MASH

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Season
Episode
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Does the dog die?
190 supporters
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theficus
S6
 E9
Episode is “Images”. A dog is hit by a Jeep off screen and the incident is traumatic for one of the characters.
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Unanswered Triggers
Were animals harmed in the making?
68 supporters
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Is an animal abandoned?
51 supporters
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
45 supporters
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Is an animal sad?
42 supporters
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AtarahDerekh
Not on screen or confirmed outright. But there are some implications that characters have histories of being abused by parents.
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Is there misophonia?
25 supporters
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Yes
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Are there nude scenes?
23 supporters
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Is there on-screen pooping?
20 supporters
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Abandonment
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AtarahDerekh
S8
 E15
A Korean baby whose father was American is left by the Swamp. The doctors quickly confirm that while she was abandoned, she was well cared for beforehand.
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
17 supporters
Yes
0
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4
1
Amloth
no but in one ep a patient falls in love with margaret and is very insistent and follows her around
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Is there domestic violence?
52 supporters
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0
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6
Yes
7
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Anonymous
Hawkeye and Trapper gaslight Frank and Henry constantly in the first season. Frank deserves it though- they have to gaslight him as a nonviolent way to keep him from causing significant harm to others.
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Is a child abused?
69 supporters
Yes
6
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3
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ChWe
A character has an abusive father who she cries she's been disappointing him her whole life. Another character realises he was abused by another child. For both, nothing is actually shown.
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Addiction
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Simpsonian
One of the surgeons turns to amphetamines in one episode.
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Is there addiction?
10 supporters
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9
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Simpsonian
Heavy reliance on alcohol throughout the series, mostly as an escape. One of the main characters turned to drugs at one point, but that addiction only lasted for one episode and was never brought up again.
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13
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theficus
Alcohol abuse is a constant throughout the series
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Animal
Does a horse die?
55 supporters
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8
Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
98 supporters
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9
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Are animals abused?
113 supporters
Yes
2
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5
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theficus
S6
A mouse is dosed with amphetamines in order to win a competition. The mouse lives.
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6
Is there a dead animal?
63 supporters
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7
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1
Are rabbits harmed?
37 supporters
Yes
3
No
1
1
theficus
S7
A rabbit is given a hysterectomy to perform a pregnancy test. Originally the rabbit was to be killed but Radar made sure it was saved.
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Does a cat die?
101 supporters
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1
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9
Does a pet die?
85 supporters
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2
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1
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Aniprac
S6
 E9
A dog that has been taken in by members of the camp is killed in a jeep accident.
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Does a dragon die?
16 supporters
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7
Are there spiders?
26 supporters
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5
Are there snakes?
12 supporters
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6
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3
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Darkneko06
A snake is put in someone bed as a joke twice. No one is harmed.
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Are there bugs?
17 supporters
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2
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4
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Darkneko06
References to bedbugs in thier bunks. References to cockaroach racing. No actual bugs appear on screen.
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
17 supporters
Yes
3
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0
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theficus
There are several instances of people being drugged for comedic effect.
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Is there pedophilia?
64 supporters
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3
Is rape mentioned?
43 supporters
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3
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theficus
In a couple of episodes mention is made of female POWs being raped.
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Is someone restrained?
13 supporters
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4
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1
Yes
8
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Anonymous
Attempted assault on Margaret a few times
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AtarahDerekh
A visiting female officer harasses a doctor, then accuses him of attempted rape when he doesn't reciprocate. Characters joke about him deserving this because of how disproportionate his own retributions toward his bunkmates are. Hawkeye complains at one point that he's never been violated at the local watering hole and says, "I don't know why I keep coming back."
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Bodily Harm
Yes
9
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1
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Aniprac
People are seen shaving several times throughout the series
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
16 supporters
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Yes
8
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0
Is there decapitation?
15 supporters
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0
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3
Is there cannibalism?
24 supporters
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0
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7
Is someone crushed to death?
