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David Ogden Stiers and William Christopher in M*A*S*H (1972)

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Communication Breakdown

M*A*S*H

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Continuity

First season segments referred to a camp library and camp librarian, both would have come in handy for the reading deprived camp members.

Factual errors

When Father Mulcahey is reading, he's sitting next to the direction/distance sign - many of those numbers are incorrect and the directions are random.

All of the United States locations should be pointing in the same general direction - east. Tokyo should be pointing east by south and Seoul should be pointing south by west.

Boston has no distance and should be 6787 Coney Island says 7033 and should be 6865 San Francisco says 5428 and should be 5567 Tokyo says 259, but it's actually 715. Burbank says 5610 and should be 5937. Decatur says 9412 and should be 6612 Seoul has 2 signs, pointing in different directions, and both say 34 they should be 12.

Anachronisms

Winchester claims that the missing paper is from May 5th. However, the paper that Father Mulcahey is reading contains a headline that is from November 11th 1952.

Crew or equipment visible

When the whole camp surrounds Major Winchester outside the swamp about the newspapers he has, you can clearly see a person in White pants and Blue sweater, standing with folded arms outside of the O.R entrance that clearly doesn't belong there. This person is visible right after everyone runs together and stays standing there for the rest of the scene.

Character error

During the OR scene when Cpl. Klinger is explaining the goings-on of Fearless Fosdick, he is wearing his surgical gown backward. It is open and tied in the front -- a surgical gown is supposed to be open and tied in the back.

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