I wonder... How many DUrs are MASH fans?

[don954]

I loved that show, it may even be why i have some of the view on war and life that i have. I watched it all the time when i was a teen, and still watch it on hallmark regularly..

[reyd reid reed]

1. Yup...

Same here. Love it!

:hi:

[don954]

3. I wonder what would happen if they tried to make a modern verion

of MASH? Never mind, it would never be allowed to happen...

[reyd reid reed]

5. Nope, it wouldn't...

They'd whitewash it until it looked like every other pointless, inane, Stupid program out there. They'd dumb it down.

Heaven forfend anyone Think...

Oh, the Horror!!!!

[RoyGBiv]

2. Checking in ...

Other than it being a part of my regular TV viewing as a kid, I was there, every night, at 10:35 to watch it on local channel 5 until the day they stopped playing it. I own the DVD set of every season released so far. I cried during the final episode, recording it on a shiny, new $400 VCR my rich uncle had just purchased for the occasion.

And I hated After MASH, even though I didn't want to.

Also got involved with Trapper John, MD, just because of the connection.

[don954]

6. cripes! i never knew about After Mash

I was a weeee little kiddy when mash stoped, i only got to see them in re-run. I never knew there was a follow up series. From te wiki on it, it dosnt seem to be as good, just a way to make closure for the series. I wonder if i can get it on DVD...

[RoyGBiv]

7. It was horrible ...

The only reason I'm thankful I've seen it is because I'm such a M*A*S*H fan. If you are, it's a necessity ... once. If you watch it more than that I am certain you'll go blind ... or insane.

[fishwax]

17. I think I saw about fifteen minutes of once

that is how long the show was on, right--about fifteen minutes?

Thankfully, I was young enough at the time that I've been able to mostly block it out, though in some dark recess of my mind I can see Klinger talking to Potter in a place that's not quite Korea :scared:

[reyd reid reed]

8. I don't think I ever saw After M*A*S*H

Or...if I did, I've blocked it. I've got a pretty good memory though, even for things that are painful. There are things that, when they're over, they should be allowed to end gracefully. After M*A*S*H doesn't even sound like a good idea.

Thank god for syndication, though. Every afternoon on Hallmark...

Trapper John, MD, I do remember.

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. It was a bad idea

In the first place, they all had their best days in those roles far behind them. In the second place, the show needed the rapport between Hawkeye and Trapper or Hawkeye and B.J. to really work. In the third place, they tried it without a war — and the war was always the lead player in M*A*S*H — and with less than half the original cast.

It was doomed from the start. Better writing might have saved it, but not for more than a couple of seasons.



Edit: Thinko. :eyes:

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. That show (After MASH) was just horrible.

:hi:

[Ariana Celeste]

4. I'm no expert on it,

but I loved watching the reruns that I caught in the middle of the night when I was in high school! :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. H*U*G*H

I cannot be beaten at M*A*S*H trivia, and I have a question that nobody can answer.

[reyd reid reed]

12. Oooooh...a Challenge!!!

Ask away...

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. In the first couple of seasons

there were two nurses whose real names, first and last, are also the names of cities.

Name the characters, the actors' names and where the cities are located.

:evilgrin:

[reyd reid reed]

14. Okay...

I'm gonna have to sleep on it. I've almost got one of 'em...can't remember the character's name, though. I can See her...hear lines...

OH!!!! Ginger. Still gotta think of her last name, though.

The other one...

Yeah...I'm gonna have to sleep on it.

:P

[Pendrench]

27. Odessa Cleveland played Nurse Ginger Baylis, and

Enid Kent played Nurse Bigalow.

Odessa, Texas
Cleveland, Ohio

Enid, Oklahoma
Kent, Washington



Tim

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. Slap my ass and call me Mabel

Nobody's EVER gotten it before.



Please PM me with your address. I have to send you my soul.



:yourock:



It's "Bayless," though.

[Pendrench]

29. Thanks - you can deduct 5 points since I got "Bayless" wrong

:)

Tim

[Liberal In Texas]

11. The movie or the TV series?

Just asking...'cause there is a difference.

[don954]

16. the series...

i saw the movie after being a fan of hte series, and it just wasnt the same...

[GreenTea]

15. Was it anti-war or patronizing us?

I still love it. (First four years).

[don954]

18. from what i know of the actors who made it

i think it was a dose of truthiness for america... ;)

[NewWaveChick1981]

19. Me! I started watching it when I first came on, thanks to my dad.

He served in the Korean War and was very interested in watching it. I watched every episode from the very beginning to the finale. I still watch it on reruns occasionally. :)

[yellowdogintexas]

20. oh count me in the MASH fan club.

been a while since I watched it probably because it is so readily available, but sometimes it is great to just curl up with a string of reruns and enjoy Hawkeye, BJ, Radar and all

[serryjw]

36. To this day , I never

go w/o watching at least ONE episode. I can see 5 if I can manage my schedule...nothing makes me laugh like that show.