17 supporters
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3
Yes
2
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Darkneko06
Yes, but only kinda. A character threatens to by pouring "petrol" over himself and threatening to light himself on fire. Its a ploy to get discharged from the army. We find out that the "petrol" is actually water. This plan is foiled when they put real petrol in the canister. No one is actually hurt.
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Is someone buried alive?
15 supporters
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9
Is there body horror?
28 supporters
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3
Is there amputation?
14 supporters
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Darkneko06
No, but one character pretends that he was injured by a jeep running over his head as a ploy to get out of the army. Its obvious that this didn't happen. You see a dented helmet.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
12 supporters
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3
Is there a hanging?
24 supporters
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8
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AtarahDerekh
In a season 9 episode, a main character gets a tooth knocked out by another character. In the next season, that same character has an abscessed tooth he's reluctant to treat.
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Does someone become unconscious?
3 supporters
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3
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0
Does someone break a bone?
15 supporters
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9
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AtarahDerekh
Patients occasionally go into convulsions. These are immediately treated as an emergency medical situation.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
47 supporters
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6
Is there finger/toe mutilation?
29 supporters
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4
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2
Is someone tortured?
57 supporters
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7
1
Darkneko06
References to torture, but no actual torture. The characters make reference to what torture might happen if they were captured by the enemy.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
4 supporters
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4
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theficus
Only Hawkeye’s imaginary friend.
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AtarahDerekh
The series' main protagonist is temporarily blinded by a malfunctioning stove. He meets a patient who has permanently lost his vision due to a battlefield injury.
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Is someone stabbed?
6 supporters
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3
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Yes
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theficus
It’s based on a Korean War field hospital, so there are scenes with blood and surgery. It’s never graphic, though. There are a couple instances of arterial spray.
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
12 supporters
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1
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3
Does a kid die?
28 supporters
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15
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0
1
supernintendo64
The final episode has the main character suppressing a traumatic memory of a Korean mother smothering her baby to death because it wouldn't stop crying and possibly give their position away to enemy fire.
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Is a minor sexualized?
61 supporters
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Death
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AtarahDerekh
Mulcahy tries in the finale, but all he loses is his hearing.
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4
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0
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keste24
S3
 E24
Colonel Henry Blake dies when his plane home is shot down (not shown, but is said when Radar reads a report of the accident to the OR) in the episode Abyssinia, Henry.
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Does a non-human character die?
15 supporters
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3
Does someone die?
10 supporters
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4
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theficus
It’s during a war, so there are deaths.
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
21 supporters
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5
Drugs/Alcohol
Yes
1
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3
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keste24
There is an episode where a patient attempts to overdose
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Family
Yes
6
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1
1
ChWe
a character is forced at gunpoint to try and save another character's friend, and makes references to being killed or tortured if he doesn't succeed
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Does a parent die?
8 supporters
Yes
9
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1
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Aniprac
It is mentioned that Hawkeye’s mother and Radar’s father passed away when both were young children, and Korean orphans are featured in the show frequently. There is death of a parental figure in “Abyssinia, Henry” and “Goodbye Radar”
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Does someone cheat?
12 supporters
Yes
12
No
0
0
Tchotchke
Cheating on women/wives is constant throughout the show.
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0
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5
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Amloth
Radars teddy bear is taken fron him a couple times as a joke—he gets it back
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3
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0
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AtarahDerekh
S8
 E1
The catalyst for the plot of "Goodbye, Radar" is Radar's Uncle Ed dying suddenly, leaving Radar's elderly mother alone.
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Fear
Are there jumpscares?
30 supporters
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1
No
8
Yes
1
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6
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Amloth
early on there is an ep where a korean man says they have to banish a bad spirit but no one is possessed per se
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Are there ghosts?
5 supporters
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14
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0
2
allegiantmockingjay.hab
There is an episode where the spirit of a dead soldier wanders around the camp before going to, what is suggested to be heaven.
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Are there clowns?
9 supporters
Yes
7
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0
1
Amloth
in one episode one of the characters dresses up as a clown
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Are there natural bodies of water?
0 supporters
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3
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0
Are there razors?
