- Cpl. Maxwell Klinger: [Charles is painting a caution sign] How come you got the easy job and we had to bust our buns?
- Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III: Very well. Klinger, how do you spell 'caution'?
- Cpl. Maxwell Klinger: C-A-W...
- Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III: I rest my case.
- Col. Sherman Potter: [Dedicating the new cement floor in O.R] Special thanks to Captains Pierce and Hunnicut for going over my head right to Corporal Klinger. Next, to Major Winchester.
- Cpl. Maxwell Klinger: [Everybody groans] Why Major Winchester?
- Margaret: He didn't do a thing. He didn't even lift a shovel!
- Col. Sherman Potter: Pipe down, pipe down. This is an operating room. As I was saying, here's to Major Winchester for showing that a man can be neat, clean, and bathed, and still end up smelling bad.
- Cpl. Maxwell Klinger: [Charles groans] Now that's more like it.
- Capt. B.J. Hunnicut: What do we got to lose?
- Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III: For one thing, me. These hands work on nothing lower than an appendectomy.
- Capt. B.J. Hunnicut: Well, our loss is our gain.
- Hawkeye: Okay, Klinger, you're on. But you better know what you're doing.
- Cpl. Maxwell Klinger: Trust me. I know cement and it's not that hard.
- Cpl. Maxwell Klinger: [the officers are making a concrete floor] Let's start moving! Let's start moving! This is your foreman.
- Hawkeye: Wait a minute, wait a minute, who made you the foreman?
- Cpl. Maxwell Klinger: Well, I thought the selection was automatic, considering my background.
- Hawkeye: Well you can take your background and go sit in the background.
- Cpl. Maxwell Klinger: Have it your way, BOSS. But one quick question before I go: what's the formula for mixing concrete?
- Hawkeye: Why don't you handle this one, Beej?
- Capt. B.J. Hunnicut: Don't look at me, talk to the foreman.
- Capt. B.J. Hunnicut: [after Charles walks right onto their newly poured concrete floor] That does it, Charles. I'm throwing in the trowel.