TV Quote of the Day (‘M*A*S*H,’ With Radar Finding It Tough to Get to the Point)

Radar O’Reilly (played by Gary Burghoff): “Sir, I have something to report that I wish I could do almost anything else instead of, but which I guess I got no choice.”

Hawkeye Pierce (played by Alan Alda): “Radar, if you bring that sentence in for a fitting I can have it shortened by Wednesday.”—M*A*S*H, Season 4, Episode 14, “The Gun,” original air date Dec. 2, 1975, teleplay by Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds, directed by Burt Metcalfe