MASH

Crapper John

[Nitro]

TVland begins the M*A*S*H series

[Nitro]

or could that be Sidney?

Notice Sidney will not be the first name!!

[Rocko]

"I've eaten a river of liver and an ocean of fish!"

[4yearlurker]

“They sure invited a lot of empty chairs...”

[dfwgator]

There was a clock placed on-screen to show the “real time” feeling of the epi. Another great epi.

Another one I remember was "Point of View" where the entire episode was from the view of a patient.

[Nitro]

It that Bach?

[dfwgator]

I’m partial to the fugue.

[Grizzled Bear]

Hawkeye didn’t develop much ... but he did have good lines!

Towards the end of the series, when Alan Alda wrote and directed the show, he gave his own character loooooong, draaaaawn out preach speeches.

That's how MASH jumped the shark.

[Nitro]

of all add ons I hate BJ

[meowmeow]

My kids finally got to go to Tony Packo’s two weekends ago.

cool - glad it's still there! I used to date a guy from Toledo and when my folks went out there to meet his family, we went to Tony Packo's (we were all crazy MASH fans).

Ended up not marrying him, but glad we got the Tony Pack experience!

[netmilsmom]

They see the sign when I drive home from Cleveland (my home)
They wanted to go there since seeing it on “Unwrapped”

[Tax-chick]

I see. Guess I haven’t seen all the reruns. I was in my last years of high school then, and getting distracted :-).

I really like the psychiatrist, Sidney Friedman.

[dfwgator]

I really like the psychiatrist, Sidney Friedman.

"Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice."

[Nitro]

Turns out you are xorrect.

I was accurate with the pilot episope.

you have the high ground, please drop a few mortarsa

shoot long and we will advance!!!

[Tax-chick]

He was a cutie. I think I saw the actor years later in a “Law and Order” episode.

[meowmeow]

Another one I remember was "Point of View" where the entire episode was from the view of a patient.

There was one - maybe the same - where the POV was the patient and the patient was dead. It was very well done. I always enjoyed the show because it could be side splitting hilarious or stomach churning sober but it was never "moonbat." War is hell, although sometimes a necessary hell.

[Nitro]

I am also watctching Turner Classic Movies.

[Publius]

David Ogden Stiers based Winchester on William Buckley. You can hear the Buckley cadences in Stiers’ speech.

[Tolkien]

They never put down the soldiers (in mass) but they most definitly put down individual soldiers after they painted them as stupid or corrupt.

They put down the US Army for being in Korea in the 1st place.

[xmission]

That show was brought back about the time the anti Iraq war crap started. It is also the very same message that Ayres and his gang would have us believe.

We should be sickened by it.

[Othniel]

Yeah, Mauldin did this one cartoon that showed Willie & Joe in a beat-up, muddy jeep. They, too,were beat up and muddy. They were parked in front of a big sign that read,"You are now entering the 3rd Army!" and proceeded to list a series of fines: no shave, windshield down, muddy boots, etc. The sign ended with "By Order: Old Blood 'n'Guts." Willie's line: "Better radio the old man and tell him we'll be late on account of a 500 mile detour." Patton wanted to kill Mauldin for that.

Mauldin's book The Brass Ring has an account of his meeting with Patton. Pretty interesting stuff.

BTW, I never liked Alda's ongoing Groucho impersonation. The way he & BJ made fun of small town types, and their morals, really stuck in my craw.