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The Dead Thread: Yep. Still Dead.

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Slap Shot said:
M*A*S*H has held up and just like when it first ran doesn't fall off until nothing was left of Frank, Trapper or Radar. I occasionally hit up YouTube for clips of Col. Flagg now and again.:D
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Let's be honest. Colonel Potter saved that show after they killed off Henry. Otherwise that show was done after 5 seasons instead of 11.
 
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Hammer said:
Let's be honest. Colonel Potter saved that show after they killed off Henry. Otherwise that show was done after 5 seasons instead of 11.
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"But first, a number. You know, boy. It's in your blood."
 
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My dad used to wash MASH all the time, even the re-runs in syndication from time to time. I didn't like it when I was younger, but it's more like comfort food now.
 
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One of the stations here (KARE11?) ran back to back reruns from 4-5 p.m. for years in the 80's (maybe as early as the late 70's). I watched often.
 
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Brenthoven said:
I tried, but just couldn't get into it.
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If it was the last few seasons, I don't blame you. From season 8 or so it was crap. Alan Alda had too much control and it became mawkish and ham-fisted.

But in the beginning, man it was a great show. And it was deeply subversive. Imagine putting a sit com in an ISIS training camp and making jokes about America killing innocent people for oil company shareprice.
 
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Kepler said:
Ever try going back and watching a comedy that was great in its day?
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There is something surprisingly refreshing in watching reruns of the b&w The Andy Griffith Show, when the biggest problem they faced was not hurting Aunt Bea's feelings when they didn't like her home-made dill pickles, or those hilarious scenes of group therapy from the first The Bob Newhart Show. and I would probably rate The Dick Van Dyke show as my # 1 comedy show of all-time, though that is a tough call since there are so many good ones to choose from.

(no, I never saw any of these shows when they were first aired, I only saw them on re-runs thanks to good old WGN).
 
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Slap Shot said:
M*A*S*H has held up and just like when it first ran doesn't fall off until nothing was left of Frank, Trapper or Radar. I occasionally hit up YouTube for clips of Col. Flagg now and again.:D
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You have to check out the Captain Tuttle episode. Possibly the best single episode of M*A*S*H ever made.
 
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NEWI Badger Fan said:
Tuttle was a good episode, but Five O'clock Charlie was the best!
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"You could almost say that all of us together made up Tuttle."

Both great episodes. The "Army-Navy Game" is one of my favorites, as is the episode where Hunnicut replaces McIntyre and is corrupted by Hawkeye on the jeep ride from the airport. The all thumbs nurse "Eddie" in the first season is also great, as is every visit by the psychiatrist Sidney.

Although I don't care for the second half of the show's run, "Inga," the episode where Hawkeye is freaked out by the liberated Swedish visiting doctor is also very good. The episode where Flag brings in a captive who has to be operated on so he will live until his execution is outstanding and one of the times the series actually lives up to the movie or the book.
 
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one of the times the series [M*A*S*H] actually lives up to the movie or the book.
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I was impressed that they kept the same theme music as the movie for the TV show's opening credits. Even though (understandably, for TV, especially at the time) they made it instrumental rather than used the lyrics, anyone who looked up "M*A*S*H TV theme song" would see the title of the music....



["Suicide is Painless"]



Now, the book was even too subversive for the movie! The scene where they hung a shirtless bearded guy on a cross and flew him around dangling below a helicopter was too much even for Altman to include, I guess.
 
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FreshFish said:
Now, the book was even too subversive for the movie! The scene where they hung a shirtless bearded guy on a cross and flew him around dangling below a helicopter was too much even for Altman to include, I guess.
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Knowing Altman, I'll bet he tried and the studio said, "how many ways can we say 'no'?"

Burns in the book is a much nastier, creepier character, and his evil derives from his pitiless, repulsive fundamentalism (in the movie Duvall alludes to this in his scenes of violent, angry prayer, but it was soft-pedaled for the mass audience). He was the first Thumper I ran into in literature and I couldn't believe he was real. Turns out about 29% of the country is like him -- probably more back then.
 
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One of my all time favorite - if subtle moments - is when Hawkeye is directing a group picture while perched on a ladder. He tells the entire group to take two steps to the left, and once they've completed the move he asks them to take two steps to the right. I've used it several times myself. :D

Also some favorite Burns quotes:

Frank: That's not my department, sir - intelligence is something I try to avoid.

Frank: It's nice, to be nice... to the nice.

And from the politically incorrect department could a major network sitcom get by with a character called Spearchucker Jones in 2016?
 
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The way they treat the women in the early seasons is really bad. It's funny because here you have this cutting edge liberal show but they have a big ol' blind spot on that. Similar to the running gag that Tom, the neighbor on the Jeffersons, seems gay.

The hem lines, they go up and down.
 
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What does any of this have to do with Gary Marshall dying? :confused:
 
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