[lizziegrace]

21. Me too! n/t

[Mutley]

22. Me.

:hi:

I used to watch it all the time, but I'm not sure where to find its reruns now. :(

[nytemare]

24. I wasn't when it was out, but love it now that I am out of the Army.

Great show.

[wildhorses]

25. mash fan ...checking in

:hi:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

26. I was hot and cold on it. I didn't like the fact that the "antagonist"

characters like Frank Burns were such a caricature with essentially no redeeming value, although the replacement character, Charles Winchester was much better because, while basically a jerk, he was a more complex character and had redeeming features and moments.

As a medical person, even though they often had bad outcomes and patient deaths, I thought the "medical drama" aspect often focused on really unrealistically good outcomes from some of the situations depicted, considering the overall level of medical care and technology of the time, and what was likely to be available in theatre in Korea. I'm thinking specifically of the abdominal aorta surgery episode, with the dramatic timer in the corner of the screen etc., but there were other things like this.

Though I thought the show was funny, the Hawkeye character was really too much for me, quite annoying. If I knew that guy in real life, I'd probably hate him.

[Oeditpus Rex]

32. In the early days, especially the first season

the characters were based much more on their originals from the book and the film. In both, Burns did have no redeeming value. He wasn't much of a character in either, though.

And, yeah, I imagine that 97 percent survival rate was quite an exaggeration, likely insisted upon by teevee suits who figured audiences would tune out death, particularly in what was supposed to be a comedy. Notice they weren't even in the OR very much in the early seasons? (The OR scenes in the film were much more graphic, and the suits thought that would turn off audiences.)

You've touched on something else about the series that sorta bugged me, too: The characters evolved a bit too much, particularly Hawkeye and Margaret. By the eighth season, both barely resembled the characters they originally were. Hawkeye became pompous and pretty much abandoned the incorrigibility he shared with Trapper and, when he first arrived, B.J. And Margaret went from being a "Regular Army clown," as Hawkeye called her in the movie, to a nice person who simply had her moments, as well as a hair style that was decidedly not early-'50s.

[don954]

33. if they didn't evolve in 8 years, the show would have been totally unreal

after all, are YOU the same person you were 8 years ago? Im not...

Also add to the fact that the world was changing in real life, things got way more serous in the real world as the show progressed.

[Oeditpus Rex]

34. Television isn't the real world

Especially when two and a half years of war are stretched over 11 seasons.

[fishwax]

38. I always assumed that was due to actor's egos

I imagined Loretta Switt growing tired of playing shrill, over-bearing, by the book Houlihan and wanting her to grow. And, as much as I love the show and appreciate Alan Alda, MASH went from the Hawk and Trapper show to the Alan Alda Project over the course of the 70s. And Jamie Farr maybe got tired of wearing dresses, and Gary Burghoff tired of being chock full of 19-year-old iowa naivete.

Radar's evolution, though, seemed much more palatable than the others--you might expect someone with his lack of experience to change most drastically over the course of three years ... and I've always liked the episode where he is wounded en route to Tokyo, and he and Hawkey confront his crisis of faith in all things hawkeye ...

[GOPisEvil]

30. Me! I enjoyed the book, the movie & the series (until the last few years)

[cobalt1999]

31. enjoyed almost all the episodes, but

hated the laugh track they inserted. Even to this day, I have to turn off a rerun because of it.

[RoyGBiv]

42. FWIW ...

The actors and original people behind the making of the show didn't want this. The studio insisted upon it because that was just the way things were done without a "live audience" to provide it.

The DVD's give you the option of turning it off, which is refreshing.

[trackfan]

35. I never liked it much - I'm not sure why. nt

[hiro]

37. Definitely!

I'd like to see more of MASH and Hogan's Heroes, actually...both good shows (for differing reasons).

-H.

[Spaceman Spiff]

39. I AM THE M*A*S*H GOD!!!

Ask me any trivia and, on my honor, I won't run off to Google for the answer.

[Oeditpus Rex]

43. Okay...

Because of an error in continuity (for which M*A*S*H was famous), Col. Potter was a man of two religions. What were they?

[Spaceman Spiff]

47. Sorry it took me so long to get back

On my honor and with no help from Google I believe the two religions are Presbyterian and Methodist. I'm probably wrong.

[benny05]

40. Still Watch It

Last week the 1970 movie was on cable. Still love the movie and Donald Sutherland as Hawkeye.

[gkdmaths]

41. checking in!

I watched it with my grandfather, then after granddad died I watched it by myself. Then I began to watch it with my partner's grandfather before he passed.

How else do you think I learned how to make such great moonshine!?!

[Oeditpus Rex]

44. Harumph!

Hawkeye and Trapper (and later, B.J.) didn't make "moonshine." They made gin.

:spank:

[gkdmaths]

45. LOL

sorry.

[bertha katzenengel]

46. The movie or the show? The show -- used to love it. Never watch

it now.

The movie? :applause: It is one of the best ever made.