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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 7, 2017 17:32:58 GMT
I liked it until it became The Alan Alda Complaint of the Week Show.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 17:33:41 GMT
Yep, the Alda episodes were miserable.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Feb 15, 2017 13:54:23 GMT
I liked it until it became The Alan Alda Complaint of the Week Show. Yup However the first three seasons are perhaps the best run any sitcom ever had.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2017 1:49:09 GMT
I love the first three seasons, which were hilarious with just a touch of drama from time to time. Part of that was the portrayal of Frank Burns by Larry Linville. Kind of a thankless role but he was superb in it, and hilarious. The show was best when it had Frank, Trapper and Henry Blake and didn't take itself so seriously. When Winchester came on board is when the show lost its sense of humor. BJ wasn't much better. I find the latter seasons hard to watch.
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Post by louise on Feb 19, 2017 6:46:31 GMT
I loved it at the time it was first shown here, and rewatched many reruns. I always preferred the earlier episodes though, with Henry Blake and Trapper, and these days those are the only ones I really enjoy rewatching. Many of the later episodes I find too preachy.
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Post by louise on Feb 19, 2017 6:52:02 GMT
I love the first three seasons, which were hilarious with just a touch of drama from time to time. Part of that was the portrayal of Frank Burns by Larry Linville. Kind of a thankless role but he was superb in it, and hilarious. The show was best when it had Frank, Trapper and Henry Blake and didn't take itself so seriously. When Winchester came on board is when the show lost its sense of humor. BJ wasn't much better. I find the latter seasons hard to watch. I remember on a thread on the old imdb board someone was discussing Frank Burns, and it occured to me that had MASH been a British sitcom, Frank Burns would have been the star. Our most popular sitcoms tend to revolve around silly people doing silly things. We tend not to make sitcom stars out of smart wisecracking types.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 7:55:29 GMT
I love the first three seasons, which were hilarious with just a touch of drama from time to time. Part of that was the portrayal of Frank Burns by Larry Linville. Kind of a thankless role but he was superb in it, and hilarious. The show was best when it had Frank, Trapper and Henry Blake and didn't take itself so seriously. When Winchester came on board is when the show lost its sense of humor. BJ wasn't much better. I find the latter seasons hard to watch. I remember on a thread on the old imdb board someone was discussing Frank Burns, and it occured to me that had MASH been a British sitcom, Frank Burns would have been the star. Our most popular sitcoms tend to revolve around silly people doing silly things. We tend not to make sitcom stars out of smart wisecracking types. That's true actually. Brits like the more anti hero, bumbling type who sometimes succeeds despite himself. I would have liked to see Frank win more often and have a more human side allowed to show through. He really was in an impossible situation in that camp.
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Post by louise on Feb 19, 2017 23:40:48 GMT
I remember on a thread on the old imdb board someone was discussing Frank Burns, and it occured to me that had MASH been a British sitcom, Frank Burns would have been the star. Our most popular sitcoms tend to revolve around silly people doing silly things. We tend not to make sitcom stars out of smart wisecracking types. That's true actually. Brits like the more anti hero, bumbling type who sometimes succeeds despite himself. I would have liked to see Frank win more often and have a more human side allowed to show through. He really was in an impossible situation in that camp. Yes, the odds were too heavily weighted against him I thought. I would have liked to see him come out on top occasionally.
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Post by aliciarose26 on Feb 20, 2017 1:13:17 GMT
Frank Burns eats worms!!
One of my favorites!
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Post by matisse on Feb 20, 2017 3:48:07 GMT
Loved it when Trapper, Lt. Col. Blake and Frank were there. BJ was okay, I guess but he was no Trapper. I laugh to myself when I think of my dad bursting with laughter at Rizzo in one episode but I forget which one and the exact situation or maybe I have it all wrong. Someone asked Rizzo if he needed any help, I think, and Rizzo says something along the line "No, I don't need you hep!" without the "l" in "help". With the way he pronounced and delivered it in such a pissed off tone, had my dad laughing and to this day he will bring it up.
Trapper and Frank interactions were my favorite:
Frank: I'm taking this to a higher authority. Trapper: Aw Frank, you're not gonna call your mother again!
Frank: What I don't understand is why do people take an instant dislike to me? Trapper: It saves time, Frank.
Frank: I insist on quiet in here! Trapper: Will someone please turn the war down for Frank?
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 20, 2017 19:00:32 GMT
First episode I ever saw was The Smell of Music, and it's still my favorite. Second favorite, the Halloween episode with the 'dead' patient who comes back to life.
