are on her. He puts down two glasses, and starts to pour. When the camera cuts to a close up, he's just starting to pour into the same glass again.

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Lil - S7-E3

Other mistake: Radar is at his desk stamping in files. As he talks to Hawkeye, he stamps one file, checks another, and when he goes to stamp the next one, he inks the imprint side, turns it over to the label side, stamps it on the file and puts it down.

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Dear Sis - S7-E14

Continuity mistake: While Igor is serving dinner, his cap peak goes from being up in the front shot to down in the side shot, while he is talking to Col. Potter.

Sometimes You Hear the Bullet - S1-E17

Henry Blake: All I know is what they taught me at command school. There are certain rules about a war, and rule number one is that young men die. And rule number two is that doctors can't change rule number one.

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Trivia: Gary Burghoff's left hand was slightly deformed, and he often hid it behind his clipboard during filming.

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Ceasefire - S1-E23

Question: General Clayton says that he confirmed the news of a ceasefire with "CINCOMPAC" (according to the subtitles). What the heck is CINCOMPAC?

Answer: It is actually Cencompac for Central Command of the Pacific. It is like the headquarters for all military activity in the Pacific Region (Japan, Korea, Okinawa, etc. The newer version of that is United States Pacific Command (USPACOM).

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And the abbreviations were used mainly by the Navy. Especially CENCOMPAC.

Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Indo-Pacific_Command.

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