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Just started watching through my MASH box set. I think this will be my fourth time watching through the whole series. It’s always fun to watch thru with no commercials and no cuts to make room more commercials. Even with the dated sexism, this is still one of the best TV pilots

Highlights so far

Major baby

You want to raffle off a nurse?
Did I say that?

How much the pilot George Morgan looks like William Christopher

That Margaret recognizes Frank by his tushy

Those two! They’re ruining this war! For all of us!

The way it shifts seamlessly from screwball comedy to drama when the Canadians arrive

We did it again. Screwed up in reverse.

S1E2

Nope, it’s oak

Your lobes

We all look alike

I really prefer the devious Radar who gets away with shit bc he looks so damn innocent. The ingenue Radar of later seasons is kinda boring

Wondering if there are any episodes you like but no one else seems to remember. Mine would be A Piano in the House. It’s not perfect. It’s a little rushed and would have benefited from a bit more time, and I’m not a huge fan of the ending. But Barry Morse’s performance hits the nail on the head as a misanthropic critic. It is one of my favorite performances.

I’ve been in a depressive episode for a while now, and one of the latest things I started to struggling with is not brushing my teeth. I just … I’m not even sure why. Ive been dealing with an overall fatigue issue, and a lack of motivation issue. I am not enjoying the things I normally enjoy. But all that is pretty standard for an episode. Specifically the teeth thing is weird. I’ll get up and go to the bathroom, but then I stare at my toothbrush and I just - can’t. I even find myself getting angry that I’m supposed to brush.

Please tell me I’m not alone here. And if you have any advice of what works for you, I’d appreciate it

Just finished watching You Drive, and wondering if this was the first instance in fiction with a haunted car. And this was way creepier than anything Stephen King cooked up. This was better than it had any right to be.

Only thing that bugged me: Ollie didn’t hit the boy. The boy hit Ollie. Of course, driving off is still awful. But that little detail is all that kept it from being an S Tier TZ episode

This is bad. This is vey bad. It appears that Vines has no room for anyone except the G

I’ve always been fascinated by pre-Billy Joel Billy Joel. The Hassles is actually pretty good, and Attila … well … it is so over the top bad that it’s kinda good. Anybody give them a listen? And does Billy ever do those songs in concert?

We talk a lot about the best albums, the ones that have no skips. Got me wondering if there are songs that *are* skips on an otherwise solid album. For me, The Stranger is a top ten album, not just if Billy’s catalog, but of any album by any artist. And yet? I still skip Everybody Has a Dream almost every time. Not really because it is a bad song (tho it isn’t great) but more so because it doesn’t fit with the rest of the album.

Okay, whatcha got?

I was reading in one of the Beach Boys subs about Brian Wilson’s famous “breakdown” on the plane that led him to stop touring, and it struck me as such an old-timey term. I hear “breakdown” or “nervous breakdown” or even “mental break” and I wonder what they actual meant at the time. A panic attack? A crying jag? A suicide attempt (or even just ideation)? Hallucinations? Things seemed so imprecise back in the day.

I had an uncle who ended up in a long term mental hospital because he had epilepsy and routinely had grand mal seizures. I had another uncle who had an intellectual disability(not the phrase we used at the time!) who spent his life going in and out of halfway houses. Did they have “breakdowns”? Have I had a “breakdown”? I’ve landed in the psych ward a couple times when I was suicidal. I’ve also ended up bawling in the back seat of my car because the world just seemed too big. Would I have been institutionalized back in the 59s/60s?

I don’t know that I have a point here. But thanks for listening.