My favorite episode is where frank ends up in charge and he says to klinger " I'll have you out of that dress by the weekend " klinger replies " I'm not that type of girl!" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@DrownedInExile Actually that's from a different episode where Frank was in charge. The one spoken of above is when Henry dies and then Frank finds out Potter is now in charge. The lines were, "I would've had you outtta that dress in a week!." "I'm not that easy, sir".
I had forgotten all about his episode and remember the last time I saw it. I was probably 14 years old watching it one day after school doing my home work. Whoa, flash backs!
OK, memory is not what it was, but as remembered, Charley was real. It lasted until the T-38, Skysweeper, was sent there to eliminate him and further test that AA system. Charley was an easy target for a radar directed 75mm AA gun, so was shot down and ended that drama.
@@runarandersen878 I liked MASH the first 3 seasons because of the comedy not life dramas,I got my own dramas to enjoy,it started as a comedy it should have stayed a comedy.This is not life this is entertainment.The only character I liked a lot that appeared in the later seasons was Winchester.But you are right that the two actors left on their own.
It was always a liberal show but it was humerus , and they did not hit you over the head with their politics .However, the last few years got to political.
Hey, if I was out there with him I'd damn sure do my best to make sure he never had a live gun on him. Every time he pulls it he has finger on the trigger and is swinging it all over the place. With trigger discipline like that it's a miracle they didn't have to spend half their time patching up people he shot.
@@gobblox38 her marriage also changed her cause it gave her a wake up call of how much of a piece of work Frank was Then well Even Colonel Potter changed a bit from when he got there due to all of them XD
Frank burns, one of thee most brilliant cast members of any show, any time. Larry absolutely hated being frank but he gave us as long as he did because he knew we loved the character
My Dad was in Korea & said there was really a "bed-check Charlie". (Actually, not just one. The North Koreans would send planes up the valleys & throw out mortar shells for harassment.) They brought some Stearman biplanes over from the States to chase them up the valley & shoot them down! There were several things about the show that had reference to fact. Dad took one of his men who had Korean hemhorragic fever...to the kidney ward at the hospital at Wonju. Another show about the fever mentioned...the kidney ward at the hospital at Wonju! Somebody did their homework.
They did a lot of research for the show to make it somewhat accurate. Unfortunately, one of the great mistakes they made was concluding that there were no African-American surgeons in Korea, part of the reason they phased out Spearchucker Jones. In fact, there were many African-American doctors who served.
There was no replacing frank burns not even aldi could carry the show at that caliber once Larry left. For me I love frank burns, my favorite character all time
Most shows don't last as long as mash did without changes. I wish Blake and trapper were around a few more years but still I don't think the show would of lasted as long as it did if it kept the same characters.
I dont know. I think they could have worked with the more serious tone developed later on. Though Larry Linville leaving after season 4 was a good call. Frank worked best as a 1 dimensional deuteragonists and trying to add to that would feel really forced and fake
At that time, it was a rarity for an entertainment show to last 10 seasons. M*A*S*H lasted 11 seasons. The producers knew what they were doing, and that's why it's called "an American classic."
@@Doctor4077 eh, I don't know. Trapper maybe, but Henry? I think they needed Potter to change the tone. And I think BJ fit better with that too. But absolutely needed to ditch Frank. Winchester could be antagonistic without being s joke like Frank was.
@@KnightRaymund fair enough, Henry probably wouldn’t have been a good fit with the more serious tone developed. I still stand by Trapper though, especially after that one episode where a prisoner freaking out in the surgery room caused him to lose a patient and he was seriously considering hurting him (or worse) before Hawkeye stepped in.
I didn't like the show much after Winchester came in. I didn't like Hunnicutt but he was fine; Potter was a great replacement for McLean; but Winchester was a terrible place filler after Burns left - I think that is when it started being too serious.
@@mortimerbrewster3671 Burns was a good comedic antagonist because he lacked teeth most of the time, and his barking was a fun launching point for folks to play with. The revolving door of generic antagonist regular army people that following his departure felt hollow, either too over the top or just not interesting characters. Winchester was a fun character but he never developed into an antagonist the way Burns did. The way his persona fit in with the rest of the cast lent him occasional opposition bits, but never with the manic superiority wrapped inside of fear of inadequacy disillusion that Burns presented. Without that timid threat, Hawkeye and co couldn't quite delivery the same laissez faire comedy. I enjoy the later seasons quite a lot, but they are certainly a different creature.
Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse. Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye? Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell? Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe. Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
My stepfather Being an only child, who spent his time in the Korean war driving a general around and was somehow rewarded with silver stars and medals, swore his time in the army was one of the best times of his life. Though i encouraged him to keep this to himself as it was the worse times of the life for most. He was unable to keep it to himself. Rest in peace dad. Thank you for your service.
I remember a story from Guadalcanal where some Japanese guy flew over Henderson Field every night early in the campaign. He randomly dropped bombs and apparently modified his engine to be extra loud. Kept the marines up all night worrying. To my knowledge they never managed to shoot him down.
Even funnier is that there was a pool for where he was going to hit 🎯. Hawkeye makes the comment "I should have bet on the jeep!" After Charlie manages to hit the jeep.
I love how worked up Margaret and Frank get over small things 😂
They’re making it up too just to LARP their war fetish
My favorite episode is where frank ends up in charge and he says to klinger " I'll have you out of that dress by the weekend " klinger replies " I'm not that type of girl!" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
"Klinger! I want you out of that dress, tonight!"
"Never on a first date sir!"
I knew it was something like that, it's been years since i seen it. Lmao🤣😂🤣😂
@@DrownedInExile Actually that's from a different episode where Frank was in charge. The one spoken of above is when Henry dies and then Frank finds out Potter is now in charge. The lines were, "I would've had you outtta that dress in a week!." "I'm not that easy, sir".
KLINGER!
SIR!
How DARE you wear that hat while in uniform?!
It's SPRING, SIR!!!
Mine also includes Klinger. Where he goes airborne wearing pink fluffy bedroom slippers
"Who put water in my gun?"....."How do you know it's water?"......HILARIOUS
Look at Margaret's face when he says that!
😆 Classic. And very Groucho...funny as hell!
Who put Worter in my gun?
W/ Hawkeye & Trapper I almost guarantee it's not water🤣🤣🤣
I had forgotten all about his episode and remember the last time I saw it. I was probably 14 years old watching it one day after school doing my home work. Whoa, flash backs!
5 O Clock Charlie is so super funny
Best episode ever
OK, memory is not what it was, but as remembered, Charley was real. It lasted until the T-38, Skysweeper, was sent there to eliminate him and further test that AA system. Charley was an easy target for a radar directed 75mm AA gun, so was shot down and ended that drama.
When TV was fun
Love this stuff
Larry Linville was an amazing actor.
PLAYED THAT PART BRILLIANT.
@@LoneLee2022 He left MASH because he felt that he had taken Frank Burns as far as he could.
@@ray.d.oeaux1230 I understand. After Loretta Swit insisted her character change and they weren't having an affair anymore, he was just a buffoon.
Love anything with Trapper in it💜
"Ah, Ah Boollife Ah Half Chollie"😄😄😄😄😄😄
HEY!!!You left out the best part!!!! Where did 5o'clock charlie go?? Pittsburg???
So they don't worry about a North Korean pilot dropping a bomb, but they freak out when a mortar crew tries to hit a stationary tank and missee?
Frank you realise for us
Old MASH was the best.
Once Trapper and Henry left, the show wasn't the same. It was brilliant when It started.
leftcoaster67 : It changed. Like the rest of life. I still think it was good, but in a different way.
Both of them left because they wanted too.
I personally think the show wasn't as good when Frank left
Trapper was a bit borring...it was great when Major Charles Emerson Winchester III showed up ; )
leftcoast67 - COULD NOT AGREE MORE!!!!
@@runarandersen878 I liked MASH the first 3 seasons because of the comedy not life dramas,I got my own dramas to enjoy,it started as a comedy it should have stayed a comedy.This is not life this is entertainment.The only character I liked a lot that appeared in the later seasons was Winchester.But you are right that the two actors left on their own.
7 o'clock Charlie drops nuclear kimche pots
It was always a liberal show but it was humerus , and they did not hit you over the head with their politics .However, the last few years got to political.
Sounds like Trump I swear to go Roflmao
"AND HERE HE IS FOR THE FIFTH STRAIGHT WEEK: CHARLIE, HIS AIRPLANE, AND HIS ASTIGMATISM."
I thought they were catarracts????
