M*A*S*H · 1970 — 第 17 / 22 章 · 4'25" · B2

Hawkeye Pitches a Football Team, Explained:tell it to the marines

A day at the unit: a wartime newsreel plays over the loudspeaker, the camp grill is declared off limits, and surgery goes on. Then the general calls about a complaint from Hot Lips, and Hawkeye turns the awkward moment into a pitch for a football team. "Who won?" he asks the general about a battle.

あらすじ

Life at the unit rolls on: a newsreel blares over the PA, the camp grill is put off limits, and the surgeons work through casualties. When General Hammond phones with news that Hot Lips has filed a complaint, Henry brushes it off and Hawkeye uses the call to sell him on a football team.

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注目の表現

caught with pants downtell it to the marinesoff limitsscrewed

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Space 再生 · ← → セリフ移動 · R リピート
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  1. ❝ 独白Friday's movie trailer47 行練習ページ ↗
  2. ❝ 独白the war-movie trailer5 行練習ページ ↗
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このシーンの表現

tell it to the marines

I don't believe that

As the trailer gushes, Hawkeye throws the line back at the hype.

Tell it to the marines; that excuse won't fly here.

このシーンの他の表現

  • caught with pants down

    caught off guard

  • off limits

    not to be entered

  • screwed

    had sex with (vulgar)

  • can't stand

    hate, cannot tolerate

  • for crying out loud

    oh, come on

このシーンのメモ一覧

63 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ

表現 · B2catch someone with their pants down

off guard, exposed

- [ Colonel Shouting ] - Oh, Colonel, we caught you with your pants down.
表現 · A2what about ...

how about, what of

What about the men that are fighting for our country and our land?
文法 · B1that are fighting

relative clause: The that-clause narrows which men are meant: those doing the fighting.

What about the men that are fighting for our country and our land?
表現 · B2tell it to the marines

I don't believe that

As the trailer gushes, Hawkeye throws the line back at the hype.

Technicolor. Tell it to the marines, those lovable lugs with wonderful mugs, who we now love more than ever.
文法 · B2who we now love

non-defining relative clause: The who-clause is extra description set off by commas, not essential to the sentence.

Technicolor. Tell it to the marines, those lovable lugs with wonderful mugs, who we now love more than ever.
スラング · B2mugs

faces — Old slang for faces, used in a teasing tone.

Technicolor. Tell it to the marines, those lovable lugs with wonderful mugs, who we now love more than ever.
表現 · B1be off limits

not to be entered

The announcement puts Arlene Chu's grill off limits because of a possible infection.

Uh, due to a possible camp infection, Arlene Chu's Hollywood Grill is now off limits.
表現 · B1cut down on something

reduce the amount of

Cut down on the bagging, will you?
スラング · B2screwed

had sex with — Vulgar slang; never use it in polite company.

Yeah, I screwed a Kabuki dancer. [ Laughter ] [ Hawkeye ] Okay?
表現 · A2for now

for the moment

It's okay for now. Yeah, but I can't stop this bleeding.
表現 · B1ask around

ask several people

When someone asks about a case, Trapper tells them to go ask around instead.

Ask around.
表現 · A2open up

open the door

Duke? Come on, Duke. Open up.
発音Open up

Link Open and up so it sounds like oh-penup.

Duke? Come on, Duke. Open up.
スラング · B2What the hell

on earth — A casual intensifier with a mild swear; avoid it in formal talk.

What the hell you doing back here?
発音miss us

Run miss us together so it sounds like mi-ssus.

Hi, Hot Lips. You miss us?
表現 · A2hold something

support this for me

Hold this, please. [ Phone Ringing ]
表現 · A2it's all over

it has ended

You were so concerned about the battle for Old Baldy. [ Chuckles ] Well, it's all over.
表現 · A2great news

wonderful news

Oh, that's great news, General. Who won?
表現 · B1a new way to do something

a fresh approach to doing it

It's Uncle Sam's combat engineers charging side by side with Greeks, Anzacs, showing the world a new way to fight as they use bulldozers like bazookas, bayonets like bazookas— bullets.
表現 · B1check something out

look something over

Uh, check this place out. See what the nurses are like, huh?
発音check this

The k of check meets the th of this, so this blurs.

