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
Things Have Changed to another, "Your girl has a face like forty miles of bad road," and immediately recognised the remark's potential as a song title. The line “I’ve been trying to get as far away from myself as I can,” seems to mirror Jackson Browne’s “No matter how fast I run, I can never seem to get away from me,” from “Your Bright Baby Blues,” 1976. On March 25, 2001, at the 73rd Academy Awards, "Things Have Changed" was awarded the Oscar for Best Original Song. At the time, Dylan was touring Australia. He and his band performed the song in a