@@christinemeleg4535 - Rinken Continental!
”Ah, there he is, Charles.”
@@RumpleVonStiltskin735 "Oh dear. He missed."
"Bad luck, Charles."
“Frank. Give the a Direct Order.”
“Oh, do Frank ‘WE’ never ignore one of those.~”
"Don't you realize the danger you're in?" "Frank, you realize for us." -- great exetential joke.
Trapper was great!!!!!!!!......
"And you protect us from it, Frank."
Love how he has to make up fake panic lmao
“Where’s my gun?!” “We beat it into plowshares.” 😆🤣
Hey, if I was out there with him I'd damn sure do my best to make sure he never had a live gun on him. Every time he pulls it he has finger on the trigger and is swinging it all over the place. With trigger discipline like that it's a miracle they didn't have to spend half their time patching up people he shot.
@@willieoelkers5568 he shot Hunnicutt near the end before he was finally replaced with better character.
@@willieoelkers5568 Yeah. To quote Trapper in "Deal Me Out":
"Hold on. Anything you put in him, we have to take out."
"At a boy Frank...FLUSH THEM OUT OF THE SKY!!!"
That was brilliant!
Isn’t it funny how different “Margret” became over the years.
It is somewhat realistic. A person is gradually shaped by those around them. When Burns left, Margret was basically alone and had to change.
@@gobblox38 Agreed, if it was real life and the show was trying to portray real life.
@@gobblox38 her marriage also changed her cause it gave her a wake up call of how much of a piece of work Frank was
Then well
Even Colonel Potter changed a bit from when he got there due to all of them XD
Oh yeah, so much better with Frank gone. Frank wasn't a character, he was a carakature. And so was she when she was with him.
She got away from Ferret Face finally lmao
Frank burns, one of thee most brilliant cast members of any show, any time. Larry absolutely hated being frank but he gave us as long as he did because he knew we loved the character
He was so dang good at it 😂
You forgot the part with five o’clock Charlie.
Or did we just get missed by Ol' Charles yet again?
That was the best part!!!!!
My Dad was in Korea & said there was really a "bed-check Charlie". (Actually, not just one. The North Koreans would send planes up the valleys & throw out mortar shells for harassment.)
They brought some Stearman biplanes over from the States to chase them up the valley & shoot them down! There were several things about the show that had reference to fact. Dad took one of his men who had Korean hemhorragic fever...to the kidney ward at the hospital at Wonju. Another show about the fever mentioned...the kidney ward at the hospital at Wonju! Somebody did their homework.
That's really cool about the accuracy!
My father was in WWII. He also mentioned "Bedcheck Charlie". He said that every once in a while, someone would try to be a hero and shoot him down.
They did a lot of research for the show to make it somewhat accurate. Unfortunately, one of the great mistakes they made was concluding that there were no African-American surgeons in Korea, part of the reason they phased out Spearchucker Jones. In fact, there were many African-American doctors who served.
5 O'Clock Charlie. This is my favorite episode. 1st 3 seasons of M*A*S*H are the best.
AGREED!!!
What I find most remarkable about this episode is that it's based on a story that really happened at the 8076 mash
Yeah they’re my favorite too with the exception of the “Merchant of Korea” episode in season 6
There was no replacing frank burns not even aldi could carry the show at that caliber once Larry left. For me I love frank burns, my favorite character all time
@@whateveritwasitis Frank Burns eats worms! Frank was great, such a ferret face, he was so much better Charles Emerson Winchester!
I just love how Hawkeye just walks out there with an umbrella
Most shows don't last as long as mash did without changes. I wish Blake and trapper were around a few more years but still I don't think the show would of lasted as long as it did if it kept the same characters.
I dont know. I think they could have worked with the more serious tone developed later on.
Though Larry Linville leaving after season 4 was a good call. Frank worked best as a 1 dimensional deuteragonists and trying to add to that would feel really forced and fake
And getting rid of Frank gave Margaret room to grow.
At that time, it was a rarity for an entertainment show to last 10 seasons. M*A*S*H lasted 11 seasons. The producers knew what they were doing, and that's why it's called "an American classic."
@@Doctor4077 eh, I don't know. Trapper maybe, but Henry? I think they needed Potter to change the tone. And I think BJ fit better with that too. But absolutely needed to ditch Frank. Winchester could be antagonistic without being s joke like Frank was.
