Sticky Wicket

"Sticky Wicket" was episode twenty-one of the first season of the TV series M*A*S*H. It originally aired on March 4, 1973. The episode opens in surgery. Hawkeye and Houlihan operate on a patient and the former insults Frank. However, Hawkeye's patient fails to improve after surgery. Hawkeye becomes overly concerned with the case, to the point of punching Frank over comments at lunch, falling asleep in Post-Op, snapping at Trapper for playing poke... more

"Sticky Wicket" was episode twenty-one of the first season of the TV series M*A*S*H. It originally aired on March 4, 1973. The episode opens in surgery. Hawkeye and Houlihan operate on a patient and the former insults Frank. However, Hawkeye's patient fails to improve after surgery. Hawkeye becomes overly concerned with the case, to the point of punching Frank over comments at lunch, falling asleep in Post-Op, snapping at Trapper for playing poker too loudly, and moving out of the Swamp to the supply tent. While Hawkeye retreats to the Supply Tent to reflect on the case, he is interrupted by his date (whom he turns away), Trapper (whom he turns away as well), two other soldiers, and Henry. Henry implies that Hawkeye is concerned more about his ego than about his patient. Hawkeye returns with a glib remark about Henry's intelligence, which ultimately insults Henry and allows Hawkeye some peace and quiet. While pondering the case outside the Supply Tent, Hawkeye encounters Major... less