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6 supporters
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3
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0
Yes
14
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Amloth
half the show is in the shower so
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Gross
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Aniprac
S5
 E14
The primary character has a nightmare and wets his cot. It is treated seriously and he is not mocked by his other male bunkmates. Nothing is shown.
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Does someone vomit?
58 supporters
Yes
8
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2
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Darkneko06
Nothing graphic but you see the character from behind as he vomits into the grass. Only sounds, but no visuals.
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Is someone eaten?
18 supporters
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0
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4
Does someone spit?
9 supporters
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Yes
5
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2
Is there audio gore?
30 supporters
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Yes
6
No
0
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
4 supporters
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Yes
0
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4
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
14 supporters
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0
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8
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Myles
Not copaganda, but the status of military propaganda is arguable. Over the course of the series, the US Military is both mocked and praised.
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LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
25 supporters
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0
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3
Yes
1
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3
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theficus
Kinda. A character who dresses in women’s clothes in an attempt to get a section 8 discharge is often called a transvestite, but the character is not transgender.

Perhaps the most overt instance is in season 7. A Swedish doctor mentions gender affirming surgery to Klinger, and he responds that you’d have to be crazy to do that.
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Is there bisexual cheating?
15 supporters
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1
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3
Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
15 supporters
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0
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7
Are needles/syringes used?
21 supporters
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Yes
15
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0
Is there a mental institution scene?
16 supporters
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15
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0
Yes
16
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0
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theficus
The “H” in the name is for “hospital”.
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8
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0
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AtarahDerekh
S9
 E18
Patrick Swayze guest stars as a patient who is diagnosed with leukemia. This may count as Harsher in Hindsight, as Swayze did die of pancreatic cancer a few decades later.
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Mental Health
Yes
7
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0
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AtarahDerekh
PTSD is addressed in the context of 1950s psychiatry multiple times, but is most prominent in the finale when the main protagonist suffers a breakdown due to it.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
12 supporters
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3
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0
Yes
3
No
3
0
AtarahDerekh
A Chinese-American soldier self-mutilates to deal with the trauma of killing Chinese people.
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AtarahDerekh
Frank is mentally ill and can be violent at times, though usually in a relatively harmless slapstick manner. But he gets dangerously violent off screen in the opener for season 6 and is granted a section 8 discharge. In another episode, Klinger has to deal with a bunkmate who seems to experience hallucinations. The guy even starts shooting at them.
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5
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0
Yes
4
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4
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AtarahDerekh
Patients who suffer amputations often struggle to adapt to their changed bodies.
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Yes
8
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0
Are there anxiety attacks?
19 supporters
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Yes
11
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0
Yes
13
No
0
0
AtarahDerekh
S7
 E20
An entire episode showcases Hawkeye's claustrophobia under specific circumstances, such as natural caves.
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Darkneko06
In one episode, there is a patient who has been refusing to eat since his friends were killed. The subject is treated seriously, and a psychologist trys to help.
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0
No
8
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AtarahDerekh
There is an episode that features a soldier who is on the spectrum and sticks close to his injured caregiver. He is zealously protected by his companions. It could be argued that the army is exploiting him by not making him 4F, but he is never abused outright.
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Amloth
not on screen but it is mentioned in “Dear Sigmund” that one of Sidney’s patients died this way. There are a couple episodes where patients express ideation
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Noxious
Yes
3
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0
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keste24
Instances of gunfire and shelling throughout the show
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Does a baby cry?
12 supporters
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Yes
7
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0
Is there shakey cam?
23 supporters
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Yes
7
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0
0
Aniprac
Occasionally lights flash during shelling scenes, it is kept to a minimum though
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
5 supporters
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Yes
1
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3
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Is there childbirth?
13 supporters
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Yes
9
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0
Are there abortions?
12 supporters
Yes
2
No
6
1
Darkneko06
Abortion is mentioned as a serious option when a female character thinks she may be pregnant. The character wants an army career over having a child (being preganant means instant discharge from the army). The character ends up not pregnant. The character is treated seriously and isn't mocked.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
10 supporters
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7
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0
Does someone miscarry?
