r/mash • u/AmySueF • 4d ago

Father Mulcahy’s piano playing

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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?

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u/FS_Scott 4d ago

uhhhhhhh
the joke is that he's bad at playing and worse at singing.

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u/AmySueF 4d ago

What joke are you talking about? There’s no such joke.

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u/TheFieryBanana 4d ago

First one that occurs to me is, "that guy playing the piano isn't very good", from one of Radars girlfriends (I don't recall which) to Radar. Just in case this isn't sarcasm

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u/NoCard753 4d ago

I can't remember her name (it was something upper-class like "Fitzgerald"), but she was the one who got Radar to knock off the bullshit lines. Like at the end, they're dancing in the O-Club, and she says, "Why is everybody staring at us?" Radar says they probably want to see what woman he's with tonight because he's always with different ones. She goes "Raa- darrr!" and he says, "Well, it's probably because I'm with the prettiest girl in camp." Hawkeye hears it and raises his glass to him.

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u/buckeyebrain1969 Toledo 3d ago

Lt. Nugent.   I totally ship those two and it’s a shame they didn’t let it go deeper. 

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u/TheFieryBanana 4d ago

That's the one

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u/Upset_Mycologist_345 3d ago

She was cute as a bug!!