Talk:Hawkeye Pierce

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Is this person related in any way to Benjamin Franklin??

This 'person' is a fictional character, whose parents decided to name him after both Benjamin Franklin and Franklin Pierce -- MrItty 16:34, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

where does it say that his parents decided to name him after those two? Batman2005 04:10, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I seem to recall it being mentioned in one of the episodes. Dismas|^(talk) 01:19, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

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Interestingly, Hawkeye had been married in the book and the film; at the beginning of the series, he was married as well, but references to his marriage were eventually dropped and it was made clear that he was single.

This is not true, it was never stated in the television series he was married. In fact, in "The Army-Nacy Game," one of the earlist episodes, it was specifically stated he was not married and, though in the episode "Ceasefire" he tells several nurses he's married beileving the war is over, at the end of that episode he says that he gave up three nurses for "an imaginery wife and family." Still, he said he was engaged in the pilot episode.

Contents 1 World War II 2 Hawkeye ww2 3 Was Hawkeye Pierce married ? 4 City and college 5 Father reading novel 6 Suspension of belief

[edit] World War II

He aludes to the fact he may have been in World War II on several occassions but it is never confirmed? Was he. This goes for all chracters except Potter.

[edit] Hawkeye ww2

He makes absolutely no allusions to being in WWII. What show have you been watching?

I can remember two specific times, First when Frank Burns says that his stock has gone up due to the war and that stocks always go up due to wars, he says "well I have been in two wars, where my Waffen SS Stocks?"

And secondly when Radar shows him his WWII comics, and he remebers singing "Der Furhers face", in his barracks.

[edit] Was Hawkeye Pierce married ?

In the Movie and two times in the TV Show Peirce said he was ?--Brown Shoes22 15:01, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

In one of the TV episode 4/23 HAwkeye all but admits to having had a defacto common law relationship before the Korean War with a new nurse assigned to MASH

[edit] City and college

Per the script, which Donald Southerland essentially says: "HAWKEYE: We didn't have a chance, little Androscoggin College against the Big Green, but there was this blizzard and we held then nothing nothing till the last twenty seconds. Then this great passer of theirs let one go, snow and all..." Androscoggin is a fictional college, probably near the Androscoggin River in Maine, near Larder's Alma Mater.

His hometown, Crabapple Cove, Maine, is also fictional.

A previous poster said that Hawkeye and Trapper met during their residency in Boston, but the movie script/dialogue indicate an interception in the snow. --Robertkeller 15:38, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Father reading novel

The novel established that Pierce’s nickname of “Hawkeye” was given to him by his father. It comes from the novel The Last of the Mohicans, which Pierce initially claimed was the only book his father ever read to him. In the television series, it is the only book his father ever read to him.

Er... what? Why the italics? Can someone who knows the show clarify this a bit? Rissa 10:14, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Gladly. In the books, Hawkeye's father (Big Benjy Pierce) is said to have read only one book in his whole life. In the series it was implied that he had read more but that Last of the Mohicans was the only book he read to young Banjamin Franklin Pierce. Sound right? --Harlsbottom 12:31, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Uhm, I have to say that if his father only read one book wouldnt it be his favourite then? I mean this is comedy right? --Mihsfbstadium 12:17, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suspension of belief

• In one of the later seasons epsiodes {7/2} Hawkeye has a near nervous breakdown and storms into the PEace Talks to get them going again. In real life both Hawkeye and Potter would have been Court-martialed--Hawkeye would have gotten a Section 8 discharge and Potter would have lost his rank as Colonel and would have been lucky to have gone home a Captain!