13 supporters
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0
No
9
Yes
1
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4
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AtarahDerekh
A pregnant woman is injured in one episode and has to undergo an emergency cesarean. Fortunately, she was already full term, and both mother and baby end up being perfectly fine.
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
28 supporters
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Yes
8
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0
0
AtarahDerekh
Only when invoked by Klinger.
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Does the black guy die first?
14 supporters
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0
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8
Are there homophobic slurs?
30 supporters
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4
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0
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AtarahDerekh
Frank is occasionally ignorantly insensitive toward Sidney Freedman, the on-call psychiatrist who is ambiguously Jewish, but at no point are Jews actively stereotyped, insulted or treated as less than human.
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supernintendo64
A running gag involves one male character wearing dresses around the base in an attempt to get discharged and sent home. However this never works, and in one instance he was saluted by a general he intended to offend by dressing up as Lady Liberty.

Worth noting that appearances of this character is accompanied by a laugh track but the in-show characters don't get offended or laugh at his appearance (except for one who is portrayed as an unlikable bigot). The laugh track can be turned off in the DVD version of the show.
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Is there hate speech?
20 supporters
Yes
11
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0
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supernintendo64
The antagonist of the first five seasons, Frank, is portrayed as a bigot and tries to get a gay soldier discharged from the army in one episode. This is painted in a bad light. Hawkeye ultimately thwarts Frank's plan by blackmailing him.
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0
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8
0
Tommy Gillis from Sometimes You Hear The Bullet is heavily implied to be queer (he kisses a man on the mouth on screen, but it could be argued to be a joke I guess) and he dies in the same episode.
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Yes
8
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0
Are there n-words?
18 supporters
Yes
1
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8
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Amloth
n*gro is used a handful of times
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Is there aphobia?
12 supporters
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1
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2
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AtarahDerekh
S8
 E7
Acephobia. Aphobia is a LACK of fear. Anyway, Father Mulcahy all but states outright in more than one episode that he is asexual. This does not stop one nurse in particular for coming onto him, then she blames him for not reciprocating. The camp CO scolds him instead of hearing his side.
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Relationships
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2
No
2
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keste24
There is an episode where Henry falls in love with a much younger girl
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Religious
Yes
3
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0
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Aniprac
One of the characters is a chaplain, and he often discusses religion (specifically Catholicism)
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
35 supporters
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13
No
1
0
keste24
The women, especially in earlier seasons are objectified consistently
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Is there bestiality?
46 supporters
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0
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3
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theficus
It’s implied that Radar loses his virginity.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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51 supporters
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0
No
7
Sexism
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Aniprac
Male characters cry on a number of occasions, and it is always treated with respect.
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
5 supporters
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1
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2
Does someone have a chronic illness?
7 supporters
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3
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1
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
15 supporters
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0
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3
Is someone terminally ill?
10 supporters
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4
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0
Social
Yes
4
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0
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AtarahDerekh
Refugees constantly pass through the camp.
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
21 supporters
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3
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
2 supporters
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2
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7
Yes
6
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1
Simpsonian
More of a bittersweet ending. The war ended and everyone finally got to go home, but not without being irrevocably changed and affected by their experiences.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
9 supporters
Yes
10
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1
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AtarahDerekh
An ambulance crashes and kills the driver.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
8 supporters
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5
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0
Does a plane crash?
5 supporters
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12
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2
Simpsonian
“I have a message… Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake’s plane… was shot down over the Sea of Japan… It spun in… There were no survivors.”

Truly one of the show’s most memorable and most heartbreaking moments.
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4
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Darkneko06
In one episode there is a korean (Whiplash?) who throws himself in front of jeeps for the blackmail money. This happens twice. Whiplash acts badly injured but isn't really. The medical unit takes care of him anyway.
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
2 supporters
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0
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9
Is there blood/gore?
31 supporters
Yes
15
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0
1
supernintendo64
The doctors are regularly seen operating on bloody soldiers.
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Does someone drown?
10 supporters
Yes
6
No
0
1
Amloth
not to death but a character almost drowned as a child
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Is there gun violence?
12 supporters
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11
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0