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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

I’m rewatching Season 4, Episode 2 (“Welcome to Korea” - Part 2), and something stood out to me. After the Korean girl steps on a mine, Radar runs straight into the minefield to try to rescue her.

Considering he knowingly entered an active minefield to help an injured civilian, wouldn’t that have warranted at least being put in for some kind of commendation or award for valor?

Obviously it’s a TV show and not everything gets followed up on, but from an actual Army perspective, would Radar’s actions have qualified him for anything?

I tend to rewatch the series out of order, and every time I seem to find a different version of the same familiar tune greeting me. How many times did it change? Is there a consensus on the best version? Anyone know why they kept changing it? My personal favorites are the ones that emphasize the guitar and bass riffs.

How about the closing credit music? I don’t usually stick around much. Did it change often like the opening credits?

So, afair, at the end of Welcome to Korea, they do what seems like a cast list, ending with Col. Sherman Potter, regular Army (god help us all).

Remember it?

But in that list, they highlighted a Black actress (the name Ginger comes to mind, can't remember if that was Nurse Ginger or the actress was named Ginger), and she's in the cast list with Hawkeye, Radar, and the rest. But I only remember her from a couple of episodes, and I think they were BEFORE Potter took over?

Anyone know what happened? Did they demote her back to background character? Is there a reason?

Addendum: doing some checks while I type this, and maybe they listed Nurse Ginger(Odessa Cleveland)in another episode, since she departed in season 5, but the fact remains Nurse Ginger wasn't a major character: even Nurse Kelly got a storyline.

So I used to always dislike the more serious turn of the show. I stopped watching most of the reruns when Charles shows up. I used to think that the early seasons were better. Well after doing a full rewatch recently, my opinion has changed. I actually like the later seasons better. The early ones were more sitcom like. The comedy in the later part was more clever and well written in my opinion.

Even though it wasn't the very last scene he was in I always felt Frank's "goodbye Margaret" was an extremely touching moment for his character and may have almost been a goodbye for the old Frank Burns on a show that would obviously change its tone dramatically starting the next season. Do you think if Linville hadn't left the show they would have attempted to make Frank a much more sympathetic character the way they did to Margaret? How might they have done that?

"Attention, Attention! Due to circumstances beyond our control, lunch will be served today."

-4077 MASH AP system

All meals served with two slices of old, burnt toast and a side of brown vegetable. Dessert is strawberry ice cream.

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M*A*S*H is getting weeknights at 6PM/5C BACK on MeTV starting September 7th as Hogan's Heroes moves to weekdays at 6:30AM/5:30C right before Toon In with Me.

Tonight I was watching the episode where Radar gets to go to Tokyo for winning the contest and coming back drunk, and I was thinking about something. Yes, the early years were good, but the best set of actors on the show were Hawkeye, BJ, Margaret, Frank, Father Mulcahey, Klinger, and Radar, with Col. Potter leading the camp. I do like Charles coming in after Frank leaves, but I really liked Frank still in the group.

What are your thoughts?

just want to preface this by saying i DO NOT WANT A REBOOT 🙅‍♀️ this is one of my favorite shows, i don’t want the era of reboots to touch this classic, but a different redditor recently made a post suggesting patrick wharburton would make a great modern-day col. flagg, and it made me wonder who else might be a good fit for these characters.

soooo, here we are! :D some of the actors i chose you may not agree w, i just thought they (in my opinion) fit these characters best. i wasn’t too concerned w ages of the actors, more their overall personalities and past projects that show their range of comedy / drama. feel free to list your own choices or vehemently oppose mine and tell me why i’m totally wrong 🤣🙏

hawkeye (the hardest to cast, imo) — i’ve been seeing people say bill hader. he’s amazing and has a lot of range, but i disagree. i’m going for adam brody or jonathan bailey

trapper (if they don’t go w bj) — joe keery

radar — gaten matarazzo or skyler gisondo

col. blake (if they don’t go w potter) — jason segal

col. potter (if they don’t go w blake — jk simmons

margaret — stephanie beatriz

frank (if they don’t go w charles) — tramell tilman

charles (if they don’t go w frank) — tramell tilman

klinger — mena massoud (i’d definitely prefer to see an actor w lebanese heritage as klinger bc it was a v important part of his character, but i’m not familiar w enough lebanese-american actors D: i do think mena is a decent placeholder for now, tho)

father mulcahy — zack woods

bj (if they don’t go w trapper) — glenn powell or jesse williams

col. flagg — patrick wharburton (respect towards this redditor’s post for inspiring me to make this list)

captain tuttle — captain tuttle (hehe)

i thought ab adding my reasoning for each actor i chose, but it would’ve made for an even longer post and this already feels like a novel on reddit, lawlz. hopefully they’re a lil self-explanatory, but if you actually took the time to read this mess and disagree w anyone i chose, i’m happy to explain my choice in the comments 🙏