I will not rest until the rest of MASHblr is as insane about the 80’s office AU ads as I am
So I wanted to compile the ads so I could just post one video and not like a whole YouTube playlist, but I quickly found out that there are SO MANY MASH IBM ads! So I decided to leave out ones that weren’t office related and were more ‘Alan Alda puts on a bunch of different hats’ and ‘Jamie Farr repeatedly tries and fails to enter a building’ and I actually had to cut one ad of Alan and some kids in a classroom that I wanted to put in cuz I think it’s cute.
But anyway, I am always gnawing at the bars of my enclosure thinking of the universe these ads take place in. Like, who flooded the office? Did Trapper ever get to go to Hawaii? Where’s BJ? (JK he’s at a gay picnic)
I feel like there’s a rich vein here and us weirdos, sickos, and perverts need to buckle down and really dig into the potential for office shenanigans.
↳ Replacement surgeon, Captain Steven Newsome (Edward Herrmann) reaches the breaking point. As sad and poignant today as it was when it aired 43 years ago. Beautifully directed by Mike Farrell. 😭
Upon joining the cast of M*A*S*H, David Ogden Stiers said, “I knew I was accepted by the others the first time somebody threw something at me in the operating room. “We’d just finished an intense scene. I heard the director say ‘cut’ and I looked up waiting for him to say ‘print.’ That’s when I was hit by three pieces of gauze. I had become part of the practical jokes.” It was a heartwarming moment that was indicative that Stiers was truly immersed as a member of the group.
Raymond Burr as Perry Mason, Barbara Hale as Della Street, and David Ogden Stiers as D.A. Michael Reston in “Perry Mason- The Case of the Avenging Ace” (1988)