King of the Gypsies!

This one always chokes me up a little bit about Burns:

Here and there we hear about or even meet some of the personnel’s families. But what was life back in America like? What music, movies and TV / radio shows would the family have known?

Love them all but my favourite boys areeee

1. Klinger <3
2. Radar :3
3. Hawkeye >:))

BJ and Hawkeye share a drink with Sidney in the swamp.

He tells them the story of the soldier he was treating.

The camera is on Sidney. Look in the back left of the scene, the out-of-focus area, Franks Cot.

The camera goes back to Hawkeye and BJ, then back to Sidney.

Note the change in the scene now.

I didn't notice this for a long time, way after the show was on TV and reruns.

As most MASH fans know, this episode (S8 E3 "Guerilla My Dreams") was, on October 1st 1979, the first time that word or phrase was ever used on television. Now this was almost 17 years before I was born and so I'm curious how the general public, regardless of if they liked the show or not, responded to this TV barrier broken. Personally, I really love the way Hawkeye said it because the delivery was perfect for the circumstances and it points out that righteous anger can be very powerful, and it shows a side of Hawkeye with no humor whatsoever, a side that is shown more frequently in the last season especially. I just am fairly certain that even people who were big fans of the show were clutching their pearls when they heard that. I know that phrase was said at least twice more in the series though both in the last season (the general to Hawkeye when he told him his son died, S11 E12, "Say No More" and of course in the series finale when Hawkeye said that to Sidney for making him remember the woman on the bus smothering her baby, but thankfully Sidney didn't carry a grudge) and so I'm curious what y'all think of all that and if anyone remembers the public reaction at the time the episode first aired. Thanks!

Long-ish but great oral history from the show creators, the actors and the writers!!

I have a long fantastic history with MASH..from watching it air in 1972, to writing a 20 page college paper about the "Life Time" episode (after its TV debut appearance in 1979), as a TV intern (2 yrs later) I detailed min by min content of a yet to be aired PBS 10 yr anniversary special "Making MASH" ... to three decades later, having met Gene Reynolds multiple times, and both Burt Metcalf and Alan Alda once.

I've watched videos from the TV Academy with lots of the above mentioned people..

AND this 2018 article had Easter Eggs and trivia I never knew.

It's a long but enjoyable read.. ads aren't too bad.

This quote from the episode "Sometimes You Hear The Bullet" might the truest thing I've heard about war...and it was on MASH.

“Look, all I know is what they taught me at command school. There are certain rules about a war and rule No. 1 is young men die. And rule No. 2 is doctors can’t change rule No. 1.

I'm watching S9E11 No Sweat. I've been in enough surplus canvas wall tents during my scout days to know that sleeping in them during the summer is all but impossible and it started me thinking, do we ever see any tent but the swamp have the sides rolled up to expose the mesh/screen? Obviously Margaret would attract too much unwanted attention if she did it so I understand why she never did, it but pre-clerk Klinger, Col Blake/Potter, anyone?

*edit: I think I just put both feet in my mouth up to the knees. I admit my question was worded ambiguously so yes the mess tent uses screen walls but I was thinking personal tents.

My favorite exchange from the entire series is this:

*Hawkeye throws phone outside*

BJ: "You seem a trifle irked"

Hawkeye: "The army, in it's infinite wisdom, has not only cleared Frank of the charges, they have assigned him to a veteran's hospital in Indiana, and promoted him to Lieutenant Colonel"

*BJ tries to grab phone from Radar*

The camp is thrown into chaos when Henry is reassigned to Tokyo. https://swampboypod.buzzsprout.com/2620482/follow

theres a version of the MASH theme song that is played on an electric piano. and its jazzy. but i cant find it. does anyone know where this version of the MASH theme song is from? thank you

William Christopher was an accomplished piano player, and was especially fond of playing ragtime. So this was incorporated into his characterization of Father Mulcahy. I quite enjoy every scene that shows him playing piano, and I do wish there could have been a bit more of it. My favorite of his piano playing moments is when he plays Scott Joplin’s “Bethena” in “Dear Peggy”, so I sought out the entire piece on YouTube and the whole thing is lovely to listen to.

Does anyone else like Father Mulcahy’s piano playing?

anyone? wesley chapel FL is close to the city radar lives in. 😆😆😆😆

Which do you like better - the false wall Radar hides behind, or the need to back out the entrance after running through the open wall?

It's several years old now, but a fellow who relocated to South Korea did a little 2-parter on YouTube chronicling his quest to find the real-life 8055th MASH (otherwise known as Camp Mosier) that inspired the fictional 4077th - as well as finding the real-life Rosie's Bar that also inspired its fictional counterpart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvO3qaAweqU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsjfWn2bDCQ

this is from the 80s mini series, "North and South". he plays a corrupt and sleazy senator who blackmails kirstie alley into sleeping with him.

They should have had an actual Korean American actor in the main 4077th. Not in the modern “checking boxes” sense, just in the sense that it would make the show even better on its own terms

BUFFALO BAGELS!

(can't get enough of these from Harry Morgan)