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Post by OmegaWolf747 on Feb 24, 2017 22:56:14 GMT
I guess I'm the opposite of most people here. MASH was still in first run when I started watching it as a young kid in the early 80s, so I grew up on Colonel Potter, Charles Winchester and BJ Hunnicut, as well as straight uniform Klinger. The 70s episodes were rather shocking to me. I suppose I could learn to like them if I watched them. I guess it's just what you first imprint upon.
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Post by snsurone on Feb 26, 2017 20:31:19 GMT
I loved the character of Charles Emerson Winchester. Unlike the cartoonish Frank Burns, Charles was a three-dimensional character who evolved during his time on the show. I remember a late episode when Charles and Hawkeye were expressing mutual admiration for their fathers; it was a bonding moment, and it ended with the two men shaking hands.
In the record-breaking farewell episode, Charles taught some North Korean POW's to play music. Later, when those soldiers were killed, Charles vowed to give up music, which was his passion. I hope that vow was short-lived, and that he found a prodigy in the US who would rekindle that passion.
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Post by OmegaWolf747 on Feb 28, 2017 21:19:05 GMT
I loved the character of Charles Emerson Winchester. Unlike the cartoonish Frank Burns, Charles was a three-dimensional character who evolved during his time on the show. I remember a late episode when Charles and Hawkeye were expressing mutual admiration for their fathers; it was a bonding moment, and it ended with the two men shaking hands. In the record-breaking farewell episode, Charles taught some North Korean POW's to play music. Later, when those soldiers were killed, Charles vowed to give up music, which was his passion. I hope that vow was short-lived, and that he found a prodigy in the US who would rekindle that passion. I remember Charles fighting back tears and saying, "He wasn't even a soldier; he was a musician". đ˘
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Mar 6, 2017 9:38:38 GMT
I remember Charles fighting back tears and saying, "He wasn't even a soldier; he was a musician".
That^ part always got me in the final. I thought David Ogden Stiers did some really good dramatic work when he was given the opportunity.
Frank was indeed a thankless role. Although he mightâve been a âfunnierâ character, I donât remember him ever really being given too many âhumanâ moments (the only one I can think of was in âSticky Wicketâ, where he tried to make Hawkeye not feel as bad about making a mistake with a patient and saying, âAnyone couldâve missed that.â â which Hawkeye thanked him for).
One of my favourite exchanges in the show (from âRequiem for a Lightweightâ, when Trapper entered the boxing tournament):
Hot Lips: âWait a minute, isn't that Frank's bag?â
Trapper: âI thought you were Frank's bag.â
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Post by jaystarstar on Mar 7, 2017 6:07:21 GMT
I liked M*A*S*H for the most part but the wildly anachronistic hair/mustache styles of Hawkeye, BJ and Hot Lips were hard to swallow even as a late-teenager (as I was during the run of the series).
NOBODY -- No Body -- in the U.S. Army in the early 1950s looked like Hawkeye Pierce. End of story.
And no woman anywhere in the 1950s had the Farrah Fawcett shag cut that Loretta Swit wore the last 3-4 seasons of the show.
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Post by jaystarstar on Mar 7, 2017 6:12:56 GMT
One funny thing about M*A*S*H and the semi-spinoff Trapper John MD was that Pernell Roberts looked nothing whatsoever like what an older Trapper John (Wayne Rogers) would have looked like, but he did actually look passably like an older B.J. Hunnicutt might have.
And B.J. Hunnicutt was actually supposed to be from San Francisco.
Although I found out years later that 'Trapper John MD' was supposed to be a sequel to the FILM of 'M*A*S*H,' not the teevee series. And for that matter, Pernell Roberts looked nothing like what an older Eliott Gould (Trapper in the movie) would have looked like either.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Mar 7, 2017 8:02:23 GMT
RIP Edward Winter (Col. Flagg)
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Post by OmegaWolf747 on Mar 7, 2017 17:34:01 GMT
Colonel Flagg. I hated that guy! :-D
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Post by Two Socks on Mar 9, 2017 3:34:55 GMT
When it comes to MASH I like the earlier things when it was a lot more trickster like and it wasn't always about complaints or serious stuff. They turned to a lot of that in the later seasons. Plus losing Radar was a bummer because I really liked that character. Also having Col. Potter come in and take control I actually felt was a good thing given that I felt Henry Blake was far too easygoing and incompetent to be the commanding officer. I'm sure that was the joke, but I never liked it much.
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