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I'm very excited. Very excited.

I'm watching an episode of M*A*S*H in which Hawkeye and Beej are sitting around the Swamp trying to amuse themselves. Beej is reclining on his bunk as Hawk sits concocting a fantasy involving Beej and Lana Turner. As he is talking, Hawkeye is knitting.

I am very excited to see one of my favourite male tv characters knitting on tv.

As if this weren't enough, Hawkeye then puts aside his knitting and picks up a Times crossword puzzle. He and BJ then proceed to become obsessed with finishing the puzzle, having Father Mulcahy read the clues aloud during surgery, and finally getting stuck on the last clue: "Five-letter Yiddish word meaning bedbug, beginning with p."

They spend the rest of the episode trying to find the answer to this clue, which I, of course, knew immediately, being a big enough fan of Dave Foley's character work to have had my mother tell me, numerous times, the humour behind the name Bruno "Puntz" Jones.

I think this is my favourite episode.

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