I remember being the only person in my family who watched M*A*S*H for the longest time. I was 13 and watched it on Saturday nights in 1973. My sister and I had an old B&W TV my grandmother had given us. Eventually it became required family viewing after the show moved to Monday night. I have many favorite episodes. Anything with Col. Flagg, of course. But my two favorites are Officer of The Day (the first episode I memorized) and The General Flipped at Dawn. I learned about your podcast when I was watching a special about the show on Tubi. Thanks to you and Jeff for doing this.
Mash could never be redone. Those actors were the characters. It may be interesting to ponder for people in the future who will not know people who were alive when the show aired originally. We are a part of those people and I just don't think any of us would accept someone else's voice as Hawkeye or Colonel Potter.
It's really difficult to pick a favorite. I really really like every appearance of Colonel Flagg, and Sydney Freedman. With so many different writers and teams of writers, different directors; there really are several different "feels" to MASH episodes. Like good musicians, MASH covers the gamut of emotions you'll want to feel from a piece of art. I will say that while I do appreciate the Dreams episode, it is one that I skip usually when I'm rewatching. Obviously its a powerful one, and were you showing MASH to someone for the first time, you would surely include it. Also, I have a cat and unfortunately am wearing pants as I type this (sorry Jeff).
There are too many great episodes to pick a favorite. It's like picking a favorite song. I will list a few favorites: Deal Me Out, A Full Rich Day, Army Navy Game, Aid Station, Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler, Dear Peggy, Bug Out, Dear Sigmund, The Winchester Tapes, Major Ego, Out of Gas, Mr. and Mrs. Who, Old Soldiers, Letters. There are many more. I really don't care for some of season 9 but more so seasons 10 or 11 with very few exceptions. Though the entire series had a certain left of center perspective, they were funny when leaving the politics out. Then the episodes started getting more lefty-preachy with a message and just weren't very funny. It was too forced. The same thing happened to All In The Family in later seasons and it stopped being funny. The first 4 years of that show were hilarious. I don't want to be preached to and lectured.
Sorry, but Tuttle is one of the worst episodes in my opinion. I also disliked the series finale and can't watch it. They took many of the characters and did a 90º with them after 11 years of being more or less consistent. It would have been better if they had just said goodbye, we're going home. Instead, Hawkeye goes crazy, Father goes deaf, Klinger gets married and stays, etc.
In the end they all lose something like the patients they couldnt save lost their lives they get to go home but hawkeye loses his sanity ,mulcahey loses his hearing and his ability to stay , klinger loses his main motivation which is to go home. Margret loses charles book then finds it and loses her sense of purpose and her place to command charles loses his snobbish attitude when he begins working with the musician pows and then when they aare gone he loses his love for music. The 180s of the chaarecters makes sense kinda as 11 years for the actors was like 2-1/2 years for the charrcters
I remember being the only person in my family who watched M*A*S*H for the longest time. I was 13 and watched it on Saturday nights in 1973. My sister and I had an old B&W TV my grandmother had given us. Eventually it became required family viewing after the show moved to Monday night. I have many favorite episodes. Anything with Col. Flagg, of course. But my two favorites are Officer of The Day (the first episode I memorized) and The General Flipped at Dawn. I learned about your podcast when I was watching a special about the show on Tubi. Thanks to you and Jeff for doing this.
Mash could never be redone. Those actors were the characters. It may be interesting to ponder for people in the future who will not know people who were alive when the show aired originally. We are a part of those people and I just don't think any of us would accept someone else's voice as Hawkeye or Colonel Potter.
It's really difficult to pick a favorite. I really really like every appearance of Colonel Flagg, and Sydney Freedman. With so many different writers and teams of writers, different directors; there really are several different "feels" to MASH episodes. Like good musicians, MASH covers the gamut of emotions you'll want to feel from a piece of art. I will say that while I do appreciate the Dreams episode, it is one that I skip usually when I'm rewatching. Obviously its a powerful one, and were you showing MASH to someone for the first time, you would surely include it. Also, I have a cat and unfortunately am wearing pants as I type this (sorry Jeff).
Any episode with Colonel Flagg cracks me up
i Have Many favorite episodes but if i had to pick three it'd probably be Adam's ribs the trail of Henery Blake and Life time
There are too many great episodes to pick a favorite. It's like picking a favorite song.
I will list a few favorites: Deal Me Out, A Full Rich Day, Army Navy Game, Aid Station, Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler, Dear Peggy, Bug Out, Dear Sigmund, The Winchester Tapes, Major Ego, Out of Gas, Mr. and Mrs. Who, Old Soldiers, Letters. There are many more.
I really don't care for some of season 9 but more so seasons 10 or 11 with very few exceptions. Though the entire series had a certain left of center perspective, they were funny when leaving the politics out. Then the episodes started getting more lefty-preachy with a message and just weren't very funny. It was too forced. The same thing happened to All In The Family in later seasons and it stopped being funny. The first 4 years of that show were hilarious. I don't want to be preached to and lectured.
Sorry, but Tuttle is one of the worst episodes in my opinion. I also disliked the series finale and can't watch it. They took many of the characters and did a 90º with them after 11 years of being more or less consistent. It would have been better if they had just said goodbye, we're going home. Instead, Hawkeye goes crazy, Father goes deaf, Klinger gets married and stays, etc.
In the end they all lose something like the patients they couldnt save lost their lives they get to go home but hawkeye loses his sanity ,mulcahey loses his hearing and his ability to stay , klinger loses his main motivation which is to go home. Margret loses charles book then finds it and loses her sense of purpose and her place to command charles loses his snobbish attitude when he begins working with the musician pows and then when they aare gone he loses his love for music. The 180s of the chaarecters makes sense kinda as 11 years for the actors was like 2-1/2 years for the charrcters
Also we lose the show and seeing what happens to the charecters so we are kind of going thru the same thing as them goodbye farewell amen