Uh, check this place out. See what the nurses are like, huh?
文法 · B1because Hot Lips Houlihan can't stand her name

adverbial clause: The because-clause gives the reason Henry should not be blamed.

Thank you. Look, Charlie, you can't blame Henry because Hot Lips Houlihan can't stand her name.
スラング · B1for crying out loud

oh, come on — A mild exasperated exclamation; keep it casual.

What the hell. Come on, for crying out loud.
表現 · B1pretty much

more or less

Well, it's pretty much in the planning stages. We've, uh— No, no, we have a— we have a very fine football team.
表現 · B1in the planning stages

still being planned

Pressed about the team, Henry first admits it is barely planned, then claims it is excellent.

Well, it's pretty much in the planning stages. We've, uh— No, no, we have a— we have a very fine football team.

「Hawkeye Pitches a Football Team」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is built from noise and interruption — a movie trailer, a closure notice, a phone ringing during surgery — and it shows how the unit absorbs everything as routine. The one moment with real weight is the general's call: Hot Lips has written a complaint, and the officers decide not to take it seriously. 'Oh, that's great news, General. Who won?' is the tone in miniature, answering bad news with a punchline. Hawkeye's defence is more revealing still: he explains that Henry is not to blame 'because Hot Lips Houlihan can't stand her name,' turning a disciplinary matter into a personality clash. Then, rather than fix the problem, he invents a football team to distract the general. The comedy and the dysfunction are the same behaviour: nobody here confronts anything directly.

Theme

Dark humorThe unit answers a complaint and a battle report with jokes, keeping seriousness at arm's length.
DutySurgery continues through noise and phone calls, while the officers dodge paperwork with a football plan.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A base can ban fun faster than it bans danger.
  • Tell it to the marines is how you refuse to buy a story.
  • A team that exists only in planning can still be bragged about.
  • Phone banter hides the real orders being given.

発音のポイント

  • Open up — Link Open and up so it sounds like oh-penup.
  • miss us — Run miss us together so it sounds like mi-ssus.
  • check this — The k of check meets the th of this, so this blurs.
What about the men that are fighting for our country and our land?

A patriotic line from the newsreel parody, turned absurd by the film it is promoting.

Technicolor. Tell it to the marines, those lovable lugs with wonderful mugs, who we now love more than ever.

The mock trailer piles on clichés and a sarcastic phrase, praising soldiers in a voice nobody trusts.

Oh, that's great news, General. Who won?

A deadpan reply that treats a war as a sports result, deflating the official tone.

She's regular army. She's a fanatic about ritual.

Hawkeye's explanation for the complaint: she is a by-the-book officer who cannot bend, so the unit clashes with her.

I'm here if you need me, Henry.

The chaplain offers quiet support in the middle of a busy operating room, a small human note in the noise.

Thank you. Look, Charlie, you can't blame Henry because Hot Lips Houlihan can't stand her name.

His defence reframes a formal complaint as a personal grudge about a nickname.

She-She won't even let us play football.

The complaint is reduced to a petty grievance, making the whole conflict sound like a playground quarrel.

このシーンについての質問

Why is the camp grill put off limits?

A possible camp infection is the official reason given over the loudspeaker. It is a small, mundane detail dropped between war news and a movie trailer, which is exactly the film's joke about military life.

Why does Hot Lips file a complaint?

According to the general's call, she has written accusations the officers find hard to believe. Hawkeye's answer implies the root cause is her dislike of the nickname "Hot Lips," so the complaint is treated as personal rather than professional.

What does Hawkeye claim about the football team?

He first says it is "pretty much in the planning stages," then immediately contradicts himself and insists they have a very fine team. The slip is the point: he is improvising to distract the general.

Why is Duke holed up in his quarters?

The others spend a scene banging on his door and calling his name, but the film never explains why he will not come out. His refusal becomes one more running gag about life at the unit.

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