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Ferret-face - The insulting but quite appropriate
nickname for Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville), a weasel of an army surgeon on
the military comedy M*A*S*H/CBS/1972-83.
Frank was married but that didn't keep him from fooling around with nurse
Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan (Loretta Swit) who was stationed at the
4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
Frank always quoted chapter and verse from the Army manual and questioned
everyone's patriotism when they didn't do things by the book.
When Margaret Houlihan got married later in the series, Frank went bonkers
with jealousy, as well as AWOL. While drunk in Tokyo, he accosted a General and
his wife in a bathhouse and was place on psychiatric observation. Back at the
4077th, Captain Hawkeye Pierce toasted his departure with a simple "Goodbye,
Ferret Face."
Frank was also called the "Lipless Wonder." See also
NICKNAMES - "Hot Lips"
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The many faces of Major
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