Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You: Inverted.Hawkeye: You said you were giving an interview on the importance of clean underwear. Dreadful Musician: Radar blowing the bugle when calling for assembly to farewell Colonel Blake.Downer Ending: Henry dies on the way home after being discharged.It's implied that the stroke had been fatal, leading to a possible Foreshadowing. Dark and Troubled Past: Radar's father was sixty three years old when Radar was born, and the first time the father and son played peekaboo together, his father had a stroke.Bus Crash: One of the most infamous in television history.Once dressed in his suit, Henry is also wearing the same type of black and white wingtip shoes that Radar was selling back in " The Trial of Henry Blake".The tune Father Mulcahy hums? Is it O Shepherd, Guide Thy Flock or On, Wisconsin?.When they get the bad news at the conclusion, they are all shocked and in tears. At the beginning, all of the hospital staff join in on congratulating Henry for going home. Book Ends: The episode begins and ends in the OR.Henry: You shut up, Frank! Everybody in this nuthouse, shut up. Everyone bursts out with laughter, although that might be because they're drunk. Actually Pretty Funny: At Henry's farewell dinner, Trapper makes a lame pun after Henry asks Hawkeye what he had just eaten.Colonel Henry Blake's departure are as follows: and reflect on the fate of a jolly gent who was cut down in the prime of life all too soon.Īttention, all personnel! The following tropes regarding Lt. speaker: "MASH 4077 bids Henry Blake a reluctant and affectionate farewell." We are shown a slow musical and sombre sequence of the late Henry Blake's greatest moments. The episode closes with an announcement from the P.A. And in seeing how broken up his MASH family is, we are given perhaps a glimpse of the pain doomed to befall Henry's soon-to-be bereaved family back in Bloomington, Illinois. Frank stands immobile with scalpel in hand, Margaret begins to cry, Father Mulcahy clutches his chest, Klinger and Trapper are beside themselves, and Hawkeye gives them all the most bitter and soul-crushed stare in the world. This snaps a few people out of the shockwave that hit them, but Henry's closest friends remain frozen in place, permanently heartbroken. Somebody is so thunderstruck that they drop a piece of surgical equipment and it clatters to the floor. " Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake's plane. and begins to read it with shaky breath and a quavering tone of voice, halfway in tears. Instead, he grimly states, "I have a message." Radar unfurls a letter. Trapper chides him to put a mask on, while Hawkeye quips, "If that's my discharge, give it to me straight I can take it."īut Radar doesn't respond. Radar quietly and regretfully walks into the OR during surgery, visibly shaken and forlorn. Everyone is thrilled with the news, although Frank and Margaret are more excited because, with Henry gone, Frank will become the acting Commanding Officer of the 4077. The episode starts out normally enough in the OR – singing, jokes, etc. Probably the biggest Wham Episode and Tear Jerker of the entire series, "Abyssinia, Henry" is the final episode for two of the show's primary characters, and with an ending that was a shock to even the actors themselves, officially moves M*A*S*H firmly from the Sitcom category into a Dramedy show. "You behave yourself, or I'm gonna come back here and
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