MASH was a bunch of 60's Anti-War/Viet Nam BS! IT SUCKED!
You're right. MASH glorified the idea of 35 year old men acting like 17 year old boys in eternal rebellion against parents.
It's hard to come up with a less attractive image. Military men as whiny liberal emotionally immature 17 year old (on the inside), passively aggressively taking on "daddy" (the establishment) has got to be a bottom.
MASH worked at the time because the "in group" was young, and hated the military. That's not the case now. Boomers are older and they don't hate the military. And young men? They don't hate the military either. (Note to Hollywood writers: find your inner adult -- look at a calendar - it's 2005, not 1970)
You've got that right! It SUCKED then, and it wasn't particularly funny either.
No more M.A.S.H. nominations, now, hear?