It's an unspoken rule throughout the compound that you need to make your person appear as uncomfortable as possible or otherwise a wild Hawkeye Pierce will appear and lean all his body weight against you, asleep..
good morning to teenagers with bald spots, French horn players, night school dropouts, Juilliard-trained Shakespeare performers, morbid hippies, antisocial skateboarders, greatest voice actors of our generation, Murder She Wrote bit parts, amateur conductors, gay icons, and most of all to people unable to escape the absurdly huge effect M*A*S*H has had on their lives
Happy 50th Anniversary to the show that taught me to be a good person, but also scarred me for life, but also made me a pacifist, but also makes me question my sanity if I start sneezing too many times, but also-
The definition of "cathartic" is just Hawkeye and Margaret in a supply tent laughing their asses off about wonderfully terrible medicine puns in the middle of the night.
The fact that Alan Alda could preach by himself for an entire episode and still have it be one of the best episodes just proves the this man is too powerful for his own good...
Why did it take me so long to see this????? Amazing!
It truly is a travesty we never got the medical conference before The Bus as it’s own episode. Could you imagine all those serious, professional army medical officers gathered in the lobby, having serious conversations, only to be lambasted by Colonel Potter, his pint of a company clerk, an ass of a major and two chuckle-fuck doctors who probably outclass them all.
PA Announcer: 10,000/10: Deserves main character status tbh.
Sparky: 20/10. The legend we never got to meet.
Nurse Kellye: 10/10, an absolute queen, stunning and show-stopping even if she is just walking around the compound. She got her own episode and it was glorious.
Goldman: 8/10, missing 2 points because he didn't get the quantity of dialogue he deserved. Best corpsman in the business, carries patients with ease.
Sophie: 1000/10. Who's the good horse? She is. She is the good horse.
Rizzo: 15/10. Would never let him teach me how to drive a jeep, but gets all the points for pronouncing it as "Vee-hickle"
Captain Tuttle: 10/10. RIP king
Colonel Flagg: 50/10. King of turning up when nobody wants him to. Which is always. A paranoid bastard I am slightly afraid of, but always entertains the camp, so.....
That one Korean actor that played a 100 different Koreans: 500/10. Somehow played the same character differently every time.
Rosie: 10/10. She could choke me, slap me and throw me out of her bar and I would thank her on my knees for it.
Igor: 9/10. A bad cook, but a decent butt of jokes.
Sidney Freedman: 100000000000/10. Instant likability, great advice giver, genuinely cares about the camp, took on Flagg with glee and made Hawkeye blubber like a baby on two separate occasions. What a fucking king.
Watched the 'Welcome to Korea' episodes again and it just solidified my opinion that M*A*S*H has the smoothest transitions from character to character in any show.
By the end of part 2, it is so easy to love BJ already. You can tell he's extremely different from what we're used to from Trapper, but he's greatly likable.
Right after you get Potter and it only takes one episode to realize that he's going to be interesting to have around.
Then Charles comes in and it's almost a relief to have a different rivalry going on instead of what Frank brought to the table. Charles is my second favourite character after Klinger. A posh prick, but with a soft heart when it's important.
Then Radar leaves and while it's not the same kind of transition, Klinger gets a chance to grow and he turns out even better than before.
There are endless reasons for why this is my favourite show. This is just one of them.
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