Just forget it! To hell with me, huh? To hell with you! How do you like that?!" and then threatened to punch Hawkeye if he ever said anything bad about Iowa again. When Hawkeye returned to apologize, Radar's response was, much to the horror of the nurses, "Oh yeah? Well you can forget it. ![]() and while we're at it, the hell with you! Why don't you grow up. When Radar questioned Hawkeye about this, Hawkeye blew up: "To hell with your Iowa naïveté. the next day to throw up (which he'd never had to do before). Overwhelmed by shock and guilt, Hawkeye spent a night binge drinking, then had to leave the O.R. Radar idolized Hawkeye Pierce, but the two had a falling out after Radar was injured during a trip to Seoul, after Hawkeye convinced him to go there to lose his virginity. Throughout the rest of the series, the horse is referred to by name, Sophie, a mare. Col Potter refers to the horse as a male during this episode. Potter's anniversary, Radar gave him a horse that he, Pierce and B.J. Radar was very fond of animals and raised several during his duty at M*A*S*H. Potter, he eventually became very close to Potter as well. While Radar needed some time to adjust to the new Col. Throughout much of the series he was more or less the glue that held the 4077th together, keeping the unit running like a well oiled machine.īlake and Radar grew very close, and it was Radar who tearfully announced Blake's death over the Sea of Japan. Blake's occasional silliness, with the near-magical abilities to get whatever the unit needed. Eventually, the young man became an excellent clerk, often balancing out Lt. O'Reilly had a rough start as clerk at the 4077th, where it seemed he couldn't do anything right. He was a virgin and very naive around matters of love, making him an occasional romantic target of the camp's nurses.Ĭpl. He related well to children and sometimes spent time with the Korean orphans in the area. As a symbol of how young this man was when he got to Korea, he slept with a teddy bear. ![]() Radar was often portrayed as a friendly but very young man from the Midwest. His favorite beverage was a grape Nehi (non-alcoholic). This character was apparently not wholly to the writers' liking and he became a naïve and trusting farm boy, a vegetarian, and cigars and strong liquor made him ill or dizzy. Blake's brandy and smoking his cigars when the colonel was off-duty. He was known for his tremendous appetite for heaping portions of meat. On television, Radar's character started off worldly and sneaky, a clerk who carried with him at all times a pocketful of passes for any potential scam that might arise. Radar's mother Edna lived on the family farm and his Uncle Ed helped out on the farm and served as his father figure.Īccording to the beginning of the novel, Radar joined the Army in hopes of becoming successful in the Signal Corps, but was assigned to be an orderly in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M*A*S*H) instead. His father, who had been 63 when Radar was born, was deceased. ![]() ![]() It was these abilities which earned him the nickname "Radar." He also had super-human hearing, able to hear incoming helicopters before anyone else. He was endowed with extra-sensory perception, appearing at his commander’s side before being called and finishing his sentences. The novel establishes that Radar was from Ottumwa, Iowa, and literally dreamed of joining the army right after high school.
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