@@KnightRaymund fair enough, Henry probably wouldn’t have been a good fit with the more serious tone developed.
I still stand by Trapper though, especially after that one episode where a prisoner freaking out in the surgery room caused him to lose a patient and he was seriously considering hurting him (or worse) before Hawkeye stepped in.
Who put water in my gun. Who said it's water. LMAO
These two gentlemen were a pair most worthy of the titel "American comedy gold".
one of my top 3 mash eposides
FIrst two years of this show: HI-larious, and this episode was one of the madcap best, in my opinion.
How do you know it's water?
This is a hilarious episode
Best show ever!
I do wish we had two more seasons of Col. Blake and Trapper. Then just end it on a high note.
Charlie is coming. Come on & bring me a Beer. 🍺🍺🍺🍺
"Bah jove, ah b' live ah hee-a Cha-lee"✌😚
As a Brit, I read and interpreted that as a Southern USA accent... oh well.
@@KrillLiberator 😁😁😁
Wasn't 5 O'clock Charlie based on fact?
Yes.
I say...shall we toddle off? Hilarious
Maybe my favorite episode
My brother and I call bogus snow storms or tornado watches, 5 O'Clock Charlie. Code for NWS getting everyone excited about a two inch snowfall.
Great observation...I've noticed this about the media for years....most of it is just HYPE...
It is true they were born magors
No. But they were born majors.
Late seasons in this series repeatedly beat us over the head with the “war is hell” message.
I didn't like the show much after Winchester came in. I didn't like Hunnicutt but he was fine; Potter was a great replacement for McLean; but Winchester was a terrible place filler after Burns left - I think that is when it started being too serious.
@@mortimerbrewster3671 Burns was a good comedic antagonist because he lacked teeth most of the time, and his barking was a fun launching point for folks to play with. The revolving door of generic antagonist regular army people that following his departure felt hollow, either too over the top or just not interesting characters.
Winchester was a fun character but he never developed into an antagonist the way Burns did. The way his persona fit in with the rest of the cast lent him occasional opposition bits, but never with the manic superiority wrapped inside of fear of inadequacy disillusion that Burns presented. Without that timid threat, Hawkeye and co couldn't quite delivery the same laissez faire comedy.
I enjoy the later seasons quite a lot, but they are certainly a different creature.
Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye?
Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?
Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.
Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
Henry you've got your gun.
Toddler off, love it
My stepfather Being an only child, who spent his time in the Korean war driving a general around and was somehow rewarded with silver stars and medals, swore his time in the army was one of the best times of his life. Though i encouraged him to keep this to himself as it was the worse times of the life for most. He was unable to keep it to himself. Rest in peace dad. Thank you for your service.
I remember a story from Guadalcanal where some Japanese guy flew over Henderson Field every night early in the campaign. He randomly dropped bombs and apparently modified his engine to be extra loud. Kept the marines up all night worrying. To my knowledge they never managed to shoot him down.
Funniest part
Hate Trapper. He left without saying goodbye, hell not even a note. What kind of person does that? It's why Hawkeye got on Hunnicutt to say goodbye.
He didn't have time to leave a note, and Hawkeye was on leave and didn't get back in time. He missed Trapper's plane by 10 minutes, then met B.J.
Why is symbol on the clock face covered up? Anybody know?
You didn’t show Charlie
Brilliant Alan ❤️
Oh, there he is, old Charles.
I say he has a little bit of the cough today.
It's a wonder he can fly at all.
Hmm fragile
"Oh dear, he missed. Bad luck, Charles."
I could have used that in 2014 when I started telling you about this
Even funnier is that there was a pool for where he was going to hit 🎯. Hawkeye makes the comment "I should have bet on the jeep!" After Charlie manages to hit the jeep.
I wonder what would’ve happened if Frank & Margaret just let loose and had some fun for the day.
In the days of the laugh track, yet they will claim it wasn't a comedy.
Definitely one of the funniest episodes in the series 😆😂🤣
One of my favorite episodes is when Klinger eats a jeep 😂
Greetings from another MacKinnon!
MASH is timeless.
It is! I still watch and see how great it was then and now.
40ww nug
I fuckin' hated this bullshit episode and Hawkeyes whining with a vengeance, when I was a kid. Time has not improved my opinion of it.