The Longjohn Flap autobiography, "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I've Learned", Alan Alda says that for this episode, he borrowed the structure from "La Ronde". "In my version, the object that's passed from couple to couple is a pair of long johns during a cold spell in the Korean winter." The Longjohn Flap "The Longjohn Flap" was episode #19 of the first season of the TV series "M*A*S*H". It originally aired on February 18, 1973 and was the first episode of "M*A*S*H" to be written by series star Alan Alda. In the middle of a cold snap, Hawkeye receives a
Somewhere I Have Never Traveled carefully you plan and dream, if you are careless with your feelings, life can be unbearably painful. Ah-gui witnesses Ah-hsian's boyfriend with another, the fight that follows, and Ah-hsian apparently crying for hours in the church confessional. In almost perfect English, a soliloquy by Ah-hsian of the passionate love sonnet "Somewhere I have Never Traveled" by E. E. Cummings portends a sad ending. Ah-qui wakes one night to someone banging on the door, yelling "Come quick, Ah-hsian has killed himself." After racing to the hospital on her bike Ah-gui tells her comatose cousin how disappointed she is; how chicken his