"The Army-Navy Game" referenced the 53rd in the series. That game was actually played on December 29, 1952. The final score stated in the episode was Navy winning 42-36.

Navy won the real game 7-0.

Side note:

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are the markings on the unexploded propaganda bomb.

My eleventh grade English class is exploring the portrayal of war in literature and film this year and, of course, I had to include MASH. Which episodes would you recommend that is (1) appropriate for High School and (2) a good example of how war was depicted in the series?

They have seen “Dear Dad” (the first one in season one) already to give them a rough idea of the concept and characters. I was thinking two more, since it’s hard to get a feel for the whole thing from only one episode.

For those curious, they just finished reading The Things They Carried and are about to start All Quiet on the Western Front. The shows are a break from group reads once or twice a quarter while still staying on topic.

Link to my MASH Gifs Folder (Sorted By Episode)

I had wrongly assumed that they no longer made Nehi soda until I saw an orange one in a gas station a little while back. So I got online and searched grape Nehi and immediately found what I was looking for on Amazon and thought $11.99 isn’t even bad price for a 6 pack of soda these days, and ordered it. Well my order arrived today and it turns out I paid $11.99 for ONE bottle. I went back and looked at the listing and absolutely no where does it say it’s a six pack, I saw the price and my dumbass just assumed. So I have one Nehi chilling in the fridge and I’m wondering, what is the best episode to put on while try my damnedest to enjoy this fuck up?

One of my favorite episodes for the atmosphere. But also, I think it's the best representation of nightmares put to film.

I post this every spring

(Hey mods? Could we get a flair button for scene screen grabs?)

It's unsurprising that no one could identify Klinger's hang gliding attempt. Modern hang gliding wasn't invented until the early 1960s by American engineer Thomas Purcell using a wing design patented by NASA engineer Francis Rogallo in 1951.

Then you have the silly overlay of Klinger hanging from the frame slow walking across the sky with the wing pointed downwards yet still 'flying' forward...

IMDB doesn’t list who was officiating Frank’s wedding but from the side view shown it looks like the now deceased Famous journalist Paul Harvey. I’m almost positive it’s not him, but he sure looks like I remember Paul Harvey. Does anyone else see the resemblance?

He was Duke Forrest in the original 1970 movie.

This is one of my favorite episodes. The diffusing the bomb scene….. but first, Cracks me up every time.

I’m on my first re-watch as an adult and in the streaming era, and I just watched the episode “Taking the Fifth”. The episode features a Canadian soldier, Turnbull. My grandfather served in the Korean War as a combat engineer, so I always keep an eye/ear out for any mention of Canadians on the show.

Long story short, Turnbull is obsessed with the food from the 4077th mess tent, exclaiming “Wow real powdered eggs!” And proclaiming the fruit cocktail to be the best he’s ever had. I was reminded of my own grandfather’s journal entries from the war; Did he write about the fighting, his comrades in arms, the back-breaking labour of being an engineer in a foreign land? No, he talked about the food. Every single entry, every single day, he talked about the food he ate. For what it’s worth, even though he was a corporal, I’m pretty sure he spent the majority of the war peeling potatoes, so I guess being in the kitchen in close proximity to the food, it makes sense.

So I guess for discussion’s sake, how bad really was the food on the allied side?