Anyone else here sick to death of MASH reruns?

[Van Rijn]

Could be. It's been awhile since I've seen them.

[ToSeek]

Here's a list of some of his other attempts:

http://stason.org/TULARC/tv/mash/13-...t-Klinger.html

"Not swim, sir!"

That and the hang glider.

[Moose]

I think you're mixing up two episodes. The one with the letters had Klinger trying to convince Henry Blake to give him a hardship discharge, who then pulled out the aforesaid pile of letters "from home".

There were two episodes where the CO hauls out Klinger's letters "from home" to trivially refute Klinger's hardship discharge request. Blake, about a half-season before he left, and Potter, about a half-season after he arrived. They weren't, unfortunately, the same stack of letters, or at least Potter didn't cite the same 'deceased relatives'. (The stack might have been deeper than it looked.)

The one with Potter may even have been the episode where Klinger gets married by phone (diffusing Klinger's desperation to get home.)

[Jim]

M*A*S*H got better as it matured, and as the characters changed/matured, too. Henry and Trapper left before they got the chance; Frank never did. But every other character grew during the run of the series. Most notable were Radar (who became an adult), Klinger (who developed responsibility), and Margaret (who went from caricature to character).

I also liked the minor characters - Fr. Mulcahey, Sydney, the motor pool sergeant (GW Bailey).

I liked the shows that were different... the b&w "documentaries," or the dead soldier who only Klinger could see, for example.

Yeah, Hawkeye could wear on you, but the show remained good to the end.

[Moose]

the motor pool sergeant (GW Bailey).

Rizzo.

[Noclevername]

I liked the shows that were different... the b&w "documentaries," or the dead soldier who only Klinger could see, for example.

Those were among the best and most creative episodes. The one where they show the entire episode from a wounded soldier's point of view was pretty good too.

[starcanuck64]

Some of you have great memories, I watched the show every week for years when it was running and later a couple of times a week on re-runs(for a while both) but I don't remember much from individual episodes.

[redshifter]

Those were among the best and most creative episodes. The one where they show the entire episode from a wounded soldier's point of view was pretty good too.

I liked the episode where a wounded soldier came in with a bad spinal injury and they showed a running clock in the corner of the screen because they had like 15 min. to repair the spinal damage before it became permanent (or something like that).

Seems like a good number of episodes dealt with death - which only makes sense in a show set in a hospital close to the front lines of a war zone. One that was interesting was when Maj. Winchester got a bullethole in his cap while he was wearing it during a sniper attack and became obsessed with finding out what happens 'at the end'. I remember him going to the front lines to look for a wounded soldier close to death. He found one and the soldiers last words were 'I smell bread'. This baffled Winchester, but I liked how the message was delivered about death - you can't know what it's like till it happens to you.

[Gillianren]

There were two episodes where the CO hauls out Klinger's letters "from home" to trivially refute Klinger's hardship discharge request. Blake, about a half-season before he left, and Potter, about a half-season after he arrived. They weren't, unfortunately, the same stack of letters, or at least Potter didn't cite the same 'deceased relatives'. (The stack might have been deeper than it looked.)

"Half of family dying, other half pregnant."

[novaderrik]

wow.. 39 posts and not a single mention of "After MASH"..

impressive..

i used to love watching MASH when i was a kid- i'd watch the brand new episodes with my dad every week, and got to see him actually cry at the end of the series finale.. i've seen every episode, but the one scene that always sticks out in my mind was the one where Radar announces that Blake's plane crashed in the Sea of Japan.. i don't know if i saw that when it was new because i was so young, but i've seen it a few times in reruns and it's raw honesty and intensity has always stuck with me..

[Moose]

[...] i've seen every episode, but the one scene that always sticks out in my mind was the one where Radar announces that Blake's plane crashed in the Sea of Japan.. i don't know if i saw that when it was new because i was so young, but i've seen it a few times in reruns and it's raw honesty and intensity has always stuck with me..

Apparently the cast didn't know what Radar was going to say. Their reactions were spontaneous, and as close to genuine as possible.

[Jim]

wow.. 39 posts and not a single mention of "After MASH"...

Selective amnesia.

[starcanuck64]

i used to love watching MASH when i was a kid- i'd watch the brand new episodes with my dad every week, and got to see him actually cry at the end of the series finale.. i've seen every episode, but the one scene that always sticks out in my mind was the one where Radar announces that Blake's plane crashed in the Sea of Japan.. i don't know if i saw that when it was new because i was so young, but i've seen it a few times in reruns and it's raw honesty and intensity has always stuck with me..

Kind of indicates how real the characters became to the viewers.

One episode that always stuck with me was where an old chum of Potter is brought in with a unit of young soldiers he had taken command of in a crisis. It turns out he made the wrong decision and probably got a lot of men killed and wounded, Potter has a difficult choice of protecting his friend or seeing that he never gets another chance to make the same mistake. He makes the hard and responsible choice.

[publiusr]

Point of View was a favorite--as was the Dream episode. I liked Barney Miller a lot too.

[Noclevername]

"Half of family dying, other half pregnant."

That episode aired last night.